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You know the collection is ridiculous when:
-You have over 5 hundred but could with time list them all one by one.
-In times of boredom you organize the collection (novice collectors go with alphabetical, some by genre, then artists who work or have worked with other artists, time period, record label).
-When you no longer take hours at a record store because any given store probably only has MAYBE 1 album you need for your collection (and that is a big MAYBE, as you only have about a dozen "Holy Grail" albums left to buy, not including new stuff)
-But you check the Import Section of every major record store-- just in case--and if said major record store doesn't have an Import Section, then later for that place.
-When people ask you how many albums you have, you sometimes get mixed up and don't know whether or not to count vinyl, cds or both. You don't even bother counting cassette tape (mostly because you bought all those again on cd and vinyl anyway).
-You got a credit card mainly because you can only find several "Holy Grail" albums online.
-You can easily connect The Beach Boys to Mos Def in the six degrees of separation music game, using your liner notes as proof to back you up.
-If you have your cds in cd book cases, you have the liner notes organized separately.
-You keep open slots in your collection, placed in a precise spot, for upcoming albums or albums you need to pick up.
-Without thinking about it, one of the first things you notice when walking into someone's room/living room/etc. is their record collection, where it is, how big it is, what's in it and how it's organized.
-You learned not to put pressure on the cds from putting too many together in a case thus forming those bubbles inside them that makes the album skip and cannot be fixed.
-You have dozens of albums in your collections that you consider MUST HAVES for anyone that calls him/herself a serious music collector (ie: Songs in the Key of Life, Kind of Blue, Blue, What's Goin On', 3 Feet High and Rising, Abbey Road, Blonde on Blonde etc) Moreover, if people DO NOT own them, suddenly their opinion concerning music no longer matter.
-If you see a good soundtrack and buy it only if it is all original music/score or containing mostly songs you can't get anywhere else--otherwise you just buy all the albums with songs on the soundtrack.
-You saw High Fidelity and thought it was your biography.
-Many of your albums you haven't listened to all the way through. Quite a few you only scanned through when you first bought it, for about five minutes, just to assure yourself that it was a worthwhile buy.
1Love,
Samurai X
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