Take a picture of your record collection and post it on ilm

and a signed dion autobio that i found at the dump

That's genuinely kind of sad.

Hands down greatest thread ever! It's like being invited over to all y'all's pads. Many observations/questions.

Ioannis - amaaaaaazing! That Springsteen live box is an annoyance since it seems to be the ONLY record that sticks out from the shelves. And thus if someone asks one question about music, it's "So you like Springsteen?" "Amongst other things..."

My copy of that Dave Marsh 1001 singles book looks almost EXACTLY like yours. Blasé writing (save for the "Soldier Boy" entry - thanx Matos!) AND blasé gluing??

What's the long thing resting on top of the part of the shelf that includes the Springsteen live box? Sorta looks like that Rhino Once in a Lifetime thang.

I'm a comics geek also!

Ok that explains why I never heard of that Avengers box set.

Feel free not to answer this: Is it easy to find books in English where you live or did you purchase most of these via internet or mail order or whatever?

the Melody Maker anthology?

There's a Melody Maker anthology??? Please to explain.

Ah, cool, I have a somewhat ratty copy of the red one also, but have been on a years-long search for the blue.

Exact opposite for me. Although if it's any consolation, someone smashed a fly into the Rush entry. It's too gross to even look at. I may never know what John Swenson or whoever thought of Hemispheres.

What! You mean to say you didn't notice all the Chess boxes (Muddy, Wolf, Berry, etc.) and The Anthology of American Folk Music mixed in with all the records? Hmm, methinks you and Alfred have Springsteen on the brain.

BTW, this is what's resting atop them there records (someday I'll even take the time to read it. Really!):

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Acme-Novelty-Library-Chris-Ware/dp/0224077023/ref=pd_bbs_sr_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1200169933&sr=8-3

And yeah, I do most of my shopping online; it's just WAY more convenient that way for me.

There's a Melody Maker anthology??? Please to explain.

Might mean this

http://i153.photobucket.com/albums/s236/mezxspectrum/71N7J8S2ESL_AA240_.jpg

Oooh that looks yummy! Thanx!!!

methinks you and Alfred have Springsteen on the brain.

I did notice the Chess and Harry Smith boxes. But that Springsteen might as well have a searchlight on it.

And I adore The Acme Novelty Library!!!

More pix! I need more pix!

Dude, share the wealth.

I can't remember which one, but one of the Sonic Youth albums has a picture of what I presume was Thurston's record collection on the liner. I thought it was a laughable "mine's bigger than yours" gesture, though maybe intentionally so.

http://i68.photobucket.com/albums/i38/richardjgibson/Broadcasters2-JohnPeel-Ravenscroft-.jpg

thanks pipecock! after i saw yours i considered bringing out my copy of tour de france but then i got a phone call and had to bounce so i just took the shots.

Kevin - For me, this Dead record (to the left of the Bruce box) is even more glaringly noticeable in that pic:

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61Z6Q369ZSL._SS500_.jpg

Take a picture of your record collection and denim cut-offs and post it on ilm

http://newsimg.bbc.co.uk/media/images/40917000/jpg/_40917210_peelbbc2_203.jpg

I think Thurston's records can be seen on one of the pics included in the Washing Machine release.

xp

hohoho

Dude, share the wealth.

Oh gawd, I'd die. It's sorta like taking a picture of yourself to see how fat you really are. My Adorno would kick in and I'd just get depressed.

And I can't even see that Dead record.

Really? You don't notice the white & blue spine glaring out at you about a quarter of the way in (from the left) on the same shelf as the Bruce box?

Oh! I thought you meant immediately to the left of The Boss. Yes, I see it now.

Most noticeable spine ever (on a record that is NOT a box set or ever a 2-record set): The Go-Go's: Vacation

this was the only photo i could find online of it, but waxpoetics had an article on ed motta and this is his record collection. it's just ridiculous

http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b59/jbodine/Music%20II/MottasRecords.jpg

That's just insane. How does he even find the time to listen to all those, like, even once?

Sigh, my photo would just be of cardboard boxes stacked in the basement on the one hand, and a hard disk on the other. How sad. Destined to stay that way until we take over our tenants' apartment in circa 2010.

isn't what's his name from the roots supposed to have the biggest record collection. i know he has a seperate building for them.

if i were rich, like, really rich, i would buy a library-sized building and house the biggest hall of records you ever did see. and people could come to listen to whatever they wanted. and make copies of anything they wanted. for free. you could probably buy most of the premier vinyl collections on earth for less than the cost of a jumbo jet and a matisse or two. a boy can dream can't he!

I'll take one copy of Don Howard's "Oh Happy Day" please.

"thanks pipecock! after i saw yours i considered bringing out my copy of tour de france

-- elan"

haha, that is actually my 6 year old son's record! behind it were some of his other records that he brought up to play: "planet rock", "musique non-stop", "ghostbusters" soundtrack, etc. he's a big kraftwerk fan in case you couldnt tell ;)

Obviously a significant dollar investment, but the biggest upside, in my ever-hoarding view, is that it's "expandable to grow with your collection."

-- dblcheeksneek, Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:38 AM (Yesterday) Bookmark Link

That is by and far the sleekest CD rack I have ever seen. I would so love to own it, but alas I am officially a Poor College Student, and can't really spend $200 on anything at all, let alone a CD rack. I honestly really don't want to spend more than $60, which is pushing it, but I'm determined that it can be done. I'd get a normal bookshelf, but I don't like how deep the shelves usually are.

look on your local craigslist - furniture section, or cds/dvd/vhs, or just search for "cd rack" "media rack" "cd shelf" etc. - and check daily til you find something good for cheap. works great in college!

Kevin, the MM book David M links to is the one I was referring to. It's a pretty cool book, though not the sort of thing you sit down and read--more a reference guide.

btw, Scott, third shelf down and to the left you can spot my Da Capo Best Music Writing series of books which I initially sought out strictly because of your review. Also, this having took place back in late '02 (I believe?), your review introduced me to the wonderful world of ILM. (Yes, my being here is primarilly Scott's fault, folx!)

I am really, really sorry for this. I feel like I owe you five years of your own life or something.

I wish more people chipped in here with pics.

Linemen have the biggest ones:

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/music/article/0,2792,DRMN_54_5496568,00.html

And here's my visually exciting collection of Radio On and Why Music Sucks.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/radioon.jpg

I'm banking my retirement on this cabinet drawer.

That actually has me salivating more than your records. If I ever visit you, I'm brining my scanner and pots of coffee.

I am really, really sorry for this. I feel like I owe you five years of your own life or something.

heh, you kiddin', how would I kill all this free time I’ve got without this place(?): I’d be climbin’ the walls most likely (well, either that, or reading the many books I’ve been ignoring these past few years; hiya Dream Boogie, how’s you?). Rather, pity the poor ILXors who have been subjected to the plethora of lame poll threads I've started (both past and...future?).

more pix, dammit!

A few fave raves! Chuck - note the mekons EPs.

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2205/2189195653_b070a2778b_b.jpg

I has a Dolly, too!

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2265/2189982636_4e49975026.jpg

Graphic novels; video tapes; box sets:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2064/2189981476_d19d90fe24.jpg

Close-up: the second shelf from the top holds most of my 2007 CDs. Pityful, no?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2213/2189193411_ee20131ce4_b.jpg

Not a great pic, but this was my old West Village apartment that I'd decorated like a record shop:

http://a915.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/50/l_d185736e57f647aaeaf277f0b24a41b2.jpg

And Opus watches over it all:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/23/30769451_c0f9bb023e.jpg

in order to get into the cupboard and take this quick snap, i had to move the washing-line, the ironing basket and the ironing board. which says it all, really. i don't think i've played a vinyl record in more than two years now (whereas 15 years ago i spat on CDs as the work of the devil and refused to entertain the notion of anything other than 12 inches of groove).

http://sparky.thehold.net/pix/080113records.jpg

the CDs at the top are two piles deep, and pretty much as precarious as they look (as mrs fiendish found to her cost while trying to get some wrapping paper before christmas). there are neat little piles of CDs elsewhere across the house, and another shelf in the bedroom; i considered taking pictures of some of them, but i really should be revising for an exam.

anyway, yeh. a rather sad historical document, i guess: vinyl on a par with a copy of clarisworks 4.0 on 3.5" disks :(

i went through a phase of MP3ing as many records as i could bear to do in a day (such a time-consuming process); then i discovered slsk and realised that perhaps it wasn't really necessary.

somewhere there's also a small DJ box of 7" stuff ... rather concerned as to where that is, actually, but not looking for it now.

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/criticsdrawer.jpg

the larger book in that photo laying flat down is a copy of the Canadian Securities Course manual, thus combining my two passions in one drawer, rock criticism and financial securities.

Good grief, Scott, aren’t those two disciplines like diametrically opposed to one another?

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Here's the sad pathetic state of my records. 99.9% are in boxes @ work. CDs and stuff too.

Interesting new Ikea cab for gear and records (left side is mine, right is my girls). Gear piled on top will go on top shelf (see drill and stuff) after I borrow a hole saw this afternoon). 1200s will go on top w/mixer.

Other photo is by the desk. Shelves being replaced by similar, albeit taller, cab so we don't hafta LOOK at all this stuff all the time. Mixer and 78 ttbl (not shown) will fit inside with printer etc. Typical Chicago-style hutch w/books on right. 1200 on chair for finishing ripping tango wax from Buenos Aires trip LAST YEAR (no, it's not been sitting there all that time... only a couple of weeks.

The cabs come in all stacking modular sizes so we can add another half-size unit next to the horizontal one if we need. All wall mountable too if you like and many diff door styles.

Had hell of a time finding something that was suitable for records and wide enough for the 1200s that we could afford.

Will attempt to avoid submitting pictures of boxes containing 1000s of lonely wax and CDs from my office (sigh)

Good grief, Scott, aren’t those two disciplines like diametrically opposed to one another?

Yeah, I'm joshing. I do work in the securities industry--though I've never completed the course, and probably never will--but it holds next to no interest for me. Other than the fact that it pays the bills.

Pretty sure we have that same shag rug, factcheckr.

D'oh!

The Wall of Death, tooken a few months ago.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v296/WilliamCrump63/WallOfDeathColor.jpg

Used to be more, but I sold about 350 CDs a couple of years ago.

Cool, another Love and Rockets/Avengers/Defenders fan! Also, England's Dreaming is a great book! Best ever on the subject? Maybe.