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

Probably because I am living and working so far away from where my own is stored.

My vinyl is all in a locked storage space on Van Dam Street off Varrick and in my mother's Long Island basement.

haha all of my cd cover art is locked up in that same storage space on van dam. i have to go over there today to put away out christmas stuff

vandam

I was just there this morning, oddly enough.

this thread's going well

All my records and all but maybe 20 CDs have been in a storage space for six months while we look for a new place to live. This was tolerable until my ipod crashed because the backup is in storage too. So for me this thread is more like, Take a mental picture of your record collection and weep.

Well, this isn't a recent picture (it's from last year), but here are some of the discs...

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/img_5239_3.jpg

Sod vinyl, MiniDisc is where it's at:

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/97/243436410_ed4edff729.jpg

Oh, ok then...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/56/184149653_48e8cc2eb8.jpg

And here's why I'm not playing much of the above thesedays:

http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1247/1473855952_d1c29e0b1a.jpg

best i can do

http://bp2.blogger.com/_uu1BrAcvVOk/R4eYDvO7oQI/AAAAAAAAAWA/FbNF3ZMJeYE/s1600-h/photo.jpg

http://web.mit.edu/bryand/Public/blog/Pics/wmbr/wmbr4.jpg

Michael Jones, are those the Ikea shelves?

Here's about half of the legitimately acquired stuff.

http://img247.imageshack.us/img247/3552/cdshelfdv9.jpg

Another old, exciting close-up

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/uncategorized/maiden.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/Places/IMG_7635.jpg

she'll hurt her knees like that

That was the first week we moved in - rest assured we've since acquired a sofa, an office chair, a comfy chair, a kitten, blah blah...

Also, as I remember, we had to have the laptop there in the first two weeks cos that was the only position from which we could leech off the "Belmont Bitches" wi-fi network...

Okay, here's today

http://vassifer.blogs.com/photos/random_pics/img_7159_2.jpg

Will - yes, they're Ikea Traby. We have rather a lot of Traby cubes (some with doors and drawer inserts) - books, DVDs, magazines, kids' shoes, camera gear, financial files, photo albums, they've all ended up in Traby. If I look at my Flickr stats my most popular Yahoo Image referrals are searches for "Ikea Traby"!

This is the only photo I have showing the CD cabinets - this was well over a year ago (you can see yet more Traby on the right). We seem to have set up so many obstacles to prevent the kids getting in there that we're fairly discouraged from going in there ourselves. As a result we just have about 100 CDs permanently stacked in various places and that's all we play...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/88/281450949_ec1c236ac9.jpg

My God, I've just realised that bag has been hanging off that doorknob for at least 15 months!

pot of gold

> this was well over a year ago

he has since graduated to reading doctor seuss.

2007's cd purchases (and gifts):

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2074/2125001286_e196ec5cfa_m.jpg

I think a long time about snuvs and their gloves.

here are most of my records (not including the 200 or so new arrivals) and a shit ton of junk

http://www.robotsinheat.com/images/stacks.jpg

large CD collections are almost silly looking. my CD boxes are all over the place, i imagine we must have a good 700 of them altogether. but they are of course dwarfed by my records:
http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records1.jpg

http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records2.jpg

http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records3.jpg

and these ones which are on the steps to the basement so my cat won't scratch them. im too lazy to take them all the way up to the third floor since i'll just be taking them out for my gig next week again.

my 45's are in a shoebox under the green bag sitting by the tables.

http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records4.jpg
http://www.cornwarning.com/tomcox/records5.jpg

eek. didnt realise there was a pic limit per post. the bottom pic is the crate on the basement steps!

i knew it was you as soon as i saw the FXHE sticker. i didn't even know he did stickers.

on the floor near the turntable
http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/8264/img0727wr2.jpg

on the shelf far from the turntable
http://img528.imageshack.us/img528/4475/img0729ah8.jpg

"i knew it was you as soon as i saw the FXHE sticker. i didn't even know he did stickers.

-- elan"

haha. yeah he only got those done recently, i've got one on my ride, too ;)

nice selections in the front row there. douglas adams and orwell too, good selections all around!

http://rockcriticsarchives.com/pix/sw-vinyl.jpg

Are those two copies of "Back to Mono"?

heh, yeah, but I'm not selling one!

where did you get the shelves sw00ds?

we splurged at ikea. they weren't cheap--i think $275/per unit (that's two units).

^ that record 5 across 3 down 17 in is awesome

Ikea is brilliant for cheap music storage though. Short of raiding a closing-down shop you won't get cheaper shelving and it lasts ages.

hmm, i think you mean either Kick Out the Jams or Dancer With the Bruised Knees.

oops-xp

this thread is making me feel like i have the tiniest penis ever.

ah, size is irrelevant (er, I'm talking about records here). I have 35 years or so of collecting behind me, much of it spent on 50-cent goodwill crap. it looks so much more impressive than it actually is, trust me!

Does that copy of England's Newest Hitmakers have the poster?

Also I'm coonnnnstantly having to upgrade CD racks; I have about 350 (CDs} right now and would like something (preferably Ikea) that'd hold up to 6 or 700. Any recommendations, folks? I have a Robin shelf from Ikea (see http://www.hoerspiele.de/specials/aufbewahrung/bilder/a004-1.jpg ) and I can't stand how narrow the shelves are; I wish I could remove the middle barrier.

actually, Thus Sang, that Stones cover on display is a clock! I have a proper version of the album, but no poster.

Glory be, it is a clock!

albeit a clock which does not actually work.

Scott wins. He has the biggest, um, penis!

So what's the box set two to the right of Rhino's Sugar Hill box (and after a Stones one, I believe)? It looks like it says WHITNEY. And it looks like it's on Arista. A Whitney Houston box set??

And why on earth are you KEEPING two Spector boxes? It's an awful box! (Well, okay not AWFUL. But definitely could be one disc.)

LOVE this thread!! And where can we see Seward's collection?

this picture is about 6 months old.
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/212/518440591_13be7bb0ed_o.jpg

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/226/478943241_f9daf78f84.jpg%3Fv%3D0

This one is from when i was just moving into this current apt and had not unpacked much yet.

That's a decent amount. I'll be looking out for something to store records in the near future. Something like that could work. At this point I'd probably need three of them.

Good luck on your search! It takes a bit more dedication to find this sort of thing but we're happy with it. Tied the room together nicely.

Evan those are the most beautiful record shelves I have seen!!!! Are they from the 50's or 60's?

They really are perfect. Great find!

what great discography is that book?

Thanks!! They look like 60s to me but that's just a guess.

It's the Indie Discography. I love my 80s - 90s indie.

I have the yellow indie one. Yours must be the updated one.

2nd edition it says

I found these which look cool
http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/the-record-cabinet-by-atocha-d-63443

Nice- wonder how pricey that is

$5,900 according to their website.

I think I could spend all day looking at pictures of cats with record collections

This set up is still on the opposite wall, by the way:

http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4093/4765442787_2bb2ffaacb.jpg

I did a panoramic shot of the room that has my CD collection in it:

http://fbcdn-sphotos-c-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-ash3/t1.0-9/1452014_10153555178025597_159051485_n.jpg

Do you play your CDs directly? Or is most of it ripped to a computer already?

Directly. I have an iPod which I use to check out new stuff that gets sent to me before I purchase or delete.

Good to make use of them!
I've narrowed down my displayed collection to just my favorites that I don't also have on vinyl (or new CDs I've just bought).

Restricted to the space I reposted just above.

That's a beautiful cabinet, Evan! Mine's a knockoff of a '40s design.

http://scoot.net/gallery/bbs/recordsESU.jpg

Thanks! Is that your home?

absurdly good looking furniture in here, folks

It was my home up until two years ago, when my one-year-old started getting more mobile and a one-bedroom apartment wasn't cutting it anymore. That's actually a photo from the real estate listing. The baby toys were all jammed in a pile just to the right of the cabinet for the picture -- it was rarely that tidy that year.

xpost

Ha! Well it is still beautiful. I love the furniture and decoration.

OH, and thank you La Lechera

i have a make-your-own furniture book from the early 60s that teaches people how to make their own stereo cabinets and i have been hanging on to it in the event that i ever encounter a person who is both willing and able to make something like that for a modest fee.

Oh what a fantastic idea! Way better than endless ebay/craigslist browsing.

For an existing one, that is.

Though antique shop browsing is a bit more fun. Really sales-y antique store owners are less fun. Not sure how this all balances out.

I've inherited a big CD & record storage unit my dad made, it's in need of a new coat of paint but it's not bad & it's definitely achievable to do something w/ mdf or wood depending on yr joinery

early rejecter, are those magnepans?

i was thinking the same thinking the same thing, was recently deciding whether to go with Magnepans or in-wall speakers in a living room. The Maggies sound amazing as long as you stay in the sweet spot between the speakers.

I was all set to buy some Ikea Expedits for my vinyl collection after i move soon, but this thread has convinced me my records deserve real furniture. I have a hutch that looks like the top part of Evan's setup, except that all the doors are glass. It's currently in the dining room displaying fancy china we never use. I'd rather display rekkerds....

Yep, they're Magnepans. They sound great, but like Lee says they do have a sweet spot -- and I was surprised at how small the sweet spot is. With this particular model (MMG) it's not so much your position between the speakers, but rather the vertical position of your ears -- i.e. they have to be right around the vertical center of the speakers for the best sound. I mounted them so that they're at the proper height when you're seated in the room, but it's amazing how dramatically the sound changes when you stand up. So they're much better suited to dedicated listening than just having music playing as you move around your home. And you really need a subwoofer and a relatively powerful amp to get the most from them. My brother-in-law has a pair of the big floor-standers (not sure which model) and they seem to be much more forgiving regarding positioning and sound fine without a subwoofer. Of course they're also as big as two adults, so not so easy to find a place for them in a lot of rooms.

AAAH Evan those are so nice. early rejecter, those look great too. Sweet TV, do you have a signal going to it or is it just decorative?

Thanks!!

The CD collection is now housed on purpose-built shelves in our alcoves.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/N-Z.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/A-M.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/njsouthall/CDshelves.jpg

nice shelves-bauhaus-poster convo happening there!

Yes, very nice!

Nice setup, Scik!

Blue Jeans -- I actually used to watch that TV in my bedroom in the '90s until the screen went black. I'd like to get it going again but I don't know enough about electronics to know if it's an easy fix.

> nice shelves-bauhaus-poster convo happening there!

eames chairs also.

ya'alls apartments are a lot neater than mine..
http://i.imgur.com/3NNOtyF.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/xdacigN.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/Jts9n31.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/62fYibl.jpg

newest addition, shelf for 78s:
http://i.imgur.com/sTS7IF1.jpg

bonus cat:
http://i.imgur.com/lboOHIC.jpg

also, a bunch of the records on the metal shelves are not mine. maybe the top half is wife and roommate.

@ian : fear not, i too look at the pics and wonder WTF is going on.

i run a clean house, but dear god, some of these pics make me want to get the dyson out at 3am, and hand over 28% of my belongings to the local charity shop.

nice star trek dvds

I moved the giant scratching pillar and the crap on the table out of shot.

I moved the giant scratching pillar and the crap on the table out of shot.

haha .. if that were the only real life shyte i had to deal with to make my place look presentable ..

Why, how big is your scratching pillar?

I have a large, walk-in cupboard in my living room which I'm starting to think of using to store my CDs and records, as I'm sick of them commandeering the entire living room wall space. I'm looking for inspiration - has anyone done this kind of thing? Or got any impressive photos from elsewhere?

The cupboard is a good size (I still need to measure it though) and very tall (Glasgow tenement), so if I got custom shelving put in up the ceiling it would probably hold everything with a modest space in the middle to walk in and select things.

That sounds pretty awesome. A music larder!

Yeah, it would be that kind of size. Nowhere near a proper room, but a very big cupboard.