AN EVEN SADDER QUESTION: How many CDs/LPs/singles do you own?

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Over 500, under one thousand (by my best estimates). It's been a couple years since I was actually sad enough to count them, it would dishearten me too much to actually count again.

― Nicole, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

so does this mean i'm actually deeply cool for only having about 80 to a hundred albums total [20 or so lps, a few tapes, rest on cd] and maybe 50 singles? but then again i'm only 15, so have hardly had as long as the rest of you to build up a collection, let alone the cash.

― jessica owens, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I last counted my LPs about a year ago and I had like 900, but I've bought two or three since then. I own about 30 CDs (though I don't really have a CD player), an untold hundreds of cassettes, about 200 vinyl singles, about 300 mp3s, and five 8-tracks, though my 8-track player is broken. All of this stuff is sitting on closet shelves or on my floor, so I can never find anything I'm looking for.

― Kris P., Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Do you guys steal CDs? I have 189 according to my dorkybase, and I thought that was a lot. I do tend to sell old stuff I don't listen to anymore, but that's just so I have the money to buy all the new stuff I want! How do you guys do it???

― larmey, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Foolishly, is how I do it. Plus at the moment there are probably at least 300 things that I should probably sell because I haven't listened to them in a year or two. Or three. Or four. Mostly it's the foolishness that does it, though.

― Josh, Tuesday, 23 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

The vast majority of my collection was accumulated during college, where I spent all of my spare money on CDs, and the first couple of years that I was working, where instead of saving money I decided to attempt to buy every piece of music I'd heard that I liked.

Several years later, I have to admit that saving might have been the wiser choice, but lately I've been going through older stuff and giving it spins. Don't regret it at all.

― Dan Perry, Wednesday, 24 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

At this point, I must have something approaching 4500 CDs. And some vinyl and tapes and things. Add in all my books and videotapes and the like and thank god I rent a house and not an apartment.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 24 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Well, its gotta be about (only!) 200 LPs, 400 CDs, 150 Tapes, 50 Minidiscs, 800 Singles (7s, 12s, CDs) and about 200 hours of MP3.

I think that's pretty excessive really, but I couldn't bear to chuck any of them out - I've tried, but I just give them one last listen and think - Oh, I quite-liked the transition between the bridge and chorus in that Space B-side. As a result I never chuck out anything, no matter how embarassing. Except the first Radiohead EP which I chucked a few years ago, and then found out was worth about a hundred quid...

And I'd bought it for 10p in a bargin bin...

And there where 10 more in the same bin at the time.

― Chewshabadoo, Thursday, 25 January 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

I've got somewhere in the region of 2500 and 3000 having given up trying to keep count after 1000 or so some years ago. Frankly it's a frightening statistic and has already resulted in having to move property to accomodate the growing musical mass!

― Guy Flower, Friday, 2 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

well about 700 cd and lps (divided 50/50) and about 150 7"/12"/Cds and about 2500 mp3s.

― Jens, Monday, 5 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

Before discovering Minidisc's I had no job or cash therefore my collection is small and needs no database. 200 cd's, 20 tapes, 100 MD, and around 40 mp3's on HD at a time. of course if i had a job that was more than 6$ an hour i could afford more but oh well...long time left to buy music.

― Kevin Enas, Monday, 19 February 2001 01:00 (twenty-three years ago) link

five months pass...

24 CDs. 8 to 10 tapes. About 20 burned CDs, but they don't really count. My excuse: I'm 15, I have no job and very little money, and what I do get from babysitting is divided mostly between books and saving for [insert name here]. [Insert name here], last a new CD player, is currently a guitar, and I should have enough to pay for it right around when my current CD player breaks.

― Lyra, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

Psst, you're 16.

― Trino, Saturday, 28 July 2001 00:00 (twenty-two years ago) link

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