this kinda shit...
https://scontent.fbed1-1.fna.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16265445_1736478046665840_2345135304383442904_n.jpg?oh=ccfc9a8f11d845ae9d1e4d66d43e2358&oe=59176C22
― scott seward, Friday, January 27, 2017 2:20 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
What of kind of shit?
http://i.imgur.com/WaOPXAe.jpg
― pplains, Saturday, 28 January 2017 03:35 (seven years ago) link
Don't forget this piece of shit that used to grab the CDs like a jukebox would, but is now just an oblong box.
http://i.imgur.com/EoNQnGD.gif
― pplains, Saturday, 28 January 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
skot redeemed
― Get Me Bodied (Extended Mix), Saturday, 28 January 2017 10:11 (seven years ago) link
Those tall units with short shelves are also kind of terrible when it comes to adding new cds, especially if they are nearly full. Often there's space for 1 or 2 to lie above the vertical cds.
The last unit I bought has random spacing between the shelves, which looks awful.
― koogs, Saturday, 28 January 2017 10:26 (seven years ago) link
My room of shame.
When we first looked at the house it became obvious that some bright spark had swopped out the tiny 7ft square bathroom for the much more substantial third bedroom, my wife turned to me and said 'if we buy this place, you should put all your music in there'.
I bought some UGLY metal cd shelves from Record Collector and got to work filling up this room with my antics and there it remains, on pretty much every available flat surface lies a pile of CDs, book or box set.
There's two sets of shelves, a terrible cheap bookcase (another thread?) and one comfy tub chair, I stopped being so anxious about the room some years back and now I quite enjoy hiding away in there, listening to my Jethro Tull box sets, being old.
http://i63.tinypic.com/257hfzq.jpg
http://i67.tinypic.com/dqnhxx.jpg
― MaresNest, Saturday, 28 January 2017 11:04 (seven years ago) link
http://weknowyourdreams.com/images/paradise/paradise-05.jpg
― Wimmels, Saturday, 28 January 2017 14:09 (seven years ago) link
Eno box, Simples Minds box, Fuzzy Warbles series... You know I wanna party with you in that room!
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 28 January 2017 14:59 (seven years ago) link
I love pics like these where you can instantly spot Impulse!/Coltrane CDs.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 28 January 2017 15:08 (seven years ago) link
I'm at somewhere north of 6,000 CDs (still adding 200+ per year) but sadly (to me, not to my wife) they're all in boxes in the basement because we bought a 700sf apartment. I keep the last 50+/- "on display" till they get boxed and then on to the next one. It would make me happy to see 25 years of my musical journey as a proper library, but it'll probably never happen. At least I have all my architecture/urbanism books on bookcases...
― Soundslike, Saturday, 28 January 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link
Still buying CDs (and inheriting from friends), but I've reached the carrying capacity for our little house, between books, records, CDs, and, you know, stuff we actually need to actually live. Homemade shelving here (yes, lazy unfinished), using 1" x 6" boards, allows for room for larger cases:
http://i65.tinypic.com/2yotit2.jpg
Resorted to putting shelves on the rafters for overflow, but they're terrible for browsing (home to all those CDR's from the old mail trading days, VHS tapes, etc.):
http://i63.tinypic.com/33m3odk.jpg
Since I've run out of room, thinking again of the spacing saving polyethylene sleeves that the Jazz Loft folks sell. Anyone using those? As an anal type about the printed stuff (save hype stickers, OBIs, any ephemera), not sure if that will work. Have many great CDs from local record store owner who never liked discs and he just folded the j-cards in half, which still makes a little bit sad when I see it.
― by the light of the burning Citroën, Saturday, 28 January 2017 17:00 (seven years ago) link
i'm not throwing stones. i never stain furniture. i have painted old bookcases that didn't look so hot. that is the extent of my non-laziness.
― scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2017 17:10 (seven years ago) link
the vhs tapes poking from the rafters are cuet
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Saturday, 28 January 2017 17:28 (seven years ago) link
All my cd's in binders for years now. I barely look at them.
― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Saturday, 28 January 2017 18:23 (seven years ago) link
Flying Nun trading cards! You're a collector of rare taste, I've got a set too.
I save hype stickers, too. Very sad are we...
― Gerald McBoing-Boing, Saturday, 28 January 2017 20:05 (seven years ago) link
Not getting why anyone's embarrassed about having big collections.
― Robert Adam Gilmour, Thursday, 2 February 2017 12:42 (seven years ago) link
this is such a good scott thread. bummer bout the broken images.
― Doctor Casino, Saturday, 3 February 2018 22:16 (six years ago) link
Any of those CD storage racks with slots are designed by Satan. If filed alphabetically and say you want to add one towards the top of the list, you might end up having to move each and every CD after it unless there are an open slot close.
― earlnash, Friday, January 27, 2017 3:04 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Boy had I forgotten this. Once knew an ambidextrous guy who could move cassette cases up at twice the speed with each hand grabbing every other tape.
Also had forgotten that I had posted on this thread last week, that little gif up there. And then I remembered that this is 2018 now.
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:12 (six years ago) link
https://media.giphy.com/media/mHV9embco5OYo/giphy.gif
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
https://media1.giphy.com/media/XpgiNJccZVPlm/200.gif
― Doctor Casino, Sunday, 4 February 2018 00:56 (six years ago) link
That's him!
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 01:18 (six years ago) link
https://images.craigslist.org/00B0B_5jVPSsan2cE_1200x900.jpg
someone's selling this on craigslist, holds 532 CDs. looks like it's from a late '80s drugstore and should be holding White Lion and Belinda Carlisle.
― omar little, Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
found this "industrial style" beauty
https://images.craigslist.org/00h0h_danE1i55noP_600x450.jpg
― omar little, Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:27 (six years ago) link
the phrase "fits CDs, DVDs, VHS, or a mix of all three" gives me a panic attack.
― omar little, Sunday, 4 February 2018 02:28 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/PRM5qkJ.jpg
I mean, if only I had a drawer or something to put these in.
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 05:12 (six years ago) link
Check out my extensive collection of original Rob Roy DVDs
― Evan, Sunday, 4 February 2018 06:44 (six years ago) link
Check out my two copies of everything.
― koogs, Sunday, 4 February 2018 07:41 (six years ago) link
I had one of those 'industrial style' deals, perfect if you like your DVDs to fall over on unsuspecting guests. One of the most rickety pieces of garbage I've ever had the pleasure to own.
― airdnb (Tom Violence), Sunday, 4 February 2018 14:35 (six years ago) link
i am so goddamned glad that i don't have CD towers or racks any more. it's good to remember the bad parts of the 90s too.
― tweedyman, Sunday, 4 February 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
I keep all my disc physical media in big wallets/mini-briefcases, with the few that have notably cool packaging left intact
― Simon H., Sunday, 4 February 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
http://www.centralazdining.com/content/uploads/nice-bedroom-storage-chest-with-bedroom-excellent-hope-chest-storage-trunk-cedar-lining-wood-bench.jpg
hell yeah.
― maffew12, Sunday, 4 February 2018 18:23 (six years ago) link
All I need.
https://bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com/stltoday.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/0/3f/03f5d270-ad6b-52df-a013-cbd701e20836/5771c115da7ed.image.png
― earlnash, Sunday, 4 February 2018 19:12 (six years ago) link
I find choosing what to put on difficult enough when scanning CDs; the idea of flicking through numerous wallets fills me with horror.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Sunday, 4 February 2018 19:40 (six years ago) link
Worst picnic ever.
https://i.imgur.com/E4P0PsW.jpg
― pplains, Sunday, 4 February 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link