@sohmageek My parents had a couple of commercial 8-tracks where the songs were recorded across the track changes. I'm no fan of Perry Como but even he didn't deserve that.
@sohmageek When I was growing up, my family joined the Columbia House Music Club, where you get an 8-track tape player and I think monthly 8-tracks of your choice. It was cool at the time.
@cinoclav kind of kills the impulse to collect again, don't it? (Once, bought most of my CD collection back from the "used" shop down the street. At least in this state at the time, you had to give your name when you recycled aluminum cans -- but no similar requirement for used discs. They were essentially cash. I replaced my back window with laminated glass. Second asshat that tried it only managed to get bloody while ruining the window frame.)
50 or less; probably under 30. Two were Disney's Haunted House for play at Halloween, and the Lunar Landing recordings. I just wasn't into music growing up until I heard Olivia Newton John sing. I didn't start buying a lot until CD's were the standard.
My wife still has her Bang and Olufsen turntable for the rare occasions when we wants to hear the hissing and scratching of genuine vinyl.
I had, at one time, a HUGE vinyl collection. just chock full of collectible punk/deathrock/folk records... but ebay killed the fun of collecting.
no longer did you need to befriend folks at stores 300 miles from your house to buy the Big Boys "Frat Cars" single and flying to England was no longer profitable cuz going there to buy $200 worth of cheap-ass top-40 punk records to sell at the Austin record convention meant you got paid for a week's long vacation in four hours.
Still have my box of 45s with its nifty carrying case. And a bunch of vinyl albums. Even better, husband has a bunch of country and western albums from back when it was country AND western, not just country. Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams. My woman left me and took my dog with her!
I've been piling this stuff up for half a century now. There are at least a thousand LP records on the shelf, off the shelf, on the floor, and wherever, and maybe 800 45s. (We will not discuss the CD tree.)
@windowphobe My parents had a ton of 78rpm records from the '30s and up, plus a bunch from South America. Sadly lost to improper storage after they downsized their home.
@KDemo I can believe that. An LP weighs something like 13 ounces; a thousand of them, and suddenly you're talking 800 lb or more. Lot of strain for those poor floors.
When I was about six or seven I had both The Jackson Five - ABC123 and Black Sabboth - Sabotage, stacked on the old turntable together. Sprinkled in was a sampling of Santana, James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Elton John, and hundreds of others from the Rolling Stones to the big bands of Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So many more.... ok, im f'n old. That makes lucky!
I'm not sure if my total count exceeds 1000 or not. I haven't counted in many years and most of them are in boxes in storage.
In high school my friends Doug and Ron and I would take BART over to Berkeley and hit all the used record stores looking for obscure European prog rock. We'd all rush to the 'A' section looking for Area or Ange.
Since I got the turntable set back up a couple years ago I go to the storage locker now and then to grab a few records. I just listened to Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow" album last week. I forgot how much I liked that album. I need to dig up Chris Squier's "Fish out of Water" to have a memorial listen.
My ex-wife worked for a record distributor. (Peaches) and used to get a few freebies every week. (Concert tickets, albums, etc.) The collection was near to 1500 at one time. Converted them all to CDs.
Around 350-400 albums, I sold 27 a couple summers ago at a garage sale, big mistake - like long lost firends (who i kept in a box in the basement and never touched - yea, that sounds kinda creepy)
I gave the record collection to ex-husband out of pity. ( I got everything else!) That was over 30 years ago. In the mean time I've picked up just a couple records here and there, yard sale things; "Tommy" and "One Stormy Night" are a couple that stand out. I don't have a turn table. (I did keep the operas we had.)
I sadly sold some collector stuff cheaply at a yard sale - Grace Slick and the Great Society, Sticky Fingers with the zipper, etc. I still have Johnny and the Moondogs.
Here's about 900 of my collection, probably about the same amount more in the garage.
Over the course of last year, I listened to EVERY single one of those records (and all the others) at work - because they blocked internet radio! I started tweeting out every record/thing I play--because--why not.
@cinoclav sure is, not super old, but old enough to be mostly metal. The vintage ones are 'inside toys.' Newer ones are used for construction outside by my boys.
@bluebeatpete Awesome. They're still pretty solid from what I've seen. I remember sitting on top of mine as a kid and riding it down my driveway. They were absolute tanks.
Had several hundred but liquidated most of them when I downsized. I work with people that listen to music using spotify or something similar. Some use the weak speakers on their tablets, others use usb speakers. None of these youngin's know how good music can sound with the proper electronics. Yes, a good system can run over $5K. I recently got 3 turntables from an estate sale so I might start building up my collection again.
Just started collecting a couple years ago, wish they didn't take up so much space
I had more 8 tracks... both were "dead" formats for the most part for most of my life.
@sohmageek My parents had a couple of commercial 8-tracks where the songs were recorded across the track changes. I'm no fan of Perry Como but even he didn't deserve that.
@duodec I remember driving down country roads smoking the devil's lettuce, clicking through tracks on Darkness on the Edge of Town.
@sohmageek When I was growing up, my family joined the Columbia House Music Club, where you get an 8-track tape player and I think monthly 8-tracks of your choice. It was cool at the time.
None, but let's talk about my sweet cassette collection!
Probably about 50. Until some druggie asshat broke into my place and stole them. :(
@cinoclav kind of kills the impulse to collect again, don't it? (Once, bought most of my CD collection back from the "used" shop down the street. At least in this state at the time, you had to give your name when you recycled aluminum cans -- but no similar requirement for used discs. They were essentially cash. I replaced my back window with laminated glass. Second asshat that tried it only managed to get bloody while ruining the window frame.)
When I was a kid, I always listened to this record.
When you say record that includes cds right?
@thismyusername not!
@dmlivezey I might need to change my answer then.
@thismyusername if you have certificates of deposit, you should include them in your financial records.
50 or less; probably under 30. Two were Disney's Haunted House for play at Halloween, and the Lunar Landing recordings. I just wasn't into music growing up until I heard Olivia Newton John sing. I didn't start buying a lot until CD's were the standard.
My wife still has her Bang and Olufsen turntable for the rare occasions when we wants to hear the hissing and scratching of genuine vinyl.
I may have lied when I said I had none. I totally forgot about this bad boy from when I was little. It was red and I loved it.
I had, at one time, a HUGE vinyl collection. just chock full of collectible punk/deathrock/folk records... but ebay killed the fun of collecting.
no longer did you need to befriend folks at stores 300 miles from your house to buy the Big Boys "Frat Cars" single and flying to England was no longer profitable cuz going there to buy $200 worth of cheap-ass top-40 punk records to sell at the Austin record convention meant you got paid for a week's long vacation in four hours.
vinyl... don't talk to me about vinyl
@Noddy93 Ebay did that to a lot of things...
Still have my box of 45s with its nifty carrying case. And a bunch of vinyl albums. Even better, husband has a bunch of country and western albums from back when it was country AND western, not just country. Marty Robbins, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams. My woman left me and took my dog with her!
@pooflady But she couldn't get my boots, cause they were stuck on my big feet....
This is your trick to find out how old I am, right?
@KDemo All the surveys do that. But I don't think they care, they just want you to feel bad.
Do I count the flexible records I got off the cereal box?
@Fish_Kungfu Yes ! I think there are still some in the basement.
@Fish_Kungfu I would. We pitched ours a few years ago when eBay showed it wasn't worth trying to sell them.
@Fish_Kungfu OMG yes! I had the Archies singing "Sugar, Sugar".
@AnnaB Thanks, now I can't get that song outta my head. ;-p ....awwww sugah, bah bah bum bah bump bum, awwww honey honey....
@Fish_Kungfu You are my candy girl!!!
I've been piling this stuff up for half a century now. There are at least a thousand LP records on the shelf, off the shelf, on the floor, and wherever, and maybe 800 45s. (We will not discuss the CD tree.)
@windowphobe My parents had a ton of 78rpm records from the '30s and up, plus a bunch from South America. Sadly lost to improper storage after they downsized their home.
@windowphobe - My one-time SO was a radio DJ. He had a wall full of records in crates. When we moved, we saw the floor had sagged (a lot).
@duodec I had only a handful of 78s, and they didn't survive a move.
@KDemo I can believe that. An LP weighs something like 13 ounces; a thousand of them, and suddenly you're talking 800 lb or more. Lot of strain for those poor floors.
When I was about six or seven I had both The Jackson Five - ABC123 and Black Sabboth - Sabotage, stacked on the old turntable together. Sprinkled in was a sampling of Santana, James Brown, The Isley Brothers, Elton John, and hundreds of others from the Rolling Stones to the big bands of Charlie Parker and Duke Ellington. So many more.... ok, im f'n old. That makes lucky!
I'm not sure if my total count exceeds 1000 or not. I haven't counted in many years and most of them are in boxes in storage.
In high school my friends Doug and Ron and I would take BART over to Berkeley and hit all the used record stores looking for obscure European prog rock. We'd all rush to the 'A' section looking for Area or Ange.
Since I got the turntable set back up a couple years ago I go to the storage locker now and then to grab a few records. I just listened to Jon Anderson's "Olias of Sunhillow" album last week. I forgot how much I liked that album. I need to dig up Chris Squier's "Fish out of Water" to have a memorial listen.
My ex-wife worked for a record distributor. (Peaches) and used to get a few freebies every week. (Concert tickets, albums, etc.) The collection was near to 1500 at one time. Converted them all to CDs.
Around 350-400 albums, I sold 27 a couple summers ago at a garage sale, big mistake - like long lost firends (who i kept in a box in the basement and never touched - yea, that sounds kinda creepy)
This probably has the biggest collection of records:
@rockblossom ha!
Serves as dining room furniture as well. (Which is why it's cropped — it's the dining room's "long flat surface to put random things on top of.")
I gave the record collection to ex-husband out of pity. ( I got everything else!) That was over 30 years ago. In the mean time I've picked up just a couple records here and there, yard sale things; "Tommy" and "One Stormy Night" are a couple that stand out. I don't have a turn table.
(I did keep the operas we had.)
I sadly sold some collector stuff cheaply at a yard sale - Grace Slick and the Great Society, Sticky Fingers with the zipper, etc. I still have Johnny and the Moondogs.
Edit: Guess it's not worth as much as I thought.
@KDemo you sold sticky fingers with the zipper - SHAME!
Somewhere over 2000. Including 45's.
Here's about 900 of my collection, probably about the same amount more in the garage.
Over the course of last year, I listened to EVERY single one of those records (and all the others) at work - because they blocked internet radio! I started tweeting out every record/thing I play--because--why not.
@bluebeatpete Cool microphone collection.
@bluebeatpete Is that a Tonka dump truck in the bottom right?
@cinoclav sure is, not super old, but old enough to be mostly metal. The vintage ones are 'inside toys.' Newer ones are used for construction outside by my boys.
@bluebeatpete Awesome. They're still pretty solid from what I've seen. I remember sitting on top of mine as a kid and riding it down my driveway. They were absolute tanks.
Had several hundred but liquidated most of them when I downsized. I work with people that listen to music using spotify or something similar. Some use the weak speakers on their tablets, others use usb speakers. None of these youngin's know how good music can sound with the proper electronics. Yes, a good system can run over $5K. I recently got 3 turntables from an estate sale so I might start building up my collection again.
@Rob_in_Suburbia Now you just st need two microphones.
I lived next to a radio station when I was a kid. We used to dumpster dive and find records...then use them as skeet for our bb guns...
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