Vinyl help

[Scout]

Come on over to my garage where I have my collection of 500 or so albums (and probably as many CDs -- oh, and don't forget a couple hundred cassettes) packed away in boxes: I haven't had my stereo set up since two moves and 20 years ago and I'm still planning to do it "someday."

Now I listen to stuff on flimsy earbuds on Amazon Music, on the cellphone sitting in my hand.

What era are these records?

 

[Machine Head]

Or reel-to-reels.

There's money in them thar hills

 

[Driftwood]

I have nothing personal to add other than something y'all will find funny/amazing.

I have a friend who collecting records is his thing. He is and always has been single. He doesn't fish, golf, or anything else. He's spent his whole life working at a radio station and worked in multiple record stores in college. He buys, sells, and trades records.
The last time I asked him, which was 3-4 years ago, he had more than 65,000 that he knew of. No, that's not a typo with an extra or two extra 0s.
65,000+
He can actually tell you what he has and can lay his hands on it because he's built an extensive database for his collection. I'm sure he hasn't and certainly doesn't listen to them all, but if you walk into his house, he has rooms (plural) that are nothing but wall-to-wall records.

 

[MisterCreosote]

I have nothing personal to add other than something y'all will find funny/amazing.

I have a friend who collecting records is his thing. He is and always has been single. He doesn't fish, golf, or anything else. He's spent his whole life working at a radio station and worked in multiple record stores in college. He buys, sells, and trades records.
The last time I asked him, which was 3-4 years ago, he had more than 65,000 that he knew of. No, that's not a typo with an extra or two extra 0s.
65,000+
He can actually tell you what he has and can lay his hands on it because he's built an extensive database for his collection. I'm sure he hasn't and certainly doesn't listen to them all, but if you walk into his house, he has rooms (plural) that are nothing but wall-to-wall records.

"Looks like you're reorganizing your record collection. Chronological? Alphabetical?"

"Autobiographical."

"That sounds …"

"Comforting? It is."

 

[Roscablo]

"Looks like you're reorganizing your record collection. Chronological? Alphabetical?"

"Autobiographical."

"That sounds …"

"Comforting? It is."

One of my absolute favorite movies.

 

[Starman]

What era are these records?

Somewhere in there are 50 or so albums my parents bought in the 1950s; the rest are mine dating from the 60s to the 80s. Lots of CDs from the 80s to 90s. Late 90s my purchases of physical music hit a dead end with the arrival of computer music.

 

[Scout]

80s albums, especially when everyone was buying CDs, are very valuable.

 

[Starman]

At one point when I was fairly well ensconced in an apartment I had most of my 500-odd albums on shelves in alphabetical order by artist. It actually made fairly decent sense.

Now I'm living in a house and I don't really think there's a room where all that shirt could go.

 

[Starman]

65,000 records.

Hmm. I'm 65 years old, and sometime next June -- I haven't figured out exactly what day -- I'll turn 24,000 days old. Which means if I had bought 3 records every single day of my life, sometime five or six years ago I would have had 65,000.

Holy crap.