Get your hits out.
 

TFPeople, I have a problem. I just can't stop buying CDs.

Maybe, if you post pictures of your collection I can begin to understand why I need a daily fix of plastic disc.

If you don't have a digital camera then get yourself a tape measure and give me your length (no bullshittin' though, this is serious business).


Section 1 - Recent purchases and all time favourites (albums):
http://img279.echo.cx/img279/9892/cds17da.jpg

Section2 - Recent purchases and all time favourites (singles):
http://img283.echo.cx/img283/5726/cds28uf.jpg

Section 3 - Rarely aired archive (where good music goes when I need space in section 1):
http://img261.echo.cx/img261/7922/cds47de.jpg

Section 4 - Played it once and wasn't impressed:
http://img287.echo.cx/img287/8634/cds38mu.jpg

You sir, are an album junkie. But I respect that. I love buying CD's. I'm not smart enough to just steal music from the internet. Plus, I like the feel of a complete album as a concept ( something that probably doesn't exist anymore ). I will continue to pay upwards of $20-$28 a CD because I like spending money on things I can get for free. You have me beat by about 1000 albums though. I keep a steady number of about 50. If I buy a new one, I generally toss or sell an old one.

Having a big music collection does have benefits. Last night my brother came round with an 'earworm'.

"what's this tune: dun da dun da da da da...."

Within a few short moments we had it narrowed down to:

The Changeling - by The Doors, I can't go for that - Hall & Oates or Say No Go - De La Soul.

That's when he pointed out my 'problem'.

I'm starting to be an album junkie. My collection is only at about 70, but I'm a starving engineering student, so there's not much money to be spent on such things. In the meantime, I'll be stealing as much as I can on the internet.

the main stash...

http://progfan.no-ip.org/CDs1.jpg

of course, there are always stacks of stragglers about...

http://progfan.no-ip.org/CDs2.jpg

another stack...

http://progfan.no-ip.org/CDs3.jpg

and now for the live music. it's not easy to see here, but basically i have this dresser more or less filled with CDs in sleeves.

http://progfan.no-ip.org/CDs4.jpg

i have a few other stacks around, but that's most of 'em. there's also a drawer ful of live CDs in my desk at work.

And the RIAA thinks they're losing money due to piracy. The'll never miss a penny so long as you two keep adding to your collections :)

About... um 6", I mean... um.... here take a look:

This is the North wall:
http://www.aliberkok.com/images/Picture001.jpg

And this is the East wall:
http://www.aliberkok.com/images/Picture002.jpg

Not as big as most of my jazz comrades, but I love it. It as almost too big to fit in the camera view! :)

Well, it's not nearly as big as grendel's, but here's my collection:
http://rjf.ca/Images/CDS.jpg
It's on a rotating CD rack from Ikea, so I just stiched the 4 sides into this one picture. The rack holds 480 CD's.

Though I dont have a digital camera right now to show it, I'm exactly the same... always buying albums that i just 'fancy' listening to... even if I download an album now, If I like it I always find myself buying it just to look at the actual cover art and for having an actual 'physical' copy. I'm very proud of my collection of 412 albums considering I'm 20 and have plenty of buying years left :) I just love finding and buying new music. Buying new racks for cd's all the time just feels good now, despite the amount of money I spend on them... I do have an awful lot of downloaded live shows aswel, not nearly enough as grendels draws full though, I have around about 200 live shows downloaded...

I've got at least 500 CD's. Unfortunately, a lot of them only have one or two good songs on them. I bought most of them when I was overseas in the USAF.

I need a nice CD rack. Mine are still in shoe boxes, and scattered throughout. Oh well, here are most of them.

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http://images8.fotki.com/v146/photos...ure1007-vi.jpg
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I used to have them arranged and categorized, but decided that was for chumps, because I'm always buying more, and having to move everything past the one I just bought.

i own 2inch of cds.

They invented an ipod so you dont have CD's

I have, I'd say about 100, maybe up to 150 CDs, but now that I have downgraded to Dialup (!) I'm downloading full albums... Weird, I know. Also, I've been copying stuff from the library (is this considered illegal?)

But you should see my marketing lecturer's CDs. He's got 3 walls, floor to ceiling (~2.7m), and the walls are about 10m wide, and it's shelved on bookshelves. It's like a mini record store in there and as soon as he showed us the video of his house, I started thinking: if he sells this, he could probably stop teaching for a few years and not worry about money.

I do the same thing with concert DVD's. I have a satellite radio now and don't nearly buy as many cd's as before. Maybe you should try that.
http://www.sirius.com/
http://www.xmradio.com/

I have over 800 CD's. I've not counted them lately, but I know that my absolubte FAVOURITES are ripped to my HD on the laptop, and it was a struggle getting that down to only 25Gb.

And that's using WMA files at 64kb compression.

I have a 6" set of drawers, eight wide, each drawer contains about 15 CDs.

Every year or so I spend some serious time slinginng out anything I've not listened to for a few months - but I don't like to do that because I always find that there's one or two tracks that I want to hear again. Ripping stuff helps - you can keep the one good track and shitcan the dross.

I hasten to add, that the drawers only contain the "important" stuff. I have another hundred or so "not that good" CDs that live in my filing cabinet at work, and a load on shelves under the CD player.

My GF has a couple of hundred in some wooden crates that she brought here when she moved in.

I always wonder how anyone can get by with only a few CDs. I have friends that have a total collection of ~20, and most of that being compilations of chart hits.

Christ - there are abnds I don't count as my Top 10 acts that I have 10 CDs of.

I'm an adict.

Someone needs to start CD Buyers Anon for us........ ;)

no but seriously.. i got about 50cds... mostly that ppl bought for me. myself, i got maybe 20? all the zeppelin and pinkfloyd. i wouldnt download them unless my cd broke(or got stolen)