# How many record albums do you own?
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 9, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815 "2011-02-09T22:31:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2011, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/1 "2011-02-09T22:31:20Z")
Just curious. I still have all mine, around 1200 or so.
mmm
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### Author:  [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2011, 10:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/2 "2011-02-09T22:35:33Z")
I assume you mean albums in any medium. I own no vinyl: okay, exactly one, but it’s for the cover art. I answered albums in any medium (including digital but I only own around 10 digital-only albums.)
ETA: Well drats, how do you change a poll answer?
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### Author:  [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2011, 10:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/3 "2011-02-09T22:37:50Z")
On vinyl: none. I have about 500 on CD, not sure of the exact figure, but never counted. I have a few digital albums, bought and paid for on Rhapsody and Amazon. I have decided to stop buying CDs entirely and start buying downloads when available, as I convert almost all of my CDs, anyway.
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### Author:  [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2011, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/4 "2011-02-09T22:40:36Z")
In my own right: zero
Via shared property with my husband: somewhere between 500 and 1000.
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### Author:  [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2011, 10:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/5 "2011-02-09T22:43:22Z")
Just to clarify: yes, I mean vinyl.
mmm
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### Author:  [@Monkey\_Chews](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Monkey_Chews)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2011, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/6 "2011-02-09T23:22:01Z")
Just started collecting last year. I’ve got about 90 records so far. I really enjoy going down to markets and second-hand shops on the weekends and flicking through the records to find the good stuff. Last weekend I scored Bruce Springsteen’s “Nebraska”, INXS’s “Kick”, Lou Reed’s “Transformer” and Leonard Cohen’s Greatest Hits for $5 each, all in great condition. And I’m trying to buy all my new music on vinyl where possible.
There is something so wonderful about flicking through these large, colourful items in my collection when I’m selecting music, and the process of pulling the record out, flipping it around and sticking it on the player is a ritual that is really making me sit down and listen to the music much more carefully. I really love it.
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [February 9, 2011, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/7 "2011-02-09T23:26:56Z")
The half a dozen or so records from my early childhood (Winnie the Pooh, Seaseme Street and Tiffany) are still with my parents’ collection, so I answered 1-25.
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### Author:  [@campp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/campp)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 12:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/8 "2011-02-10T00:01:48Z")
BIG vinyl resurgence going on right now. Yeehaw, I love vinyl.
Side nitpick: Younger new vinyl enthusiasts are calling records “vinyls”. This just grates. Get off of my lawn.
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### Author:  [@Shot\_Clock](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shot_Clock)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/9 "2011-02-10T00:06:06Z")
168 vinyl LPs
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### Author:  [@Musicat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Musicat)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/10 "2011-02-10T00:14:45Z")
Slightly over 500 vinyl, about 150 CDs, uncountable MP3s from various sources, all of which are far, far less than my professional musician friends.
All vinyl and some CDs are in a computer database, locatable by individual cuts, artist, composer, album and song titles. None of which is the slightest use, since it’s all in my head and human random access is superior to computer in many cases.
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### Author:  [@3\_20\_59\_or\_bust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3_20_59_or_bust)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 12:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/11 "2011-02-10T00:15:29Z")
I had about 500, but I sold them all about ten years ago.
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### Author:  [@Tim\_R.Mortiss](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tim_R.Mortiss)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/12 "2011-02-10T00:21:36Z")
> [@campp](#):
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> BIG vinyl resurgence going on right now. Yeehaw, I love vinyl.
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> Side nitpick: Younger new vinyl enthusiasts are calling records “vinyls”. This just grates. Get off of my lawn.
That’s a good term for them. A CD of “Sergeant Pepper” is still an album, and still a record. Just not a vinyl LP. Even the Grammy awards acknowledges this.
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### Author:  [@salinqmind](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/salinqmind)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 12:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/13 "2011-02-10T00:28:04Z")
An album means a collection, not just vinyl. We here own between one and two hundred records. Just sitting there, collecting dust. Some are downstairs in an old hope chest with a heavy old TV on it. Sometimes I wonder exactly what records are in there, but I can’t move the TV.
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### Author:  [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 12:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/14 "2011-02-10T00:54:03Z")
I got rid of a lot of my vinyl when I switched to buying CDs, but I still have 2500 or so in storage or on the shelves. The big problem is that every time we (the masses) switch mediums, we lose 85% or so of the music that has been recorded. So I am keeping my vinyl until I get them all converted into sound files.
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### Author:  [@Superfluous\_Parentheses](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superfluous_Parentheses)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/15 "2011-02-10T01:18:57Z")
Vinyl, I assume? Slightly above 1,000 at a guess. I’ve got around 600 sitting in my book case, and a few hundred more at my brother’s place.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 1:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/16 "2011-02-10T01:19:01Z")
I have well over a hundred on vinyl (I don’t know the exact number) and maybe half as many on CD. Plus I have about 30 I’ve purchased as downloads.
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### Author:  [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 1:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/17 "2011-02-10T01:32:22Z")
Mine have been carefully stored vertically in a cabinet for over 20 years. I recently got a few that aren’t on cd down and started converting them to digital flacs.
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### Author:  [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/18 "2011-02-10T01:55:55Z")
I have in a box in the garage about 75 vinyl records. They have not been out of the box for about fifteen years probably more. Between the wife and myself we have around 400 CDs and maybe about 20 digital downloads of CDs. Maybe someday I will join the current era and buy only songs and make playlists but for now I just cue up albums.
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### Author:  [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 2:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/19 "2011-02-10T02:31:56Z")
No idea. I’ve never counted, but they fill twenty-two feet of tightly packed shelf space.
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### Author:  [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2011, 9:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-many-record-albums-do-you-own/570815/20 "2011-02-10T09:17:31Z")
I got rid of all my vinyl years ago, except for three: two picture discs and an extremely rare prog rock record. All three are framed and hanging on my wall.
I know it’s not what’s being asked, but I’ve got more than 1400 CDs.
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