Vinyl is still my preferred medium. Thankfully almost everything (that I am interested in) is available on vinyl nowadays, and many smaller artists publish limited ed. vinyls + digital download in one package. Brilliant! Also: Nothing beats rummaging around a flea market and discovering old/rare albums that have never been transferred to digital formats.
I have 600+ vinyl albums, about the same number of cds and a bit less as mp3 etc.
I tried to find a home for my vinyl, but no-one seemed to want any. They’re all landfill now.
It was a transitionary technology, anyway.
Oops, I assumed you meant any physical record medium, so I answered 1001-2000, factoring in my CDs. I stopped buying vinyl in 1989, but still own the 150 LPs I had collected till then.
LPs run about 65 per running foot.
I used to have a box but they disappeared in the last move. If it were MP3s, I’ve got a little over 2.2TBs.
There are a dozen of the best cover-art vinyl records framed and hanging on the wall. Record album frames are found at arts n’ crafts store and even if you never listen to that Santana Abraxas album all scratched to hell, you can still admire the cover.
I’m old enough that vinyl used to be my main media for music. I’ve never thrown them out or sold them so I still have a couple of hundred albums in storage.
I guesstimated about 300 it’s probably more than that but I’m not counting. About fifty live downstairs with the turntable and get played sort of regularly (hello Holly Beth Vincent and Zappa’s Shut up and Play Your Guitar) the rest are shelved upstairs as a sort of archive I delve into occasionally.
I like the idea of using covers as artwork, time for a bit of delving…
I have about 200-300 LPs and maybe 200 45s, about 5 or 6 16RPMs, and about 50 78RPMs. I’m looking to inherit alot more though.
I am of the same mind as **silenus, **alot of music may not available digitally or it is edited to fit the new medium.
/pet peeve … a double album is a double album, stop editing/removing songs to fit it onto one CD. Also, leave the song sequence alone, if I wanted to hear the album out of order I would hit ‘shuffle’
I don’t have an exact count but it’s probably in the 150 range.
I was thinking the other day about how when I was in college I used to have to cart my albums around in a peach crate, and now I can put the equivalent of that much music on a little metal box that fits in my shirt pocket.
I only have about ten myself. My ex-husband had an estimated couple thousand, which he’d been collecting all his life. He had a like number of CDs. I imagine when he died it all went to the thrift shops around here.
Just got up and counted them. 73. Didn’t think it was that many. We keep them out on a shelf supported by bookends and rotate which get to be out front. We choose that album solely by the cover. Right now it’s Meco- Encounters of Every Kind and Spyro Gyra - Carnaval.
Also, these albums are almost all from before me and my husband married 25 years ago. When the record player we got as a wedding gift broke, we couldn’t find another one that fit our budget. 22 years later, our son bought us a turntable for Christmas. They still play!
Three packing boxes full of LPs, plus about a hundred 45s. There may be a resurgence, but I’ve not had a lot of luck selling them.
At least a couple thousand vinyl.
I picked “more than 2000” although actually I think it’s right around 2000. That’s vinyl LPs… I also have about 200 CDs, several hundred vinyl 45s, and a few dozen 78s (which I can’t even play anymore since my old cheapo stereo broke way back when). Oh, and a couple dozen cassette tapes.
I buy vinyl LPs in bulk, please PM me if you can provide details.
I’ll keep you in mind. The 45s are on a spreadsheet, but the LPs would have to be inventoried.
I have less than 25 now, mostly old colored-vinyl bootlegs. That’s down from around 1000 that I had in the mid-90s. Schlepping around those orange crates just got to be too much after 4 moves in 2 years.
About 100, if we’re only to count full albums and not singles/EPs. I still buy new vinyl sometimes, but not as often as I buy CDs.
Probably 300 vinyl. At least 300 CDs, maybe 400.