A few hundred, but I lost them in a boating accident.
I have about 300 vinyl and about 150 CD’s from Argent to ZZ Top.
About 40. Most of mine met their end one teenage winter when I discovered how spectacularly awesome it was to wing an album over an open field covered in snow. Those suckers would skip across the ground forever. Or you could make a snowman and chop him to pieces all ninja-style by throwing albums at him.
Only my most precious records survived that winter.
As an aside, teenagers are fucking morons.
If any post requires elaboration it is this one.
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About 150 LPs plus 100 or so 45s and a few dozen 78s.
Dumb joke. It sounded better when I posted it.
Three or four hundred – alphabetized, of course, but most in poorly cleaned condition and played frequently on my crummy cartridge and stylus. I still find good stuff in used shops – one of my most recent finds was a Fathead Newman album called “The Weapon” with Mac Rebennack on piano – nice playing, and I’m still copping some licks from that one.
Oddly enough, I don’t mind keeping the “vinyl” around (yeah, so, I’m not an oldster!), but I’d much rather digitize all of my CDs and get rid of them – even after getting rid of all the jewel cases and putting them in sleeves, they still annoy me somehow. I enjoy spinning records, though – even with a crummy cartridge and not being able to easily slow things down for transcribing to staff paper, they’re good to have around, I think.
Oh, and a bunch of 78s from older family members that I can’t play due to lack of technology. Quick question: I should really get a mono cartridge and stylus to play those, right? Maybe easier to get a cheap tonearm with a mono stylus mounted and swap it out to make things easier, right? Assuming I had a deck that could play 78 rpm. At any rate, I already have most of that stuff on CD, so I’ll just pretend I’m grateful for the family member who thought I would enjoy having those sides. Maybe a dead grandparent’s eartrumpet and a sewing needle would be just as good.
Pre CDs I had 4 or 500 but any of those that remain are still in the former marital home.
About 40 or 50. I started buying music when vinyl had been obsolete for quite a while so all the records I own are inherited from my mother and aunt or are vinyl editions of current albums that I bought for one reason or another (usually because the packaging was elaborate or a picture disc or something). I have a case of old cassettes my aunt gave me that are like a time capsule of pop music in the late eighties and early nineties.
I also own 1800+ CDs, which I consider my “proper” music collection. The things I own on other formats are usually curiosities or collectibles as described above.
How funny. I’ve just discovered ‘Dr. John’s Gumbo’ and have been wearing it out.
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“Gumbo” can’t be beat – I used to EQ to isolate the piano tracks and learn them, but I never had a vinyl copy. Used to be a great many of his earlier “rock and roll” (if that’s why they were) could only be had on vinyl, though, or very expensive imports. Stuff like “Sun, Moon, and Herbs,” and “Desitively Bonnaroo” IIRC. He had so many sideman dates on other artists’ records that I can’t help but think were never released on CD. Surprising for such a major rock musician it’s taken so long for some classics to come out on CD.
The jazz organist Don Patterson, under his name or with Sonny Stitt as leader is one reason I’d never get rid of the best vinyl from my small supply of vinyl – so many great jazz sides, even as late as the 1960s or 1970s, just have never seen light of day, even from major players.
Hey, if I’m going to kill a thread, as I suspect I might, might as well go out with a lengthier post, right?