how many records do you own?

[manfred]

about

3700 CD's

400 LP's The most interesting are on my display wall.

300 45's/EP's

200 78's

All jazz

All in my music room. Some pictures taken during recent modernization of my appartment.

Not all was in it's right place at that stage.

that`s very nice, thank you for the photos!

about

3700 CD's

400 LP's The most interesting are on my display wall.

300 45's/EP's

200 78's

All jazz

All in my music room. Some pictures taken during recent modernization of my appartment.

Not all was in it's right place at that stage.

that`s very nice, thank you for the photos!

well, i`m really impressed by your collections....

[aparxa]

I probably have a couple thousand LPs but only a dozen or two are really any good.

My parents have a couple hundreds LPs but only a dozen or two are really playing well.

[Patrick]

For me, it is about 1700 jazz titles on CD. Probably about 200 more CDs (rock, classical, etc), and 50 or 60 LPs (mostly rock) that haven't been played for 25 years. This past year I decided to track how much I spent on jazz CDs. For 2010, I purchased 147 titles for about $1370, or about $9 an album. Not bad given that the list includes a number of the BS/SN compilations, Bill Evans boxes from Amazon/Newbury, etc. Great majority still came from ebay, though organissimo posters were my second most used source.

Nice to see that as a collector, I am a rank amateur compared to so many ...

[John L]

I probably have a couple thousand LPs but only a dozen or two are really any good.

There is a good joke in there somewhere. I remember a joke in Russia during Gorbachev's time to the effect that Mitterrand has 12 lovers, one of them has AIDS, but he doesn't know which one, while Gorbachev has 12 economic advisers, one of them is competent, but he doesn't know which one. Here, we have 9000 jazz CDs, only 300 of which are any good, but we don't know which ones.