I have around 1,500. I keep asking myself why I buy more, especially with all the streaming options available. I do love the physical act of playing a record though and love the sound. I'm running out of space, so something has to give soon...
Glad to see there are some fellow "non hoarders" among the brethren.
I agree that if I buy an album, play it and find it was not to my liking and am likely to never play it again then there is just no point in keeping it just for the sake of it.
So usually on eBay it goes.
I have my existing storage bins and they are not quite full yet so I consider myself "safe" for now … lol
I just purchased a turntable a week ago and now have 7 records (new and used). My intent is to acquire music not currently in my digital library. I'm pretty happy with my digital so, hopefully, I can keep a handle on those "I need to hear this on vinyl" urges which are sure to come. So far I'm really enjoying the experience.
I only started getting back in to vinyl in a big way around two years ago, with it really ramping up this year (once I discovered discogs).
I'm using discogs to organize my collection. Says I have 423 in there, but I haven't finished cataloguing some of my old records.
My attitude is that I do not want to end up being a hoarder, where I'm just overrun with records that I'll never listen to. I don't "collect" in the sense of buying records only for some other sense of "value" (e.g. this one was released with a wonky label, only a few made!), or rarity, or just for completion sake. I'm looking to have a managable number of well curated records, buying only the records I will listen to (and not for just a song or two, but most of the record has to appeal).
That's why I don't do much crate-digging at all. I don't like hauling vinyl home just to take a chance on it, and then ending up with records I don't listen to. Discogs...and youtube...allow me to listen to lots of tracks from an album before I buy.
But...I have to say I went vinyl crazy for a while, started buying too much, and have nipped it back to a sane number of records...for now...I hope...
@tomic601 - Thanks. Personally, I don't see a reason to have records I know I will never listen to again. I take the opportunity to trade them toward records I will enjoy, hopefully for years to come. I guess I'm less of a collector and more of a consumer of music media. I'm not knocking collectors. It's just not my thing.
About 800. I'm trying to keep the size of my collection reasonable (for me). I've been taking records to my LRS and trading/upgrading. I come home with fewer records than I took with me.
My collection almost doubled in one day! A high school friend donated a very large number of lps to a local college. They were placed in the library in old school fashion, pockets and checkout cards glued to the jackets. Judging by the cards they were seldom borrowed. Years later, the school no longer wanted to maintain them and since he was the largest donor he had first dibs. He knew I was collecting, called me and I scored big time. Thousands of records. $0 Lucky me.
Like rshak my estimate is about 7000. Jazz, Classical, older Country, Pop/Rock, Opera and a nice Blues collection. Probably not time left to hear it all. I told my Wife’s friend it was for my retirement and she responded “Well good luck with that!”
+/- 7,000. Been collecting since 1962. The collection is mostly jazz and classical with some rock and other stuff. I've curtailed my buying quite a bit the last few years and have started giving some of my dupes away. Soon I'll start selling the more valuable items, here and/or eBay. As someone once (or twice or thrice) said, you can't take it with you.
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