How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to?

Vinyl is a way of life. A way of looking at that record store and saying: "Hey bud lets buy more"

About 3000, my favorite 300 of which are on browser shelves.  I’ve listened to those 300 many times.  Starting to branch out to the rest of my collection which are less accessible.

Around 200 or so at present but slowly build them up again. Like many of the rest of us, I bought CD's in favour of records in the 1990's when CD became more "fashionable" In hindsight, that was a big mistake. Should have bought more vinyl..

I've got probably 3 or 4 thousand, down from about 10 at the peak. Everything that survived The (latest) Purge is elite and gets spinned. Still too many though - i'm just sentimental about stupid stuff. There are so many great records out there, and the older i get, the more i realize how little i've heard. It's a lifelong thing for me, for better or worse - the journey never ends. YMMV

My system is 100% analog since the 90s, I sold all my CDs more than 20 years ago. Since 1998 I was a co-owner of the record store for DJs and went on my own with another record section in two different locations in downtown. It was not the best time for vinyl, but it was way before domination of online dealers and stores over the physical record stores.

I sold about 10 000 records locally over the years, it was 17 years ago. European distributors supplied great new records for decent prices back then.

Since 2004 I buy records online from all over the world (private dealers, online stores whatever), slowly I stopped buying re-issues at all. My passion is original vinyl from the 70s. Some of the Soul and Funk discoveries on 45s dramatically increased its market value. Collectors trading and selling records, sometimes you have to sell some to buy some more.

I decided to keep only what I really like, so at the moment I have about 2000 records, some of them are very rare with typical market value of $100-300, some are extremely rare with much higher market value, and some nice cheapies too.

Nowadays I mostly looking for perfectly recorded Jazz-Funk LPs from the 70s, but also Brazilian stuff from the early 80s.

Anyway, monitoring digital sources for music from the past it’s still hard to find particular sound that I like today, so I wish to buy more, but sometimes it’s impossible simply because I don’t like 99% of what i hear on youtube and in some podcasts etc :)

I remember each record from my collection and can reproduce it in my mind, often in my dreams.

Jazz, Soul, Funk, Rhythm and Blues, Soundtracks, Roots Reggae, Latin, Brazilian ...

Mainly from the late 50’s to mid 80’s on original vinyl.

Some 90's hip hop, downtempo and semi electronic stuff from my youth too.

No rock, No classical, sorry

P.S. In addition a few boxes of Japanese 78s from my grandpa, and 50s/60s twist from my mom on 33rpm.