Everyone gets to chime in on this one, I suppose...
I used to trade in old stuff that I never listened to anymore, but after
searching for a disk I'd sold and getting upset at myself for this, I
realized the mistake here. In an ideal world, we could all carry around
our best stereo system and our entire collection wherever we went and
listen to whatever we wanted whenever we wanted...but this is
impossible. And it's not always easy or fun to rifle through 500 CDs to
find that one song that fits this moment perfectly...my solution has
been mixtapes/CDs...and to this end, I keep everything just in case I
can use one song, from that ten year old comp that I never listen to
anymore, on a mix. Voila! No more selling...
As for organizing...hrm...I always have a 'recently purchased' stack and
I've got a 100 CD changer, so I've always got 100 ready to go...as for
the rest, I've got them grouped by genre and style now (IDM, trance, DJ
mixes, ambient, etc.)...though I've often gone with the 'throw them in a
box and memorize the important stuff' theory...that seems to work not so
well, though.
---brian
AeOtaku@aol.com wrote:
quoted 30 lines Wow, people have 3000 releases?
> Wow, people have 3000 releases?
> You are all either way too tolerant of
> music, or way packratish. I never
> allow myself to have more than 1000
> or so records at a time. Honestly,
> if you have 3000 records, you probably
> have 2500 you'll either never listen to
> again or listen to maybe a track or two
> from every few years. How can you honestly
> have a few thousand records you love and
> rotate them in and out of your CD player?
> My buddy Josh, who DJs jungle and techno
> says there's no reason to have more than
> a few hundred records if you don't DJ professionally
> (and even then you shouldn't have insane amounts)
> and I'm beginning to think he's entirely right.
>
> On the organization tip, I do it by label,
> but my cousin, who collects hip-hop and
> has just mountains of records, does it
> by how often he plays it. The stuff he plays all
> the time is in a crate by the sound system,
> the stuff he plays sometimes goes in
> crates across the room and stuff he
> rarely/never plays goes inside a shelf by the
> closet. I keep meaning to organize my stuff
> this way but I sell so much of the chaff I
> don't listen to it so often it doesn't seem feasible.
>
> Matt