How Many CD's do you own?

[Brian]

About 120 classical and 20 non-classical ... I'm a poor teenager with nearly no income, and my parents' collection is roughly 200 classical and 200 non-classical, so there's no need to buy more yet. 

[Solitary Wanderer]

I own all the capitol and reprise and a few columbia vinyls.   I have entertained the thought of getting some equipment to transfer all my albums to disc....It just seems like so much work....I remember copying all that stuff to cassettes...I still have about 10 full boxes of cassettes in my garage....I think its about 2,000 cassettes.....its with all my old cassette players.....I still occassionally use my walkman professional, which also records.....I used to take it to all my concerts and tape them.....

Hmmm...those Sinatra lps could have some value.

[Robert]

Just for the hell of it...

Dorsey The Song is You 5 discs
Columbia Blue Box         12 discs
Best of Columbia Years    4 discs
The Capitol Collection    21 discs
Capitol Singles Collection  4 discs
Best of Capitol Years       3 discs
The Reprise 'Suitcase'    20 discs
The Reprise Years           4 discs
In Hollwood                    6 discs
In Vegas                        4 discs 1 dvd

So theres 83 discs in boxsets alone.

By the way I started with the smaller sets then upgraded to the bigger ones as I got into his music more.

This looks like a very bad case of FRANKINITIS... I also caught that bug in the 60's....once caught you cant get rid of it...Its just goes into remission......

[DavidW]

That IS an interesting question, David. I have a mere few thousands of CD's. I don't know how many, actually, at a guess, 3000. And a surprising number of downloaded digital albums too, for that matter.

I have maybe 125 books on CM. It was your question on which gives me greater pleasure that intrigues though: in truth, I don't know the answer, it will require some inward searching. I think, though, that it is the combination of the two that provides the greatest satisfaction, since what I learn from the books increases my appreciation of the music, and being able to hear the music increases my appreciation of the books. Synergy, baby! 

And I guess for Karl he can add composition and performing to the list, and the four elements sustain in each other in a beautiful fugue.

Karl, is your musical life a fugue?

[MishaK]

I have a little over 1,000 CDs and around 60 LPs.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Culls have plagued my collecting career. So adjusting accordingly: about 1500 CD's and around 130 LP's.

All classical save for about three dozen choice jazz CD's (Miles, Coltrane, Brubeck).

[DavidW]

Culls have plagued my collecting career.

Oh we're alike in that manner.  That's funny Don, I thought you were the type to hold on to things.

[karlhenning]

All classical save for about three dozen choice jazz CD's (Miles, Coltrane, Brubeck).

No Dolphy? No Mingus? Where's the outrage! 

[orbital]

I am approaching my preset limit of 500. But classical music recordings that I have (since I have everything ripped to mp3) are at about 60 GB at 192kbps average. That would probably translate to more than 500 CDs worth 
Since most of that excess music wasn't (and will never be) issued on CD (or they are OOP) I may have reached my limit with a concentration on only a handful of composers already 

[Steve]

I suppose I'd be more interested in the representation of different periods or composers in your collections. Of mine, I have a large concentration in High-Classical - Early Romantic Violin.

[Dancing Divertimentian]

Oh we're alike in that manner.  That's funny Don, I thought you were the type to hold on to things.

I certainly don't get rid of anything...anymore! So you're actually right about that, David.

But in the past I had no issues with culling...whenever. And handfulls at a time. I shudder at the thought now.

[George]

I certainly don't get rid of anything...anymore! So you're actually right about that, David.

But in the past I had no issues with culling...whenever. And handfulls at a time. I shudder at the thought now.

I have had moments when I have culled things that I have later regretted. Now I only cull duplicates and usually offer them as gifts to friends. If its a newer remastering, I hold onto it.

Luckily, I am now aware of how dynamic my taste is. There was a time when Richter didn't impress me much. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

No Dolphy? No Mingus? Where's the outrage! 

Feeling blue about it, for sure...

Can we just call it a work in progress?

Okay, so my classical collection is a work in progress, too, but it had a huuuge head start!

[not edward]

I have had moments when I have culled things that I have later regretted. Now I only cull duplicates and usually offer them as gifts to friends. If its a newer remastering, I hold onto it.

I think I've bought about 12 discs I'd previously culled. Not a terrible regret rate.

Luckily, I am now aware of how dynamic my taste is. There was a time when Richter didn't impress me much. 

[Dancing Divertimentian]

I have had moments when I have culled things that I have later regretted. Now I only cull duplicates and usually offer them as gifts to friends. If its a newer remastering, I hold onto it.

Luckily, I am now aware of how dynamic my taste is. There was a time when Richter didn't impress me much. 

Yeah, "cull regret" is a powerful motivator in changing one's attitude towards culling!

Oh, and George, I remember back when when Richter bobbed on and off your radar. I think I remember having a hand in nudging you onward.

We Richterphiles need to look out for each other!

[Lilas Pastia]

I suppose I'd be more interested in the representation of different periods or composers in your collections. Of mine, I have a large concentration in High-Classical - Early Romantic Violin.

I, too, think this is more interesting. More revealing of one's personal tastes.

My fields of interest are (in no particular order):

- symphonic music 1800-1975. Like Bruckner symphonies for example . Apart from the germanic repertoire I favour scandinavian, english, french (in that order)
- classical era (1750-1800) instrumental/chamber/small ensemble
- opera and vocal recitals. I'm a sucker for great voices.
- religious (oratorios, cantatas), from Monteverdi to Sandström.

[George]

Yeah, "cull regret" is a powerful motivator in changing one's attitude towards culling!

Oh, and George, I remember back when when Richter bobbed on and off your radar. I think I remember having a hand in nudging you onward.

We Richterphiles need to look out for each other!

Yes, you and Holden and a few others were incredibly helpful.

Thanks a million for that! 

[DavidW]

I certainly don't get rid of anything...anymore! So you're actually right about that, David.

But in the past I had no issues with culling...whenever. And handfulls at a time. I shudder at the thought now.

I had no issues with culling because I needed the money.  Right now I don't want to cull because I'm reevaluating my taste in music.

[sound67]

About 4,300 classical, 100 film music, 80 Cantonese pop, 60 western pop and country.

[johnQpublic]

It's probably an even split of 800 LPs and 800 CDs for me.