So just how much vinyl do YOU own?

@uberwaltz

I know what you mean about trying to get around to cataloguing in discogs. I’m lazy about that stuff, so being a real record collector would never work for me.

The easy part was that I was buying from discogs! So every time an album showed up all I had to do is click a button on discogs and it was added to my collection. So the initial cataloguing was super fast and easy.

The only bummer is all the old non-discog vinyl I have around, which does take looking up the info on discogs, so more work per album.I’m still getting through that because once I have it done, the vast majority of any new vinyl I buy will be easy to add.

I’ve learned from my movie collection. When I started with DVDs and later Blu-Rays, I bought tons of movies...both movies I knew I loved and marginal ones I thought "nice to have on hand if I ever get the urge."As I was really bad at returning movies on time to rental stores, it worked better for me to essentially build a large selection of movies at home so any likely urge for a movie could be satisfied by having it at my finger tips. That felt cool for a while.

But now...I just have tons of movies that I’ve watched once, or haven’t watched, and will likely not watch again. In a way it feels less "wow" to have more movies than I’ll ever watch and bit more "depressing" that I have so many movies taking up space that I’ll never watch.

Again, if someone is strictly in to the collecting aspect, then the sheer ownership itself satisfies to some degree. But if one is more centered on owning movies/music to actually use it, then the urge to curate and cull the collection kicks in.

Prof.

My movie collection is along similar lines and although I am not depressed by it yet, it certainly still takes up a lot of space.

If we stood back and was brutally realistic we do not need any of this physical media at all and I sometimes feel envious of those who can dispense with the physical aspect of it.

I often picture a nice little streaming amp and pair of speakers and nothing more.

No piles of tapes, records, CDs, essential tape and vinyl care products. No movies.

All movies and music available at the press of a couple of buttons on a remote and smartphone or tablet.

Then I look around at what I actually have and the "rituals"involved and think what a bleak, sterile and dystopian future that really would be. ( apologies for the Clearthink trifecta there!).

uberwaltz


Well, since I, like many here, actually have access to both "lifestyles" - I have a convenient digital streaming set up and a vinyl set up - I already know the result of the experiment.   I am getting much more pleasure out of my vinyl these days than my digital. 



As physical artifacts, few of my DVDs or Blu-Rays ever gave much satisfaction.  Like CDs they were mostly carriers for the content and that was it.  So long as CDs and DVDs/Blu-Rays were carriers for the best quality content, they were necessary.


But as soon as full CD-quality ripping/streaming became available, the rational for the physical copies mostly disappeared for me.  Similarly, the quality of streaming movies has become really excellent and offers "the world of movies at my fingertips" just as I was trying to create at home.  So I don't need those physical copies so much anymore.


Vinyl is a physical object that I enjoy holding and owning.  It also means I get to use a turntable, and I LOVE nice turntable - my turntable is a pleasing combination of aesthetically and conceptually satisfying.It's just cool to look at and use.   Then there is the fact that vinyl just sounds different, and often to me preferable, to digital. 



So for my vinyl offers something that CDs and DVDs/Blu-Rays and digital streaming don't offer.  They are features I actually enjoy and MISS from those formats, so I don't really pine for a scenario in which I only use streaming.  

Currently about 3000 albums. I dive in and out of them every week or so since they are downstairs from the audio system. 

I have well over 25,000 records and there is so much I don't have... I am still making purchases spending hundreds weekly...

One day I will do a 'purge' as there is much I have that is either duplicate or that I don't play.

I don't think there is every 'enough'..I hope I never get to that point!