No boxsets in your collection?!

Love box sets.
But ...where do you store them next to Lp rack or separate shelves ?

 

Your the box set king.

 

I must admit I'm a bit addicted. Sometimes I'll grab one by a band I've barely heard (Blue Oyster Cult, Golden Earring) and for the price you can't go wrong...if I don't like it I quickly hit up Ebay and pass it onto someone who'll enjoy it (Alex Harvey)

 

I keep my 12 x 12 box sets on some shelves in a wardrobe smaller ones on a cd shelf I made years ago and some 7 x 7 size ones on another bookshelf thiug....I don't find it a big hassle although things are starting to get out of hand!!

 

Box set paradox syndrome.

 

Off the top of my head:
Beatles Stereo, Mono, Pepper
Stones: Stripped, Singles
Richard Thompson
The Cure Join the Dots
Talking Heads Brick and Once in a Lifetime
Blur
Lennon
Steve Hillage
Ian Hunter
UK
All the Zep Super Deluxe
Bowie- Sound and Vision, Station to Station, All 3 recent vinyl boxes, the 10 CD set of his work from Outside on
Metallica- Kill 'Em All, Ride the Lightning, Binge and Purge, Hardwired
Small Faces
Pretty Things
Who- Maximum R&B, My Generation
Depeche Mode- Sounds of the Universe
Bon Jovi
Cat Stevens
Cheap Trick
Zombies
Lou Reed
Queensryche
Queen-Vinyl Collection, Live at the Rainbow, Crown Jewels
Freddie Mercury
Roger Taylor
Byrds
Soundgarden-Superunknown
All the Floyd Immersion sets, Division Bell, Early Years, Shine On
Bill Wyman vinyl box
Police
Marvin Gaye
Michael Jackson
Black Crowes
Blondie singles box
All 3 Elvis Costello singles boxes
Both Duran Duran singles boxes
Both T. Rex singles boxes, Zinc Alloy deluxe, Electric Warrior
Ry Colder
Blue Oyster Cult
Nilsson
English Beat
Kinks- Both SACD boxes, Picture Book, Anthology
Kiss
Tori Amos
Abba
Queen Singles 1, 2
All 3 Queen album box sets
All 3 Rush Sector box sets, Rush vinyl set
All of the Tull sets
Bryan Adams Reckless
All Dylan bootleg sets, Biograph
All Smashing Pumpkins boxes
Chris Wood
Streetwalkers
Neil Diamond
All the McCartney sets
George Harrison
Golden Earring
Icehouse
Tears For Fears
All 3 Simple Minds sets
Sly Stone
Steven Wilson To the Bone deluxe
Andy Partridge- Fuzzy Warbler
All Iron Maiden vinyl reissue boxes
Judas Priest Metalogy
Megadeth-Warchest
Alice in Chains
Neil Young Archives
AC/DC- Bonfire, guitar amp set
Girl Groups
All the Complete Motown Singles sets
Marc Almond
Mott the Hoople
Beg, Scream and Shout
CaN You Dig It?
Rod Stewart
Elton John
Yes
Elp
Johnny Cash
Willie Nelson
Waylon Jennings
Doors
Buzzcocks
Stiff Records
Nirvana singles
Silverchair
Saxon
Chicago-Quadio
Alice Cooper
Aerosmith
Smiths
All the Stones singles boxes
Journey
And many more......

 

My database claims I have 171, but it must be said that I have only filed as box sets those that are too big in size to go with regular CDs.

 

Way, way too many and as space for vinyl and cd's is getting perilously close to a premium; will have to be very choosy so it does not turn into either an episode of hoarders or my wife killing me first! Also we have got a 4 month old puppy now, and have had to take some not on shelves up to store in my mother's huge attic so the dog does not chew them while she is teething. JUst ordered the Husker Du and Dylan ones coming out in November so will need to restrain myself after that. Like many on here, a lot are rarely played like The Beach Boys Smile which was nice but with that huge box took up the space of about 15 standard lp's! I do ask myself why i have things like Keith Jarrett's Sun Bear Concerts on both vinyl and cd???!!! I don't think i have managed to get through that in its entirety on either format despite having it for years. Had the vinyl for aeons then saw the cd box cheap 2nd hand and bought it too. Crazy!.

Cannot imagine not having a single boxed set; but in some ways that might be a healthy approach as you are focussed on the official releases and the cream of an artists output to listen to. However, then you think that doesn't really work for someone like Dylan who left a huge amount of great material in the can until the boxed set era came in and it got released.

 

Not a one of 'em in my house.
Buying albums piecemeal makes me feel like I'm spending less money.
And I suppose box sets always just seemed gimmicky to me. I figured they were for people less obsessive than myself. Judging by the responses here I was quite wrong.
What can I say, I've got a jewel case fetish.

 

What's unnecessarily large about The Beatles mono box? The box has to be that size to hold all the records and the book.

 

Agree. Let people that enjoy em, enjoy them.

 

It's literally like a millimeter too tall to fit in IKEA shelves. ONE MILLIMETER. It's like they knew half their buyers use those for vinyl storage and wanted to have fun with them.

My favorite vinyl box set packaging is the David Bowie Five Years box, I can store it in it's box, but open with the LP spines facing outward along with all my other LP's, and I don't have to remove the whole box just to play one.

 

What a pain! I'd find that annoying as there is a bit of space at the top. I still have to get the whole box out to play one, which to be honest means I often just play my old copies.

I wouldn't have minded the Bowie boxes but already have all the albums in near perfect condition, but they do look very nice.

 

I copped the Dylan SACD box set for $80. That was pretty awesome. And the War box set. Also found The Great History of the Rolling Stones. A Japanese pressing that is in mint condition (well, the box has patina).

 

My mono box LP's are just on the shelf like regular albums, and the box is in storage, collecting dust.

Five Years was the only Bowie box I've bought...too much repetition in the other two to justify the cost, so I'm just picking up the studio albums individually. I'd love vintage copies, but even before he passed, used Bowie vinyl in excellent condition was absurdly expensive.

 

I own to many and will own many more.

 

(Well done) box sets are just too fun and luxurious to pass up in many cases. Of course, funds is a legitimate problem. You can only pick and choose. Yet boxes like the new Sgt Pepper 50th is probably the most fun and well-done set I own! I now can't imagine not having it (the remix and the set itself).

Then there are things like Elvis Presley's "The King Of Rock And Roll" 50's Masters box, or the "That's The Way It Is" box.

Don't get me wrong. I buy mostly CD's or LP's. And I'm not one to buy any and every box set sight unseen. But there are indeed some boxes that are simply...indispensable...in my opinion.

 

It's an odd one that, because not too long ago Bowie vinyl was very cheap and common. I used to leave them at car boot sales and charity shops! That's unthinkable now.

 

unfortunately I cannot say I don't own too many...

 

WOW! dedicated.

 

I've got a Bay City Rollers box and a Galaxie 500 box

 

Being a Grateful Dead fan means being a box set fan by default.

 

No box sets but I do dream of owning a wooden peach crate.

 

I have two standard bookcases 28 inches wide with one stacked on top of the other. They have 3 shelves each and that holds 134 box sets with only a few on the top shelf because that's hard to reach. No problem at all.