You Know You Have Too Many Records When....

All shelving investments must accommodate a 12.5 square dimensionality, in full or as part of its makeup and construction.

 

You've kept records you didn't want because they make good shelf-space dividers (in boxes) or otherwise serves as place holders on shelves for records you plan on getting.

 

You were depressed when the record store was closed... on a Sunday.

 

You felt the internet took the fun out of record bin browsing... until you realized you could track down any record you wanted.

 

Record stores also serve as a 'safe space'.

 

You think: it's not necessarily the sheer size of someon's record collection, it's the overall quality of the title selections and their condition that really matters... and my collection is unequivocably the best.

 

You believe that World War I started over a rare 78.

 

People went to the Moon because they heard there was a record store there.

 

You're still trying to track down the only album that Bigfoot supposedly recorded, of nature songs.

 

You own records that Merlin Olsen made.

 

...you own records that you won at a Fair!

 

...your stylus is literally on wax more than it's at rest.

 

I wish I still had my Planet of the apes record I won at the Fall Festival

 

Which one? The tallish, Ep-sized read-along comics? I still have one of those!

 

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Maybe Rhino will end up doing a reissue for it!

 

...the brakes on your car have been non-existent for 5 years, yet you needed zero incentive to pick up your 5th different pressing of LA Woman during that time!

 

...the entire frame of your car is held together by tape, yet you don't bat an eye in spending top dollar for a rare record of some kind.

 

...the mailman drops off $500 worth of new vinyl on a porch that cost you 40 bucks to construct!

 

...the mail sometimes drops off vinyl packages twice in a day!

 

...even the vinyl not on your shelves numbers in the thousands!

 

. . . your three-car garage is now a one-car garage.

 

...you have certain albums in a safe.

 

...you have records on the roof!

 

Yeah, I think that was it, I seem to remember it being 7". I was really young when I got it. Maybe 5 or 6

 

In the late 80s n early 90s it was when you couldn't fathom ever rebuilding your collection on cd.