This is one of those self-answering if-you-need-to-ask-the-price-you-can't-afford-it type questions. You know you have too many records the very moment the notion of the possibility of having too many records enters your mind.
When you discover that some are missing and you aren’t sure if you’ve had some stolen and if so when it happened...
It may never be "completely complete" but when you have thousands of albums with every musical genre represented and you have almost everything you like, it may not be time to stop collecting, but there may come a time when it's time to slow it way down.
Yes, I'm quite quite familiar with that "buyer's desire" from many periods of my life. I've gone through various phases; involving: Records, 45's, CDs Books Baseball Cards Comic Books Toys
....you move, and it's the bane of your existence..... yes, even the CD's, when you have as many as I have!
The realistic answer is when you reach 'critical mass'...that is when you can't physically listen to all of them even if you listen for 16 hours a day for the rest of your life. At that point you start thinking, which albums will I never hear again before I die...
I'll second that one...also how about when you are listening to Diana Krall's "Christmas Songs" on Oct 15th?...
You shop for "upgrades" (better condition than the one you have) but can't bring yourself to get rid of the one you're replacing. Oh, come on. Wipe that frown off your face. We've all been there.
Record shopping becomes a ritual of going through everything and coming home with nothing. You get excited when you see something and then realize you already have it. You try to justify buying another version of something you have a copy of, in multiple versions. When you do buy something, it’s an upgrade. Or.... you buy something for one track on it.
...you have some records delivered to your office at work, but haven't gotten around to bringing them home...just not yet. You're in no hurry.
Ha, ha.... definatley this one....tends to be when I buy a number of albums of one artist to get a complete discography .. certain albums I play immediately, others I convince myself I will listen to it a lot....just later.
When you find yourself selling or throwing away some titles to make room for new ones. And you try your best to smuggle the new ones in past the wife.
...while browsing at the record store, it crosses your mind that your own collection would make a pretty durn good store... At least one that you'd shop at pretty often.
I know this has been brought up, but just recently with cds and dvds/blu, I’ve paid a few bucks for something on ebay to fill a collection hole, only to later realize that I already own it. Anyone need a standard cd of Lou Reed’s ‘Perfect Night?’
