Well that's it, it's over! No more buying LPs.*

I’m hearing this advice, as:

“I say Rip all the walls down, get rid of them, exposing the main foundations of your house, and make room for more LPs and CDs! “

 

There is a fella in his mid-sixties who lives two doors down from me, and he has approximately 25,000 vinyl records. All stored in a modest 2 bedroom maisonette on one level. However he did tell me he had had special shelving made. Many of them are 78's. He is very eclectic in his tastes; Northern Soul, Rock, Pop, Metal, Classical and Jazz, with a good dose of the 1970's in the mix too.

 

every collectors fear...running out of room...the irony with the money spent on thousands upon thousand of records one could have bought a bigger house! LOL

 

I had over 10,000 at one time...it was a drag finding room for them. I was relived when I got into CD and released the albums...never looked back ...6,000 CD takes up so much less space and resolved the LP room hassle totally.

 

I myself have a huge collection of about 100 LPs. Not 100K but one hundred.
This is good because I live real close to a neighborhood that is known for hipsters.
People talk about tearing down parts of their house to use for Lp storage but it would not be real secure. Can you imagine if the local hipsters found out and one day you come home and the only LPs left are those crappy Jim Nabors or Percy Faith ones?

There IS another possibility - maybe the OP is no longer buying LPs but is going to rip them off? Like go the klepto route?

Stop it! You are making me blush.
Yeah, i am getting ready, as we speak, to drive to the OP's home to build an LP storage case like that one pictured.

 

I'm with you on that. All of my original anything has been gone or missing for years, so everything that I possess as present has been garnered in recent years, so my collection is relatively small, just a few hundred records.

Right now, most of them are on two book shelves, spine out. I have a real dislike for that.

A future project will be some sort of shelving system where I can flip through the records while looking at the front covers.

 

Yes, a real outrage. I prescribe listening to at least three albums in their entirety. That should help you to get through such a horrendous ordeal.

 

Yeah I feel the OP's pain. I mitigated the problem by buying more 45s haha.

 

My comment doesn’t even make sense anymore since a moderator edited the title. You don’t know the pain I endured before that edit was made.

 

Have to say. That is very cool. Even though I sometimes think of switching over to a minimalist lifestyle.

 

bump'd, 'cuz I just like this thread...

 

You are focusing on the wrong thing.

Now is a perfect time to start your journey into woodworking and joinery.

 

On the one hand, I understand the collecting bug but on the other, if both sides of an LP take, say, 40 minutes to play and you have a 1000 LPs, you would have to listen, nonstop, 24/7 for almost 28 days to play each one once through. I've got about 500 records and listen maybe two hours a day. It would take me nearly a half a year to play through all of them at that rate.

Now, consider the serious collector with thousands of records, CDs, tapes, etc. Whew!

 

I sell multi game systems with 11,000 games. People ask why in the world they would need that many. You don’t, just like you don’t need thousands of albums. But one would be focused on the wrong thing if you look at it that way. It’s about the odds of having the game, or song, you want to enjoy when you want to. The more you have, the better the odds.

 

That's why God invented Spotify, etc.

 

as a bachelor... at some point i started to notice the look on women's faces the first time they visited the bachelor pad and saw all the records and books... it was kind of like the look people have when they encounter a bonafide hoarder for the first time.... despite my meticulous organization...

between that and almost 40 years of the rituals involved in record and turntable maintenance i decided to go all digital and i haven't looked back...

still single. but that's another story for another forum.

 

Running out of storage space is always a problem especially when you want your home to reflect your passions - and most of us would love to have our collections displayed in all their regal glory - this is one of the things in life that defines us. And I always enjoy going into a stranger's home and finding a well-stocked music or book collection - it feels reassuring...

I am currently running out of space for my CDs and there's the added problem of having a house that gets its fare share of sunshine in every room throughout the day. Not good if your wife doesn't want to live like a vampire !

 

Don't forget the storage locker

 

This thread reminds me of a recent Tom Waits documentary I caught on BBC4, which at one point showed Tom's digs at the Tropicana in the late 70's.... This pic doesn't quite do justice to the sheer mount of flotsam and jetsam that was lapping around Tom's piano, but it was bad...

 

I still have 500 LPs.... most rare first RCA, Decca, EMI pressings, all DCC LPs, a few MFSL's. I'm so happy.... I stopped buying LPs a decade ago. No longer clicks, pops, noise, bad pressings and insane prices.

 

This is why I’m becoming more discerning in my record collection.

 

My collection was also getting too large for my home. I therefore bought a bigger home.

 

I flip all my albums. I doubt if my eyes would make spines easy to read!!! Flipping also makes me feel like i am in a record store.

 

Funny you mention flipping vs. spine out shelving. I have some wall unit shelving with storage for records in the base. In my 40's that was fine. Now, in my late 60's, not so much. I recently bought a couple of 50 album, bamboo flip stands and moved 100 records to them (they sit on top a small cabinet in the family room). I love it! However, I've got at least 300 more records that I would like to display similarly but would have to get more table tops to stick them on. My wife thinks I should simply rotate the 100 records and call it good. Wives don't understand us, do they?