...You treat your car like a toy truck, yet you will take out a loan to buy the finest quality poly-sleeves known to man.
When you are mulling over whether to buy a record you ask yourself "do I really need this, will I listen to this, more than once, sometime in my remaining years?" And you justify "this costs less than a dinner or movie you enjoy today gone tomorrow"
You know you have too many records when... ...you look around your house and say, "Man! I've got too many records!"
... when Henk can find a specific comic book in his store faster than you can find one of your records Early 2014, the days when you could actually still locate and talk to Henk
You put your vintage Beatles US albums in a box and shove them in a closet because you need that shelf space for more important things like Portishead and The Spice Girls. You justify this move by owning the Beatles in Mono and a Blue Box.
LOL...close...I had to think of an excuse to leave work early the Saturday morning of one of the last RSD's to make sure I got to the store on time for a copy of the Strawberry Fields 45.
...You've spent more money buying promo records than paying your income taxes! Although I guess that's going to better use.
You buy a new record and realize when you try to put it away you already own it. I've done this, more than once over the years. It's a sickness.
Was going to say "when someone asks if you are a hipster" but it doesn't take but owning ONE LP, just one, for someone to ask that. Though my LP collection is just over 100 right now but already i can see some of these things listed happening. I think my problem is buying them, playing them a few times, tucking them in with the rest of the LPs I seldom spin, and forgetting I even own it. Like many of you, I do not have as much time as i would like to spin the LPs. Couple times I swear THIS happened - looking thru my LPs, seeing a good one and thinking for a micro-second, "Oh I want that one!" then realizing it is already mine. I regularly weed out "why did I buy this?" junk from my home but yes, yes, this is true. When you find things at thrift, it hardly feels like it is even costing.
but seriously, you know you have too many records when you concede to the fact that you love buying and owning records and fully realize you will never listen to many of them. They are all candidates for potential future listen, however and there is a lot of enjoyment in handling them (reviewing the original artifacts while listening to perhaps just a side (or even the PC Jukebox) of just a few songs by the same artist.
...Someone asks if you would rather hear a quality mastered CD of your favorite album on a state of the art disc changer, or a vinyl copy on a toy record player, and you seriously have to think it over for a minute!
