Post random pics of your CD/vinyl/cassette collection

[stavros]

Betty Boo's making a comeback y'all

Indeed, although I probably listen to Bomb the Bass and the Boredoms, either side of her, more often.

 

[brogdale]

Top chuffed with this for a tenner from Oxfam today!

 

[Ground Elder]

I went charity shopping the other week. First time I've had a look since the pandemic and I wasn't expecting much, so pleased to find these amongst the Tijuana Brasses and Country Classics

 

[klang]

I always had a thing for People Like Us.

 

[plurker]

It's not a perfect science. Some people may have put the Polygon Window CD you might be able to see in with the Aphex Twin records.

Well, obviously...

 

[stavros]

Well, obviously...
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I don't think you've adopted the alphabetical system though, as you've got Autechre before Aphex.

 

[plurker]

I don't think you've adopted the alphabetical system though, as you've got Autechre before Aphex.

I can't work that way, so CD and vinyl is organised by genre.

I did try alpha at one stage but got horrifically fucked off at having to move half the collection each week, whenever I got something new

 

[ringo]

 

[ringo]

 

[stavros]

I did try alpha at one stage but got horrifically fucked off at having to move half the collection each week, whenever I got something new

You're right, that is a pain in the arse. I'm toying with filing all new stuff initially after Z (or after various artist stuff in fact), and then over Christmas putting them all as one into my alpha-chron system.

 

[stavros]

In an alphabeticised collection (by artist), where would people file those beginning with something other than a recognised modern letter or a number? I recently got my first µ-Ziq album (which is excellent by the way), and I've slotted it in between 3rd Bass and Aaliyah. Is this correct?

 

[killer b]

I would file µ-Ziq under M (fairly sure that's where it was in the record shop)

 

[stavros]

I would file µ-Ziq under M (fairly sure that's where it was in the record shop)

OK, in which case how does the hyphen affect things? Should it go before or after Mudhoney, Muggs, Múm, Murcof, etc?

 

[killer b]

after

 

[mx wcfc]

after

I agree. But is that because of the z or the -?

These things matter.

 

[killer b]

I don't think the - is very important - it's punctuation in this case: if it were being used to link two words it would be different.

 

[Raheem]

If it starts with a Greek letter, it gets filed in the World Music section, surely?

 

[stavros]

!!! are a filing problem I've not had to deal with, thankfully.

 

[LeytonCatLady]

!!! are a filing problem I've not had to deal with, thankfully.

If it ever comes up, they're pronounced CHK CHK CHK so you could file them under C. Personally anything starting with a number or symbol I'd say should go before A, but it's that kind of confusion combined with my natural laziness that I just stack my CDs at random and recognise them by colour instead.

 

[hash tag]

If it starts with a Greek letter, it gets filed in the World Music section, surely?

I don't have a world music section general A-Z, then classical and opera, followed by comedy and spoken word for by Mrs Tags off the wall stuff.

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

world music is under folk. Or under the genre.

 

[stavros]

Numbers
µ-Ziq
Letters
Various

 

[Bus Honeygun]

Just noticed that Frank Sidebottom and the bloke with the glasses are peering out at me.

 

[DaveCinzano]

Just noticed that Frank Sidebottom and the bloke with the glasses are peering out at me.

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[Bus Honeygun]

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HE'S ALIVE!

 

[DaveCinzano]

HE'S ALIVE!

You know he is, he really is

 

[stethoscope]

 

[klang]

 

[klang]

 

[Ground Elder]

Eight I acquired last weekend