When people see your music collection...

EricTheWeary

Only instance I can think of was when I gave someone at work a lift. She thought my in car cd choices that day, about 50:50 reggae and country, were very odd indeed. It's not a great anecdote but gives me an excuse to play this

Hertz32

"You listen to metal? Isn't that all just sceaming or some shit?"
I then try and explain an entire genre, before giving in and conceding that I like screamo too. 

I had one guy start doing an impression of self harm when he saw Bring me the horizon on my phone. I didnt like that. 

I don't share my music with many people anymore xD 

monquixote

I file my CDs in cardboard boxes in my loft.

I must get around to selling them.... 

imalone

mart said:

Octahedron said:

Wisdom. 

I hate that iTunes does it by first name... I don't want my Joes mixed in together (Joe Bonamassa, Joe Satriani, Joe Perry etc) -_- 

Yup. The first thing I do when I rip a CD is change the sort artist, so it's alphabetic by surname, and the sort album name so it starts with the year and month of release, so iTunes sorts albums into chronological order.

And I'm glad that sorting CDs by colour achieves such universal respect. I gave it up after a few weeks of my wife grumbling that she couldn't find anything. Couldn't understand her problem, but I gave in anyway, as you do.

I might have considered colour, but at some point one label (possibly EMI) dominated everything I owned and invariably they all had red spines. In practice my filling system is 'cds that have sat in boxes since university', 'cds that are at my parent's home and have diffused throughout the various cd racks in the house', 'cds in drawers somewhere' and 'cds precariously balanced on top of other cds on available surfaces'. As for digital I got heavily involved in metadata at one point (there are various bits of the Ogg Vorbis metadata scheme I helped work out), and have some files which contain full production notes that I never look at. These days as long as it turns up in the library when I search for it I'm happy.

Fuzzdog

For the first time in years, I have no music on display at all - it's all digital now, aside from my vinyl which is kept in closed cases.

This has the wonderful benefit of hiding all my musical faux pas from casual glances.

I do still get the occasional "Oh wow, you have a record player!  Can you put some vinyl on?" though, and then it all goes horribly wrong as the horrors of my collection are slowly revealed.

stickyfiddle

MrsF does all her books by colour. Looks lovely but it's a complete pain to find anything when they're across 6 bookcases all over the house...

axisus

I don't have friends so no comments. In the old days people would say "wow, I cant believe how many records you have!". 

I probably have about 500 vinyl,  500 tapes, 1000 cds. Rough guess, it's not as if I count them! It's not that many really, but a lot more than most people.

VimFuego

we sometimes get comments about the number of CD's we have (and books, as in personal books not stock), I'm sure we have more than many people, but still doesn't seem that many to me, not when you think how much great music there is out there.

Philly_Q

axisus said:

I don't have friends so no comments. In the old days people would say "wow, I cant believe how many records you have!". 

I probably have about 500 vinyl,  500 tapes, 1000 cds. Rough guess, it's not as if I count them! It's not that many really, but a lot more than most people.

I'm at least double that (apart from the tapes), plus similar numbers of DVDs and Blu-rays.  And 30 years' worth of guitar magazines.

Am I strange?

stickyfiddle

Honestly, I think a lot of my friends are just surprised that I have CDs.

vasselmeyer

I usually get "Who's Stevie Ray Vaughan and why have you got so many bootlegs?"

Bucket

"Why do you buy CDs, why not just download it?"

GRRRRRRR.

ICBM

^ wisdom.

fretmeister

Sigue Sigue Sputnik were vastly underrated.

Rocker

WTF are they? (points to amplifiers) and Jaysus (points to cd collection).

mike_l

*Direct quote from sister*

"Don't you have all the heavy metal ones?"

Me, laughs........ 

RocknRollDave

What people? And wtf are they doing anywhere near the preciouses?!

IanSavage

I used to have all of mine (well, CD albums, anyway) in an enormous rotating thing, held 500 CDs or something daft.

 

And then I filled that...and ran out of room...so they all got ripped to a 'music computer' and stored in my dad's loft

mike_l

RocknRollDave said:

What people? And wtf are they doing anywhere near the preciouses?!

The bad people.

They get to meet Vim and his, err, ways of dealing with people who get too close to the preciouses.......