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I have a large collection of vintage vinyl albums. It used to number close to 800, but I made the mistake of storing a large portion of them in my MIL’s attic years ago between moves and a leaky roof cut my collection in half. Today, after culling… it’s slightly over 350, and though they’ve been housed in plastic crates for the past 20 years, I recently decided they should be relocated to the man cave in vintage wooden beer or whiskey crates.
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Did I mention my albums are organized alphabetically?
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The Dewar’s scotch crate that I liberated from the husband’s stash (because if he’s not going to give it to the pub, he can give it to me) has A-B.
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When I pick up a few replacements here and there at flea markets?
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Adjustments must be made.
Pickwick Ale?
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C, D, E and F.
Those were the only two alcohol related crates my husband had in his crap treasure filled cellar, so I guess I’ll have to go antique shopping for G through Z.
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Looks like a great collection. Do you still play them? We no longer have records. However our CDs and my books are alphabetical by artist/author as I am also anal.
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I play them, but not that often. The only turntable is out in the man cave and the husband has very different musical tastes.
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Just seeing that Johnny Cash record brings back memories. As kids we used to sit around the record player as my uncle played his songs.
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I’m not a huge Cash fan, but Folsom is a classic.
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She has Johnny Cash and the Grateful Dead in the same photo. My mind can’t get around that.
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My music tastes are varied… as well as eclectic.
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Love it – the anal retentiveness (Type As – unite!), the wooden crates, the repurposing.
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My dish stripes are also lined up in the cabinet. Although I have not alphabetized my spice rack…. yet.
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That looks like a nice collection. I lost mine to the ex. I’ve replaced the music, but not on vinyl. So, hubs is selling at flea markets while you are searching for crates. Hmmm, I think we need a net volume measurement on the way out vs. the way back.
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The difference is… my few(and very far between) purchases will be used.
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I sold my thousands of old 78s several years ago, but kept my hundreds of LP albums. Mine are arranged alphabetically by category (male vocalists, female vocals, big bands, etc.) in record cabinets. I see we have at lest one album in common: JOHNNY CASH AT FOLSOM PRISON, which leads me to pun that i plan to keep my collection for life!
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I also have the original Decca album from Guys and Dolls on Broadway with Robert Alda and Vivian Blaine.
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I own a few dozen original cast Broadway albums, but not that one. Lucky you!
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All of our music is quite over-organized. We still have some vinyl but don’t play them…but we sure know where they are…in perfect order. We have some cassettes (mixtapes too), but most of our jams are disc at this point.
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I still use my giant iPod that holds 33,000 songs. For convenience, you can’t beat that….
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Wow…I totally overlooked the songs on my phone. Have 281 on it. And admittedly, I listen to those songs all the time at this point and the other music just…stays…organized.
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But isn’t it a good feeling to know it’s there… in beautiful order… if and when you want it?
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Absolutely! 🙂
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Wow, that is one impressive collection sista, seriously. I am a Johnny Cash fan and that album is one my parents had. But I have a question, what or should I say whom, is Ultimate Spinach?
It makes me miss my LP collection. Out of my collection I only have three LPs left because I left the rest behind at my ex-husbands house thinking I’d go back and get them. But the bastard refused to let me back to retrieve the rest of my things. I found out later he had a yard sale and sold all of my things. But I cherish those three I have and will never part with them, never.
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Spinach was a psychedelic rock band from Boston in the late sixties. Reminiscent of Jefferson Airplane…
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I take it you grew up 8n or near Boston? I had never heard of Ult8mate Spinach either. Very Airplane-ish. Probably too Airplane-ish. But not bad for all that. The bass line is boring, though. I would have zoned out playing that song for over 7 minutes. Probably nice to listen to on Purple Double Domes.
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I grew up in New Jersey and was too young when they were active. I discovered them back in my teenage hippie days.
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Ahhh. Good discovery. There are lots of bands/albums I never got around to when they were current, there were too many, and regional groups who never got national airplay. I was lucky in Winnipeg. We had talent up the yin/yang, but most had to go elsewhere to get discovered, à là Neil Young!
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I love the Grateful Dead. I only have two albums on vinyl, but one of them is Europe ’72, which is incredible. There are so many bootleg and soundboard recordings now, it’s really hard to keep up with everything.
Johnny Cash isn’t my favorite country artist but I can’t deny his greatness. His cover of “Hurt” by Trent Reznor proves that you can die of a broken heart.
I like the crates, much better than milk boxes.
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I think I have a dozen or more Dead albums. I loved them back in the day… and while I’m not a huge Cash fan either… you’re right. Hurt is absolutely heartbreaking.
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An enviable collection. I left my collection with a friend who owned her own house. I didn’t get back for two years. She had sold the house and moved to Toronto. She hated Toronto. But she was untraceable. Bye bye record collection. Hope she listens to some of the records, or sold them for a good price. There were some collectibles in there. Including sone bootleg Hendrix from Europe.
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That’s an unforgivable sin. Album collections took decades to acquire!
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Yes, but they are also very personal. A good record collection tells your friends exactly who you are.
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If that’s true? I’m schizophrenic.
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Schizoid? Nah, MPD! Muliple Personality Disorder! 😉
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Beautiful artwork on some of those covers!
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I miss vinyl. The artwork, the liner notes, the band photos. It was always the full deal.
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And you can’t forget the goodies, like the posters in Dark Side of the Moon. Can’t download that.
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Exactly! I still have my original Beatles Sgt. Peppers. That came with a veritable magazine.
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I’d be upset if you didn’t organize them alphabetically.
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You have an amazing collection. I agree you need more vintage crates…you should put the husband to work on finding those for you instead of (per you) useless items
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Send him to an antique store… unaccompanied?
Never.
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