2004 album pool-what have you picked up to choose from?

[Troy]

Not to be a pain in the can, but I really want to know

A- How can you guys afford to buy so many CDs?

B- Where do you find time to listen to and digest so many new CDs?

C- Where do you find the time to listen to the 40 CDs you bought LAST year . . . and the year before, et al?

D- where do you store them? The logistics of dealing with such a fast growing collection is staggering to me.

I just can't imagine being able to stay on top of so much new music and still find time to take a shower, let alone actually work and spend tiome with my wife.

I think I bought about 8-10 2004 CDs this year . . . a lot for me.

[KEXPMF]

Not to be a pain in the can, but I really want to know

A- How can you guys afford to buy so many CDs?

B- Where do you find time to listen to and digest so many new CDs?

C- Where do you find the time to listen to the 40 CDs you bought LAST year . . . and the year before, et al?

D- where do you store them? The logistics of dealing with such a fast growing collection is staggering to me.

I just can't imagine being able to stay on top of so much new music and still find time to take a shower, let alone actually work and spend tiome with my wife.

I think I bought about 8-10 2004 CDs this year . . . a lot for me.

I wonder the same things!!! I think they are all very wealthy people on here. haha.
It's too much.
But I'm glad there is so much great stuff out there. I just need a filter. That's why I love it when they make comps!! KEXP is my main filter. The morning show is like a 4 hour long brilliant comp cd of all of my favorite music every weekday.

[Jim Clark]

Not to be a pain in the can, but I really want to know

A- How can you guys afford to buy so many CDs?

B- Where do you find time to listen to and digest so many new CDs?

C- Where do you find the time to listen to the 40 CDs you bought LAST year . . . and the year before, et al?

D- where do you store them? The logistics of dealing with such a fast growing collection is staggering to me.

I just can't imagine being able to stay on top of so much new music and still find time to take a shower, let alone actually work and spend tiome with my wife.

I think I bought about 8-10 2004 CDs this year . . . a lot for me.

Probably worthy of a seperate thread? I'm thinking -yes.

jc

[tentoze]

Not to be a pain in the can, but I really want to know

A- How can you guys afford to buy so many CDs?

B- Where do you find time to listen to and digest so many new CDs?

C- Where do you find the time to listen to the 40 CDs you bought LAST year . . . and the year before, et al?

D- where do you store them? The logistics of dealing with such a fast growing collection is staggering to me.

I just can't imagine being able to stay on top of so much new music and still find time to take a shower, let alone actually work and spend tiome with my wife.

I think I bought about 8-10 2004 CDs this year . . . a lot for me.

A- I gots a cheap source locally.

B- O. I'm 'posed to LISTEN to this stuff? I thought you hung them from the rear-view mirror.

C- See B.

D- See B.

Cheap bathroom system means you can keep up with the hygiene and spin tunes. Cheap work system resolves the next issue. Got rid of the wife after years of hearing nothing but *****ing about the music I played. It was well worht it- anybody complains these days, and they get reminded of where the door is.

[Stone]

Not to be a pain in the can, but I really want to know

A- How can you guys afford to buy so many CDs?

I work hard.

B- Where do you find time to listen to and digest so many new CDs?

This is the big problem for me. I don't have the time to really digest everything, so by the end of the year I've typically really digested only a fraction of what I've got. But I do listen to everything and try to get to know as much as I can.

C- Where do you find the time to listen to the 40 CDs you bought LAST year . . . and the year before, et al?

Another problem. I try to listen to older CDs along with the newer ones. Kinda whatever I'm in the mood for or whatever someone happens to be talking about at the time.

D- where do you store them? The logistics of dealing with such a fast growing collection is staggering to me.

See pic of my dining room below.

I just can't imagine being able to stay on top of so much new music and still find time to take a shower, let alone actually work and spend tiome with my wife.

No wife anymore, which helps not only with the time aspect, but also with the spending aspect. My on-again-off-again girlfriend and I don't spend enough time together to really count.

I think I bought about 8-10 2004 CDs this year . . . a lot for me.

My dining room:

[tentoze]

Dang, Stone, THAT'S a dining room!

[Finch Platte]

My dining room:

Lots of space at the end, there. Is that where all the comps I've sent you used to be?

fp

[Mike]

This year I seem to have picked up more new releases than previous years, too much hanging around this site I guess. But I'm glad to say I didn't buy them all, it's hard enough buying stuff a couple of years old you missed first time around. So a big thank you to all those who provided - you know who you are. Here's mine just the artists in no particular order. I'm sure there are lots more but that's all I can think of right now.

Ash
Gomez
Jesse Sykes
Jesse Malin
The Stands
Mojave 3
The Killers
Morrissey
Modest Mouse
Snow Patrol
Razorlight
Scissor Sisters
The Ordinary Boys
N.E.R.D
Wilco
Keane
Air
Blue Nile
Mark Lanegan
Green Day
Libertines
The Earlies
The National
Jean Michel Jarre
Franz Ferdinand
The Legends
The Moonbabies
Willard Grant Conspiracy
Jolie Holland
American Music Club
REM
Embrace
Be Good Tanyas
The Thorns
Micah P Hinson
Graham Coxon

Cheers
Mike

[Stone]

Lots of space at the end, there. Is that where all the comps I've sent you used to be?

fp

Nah, they never make it to the shelf. I keep that space open in hopes you may someday send me something worthy of being shelved.

Seriously, I have another (smaller) rack with my comps on it, and another with my other CD-Rs. Yes, it really is a sickness.

[nobody]

Not to be a pain in the can, but I really want to know

A- How can you guys afford to buy so many CDs?

I'm always broke. I shop at Goodwill, drive a crappy car, live in a little apartment and spend all my money on records and beer. My wife thinks I'm insane and I've never grown up.

B- Where do you find time to listen to and digest so many new CDs?

I don't watch TV, so figuring 8 hours a day at work and 6 or so to sleep each day leaves tons of time. I have music playing pretty much all the rest of the time. I can easily listen to 2-3 things a day and usually more.

C- Where do you find the time to listen to the 40 CDs you bought LAST year . . . and the year before, et al?

See above.

D- where do you store them? The logistics of dealing with such a fast growing collection is staggering to me.

Storage is always a problem. Here is one of my latest solutions... New Record Shelf

I'm in the process of building another one, along with new shelving for CDs and books too. (The wife and I both have a disease when it comes to books)

I just can't imagine being able to stay on top of so much new music and still find time to take a shower, let alone actually work and spend tiome with my wife.

I'm lucky that wife is pretty into music too, not as much as me because she needs time to watch Cops and CSI, but she still likes a lot of stuff I get into too, although she's a little more traditionally hard rock oriented.

I think I bought about 8-10 2004 CDs this year . . . a lot for me.

Good questions. I'd like to hear other's answers.

And, Stone, your kitchen is most impressive.