Sunday, July 11, 2004, 7:47:25 AM, one spoke: Rac> Maybe the time has come to discuss just how BIG our CD Rac> Collections are! What on earth were we thinking about?... how Rac> much $$ was involved...how taste change...where do we go from Rac> here...etc... Rough guess based on counting one shelf of each format and multiplying: about 3400 LPs, 2700 CDs. Maybe 400 k7's, about 50/50 80s industrial and my own live tapes from when i was active doing that; can't be bothered to count the 7"s but it's about 4.5' long. Yeah, there's some overlap between the formats but not a whole lot, maybe 125 if you count all the live TG separately. If I'm lucky I get to listen to 6 albums in a day. First LP buy is way back in the haze (would've been late summer of 68), either the Brendel recording of Mozart Piano C. #20 on Vox, or Simon & Garfunkel _Parsely, Sage..._ and _Two Hours with Thelonious Monk_ on Riverside (boy was I pissed when I bought _Monk in Italy_ six months later!). First CD buy included Art Ensemble of Chicago _The Third Decade_ and Morton Subotnik _Key to Songs_. So maybe 3.5 titles/week since 6th grade. PLEASE don't make me think about $$. -- Jim Flannery newgrange@newgrangemedia.com http://www.newgrangemedia.com/pii np: Crawling Chaos, _Homunculus Equinox_ nr: Bernard-Henri Levy, _War, Evil, and the End of History_