i'm afraid I can't impress you guys: must be around 700-800 cds ... but I'm (getting) quite selective. first cd: don't know... first tape: I remember being 10-11 years old and going to summer camp and impress everyone with my tapes with the stooges, the sex pistos and joy division (yes ... my brothers gave me a good music education, I still see myself as a kid making puzzles with the music of throbbing gristle and cabaret voltaire on ... I never recovered :-) first LP: 'Surferosa' - The Pixies (that woman on that cover!!) and 'Death Valley 69' from Sonic Youth) cheerio, Sven Michael Howes <mhowes@baptismofsolitude.org> wrote:
I'm somewhere around 3100 CDs....unfortunately I stopped using Access few years ago (i was using a homemade database to list my CDs) so I lost the exact count. And my first CD was..........U2's Joshua Tree in the early summer 87. So it's been 17 years from now...so it's around 182 CDs a year....1 CD every two days...it's not really asact because in fact i dramaticaly increased my CD collection in the last 5 years (i guess i must have bought around 1800 CDs in 5 years).
in early 2003 I went over the 8000 CD mark but haven't counted since. But I don't have much vinyl left.....maybe 100 releases on vinyl..mostly hardcore 7" wanna know what I find funny? I'd bet less than 200-500 of the CD are mainstream in ANY way. I don't know how many people come over, are amazed by the wall of CDs, start looking through it and get really confused, since they haven't heard of any of it. My first CDs (I bought 3 the day I got my CD play), which was either 1986 or 87, I don't remember exactly which year. Number of the Beast by Iron Maiden a Motorhead best of (they have about 20 best of releases) and Holy Diver by Dio was I a metal head? wait......am I a metal head? I woke up this morning and put in the latest CD from Nasum, which is amazing, AMAZING grindcore.....so maybe I am. I've been in the process of going through the collection for last 4 months, pulling out stuff to sell...already have nearly 100 CDs in the sell pile mike _______________________________________________ zorn-list mailing list zorn-list@mailman.xmission.com To UNSUBSCRIBE or Change Your Subscription Options, go to the webpage below http://mailman.xmission.com/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/zorn-list --------------------------------- ALL-NEW Yahoo! Messenger - sooooo many all-new ways to express yourself