I think that, no - I know that - the number of music CD's in your collection.........

[BustyTheClown]

I own 64 CDs, and about half of them are Queen -- every album they ever released (not including tributes by other musical groups and whatnot). I'm with Azure on this one -- music is more about owning than passion to me. I like owning the CDs I have so I don't have to listen to the radio to hear the songs I like, and that's pretty much the only reason why. I love listening to music, but I prefer the radio to CDs... And like Azure and Mellon said, I'm too poor and don't have enough space to store as many CDs as the rest of you seem to have... lol

 

[kotori]

... I love listening to music, but I prefer the radio to CDs...

And I also like the radio because I'm too lazy to change the records. (Or tapes.) (Or CDs.) (Or whatever the next format will be.)

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I don't know - radio?

I guess it depends on where you live.

In NYC and DC - to my tastes - radio sucks the big bone. Fact is most nearly all of my vast collection - probably 90% - never saw much radio airplay.

Don't get me started. The 'business of music' in which radio is a key component - blows dead rats. It ruins musical art - as do all greedy sons of bitches who ruin all the other arts.

I like 'artists' like Graham Parker and John Hiatt - just to name a couple who are well known but not hugely rich or famous or known.

So, why doesn't radion play them? Because the 'business' guys determine the market - they pander to that market - they virtually make radion cater to that market and in the end all you ever have are a handfull of music formats on radio - playing a handfull of so-called artists - who are most likely pandering to the entire system - a system created by the busines boys - so they/all of them can get rich.

Total fucking bullshit. American radio is bullshit. Most hugely famous (well known and wealthy) musical 'artists' - aren't artists at all - the are craftsmen, pandering to the youth market - in order to feed there egos and maintain wealth. Same in any 'artform' by the way. Movies, art, etc..

And 'we' (the public) feed off of it like MacBurger's - because we so love the shit the limit us to. I'd eat MacBurger's too - if it were the only food out there.

I strain to search for truth - I strain to search for non-MacBurger's - I strain to spread my meger dollar to those deserving of my dollar. Madonna, Cher, Britany, Elton, Sting, etc., upon etc,. - THEY - don't need my dollars.

I don't have'em in my collection - I leave all that crap for the cow-like masses grazing upon the dung-fertile, fenced-in pasture that the greedy masters of so-called art provide.

That would be radio.

 

[Willing and Unsure]

i dont like radio either Sparky.. its not just you


but to answer the original question... I've got about 175 cd's that I actually bought, and about 6000 mp3's in my collection. and hardly any of those are duplicate songs

 

[JazzManJim]

Re: True - a bit.

Believe me - if you really love music - really love it - it becomes an addiction (as it is to me) - it ruins relationships with those who 'don't understand' as it has with me - you get in trouble because you sneak away 'food money' and buy music or guitars, as I have. In effect - you are a musician - as I am.

I know exactly where yuo're coming from on this. As a musician, I've spent money on music where I should have spent it on food. Luckily, I've not dipped intot he funds for the necessities, like Rent, etc (and I won't either).

I have perhaps 1500 mp3s right now, and growing, as I archve them on CDs and it's been part of my mission to recover some of my cassettes in a digital format - either on CD or mp3. That's taken some of my time, but it's been worth it thus far.

I also am a frequent customer of one of the best used CD sites I've ever found: www.secondspin.com

I highly recommend it, as you can find damned near anything there. If you can't on one trip, go back a couple of days later - it'll be there.

I'd guess that my collection is in the mid-hundreds, but that's hard to estimate as I also freely loan out my CDs to friends for extended epriods of time and a bunch of them are out onloan right now.

As far as DC radio, well, I concur. The musical fare there is a wasteland. I've found that, lately, I either listen to WPFW (89.3 FM), which playes jazz, blues, gospel, and the like, or the local "hot talk" sttion, because I love Don and Mike and Opie and Anthong.

 

[sunstruck]

Around 1900 CD's 300ish albums, no tapes and a 10 gig HD I use for nothing but MP3's, but then again, I'm in radio....so I kinda have to go overboard.

 

[Clitfucker]

I own about 110 CD's. Three of which are burned. Five of which are CD singles.

 

[Hamletmaschine]

I've never understood this "counting" business with records or tapes or CDs. All my guy friends when I was younger would always count their fucking records. What is that about?

I have a lot. That's all I know.

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

I really don't know how many I have......

either. And since we've moved 6 times in the last seven years - the alphabetical order they were once in - is no longer. Fact is most of mine are now in storage until we find a new home.

I just count them approximately - per the foot.

I do PFW too - Wed blues lunch - or what ever they call it.

As for Don and Mike - we go way back - I actually made them music tapes when they were at WAVA and guess what name I sent them to them under?????

Sparky Kronkite - which is probably the only way they might remember me today. I'm actually planning on crashing one of Mike's blues bands gigs - Crap I think. I'll where my Sparky Mask to reamain incogneto and try to get in on a pentatonic jam.

Gotta get his schedule.

Bring back the old HFS!!!!!!

 

[lovetoread]

Bring back the old HFS!!!!!!

Um what is that?

 

[sexy-girl]

well my box holder that holds a 100 is full ... never counted though


they are more expensive though in england ... i could of probably got a million cd's in US for same price

 

[Dillinger]

I have about 500 CD's I believe.

I've also got over 1,000 Albums (vinyl)

300 or so cassette tapes.

And thousands of MP3s. (My Creative Jukebox MP3 player is my new best friend.)

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

WHFS - once (and still kinda is) a radio station.

Particularly when located in Bethesda MD and dialed in at 102.3 and owned by one Jake Einstein, it was.........

The last 'free form' (hippie-type, music fanatic) radio station in the country. The DJ's there could do just about anything they wanted - hear this - NO PLAY LIST!!!!!!! At all!!!!

It was so fucking cool.

A chain bought ole Jake out and ruined it over time - even amidst protests and petitions. Big money eventually one our and even though the call letters WHFS still exist - the current radio station now located at 99.1 is pretty much corporate bunk. Just like all the rest of them.

As for MP3's - I am probably wrong here - and I think I'm technically limited my my rather humble lap-top but - when on my old office computer - and on Napster - I found that the pickin's though extensive - seemed to me to pretty much 'radio fare.' Like I've indicated - I like weird - rare - deep in the back of most CD racks music from people/artists who are not mainstream names. Sure, on Napster I found Sweet Home Alabama, Stairway to Heaven, and Crocodile Rock - for free - okay........

But I don't want that type of music.

Another frustration I found with HP's CD Writer. When loading my own eclectic mix, from lets say 7 different CD's and rearranging them to an order I desired - filling all the time I had - then burning - it would crash - almost everytime. And often there were audio problems even when it worked. I got so tired of 'putting time into it' and then loosing it all. Well.......

All this has left a very sour taste in my mouth regarding 'digital music piracey and production.' So I continue to feed my habit by purchasing CD's. It's just easier for me - and fortunatley - I can afford it - for now anyway.

 

[SexySlut2]

I have around 100-150.

 

[JazzManJim]

Re: I really don't know how many I have......

As for Don and Mike - we go way back - I actually made them music tapes when they were at WAVA and guess what name I sent them to them under?????

Sparky Kronkite - which is probably the only way they might remember me today. I'm actually planning on crashing one of Mike's blues bands gigs - Crap I think. I'll where my Sparky Mask to reamain incogneto and try to get in on a pentatonic jam.

Gotta get his schedule.

Bring back the old HFS!!!!!!

SON OF A BITCH!!

They played a couple of those tapes on the air, too, when they were The Morning Zoo, didn't they?

I knew I had heard your god-damned name somewhere!

You're a celebrity, even to a guy who heard about you when he was just a stripling.

Oh yeah, the Blues show at noon on PFW is amazing. I also listen a lot on the weekends, esp Friday night for Jazzology and on Sundays. Saturdays is all about the Bama and Gator and it's all-day blues. It's heaven to my ears.

I do miss the old HFS. I miss the DJs, especially Cath in the mornings, and how they'd pretty much play anything they wanted. Even up to five or so years ago, they played pretty edgy stuff and it was fun to hear.

As far as the digital stuff goes, I use audiogalaxy, and I rarely have problems finding stuff I want, even the obscure stuff. Trust me, I've found Meade Lux Lewis and if you can find him on mp3, then yuo've got a good search agent!

 

[sabbathstorm]

I have around 350 CDs right now. I'm working on picking up some to replace old cassettes. Gotta love eBay

 

[Sparky Kronkite]

Hey Jazz Man????

You must live around me. Yeah, scary I know, but......

Where?

FYI - I just put up on e-Bay - Danny Gatton's Redneck Jazz, American Music and the old WHFSival, live recording for bidding.

Danny, Dave Elliot, Stever Wolf, Pete Kennedy, Peter Bonta, Robby McGruder, Stewart Smith, Big Joe, Jeff Sarly Ricco P. - I know or have known or even worked with all these guys and more.

Ran sound for the Roslyn Mountain Boys back in my day.

Even supplied Billy Hancock with horns for his vintage Caddy once. Met and partied with Root Boy Slim.

Know any of those guys? Most still workin' what left of the scene as far as I know.

 

[Private Vasquez]

My collection rests somewhere between a buttload and a gross or four