How many vinyl albums do you own you listen to?

I lost track, maybe several thousand. I am always buying. Records arrive at my door every week. My wife just rolls her eyes now. You name it, I probably got it. In the past two years I’ve acquired about 30 "better records" hot stampers which set me back several thousand bucks. I like the fact that I can just walk over to the different areas that they are stored and pick out whatever I want at will. I think of it as preserving lol. I recently paid $300 for a sealed copy of Casino Royale. I buy mostly sealed older lp’s when I can find them on both Ebay and Discogs. The ones I own that are not sealed range from vg+ to mint, but most of my records are in pristine condition. I will most likely never stop buying. This does not even include the hundreds of cd’s and cassettes, as well as maybe 100 45’s. All my stuff is neatly stored and not thrown about all over the house. Unlike a hoarder, I am able to freely walk around uninhibited.

+/- 500 I may listen to 20-25 per year. My collection is mostly NM, M- from the late 50's to early 2000's. Mainly Jazz, Big Band, pop/rock and eclectic/avant-garde stuff. My CD, SACD and streaming collection is much much larger.

I got back in to vinyl heavily about 4 years ago and I've accumulated833 (per my discogs collection).


Frankly I've never wanted to own so many records that I didn't listen to many of them and didn't even know what I own.   So I've tried to curate my buying to only records I truly really like or love, purely on the music (not "collecting" records just to have them, no desire to "complete" sets or anything).     The result is that I have a good idea of what's in my collection and I can grab any album and enjoy it.


Still, it is addictive and I have to get a lid on purchasing or I WILL become one of those with "too many " records.   I think sheer ergonomics and space for records may put a cap on mine around 1,000.

I have somewhere over 2000 CDs. There are many that don't get regular play, but that is the luxury of a "library". They are there when you want to hear them, or have a guest who wants to hear something that I don't normally listen to. Every few years, I do eliminate things that I don't think are worthy of the space they occupy.

3000 for me. I have been buying them since I was a teenager and never stopped. It was funny as cds become popular all my friends would give me their vinyl.