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  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,685
    Smart to do alpha. A lot of times I can't find stuff easily. 
    Enjoy. It looks great!
  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,319
    edited April 2021
    Loujoe said:
    Smart to do alpha. A lot of times I can't find stuff easily. 
    Enjoy. It looks great!
    Thanks. It is nice to finally have them out of crates and off of the floor. 
  • mickeyrat
    mickeyrat Posts: 44,296
    mrussel1 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Loujoe said:
    Wow. That's nice^^. I dug through my records and moved em around. Mine are hidden in an enclosed cabinet. How many does each cube hold approx? Looks like 60ish.
    Way more. You can get 30 to 40 in each cubby  X 8 cubbies.
    read it again matt.

    yes loujoe, 50-60 titles maybe less if its newer reissues that double the vinyl.

    I see. 60 seems like a lot then.  Are those just old school 70s singles?

    look at his picture. has either bought quite a bit used or been lugging around forever.

    personally I am digging the digging. its a surprise everytime.
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  • JeBurkhardt
    JeBurkhardt Posts: 5,319
    mickeyrat said:
    mrussel1 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Loujoe said:
    Wow. That's nice^^. I dug through my records and moved em around. Mine are hidden in an enclosed cabinet. How many does each cube hold approx? Looks like 60ish.
    Way more. You can get 30 to 40 in each cubby  X 8 cubbies.
    read it again matt.

    yes loujoe, 50-60 titles maybe less if its newer reissues that double the vinyl.

    I see. 60 seems like a lot then.  Are those just old school 70s singles?

    look at his picture. has either bought quite a bit used or been lugging around forever.

    personally I am digging the digging. its a surprise everytime.
    I do have quite a few that I picked up used. Most of those are late 70’s and early 80’s. Also a friend of mine has a father in law that had a bunch of old records in a storage closet that they were going to throw away.  He let me go through them and pick out what I wanted. I probably ended up with 25-30 records from that. 
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,488
    Alphabetized for life.

    I think there’s too much stuff that crosses genres that it would confuse me. So pretty much anything that isn’t a VA comp/soundtrack/VGM or a Numero (they look so good next to each other) release gets grouped together. 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,685
    JeBurkhardt said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mrussel1 said:
    mickeyrat said:
    mrussel1 said:
    Loujoe said:
    Wow. That's nice^^. I dug through my records and moved em around. Mine are hidden in an enclosed cabinet. How many does each cube hold approx? Looks like 60ish.
    Way more. You can get 30 to 40 in each cubby  X 8 cubbies.
    read it again matt.

    yes loujoe, 50-60 titles maybe less if its newer reissues that double the vinyl.

    I see. 60 seems like a lot then.  Are those just old school 70s singles?

    look at his picture. has either bought quite a bit used or been lugging around forever.

    personally I am digging the digging. its a surprise everytime.
    I do have quite a few that I picked up used. Most of those are late 70’s and early 80’s. Also a friend of mine has a father in law that had a bunch of old records in a storage closet that they were going to throw away.  He let me go through them and pick out what I wanted. I probably ended up with 25-30 records from that. 
    Nice!!! My bud was moving. She said she had some records...I went over and she hooked me up with a couple. As I was leaving I walked past the dumpster and saw minor threat (out of step)and a led zep on top of the pile. I turned around. Do you mind if I go in there. Go ahead...her son had a pretty killer collection, all got rained on, but I saved a bunch, sold most to a store and gave him the cash, only 20 bucks but was more happy they didn't get thrown out.  I understand it's hard to cart these around, but I hope at least my stuff gets donated somewhere.
    Always tell people you collect records...it helped my collection grow. For free...
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,449
    edited April 2021
    Loujoe said:
    Fun stuff. Sort by alphabetical or by types?
    I started sliding mine in tote bags and try to keep them by types or bands. Then I can take them all out at once. Maybe a little more protection too. 
    I read somewhere about hinged box sets. If the box might get damaged from use, to store the box away from lps to keep it mint.
    I do alphabetical, but separate out my pearl jam and related.  
    Hugh Freaking Dillon is currently out of the office, returning sometime in the fall




  • Abe Froman
    Abe Froman Posts: 5,379

    Nothing special but it does the trick. All alphabetical 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,685
    ^^^looks great! My bud has a ton of great records and his kitty cats used some as scratching posts. Can't blame the cats. But I'd be irked! Lots of my older record spines are split from years of misuse anyway. Just glad I still have them!
  • mrussel1
    mrussel1 Posts: 30,879
    Loujoe said:
    ^^^looks great! My bud has a ton of great records and his kitty cats used some as scratching posts. Can't blame the cats. But I'd be irked! Lots of my older record spines are split from years of misuse anyway. Just glad I still have them!
    This is why I keep the records between the record sleeve and outer poly sleeve. 
  • Loujoe
    Loujoe Posts: 11,685
    Good idea. I'm much kinder to my lps now.
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    Kallax and shelving on the built-in entertainment unit.  I’m going to need some other solutions soon. 
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    edited April 2021
    Loujoe said:
    ^^^looks great! My bud has a ton of great records and his kitty cats used some as scratching posts. Can't blame the cats. But I'd be irked! Lots of my older record spines are split from years of misuse anyway. Just glad I still have them!
    😂 My cat likes to chew on plastic. She seems to leave my record sleeve protectors alone for the most part. She has a blast when I’m tearing the plastic off new records. Just goes to town. 
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,889
    My last cat was more prone to going after the plastic sleeves.  Most of the records are fine.   There are a few claw marks on the PJ Ten and VS/Vitalogy boxsets.   A little reminder of the cat.  The new cats seem better.  When they were first learning to jump they didn't quite always make it to the top of the kallax.. now they can clear it easily and leave the records alone.
  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,888
    edited April 2021

    Downstairs 
  • May 30th
    May 30th Posts: 1,888
    edited April 2021

    Main floor
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,488
    Looks good. 

    Still mad my Spawn PJ poster got water damage when my basement flooded a few years ago. 
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,488
    Ordering another 2x4 Kallax this summer because I’m out of room. 
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,889
    Tim Simmons said:
    Ordering another 2x4 Kallax this summer because I’m out of room. 

    I was in the same boat.  I pretty much filled up my 4x4, and just bought a 4x2.   It basically took me 19 years to fill 8 cubes, but then only 6 more years to fill up the next 8.   I did a lot of filling the last 6 months, so I figure it may not be quite as fast to fill up the new 8 cubes I bought.  Hopefully a while :)
  • Tim Simmons
    Tim Simmons Posts: 9,488
    Last time I bought a 2x4 was 3 years ago. I may have a problem 

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