mameeshkamowskwoz Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 Mine are the organized by what seems to be the common method (alphabetized by band and albums chronologically) but since not everything is easily identified my girlfriend requested a 3 ring binder with a spreadsheet. Seems to be working pretty well... The only question now is how often to print an update. I suppose if and when we get and iPad or tablet that would obsolete the binder. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriss Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 We do that with our 7" and 45's collection. Mellie often doesn't want to rifle through the boxes, so she goes to my Dead Format page and makes requests off of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cardiac Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 ^^^ It's worth noting that my spreadsheet is alphabetical, but color-coded by genre. I put off getting a smartphone for a long time, but I have to say that GoogleDocs + shopping = awesome. No more wondering "do I have this? fuck, i miiiight". So that's alpha for ease of reference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tape Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 wow. i need to find one of those! i can call to see if they'll ship to CA, but if they did, it'd probably be awfully pricey... i like how it looks like it's real wood, too. i prefer that to particle/fiber board. yeah, they're just unfinished pine. the back is a thin plywood. I'm sure someone locally makes something similar enough. I've seen the same shelf design being sold at places in other cities (Chicago comes to mind right away) so it's probably reasonably common, but like I said, there's enough people making/selling unfinished furniture that you're bound to find something very similar near to you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avery Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 wow. i need to find one of those! i can call to see if they'll ship to CA, but if they did, it'd probably be awfully pricey... i like how it looks like it's real wood, too. i prefer that to particle/fiber board. yeah, they're just unfinished pine. the back is a thin plywood. I'm sure someone locally makes something similar enough. I've seen the same shelf design being sold at places in other cities (Chicago comes to mind right away) so it's probably reasonably common, but like I said, there's enough people making/selling unfinished furniture that you're bound to find something very similar near to you. perhaps, but the thing with bostonwood is that their prices are great for it being real wood and made in the US. it's hard to find new, real wood furniture for less than a couple hundred. i found a place in WA that also has unfinished pine CD and LP racks and they ship around the US but they cost twice as much. might have to go that route since shipping is free, but i'll poke around a bit more to see if i can find something in southern CA. thanks for posting that link though. didn't know unfinished pine was an option, but now that i do, it's what i'll be looking for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tape Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 perhaps, but the thing with bostonwood is that their prices are great for it being real wood and made in the US. it's hard to find new, real wood furniture for less than a couple hundred. i found a place in WA that also has unfinished pine CD and LP racks and they ship around the US but they cost twice as much. might have to go that route since shipping is free, but i'll poke around a bit more to see if i can find something in southern CA. thanks for posting that link though. didn't know unfinished pine was an option, but now that i do, it's what i'll be looking for. no, I absolutely agree, I bought so many of them because they were always clearly a great deal. the 160-cap CD racks were $15 when I was in high school and $20 when I was in college. it was a no-brainer at the time. their cubes are great for vinyl too: http://www.bostonwood.com/cubes.html I used to have all my vinyl in 2 of those when my collection was much less substantial. it's really blown up in the past 2 years or so and now I've got 4 sections of my 1x5 Expidit filled. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamover Posted November 18, 2011 Author Share Posted November 18, 2011 Didn't realize this thread would turn into an actual conversation. Just started it because i thought it was funny there's a video and how-to on how to do something so individual to the person doing it, like organizing vinyl. Honestly, mine are all alphabetical by artist. The individual records by that artist i try to have in chronological order, but they never stay that way. If I have any extra variants, I have those all together on two squares in my expedit. i keep stuff i want to get rid of in another square. As for whether it is better to have albums by genre or just alphabetically, i think organizing all my records by genre would just be a headache. if i had a bunch of jazz records or DJ singles, i could see keeping those together in sections, but genres are just so hard to categorize. in a store, you're looking through tons of records to find the ones you want. at home, i want all of my records and i know what i have. alphabetical is the way to go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tankerdesk Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 alpha by artist for my 12s. my 7s and 10s are out of order on purpose though. I like digging through them to find something I'm looking for and usually end up finding 2-3 I forgot about or are more excited about. Can we start arguing about sorting left to right vs. right to left now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
monsterrod Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 I do alphabetical by band, chronological by album. The only respectable way to do it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 How do people who collect variants sort each variant of a record? Alphabetical by color? Chronologically by pressing date? ROY G BIV? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamover Posted November 18, 2011 Author Share Posted November 18, 2011 THAT CAT IS ADORABLE Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kriss Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 ^ I've often wondered that. When I've looked through idreamofpunk's endless stacks of variants, I've always wondered if there was some sort of order to how they were in there (any time I look at one, I keep my thumb placed where I picked the record out to avoid it losing its place). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tape Posted November 18, 2011 Share Posted November 18, 2011 How do people who collect variants sort each variant of a record? Alphabetical by color? Chronologically by pressing date? ROY G BIV? me, I'd do it chronologically by pressing date if I definitely knew the pressing dates. I only have four records where this would apply, and two are reasonably obvious: I have an original R.E.M. Chronic Town from 1982 and the 2010 RSD pressing, and then a 1997 Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out and a 2008 one that IWVT sent me by accident and let me keep anyway. There's also Comeback Kid's Wake the Dead that I think are two different colors from the same pressing run, though I'm not sure. I just keep them in the order I bought them: white, then red. The last one is Coheed and Cambria's Second Stage Turbine Blade, which are both from 2011 - I have the "regular" green vinyl one and then I have the black tour-only one, and again I keep these in the order I bought them, though you could think of the green one as having been "an earlier pressing" because I think it sold out before the tour even started. The Coheed records are easy to tell apart though because the jackets are different colors. Having multiple versions of the same pressing is the only situation I can think of where I'm not sure exactly how I'd sort. This would almost have to be because of color variants, so I guess maybe I'd do white -> ROYGBIV -> black? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johneedeformed Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 I do alphabetical by band, chronological by album. I second, third, fourth.. whatever number it is... this sentiment Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest johneedeformed Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 As far as multiple variants of the same album. First pressings come before represses and the most rare versions come first. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest realtalk Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 This thread is too highly technical and intellectual. Hearing different viewpoints on this matter has shattered my reality and belief in all that is true. Solution? Heading to the incinerator to melt these fuckers down. Returning to my comfy knowledge of a flat Earth and a one-size-fits-all society. Kthx4ruiningmylife kriss 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bathroommonkey Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 mine are in kinda alphabetical order, I don't sweat them being in order. then there is a group of new stuff that moves into the area right next to my record player as i listen to stuff. once they move away from the record player they get put into my "kinda alphabet order". odd sizes are by themselves. 7 inches are kinda in order too, but in boxes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Mine have absolutely no order, and this thread made me hate myself for it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
collectivemike Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 My records are grouped by artist, in order of which bands I think should go next to each other/which bands I associate with others. That's about it. No rhyme or reason to where they are on the shelf. For example if I'm looking for Brian Bonz, I look next to Kevin Devine. If I'm looking for The Band, I look next to Bob Dylan. This system only works for me - if anybody else is looking for something in my collection, there's no chance they'll find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindovermatter Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 by color of spine For the life of me, I cannot recall where...but I've actually seen this! It gave me anxiety a bit. I couldn't imagine trying to find anything. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mindovermatter Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 And to anyone who doesn't have their shit organized: wait. Once your collection reaches a certain point, you'll require it. Prepare for it now! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Alpha by artist, then chronologically. I thought about doing genres, but decided against it since there would be too much crossover. Right now everything is in boxes semi-alphabetical, so I will be filing soon. The plan is to export my Recordnerd list to Excel, sort it aplha-chron by size, then start filing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
youmightbewrong Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 Mine is organized exactly to my deadformat list. I also have my single lp's apart from my double lp's and I have no reason why I do that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chamb117 Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 How do people who collect variants sort each variant of a record? Alphabetical by color? Chronologically by pressing date? ROY G BIV? if there are different variants in the same press, i'll keep them out of order so i am more likely to grab a different color each time i take it out to spin it. and, along with many others here, i do: alphabetical by band, chronological by album, and only chronological by press if the jacket art has been updated or changed Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amnstypls Posted February 14, 2013 Share Posted February 14, 2013 alphabetical by band, then alphabetical by album title. if the band name starts with "The" I organize by the next word. For example, The Beatles are in the "B's" not the "T's." If I have multiple variants, I start with rarest first press on the left, with the most common repress to the right. I always only spin the most common variant. HOWEVER, I am heavily debating putting my Deathwish vinyl in their own section. Eventually, I'd like to just have a massive Deathwish and Hydra Head selection. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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