Sunday, December 30, 2012

Making a List, Checking It Twice...

So after spending the better part of a week looking for a near-mint copy of The Rolling Stones' Got Live If You Want It, I was flipping through some unsorted vinyl and discovered that I already own a mint copy of the album! That was enough to convince me it was time to create a spreadsheet for my vinyl collection. Remembering what I currently own, as opposed to what I once owned but got rid of when I foolishly decided that CDs were the only form of music I'd ever want, was proving entirely too complicated.

Other discoveries that came about as a result of the spreadsheet: (1) I apparently own every Josie Cotten and Comateens album ever released; (2) I actually purchased an Ebn Ozn album at some point; (3) Jan and Dean Meet Batman is still the dopiest album I've ever purchased.

The spreadsheet is only about 90% complete at this point, but I should wrap it up tomorrow or the next day. It's interesting to see how many albums I own in multiple editions--in some cases, it's the mono and stereo version of the same album (the first 9 Beatles albums, for instance), in other cases it's a different cover (the UK and US versions of Blind Faith), but in a few cases it's because I didn't remember having an album so I bought it again. *sigh*

2 comments:

Charles R. Rutledge said...

Yeah, this caused me to listen to Jan and Dean meet Batman on youtube. Words fail me...

Cliff Biggers said...

Apparently they failed Jan and Dean as well...