Show us your music collection

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Love the board.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

90% approval rating is good. I'm fine with 85% and up, but usually I can get something that interests me from someone above 90%. I always pay attention to the quality of the CD. I also look for new sealed packages off the bat. If there are none, I'll settle for Like New. Very Good and Acceptable are not acceptable to me.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

You give them too much credit. 85-95% is way too low to be trustworthy for me.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Well on eBay yeah I probably wouldn't go for that. I was specifically talking about Amazon. Like I said, I usually end up buying from sellers in the high 90's.

I've only bought a few scores from Amazon marketplace and eBay. Home Alone 2 OST was my first ever eBay purchase, and what an intense bidding war it was. I beat out the other dude by 50 cents at the last second, paid around $20 I think. I got JFK off eBay for a lovely $16 like new. Presumed Innocent may have been from Amazon marketplace, can't remember. I bought Catch Me If You Can from a seller on Amazon for $5 brand new, which was nice. I know I got Minority Report cheap as well. I can't remember all of them.

[Ollie 1,059]

I've never bought anything from someone that was lower than 99%. I've never bought anything used off of Amazon, only eBay. Plus I read feedback because all it takes is one idiot to screw up a seller's rating.

[indy4 155]

I'll buy it if it's 90% or up, I'm in Koray's boat.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

90% approval rating is good. I'm fine with 85% and up, but usually I can get something that interests me from someone above 90%. I always pay attention to the quality of the CD. I also look for new sealed packages off the bat. If there are none, I'll settle for Like New. Very Good and Acceptable are not acceptable to me.

I am the same way ( about the condition of the Disk, anyways). The only time I was ever "shorthanded" was when I purchased a "Like New" copy of "The Lost World: Jurassic Park". The last ten seconds of the second track will not play for any music-playing device, and the third track will not play at all. I have never listened to that cue outside of the film.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

I've only bought a few scores from Amazon marketplace and eBay. Home Alone 2 OST was my first ever eBay purchase, and what an intense bidding war it was. I beat out the other dude by 50 cents at the last second, paid around $20 I think.

So exciting when that happens!

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Yeah I always read the feedback. If the guy is like a 98% because some dude thought he took too long to ship, I'm not gonna steer away. The best seller I ever bought from, wow I just remember this. He was selling his entire JW collection cause he needed money for something else. I bought so much from him. Basically all of the Silver Age JW Classics. The CD's arrived at my doorstep literally a couple days after I paid, and he lived in the Pacific Northwest. I'm in Maryland. It was awesome.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Lucky buy.

[Maglorfin 196]

My dog's kennel is outside the house and vermin is also not permitted in the living room, so I'm sure that kind of damage is nearly impossible.

You have any idea how small a space those little rodents can squeeze through just for a few crumbs on your floor?? Spreading disease all over your CDs?

I realise that, but in 15 years, we've never had mice or other vermin in our house, and we'll keep it that way.

[Richard Penna 3,688]

I agree with Blume's post about getting a Western Digital. I've got an Western Digital for my internal drive and it's been great these last four years. I thought about getting an external hard drive but I decided since I'm gonna build me a new pc next year I'll just get an internal terabyte drive.

That's exactly what I did last month. I will upgrade to a desktop in maybe a year's time, and I can reuse the terabyte I just bought.

I have a 250GB internal laptop drive (WD) which hasn't stepped a foot wrong yet, and just as well, since I store my irreplaceable videos and all my music on it. I regularly back all of that up on two external drives, one is a WD (80GB), the other Freecom (160GB).

Plus I have an older WD MyBook that contains a third copy of all my music , so the idea is that any 2 of my drives can fail and I'll still have at the minimum a pretty up to date copy of my music, if not a perfect replica.

It's all the cost of having a digital collection, and a relatively small (minuscule compared to some of you) CD collection, but I just find it more convenient.

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Word of warning about drives: don't whatever you do, go for Formac external drives. We use a lot of drives at work and we needed a load more, so we ordered about 20 Formac externals, and if their cases hadn't fallen off, most of them weren't recognised by any computer for more than 5 seconds at a time. I wouldn't trust that brand with anything after that, and my department learned to spend a bit more money on certain items to get the reliability.

Incidentally - I'm thinking of getting another little 250GB to replace the MyBook (250GB, needs external PSU, fairly large in size), and therefore the latter will be surplus to requirements. I don't really want to go through the hassle of Ebay, so if anyone in the UK wants it, I might let it go for next to nothing.

[tjguitar 0]

My updated JW collection:

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Ew why do I see City Of Ember there?

[tjguitar 0]

Ew why do I see City Of Ember there?

Afraid it wasn't as impressive as JOURNEY TO THE CENTER OF THE EARTH, but I'm willing to give ti another shot, Lockington stood out from the rest in Journey, if it fails to satisfy, Ember will be sold, if anyone actualy wants it.

[Nick Parker 3,040]

Wait, how can you read any of the titles?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Look very closely lol. It helps if you already own some of the CD's.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

[Ollie 1,059]

I see you found the 2 disc Godzilla vs MechaGodzilla set.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

And the Godzilla vs. Space Godzilla 2-disc set. Mixed bag that score, but a few pretty good cues.

The 2-CD set of Godzilla vs. Mothra should arrive in the mail any day now. Godzilla vs. Destroyah is next on my hit-list.

[indy4 155]

But the one disc Indy 4 DVD? I'm dissapointed in you, Drax.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

But the one disc Indy 4 DVD? I'm dissapointed in you, Drax.

What are you talking about?

[indy4 155]

Second to bottom shelf, all the way to the right.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Oh, that's not the DVD, that's the popcorn box from Greater Union cinemas.

[indy4 155]

Oh, I see.

[Trent B 337]

Nice collection, Drax.

Another update on the collection since I bought some more CD's since the last time I posted my collection.

[John Crichton 4]

You're missing a couple of LotR boxes.

Drax, are those VHS tapes?! On display? You don't still...watch those, do you? *shudder*

[Greg1138 3]

You're missing a couple of LotR boxes.

Drax, are those VHS tapes?! On display? You don't still...watch those, do you? *shudder*

I think some of those are games, but yes, there do indeed seem to be Indiana Jones, Independence Day, 2001 and various others down there!

Greg - who has a few VHS myself, it has to be said.....

[Charlie Brigden 7]

I only have the OT on VHS.... several copies of each.

[Trent B 337]

You're missing a couple of LotR boxes.

Drax, are those VHS tapes?! On display? You don't still...watch those, do you? *shudder*

John,

Ya I know I'm missing FOTR and TTT I plan to get them after the new year.

Good lord people still have VHS tapes!? Oh wait...I got some VHS tapes the Original Star Wars Trilogy...but that's about it.

[Erik Woods 555]

You're missing a couple of LotR boxes.

Drax, are those VHS tapes?! On display? You don't still...watch those, do you? *shudder*

John,

Ya I know I'm missing FOTR and TTT I plan to get them after the new year.

Good lord people still have VHS tapes!? Oh wait...I got some VHS tapes the Original Star Wars Trilogy...but that's about it.

I still have VHS tapes. A whole rack of them. However, I have digitized them all and burned them to DVD for viewing but there are just some movies that I don't need to repurchase on DVD.

-Erik-

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I've got a box of my old VHS tapes stored somewhere. The only one I keep with my DVD's is my signed Air Force One VHS.

[Luke Skywalker 1,795]

Second to bottom shelf, all the way to the right.

dude he has the bonus crystal skull that came with the exclusive set that included the 2 disc edition.

[Unlucky Bastard 7,782]

Drax, are those VHS tapes?! On display? You don't still...watch those, do you? *shudder*

I have 350 DVDs give or take.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Since my brother has my digital camera, I just took a quick snapshot of my collection with my phone. The JW starts at the middle of the second row, and ends at the middle of the third.

Note: These are just the CD's I own. My brother has more. So double it and add a little more, and you'll get the idea.

[indy4 155]

Drax, are those VHS tapes?! On display? You don't still...watch those, do you? *shudder*

They belong in a museum!

[Jay 37,363]

This isn't my entire music collection, just my film score related stuff. I have another whole rack for "regular" music

Row 1 is Williams (Towering Inferno is first but somehow got cropped out of the picture I took)

Rows 2-4 are everyone else, alpha by compser then chronological by score. Plus the stupid boxes too large to fix in the rack upright. Just realized the tallbox for the 1993 anthology should go there... right now its on another shelf with random stuff

Row 5 on the left is further Williams that no longer fit in row 1 (the first 4 are the 1993 anthology, the rest are re-recordings (Gerhardt, Boston Pops, etc). The right part of row 5 are various film score compilations and other junk

Row 6 is tv show scores

Row 7 are "song collection" soundtracks. They used to be in my "regular music" rack but I ran out of room there.

Everything below is junk I didn't bother to crop out

[Mr. Breathmask 555]

Ah crap.

I've run out of space.

(click for hi-res)

[Trent B 337]

Time to build more shelves Marc!

[Jay 37,363]

I see you have a combination of round and flat LOTR boxes as well

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Finally got my hands on a digital camera!

These are the CD's my brother owns:

These are the ones I own:

My DVD collection:

My Home Theater:

[Trent B 337]

Nice TV, what size is it?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I just grabbed a ruler and did a fairly accurate measurement. About 48 inches horizontal.

[Trent B 337]

Must be the way how you took the picture because it looks bigger than 48 inches. Mine's only 40''...I was gonna get a 42'' but even it would have been too big for my room, hell even the 40'' is almost too big.

[Koray Savas 2,251]

I forgot about these:

[indy4 155]

I want that Alfred Hitchcock collection.

[Corellian2019 386]

Do you own any other Blade Runner CDs besides the 3-disc Trilogy, Koray?

[Koray Savas 2,251]

Do you own any other Blade Runner CDs besides the 3-disc Trilogy, Koray?

I have the OST which is located right after the 3-disc.

[Marian Schedenig 8,193]

Is that a Billy?

[Ollie 1,059]

Kids these days, I remember how excited I was when my mom upgraded my 13" Black & White to a 13" color TV in my bedroom. Oh and I got cable too.