How big is your metal collecti&#111;n?

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Posted: 31 Mar 2010 at 11:03am

...Never as big as I'd like it to be...

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Posted: 11 Apr 2010 at 8:19am

Ugh, that hits a sore spot Disapprove

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I "had" over 1000 Metal and Metal sub-genre CD's, but last Year was really tough and had to sell
almost HALF of them in small stacks Month to Month Cry

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But I kept my faves and Collectors items. All 500+ of my Metal LP's I still have though.
(I need to write them all down one day).

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Bad Bad MAV . . .
I "had" over 2500 Cd's until I had to sell bits and pieces of it from every genre of music.
My Classic Rock, Prog Rock/Metal, Thrash, Death and Heavy Metal got the brunt of the loss Cry

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But only the stuff I knew I could get again or have been re-mastered.
So basically I had over 1500 in the Metal sub-catagories . . . I need a steadier way of making a
living (Freelance Artist), so much Metal has come out that I've missed out on Unhappy

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I've had a collection going since 1977 with LP's up to about 1998 and my 1st purchase of a CD,
Cyclone Temple "I Hate, therefore I Am" in 1991. A nice memory, and that the 1st purchase was
a Thrash Album makes sence (and buying it at a great Store that still resides in the Claremont
Village in Claremont Ca. "Rhino Music") Big smile

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Posted: 11 Apr 2010 at 11:11pm

MAVIIIVAM wrote:

Ugh, that hits a sore spot Disapprove

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I "had" over 1000 Metal and Metal sub-genre CD's, but last Year was really tough and had to sell
almost HALF of them in small stacks Month to Month Cry

. . .

I can feel your pain. A couple of years ago, in a fleeting attempt to start life over I bundle up most of my black metal collection and burnt them in a bonfire out in the forest; goodbye LLN tapes, goodbye nihilistic misanthropy... good excuse to run naked through the white wilderness, the night winds caressing at my loins, tho'.

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Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 12:41am

Murphy wrote:

I can feel your pain. A couple of years ago, in a fleeting attempt to start life over I bundle up most of my black metal collection and burnt them in a bonfire out in the forest; goodbye LLN tapes, goodbye nihilistic misanthropy... good excuse to run naked through the white wilderness, the night winds caressing at my loins, tho'.

Now THAT seemed like a good time to be blasting Skyclad while going through that Pagan Ritual LOL

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Mine however was due to the economic climate and trying to find a Steady 9 to 5 job.
Being a Freelance Artist is about all the work I'm finding (and it aint enough folks!).
Next time Murphy, trade them CD's and Tapes for cash . . . go "Skyclad" after (and nihilistic misanthropy
will just get you wacky friends) Wink

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Posted: 12 Apr 2010 at 3:32am

If we are to include every group that's so far included (or will be soon), I'd say I've some 30 to 40 albums maybe up to 50.... (Zep, Purple, Rainbow, BOC, grunge, RATM, RHCP and Heep included)

But pure metal albums.... I'd say something like 15 or 20 (including Priest, Anvil,; Sabbath, Maiden etc...)

my music collection increased tenfolds when I switched from drug-addicted musicians to crazy ones....

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Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 2:37pm

Out of around 3000 albums in my collection I'd say about 1200 will be on this site. This is of course including proto metal bands like Zeppelin and Deep Purple etc.

just remembered I forgot to include the ones I have listed as prog that crossover to this site like prog metal, heavy prog etc so i guess that'll raise it to around 1600 - 1800.

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Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 2:44pm

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Out of around 3000 albums in my collection I'd say about 1200 will be on this site. This is of course including proto metal bands like Zeppelin and Deep Purple etc.

I'd been wondering when you "Audiophiles" were gonna' come out into the light Big smile

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Deep Purple and Blackmore are great! (I like the Morse era too and I like that they respect
each others music). But Blackmore era is definately a Classic.

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Posted: 14 Apr 2010 at 10:39pm

Of my 1500 cds, probably 500 are metal.

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Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 7:17am

I shall go and count them now...so I can give a genuine answer to that!

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Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 8:02am

About 66 of my CD's are DEFINATELY PURE METAL. I left out everything that is potentially contentious, such as any proto metal/ hard rock (Thus I did not count things such as Black Sabbath, Deep Purple and Alice Cooper) or any of my grunge related albums (So I did not count any of my Soundgarden, Alice In Chains or R.A.T.M. stuff either) I included only Trad, Glam and Thrash. I would have had more, only for the fact that my grunge collection has kind of took over my metal (and even my prog, for those of you who know me from PA!) Pretty measly for one who has over 600 discs of nothing but rock that only 10% is pure metal! I have disgraced myself, clogging up all that space with half of Seattle! (flogs oneself with a bullet belt)

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Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 8:14am

I had hundreds of cassette tapes. Most of them I have no idea where they are now. I've moved so many times, and heat and what not destroys magnetic tape.

A lot of CDs have come in and out of my life...I've bought, copied, re-purchased, etc. Mindcrime probably 5 times.

For some reason my copy of Mark Wood's Voodoo Violince is still sitting at my parents' house in my old bedroom. Anyone remember that one?

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Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 8:22am

Nice avatar, Negoba!

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Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 12:05pm

I have exactly 66 albums in my collection. I'm probably going to wager 30-35 are metal, but I'm not sure and I haven't counted.

However I do know that I need 600 more albums.

Lost respect for these archives when I saw Creed added, among other bands. Not going to be foruming here anymore. You can keep my reviews if you want.

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Posted: 15 Apr 2010 at 1:37pm

Negoba wrote:

I had hundreds of cassette tapes. Most of them I have no idea where they are now. I've moved so many times, and heat and what not destroys magnetic tape.

A lot of CDs have come in and out of my life...I've bought, copied, re-purchased, etc. Mindcrime probably 5 times.

For some reason my copy of Mark Wood's Voodoo Violince is still sitting at my parents' house in my old bedroom. Anyone remember that one?

Yup! The man sure knows how to play . . . a VIOLIN!!!! Big smile

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Posted: 16 Apr 2010 at 3:26pm

By the way folks . . .

You guys with the smaller "Physical" collection of Metal, does that mean the rest of your Metal Music is
on MP3? I'd say that is your "Collection" as well. And are they FULL Albums or just selected Tracks
you purchased?
Questions questions . . .

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Posted: 16 Apr 2010 at 3:43pm

My non-psysical collection corresponds exactly to my physical one. I like to buy the CDs, because I like having the physical token (and I don't like illegal downloads - I mean, we should support the bands, eh?) and then I transfer them to my iPod.

As to the size of my collection, I don't really know since it's integrated into the rest of my music collection (of which metal albums do constitute a considerable majority), but I'd say it's probably not too impressive to some of the super ultra metal afficionados. But it ain't small either.

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Posted: 19 Apr 2010 at 11:56am

MAVIIIVAM wrote:

By the way folks . . .

You guys with the smaller "Physical" collection of Metal, does that mean the rest of your Metal Music is
on MP3? I'd say that is your "Collection" as well. And are they FULL Albums or just selected Tracks
you purchased?
Questions questions . . .

MP3 collection =/= a music collection.

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