Stacks of Shellacs

record-mess-nolaIn starting into the collecting phonographs I hadn’t really considered the fact that I might end up with a large collection of things to play on them. Quite often when I find someone looking to offload a system they have a large set of records that need to go with it. This has opened me up to a whole new set of problems. How do I best keep track of all of these records and store them in a way that makes sense and yet doesn’t become overly burdensome. I have started to use discogs.com to inventory what I have. For someone that has just started to collect I find the database is missing around 40% of what I have and I am constantly adding to it. I’m thrilled about the fact it is open and dumps of the data are available, should be fun looking through it.