Began Collecting: Late '99
Number of Score: 144

It's puny I know.

Np: Harry Potter

CDs: about 600

CDSs: 300-400, about two thirds soundtracks and one third classical

Jz

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Originally posted by John Zimmer:
JEEEEEEZZZZZ!!!!! 1500 cd's in less than a year?

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Np: Harry Potter

Tapes started: 1985
around 150-200 left...getting replaced fast.

1962-first LP was El Cid
LPs-1300, stopped buying them pretty much in 1993 have not gotten rid of any of them

tapes-started crude taping in 1976 or thereabouts now have around 600, includes swaps

store bought cassettes around 30

78s-3 all Newmans

45s-200+/-

CDs around 600, first one in 1989 was Lionheart Vol II, then Peter the Great and Battle of Neretva, all new, 6.50, and 4 dollars each.

Do we mean buying or 'seriously' collecting?

If it's buying, then my first soundtrack was Young Einstein on LP when I was 5 (though technically it was a Birthday present).
Following this was La Bamba on cassestte when I was 6 (also a gift).

The first score I bought was The Rock in August 1997. Then in early 1999 I started 'seriously' collecting (a few months after I got a job and had money to spend).
In between I bought Titanic and was given Braveheart.

The tally so far:

-44 non film related CDs.

-10 song soundtrack albums.

-15 'classical' CDs

-155 film scores.

...and DVDs in the last 1 and 1/2 years: 30

As for VHS tapes, thats close to the 300 mark.

The End.

I started collecting SERIOUSLY around 1997 thanks to the internet as John F has already mentioned. But if I remember correctly, David Shire's The Hindenburg was my first LP in 1975 or 1976 when I was 6 years old. I started collecting CDs around 1985 once the initial price of the CD player started to come down. However, I was much more interested in progressive rock and heavy metal at the time so much more time and money was spent on that genre of music. Being in that style of band for a number of years contributed to that too. I still have over 1500 HM CDs, still listen to it, and still buy a lot of Euro-style power metal. But due to the lameness of the current "metal" music on the market with "how low can we tune" guitars and one note repeating songs, I have focused more on movie scores in recent years.

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Originally posted by John Zimmer:
Well I'm just curious but I was wondering how locg each of you have been collecting and how many scores you have? Here's my stat's

Began Collecting: Late '99
Number of Score: 144

It's puny I know.

Np: Harry Potter

Jz

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Began collecting: 1996
Scores: 120

Even more puny

or depending on your definition of Mr. Bill.

Your latest CD, (2001)....$18.99

The hardwood rack for your 800+ CD library....$45.99

CD: I don't know the exact number, but it is hovering just over 800. Soundtrack wise, probably closer to 750 or so.

DVD: Well, I just started to collect these this year, and still mainly focus on CD'. So, it's rather low at 32.

As for some additional info...

I was buying an occasion cassette tape of soundtracks before 1990, though it wasn't until Christmas of 1990, when I got my first CD player that I really began collecting. From about 1991-1993 I did buy several soundtracks, but most don't come to mind. It was CD' like the Star Trek: TNG albums, Back to the Future I-III, Terminator 2, the Star Wars Trilogy and the Batman/Batman Returns scores that I remember getting then. Mostly, I was getting soundtracks like Top Gun, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and The Transformers: The Movie, and other similar "song" CD'.

This all changed during 1994, when I started to collect anime CD'. About the same time, I had also moved from there to a bunch of other soundtrack CD'. Though, the big change came between 1993-1996, when I sold off all the non-soundtrack CD' and started to basically collect soundtracks exclusively. I have slowly went back and have been buying non-soundtrack CD' on occasion for the last few years, but in all, that only makes up around 5% of my total collection, if even that.

From there, I have pretty much got to the level I am currently at, buying pretty much anything. I will say, if it wasn't for my trying different genres and types of music in the years before, then following much of the advice I started to get when I first got online, I doubt I would be here now. It was most definitely, a huge boost to my collection and my opinion towards much of this music. Sheesh, I love music now that I never would have thought I'd love in a hundred years before. It is all great, thanks all!

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Originally posted by Marian Schedenig:
[B]Additional question: How old were you when you started collecting?
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Heh heh...I was uh..12 in '99 when I started collecting. I'm a young sprout!

There's one good thing about being young. I DON'T HAVE ANY BILLS TO PAY!!!! MWA HAHAHAHAHAHAHHHAAA!! *Ahem*

I also have 365 CDs, the first of which was the Gerhardt version of "Empire Strikes Back." CDs go in the car, occasionally to work, and also play in the home computer when I'm doing other tasks, so they get much more spin time than the LPs, but I have held off rebuying CD of titles I already have on decent LPs. Yeh, I know. I'll eventually give in. Just bought "The Final Conflict" and it sounds superb. I expect I'll never put the LP on again.

Of the 799 scores, 254 are on Varese Sarabande (31.8%), and of those 799 scores, 74 (9.3%) are by Jerry Goldsmith. Of those 74 Goldsmith score, 30 are on Varese Sarabande. Furthermore, of those 799, two are scratched; one of which is by Jerry Goldsmith and the other of which is on Varese Sarabande. Three of those 799 scores are expanded versions of scores that I already own the shorter versions to, two of which are Bond scores, and the other of which is on Varese Sarabande and is by Jerry Goldsmith. None of those are scratched.

Those 799 scores, if played one after the other, would last for 625 hours, 39 minutes and 29 seconds, and play for an average running time of 46:59.

First CD: January 1999 - Return of the Jedi SE, Aged 17

In theory, probably, but since the only people who'd buy our collections is...well, us, there's really a 0% net gain, here.

Still...a film score utopia. Where composers come to learn and practice their craft, and film music is piped out through speakers attached to the palm trees.

Right now my CD collection for scores is around 320+.

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Originally posted by juha:
A great hobby !!!

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A by?! Man this is my life!!

As most of you probably know by now, my first soundtrack was John Williams' DRACULA. From very early age I had been listening to the music and songs from Disney Classics, so getting DRACULA at the age of 12 only sealed my destiny.

I am also one of those who purchased the first CD soundtrack without having a CD player. The first one was HOME ALONE in 1990, and I asked a friend of mine to record it on a cassette.

Since those times my CD collection has grown to include about 450 original CDs - about 1/3 of them are high-class compilations. Couple of years ago I counted that my entire collection of cassettes, vinyls and CDs includes themes and music from over 4000 titles of movies, musicals, TV shows, and amusement park attractions. By now that sum must have grown a little bit more

Nowadays I'm not collecting film music "blindly" anymore (and I don't spend as much money on CDs that I used to) - I only want those which I REEEEALLY want...!!!