How much of your collection have you actually listend to?

Watching peoples videos in the Vinyl Community, I noticed that most of them are of vinyl finds a not too many showing what they already have in their collection. I know that I've been guilty of that at times in the past.

When I thought of that reminded me of the 30 Day Vinyl Challenge that Mark and Sam Ditch challenged people to this past summer. What that was is go 30 days without purchasing any new vinyl and make a video each day reviewing an album from their collection. I made it through the full 30 days without buying any plus around an additional 30. I was doing videos, maybe not daily. I started having problems with my webcam about half way through the 30 days, so I did a review each day with a Facebook post until I got my camera working again.

I have decided that I'm going to slow down my music purchases and am going to start doing a review around daily in my blog titled Tim's Listening Room. I'm doing it in a blog instead of a video because of health problems that stopped me from making videos earlier this year. I figured out that with the amount of music that I have in my collection now, it would take around 7 years just to show just that. I haven't purchased any new music for two weeks now and have posted my first review in the blog at the above link. I know I won't stop buying music, just slow down some and appreciate what I have in my collection more.

I challenge others to try this. Do your reviews in videos, blogs similar to mine or in Facebook posts. I know there are many people with bigger collections than I have and I am interested to see more of what the already have in their collection.

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Compilations

Sorry that I didn't post anything in the past week. The reason why is because I've been busy during that time and health problems.

I've seen many people in their videos and Facebook posts that will not touch greatest hits or compilation albums and tell new collectors  not to bother with them. WHY??? I tell people to buy them when they find them.

The reason why I say that are the following:

1. If somebody likes only a couple artist's songs, they can usually get all they need on the greatest hits album by that artist.
2. Artists have put songs on their greatest hits albums that are not released on any of their regular studio albums.
3. Greatest hits albums are a good way for a new collector to decide whether or not the like the artist. This way they won't have to waste their money buying 15 albums by that artist just to finally conclude they don't like them.
4. Compilation albums (albums with several different artists) are a good way to hear music by an artist that you haven't heard before. If you like a song of theirs on a compilation, there's a god chance that you'll start buying that artist's studio albums.
5. Compilation albums are like the mix tapes that many of us made when we were younger. With these albums we don't have to select the songs to include and take the time to record each song and then get to the last song just to find out that we don't have enough room on the tape for that last song that we wanted on it so bad.

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So go out and buy those compilation and greatest hits albums that you've been avoiding because some know-it-all, stuck up snob that considers them self  to be a collector said not to in a video.