Straw Poll... Do you call it..?
Posted by FraserM on 17 July 2008 - 10:01am.
A Record Collection?
A CD Collection?
A Download Collection?
A Music Collection?
A.N. Other?
An indication of your age might also be illuminating.
I realised that on another post I'd referred to my 'Record Collection' and what a ridiculous anachronism that actually is, not least because I dumped 80% of my vinyl when I moved house back in December, having replaced the bits I still wanted to listen to with CDs or downloads. I'm 37 and began buying records in earnest in about 85.
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Record Collection
I'm the same age and use that phrase as well. All my vinyl is in the attic and I don't currently own a turntable but I still call it a record collection.
A record collection
Because it's a collection of recordings. Collection dates from 1971.
Though your etymology
is unquestionably correct, 'record' is popularly taken to mean a recording on vinyl as opposed to another media, isn't it?
Collection...
...is never a word I have used. It always sound as if that's something you've set out to accumulate, like bone china or cigarette cards, rather than something you've just ended up with as a result of a life-long obsession.
"Collection" to me smacks of completism, which is always a bad idea, particularly since they created a whole industry to cater to it. Now that I know that anything I am for any reason parted from I can be reunited with after a few clicks of a mouse I mainly just refer to the massive mountain of records, CDs and the rest that are all over the house as "all this bloody STUFF".
I agree
with you in so far as it not being acquired for the purpose of possession, but it's still a collection merely by dint of being collected together.
But it's not collected together
The big records are over there.
The little records are under there.
The CDs are in drawers over to my right.
The cars full of stuff.
My desk at the office is full of stuff.
Then there are lots of piles of "pending" and boxes of stuff that I haven't decided what to do about yet.
And most of all there's thousands of MP3s.
Absolutely
"The CDs" and "the hard drive" are about as close as I get to collectively referring to all the music that's knocking around the house. Most of our CDs are ripped via iTunes onto the external hard drive that sits next to the desktop PC in our home office. That drive also contains all the eMusic stuff we've downloaded, the occasional iTunes purchase, free albums and individual tracks generously made available by obliging bands, tons of radio comedy ripped from the DAB radio or downloaded from Usenet, and so endlessly on. Then there are the 30 shelves of CDs on the landing, the 500-ish Jazz CDs in the office, the several bookshelves of compilation CDs (cheers, Word!) also in the office, and a couple of shelves for the bulky box sets. Oh, plus the heaps of "not yet listened to" CDs in the lounge, next to similar piles of yet-unwatched DVDs and yet-unread books. Oh, and the 1000 or so classical CDs evicted from their jewel cases and collected into several of those thick 250-CD wallet-cases, to save shalf space. You're absolutely right, David, it's STUFF. Sometimes it almost feels like the purpose of modern life is a Forth Bridge-style exercise in trying to read/watch/hear all your stuff, whilst simultaneously shoveling more heaps of stuff onto the bulging in-piles.
OK
but mine is!
I call it My Gear or My Stuff or My Pile
Because its in a room with DVD's, books, comics games, mags, guitar and computer etc.
Hence the saying in my house, "who's been at my stuff again....KIDS.....?"
record collection
As previously stated, it is a collection of recordings. DH, doesn't matter where they are physically, at a meta level it is your collection.
Anybody find themselves saying...
...in a voice strained with tension "I don't mind you borrowing CDs but would you PLEASE PUT THEM BACK!"
Just putting
the disc back in the case would be a nice start!
You haven't lived.......
....until you've been presenting a live radio show, introduced the next two records, started the first one, then opened the jewel case of the second one and found SOMEBODY HASN'T PUT THE CD BACK!
It isn't the empty boxes so much........
...it's the wrong bloody CD in the wrong BLOODY BOX!!!!!!!(Are you listening, dearest?)
Loose on the floor of the car is pretty inexcusable either.
I am pleased to say, having aquird 4 more children when I married the 2nd Mrs Path, she now warns them as to the effects of following her earlier example....
P.S. They all get referred to as CDs now, the vinyl is transmogrified into mp3, backed up, as are all mp3s, onto CDrs. A whole LP is allowed a proper jewel case, but if a selection or smorgasbord, it only begets a slimline and a part of the garage, alongside the vinyl.
Mrs Springer just gets copies from me
She failed the return to filing as instructed rule. Sometimes I suppose I can be just too anal. But its too late now.
Er...
...my music.
I think
I just refer to them by the approriate noun . So my vinyl, my cd's etc... I think collection does sound like a it's finite and contents could be known in advance.
Record collection
If I feel the need to refer to the shelves and shelves of (mainly) CDs it's my 'record collection'. Just one of those things that has stuck for lack of an elegant neologism - in the same way that we still talk about 'dialing' a telephone number when only a very few, and mainly very old, 'phones have dials.
I suppose
It's my 'music stuff' and 'her junk'
Its my music
when I'm describing it and your music when my wife describes it. When I put a cd in the wrong box its because I am driving and can't search for the right one. When I find one in the wrong box its was someone else being lazy.
I'm 41.
I can't remember the last
I can't remember the last time when I needed to refer to it in conversation.
Have to swear in the need for accuracy
Around my way my records/cds etc are referred to as "This shit" as in "When are you going to do something about tiding up this shit?"
Any visitors have to tiptoe their way over piles of cds, records, magazines, books, dvd's etc. Its quite a shambles.
The most pitiful is the loose pile of unwatched dvds. Damn you ebay! I'll watch them "one day", probably the same day I tidy up. It's not that I'm lazy (though I am) I simply have nowhere to put any of it. I ran out of room long ago.
I refer to them as 'My CD's'
I sold most of my vinyl years ago when I was skint.
I am 37.