You have a very big house. My collection is around 85, lol.

johnwilliamsscore, June 28, 2007; 8:18 PM

my computer room's closet is full and stared collection in late 1980's. i don't even know where anything is anymore, i upload them into the computer... and stack the rest with the others. thinking about getting rid of the org., na no way. bury me in a coffin made of jewel cases and cassette holders, drape the lp's over the remains... kidding.

peace,
happy

happyevil666, June 28, 2007; 8:28 PM

hello,

4,000 is a very large collection, I only have around 850. The main factors are cost and storage. If you can afford to keep collecting scores and can live with the storage problem I say good for you. The only thing I would suggest is get rid of any scores that are just not that good. I am constantly evaluating scores which I don't listen to that much anymore and get rid of any you have lost interest in and make room for the new releases. I used to be an absolutist about collecting certain scores based on the composer, genre, or rare and popular choices by other collectors. But I have decided that I like what I like and thats all that matters, the rest I can do without.


Best Regards,
David Phoenix, AZ.

deg63iami, June 29, 2007; 3:21 AM

I'm at 692 and rising and that about 650 too many. I keep gravitating back to the same 25 or so. Some I have only played once or only part way through. That does not make sense either. But I keep on buying. The problem is, is that I buy soundtracks that I dont even know what they sound like. I just think I might like them. I'm going to start selling some of them to make room for the future ones I buy, since I cant seem to quit.

dspin24358, June 29, 2007; 9:10 AM

I also get the evil eye from time to time from my wife. It is hard to explain an obsession, and that is what happens with film music. It gets stuck in your head, you cannot get some themes out of your mind, you must have this or that score etc. It's a great thing, but like gambling it can get out of hand. There are so many soundtrack cd's that I would like to buy at the moment, but it is financially impossible. So, you have to look for other ways, if you know what I mean....
How many scores have I got, well I try to put them on this site but it is an impossible to keep up.........without film music, I cannot imagine what my life would be like..!

leoflagg, June 29, 2007; 10:32 AM

Sounds like grounds for a divorce.

victoravalentine, June 29, 2007; 11:10 AM

You can copy David's answer and take it as mine.
The only difference is that I own about 400 scores.

Christian.Quatremain, June 29, 2007; 11:10 AM

6634 soundtracks.... and my wife does not like it when new parcels arrive. But I love filmmusic all my life. But my 3 year old daughter likes filmmusic. Musicals mostly. The old ones, Easter parade, Singin in the rain, The sound of music. And the films of course. I know the feeling, how many is too many?

Greetings,

Sijbold Tonkens

s.tonkens, June 29, 2007; 6:07 PM

REAL collectors do not marry. Why should one? Leasing is so damn easy nowadays... ;-)

coma, June 29, 2007; 6:37 PM

Personally I don't like to be bogged down by personal posessions and own little else than books, recordings (film music and other genres) and some 16mm films.

My recordings are an extension of my own personality in a way. A description of who and what I am. It sets me apart from most others who couldn't give a rats ass about what I'm interested in. Just the same as I have no interest in what most others around me are interested in. Especially in todays American culture where most of what is given attention from the mainstream media is substandard trash as far as I'm concerned.

That's why I find this website so frigging interesting. A gathering place for persons with a like minded interest in film music.

Back in the day there was a sense of isolation, although my brother is highly interested in film music as well. As a matter of first it was he who first suggested poking around that section in music stores way back in 1979. Up until that point my main musical interest leaned towards a genre defying any certain category but can be somewhat described by using the term, "Avant Garde".

I'll always throw a tip of the hat in the direction of America's best. Those truly talented souls who recieve little or no attention from the entertainment industry in this country (and need none either) yet are so often emulated. Roswell Rudd, Steve Lacy, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith are the gang of four as far as I'm concerned at this minute in time.

Steve Lacy for example. The guy recorded well over 200 recordings in his lifetime. Yet he is only know by a select group of people who are intelligent enough to cut through the shit and find the good.

Another old campaigner worthy of note is pianist Paul Bley. Same goes for him. Hundreds of recordings of music carry his name yet a person will never hear of it by watching those stupid son of a bitches at CNN or Fox News.

victoravalentine, June 29, 2007; 6:48 PM

COMA has had the most hilarious answer so far!! How true! Just
lease the wife and collect as many as you want/can afford. I had upwards of 650 (95% LPs) but scaled back. I keep playing the music I love and SHUN the new and foreign releases I never hear since I never see foreign movies.'Now, if "THEY" will only release
" ME AND THE COLONEL" in stereo, and "STRANGERS WHEN WE MEET" from the 1960 movie, I SWEAR I'll never buy another soundtrack again, unless someone decides to sell the MYSTERIOUS "VALLEY GIRL" soundtrack LP on the EPIC label, FE-38623. ANYONE OUT THERE KNOW IF THERE WAS EVER A PRESSED COPY OF THIS EPIC LP IN ANYONE'S HANDS???

lilbrucems44, January 3, 2024; 6:08 PM

Hello there..........

Well for me, I am 23, I only really got into Soundtrack collecting when I got a job, or should I say money.........which was last year, although I was buying things before, but only when I could get money from my Mum.......yes I'm still living at home, not that there is anything wrong with that, as in my circumstance, I'm not troubled with that many bills........

Last year, I really got into soundtrack collecting after finding the sites INTRADA and Screen Archives after going end to end in AMAZON, and not finding many limited edition scores there.
Also, my bills got larger and larger when I found out when I arrived home after INCHON had sold out (I missed on that title, but have recently acquired it), as I began to by up (due to how limited titles are), and find through sellers various recordings by John Williams, Howard Shore, Jerry Goldsmith, James Horner, Lalo Schifrin, Thomas Newman, I think that is almost all.

My collection has more than doubled in size since October 2006, from about 175 to 500, and lucky for me it is slowing down, or is it........with all the great releases...........

Lucky for me, I started collecting when they were producing complete scores, when I had money, what a coincidence......

And for the amount, last year, I went into a toy store, and they had a sale on lego, so I bought 5 boxes of 1,000 pieces for $35 Australian dollars a box. A few weeks ago, I built a CD rack for them, which fits about 300 CDs.

I try not to mention when I am buying CDs to my Mum, as she gives me an evil grin, and doesn't like it, from the point of view of me spending money, and space in my room...........what can I say......

I love film music, and I loved film music as a child but never had the money, and I live in Adelaide, South Australia, and the CDs are produced in America, and if a store buys them to sell over here, they can be really expensive.........lucky for me, I didn't miss out on too much, although I am on the constant look out for titles that I missed out on, such as Predator, Die Hard, and a few amount of other limited titles that are sold out.

Just then, whilst listening to Jerry Goldsmith's King Solomon's Mines, my Mum said that it sounded a bit like The Explorers, to which I said, well it was composed around the same time by the same composer, and I hope that that might be one of the titles released by VareseSarabande on Monday.........She didn't like that, and gave me an evil grin and started to complain........I can't help loving music.......what am I meant to do, sit in my room in the corner and do nothing...............no way.........

Keep collecting guys, and they will keep bringing out complete scores to brilliant films of old.......

Long live INTRADA, FILM SCORE MONTHLY, and whoever else releases complete film scores.....Lord of The RIngs!!!!!!

If I ever run low on space.......there's just one thing to do, buy more lego!!!!!!

For my Mum, well I had to take King Solomon's Mines from the DVD stereo to the computer headphones.......she can't stand the music.......what to do next...........

Keep collecting!!!!!!

paulbologiannis, June 30, 2007; 4:28 AM

I have around 900. Fair size?

surfingsounds, August 5, 2007; 10:44 PM