I think Abbey's around 30. I've got about half what Abbey has, and with the exception of a few dozen 20th-C. classical LPs I bought from the Memphis Public Library back in 1996, I've listened to everything I own at least once, and I'm a single dad & don't get much listening time (except to Bob Wills, Hank Williams, The Fall, and Joseph Haydn, my daughter's faves). I have friends who have tech industry jobs that don't require much human interaction & they listen to music on headphones all day long, and on their stereos when they get home - at that rate, it would be easy to get through 10-12 albums a day. People I'm acquainted with who have much larger collections than Abbey's plan to spend a lot of time in the listening chair after retirement - so do I. I read an interview with Jimmy Johnson, who owns Forced Exposure, and he was talking about Byron Coley - he said Coley has about 4000 records that he's waiting to get around to at any given time, and around 150,000 records in his collection; unless something is truly exceptional, he only listens to it once. At 12:57 PM 7/2/2003 +0200, Efrén del Valle wrote:
I think it all depends on your "case logic" Skip. Jon Abbey said in an interview this week that he owns somewhere in the neighborhood of 6000 CDs.
I don't know how old Jon Abbey is, but I think the figure is just insane. How is a human being supposed to absorbe such an amount of music? I listen to about 8-10 new albums each week and it's absolutely crazy (I'm only counting those I'm interested in). Maybe if you get paid for just listening...
Best,
Efrén del Valle n.p: Steve Reich "Music for 18 Musicians" BMG
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