Monitoring my music collection · Nov 11, 02:31 PM by Don
Carrie Brownstein of Sleater-Kinney fame has been blogging for NPR for a while now. Her Monitor Mix blog is always worth checking out and she usually has some clever ways for readers to get involved. She’s had people write theme songs for her blog. She gave Phish phans a chance to convert her. Right now, she wants people to send in photos of their music collections. That’s mine in the pic above. The shelf in top left corner of the image holds about 1500 compact discs, but there are a couple of smaller shelves I didn’t include. I’m really not sure how many vinyl records my wife and I own. Most of them are hers. By the way, most of the CD’s are mine. We also have a small cache of 7-inch singles (200?). In the collage, you can also see my 500GB hard drive where most of my CDs are backed up as mp3’s. I wanted my photo to stand out a bit, so I added the two shots of me opening up the furry limited edition of Juliana Hatfield’s 1995 album, Only Everthing. She beat the Flaming Lips to the punch by 14 years. In the bottom right corner is a photo of yet another used copy of Priest=Aura by The Church. (I have five used copies, plus the CD I bought new in ’92 as well as an Australian double-disc reissue.) For some reason I feel compelled to buy a copy when I see it sitting in a record store’s used section or at a thrift store. It’s an underappreciated gem, to be sure. The copy in the photo was bought for fifty cents at a Chicago thrift store last summer. The price tag of $1.99 is most likely from a record store that went out of business.
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