Welcome to my record collection page! My original intention for this page was to list all the records I have but I quickly realized that my limited html formatting skills made that a very dull read.
Also, I figured that for the time being, my already-existing Discogs page works well enough. It does feel a little cheap to immediatly link to a different website instead of just hosting the content here, but at the moment I can't beat their functionality and formatting. My collection on Discogs is fairly accurate in terms of what I have and when I got it. I have a more accurate, personal spreadsheet for keeping track of my collection, but Discogs is good enough for a public list.
I bought my first CD in November 2017. Gorillaz - Plastic Beach, an album I had loved for years and found on a whim while I was at a local HMV. I bought my first record two years later, in September 2019. Tommy Guerrero - Dub Tunes, which I had seen previews of through Ed Banger Records. After I found out it wasn't going to be released on streaming, and since I really wanted to hear the full album, I decided to pick it up on vinyl! Luckily, my mom had an old turntable sitting around...
Photo taken 2026-03-23
What truly kickstarted my record addiction though was the July 2020 repress of C418 - Minecraft Volume Alpha. Since then, my collection has been steadily growing, as you can see below.
Here's a chart!
As of 2026-07-09, I own 526 records, 42 CDs, and 11 cassettes.
Clearly I'm not much of a CD or tape guy, but I felt including them on the chart gives better context for how many records I have.
For clarity, The chart begins on 2019-09-09. I didn't include my first CD purchase (2017-11-29) so there isn't two full years of unchanging data.
What's interesting is on this chart you can clearly see my June 2022 trip to Vancouver, when I visited nearly every record store in the city. That was really fun and I'd love to go back and do it again someday.
You can also see the large amount of records I sold off in May 2026. About a year prior, I set aside around 50 albums I didn't listen to much and felt like pruning from my collection. A few overzealous purchases, some preorders that didn't end up keeping my attention, some duplicates, and some records I received for free and never opened. I sold off a few through Discogs, but eventually I found a local buyer who wanted the rest of what I had for sale.
A collection sans pruning is a horde.
The vast majority of my records were purchased online. As much as I love digging for records in local shops, there aren't many options in my area, nor do they stock what I'm looking for. Being mostly interested in niche, European techno music makes it quite annoying to find something I'd like locally.
I'm also not a fan of blind buying. I really like to know I love an album before I buy it. There are a few acts I trust enough to preorder a new album, but for the most part I have to hear something through at least once to know I want it.
Fortunately I am a fan of a few mainstream acts. Particularly, I'm a bit of a fiend for The Beatles (and their solo work). Outside of a few hyper-specific releases I've picked up online, I like to keep their catalogs reserved for the shops so I have something to look for! Also Tame Impala, whom I don't bother pre-ordering because his stuff will inevitably be stocked at even Walmart, so I never worry about securing a copy.