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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 5:14 pm
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I'm sure I'm not the only one on this board who has still has LPs around (and listens to them). I just moved and need to come up with a good, somewhat reasonable and somewhat good looking (non-industrial) storage solution for my approx. 500 albums. What do you folks here on the board use? Please post pics if you have the time to take them. Thanks.
P.S. I plan to buy more!

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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:14 pm
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At first I was a little confused on what you were talking about. I thought LP stood for Les Paul haha. I guess its just the generation difference.


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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 6:59 pm
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They still make plastic milk carton crates that LPs will fit into, don't they? I never thought they looked that 'industrial'. I never heard of many college students that complain that they do, anyway.

I remember the old Peaches Record (LP) chain store selling wood crates made specifically for holding vinyl albums--but that had to have been at least 25 years ago! Anybody remember Peaches? I loved browsing there, it was wall to wall vinyl! That was the days....


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Posted: Thu Oct 02, 2008 9:15 pm
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I also vote for milk crates although I have all of mine on shelves at my current house. One thing though, if I had it to do over again I would keep them all in plastic sleeves. Mine have alot of shelf wear. Which sucks because I bought most of them used and they came in sleeves. I took them out so they would be easier to flip through. Bad decision.

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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 7:16 am
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Shelves?

Milk crates are fine if you're in a college dorm room or living in a house with a bunch of guys.

But they won't cut it if you're marriied or living with a woman. None that I've met anyhow.

I only have a couple hundred LP's, but they all fit quite nicely in a piece of furniture we have, it's a wooden cabinet-type thing about 4 or 5 feet tall by 7 or 8 feet long, with doors that close. The LP's are along the inside bottom shelf, then I have tapes, singles, and CD's is the higher shelves. The piece is old and/or antique so obviously not made as a record-storage piece. Don't have pics here at work though.


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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 1:57 pm
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Yup, milk crates were the first thing to jump into my head too. I have to agree though, the wife or significant other probably won't appreciate the throwback to college. Shouldn't cost to much to pick up some decent wood at the Home Depot and make a box and stain it. It wouldn't be a hard project, even if you're not naturally inclined.

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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:05 pm
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Brian Krashpad wrote:
Shelves?

OK, we'll call it a bookcase. :) Although my wife of 20 years loves me enough to let me have as many milk crates laying around the house as I want. :P It's no worse than all my music gear and surfboards cluttering up everything. I just have to leave room for a few doilies and afghans. ;)

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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 2:07 pm
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riversitter wrote:
Brian Krashpad wrote:
Shelves?

OK, we'll call it a bookcase. :) Although my wife of 20 years loves me enough to let me have as many milk crates laying around the house as I want. :P It's no worse than all my music gear and surfboards cluttering up everything. I just have to leave room for a few doilies and afghans. ;)


Luckily, dollies and afghans can be draped anywhere. That's a good woman you got there.

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Posted: Fri Oct 03, 2008 8:28 pm
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Brian Krashpad wrote:
Shelves?

Milk crates are fine if you're in a college dorm room or living in a house with a bunch of guys.

But they won't cut it if you're marriied or living with a woman. None that I've met anyhow.

I only have a couple hundred LP's, but they all fit quite nicely in a piece of furniture we have, it's a wooden cabinet-type thing about 4 or 5 feet tall by 7 or 8 feet long, with doors that close. The LP's are along the inside bottom shelf, then I have tapes, singles, and CD's is the higher shelves. The piece is old and/or antique so obviously not made as a record-storage piece. Don't have pics here at work though.


My view on relationships: Love me, love my stuff. Don't love my stuff? Well...so sad, too bad, buh-bye! I always thought it was funny that it's easier to get rid of bad stuff/junk than it is to get rid of a bad relationship.

I just realized from remembering what my parents had, some furniture used to be made expressly FOR LP storage, especially old 'console' units--but I don't think you'll find anything newer than '80's era. I have a old cabinet that I've been using for books, and I thought it looked funny, so I measured it tonight--turns out it's a double shelf cabinet made PRECISELY for 12" LP storage! Go figure.


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Posted: Mon Oct 06, 2008 6:03 am
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Here's the piece I was taking about:

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Brian Krashpad wrote:
Here's the piece I was taking about:

Hey that's nice. :D

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