Sore back today from moving mountains of records in preparation for transplanting my office downstairs and turning what is currently my office into the baby room. I really wish I would have picked a more lightweight hobby when I took up record (vinyl) collecting oh so many years ago. I’m terribly torn as to how much longer I want to continue to haul around these hefty slabs of wax. Frankly, they just don’t get appreciated or for that matter listened to enough to warrant the real-estate they consume. With the simplicity and efficiency of digital music not to mention the small footprint those files take up (my external hard-drive is not even 1/2 a square foot), it’s almost impossible to justify the continued presence of vinyl. I’m sure there are hundreds of records I own that I don’t have digital files for yet. On the other hand, the sheer number of digital songs that I have instantly available (my iTunes tells me that I have 73.7 days worth of music to listen to!) is a poignant and prophetic indicator that I will always have WAY more music then I have time to listen. So the question of the day remains; what to do with all these damn records?