I organized my CD collection today, which is over 600. They are in boxes in my shed, as is usual for my collections. I had some thoughts about it. It is mostly Euro style heavy metal, with just a few other things. I like special editions and imports. Usually, the Japanese prints have bonus tracks. So there are a lot of CDs where I have multiple copies of the same album. I might have a US, Japanese, Korean, or Russian copy. I think Iron Maiden is the biggest part of my collection, with over 50 CDs. I have an album from Dragon Lord that I ordered from Germany. I was scouring the internet for a couple years looking for that album, and found it in the inventory of some store in Germany. There is a band called Aethra which does not have a label. But they self published an album and made 300 copies. I got a personalized autographed copy. That's my proudest CD. I have every Gwar album. Last year I got a back stage pass to see them. I got all their autographs. I like going to concerts and getting autographs. Most of my collection comes from Napalm Records or Nuclear Blast. They have special box sets and LPs. I'm a sucker for special edition stuff. Why do bands make live albums? Some of the live albums I have are pretty good, but for the most part I'd rather listen to the studio version. 

Maybe some day I will lay everything out and take pictures. That's about all the rambling I have for now.