Albums You Own In The Most Formats

[rcarlberg]

How about this:

How many formats do you own of certain albums? For DSOTM I can claim:

• LP
• Cassette
• CD (a few different mixes!)
• SACD
• DVD

[Dave (in MA)]

I guess KC is where I'm guilty of this.

Poseidon, Lark's, Islands - vinyl, 30th CD, 40th CD/DVD
Lark's - vinyl, 30th CD, 40th CD, Lark's BOX
Starless - 30th CD, 40th CD, Starless BOX
Red - vinyl, CD, 40th CD/DVD, Road To Red BOX ... The "CD" version should have been the 30th but certain people can't follow specific directions in a wish list, so I got the '89 instead of the '01.
USA - vinyl, 30th CD, and the both of these repeated on the Road To Red DVD and BluRay

There's probably a bunch of Zappa that I've got 3 copies of, too.

Tull:

TAAB, vinyl, standard CD, box


I own zero copies of DSOTM.

[arturs]

I guess KC is where I'm guilty of this.
Lark's - vinyl, 30th CD, 40th CD, Lark's BOX
.

I think Larks is the one for me: vinyl, pre-recorded cassette, Definitive Edition CD (gave this away when I bought ==>) 30th Ann. gatefold, 40th Ann. cd/dvd.

[mozo-pg]

I have multiple CDs for a several artists, especially Genesis - Altantic Gold Series, full Japan mini-LP CDs (two separate versions), the standard U.S. Boxes, the original CDs releases, regular CD releases, etc.

[PeterG]

I have very few albums on more than one format. BUT, I know that the only album that I have on three formats is Cardiacs - On Land and in the Sea, on original MC, LP, and CD, and purchased in that order. And those I have on two formats are mostly MC and LP, for example, Sleeps With Angels, and The Division Bell to name just two. As for different official issues, the only album I have different official issues of is DSOTM - original vinyl, 40th anno box, and the version in the Shine On box.

[bob_32_116]

The only albums I own in three formats are, oddly enough, both by Brazilian artists:

Gilberto Gil - Realce
Beto Guedes - Amor de indio

I bought the LPs in Rio in 1980. I recorded them to cassette soon after, and for many years that has been my only means of listening to them.

This year I finally managed to get CD copies of both - the former as part of a 5-CD box set.

[Gruno]

I have quite a few in these 4 formats:

• 8-track
• LP
• Cassette
• CD


I have a couple in these 4 formats:

• LP
• Cassette
• CD
• Minidisc


I have a couple in these 4 formats:

• LP
• Cassette
• CD
• DTS 5.1


I have some KISS titles that cover these 5 formats:

• 8-track
• LP
• Cassette
• CD
• Hi Res Digital

[Trane]

I've only bought two pre-recorded cassettes and two 45-rpms...

All the rest I have are vinyls and CDs (a fair bit of the albums I own in duplicate come in this case)

oh yeah, I own one or two SACD (bought on purpose) and accidently a few DVD-A (through different boxsets - like the green Benesis boxset, for ex)

[Zeuhlmate]

Anybody has DAT ?
That was a good sounding format !
But both the media and the players/recorders were expensive.

[Trane]

Anybody has DAT ?
That was a good sounding format !
But both the media and the players/recorders were expensive.

were DAT ever marketed and available as pre-recorded albums like cassettes??

Not to my knowledge, anyways

[Poisoned Youth]

I guess if I mention MP3 as a format, you'll take away my audiophile card.

Anyway, I sold off any vinyl I had years ago (with a few vinyl only selections excepted). But if we expand to include what we don't own any longer, one of the first that comes to mind was Queen - Night at the Opera which I had in vinyl, cassette, CD, and MP3.

Anything else would probably max out at 3 formats as I rarely had anything on both vinyl and cassette. And typically if I bought a remastered version of a CD, I would sell my previous CD version on eBay or Amazon (much to Mr. Carney's delight!).

[at least 100 dead]

I guess KC is where I'm guilty of this.

Poseidon, Lark's, Islands - vinyl, 30th CD, 40th CD/DVD
Lark's - vinyl, 30th CD, 40th CD, Lark's BOX
Starless - 30th CD, 40th CD, Starless BOX
Red - vinyl, CD, 40th CD/DVD, Road To Red BOXUSA - vinyl, 30th CD, and the both of these repeated on the Road To Red DVD and BluRay

Same here (except I even have some titles on cassette).

Hey, that ought to entitle us to take pictures of Robert Fripp and "The Minx" whenever we feel like it!

[PeterG]

Anybody has DAT ?

DAT was never used as a format to release pre-recorded albums. DCC was and so was MC, albeit for probably less than a 100 albums each. But not DAT. Apart from home recording use DAT was really intended as a studio recording format to then use to make master CDs; at least in the London studios my band recorded/mixed/made CDs.

[Brad to the Bone]

Except for LPs that come with a CD or download code I don't own anything in multiple formats. The few times I ever purchased something I already owned was to replace the previous copy, which was promptly discarded.