How large is your U2 CD collection??

[Achtung Zooropa]

68 official CDs/Singles
19 Bootlegs
2 DVDs
7 VHS
10 Vinyl Albums/Singles
3 Ticket stubs
4 Postcards
4 Pins
7 Shirts (they're all I wear!)
1 Beanie
2 Books
Many magazines featuring U2

I spend way too much money, but I'm addicted. In fact I spent $30 on U2 today. I'm a maniac.

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"I swore to my father I'd never do hamster-style again."

"looking for the sound thats gonna drown out the world
looking for the father of my two little girls
got the swing got the sway got my straw in lemonade
looking for the face i had before the world was made." - MOFO

 

[UnforgettableLemon]

i just gotz the greatest hizitz cuz thats ally ouneeed right guyz? there just onehit wounders anyawy.

 

[Blue Room]

U2please, the 11-18-87 LA soundboard is not a rarity.

 

[achtung__baby]

Have filled an entire CD crate with singles and albums, and imports.

As for mp3s and stuff - have no idea but I certainly ran up a huge phone bill downloading them!

 

[U2please]

Blue Room: Yeah, I know-- I was just kidding. I actually have about 120 U2 CD's.

 

[Ace Rimmer]

About 80 - 90 bootlegs

Most of their albums

Some VCDs

some CD singles, some 7" singles

5 videos

and a bono in a pear tree

Too many choices

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Smoke me a kipper
Ill be back for breakfast

 

[annalivia]

All "official" albums, 17 Maxi CDs and about 45 boots.

annalivia

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"I'm a singer. You know what a singer is? Someone with a hole in his heart as big as his ego.
When you need 20,000 people screaming your name in order to feel good about your day,
you know you're a singer."
Bono's Harvard address, June 2001

 

[Jayhawk]

I think I have around 175-200 live U2 recordings now. Maybe a bit less, I am not for sure. I am always up for a trade too. ultraviolet_j@yahoo.com

Ace Rimmer...email me soon. I have that Elevation KC show for you but I don't know your mailing address. Thanks.

 

[mad1]

Lets see, ok Video Collection wise every U2 video except Under A Blood Live and Elevation


CD wise

every cd except Boy and War..............

unfort early U2 music does not interest me, as more from Unforg has........grew up becoming more in focus of those songs and being more aware of them than early ones.............

 

[welshigirl]

Got all abums EXEPT for Rattle&Hum

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Blood Group...U2 POSITIVE

 

[Sperber]

Hmmm, I have

-All the albums including MDH, Melon and Hasta la vista...

-around 30 singles (mostly 90?s)

-only 8 bootlegs

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

Originally posted by Blue Room:
The topic speaks for itself. I'am trying to gauge where I stand as far as collecting non mp3 sourced CDR's. SHN converted CDR's DO count also as there is no loss of info or quality.

question: how can you tell whether a cdr is of mp3 source or not, when it has been burned as an audio-cd of course?
question2: where do you get all these non-mp3 sourced concerts? trading over trhe internet?
question3: what is the difference between a silver disc and a cdr; and, if there is any, how can you distinct one from the other (apart from the letter cdr on the disc itself of course)?

btw, i have all official cds and 53 cd singles and silver disk cocnert cds of all tours from uf. + official melon and 3 fruitlegs (silver disks).
and also a couple of cdrs. but i burned them myself from mp3 and that doesnt count i believe (however, i doubt even blue room has any silver disk recording of any 80s tour that has the same sound quality as my mp3-sourced beautiful night in cleveland discs)


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~stadtmueller

[This message has been edited by Flaming Friar Sr (edited 02-15-2002).]

[This message has been edited by Flaming Friar Sr (edited 02-17-2002).]

 

[Blue Room]

Silver discs are pressed at a factory directly from the master recording just like the commercial release of ATCYLB would be. You can tell as they will most likely have the label pressed right onto the CD. The entire CD is silver in color. CDR's are typically have some type of hue to them on the burn side and generally have a brand name (Memorex, TDK, etc) on them someplace. The only major difference is that silver CD's tend not to scatch as easily as CDR's do. Because they were and are more expensive to create and you can get the same quality by burning on a CDR the era of silver CD's is pretty much gone for bootlegs. They were always way overpriced anyway. But before the internet and home CD burning there was no place else to get them.

It is fairly easy to tell if something is mp3 sourced. We had this debate before on Interference and it was a fairly heated one. I can typically here the loss in quality on an mp3, there typically is not as much high end clarity on the recording. Some people say they cant tell a difference. Personally I can on most recordings. Also an mp3 sourced show will have clicks or gaps between the tracks.

As far as getting non mp3 sourced material it is fairly easy. You can go to webrings like the U2 CDR bootleg webring and generate trades there. We have had several threads here also that have served to drum up non mp3 trades. Alot of people will do blanks and postage to get newbies started if you dont have anything. I have helped out several people here on Interference get started.



[This message has been edited by Blue Room (edited 02-15-2002).]

 

[zooropamanda]

this big

 

[CrashedCarDriver]

not all that big actually

just all the LPs

3 full length burned CDs worth of B-sides

and singles of


wild horses
sweetest thing
beautiful day *2
elevation *2
walk on *3
stuck in a moment *2

thats it

 

[Flaming Friar Sr]

thanks blue room

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~stadtmueller

 

[AlanPARTRIDGE]

553 Shows on CDR (including the full Elevation, Popmart, ZooTV and Joshua Tree tours)

All commercial releases and all 90s singles and videos.