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Collector

Rich

/u/richCollecting since 2026
545
Total
298
Vinyl
239
CD
12
★ Grails
2026
Since
The Clerk's read on this shelf

This shelf is a textbook seventy-four-to-eighty-nine stadium rock stronghold built on massive guitar riffs, thunderous drum rooms, and heavy-hitting production credits that quietly hold the whole damn foundation together. You have thirty-nine Rolling Stones records alone, spanning from 1964 out to 1989, and while thirty-five studio albums are missing from that specific window, the twenty-four you actually own carry an ungodly amount of cultural weight. Then you pivot into sixteen Pink Floyd slabs and eighteen AC/DC records like it is nothing at all, cementing the seventies as your undisputed heavyweight champion decade with 229 pieces of wax. Bob Ludwig, George Marino, and the Johns brothers are practically living inside your sleeves, cutting lacquers and engineering the low end of your entire life without ever asking for rent. It is a loud, punchy, unapologetic collection of heavy hitters that refuses to apologize for its own sheer volume. Drop the needle, spin the heavy stuff, and let the neighbors deal with the fallout.

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Collection at a Glance

On the shelf
545 488 unique albums
Format mix
298 vinyl · 239 CD
Top genres
Rock · Metal · Alt/Indie · Soul & Funk
Last spin
Romance - 'Album of the Year' EditionFontaines D.C. · Jul 3
Grails
12 — including Back In Black, Highway To Hell, Untitled
Wantlist
41 records sought
Badges
34 earned
Member since
Apr 2026

The Clerk's take

The roast

Bob Ludwig mastered fifty-five of your fucking records.

FIFTY-FIVE. The man's initials are etched into your deadwax more times than your own mother's phone number and you've probably never even looked at the runout groove. Holy shit, that is a ghost haunting your entire stereo without a single thank you.

Today's read

Céline Dion, 1999, and Robert John Lange is all over it.

Céline Dion — All The Way... A Decade Of Song

The son of a bitch produced this and fourteen other records on your shelf, sliding right from stadium rock into absolute pop royalty with zero fucking hesitation. Lush, cinematic, massive tracks hitting you dead in the chest.

The win

Van Halen, eleven records deep, zero missing.

Every single studio album from 1978 right up to Balance in 1995 is sitting right there. The seventies dominate your whole vault with 229 records total, and that Van Halen run is an absolute motherfucking unit of a streak.

Buried treasure

Little Feat sitting at zero total spins.

Little Feat — Shake Me Up

Shake Me Up from 1991, you've owned it four months and touched it exactly fucking never. One Gatefold owner in the whole damn network and you're leaving it in the dark. Put the swampy, laid-back southern rock on the platter tonight.

The grails

The crown jewels — valued at VG+.

Vinyl
298
CD
239
Oldest pressing
1964

Top genres

Rock446
Metal27
Alt/Indie16
Blues10

Top artists

01The Rolling Stones39
02Led Zeppelin20
03AC/DC18
04Van Halen18

Stats for nerds

By decade
’70s230 RECORDS
  1. 2020s8
  2. 2010s13
  3. 2000s23
  4. 1990s103
  5. 1980s137
  6. 1970s230
  7. 1960s31
Top labels
  1. 1Columbia53
  2. 2Atlantic44
  3. 3Warner Bros. Records41
  4. 4Epic39
  5. 5Capitol Records36
Oldest pressing
The Rolling Stones — England's Newest Hit Makers
England's Newest Hit Makers
The Rolling Stones
1964
Newest pressing
Aerosmith — Aerosmith
Aerosmith
Aerosmith
2026
First in
Nektar — Remember The Future
Remember The Future
Nektar
Most recent
Queensrÿche — Greatest Hits
Greatest Hits
Queensrÿche

Badges 13

Tier 1
RSD Spinner
Spun a record on Record Store Day (3rd Saturday of April).
Tier 3
Five Figures Soon
Estimated median market value of your physical collection (Discogs VG+).
Tier 4
Crate Habit
Unique albums on your shelf. Two pressings of one album count once; streaming doesn't count.
Tier 4
Full Crate
Records in your collection where the format starts with Vinyl.
Tier 2
Hundred Discs
CDs, SACDs, DVDs, box sets — all the shiny stuff.
Tier 2
A Full Week
Longest consecutive days with a confirmed spin.
Tier 2
Real Heads
Records where you're the only Gatefold owner.
Tier 1
Side A
Total spins logged.
Tier 5
Omnivore
Distinct parent genres in your collection.
Tier 7
Long Run
Decades represented in your collection (1950s-2020s).
Tier 1
April 20
Spun a record on April 20.
Tier 1
Mother's Day Spinner
Spun a record on Mother's Day.
Tier 1
OG User
Joined Gatefold before May 1, 2026.

Unicorns 15

Albums where this collection is the only one on Gatefold.

Paul Hardcastle — Hardcastle
Hardcastle
Paul Hardcastle
James Ingram — Greatest Hits (The Power Of Great Music)
Greatest Hits (The Power Of Great Music)
James Ingram
Heart — Heart
Heart
Heart
Airborne — Airborne
Airborne
Airborne
Little Feat — Shake Me Up
Shake Me Up
Little Feat
Jon Anderson — The Promise Ring (Songs Of New Eireland)
The Promise Ring (Songs Of New Eireland)
Jon Anderson
Teddy Pendergrass — Truly Blessed
Truly Blessed
Teddy Pendergrass
Delbert McClinton — Never Been Rocked Enough
Never Been Rocked Enough
Delbert McClinton
Lynyrd Skynyrd — All Time Greatest Hits
All Time Greatest Hits
Lynyrd Skynyrd
Various — Classics At The Movies
Classics At The Movies
Various
Led Zeppelin — Profiled
Profiled
Led Zeppelin
Twisted Sister — Live At The Astoria
Live At The Astoria
Twisted Sister
Electric Light Orchestra Part II, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra — Performing ELO's Greatest Hits Live
Performing ELO's Greatest Hits Live
Electric Light Orchestra Part II, The Moscow Symphony Orchestra
Gláss — Accent
Accent
Gláss
Hootie & The Blowfish — Kootchypop
Kootchypop
Hootie & The Blowfish

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