so, here is the discogs site, which will come up soon as one of the sites on the side, along with the koala oversight committee, deathtokoalas and this politics-oriented blog:
it's important to note that i'm using discogs to be as specific as i can be about exact release information. so, for example, stone flower is listed as 1990, because it was remastered in 1990. my cd that i own is from 1990. but, the lp was first released in 1970 and it's listed as a 1970 release elsewhere. the discogs site is not a straight mirror, it contains precise release data for my exact cd collection.
most people will want to click on the album covers only toggle on the top right, but if you click the lists you'll see the detailed notes i've been preparing. so far, according to discogs, the total value of the 36 cds i've documented is $970 cdn. some of them are only worth $10-15 and some of them are worth around $150, to somebody, apparently. the cds are picked randomly out of my collection. i have at least 500 cds here. if that is a representative sample, my cd collection might be worth as much as $15,000.
there are not a lot of items that were expensive for me to buy, and these aren't for sale. it's just that i have collected decades worth of obscure releases, and it's added up. many of the cds that i bought new for the normal price of a cd have gone out of print, but the fact that so many of them are notable and retain audiences means the prices have gone up.
the most valuable items in the list, both worth over $100 cdn, are a 1984 cd pressing of talking heads' remain in light (that i bought at a garage sale for nothing) and the out of print nine inch nails cd i special ordered in jan, 2002 directly from trent reznor, called still, halo 17b. they're not for sale. there's several more selling for over $50 cdn and a bunch selling for more than $30. it just adds up, because it's a collection full of obscure releases, all of which somebody somewhere would pay a lot for.
there is another link there to "lists". this contains lists to record labels on discogs.
i have three sites i've updated at the deathtokoalas blog:
chronological list: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/chronological-music-list.html
label lists: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/label-list.html
alphabetical list: https://deathtokoalas.blogspot.com/p/music-list.html
those three lists hyperlink to each other.
i have already fallen back to 147.0, which is good news. i will likely eat my last salad tomorrow morning and order some things soon. i need to stop to clean myself, as planned, which is overdue.
i also need to finish updating the following list before i put this down and build a skeleton for the books, and then get back to what i was doing in the front: