I forget where I was, but I once wandered into a record store somewhere... and for some reason I think it was down south, maybe in New Orleans, or it could have been Texas... anyway, they had everything, ALL genres, mixed together. I don't think they sold classical stuff, it was all rock/jazz/soul/R&B/country/punk/reggae/funk/pop and that (including a good chunk of garage shit), but it was all sorted A-Z. I felt not having to keep darting around the store for different sections very liberating. It was awesome just to start at the A's and start flipping through the records and having every genre right there at your fingertips.
Doc Sanchez said:
Oh man, I know too well what you're talking about, and I really must stop myself from thinking about all this. Or as Leonard Cohen puts it: "If these thoughts interest you for even a moment, you're lost".
Actually, I don't file my records alphabetically, but rather roughly by genre, and there by preferences, or how the groups somehow go together (from the players, labels, producers or just how they sound) so I just can take all records from here to there when I DJ, and I know it will roughly fit. The single artists are sorted by date.
But Jesus, if I even start thinking about filing them alphabetically by artist, I wouldn't find any sleep no more...