Category: Catalog Item For Sale At The Thingery

Help me not overthink this but the entire record industry has organized records wrong for all of its existence.

Look anywhere, and they’re organized alphabetically by artist. They might be categorized by genre on the store shelves but anywhere else they’re not because why would they be?

With that in mind, we are reworking our store catalog within the record album category to be organized by date, at least by decade (for the time being because we have such a tiny selection).

That’s strictly because our admin likes to think about the date while he’s playing the record. He just got done with a (skipping) Billy Joel album he’d never heard because it was released the year his son was born.

But I digress. Music record albums (or any record albums for that matter) are a snapshot that includes time as one of their main dimensions. They’re blogs from several decades before when we thought of those.

So we’ve got new categories like: Record Albums 1960-1969, and those are still alphabetical by artist, last name first.

Think about it: I personally wouldn’t be caught dead listening in the 80s, with a few exceptions that occur if you want to keep your Grateful Dead catalog complete, but show me a 70s category and I’ll dive right in. More specifically, show me a 1969 category and I’ll dive right in but that’s the general idea, we don’t have one of those yet.

We hope the little bit of re-disorganization will be useful to our browsers, and like we have since 1987, we’ll keep thinking about genres.

Record Part Of The Catalog (click here)