Rant #2,534: You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)

Running out of space … running out of ideas … running out of time.
 
As you know because I have told you countless times, I have about 10,000 records in my collection.
 
We are talking vinyl records here—45s and LPs—and that does not include all the cassette tapes and CDs that I have too.
 
No, I don’t have any reel to reels; somehow, those eluded me.
 
Anyway, I have most of my records in my daughter’s old bedroom, the same place that I have the desktop computer that I type my daily Rants on and where I do my remote work.
 
Most of them are on bookshelves, with the operative word being “book.”
 
These shelves are not designed for records, but I have made as good a fit as possible for my albums. They do constantly fall off the shelves, but I do the best that I can with them.
 
My 45s are securely tucked away in heavy plastic cases—eight of them—which are against the wall all around the room, and there is plenty of room to add more singles to those receptacles, so I am not worried about them at all.
 
What I am worried are the LPs, a source of consternation for me for years.

 
As the photo I have put up here attests to, I have a few hundred LPs laying on the floor of the room in piles, fully alphabetized and ready to go … somewhere.
 
I simply do not know where to put them.
 
There is no more room on the shelves, and the shelves, as I said, are so unfriendly to LPs that if I even tried to jam them onto the shelves, they would probably force other albums to fall off the shelves (I have tried).
 
So what do I do with these albums that have been sitting on the floor for months and years?
 
I have investigated numerous solutions, including more shelving, custom-made album holders … you name it, I have looked into it.
 
Then the other day, as I was surfing the Web to look for more solutions, I found something that was revolutionary to me, something I had never seen before.
 
It is a revolving LP rack, one that can hold up to 400 LPs.

 
Patterned after revolving CD holders that became popular in the 1980s and 1990s when CDs reached their peak of trendiness, this unit is, of course, much larger than the one that holds CDs, but the idea is the same: have an area for hundreds of LPs in one unit, one that revolves so that it does not take up as much space as, say, another series of shelves.
 
And since it is specifically made for albums, there is no way that they are going to fall out on the floor like my current setup is prone to do.
 
The unit must be ordered online, it needs to be put together, and it is kind of pricey at $199, not including shipping and handling.
 
I am seriously thinking about purchasing it, because these records simply cannot lay on the floor like they do, and it would force me to clean up the room in its entirety, because I have other things on the floor, and quite frankly, there is no room to walk in the room, just to jump over things.
 
Putting it together is another problem.
 
I have never been the handiest person in the world, and putting this together could cause some problems. Heck, the computer desk that my computer is on in that room was put together by my wife, and I would not want to burden her with another task like that, and she already told me that she probably doesn’t have the patience to put another such thing together.
 
I guess I could get our regular handyman to put it together. We just had him over to paint our ceiling in part of the house, and he also put together my wife’s gym equipment that we have in the house, so I am sure he could do it.
 
I just have to make a decision as quickly as possible, decide whether I want to spend what will be more than $200 to purchase this thing and get moving on this project.
 
I have included the link to a real short video on this unit, at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrnsA1NAKvg
 
What do you think?
 
Do you think I should pull the string and get this unit?
 
Let me hear from you, because right now, I am kind of going back and forth on this in my head, and yes,
 
My head is spinning around like a record … 33, 45, 78 and yes, even 12 (remember them?)
 
I need some guidance and advice.
 
What do you think?