Rob’s Minor Annoyance of the Week: Records Filed Alphabetically Back to Front

Have you ever been shopping for records (or CDs) where the discs are filed alphabetically from back to front? That is just wrong. Makes me a little dizzy. When flipping through records from front to back, Talking Heads should come before U2; Flaming Lips should come before Guns N’ Roses; Prince should come before Queen. The picture on the right is the correct way to do it!

I guess that if you were looking at the same records by looking at their spines in bookshelf fashion, the records would have to be reversed. Maybe that is why some places file them in this backwards way. They organize them in the back room in bookshelf fashion and then bring them out to the store floor.

While I’m on the subject, here’s one more pet peeve; record store filing folks should know enough about music artists to be able to distinguish a band name from a person’s name. This one place that I go always has Jethro Tull records filed in the T’s. It’s a band, not a person. There’s no Jethro dude, dude!

“By the way, which one’s Pink?”