Filing CDs Geographically - C or D?

don't answer that...

What I want to know is - does this guy split up the albums by a group that moves to live somewhere else?

I mean, Bob Mould has put out records while living in Minnesota, NYC, DC, and Austin. Does he split all that up?

(I finally decided that Talk Talk should go before Talking Heads-- but which should come first: Fear of Music or Talking Heads '77 (AKA '77)... argh.

Does he file by latitude first and then longtitude?
West to east and then north to south?
Does he look at the town that a band / artist comes from, or just the country?
Does he go strictly by lines and degrees of laltitude or just by time zone - and if so, what happens where a country falls across more than one time zone or where a country changes it's reference time during the year or where two countries on the same latitude observe different local customs regarding time zones?
How does he determine where a band comes from if the individual members come from different towns, countries or even continents?
Doesn't it all get horribly messy when he owns things from two completely different continents which happen to lie on the same latitude / longtitude and they all (presumably) end up intermingled?
Where does he start? If he uses zero latitude and proceeds strictly from west to east, wouldn't / doesn't it piss him off that he ends up with Siouxsie & The Banshees, Generation X and the Cockney Rejects in the top left hand corner of his collection and Alternative TV, The Clash The Damned and Sex Pistols on the bottom right (although on the positive side, this method would certainly settle any disputes about whether Sham 69 were really cockneys or not once and for all!)?
Similarly of course music from most of France and Spain and Algeria would be mixed in with Siouxsie and Generation X in the top left hand corner while music from Portugal and Morocco would be intermingled with The Clash and Sex Pistols on the bottom right.

Chicks eh? Tchah! Who can fathom the way their pretty, pink, fluffy little air-filled minds work?

I used to do it according to genre.

although my vinyl are not ordered at all... which can make for some fun listening.

Alphabetical by band / artist name then chronological within each individual band / artist has always seemed the simplest and most obviously rational approach.

-chronological, by date of release
-chronological, by date of recording
-ordered by sales (total number of units sold)
-ordered by length (running time)

* By the color of the graphics on the disc (which can't be seen without opening the case).
* By UPC code.
* By label alphabetically, and then in order by catalog number.
* By the day of the week that you purchased the cd on.
* By number of the tracks on the disc.

Good heavens no, not the kitchen! If you start putting them in there, the missus might notice how they keep growing and accumulating which in turn mught lead to her starting to ask all sorts of awkward and unpleasant questions about how much money's being spent acquiring them while the kids are walking the streets barefoot in rags begging for food!

Then you wouldn't have all those identical-looking live Pearl Jam cds sitting together...

And their 12-disk CD collections!

I filed by genre and sound within genre many years ago and noticed that it did seem to separate by geography - LA punk was different than NY punk, which was different than UK punk, likewise with prog. I did put Pere Ubu in the "arty UK post-punk" section, mostly just to convince myself I wasn't doing a stupid file-by-geography thing.

Now I file by the someday-I-will-implement-a-real-system method, which is just piling stuff up on every available flat surface.

there's a warehouse-size bookstore near where my parents live in massachusetts that files everything by name of publisher. it's rather annoying if you're looking for one particular book. but if you just want to look around, it's kinda fantastic.