The IRL 7x7 last.fm collage

[05-04-2025]

A little while back I've noticed that my CD collection has become comprehensive enough that I own copies of all my 50 most listened to albums as tracked by last.fm since I started using it in 2017. So of course I had to make it, the IRL 7x7 last.fm collage. The final one missing was technically Pascow's Jade, but only because I had gifted my copy to my partner's parents and didn't rebuy it for a while. Belvedere's Fast Forward Eats the Tape was the final true new entry into my collection, and having found a copy of that album was kind of a miracle (I even once had a dream of buying a copy of it on ebay). Most of these are pretty straight forward, just regular albums you can buy at any retailer, but a good number of them are very much out of print and pretty highly sought after, some are indie releases without distribution that had to be imported directly from the bands/labels or bought at the merch table at a concert, or even indie releases without distribution that are ALSO out of print (Sonic Boom Six's City of Thieves now most definitely being the hardest one to find out of this photo). This represents only a small portion of my collection but I think this is a great milestone to hit for someone who both collects physical releases and uses last.fm.

The albums shown in the photo are:

Chumbawamba - WYSIWYG / Streetlight Manifesto - Somewhere in the Between / Chumbawamba - Anarchy / Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante / Pascow - Jade / Streetlight Manifesto - Everything Goes Numb / Propagandhi - Supporting Caste

Chumbawamba - Tubthumper / Pascow - Sieben / Propagandhi - Failed States / Future of the Left - The Plot Against Common Sense / Chumbawamba - Un / Linkin Park - A Thousand Suns / Sonic Boom Six - City of Thieves

Chumbawamba - The Boy Bands Have Won / Streetlight Manifesto - The Hands That Thieve / Q and Not U - Power / Chumbawamba - First 2 (standing in for Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records, which did not get a CD release but is included on this compilation) / Propagandhi - Today's Empires, Tomorrow's Ashes / Belvedere - Fast Forward Eats the Tape / Hans Gruber and the Die Hards - With a Vengeance

Refused - The Shape of Punk to Come / Die Ärzte - Runter mit den Spendierhosen, Unsichtbarer! / Popes of Chillitown - Work Hard, Play Hard, See You in the Graveyard / Rx Bandits - ...and the Battle Begun / Propagandhi - Victory Lap / Die Ärzte - Geräusch / Nomeansno - Wrong

Die Ärzte - 13 / System of a Down - Steal This Album! / Die Ärzte - BäST OF / Idles - Brutalism / Adam Angst - Neintology / Chumbawamba - Shhh / Against Me! - As the Eternal Cowboy

Chumbawamba - Readymades / Sonic Boom Six - Sonic Boom Six / Chumbawamba - Swingin' with Raymond / Enter Shikari - Nothing Is True and Everything Is Possible / Lagwagon - Let's Talk About Feelings / Turnstile - GLOW ON / Propagandhi - At Peace

System of a Down - Toxicity / My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge / Bad Religion - The Process of Belief / AJJ - Knife Man / Call Me Malcolm - I Was Broken When You Got Here / System of a Down - Mezmerize / Lagwagon - Double Plaidinum