Shelfy help needed

[venta]

I need to get some shelves on which to store that part of my CD collection[*] which doesn't fit into the tower I bought it last year.

Can anyone recommend (preferably inexpensive) shelves which will do the following:

(a) fix securely to a flimsy wall.
(Yes, it's an outside, and alledgedly load-bearing, wall. Sadly, our house was built by nutters who thought swiss cheese was a valid alternative to brick)

(b) for related reasons, be reasonably light

(c) give good CD-storage for amount-of-wall-covered.
(I'm currently 80 CDs worth of shelf space under the odds...)

[*] Sadly, plans to nail the CDs directly to the wall, glue them to the ceiling, or otherwise cause them to hover above the stereo have all had to be dismissed as unworkable.

Comments

[mr-tom.livejournal.com]

Ikea is your friend - they have thousands of dead cheap freestanding shelving units that you can brace to the wall if needs be, and even have the decency to cut them to standard CD/book/DVD/vinyl sizes. :-)

But it does mean that your flat will look like every other 20something's flat. :-)

[wimble.livejournal.com]

I have my old CD storage boxes, which have screw holes for wall mounting (although I never did). You're welcome to them.
They're the "modular system" variety: 10 CDs to a box, with seperators between (so they're not quite as small as they might be). But you can arrange them in whatever interesting pattern you like.

Tree

[leathellin.livejournal.com]

The wooden racks I have from Virgin are very light and don't have any dividers so take any thickness CD case and don't waste space. They don't look like horrible plastic either.
They are also cheap... Don't come with wall attachers but it should be easy enough.

Well, from the tacky-as-all-hell corner

[condign.livejournal.com]

I'd say I actually prefer Argos's stuff to Ikea. Not that it's any better, but it's cheaper, sometimes as good, and not any more tacky than Ikea.

Me, I'm one of those musical philistines that likes the music but figures the packaging is all marketing artwork made to get you to buy into the whole 'artistic image' thing. The vast majority of my collection rests in two carrying-cases, leaving me with a lot of jewel boxes that I use/give away/throw away. The reduction in space that results (important to those of us who move alot) is amazing.

You live with Mr. 'I'm a Refugee from a DIY Show Like Big Strong Guys or Changing Rooms' Tool Guy, though--couldn't you get him to buy you some material and make you some shelves?