Vinyl records . Keep ...or sell

UncleZen

I'm really loath to loose my 350+ vinyl LP's, even though I dont play them, I have ripped many and listen to sideA.mp3 and sideB.mp3 on my phone!

fwor

As others have said, it may be fashionable at the moment, but eventually the novelty will fade and people will realise why we stopped using it the first time round: a medium that's hard to keep clean due to static, easily damaged, which wears away every time you play it and which is a faff if you want to access tracks in a random order.

At some point it will go back to being of appeal to a tiny minority, and then only immaculate vinyl will sell, in small quantities...

another_casualty

Thanks a lot for your input
I've decided to keep them ..for now
I do have a fair size collection . In the hundreds anyhow .

It was nice to see some of your musical tastes there also:rotfl:

May as well tell you a ( fairly ) brief info on musical tastes, bargains etc. while we are here .

In a way , I became a little bit of a collector ,when I started buying stuff in the mid- late '70s . That basically happened because when buying hawkwind albums and the like , the ones purchased in the shop never had the inner sleeves etc and the sound quality never seemed to be as good as the original . Original black sabbath with the box covers etc were better when they first came out .

I shifted to iron maiden and saw them a few times before their first album came out . I bought the SoundHouse tapes ep via post for about £1.40 when it came out . When I fell on very hard times back in 2016, I sold it for £375.00 . I don't bother with 7" singles now and in a way I was glad I sold it , as a few of my albums got lost when I moved home about 2 years ago . I had iron maiden pic discs but sold them at the right time imho as a lot of their stuff is reissued anyway.
Rarest thing I ever bought ( and sold :eek:) , Metallica jump in the fire 12" white label . Test pressing . Bought in Camden market on a cloudy Saturday morning for £1.20 on a stall outside.
I met them in shades records in 1985( nearly got sacked as I had over extended lunch break) . They all signed it , including cliff burton who is no longer with us , hence the rarity. I bought a poster at shades at the time which they also signed . Anyway , I sold them for over £1,000. What I did do though , was photograph them so I still have a record of the memories .

I have a tangerine dream box set , which has never been reissued despite being on virgin records . So the only way to get it is on vinyl .
I have various 12" from prong and faith no more and vinyl from Celtic frost . I met Alice Cooper back in 85 and he signed a pic disc . I was wondering why he was so miserable . It turns out he nearly died when I saw him at Wembley a week before .:rotfl:

Some music is best on cd such as tangerine dream / jean michel jarre / Pete namlook etc . No crackles .

I'll leave it there for now

another_casualty

googler wrote: »

Darn, I should have thought of that line....

OP, if you have an original Led Zeppelin 1, a first pressing, I'll give you £30 for it.....

Ah well, one of my brothers had it . Sorry :rotfl:

Jimmithecat

I decided at the end of this summer to sell my 300+ vinyl records.
I typed out a list and sent it to 6 big dealers that I found through google. Only one called to ask further questions and even then didn’t follow it up.
I then decided to follow it through the ebay route.
I bought some custom packaging https://www.lilpackaging.com/vinyl-record-postal-packaging-stiff-12-lp-record-mailer-vinyl-mailers
And started posting them in sets or individually.
I had a great response - all of them were in great condition and so quite a few buyers came back for more.
It took a few months but now all but 10 records went - I’m happy the vinyl that I saved so hard to buy 30-40 years ago is being appreciated, i’ve Made some decent cash and I’m quite happy with Spotify now.

fwor

Jimmithecat wrote: »

I bought some custom packaging

This was the one bit that wouldn't have worked for me. If the cheapest tracked shipping you can offer is £2.99, your shipping costs look crazy if you have to buy custom packaging as well (bearing in mind that on Ebay you have to add 10% to your actual shipping and packaging costs, just to break even). Fine if all your vinyl is selling for £20+, but no good if most is going at £4.99.

Good DIY packaging isn't hard - one flat piece of solid cardboard, eight cuts, four folds and two blobs of hot melt glue. But it takes time, of course...

Pikeyp

I've still got all my old LP's from the 70's , and I'm still buying today! ... not about to stop anytime soon!

Spinning this right now ... https://www.discogs.com/Roine-Stolts-The-Flower-King-Manifesto-Of-An-Alchemist/release/12836638

Keep 'em ...