Anyone on here interested in old vinyl?

[rz]

To me they're all worth the same... nothing. Scratchy, took up a lot of room, skips, pops, etc. My wife still has a few albums she refused to get rid of and a turntable. She hasn't listened to any of them in probably at least 20 years. She has a bunch of cassettes too.

[NewtonMP2100]

...but no 8-tracks.....??

[Fritz]

My brother and I have pant-loads of vinyl all in storage. We use to buy and sell (mostly rnr and r&b) until the age of CDs. Then most vinyl became worthless till the kids discovered it again.
Still, most places might offer a buck a piece unless it's very obscure.

I set up my old Philips and Ortofon last year with the intention of digitizing those LPs what haven't made it to CDs, or if they have, they were made from EQ masters that sound like ...
But mostly I listen to modern rips of properly remastered LPs.

There is something intrinsically wonderful about LPs and 45s.

[voodoopenguin]

There is some very collectable vinyl out there.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Records/17698...?_from=R40&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=NR134FG&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&LH_Complete=1&_fosrp=1&_nkw=lp&_sop=3

Paul

[mikebw]

OK, so he says about 75-100 albums from the 70s-80s, some boxed classical. Nothing more specific.

[pdq]

voodoopenguin wrote:
There is some very collectable vinyl out there.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/Records/17698...?_from=R40&LH_Sold=1&_udlo=&_udhi=&_samilow=&_samihi=&_sadis=15&_stpos=NR134FG&_dmd=1&_ipg=200&LH_Complete=1&_fosrp=1&_nkw=lp&_sop=3

Paul

Yikes. And those are sold prices.

[voodoopenguin]

As mentioned here a year or two back I did start to cull my vast collection. I intended to start by moving on LPs that had come to me accidentally as in job lots that had one or two I wanted or, in the case of the first one I sold, ones left in apartments I rented when a lot younger. The LP in question was Nick Drake's 'Five Leaves Left' which I found very pleasant listening but was not really part of my vinyl collecting history so would be happy with buying via iTunes. Looked up possible values and found that sold prices varied enormously so further investigation revealed that the initial releases had misprints to labels and sleeves and these were worth a lot more. Turned out the one I had was one of these early ones and it sold on eBay for £447.00.

Paul

[davester]

rz wrote:
To me they're all worth the same... nothing. Scratchy, took up a lot of room, skips, pops, etc.

That's only if you abused them. I always have taken good care of my albums and with very few exceptions they still sound great. No scratchiness, skips or pops.

[voodoopenguin]

davester wrote:
[quote=rz]
To me they're all worth the same... nothing. Scratchy, took up a lot of room, skips, pops, etc.

That's only if you abused them. I always have taken good care of my albums and with very few exceptions they still sound great. No scratchiness, skips or pops.
Same here. I was very happy to lend music to friends in the decades before the internet but never would lend out a record. If they wanted to listen to music I would tape a copy for them.

Paul

[deckeda]

Thanks for remembering me, hal. Yeah I like LPs but am not currently in Collecting Mode necessarily.

My advice, mikebw:

For a quick sale, sell them as a "lot" on social media (Facebook is best) and craigslist. Advertise or accept a price nearly zero, if not zero. Or just truck them to your nearest used record store and accept even less.

If you'd like a project, and more money, list them on Discogs and just let them sit there so long as you have safe storage for them. Collectors looking for something will search Discogs as well as eBay and local sales, except unlike eBay and local listings, what you have available won't quickly be forgotten/lost.

Discogs is a fantastic (and free) site to keep a database for what you have, and tag items as being for sale, or not.