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In Reply to: RE: I hate all the vinyl comeback stories posted by jsm71 on June 23, 2015 at 04:55:27
Same issue in my area- a BIG, multi-neighborhood "yard sale" (close to a 1000 homes) bringing their junk out onto their driveway and lawns, hoping to pass it on to someone else who will turn around and sell it next year...
Of the two dozen or so places I asked- no records. Not even any "we're holding onto them" stories. Most of the families around my area are too young to probably even know what a record is.
Although a few DID have Bose Wave Radios crankin' out the same three crappy FM classic rock stations playing the same 10 over-played songs...
Dman
Analog Junkie
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They will change there minds and let them go. When they find that most are worth no more then a buck on a good day and they have to love music and have to set up a system correctly to hear the sound of great music.
The worst is being lumped into the crowd(?) of people who are hanging on to LPs like you just started listening to LPs after all these years of sticking with LPs all your life. Its not a trend I know that LPs sound a certain way that is pleasing to me, just as tubes are not because someone wrote an article about said music.
I am a big-time yard sailor, go to estate sales and the flea market every week. Sure, there are folks who think their records are gold, but they are the minority. Most are thankful to get two-bucks each.
The exception is the Beatles ...even the two-buck guys want ten for those.
Dean.
reelsmith's axiom: Its going to be used equipment when I sell it, so it may as well be used equipment when I buy it.
About being lumped in with "that crowd" - I am way too old and unfashionable to be a hipster so the thought that I might be labelled a "hipster wannabe" is quite depressing.
Lps are worth at least 10 bucks ...maybe more!
nt
looky looky
A Work Buddy's wife owns a thrift store one town over. Told Work Buddy I collect records. The initial response was, "head on over there to her shop. She has a $5 Grab-Bag special every once in a while!"
I went up there, asked her if records counted on her Grab-Bag special. "Sure," she says. "I'm trying to get rid of them!" As a result, I scored a bunch of the Giants of Jazz series box sets, Toscanini Beethoven Box and a lot of other cool (to me) stuff.
A few weeks later, Work Buddy tells me that someone brought in some Elvis (including one like you have in your post!). He turned around and is/was trying to punt them off on eBay to the highest bidder (and actually selling them for the crazy amount he's asking).
He asks me why I haven't been around the thrift lately...
His wife no longer includes records in her $5/bag either...
Sigh...
Dman
Analog Junkie
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