Pruning the collection is only good if you can bite the buying beast in the butt and stop making choices that will inevitably end up in the discard pile.People love to buy records for the sake of buying records and i can add myself to that category.I am still cleaning,listening,keeping and discarding records i bought ten years ago,but the stacks are getting slimmer and the losers will find their way to the various libraries that will sell them and fortify the declining funds of those institutions. Oh yeah,don't sell them on this site! It is already riddled with garbage being sold at unreasonable prices and cluttering the "browse" section.Everybody that pays the big bucks to sell the gears gets immediately eclipsed by tons of listings for garage sale crap records at delusional prices.This has got to stop and it is choking this site. Let's celebrate the advantage of a large collection and the boundless choices of music we love,scored over the years from private collections,stores long since closed and the oddball swap meet or garage sale find.It is something the download or streaming collective mentality can never understand or embrace-the divinity of the vinyl record.
Time to weed the LPs.... (choosing stuff to dump)
I am in the process (again, every few years) of weeding the Rock LPs. Going through newer stuff to decide to sell to my fav. record store, or keep.
I do this every few years to thin out the collection gradually. Eight years ago I did a major cull removing 6,000 LPs of 12,000 to move. Over the last six years I have cut that down to 4,500 (and probably buying 500 of those during that time).For all sorts of reasons it is a good project. Get rid of cobweb covered music I have no use for, (and maybe someone else wants) Frees up a small amount of cash to waste on more Stereo junk.The main thing is the collection gets better, more just what I really like.Anyone else clear out the junk now and then?(For the question already forming... and no I will not sell them here. I have bought tons of stuff at my fav. record store, I like them, and sell all my records to them. LOL)
I do this every few years to thin out the collection gradually. Eight years ago I did a major cull removing 6,000 LPs of 12,000 to move. Over the last six years I have cut that down to 4,500 (and probably buying 500 of those during that time).For all sorts of reasons it is a good project. Get rid of cobweb covered music I have no use for, (and maybe someone else wants) Frees up a small amount of cash to waste on more Stereo junk.The main thing is the collection gets better, more just what I really like.Anyone else clear out the junk now and then?(For the question already forming... and no I will not sell them here. I have bought tons of stuff at my fav. record store, I like them, and sell all my records to them. LOL)
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