selling your record collection

jonnynewbreed - 1-3-2009 at 03:19 PM

Anyone ever done it?

I think i'm going to put it up for bids. A fair amount of punk/ska/raggae/oi and some other shit mixed in for good measure. It represents my life of buying music but I haven't listened to any of it in so long that it's obsolete.

Question...what is your life's collection worth to you?

Discipline - 1-3-2009 at 03:55 PM

It's hard to put a price on it, because certain pieces hold great sentimental value. I've sold off most of what I didn't HAVE to keep. You'll have to pry my Sheer Terror stuff out of my cold, dead hands for example, but over the years I've looked through my records and come to the conclusion that certain records didn't mean much to me and I sold them. A couple I wanted to keep but sold because they were valuable and I needed money for bills. But a record collections value is determined by the market for them. Certain records I hold in high regard others might consider crappy, and would bid on that reasoning. Best thing to do is search completed auctions on ebay and see what copies went for.

jonnynewbreed - 1-3-2009 at 03:59 PM

Thanks. I'm not sentimental at all as I've got a great memory. I hope to die old but with nothing. I always thought that one day i'd have a whole record shelf full of stuff that I had recorded. It would kind of sum up what my life was about but I don't even keep the stuff that I've recorded so that went out the window.

It's hard for me to imagine what the 17 year old Jonny would have done to the 28 year old Jonny if he had known what I was contemplating.

upyerbum - 1-3-2009 at 04:59 PM

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Originally posted by jonnynewbreed
Anyone ever done it?

I think i'm going to put it up for bids. A fair amount of punk/ska/raggae/oi and some other shit mixed in for good measure. It represents my life of buying music but I haven't listened to any of it in so long that it's obsolete.

Question...what is your life's collection worth to you?

Don't do it. I wish I had never sold my albums. One of my few regrets.

JawnDiablo - 1-3-2009 at 09:25 PM

never again.

XHonusWagnerX - 1-3-2009 at 10:03 PM

I still have all my LPs going back to thrash and hair metal I bought in the 80's and ALL the KISS records I collected as a kid. I considered selling some of the stuff a few years ago, but all the people I talked to/stores I went to wanted to pay literally nothing. I never really gave eBay much thought, but overall I think I'm happy that I still have them.

I did trade a really big collection of picture sleeve 45s mostly of late 80's rock and pop and I'm sorry about that. Lots of Guns & Roses, Def Leopard, some Rob Bass, DJ Jazzy Jeff... I wish I still had those.

I wish I hadnt given away all the old shirts that I gave away becauase those are probably worth more than my records!

Murk - 1-3-2009 at 10:05 PM

dont do it unless you have to!!!

clevohardcore - 1-3-2009 at 10:08 PM

Or unless you have SICK OF IT ALL- blood sweat and no tears or SICK OF IT ALL - JUST LOOK AROUND on vinyl. Then I will buy them. :cool:

BDx13 - 1-4-2009 at 04:37 PM

i have sold many of my 'non-essential' records.
still have several hundred from my favorite bands and a few sentimental ones.

on a related note, a buddy of mine who is a dj was up from dc last week for a few days and fixed my old direct drive turntable for me. once i hook up my old receiver, it'll be the first time listening to my records in nine, no... ten friggin years.