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Well, you tried... Good to know that there are so many people interested on vinyl though Smile
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Well, you tried... Good to know that there are so many people interested on vinyl though Smile
 
Yes but she will get ripped off...the vultures were hoping she would do this....ohh well.
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I found this hidden in a Québec Country Store. The first Gentle Giant vinyl I've come to own for $15.00.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Well, you tried... Good to know that there are so many people interested on vinyl though Smile
 
Yes but she will get ripped off...the vultures were hoping she would do this....ohh well.
Lump sum can sometimes be a difficult way to go for the seller.
I recently saw a segment on TV about a man (who appeared to be in his seventies) who had accumulated 
a massive vinyl collection over the years and wanted to finally sell it off. His room full of vinyl (all types) was
bigger than my den.
The main point of the segment was the difficulty he was having trying to sell it all at once. He said that the size of his collection was more than most collectors wanted to take on and the few that were interested wanted to
pay a fraction of it's worth.
He said the task of breaking the collection down into easier groups to sell would be impossible for him so he
was basically stuck trying to find a lump sum buyer.
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^ These people that have massive collections, like 4 house walls worth has to number in the 10K range.....I can only imagine they stopped enjoying spinning vinyl once they got past like 2,000 albums. I mean you would have to play 5-6 albums a day for 1 year straight to hear them all once.
5 hours a day is 1,825 hours in 1 year...You would go thru 2 cartridges a year.
 
All that sounds like too much work......Sometimes I just want to spin 1 album, other times 5-6. I'd rather not let my collection rule me.
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Originally posted by aglasshouse aglasshouse wrote:

 
I found this hidden in a Québec Country Store. The first Gentle Giant vinyl I've come to own for $15.00.
Great find! Clap

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

^ These people that have massive collections, like 4 house walls worth has to number in the 10K range.....I can only imagine they stopped enjoying spinning vinyl once they got past like 2,000 albums. I mean you would have to play 5-6 albums a day for 1 year straight to hear them all once.
5 hours a day is 1,825 hours in 1 year...You would go thru 2 cartridges a year.
 
All that sounds like too much work......Sometimes I just want to spin 1 album, other times 5-6. I'd rather not let my collection rule me.
So 2000 is the magic number? Tongue I listen to an average of 4-5 albums a day although vinyl is by far not what I listen most, I won't bring my TT to work LOL

Had a day off at work yesterday and spun some vinyls: the first I ever bought, Absolutely Live from The Doors which is certainly not their best live album but I listened to it many times Big smile Also listened to Monk's Dream: I don't know if it's only from the new DMM remaster, but I can easily listen to Monk singing whatever he plays on the piano, so weird Tongue
I found something interesting too, a list of all antique fairs of the country. There are six fairs half an hour away from me every month and I didn't know about any... I guess I'll be browsing on a lot of vinyl crates now Smile
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

^ These people that have massive collections, like 4 house walls worth has to number in the 10K range.....I can only imagine they stopped enjoying spinning vinyl once they got past like 2,000 albums. I mean you would have to play 5-6 albums a day for 1 year straight to hear them all once.
5 hours a day is 1,825 hours in 1 year...You would go thru 2 cartridges a year.
 
All that sounds like too much work......Sometimes I just want to spin 1 album, other times 5-6. I'd rather not let my collection rule me.
This guy was not your average record collector. He was at least in his mid seventies and had been collecting 
anything vinyl for over fifty years. All types, all genres, 78s to children's records. spoken word, etc. etc.
He collected vinyl the way some people collect shot glasses or ceramic figurines.
The point of the TV segment was that this guy spent his entire adult life collecting something that he now 
cannot sell.
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I suspect that around the 2000 mark, LP'S would become overwhelming. Not quite there yet, but I'm feeling it.....
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Originally posted by Meldowner Meldowner wrote:

 So 2000 is the magic number? Tongue I listen to an average of 4-5 albums a day although vinyl is by far not what I listen most, I won't bring my TT to work LOL 

For me, the magic number is 300 or thereabouts.. that's how many albums I can "have a meaningful relationship with" .. does it make my polyvinylous? Collecting music is very different from musicking, though.  

Some people do bring their players all kinds of places:

http://www.thevinylfactory.com/vinyl-factory-releases/take-me-for-a-spin-the-8-best-portable-record-players-around/

Originally posted by Meldowner Meldowner wrote:

 I found something interesting too, a list of all antique fairs of the country. There are six fairs half an hour away from me every month and I didn't know about any... I guess I'll be browsing on a lot of vinyl crates now Smile 
Antique fair is a politically correct expression for "flea market"? 
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^ It's the literal translation of the Portugal's Portuguese term. Only the Brazilians use the expression"flea market": "mercado das pulgas" Tongue We also use the informal expression "feira da ladra" which is the most important flea market in Lisbon.
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Originally posted by Argonaught Argonaught wrote:

Antique fair is a politically correct expression for "flea market"? 
 
 
is Flea Market politically incorrect?
I though that it was a description of the size (a la 'flea circus')
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The term flea market isn't often used around here but not long ago swap meets were very common.
They were held every weekend at drive-in theaters and were very popular from the sixties through the 
eighties. 
You would always find a few sellers that had a couple of boxes of albums and I found many things for a dollar or two.
But one by one the drive-ins were torn down because people got tired of sitting in their cars and watching two movies in a row.
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Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

The term flea market isn't often used around here but not long ago swap meets were very common.
They were held every weekend at drive-in theaters and were very popular from the sixties through the 
eighties. 
You would always find a few sellers that had a couple of boxes of albums and I found many things for a dollar or two.
But one by one the drive-ins were torn down because people got tired of sitting in their cars and watching two movies in a row.
 
in the uk I think they call them 'boot sales'  - suggesting that they are selling items out of the boot (trunk) of their cars
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I'm familiar with the term 'boot' so that name makes sense to me.
Yard Sales or Garage sales were also very common here in Southern Cal before the individual cities started limiting them. You would occasionally come across that illusive box of LPs that someone was getting rid of
because they had switched over to 8 tracks or cassettes.
But those days are even gone now and the thrift stores only have things that I wouldn't pay a dollar for.
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Originally posted by TeleStrat TeleStrat wrote:

I'm familiar with the term 'boot' so that name makes sense to me.
Yard Sales or Garage sales were also very common here in Southern Cal before the individual cities started limiting them. You would occasionally come across that illusive box of LPs that someone was getting rid of
because they had switched over to 8 tracks or cassettes.
But those days are even gone now and the thrift stores only have things that I wouldn't pay a dollar for.
 
I still see people putting out LPs for the garbage collection. It's a heartbreaker when you discover this in the rain. 
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I think that's because a lot of people are not aware of the "rebirth" of vinyl like we are here.
I hate to think of all the albums that were thrown away in the eighties because people thought they were worthless.
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We have a few swap meets here.....I grew up in So Cal and my dad used to go to swap meets all the time at the drive ins.
Most of the swap meets are really tons of junk, most people just trying to get a few bucks. It is actually more expensive to get rid of them at the dump as they charge a fee based on weight...Better to get a few bucks.
 
What we don't have here are record shows like in So Cal.....I think there is one a year in Seattle but it is mainly local stores selling at a VFW hall or something.
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I have taken on a new vinyl related project even though I haven't finished the two or three other ongoing
vinyl projects.
It is more than time to replace the protective covers on my albums since the originals are over forty years old and some actually feel dirty or grimy when I handle them. 
There's a plastic bag company ten minutes from my house but they only carry two mil.
Amazon not only has four mil but also a slightly larger size for gate fold and double albums.
Last night I ordered one hundred of the larger and three hundred of the regular so in a few days I'll be in business.
I am reorganizing my albums and also playing more albums now so I'm handling them more and that's when I realized that it was time for replacements.
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I get mine from SleeveCity, for large amounts they may wheel and deal. They will also send you a sample for free since they have different thickness and also different widths for dbls and small box sets.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

We have a few swap meets here.....I grew up in So Cal and my dad used to go to swap meets all the time at the drive ins.
Most of the swap meets are really tons of junk, most people just trying to get a few bucks. It is actually more expensive to get rid of them at the dump as they charge a fee based on weight...Better to get a few bucks.
 
What we don't have here are record shows like in So Cal.....I think there is one a year in Seattle but it is mainly local stores selling at a VFW hall or something.
My Dad collected a few different things and was one of those early birds with a flashlight and a cup of coffee 
trying to beat the other collectors to the good stuff.
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