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Post by ChrisB on Aug 25, 2014 16:28:33 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 25, 2014 16:55:42 GMT
I think I have more records in my "Guinness book of records"  |
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Post by davidf on Apr 24, 2015 0:00:35 GMT
It's always the ones that can afford large collections that never look after them...makes me sick. I mean, who the hell would stand on their records?! That's like a big FU to vinyl enthusiasts everywhere!
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 24, 2015 5:28:18 GMT
Yes, I hope that's the pallet with all the K-Tel records on it.
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Post by Deleted on Apr 24, 2015 11:19:00 GMT
It's not just the records that aren't cared for. The scruffy beggar needs a shave and a haircut too  |
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Post by davidf on Apr 24, 2015 17:44:21 GMT
Hope he broke his neck getting down...
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Post by MartinT on Apr 25, 2015 9:29:13 GMT
LOL!
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 20:36:53 GMT
Did you see the guy on the TV series 'Collectables' who has around 75,000 CDs in 6 flats that he has knocked together specially for his collection. He's 71 years old and gives himself a budget of £150 per day to spend on CDs.. He's spent approx. £500,000 on his collection and it was valued on the show at £350,000.
I like collecting CDs but even I found this a little extreme!
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Post by davidf on Apr 25, 2015 21:18:21 GMT
I'd be surprised if the collection would actually fetch much more than £100,000...CDs are virtually worthless! (Except for the ones I want to buy, oddly)
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Post by Deleted on Apr 25, 2015 23:59:40 GMT
One of the chaps on the wam has around 20000 pieces of vinyl and not much space in the house lol
The music on digital files I have acquired equates to around the same amount numerically just not in physical size!
started my 22nd 4TB drive this week the sizes as the files are getting larger with the greater number of high resolution albums which are now available
Listening to that many pieces of music wild take a life time and then some and that is allowing if you had nothing else to occupy your time as well
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Post by ChrisB on Apr 26, 2015 6:20:11 GMT
It's always the ones that can afford large collections that never look after them...makes me sick. I mean, who the hell would stand on their records?! That's like a big FU to vinyl enthusiasts everywhere! Actually if you read the (New York Times) article that the photo originated from, you'll see that he has a deep love and respect for records. He had 30,000 discs by the time he was 30 and now, athough he has an irrational desire to buy them, he has a team of people cleaning, photographing and cataloguing them. A job estimated to take 20 years....if he stops buying them now. He is setting up a public music library and his main focus is to save records that would otherwise not be known about in countries like Nigeria from being lost forever. |
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Post by MartinT on Apr 26, 2015 7:21:11 GMT
started my 22nd 4TB drive this week That's a LOT of storage! |
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Post by Tim on Apr 26, 2015 8:51:03 GMT
CDs are virtually worthless! To a vinyl collector maybe - bit of a sweeping (dismissive) statement that one - CDs do actually have music on them, which might not be worthless? |
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Post by Deleted on Apr 26, 2015 13:08:18 GMT
It's not clever having a big collection unless you sole intention is bragging about such collections.. I never ever let my Record collection get big. I will always divise ideas on how to downsize.
As for CDee. I never keep them unless they have bonus stuff on them that has never seen the light of day on Vinyl.
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Post by davidf on Apr 26, 2015 13:26:04 GMT
It's always the ones that can afford large collections that never look after them...makes me sick. I mean, who the hell would stand on their records?! That's like a big FU to vinyl enthusiasts everywhere! Actually if you read the (New York Times) article that the photo originated from, you'll see that he has a deep love and respect for records. He had 30,000 discs by the time he was 30 and now, athough he has an irrational desire to buy them, he has a team of people cleaning, photographing and cataloguing them. A job estimated to take 20 years....if he stops buying them now. He is setting up a public music library and his main focus is to save records that would otherwise not be known about in countries like Nigeria from being lost forever. I've not read the piece, but not standing on them is one of the very basics of vinyl care, in my opinion! Standing on them is about the same level as using them as frisbees. |
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Post by davidf on Apr 26, 2015 13:35:14 GMT
CDs are virtually worthless! To a vinyl collector maybe - bit of a sweeping (dismissive) statement that one - CDs do actually have music on them, which might not be worthless? Of course, having music on them could be seen as valuable, but I'm talking from the point of view of owning a CD collection. The majority of my CDs might fetch 30p each from an online dumping ground like MusicMagpie, or I might get 50p each selling them at a carboot. I could sell them for a pound or so on the 'online forest' (don't really want to promote them), but the effort to do so makes it pointless, particularly when you take into account how much you could spend on packaging. So in my opinion, and based on the amount of albums you can buy on CD online for virtually nothing (many for a penny, plus postage), CD is a worthless format. Funnily enough, I've been looking around today to pick some albums up from Alva Noto (after checking them out when someone on here mentioned them), and I'm struggling to find anything under a tenner, with most being about £15-20. As I say, always seems to be stuff I want to buy! |
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Post by Tim on Apr 26, 2015 15:01:25 GMT
I guess it's down to how you view it really - I look at it as having a music collection, I don't have a CD, LP or anything collection, I have a music collection/library and it's the music that has worth, the medium is not that important. Each to their own, but I can't really relate to that point of view. Maybe if I was trading in music I could, but I'm not a retailer I'm a lover of music for it's intrinsic value, not it's material worth. I wouldn't ever get rid of it, so it's actual value is immaterial.
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Post by davidf on Apr 26, 2015 15:57:52 GMT
Despite being a retailer who also sells records, I'm commenting as me, not as a retailer. I'd like to get rid of some CDs I bought over the years that I never play, but I'll get peanuts for them, so it's something I'll never do. I'd never sell stuff I still like. As far as records are concerned, I've been more selective due to the higher cost.
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Post by MartinT on Apr 26, 2015 16:16:41 GMT
Interestingly, classical CDs have held their prices better than other genres, although there is Naxos, for instance, at medium/budget pricing.
I have relatively few CDs that I would get rid of and I sometimes go back to music that I had originally rejected only to find something of worth in a re-listen.
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Post by daytona600 on May 2, 2015 18:28:57 GMT
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