I have about 50 vinyl LP's. Various artists. Am leaving the country, have not got a record deck (and don't want one either), even the charity shops don't want them! I can't bear to just dump them. Any polite ideas please? Thank you.
I have checked out every title I have on ebay. There's just no interest.......
2006-07-12 01:46:11 · 14 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Other - Entertainment
Mr. Fuggettaboutit - what a brilliant idea! Have kept back a few of the albums just because of the artwork, but some of the music is irreplacable. Will now give serious consideration to shipping them out to the US and buying a thingymajig. Wow!
2006-07-12 02:15:37 · update #1
Sarah - am in Somerset. Thank you.
2006-07-12 06:21:45 · update #2
If the albums have music you want to keep are worth $137.00 U.S., then you can buy a Ion Audio iTTUSB, a new type of turntable that connects directly to your PC, either thru a USB port or thru your sound card's Line In. With included software, you can convert your LP's directly to .mp3's. If that's too expensive, get together with a bunch of friends who also have LP vinyl, and one person buys the TT, converts all their music, then sells the TT to the next person for $5.00 less (your cost of equipment "rental"). At the same time, you also give that person a copy of all the music you digitized. They get a TT to convert their music, and some new music at the same time. After 20 people, the TT is still usuable for a long time, you can create a consortium of digitizers, offering your services to others who need their vinyl digitized.
BTW, I've bought one because I have 1350 vinyl albums to do.
2006-07-12 02:08:43 · answer #1 · answered by Fuggetaboutit_1 5 · 2⤊ 0⤋
If you cant give them to your mates, try a charity organisation, not the shops but an actual centre.
When I was in my teens, I did some voluntary work for Mentally Disabled people at a centre, it was a school during the day and youth club at night and I was the DJ. I had to buy records each week and my collection now has Shakin Stevens and Cliff Richard!!! The kids loved them.
Where is it you live? I could look up some organistions for you.
Good luck.
2006-07-12 08:57:01 · answer #2 · answered by sarah w 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vinyl records are becoming quite scarce. If you have LP's by famous artists who have since died, it may be a very good idea to keep them in a way that they are not harmed, as they may be very valuable. To store them properly, keep them in their original sleeves, and store them standing up in a strong-sided box in a cool, dry space.
Just a couple of weeks ago, on a television show called "Antiques Roadshow", some LP's - by the Beatles, the Grateful Dead, Nat "King" Cole - were valued in the thousands of dollars. As for the rest? Perhaps there is an artist who works in multi-media project who would want to use them for their pure aesthetics!
2006-07-12 08:54:00 · answer #3 · answered by drwag1 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Paulrb8... not a hope.... a quid an album??? Even she says that the charity shops don;t want 'em - and the postage cost on 50 albums is going to be a small fortune..... Not entirely sure what the difference between giving them to a charity shop and dumping them is..... but suggest if you cannot find a new home for them (and trust me, unless they're rare it's gonna be near impossible) that you take them outside and give them a proper burial with full funeral rites... that will give you the satisfaction of having disposed of them respectfully... (no, I'm serious!!!)
2006-07-12 08:53:40 · answer #4 · answered by eriverpipe 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
If you looked hard enough, you'd probably find a few indie record/exchange stores that would be able to take them off your hands... not the BEST trade-in rate, but beats just pitching them. Or you can leave them with family or friends....I got a stash of old vinyl, and a lot of the sleaves make pretty cool wall art.
2006-07-12 08:51:45 · answer #5 · answered by Sizzlin Sicilian 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It sounds to me like you are going to have to just dump them, but I understand you not wanting to do it your self.
I have an arrangement with my sister-in-law that if either of us have something we don't want any longer, but we can't bear to throw it away and no one else wants it (pretty much the position you are in) we offer the item to the other person. Without saying anything about it to each other we will then dispose of the item.
It makes getting rid of things so much easier. Perhaps you can put this to one of your friends ("Do you want these LPs? Why don't you take them away and keep the ones you want and just bin the rest?") Hopefully they'll get the hint and do your dirty work for you.
2006-07-12 09:17:34 · answer #6 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Hold on to them just a little longer--as the collectors' suck up what's available and the market dries up --the interest in newly offered items will rise and when it does--then is your opportunity--check out the going rates that items like this are bringing about every six months and when you see the values offered go up hold off for about six more months and then unload them
2006-07-12 08:55:11 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I know, it's so sad. We have hundreds in our attic. Some are even 'special' ones we used to get excited about in the 80s. Blue vinyl! Picture discs!
2006-07-12 08:51:31 · answer #8 · answered by R.I.P. 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I still have all my vinyl... it's great! I still have my player too.... it's really fun to take that stuff out at parties.... people like the nostalgia of it!
2006-07-12 08:50:44 · answer #9 · answered by Liz 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
there's probably a vintage record shop in your town, if not, try your local papers. there's usually somebody wanting to buy records.
or
http://www.ehow.com/how_108431_sell-vinyl-record.html
2006-07-12 08:54:13 · answer #10 · answered by u12fme 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋