What to do with old LPs?

[Ed]

As you know, we're moving house Friday. Clearing out the garage today I've come across my (large) box of old records, starting with the first LP I bought in 1974, Sheer Heart Attack. I can remember buying it, I was that excited :D And so they go on, lots of really great stuff like Jefferson Airplane/Starship, Bowie, Queen, Simple Minds, U2, Pink Floyd, Clash, Boston, Meat Loaf (the record is prolly worn out, I played it that much).

All of them were fantastic, I didn't buy crap. Such a trip down memory lane.

But they are so heavy and take up so much space, plus I don't have a turntable, I don't know what to do with them. Should I take them to the tip tomorrow? Sell them on a boot sale? Or what?

[Holdup]

1974.... when was that?

[Ed]

1974.... when was that?

36 years ago, when I was 14:cool:

[the_lone_wolf]

Swap Shop???

;)

[Nobbylad]

They make great frisbees!

I met a guy once whose hobby it is to find extremely rare LP's and singles and cut the middle out to make them into clocks etc.

Some of the rare vinyl were collectors items and he basically butchered them....saw him with a stall at the Chrizzy market in Manchester one year selling them.

[Bluefish]

i'll have them ED, can you drop them off, ;) or you could buy a turntable.

[embee]

Me, me me, I'll have 'em :rave:

[DarrenSV650S]

I too will have them

[embee]

Fight, fight, fight :smt062

[fizzwheel]

For the love of christ dont take them to the tip... please...

Around here now and again they have the odd record fair, plenty of Vinyl still changes hands that way, I'd see if you can find one or somebody local that will buy them off you. They might not be worth much, but you might get a few quid for them.

[CheGuevara]

Ed- Ebay if you have the time, even if just for fun. If they're in decent shape somebody will pay for them. People who still love vinyl are a bit crazy - paying loads of money for tunrtables, tube amps and things of that sort...

[tigersaw]

I'll sell you a jukebox to go with them...

[Mighty Boosh]

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[BanannaMan]

I'll sell you a jukebox to go with them...


Gets my vote! :cool:
(sorry too far away for me)
Got any pics???

[tigersaw]

Gets my vote! :cool:
(sorry too far away for me)
Got any pics???

Its a 65 Seeburg Discotheque (internally converted into the most loudest ipod dock) - can take some if interested. Its gonna hit ebay soon,

[Bibio]

would love your collection Ed, i'm a vinyl nut. i always have been i also have quite an exotic turntable, arm and cartage combo :cool: so they would have been well looked after. but i think you stay too far away... :pale:

[carternd]

Don't bin 'em, they are worth a bit! At the least give them to Oxfam or suchlike.

I vote keep them, and get a good turntable. The sound of vinyl is pure youthening!

[beabert]

waste to chuck em, give them away.

[BanannaMan]

Its a 65 Seeburg Discotheque (internally converted into the most loudest ipod dock) - can take some if interested. Its gonna hit ebay soon,


Nah... I'm in the US so don't bother.
Thought you might already have some.
I love jukeboxes! :cool:
One of mates used to have an old Seeburg but it only played 45's.

[Binky]

I'll be round Monday to pick them up Ed.

[littleperson]

get a turntable and enjoy them as thats why you bought them in the first place!!!

[SoulKiss]

1974.... when was that?

36 years ago, when I was 14:cool:

36 years ago, when I was just 7 months old :P

Good taste in music tho :p

[Jayneflakes]

We borrowed a good turntable and started recording them onto the Mac as MP3 files with Carol's collection. She has a load of Black Sabbath, AC/DC and Pink Floyd from her youth and it was great to listen to it all again.

If it were me, I would keep them and buy a good turn table. Old records have a different quality to them than CD that makes them lovely.

Have a look here (http://www.richersounds.com/search/turn%20tables/2) for some lovely toys. :D

[timwilky]

don't get rid, get a turntable.

The smug satisfaction when the kids use to ask about a piece of music in an advert, and you could go get a "big black cd" out, cue up the appropriate track and smile thinking dad isn't so old and boring he had that music 30 years ago.

Unless of course it is the McCoys man crisp advert, when they want to get out mums Donny Osmond. I haven't the heart to tell her them was frisbeed when she tried to merge our collections.

[Ed]

Cor, thanks for all the replies, peeps!! Don't we have a lot of vinyl afficianados... OK I'll keep them for now. I'm putting a pile of stuff into store pending a longer term decision on what to do with things, so I'll see if I can record them first and then dispose of them:D

David, I remember buying it in Woolworths. It was a big decision, it was £1.49, and that was a lot of money back in '74.

I have been sorting and binning for about two months, I really didn't realise we had so much 'stuff'. Yesterday I made 4 trips to the tip.

Determined not to let this happen again.

[Sid Squid]

I converted my LPs onto the computer, even though I have many of them on CD I still often listen to the recorded vinyl on my MP3 player - somehow the hiss, crackles and general vinyl noise just sounds right.

Perhaps it's just because that's how I remember them sounding - like when you know a track from an album and it doesn't sound quite right when the next track isn't the 'right' one.

[monkey]

As you know, we're moving house Friday...

I didn't know that.

[tigersaw]

I converted my LPs onto the computer, even though I have many of them on CD I still often listen to the recorded vinyl on my MP3 player - somehow the hiss, crackles and general vinyl noise just sounds right.

Perhaps it's just because that's how I remember them sounding - like when you know a track from an album and it doesn't sound quite right when the next track isn't the 'right' one.

A lot of tracks in the 60's were mixed to sound best on AM radio and juke boxes, especially motown and northern soul - thats how the majority of people got to listen to them, and you are right, having had several juke boxes, my old 45 collection sounds no better than through something that boils down to being a 500 litre sub and a couple of tweeters, driven with a overmodulated underpowered valve amp.

[Ed]

I didn't know that.

Where have you been? Wake up, dozey;)

Anyways I had an idea, we rent a container for office storage and there's bags of room in there so I decided to shove stuff from the garage in there pending actually making a decision. So the LPs can go on there for now.

[Quiff Wichard]

dont do what my mum did and stored her old records.. matt munro , mrs mills on the piano, Bing Crosby, IN THE GREENHOUSE !!..

fool.. ...

nice melted then reformed records I took to the tip.. some would have made lovely novelty fruit bowls.

[Ed]

Nope, they're now in a secure container somewhere in Shropshire:D It's like Fort Knox to get in there, undoing the locks is the biggest part of the job:D

[BigBaddad]

I've still got all my old records. I used to buy 9" & 12" EP's, limited editions etc. I've got a couple of clear vinyls, picture discs but my all time favorite is Soft Cell "Tainted Love" 12" tainted dub, where did our love go, extended mix........on white label.

Always used to buy singles at gigs by unknown bands.

[Biker Biggles]

Ive got some old rare ones as well,including Manfred Mann Chapter Three---still in good nick as its too awful to listen to,and one by an aptly named Rare Bird.

[Ed]

I rediscovered something else - I have an original 1965 edition of 'House of the Rising Sun' - my (older) cousin Brian bought it, and when they got fed up with it he gave it to me for our then new Dansette, in 1968.

[Viney]

Ed- Ebay if you have the time, even if just for fun. If they're in decent shape somebody will pay for them. People who still love vinyl are a bit crazy - paying loads of money for tunrtables, tube amps and things of that sort...
Im not crazy...i do have about 4000 slabs of vinyl though. Sadly room for no more :(