"Junk" LP listings on audiogon - get rid of 'em

Apply the standard advertising fee. I don't know of anybody who will pay a $2.00 fee to sell a $5.00 record or CD. That will eliminate the junk ads. It might, at that point, also increase the quality of what is being sold. But, I do think it is a great resource for recorded music.

Did anyone consider that those people are selling music? Do we have our noses so high in the air that unless it's 24 bit, 24 carat gold, 180 gram, digitally re-mastered, virgin, original OBI, and all that other nonesense that it isn't music? I would much prefer some of the "junk" you guys are thumbing your noses at to the over-produced, overly sterile, junk that's being peddled today as quality sound. Who the Heck needs a seventh copy of "Aqualung"? How many formats do you need to hear a piece of music in before you enjoy it? I grew up listening to Alan Freed out of New York on a smuggled am transistor radio under my pillow at night - so my mom wopuldn't catch me. Why? Because they were playing MUSIC. Tap your feet, sing-along with, can't get enough of it MUSIC. I'd rather be able to hum or sing along with a good tune than be able to tell you the proper temperature to Cryogenically freeze a CD for optimum sound quality. Sorry if I offend, but I'm sick and tired of people who listen to equipment - and totally miss the point about the piece of music being played. So, like Al Anderson says on the fabulous album "Pay Before You Pump" - I'm gonna leave a little "Hiss on you."

Tired of the horse manure,
Ed

I agree that there needs to be a limit on the # of free music ads. Maybe two per catagory at a time, 20 items per ad. My 0.02.

Ed has a point. A good point.

Too often I have gone to look at a used piece of gear only to find the idiot selling it owned a total of 6 CD's.
(All made of "gold pressed latinum" mind you....)

Many "audiophiles" have a lot in common with the car audio "SPL" boys. (You know the ones who can hit the highest DB's for bragging rights? For those of you that dont know, they play a sine wave with banks of amps and woofers. Whoever has the loudest BUZZZZ wins!)

How are audiophiles and SPL folks alike?
They have lost thier way. Forgotten what it is really about.
MUSIC!

(I need to get back to my 1969 crummy Dead tape now.)

As long as it doesn't cost anything here and it's easier than Ebay we're going to have people selling the scorpion's and slayer LPs.
I don't mind the listings, but it seems to me there was better material here before.
JMO