The price of used LP's.

@whart: Yeah Bill, the hardest-to-find titles in my wants list will most likely never be found locally, but hope springs eternal. What I find locally are albums I either somehow missed (the John Simon), or common titles that I wasn't interested in at the time of their original release.

I've done some buying on Discogs, but the seller standards of grading condition are often below that of mine, even when they grade an LP as Near Mint, which you would think universal. Nope, 'fraid not. I am not interested in any but Near Mint or better LP's. If I have to wait to find a title, that's fine. I already have enough albums to keep me busy for the rest of my life.

What I value most in the Vinyl Community YouTube videos is learning of artists or albums of which I have been unaware. Also comparisons between different pressings of the same title, and news of upcoming releases. All the good online sellers are great about announcing upcoming releases, both new and reissue. There has never been a time better for being an LP consumer than now!

Yes, you are lucky. Keep prowling. You can take chances on unknown artists at those prices. See something interesting, look it up on your phone in the store!

I grew up with the Kinks, a favorite of mine also. I had too many Kinks, sold some on eBay.

I saw the Kinks live at the Beacon, NYC. Not the loudest, that was Dylan and the Distorters, wall of amps ’living in clip’ (as Ani Difranco came up with).but Holy crap, playing Lola, every guy thinks he can dance, up, bouncing the mezzanine and balconies like a rolling Stones concert.

Still have my original collection I started when in high school, about 150 lp’s all in mint condition. They include Donald Fagen nightly, al dimeola a night in San Francisco, police ghost in the machine, etc etc all original copies as they were all bought when they first came out. Now, I have most likely 3,000 lp’s....and growing. Record stores are generally nil in my area, but I do have several thrift stores where I occasionally strike gold (subjective). I mostly buy my stuff through eBay and discogs. I’m also a regular customer at Audiophile USA and Better Records. It does seem that the records for sale at Audiophile USA, the ones in the mailers, do not last very long. It’s as if someone receives insider info...

@bdp24  I haven't been searching out any local to me used record shops, or heard of record shows coming here, but being able to purchase albums for $3-$10 apiece, that is amazing! The guys selling at those prices must be getting huge liquidated album collections from people ignorant as to vinyl value. Not sure this will be long lived phenomenon, once the baby boomers gone and large unliquidated collections inherited by ignorant relatives ends cheap vinyl will end.

I thought prices of new vinyl had impacted used vinyl? I've had occasion to check values of some of my 3500+ vinyl collection, mostly purchased in 1980's, certainly some not worth much, but there are some hot stampers and other rarities with much higher values. I don't know how usual I am, but my collection has not been documented as to values, it would likely be sold off for pennies on the dollar without that documentation. Still, to go through 3500+ albums and document values for each one, quite an undertaking!  I'd be interested in hearing what others have done in my situation?

@sns: Having traded in some LP’s at the shops I patronize, I know how they can afford to sell them for $3-$10: they pay only $1-$3 for trade-ins!

Vinyl Community member Norman Maslov ("Mazzy") posted a new YouTube video yesterday talking about his ongoing project of cataloging his LP library (like myself, he doesn’t like the term collection) in the Discogs database. Check it out if that sounds of interest to you.

I too have about 3500 LP’s (and the same number of CD’s, on the opposite wall of my music room), and as Mazzy says, trying to read all the small scribbles in the dead wax (the blank space between the last groove and the center label) of LP’s is a real pita. There are little magnifiers with LED lights listed on Amazon, which I am planning on including in my next order.