In 1987 I bought my first CD player and CD's in Germany. In 1990 I sold my Thorens TD320 turntable and got rid of about 90 albums. I thought record albums were DONE. Do I wish I had the Thorens and albums back? yep.
Old CDs and records
I just came to the very belated realization that my many years’ collection of thousands of CDs and (most likely) records are probably extinct and hence worthless. Unless I go through the arduous task of cataloguing each and every disc for resale, the mass collection is just so much junk.
I could donate the collection. But, at this point, does anyone want antiquated technology when streaming is so easy and prevalent.
Anyone have any ideas?
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@rvpiano I don't know how you decide on a daily basis what to listen to, but looking over your physical library sometimes you must decide to pull something out that you'd half forgotten about. I have no idea how (or if) the algorithms work on the major streaming sites for classical music, particularly the composers and pieces off the beaten track, but given all the extra expense from where I am now, I'm not inclined to experiment. |
I don't believe rvpiano is making claim cd's and lp's worthless in general, rather worthless to him. I'm in pretty much same boat, well over 7k cd's and vinyl, trying to determine fair value entails so much work, daunting task. Yeah, I could sell in batches, guessing at values of many within that batch, may screw myself by greatly miscalculating a hot stamper or other unknown to me valuable record. Most of my vinyl is likely first generation releases, having been purchased back in the day, I've found a couple worth some real money in doing research on just a few.
I like the idea of giving cd's to library or some charity.
I doubt many of us streamers will ever go back to physical media, once your streaming sound quality has equaled or exceeded cd over transport, that's done with. Vinyl has better chance to remain in my system although rarely used, I have to admit vinyl does have it's unique value for me. I do need to cull the herd on vinyl, takes up far too much space, and my taste in music has changed from when most were purchased.
Following on last sentence above, a great limitation of physical media for me is my tastes in music change over time, media remains static, media I no longer play becomes obsolete. Streaming dynamic, leads me down many paths towards new and exciting music. |
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