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Why Do You Still Have Vinyl if You Don't Play it?

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I own 3,000 plus lp's that I just don't play anymore. I told my 14 year-old son that he can have them when he starts college. He said no thanks, he said that he can carry around that much music in his back pocket in his iPod. I tried to explain to him that if he played LP's in college, he'd easily be one of the coolest students on campus. He told me to "get real" and thanks, but no thanks. I think I just may have to go through the task of grading each LP and selling them off. I've tried to convince myself that I will one day play them. I was just fooling myself. For the last fifteen years, I play one or two LP's a year just for the hell of it. I do like looking at them in their Ikea racks and marvel how I assembled my collection over nearly 40 years. I do like it when visitors comment on them and look through them. Cd's killed my vinyl and now my Squeezebox is finally going to bury it.

How many of you still have a sizeable vinyl collection that you don't play, but refuse to let go of?

I think it's time for me to let go.
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mitch4t
tubegroover
2,320 posts
 
I personally found that it is the time that you finally make the committment to get rid of something that is taking up space after years of mulling that you come to a realization later, what was I thinking?

There is still music on those LP's. Unless you have transferred to digital why get rid of them all? Maybe some, the ones you don't like but the whole collection?

I have a decent size collection myself many of which I don't listen to much but there are always those moments. You've gone this far maybe you need to revisit and carefully evaluate before making a final decision on a wholesale dump. "In reviewing the situation...."
brf
1,715 posts
 
The day after your sell your vinyl collection will be the first day of regret.
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