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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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128x128mitch4t
jsd52756
420 posts
 
I ask myself the same question once in a while. I actually played a few last night "just cause". I hope when I retire I will have the time to stop what I am doing and flip the darn thing over. It seems Americans are always so busy we dont take the time out to enjoy the things in life we really enjoy. Opps, no time gotta go....
-John
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mapman
21,939 posts
 
"I hope when I retire I will have the time to stop what I am doing and flip the darn thing over. "

Good Point.

I will likely have an appt with a lot of my records when I retire someday.

Right now the digital is sounding good too and allows me to squeeze in more listening when I have the time.
reb1208
518 posts
 
I figure there must have been a good reason for me to have assembled a large vinyl collection. This is what I tell myself when I think of selling it off. In the past 5 years, I rarely play vinyl. The task of grading and selling these one at a time is something I'd never ever be motivated to do. Again, I am the one who bought these records to begin with. Too bad on me, I'm stuck with them until the day I decide to give the collection away. Which will probably never happen.
jaybo
4,478 posts
 
what we collect is 'who we are'.
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jedinite24
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Hi Mitch4t

If you already have the vinyl recordings on CD or other media and they sound the same to you then just unload all that vinyl. Keep your most treasured records and get rid of the rest. No point in having the duplicates if their is no difference in sound IMO. Just make sure everything is backed up. I'm sure there will be many people out there that would buy your collection or parts of it. If I lived close to you I'd probably want to stop by and look at the vinyl you would want to part with. From some vinyl enthusiasts I spoke too they only wanted out of print records or music that is not available on CD or download. Sometimes they would want earlier non remastered pressings as well.

I say let go and don't look back.
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