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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
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I also offered the records to my 21 year-old daughter. She was nearly offended by my offer. Too low-tech for her and she isn't that thrilled about jazz. Besides, she doesn't have the space in her apt. If I gave them away, I'd like them to go to a place where I could at least 'visit' them every now and then.

My 14 year-old son is a violinist entering his freshman year at a performing arts high school in LA. He also plays guitar. There is a guy that lives in my building that buys up vinyl collections. I've bought several LP's from him over the years. I'll get him to teach my son and I how to grade them. Then I'll let my son sell them here or on eBay. It will be a great project for my son to teach him how to earn a few bucks. Most of my LP's are jazz. I'll let him keep all of the proceeds from the sale to buy himself a nicer violin. I'm sure during the process he's going to have lots of questions about the artists as he's cataloging them and preparing them for sale. He should easily get $3k for the whole kit and caboodle after it's all said and done. $3k should get him a pretty nice violin.
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dev
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Missioncoonery wrote;

"Sold most of my vinyl years ago" "Fiddled with it for a few months trying this and that and after alot of cash and time relized it sucked compared to digital and dumped it all..Vinyl,forgetaboutit!!!!"

You should have mentioned that's your take because I would have to totally disagree when you suggest vinyl sucks compared to digital, you really had me laughing!

A top notch digital set-up can be very nice which I've had but once vinyl is played well it's game over, it's as simple as that.

Different strokes for different folks.

Enjoy!
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nsgarch
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RE: "Chewing Gum for the Ears"
Is my audiophile homage to the great Frank Lloyd Wright, who absolutely HATED wall paper! And used to refer to it as "Chewing gum for the eyes." ;--)
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timrhu
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A top notch digital set-up can be very nice which I've had but once vinyl is played well it's game over, it's as simple as that.
Dev

You should have mentioned that's your take because I would have to totally disagree when you suggest digital can't hold a candle to vinyl, you really had me laughing!
Funny how these things can go both ways.
timrhu
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Mitch4t, sounds like a good solution. Good luck to you and your son.
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