My mother gave all my vinyl away to some jumble sale. Several hundred LP's & even greater
number of singles. Some really rare stuff, limited editions, coloured vinyl, bootlegs. A hell
of a collection of all genres of music.
I boxed it and left most of it it in their unused garage as i didn't have the room for it all
in my flat.
She told me she thought it was all CD's now & I wouldn't want the vinyl anymore.
I nearly blew my top but bit my tongue and just wept quietly

@IS I never liked them. Got them when a relative died.
Played them (got his player too) but not a patch on remastered ones.
Philistine I know but there ye go.

I've still got over 3,000 vinyl records/albums in the UK in various friends' lofts.
Keep the really good stuff (imo) at my sister's house.

I have a few picture discs, one fine young cannibals, spies like us from a movie and a ghostbuster ray parker jr one, all worth less than i paid for them in the 80's.

Some charity shops can have piles of them, I'm not sure how much effort they put into pricing them.
If they do .... maybe the valuable ones go "walkies" anyway!

.... but one still finds some decent records at value prices if one is just buying for one`s own enjoyment.

A friend of mine sold their complete collection, over 500 lps, to a high street record shop for £100. They went nuts when they revisited the shop to discover that they were selling them for £10+ each.

mac - "I got over £500 for a 1967 copy of Deram, Bowie`s first LP. Grin"

Assuming you mean "David Bowie".  Hope you did not sell it for that after he died.

This is something I posted on Tommy Toes Pub a couple of months ago that is a bit relevant here.


Last week I bought a record player. I've been looking on gumtree for about 12 months. That means I look every two or three weeks. My budget is less than $200. You'd be amazed at the absolute crap people put up for sale and want less than $200 for. 1970s and 80s stereos that can look kind of retro cool but always comes with some kind of caveat at the end of the ad. Like "doesn't work. $150."

I remember those things from my own time in the 1970s and 80s and no I don't want to pay $150 for some old junk and try to figure out how to get it working and spending more money in the process. Anyway I came across an ad for a record player for $55 this bloke said he bought it to transfer his vinyl onto USB. I called him up and he sounded cool so I went to have a look.

He was at the Gypsy Leather store on Parramatta Rd Auburn. I had a look through the window and it was obvious his clientele was exclusively Outlaw Bikers. I went inside and he was talking to a customer so I had a look around. There was at least 500 Harley Davidson T-Shirts on display. When the customer left I went to the counter and said,"maybe you can help me? I'm really struggling to find a Harley Davidson T-Shirt in this city."  He smiled and said 'you're here about the record player?'

I don't know how this guy got into the business of selling accoutrements to outlaw bikers because he was a little nerdy chap about 5 years older than me. Very nice bloke and I would've liked to continue our chat but a customer came in. The record player was as described- nearly new he just never got around to using it. $55 is a great deal.

I'm absolutely loving it. I've dug out a milk crate of albums and been giving them a twirl. It really takes you back. When having an album and listening to music was a physical thing. Holding the cover in your hands and reading the stuff on it and looking at the pictures. Some of my vinyl discs are dead straight and the needle goes over them smoothly but sometimes it's like there's a heavy swell and the needle or stylus or whatever it's called goes up and down like a hand pump.

I love watching the whole process. I wonder why it was replaced by CD's. They told us CDs wouldn't scratch like records. That was a LIE. What about when you had the CD player on in the car and hit a bump and the track jumped? I must admit I have no idea how a record works. I peer at the spinning vinyl and the needle and look at the speaker and listen to the CHOONS but I have about as much understanding of  how it all works as a pre 1788 Aborigine.