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78 collecting can be viewed two ways, I feel: - an insane thing to do considering many/most record shops consider them unsellable and thus won't even buy or stock them, considering their almost universally shredded condition and audio quality, etc. - a kind of wise thing to do (if you're gonna collect anything, which is clearly not wise to begin with) due to their near-worthless status even among most record collectors, with a handful of exceptions (certain recordings have a wider "master collectro" appeal, or there's occasional crusty R. Crumb type motherfucker who seriously collects them), so you're kind of ahead of a curve, like guys who bought up Moogs in the 80s when digital synths came out. or if the curve never rises, at least you're paying pennies for a lot of it edit: neither theory is meant in a condescending way, I appreciate quixotic undertakings and collect 45s myself with an absurdly uneconomic twist: I don't buy, or at least not much, "Old" 45s (say pre-90s)... I mean if I came across Salt - Hung Up or something I'd buy it but generally I focus on recent release music I like in genres better known for their 60s-70s collectibility Deep Glove Bruno fucked around with this message at 21:09 on Oct 13, 2021 |
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How many shelf-feet was 3000 78s!? Come to think of it how many shelf feet is 700? Four figure vinyl collections in my experience are like "whole wall" type situations, and dudes with more than ~3k LPs are seriously considering loadbearing/foundation concerns in their storage solutions
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And yeah, the purest collector is somebody making their own personal library/archive with no big intention to grip-n-flip/turn it into a living, but storage and "mental storage" concerns turn people into dealers pretty often when they have the physical or mental need to purge a big collection, and then the money side of it kinda rears its head. I try to avoid being a record gremlin as much as I can and disregard the discogs collection estimate etc. so I feel ya.
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