I have a box of vinys which have followed me around alot of flats through the years - they just sit there, taking up space.

A friend is going to take the majority to some DJ convenction to try to sell them. But, i went through them and found some original Beatles 45s and a few Motown nnumbers and also Thriller in the box with the cobwebs.

My question,

Should I keep these records and try to sell them on e-bay or just give them to the guy who is standing at a stall in the cold?

Actually, it will be quite sad to see my younger life leave. Communards, Eurithmycs, The Eighties.

Hi Patsy.

I reckon you should try E-Bay first. You reach a world-wide market and are much more likely to attract a greater number of vinyl buffs.

It costs you nothing to try.

Thanx

There is a gadget you can buy from the high street where you can transfer them on to CD and so reducing your space required.

This solution allows you to keep the more memorable vinyl and give the rest away to the stall and see what you get, vinyl is so much more collectable than any other media.

Thanks mossy.

But most of the records i have I have already bought the cd of them - Springsteen, communards, lionel, Benson, etc.

I did look through them for old times sake and, as i am a slushy and sentimental sort of person - I want to keep some of them because they remind me of my youth. Come on Eileen comes to mind.

But i know in my heart of hearts i shall never buy a record player - and i can find all those songs on u-toob.

This guy seems solid and will try to sell them at a good price - which gives me a bit of extra cash. And he has said he will return the ones that he doesn't sell. Donny Osmond come on home!!

I did keep the original Beatles 45s circa 1969 I am the walrus and a couple of motown classics (otis redding 1964) because i think i could get more money for them than the guy in a market stall can. Also, when i was 19 i went out with a guy in a band and he wrote a song about me, so i kept that one.

I shall give him my scratched but collectible Thriller album... Bruce's The River ... Commodores... Shows they were loved.

In fact, I was quite surprised that I had such a great musical sense when i was 20 odd!!! Jonny Clegg, Genesis, Meatloaf - you want it, I got it!! Rod Stewart?

Eurythmics... I could go on and on!

Have a great weekend.

Thanks mossy.

But most of the records i have I have already bought the cd of them - Springsteen, communards, lionel, Benson, etc.

I did look through them for old times sake and, as i am a slushy and sentimental sort of person - I want to keep some of them because they remind me of my youth. Come on Eileen comes to mind.

But i know in my heart of hearts i shall never buy a record player - and i can find all those songs on u-toob.

This guy seems solid and will try to sell them at a good price - which gives me a bit of extra cash. And he has said he will return the ones that he doesn't sell. Donny Osmond come on home!!

I did keep the original Beatles 45s circa 1969 I am the walrus and a couple of motown classics (otis redding 1964) because i think i could get more money for them than the guy in a market stall can. Also, when i was 19 i went out with a guy in a band and he wrote a song about me, so i kept that one.

I shall give him my scratched but collectible Thriller album... Bruce's The River ... Commodores... Shows they were loved.

In fact, I was quite surprised that I had such a great musical sense when i was 20 odd!!! Jonny Clegg, Genesis, Meatloaf - you want it, I got it!! Rod Stewart?

Eurythmics... I could go on and on!

Have a great weekend.

Johnny Clegg!!! That's a name I haven't heard in a while. I had a cd of his.....lost it in a burglary.

Come on Patsy.....what's the song that was written about you? I am sure I am not alone in wanting to hear it.

A friend came over to my place in Canada last spring and saw my collection of old vinyl records. He told me there is a market for the famous singers. I'd try ebay first... at least for the Beatles.

I gave away quite a few of mine, and the rest went in the bin (vinyls). I've given my CDs to my daughter. All the music I'm interested in is on HDD drives (with multiple redundancy, including portability) and on the odd occasion I buy CDs, I rip what I want and then give them to daughter (and occasionally rip some of her stuff when she buys CDs). Much less clutter and far greater convenience. I actually listen to my recorded music far more often these days than I used to when I only had the music on CD/vinyl/tape.

Generally speaking, it's far too easy to be a bowerbird and keep items of nostalgia, such as old records, in a dusty cupboard. The reality is that they are really only an encumbrance to yourself or (ultimately) someone else. (My daughter disagrees.) Those of you who spend a lot of time away from home can probably identify with what I am saying - that we tend to accumulate far too much rubbish that we can really do without.

I bought a device which allows me to transfer all my old records to my pc. I can then keep them as mp3 for an ipod and also burn them to cds. A perfect solution. I could never part with my old records, too many memories attached and they don't take up that much space. However, if you want to get rid of them, yeah, sell them for as much as you can get.

I sold around 400 albums to a dealer before I moved to Thailand. I'd been collecting since 1970. It was a difficult thing to do, but I knew they had to go.

I sometimes wish I'd kept some of the sleeves and displayed them in frames.

PATSY,

Just do a bit of research, you may just surprise yourself with the value of some of those records. If they are in good condition, some analog recorded vinyls get top dollar.

Knowing that Patsycat has a good sense of humour, my first thought about her mentioning Vinyls was this picture of Vinyl Valery...

Knowing that Patsycat has a good sense of humour, my first thought about her mentioning Vinyls was this picture of Vinyl Valery...

Come on Ian, what you mean to say is, "Patsycat, I can't help it, everytime I post its about sex. Would you like to see a picture of me swimming with my sex doll? "

Thanks mossy.

But most of the records i have I have already bought the cd of them - Springsteen, communards, lionel, Benson, etc.

I did look through them for old times sake and, as i am a slushy and sentimental sort of person - I want to keep some of them because they remind me of my youth. Come on Eileen comes to mind.

But i know in my heart of hearts i shall never buy a record player - and i can find all those songs on u-toob.

This guy seems solid and will try to sell them at a good price - which gives me a bit of extra cash. And he has said he will return the ones that he doesn't sell. Donny Osmond come on home!!

I did keep the original Beatles 45s circa 1969 I am the walrus and a couple of motown classics (otis redding 1964)

Don't mean to be pedantic but Otis Redding would be spinning in his grave if he heard he'd recorded for Motown. Otis was a Stax/Volt man.

Another solution - have a community frisbee day at your local park.

We used to do that with old 78s, great fun with spectacular smashes.

So that's where the expression came from - if you manage to ding someone on the head with an old 78, it's a smash hit...

Yeah, we didn't realise just how dangerous it really was. Young and stupid!

Knowing that Patsycat has a good sense of humour, my first thought about her mentioning Vinyls was this picture of Vinyl Valery...

Come on Ian, what you mean to say is, "Patsycat, I can't help it, everytime I post its about sex. Would you like to see a picture of me swimming with my sex doll? "

That's a strange place to store a puncture repair kit.

Oh, dear---So i went thrue the records and i kept about 10 out of about 50.

Beatles and a couple of others.

They shall go - sad- But i can hear the same songs on cd or on yoo toob.

The next ones are the books.

I have six banana boxes of books. all sorts. And i have 6 people coming round next sunday to buy some books. If i make some cash on them i shall be happy. I don't ask very much money for them. jist a wee bit.

It has basically come to the time of getting rid of them.

Ian, your dolly looks a bit chilly.

There's a coincidence. I got rid of about 1500 or so books through a dealer, for which he paid the princely sum of about $300. Of the remaining 6 or 7000 books, people ratted through them and took what they wanted (accounting for about 500 books) and the rest - bar about 1000 - went in the skip. (I've come to the realisation that the remainder will have to go too. Time for another skip). Unless you've either got a heap of books in very good condition, or a small number of rare books (or a combination of same), it's really not worth the effort of flogging them - better to give them away or toss them. That said, foreign (non-Thai) language books in Th may score you more than they would in your home country.

There's a coincidence. I got rid of about 1500 or so books through a dealer, for which he paid the princely sum of about $300. Of the remaining 6 or 7000 books, people ratted through them and took what they wanted (accounting for about 500 books) and the rest - bar about 1000 - went in the skip. (I've come to the realisation that the remainder will have to go too. Time for another skip). Unless you've either got a heap of books in very good condition, or a small number of rare books (or a combination of same), it's really not worth the effort of flogging them - better to give them away or toss them. That said, foreign (non-Thai) language books in Th may score you more than they would in your home country.

Poser. My mum always told me that it was rude to count.

I actually have six people interested in my book boxes, so shall see.

I suggested next Sunday between 3-6 with a glass of vino thrown in. Might make some new friends.. if i ply then with enougb plonk,

There's a coincidence. I got rid of about 1500 or so books through a dealer, for which he paid the princely sum of about $300. Of the remaining 6 or 7000 books, people ratted through them and took what they wanted (accounting for about 500 books) and the rest - bar about 1000 - went in the skip. (I've come to the realisation that the remainder will have to go too. Time for another skip). Unless you've either got a heap of books in very good condition, or a small number of rare books (or a combination of same), it's really not worth the effort of flogging them - better to give them away or toss them. That said, foreign (non-Thai) language books in Th may score you more than they would in your home country.

Poser. My mum always told me that it was rude to count.

Poser (poseur)? Is that another name for bowerbird?

I'm trying to get my house empty, and I've got the collected acquisitions (aka 'junk') of all my past years to get rid of. It would probably take a concerted effort over several months to get rid of it all (or a lifetime on Ebay posts) for a return that (to me) is simply not worth the effort. Things of sufficient value to warrant the effort can go through the auctions - the rest can go in the skip. I'd leave them out on the nature strip, but I suspect I'd be done for littering!

I am like you. I have years of rubbish to get rid of. The records, the books, clothes, shoes etc.

The cat i shall keep.

Ping it seems is a man after my own heart, we moved back to Thailand in November with 3 suit cases, a rucksack (containing hubbies tattoo stuff, well he needs it to make moolah) a car seat & a buggy. The contents of the 2 bedroom semi, accumulated over the 5 1/2 years in UK was mostly given away or dumped with the occasional valuable item sold on ebay, sonnys extensive & expensive toy collection plus garden toys, extra bedding, towels & paperwork & pics were stored in mums garden shed for future shipping to LOS but even now, 2 months before my visit back I am mentally disposing of some of that too. I also have a plan to scan the remainder of my paper photos & dump them as I often look though my online albums but haven't picked up a real photo album in years

The word "hoarder" does not exist in my vocab.

Sell them all, copy the ones you really want to keep but if you don't have a record player then better you get some dosh for a nice holiday or treat than keep something that will go back into a box not to be seen again for years.

Have you googled any of the record shops in UK? There are always dealers looking for prime vinyl.

I'm a hoarder.

Perhaps it's a legacy from my parents, who had a legacy from their parents from the depression days. Gosh, my mum still darns socks.

Or perhaps it's a habit from my time on the farm when I was dirt poor....everything had a potential use. I even used to collect the occassional thong (flipflop/jandal) that washed up on the beach; eventually I would get a pair, even if they were different colours.

Bits of polystyrene that washed up were collected and used as a kind of gap-filler glue on my boat and canoe (you melt the stuff in petrol (effectively making napalm) and fill the cracks with the goo, and it adheres and hardens overnight)

Nuts and bolts, screws, pieces of wood or metal, all come in handy when doing some project around the house.

Broken appliances all have componants that could come in handy one day.

I don't think I'm frugal, in fact I'm sure I'm not, I'm just the opposite, yet it seems pointless to me to waste stuff. Having said that, I'm certainly not one of those obsessive hoarders that fill every room in their house with junk.

Mind you, old photos and records I think I would definitely offload as I can't see a practical use for them.

There's a coincidence. I got rid of about 1500 or so books through a dealer, for which he paid the princely sum of about $300. Of the remaining 6 or 7000 books, people ratted through them and took what they wanted (accounting for about 500 books) and the rest - bar about 1000 - went in the skip. (I've come to the realisation that the remainder will have to go too. Time for another skip). Unless you've either got a heap of books in very good condition, or a small number of rare books (or a combination of same), it's really not worth the effort of flogging them - better to give them away or toss them. That said, foreign (non-Thai) language books in Th may score you more than they would in your home country.

Poser. My mum always told me that it was rude to count.

Poser (poseur)? Is that another name for bowerbird?

I'm trying to get my house empty, and I've got the collected acquisitions (aka 'junk') of all my past years to get rid of. It would probably take a concerted effort over several months to get rid of it all (or a lifetime on Ebay posts) for a return that (to me) is simply not worth the effort. Things of sufficient value to warrant the effort can go through the auctions - the rest can go in the skip. I'd leave them out on the nature strip, but I suspect I'd be done for littering!

Geez, are you ever talking about me. I have a huge big home back in Canada and I dread having to get rid of all the crap stored in it. I've got all my mother and father's stuff stored in it and it'll take ages just to go through all the old photos and toss out the ones that don't mean anything to my children. I've got some sentimental stuff that I hardly ever look at but find hard to throw away. And, I'm getting to an age where I DO have to do some serious trimming. At any time I could pop off and my poor kids would have to decide what to keep and what to junk. I've got a lot of very expensive books and stuff my children wouldn't know the value of. Its hard to let go of the past though and my children already have the furniture they need for themselves. My home is just a storage place for all my expensive outdoor "toys": boats, motors, motorbikes, bicycles, camping equipment, guns, fishing tackle, cameras, and gawd knows what else. Even my paintings would fetch a bundle if I put them on the market.

Patsy - don't give them away yet - e-bay looks better every day.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music/m...enaissance.html

Vinyl record sales rising as 'old fashioned albums enjoy a renaissance'

Vinyl records and cassette tapes have enjoyed a resurgence in popularity, as more music fans ignore CDs and digital downloads, official sale figures suggest.

By Andrew Hough

Published: 7:30AM GMT 09 Mar 2010

Most vinyl records bought over the past 10 years were by DJs and dance music fans but recently more rock and country music albums have been sold.

Sales of old-fashioned albums rose by more than five per cent last year, figures from the Official UK Charts Company showed.

CD sales have fallen by a fifth over the same period, leading to some manufacturers threatening to halt their production.

Despite accounting for less than one per cent of music purchases, American sales of vinyl topped almost three million, an increase of a million records.

Music website Amazon.co.uk said it had more than 250,000 vinyl albums in stock to meet the growing demand.

Internet search engine Yahoo meanwhile, has reported a 210 per cent increase in searches of the phrase "blank cassette tapes" and a 110 per cent rise in users seeking “music cassette tapes”.

The new trend is believed to have originated from New York teenagers, leading to a boom in record player and turntable sales.

Most vinyl records bought over the past 10 years were by DJs and dance music fans, but recently more rock and country music albums have been sold.

Some of the most popular records include music from Florence and the Machine and The Courteeners and re-released Jimi Hendrix and The Red Hot Chili Pepper albums.

Music experts said that vinyl sales figures could be even higher because official British statistics do not include sales from smaller record shops and albums sold at concerts.

British sales of seven-inch records peaked in 1979, with 89 million copies sold, but as CDs became more popular they slumped to less than 180,000 in 2001. Last year sales rose to 223,000.

Some vintage blank tapes are reportedly selling for more than £20 on auction websites.

"Downloads are quick and easy but nothing beats the joy of holding a heavy piece of vinyl,” Steve Clancey, a Brixton rare records and vinyl dealer told The Sun.

"Vinyl sounds richer and there's something special about the cover art and sleeve notes which you cannot get with digital tunes."

Latest figures show that digital music sales accounted for more than a quarter of the music industry's global income in 2009 for the first time.

Almost 30 per cent of global music revenues were generated via digital downloads last year, generating a total of £2.6billion.