Getting out of vinyl and sick about it


I was collecting for years but then went away to New Zealand without my gear and now that I'm back I can't justify records. I'm selling my first subscription to the Music Matters Blue Notes that I never got to open as well as my huge Mosaic records collection and my crazy, original stuff from Tom Petty to expensive Led Zeppelin reissues on Classics 45s. Not to mention the love of my life...a gold Technics turntable with KAB mod plus a 78rpm setup and my huge 78 collection. Ah! The horror. What should I do? I'm out, I must get out!
kublakhan

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Sorry, I missed your responses! The old Audiogon would notify us of responses to posts...wouldn't it? I've been away so long, I forgot.

Jazzcourier, you're right, this sounds like an ad...I noticed that when I read it over. I can't even remember posting this so maybe that was my thought. If it was...sorry! I might have posted this on Ambien! (I'm not joking.)

Dekay...The ELAD comment cracked me up. We're officially old-school now.

Kleech, you must have been to NZ before. I did play some golf and in Queenstown I went from wearing a polo shirt to a sweater (jumper!) to a rain jacket and then having to race into the clubhouse because of hail! The meat pies are everywhere.

Regarding getting rid of my vinyl: I'm moving around so much it's just too difficult. Vinyl is so heavy and bulky. What I've noticed is that prices have come way down and IMO it's due to the 2007-8 crash. Honestly, the Music Matters 45rpm stuff should have sold out immediately but most titles are still available. The Mosaic stuff has come down at least 30%. Before that date I remember seeing a Zeppelin set in a flight case that I had thought of buying new for around $800 sell for $10,000!

The sad thing about selling all my vinyl is that I had always collected it waiting to be settled in to enjoy it but I realized that I don't like to be settled. I need to keep moving.
The more I think about it, the more I'm convinced that this was an attempt to notify people that I had LPs for sale and that I must have posted it while on Ambien. Sorry everybody. If I could delete the post, I would. What's really funny is that the other night I was in bed talking to someone on Skype...until I realized that I was actually watching a Youtube video and trying to talk to the person as if we were on a skype call. Ambien really messes me up! I swore off it years ago after waking up in the morning to see every one of my pants scattered around my room as if it had been ransacked. Then I remembered (barely) waking up in the middle of the night and trying on every one of my pants...for some reason. That stuff is dangerous.