That's for you ,but the dealer made out like a bandit, they always do...6 years ago I got rid of 1200 albums for 1500.i started collecting in the mid 60s but even as a teenager I took care of my albums.Then in 1973 I got disc washer brush and started cleaning them.There was even some product that said spray them and it will put a protective seal on them.i bought quite a bit of it .I was happy to get a buck a album...Well this dealer made out like crazy.i had alot of rare 60-70 albums.i had like a few thousand cds,r to r,and cassettes to keep me happy....But then I started buying albums again ,new turntable and now I have over 700 God help me...But mostly Foreign, and bought alot of lots which brought me alot of clean different groups...One lot was 100 foreign the guy bought while in arm forces took them home and taped them only played once .Another lot of 300 was crazy to her father in law kept these in mint ,still in plastic .She wanted a buck an album....then she called me when she moved and gave me the rest ,crazy.So you never know .Sometimes you lose ,other times you get rewarded.
What do you do with your old LP's that don't meet your quality standards.
I took my Thorens TD160 that I bought new in 1976 into the shop for a $400.00 tuneup. New power cord, belt, grease, Grado Red 1 Cartridge, and overall inspection.
It sat for about 20 years as I was playing CD's.
I went through my 400 albums and was able to pick out about 75 of them that met my high standard of condition. Back in the 70's taking care of your vinyl wasn't a priority. Before playing any of them I cleaned them with 2 Spin Clean systems, 1 with the cleaner and the other as a wash with distilled water. I then used a vinyl vac on a lazy Susan type revolving thing that I had glued a 3/4" piece of plywood with a 1/4" bolt epoxyed in the center. Worked great.
I was going to throw out the 325 bad albums but then contacted a guy that runs a little 2nd hand record store here in Milwaukee called Off The Beaten Path. I gave them to him for free, just asked for a small store credit after he goes through them all.
Next day he posted a picture of all of them on Facebook in the back of his van. He even closed his store the next day to start pricing them.
The picture kind of gave me a tear or two.
Then the following day he started posting pictures of them. That really hit me, brought back so many memories of a time long ago.
In the end I'm really happy that some of them will find a happy home.
He told me that I would be surprised how many younger people really don't care about the shape that the albums are. They just want to get into vinyl and listen to the music they grew up with listening to what their parents played.
Bottom line, I feel really good that I didn't throw them in the trash.
It sat for about 20 years as I was playing CD's.
I went through my 400 albums and was able to pick out about 75 of them that met my high standard of condition. Back in the 70's taking care of your vinyl wasn't a priority. Before playing any of them I cleaned them with 2 Spin Clean systems, 1 with the cleaner and the other as a wash with distilled water. I then used a vinyl vac on a lazy Susan type revolving thing that I had glued a 3/4" piece of plywood with a 1/4" bolt epoxyed in the center. Worked great.
I was going to throw out the 325 bad albums but then contacted a guy that runs a little 2nd hand record store here in Milwaukee called Off The Beaten Path. I gave them to him for free, just asked for a small store credit after he goes through them all.
Next day he posted a picture of all of them on Facebook in the back of his van. He even closed his store the next day to start pricing them.
The picture kind of gave me a tear or two.
Then the following day he started posting pictures of them. That really hit me, brought back so many memories of a time long ago.
In the end I'm really happy that some of them will find a happy home.
He told me that I would be surprised how many younger people really don't care about the shape that the albums are. They just want to get into vinyl and listen to the music they grew up with listening to what their parents played.
Bottom line, I feel really good that I didn't throw them in the trash.