Back home (as my online name suggests) I have a huge record collection which is worth a fair amount of money, I’m on my way back home on Tuesday for my first trip back in 2 years and it has become clear I could have a buyer for said record collection.
Now, this collection was my love, my passion… I spent hours mooching about in specialised record shops, record fairs, boot sales, warehouses, smoking copious amounts of cigs and “other” having (near) fistfights with Northern-English (and some from north of the border) gentlemen in my “I am a trainspotting-loner and have no girlfriend or SO” period… you get the general idea…
But now it has become something of an albatross around my neck… I live in Taiwan for the foreseeable future and its gathering dust waiting for my return. :s
My ol’ mucker TomHill suggests that to sell would be heresy as he says “that is your soul” and I agree to an extent… but will I ever go back there?
so many conflicting emotions… what do you guys think?.. should I be a man and throw away the shackles of my teenage/early20’s existence? or hold on to nostalgia for nostalgias sake?
Yeah, yeah… I feel for you… Do what you gotta do… blah, blah.
More importantly, do you have Queen Is Dead by The Smiths? I used to own it, but I sold it, together with other great LPs back when I had a lobotomy and thought CDs looked cooler.
Mmm, same here. I must have 1200 albums in the loft at my parents’ place. I’m not going to part with them just yet. If I did I think I’d have a serious think about getting some copies of my favourite stuff done before letting them go. Hell, music sounds better with crackles!
I’ve got some rare stuff tucked away in there - blue vinyl, signed copies, picture discs. I’m not parting with that lot until I can make a fair deal with the buyer. Like photographs, music and books are the only real keepsakes I value for sentimental reasons. Is the money really worth selling them, or will you get more pleasure from a good old listen and smell of the album covers when you make it back?
Sorry, Funk. That was very selfish and inconsiderate.
So you’re finally going home for a visit, eh? That’s great! Enjoy yourself. Fill your lungs with the clean Manchesterian air, eat a lot of English(!) chocolate (Chunky ) and soak up as much culture as you can carry back!
You should do whatever you can to hang onto them…if only to avoid being just another in the endless succession of sorry t’wats who never fail, upon hearing the DJ play some Pearl Harbor/Ian Dury/Lords etc. rarity (see prev. post) 2/3 of the way through the night, to regale all present yet again with the old standby
How about another friend or family member that might let you stick them in your attic for a couple of years?[/quote]
Thats where they are right now… in my mum and dads attic… my old man is also a vinyl junkie so they are well looked after. His thing is Northern Soul, Doo Wop and early 1960’s Soul.
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More importantly, do you have Queen Is Dead by The Smiths? [/quote]
Unfortunately not on vinyl… I must point out my collection has basically 2 parts… music for listening to regularly (so reissues, cds etc… there are many albums I wore out such as Marvin Gaye’s “Whats Going On?”) and the other side is for the rare as rocking horse shit jazz,funk soul, and reggae 45’s, 10inchs, albums etc… I’d better stop otherwise I’ll bore your ears off
[quote=“the chief”]You should do whatever you can to hang onto them…if only to avoid being just another in the endless succession of sorry t’wats who never fail, upon hearing the DJ play some Pearl Harbor/Ian Dury/Lords etc. rarity (see prev. post) 2/3 of the way through the night, to regale all present yet again with the old standby
you know, like everyone else on this thread…
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:bravo: All hail the chief… you are right… I don’t want to become one of those aforementioned t’wats/elitist… if I sounded that way in my previous post… that was not my intention
oh, and Tash… don’t worry I’ve not forgotten about your chocolate
Though I’d personally love to raid your collection, I think you’re best off forgetting about it for the time being and leaving them there to gather dust. You’ll regret selling them, and they’re probably not worth shipping over.
I, myself, got my dad a turntable and a few programs for his computer and taught him how to use them. Basically, whenever I want to listen to something in particular I give him the title and he spends a day looking for the vinyl, records it and sends it over. Gives me enough of a fix to keep me going at least.
[quote=“gaboman”]Though I’d personally love to raid your collection, I think you’re best off forgetting about it for the time being and leaving them there to gather dust. You’ll regret selling them, and they’re probably not worth shipping over.
I, myself, got my dad a turntable and a few programs for his computer and taught him how to use them. Basically, whenever I want to listen to something in particular I give him the title and he spends a day looking for the vinyl, records it and sends it over. Gives me enough of a fix to keep me going at least.[/quote]
Limey… you are right, its not about money for me, there is so much nostalgia surrounding them… I’m going to have a good time sifting through them come next Wednesday. I can remember buying most of them and things that were going on in my life at the time… its more a realization that I maybe need to move on to a new phase in my life (but public opinion seems to suggest that I’d be a bit of a loon to get rid)
JdSmith… you made a point earlier about shipping some across… well, the climate isn’t well suited to bringing Vinyl across… to see record sleeves going mouldy etc. oh… I don’t want to think about it .
Gaboman… you and me think the same
HGC… what reggae are you into? (for interest purposes only)
Either way, I’ll meet the buyer when I go home… if even if its just for a pint
I left about 1,000 albums behind when I came to Taiwan. Last time I looked, all that were left were Pat Travers Live, Lindisfarne’s Fog on the Tyne and the empty sleeve of Never Mind the Bollocks.
[quote=“sandman”]I left about 1,000 albums behind when I came to Taiwan. Last time I looked, all that were left were Pat Travers Live, Lindisfarne’s Fog on the Tyne and the empty sleeve of Never Mind the Bollocks.
What the hell was wrong with Lindisfarne? [/quote]
Before moving to Melbourne many years ago, a friend popped over and kindly offered to safe-house my treaasured vinyl collection. I remember very carefully stacking them in the boot of her car.
Two years later I unpacked them from the boot of her car. Suffice it to say the Western Australian weather is merciless on vinyl. :fume:
This is a desperate and serious plea from a stack of 45 long playing records. DON"T SELL US.
Funk500 is going home, back to the land of sweet sweet England, and he told me that he is gonna sell his record collection. OMG!
He is gonna regret that decision one day, so I beg of you all, let him know what a total disaster this move is. Tony Hadley would be turning in his grave, were he dead.
) and soak up as much culture as you can carry back!
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