Vinyl records

Ebay?

VinylWeb-dot-Com is a place to start ... lotsa useful links. There's a very active community of vinyl collectors and album art fans, with a well-developed market; however, they know what they want and they know what its worth. I'm a vinyl junkie myself, owning literally thousands of albums. I'm into swapping & trading - and listening (no substitute for the sound of good vinyl on good gear) - more than buying and selling. The thing about popular music is that it is just that; popular - lots of it gets sold. Unfortunately for most folks, that means there's unlikely to be much of relatively significant value to a knowledgeable collector in those boxes of LPs & 45s (if you're old enough) you've had stashed away for years.

If they are in excellent condition, there are people who will play big bucks for certain recordings. We had a lot of the Mercury Living Presence classical records. We put an ad in the paper. Some guy came from Ohio to New York to buy the records. He gave us a couple of hundred dollars for one record, and about at average of 15 bucks for most of the others.
He had the records presold, mostly in Germany and Japan.

We still have a lot of vinyl, and some of them beats CD in sound quality by a mile.

Yeah, I always thought the hype over CD sound quality was horse poop.

Thanks for the suggestions. Timberland, I will try vinylweb.com, and will also bring some of them to a used record dealer in Seattle, which is my neck of the woods. The album art on some of them is exquisite, and I can imagine some art collector wanting them for the covers, if nothing else.

I did look at Ebay, but there is very little classical music being sold there. Most of the albums have 0 bids, and the prices are ridiculously low. Somebody specializing in Indian sitar music has swamped the "classical music" section with a huge number of ads.

If I could just connect with the right buyer, I have a great product for them, but how to find them?

Edgarblythe, what newspaper did you advertise in?

There's probably a record store in your part of the land that will buy your vinyl, if in good condition.

I will never part with my wax. We still have our turntables, the ol' man and I. We have two.

I think you'd probably have to murder him to get to his collection.

Not hardly!

Try THIS, eb


Obviously, you've never heard good vinyl played back on good gear.

Oh yes I have. But, I will confess, I haven't heard good vinyl on good equipment SINCE the introduction of CD.

I guess you people think I was extolling the quality of CD sound, when I called it horse poop? Ive never been a fan of the stuff, myself. I still listen to vinyl at home, but have CDs for when I'm driving.

I didn't advertise anything in a paper, never claimed to have done so.

eoe- I think that you would be shocked if you went into a really high end audio store. There are many people who would pay thousands for a really high end turntable and cartridge. In addition, there are purists who would not consider anything except a tube amplifier.

We have some pretty good equipment, and a well recorded vinyl record has a quality to it I have never heard on a CD.

Just to give you an idea: (No, we dont have this stuff! )

http://www.audiofederation.com/catalog/turntables/

LOL, Phoenix - I do have some fairly sophisticated, relatively expensive turntable/cartridge rigs (mentioned briefly here) - but not on the order of those. My primary turntable - several years old now, but a model still in production - is in the $1000 class, and mounts a cartridge representing a slightly lesser investment.