Any record collectors on board?

[bnorth]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

I guess more people bought & saved more records than they did baseball cards!

We can still look at the BB cards but how many people still have record players to listen to the albums.

[steve B]

I still have a record player. (And cassette, and 8 track that can do quad ) And have access to players for really old vertical cut records like Edison and Pathe, plus cylinders, either 2 or 4 minute. But not the big "opera" cylinders. Sadly most were actually opera music and my friend who's into them isn't interested in opera.


I have a bit of old vinyl, and some 78's. I wasn't really into collecting, but did pick up some stuff along the way.

The popular stuff sold a LOT of copies, and since it was entertainment loads of it got saved. I'll still pick up some at yard sales once in a while, or from thrift shops.

Steve B

[nebboy]

I buy/sell records some time when I can find older JAZZ. Some bring some good money.

Most records from big name groups/bands from almost any time in the past don't move well if at all and margins are small. Postage holds back many sells. And packaging (pizza type) boxs take up a lot of room to have on hand.

As for 45s Elvis early Sun Records always sell.

[GoldenAge50s]

As for 45s Elvis early Sun Records always sell.

Yeah John, and for BIG bucks! I think Elvis only had 2 Sun 45 releases before he went to RCA. I have Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins on original Sun label 45's.

Steve--

I think it's a national law that you MUST HAVE vinyl albums of Herb Alpert as a prerequisite to having a garage sale!

[clydepepper]

I received this ad in the mail:

musicworldrecords.com

'We pay cash for your old vinyl records'

Any size collection - We come to you

Please call us to schedule a visit

888-812-3160

- I have not tried it yet, let us all know if you use them...

[mrmantlecollector]

I have about 300 78's. Mostly jazz,big band and blues. I have 4 phonographs including a portable. I love the sound of records.

[SAllen2556]

Once upon a time I collected bootlegs of The Who. Used to visit record stores anywhere and everywhere looking for rare albums, especially live stuff. Of course, eventually, when that internet thing got going, you could find it all for free. My wife still gives me grief about it.

If anyone is in search of a Who bootleg, I'm your guy. I've been trying to sell them for years.

I also inherited my grandparents Harman Kardan hi fi radio/record player console circa 1960, with the tubes and everything. Love the warm sound that thing puts out, even in mono.

[packs]

Only really cool album I have is a French pressing of the White Album on white vinyl with all of the poster inserts. Never been played.

Here's the only pic I have of it at the moment:

[1963Topps Set]

Originally Posted by GoldenAge50s

As for 45s Elvis early Sun Records always sell.

Yeah John, and for BIG bucks! I think Elvis only had 2 Sun 45 releases before he went to RCA. I have Jerry Lee, Johnny Cash & Carl Perkins on original Sun label 45's.

Steve--

I think it's a national law that you MUST HAVE vinyl albums of Herb Alpert as a prerequisite to having a garage sale!

Elvis Presley had 5 Sun releases, both as 45 and 78, before going to RCA Victor in late 1955.

[1963Topps Set]

I am a died in the wool record collector. I have my Buddy Holly / Norman Petty collection that I started in 1977. I also collect stereo 45s from 1958 - 1960. I also have some other odd and ends. My main collection are all sleeved and in plastic sleeves.

[71buc]

Last year my father was going to throw out his and my mother's LPs. I quickly offered to take them. He had well over 1000 of them. Even though they aren't terribly valuable I really enjoyed going through them all and the memories they invoked were priceless. I purchased a mid sixties Dual turntable and have been listening to them all in my free time.

The other day I was vacuuming and decided to play my mother's Janis Joplin records. I remembered many a Sunday morning when Janis or Areatha hit the turntable it was my cue to disappear because house work was soon to follow. Cancer took her from us twenty years ago. She was 52. I am that age now and still miss her more than I can say. However, whenever I hear Janis sing Ball and Chain or Aretha sing Day Dreaming on one of those old LPs my mother's presence fills the room. I imagine that one day Miles Davis' Bitches Brew will have the same effect on me. It's an oddly emotional experience that for some reason I only get from vinyl.