Yes, because lossless compression can be used to reduce the required over-the-wire "bit rate" with absolutely perfect bit-for-bit representation of the original source at a given bit-depth and sample rate.
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Toying with selling my vinyl collection
- Thread starter wilberthenry
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Hipsters ruined it for us cheapskates. The main reason I have so much vinyl is because it was cheaper than the CD, especially used. That ended a long time ago. There are still underground / Indy labels that make vinyl at a fair price, last piece I bought was a 10" of a crossover thrash band that I like which I found used in a record store in Salt Lake City two weeks ago. It was 6.99, compared to 40 bucks each for new reissue albums that I liked (Overkill and Rainbow) and didn't buy.
I don't have a list. The bulk of them are 80's stuff from labels like SST, Touch and Go and smaller independent labels. Very few are major label releases, but some I bought used way back then are early pressings (the Stooges first record, Big Star-Radio City, etc.) . Grading each record would be tedious, and I doubt I am qualified to do it accurately, so I may sell the whole lot of them to a store/collector. Plus I'm too lazy to grade, pack, ship, etc.
The 7" EP with way more than 2 songs was pretty common in that era. I have no idea if it still is. Most of those have been out of print for decades and have not (to my knowledge) been digitized and uploaded to the internet.
I have given away a lot of records in the past 5 years. I found out later that some were worth a bit of cash, but I was happy to give them to youngsters who intended to listen to the music.
Vinyl is a pain in the butt. Too fragile and inconvenient. Having said that, there is a romanticism to the process (ritual) of putting on a record, listening to the side, flipping the record over and listening to the other side. There's something gratifying about holding a record and smelling the slowly decomposing cardboard sleeve. 
Having said THAT, I'll take a CD over a record any day in terms of sound quality and portability/convenience (though CDs are not as convenient as they were before disc players stopped coming standard with car stereos and computers).
Anyway, who knows how long the current trend with vinyl will last. I don't see it getting much bigger and it wouldn't surprise me if it died out in the not-too-distant future (possibly to be replaced by CDs once people get over the vinyl novelty and become tired of trying to get the dust off their records
). Good time to sell and Discogs does have a good market-place set up.
Having said THAT, I'll take a CD over a record any day in terms of sound quality and portability/convenience (though CDs are not as convenient as they were before disc players stopped coming standard with car stereos and computers).Anyway, who knows how long the current trend with vinyl will last. I don't see it getting much bigger and it wouldn't surprise me if it died out in the not-too-distant future (possibly to be replaced by CDs once people get over the vinyl novelty and become tired of trying to get the dust off their records
). Good time to sell and Discogs does have a good market-place set up.
Nope....keeping all my albums. I still buy em. I probably have over 700.
I also buy CDs, probably 400+.
I still have the first one I bought in 1972. Summer Breeze.
Hard to admit this...... I have a few 8 tracks and a player too. Haven't played an 8 track for years and the player isn't hooked up to my stereo system.
I also buy CDs, probably 400+.
I still have the first one I bought in 1972. Summer Breeze.
Hard to admit this...... I have a few 8 tracks and a player too. Haven't played an 8 track for years and the player isn't hooked up to my stereo system.
Wife and I bit the bullet in 2002 when we were transferred to Asia. Went to a local shop (in Ft Lauderdale) that buys/sells vinyl-posters-45s etc. Manager said go out and have dinner and when we return he'd have an estimate for us. Turns out about 95% were ones he already had but he offered around $1.50 for each one - we had brought them all so there were easily 500-600 vinyls. But he had pulled about a dozen aside and said 'here's where you collection gets good.' Those dozen got us around $500. Why? Because as an Army brat, growing up in Germany, I was buying German releases mainly, which are rare. All my Stones and Beatles were on British lables. Best one was a 45 single of "My Bonnie Lies Over The Ocean" by the Beat Brothers. They changed their name later to the Beatles. That one record got more than everything else. We were pleased.
Spinning vinyl is a whole different experience than listening to digital music.
For some of us boomers it brings us back to our youth. (Okay boomer... eye roll)
In high school it took three hours wages at the gas station to be able to go to Tower Records and pick out one album. We'd listen to he whole thing from start to finish, unlike these days when you just push a button to get to the next song. I can pull out an old album and remember spending an hour at the record store forty five years ago trying to decide if I should buy it.
For me it's just a more satisfying experience than streaming or CD's, iPod, etc.
Even with the hisses, pops and occasional skips.
I'm about dead-center Gen X, basically from the last group of kids with real memories of life before the internet, hell, before call-waiting or voicemail, and I feel very much the same way about vinyl. I'll take CDs over streaming, though. The only place I appreciate streaming is in the car.
I'm heavily into buying and selling vinyl online. I still like eBay best — It's fast and easy. Now is the best time to be a seller. I usually sell the stuff I don't want and keep what I like.
Two weeks ago, I found 50 classic rock LPs for $1 ea. In 2 weeks, I've sold about a dozen and made $150 profit.
Two weeks ago, I found 50 classic rock LPs for $1 ea. In 2 weeks, I've sold about a dozen and made $150 profit.
I'd very interested to talk about the SST and Touch & Go records. Any Blast First?
I just picked up a turntable two days ago.
I'm so sick of having that G-damn phone in my hand all the time for every blessed thing I do! I don't want to use it for music anymore! ... not in the house anyway.
I realize, of course, the selection and variety available to me and my family in terms of listening is about to be significantly diminished...
That said, I don't care. I'm ready to throw this phone into the ocean.
I'm so sick of having that G-damn phone in my hand all the time for every blessed thing I do! I don't want to use it for music anymore! ... not in the house anyway.
I realize, of course, the selection and variety available to me and my family in terms of listening is about to be significantly diminished...
That said, I don't care. I'm ready to throw this phone into the ocean.
Reading an actual book or playing a record are 2 of the last things you can do to consume media without being monitored, marketed-to, or cataloged. Nearly subversive behavior anymore.
...and that's the OTHER thing I've just started doing again!
So true, man... So true.
Kinda crazy, right?
Well.....I was just at a friends house yesterday. A big thunderstorm knocked out all cable and internet service for over a week now. We helped her hook up the old dvd machine and raided the closet for discs, then spent the afternoon watching movies. She was EXTREMELY excited to have something working again....
When the grid goes down here, I'm always excited that everything works fine for half the day when my solar power system is cranking and all of the traditional tech works fine. I ran my entire workshop, air conditioning, and built a stratocaster last week while the neighbors were sitting in silence, swealtering in their powerless reality....
Solar is something I really want to get installed, for a host of reasons.
I actually gave away my Sonic Youth records to a kid who was a fan. She was waiting for a lung transplant. No regrets. She was very appreciative and more importantly, she came through the operation and is doing OK. I may have a few 7" records from blast first, but I'd have to look.
I love vinyl. Having your collection on Discogs is good for insurance purposes, so say the folks who insure my record collection.
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Freekmagnet
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I had a killer vinyl collection. About 2000 LPs and a never counted my 45s. Mostly rare funk and a pretty solid reggae collection. When I relocated to SoCal, I boxed them up and left them at my dad's house. I figured they'd be safe. I came back for them about 6-8 months later and they were all out of their sleeves and scattered all over the floor. My '86 StingRay was gone, too.
I still have my vinyl. 200+ albums, a few collectable like the Lynyrd Skynyrd Street Survivors, Bowie's Diamond Dogs, etc. I still pull them out and look at them, lots of great liner notes and posters. Nothing beats 12" record art. Oh, I I still buy CDs. Just bought two 2 weeks ago. Steve Miller live 1977 and Kansas Leftover ture live 2017.
