Where to sell vinyls

[BioWeapon]

This is where i am leaning. Well, exchange fire for dumpster.

Vinyl, or any kind of PVC and high heat/fire is a recipe for toxic fumes. Very strongly recommend you don't burn a ton of it.

 

[bass12]

Yeah, i dont get it. I still hear a new "album" is released, but its a CD.

An "album" is typically regarded as a format, not as a medium. And, yeah, I don't think burning vinyl is a very good idea. Then again, burying the stuff seems like an equally bad idea. Terrible stuff for the environment any way you slice it.

 

[DwaynieAD]

If you set your oven to the lowest temp you can get them warm enough to manipulate them. Make pretty cool chip bowls and such.

 

[Richland123]

Here is another option; especially for the damaged records. I met a craft vendor who makes clocks out of old records. They told me they are always looking for albums. You might want to contact them. They are in western Pennsylvania.

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[sonojono]

An "album" is typically regarded as a format, not as a medium. And, yeah, I don't think burning vinyl is a very good idea. Then again, burying the stuff seems like an equally bad idea. Terrible stuff for the environment any way you slice it.

If you noticed, the modern vinyl is pressed from digital to analog. Modern vinyl today ain’t the same

 

[Alkali Ike]

If you noticed, the modern vinyl is pressed from digital to analog. Modern vinyl today ain’t the same

This isn’t universally true. Some new vinyl is analog masters to vinyl with no digital conversion (well maybe at the mastering lathe). These are usually clearly identified as mastered from analog. Tedeschi Trucks “Signs” is an example.

 

[Huw Phillips]

I collect vinyl records and have found discocogs to be the best place to buy and sell, water damage is tedious to fix but not impossible, I had to soak a bunch that got wet in a hurricane they play fine once washed and dried
If you have any reggae I would be interested more obscure stuff not Bob Marley
Good luck

 

[Deleted member 165050]

If you set your oven to the lowest temp you can get them warm enough to manipulate them. Make pretty cool chip bowls and such.

Maybe a Darth Vader helmet as well...

 

[gln1955]

Bury those things rather than burn. They'll be exactly the same 10,000 years from now, long after all of the digital media is lost after the apocalypse. Give the archeologists a treat.

 

[Deleted member 165050]

Here's most of my vinyl, some of which I bought way back in Tudor times when many tb-ers weren't around yet. Even so, the most valuable in that lot are my ITM albums which are currently outperforming Tesla stocks or so it seems.

 

[Spidey2112]

https://thunderpussy.com/

On High Street, short North area in Columbus... worth a try, anyways.

 

[Lowendtech]

When you buy tires for your car, do you ask for rubbers?

I would, but they’re not really made of rubber anymore. Also, I would just for a laugh.
Additionally, I work in a real record (vinyl) shop.
Much like “jet-ski” (a Kawasaki product) is used to generically describe a PWC (Personal Watercraft) or Ski-Doo (a Bombardier product) is used to describe a snowmobile. Etc.
It’s just lazy wordsmithing that’s ubiquitous and generally well accepted in this day and age of dumbed down twittering.

 

[Lowendtech]

Here is another option; especially for the damaged records. I met a craft vendor who makes clocks out of old records. They told me they are always looking for albums. You might want to contact them. They are in western Pennsylvania.

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Nice. We have an artist that does this too and the work is really good as well.

 

[Killing Floor]

Discogs. Maybe eBay. Reality is some are probably worth more than you think. But don’t take it personally of many are not.

Oh, TTL has The Best record boxes. Buy some new, sell some old.

 

[31HZ]

Absolutely do not burn records, please; it's about the worst thing that one non-wealthy person can single-handedly do to our environment.

 

[Spectrum]

To be fair, my grandparents used to call galoshes "rubbers"...

But yeah, the word "vinyls" with an "s" is a divider between those of us who grew up with records and those who are new to them. It bugs me, but what're you gonna do, right?

As for a pile of old records, I'd take them to a used record shop like the one in Johnstown mentioned above. Tell them you're coming and how many you want them to look at. The shop near me probably lowballs me like any pawn/trader shop is expected to do, but it wasn't much effort for me to put a pile on their counter and wait for them to make me an offer. Anything they reject you can trash or give away or whatever.

I think somebody makes pick guards out of them, similar to the stuff shown above.

I have a modest record collection, and I try to keep it a manageable size and avoid my tendency to collect too much. So from time to time I sell a disc or two. The return of vinyl makes me happy me and my dad hung onto our vintage record players and took care of them; they are now seeing regular use once again.

 

[Bassman474]

Where are you at in Ohio? If anywhere near Youngstown get ahold of Adam from Cyclebreaker Records. If further south I recommend Used Kids Records in Columbus.

 

[MikePlaysBass]

You can’t just lump vinyl records all together. Many we’re made cheaply and some were made with genuine precision. The ones from record clubs or bargain stores just weren’t very good pressings. You got what you paid for. Ones from actual record stores were better quality, but it still varied a lot from how they were mastered and the final physical master that the molds would be made from, and there was also the quality of the vinyl itself. Some releases were extremely good, though. I can play almost any rock album I have and and then play a solo piano recording of Herbie Hancock released as a specially mastered Japanese import. They’re like night and day. The rock albums sound good, but they sound like songs coming out of a speaker. The Stanley Clark one sounds like there’s an actual grand piano sitting right there in the middle of the room. There are quite a few people who really know records and where they were made and what they’re worth. A lot of the new vinyl enthusiasts are also very discriminating.
Your best bet is to sell them as a lot to a used record store or collector. You’ll get some cash for very little effort on your part and the buyer will likely find a couple gems that are each worth more than the price of the whole lot. And everybody’s happy.

 

[MikePlaysBass]

Call them vinyl (singular), vinyl records, LPs, albums. Anything but vinyls.

There were always just Records to me, too, but I don’t have any issues with people referring to them as vinyl. How’s that any different than referring to music on tape or digital? it just describes the medium it was released as.
I actually had a bunch of 78 rpm records many years back. I think those were shellac probably on some kind of fiber or celluloid disk. They were very thick and heavy. But, since nobody I know can say exactly what they were made of (other than some people calling them shellac) everyone just called them 78’s.

 

[Pilgrim]

I see the OP is in Ohio. If you're near a metro area, there will be record stores that are in the used album biz. Google it.

Take the undamaged ones in there and have them go through them and evaluate them. You may have tto leave them for a few days, but that shouldn't be a problem. They'll make you an offer.

That's the least irritation for some money in return. Don't expect to get rich, and they'll only be interested in albums they can re-sell.

I've done this in Denver with a record store on Colfax Ave. It was a nice transaction, no tension, just business.