What would you do if you "won" 25,000 records?
Mar 12 2006
Due to a student union radio station "clear-out", an anarchist mate has (possibly, tho i think the deal might fall thru) acquired a collection of 25,000 vinyl records (including all genres of music and ranging from the 60s to the 90s - many of them "radio only"/promo copies) for a ridiculously small sum (i think it works out at about 8p per record 
)...
so, what would you do if you had 25,000 records? Ebay them? Start a record shop? More to the point, what would you do with the money from it (i reckon at a conservative estimate a collection like that must be worth around 100 grand)?
The nearest he had to "plans" when he told me about it was "sell some, give some away, keep some"... i told him he ought to find a good price guide for rare records, cos in a collection that big there *must* be some really valuable ones in there...
ideas?
Mar 12 2006
#2
Check to see if one of them was RAW009 by Guy McAffer... 
Mar 12 2006
#3
There are a few online price guides.
Then just ebay them or post ads on music forums, alot of people don't check ebay regularly, everytime I do I find I've just missed something good.
Your friend is going to make out like a fucking bandit from this.
And will be able to hold off a zombie army almost indefinitely
Mar 13 2006
#4
Hi Rebel Lion.
If he has any X-Claim Records vinyl, tell him I'll sell him my arm.
Mar 14 2006
#5
I would put them all in a huge vault and swim around them like Scrooge McDuck with giant black vinyl gold coins.
Mar 14 2006
#6
ha, your not a trot!
as if a real trot would be able to make a comment about Scrooge McDuck that didn't descend into rant about bourgeois decadence. 
Mar 16 2006
#7
wouldn't eBay listing 25,000 individual items be very time consuming and not very practical?
(if there really are that many, that is... 25,000 is what he said, but he was a little drunk at the time...)
Mar 16 2006
#8
You could make 25,000 ash trays.
Mar 16 2006
#9
or you could dump hem int he realisation that it's not 1960 and vinyll is a waste of resources and time as we now have cd's, mp3 players and all sorts of wonderful medians that don't attract sad bastards to their cause in the same way vinyll does.
Mar 16 2006
#10
You could save them as an ineffective but amusing way of resisting a zombie attack?
Mar 16 2006
#11
You would go mental putting 25000 records on ebay, it would become a particularly tedious full-time job doing data entry.
Better to start a market stall or something, at least you get to meet people that way. Or flog the really rare ones on ebay and find a dealer to take the rest away.
Most of them will be worth less than fuck all, promo or no promo. I hope he doesn't have to pay for storage...
oh yeah - this is probably worth a look: http://www.metropolis.co.uk/rarerecordguide.html tho of course records are only worth the prices listed if you can actually get people to pay them.
Mar 16 2006
#12
Jef Costello wrote:
And will be able to hold off a zombie army almost indefinitely
John. wrote:
You could save them as an ineffective but amusing way of resisting a zombie attack?
Mar 16 2006
#13
Find a fabulously wealthy Vinyl collector (asking round vinyl record shops could help with this) and offer the whole lot for 100k? Then you can spend a few grand of it buying a computer and paying someone to download all 25k titles in an easier format...
Mar 16 2006
#14
revol68 wrote:
or you could dump hem int he realisation that it's not 1960 and vinyll is a waste of resources and time as we now have cd's, mp3 players and all sorts of wonderful medians that don't attract sad bastards to their cause in the same way vinyll does.
I am so glad that you have shit hair. I consider it a random and inexplicable act of karma.
Mar 16 2006
#15
Jef Costello wrote:
Jef Costello wrote:
And will be able to hold off a zombie army almost indefinitelyJohn. wrote:
You could save them as an ineffective but amusing way of resisting a zombie attack?
Maybe I should start reading your posts again...
Alan_is_Fucking_Dead wrote:
revol68 wrote:
or you could dump hem int he realisation that it's not 1960 and vinyll is a waste of resources and time as we now have cd's, mp3 players and all sorts of wonderful medians that don't attract sad bastards to their cause in the same way vinyll does.I am so glad that you have shit hair. I consider it a random and inexplicable act of karma.
Jesus don't tell me you're a vinyl wanker as well!
Mar 16 2006
#16
Are you asking me whether I masturbate using vinyl as a tool (cos I saw a guide to that once in the inlay to a 7"), or asserting that anyone who has vinyl must be a wanker?? I don't get it.
I like vinyl. It's cheaper than CDs (at least in the circles in which I operate), more of a product than mp3s/iPods (and therefore more likely to encourage people to actually investigate music and listen to full albums as intended, instead of making playlists of The Killers and Kaiser Chiefs singles) and listening to it is actually an event, as opposed to a method of atomising yourself and trying to look cool on public transport.
I also have 2 racks full of CDs in my room and something like 5000 mp3s, for the record.
Now, go on, attempt to apply Marxist dogma to music formats and we'll see who looks like a wanker. 
Mar 16 2006
#17
Alan_is_Fucking_Dead wrote:
I like vinyl. It's cheaper than CDs (at least in the circles in which I operate), more of a product than mp3s/iPods (and therefore more likely to encourage people to actually investigate music and listen to full albums as intended, instead of making playlists of The Killers and Kaiser Chiefs singles) and listening to it is actually an event, as opposed to a method of atomising yourself and trying to look cool on public transport.
Oh come on, you and I both know that in your kinda subcultural peer group having an iPod isn't "cool" but vinyl is. The only reason to own vinyl is that you're a poser. Which is fair enough, but at least have the chutzpah to admit it!
Mar 16 2006
#18
Surely all he'd need to do is ask whether you are also partial to an 'as intended' loincloth compared to a pair of trousers?
Mar 16 2006
#19
Not true actually, for several reasons.
Firstly, I'm ridiculously unpopular in hardcore anyway (what can I say, I tend to rub people up the wrong way - xConorx can back this up), so any attempt on my behest to impress them would be both a waste of time and effort. For a start I'd have to stop hanging out here and join PETA (*shivers*).
Secondly, as far as I know, as many "hardcore kids" own iPods as in larger society (possibly more in fact, if you consider the class background of the average 21st century hardcore kid). This has actually added to the erosion of the fetishisation of vinyl within hardcore, for all the bland, unfeeling utilitarian reasons yourself and Rattail gave.
Thirdly, the extent to which buying a vinyl player can be said to be making you fit into a certain mould of a "subcultural peer group" is also up for discussion. I mean, there's much more logical reasons for it, especially when you consider that for early 80s hardcore nerds such as myself, most releases only ever came out in vinyl format (or possibly cassette tape). This means that if I wanna track down a DOA release, I'm gonna need a vinyl player in order to hear it. (Otherwise I'd be buying it for posterity's sake, which is poseur. A "punk" in Colchester used to do that and claim he had a vinyl player...then people went round his house and discovered there wasn't one.) Of course, in 2006, bands bring out vinyl releases in an attempt to maintain that tradition (and also for the reasons I gave earlier), and that could be said to be slightly "poseur", but that's a slightly ridiculous argument which ignores the role of history in cultural expression. I mean, you could apply that to more or less anything.
Fourthly, vinyl still kicks ass and this is proving far more fun than researching for my essay.
Mar 16 2006
#20
Techno sounds better on vinyls than it does on CD's or MP3's. 
Mar 17 2006
#21
MP3s are shite, but I listen to them anyway.
I hate Ipods. I hate people that wear them constantly and then can't hear a word they're saying. Luckily a healthy percentage of the idiots will get hit by traffic, but they are multiplying fast...
Vinyl is for wankers, but I think Alan made a fair point, he isn't doing it to be cool or impress anyone so who gives a fuck.
Mar 17 2006
#22
I never realised that buying records would automatically make me a wanker.
Is this some kind of generational thing?
Mar 17 2006
#23
Fozzie wrote:
I never realised that buying records would automatically make me a wanker.Is this some kind of generational thing? :wink:
Nah it's basically just tryhards trying to convince people they aren't poseurs.
Mar 17 2006
#24
Alan_is_Fucking_Dead wrote:
Nah it's basically just tryhards trying to convince people they aren't poseurs. :wink:
Ah, right! It's all very confusing, all this liberterian communist stuff.
Mar 18 2006
#25
Nothing communist about it, unless you count really ugly utilitarian disregard for cultural iconography to be Marxist (which some people do, and is a factor behind general scepticism about communism).
Keep the rad ones, and Ebay the rest. Give some to your homebreads.
Oh man, if I had 25,000 pop-punk, ska and hip-hop records and a few Girls Aloud vinyls I think I'd die with happiness.