Joined: 02-05-2013 Posts: 23,724 |
BuckyB93 wrote:Save the DVDs and CDs they might be worth something in 20 yrs.
I had a huge collection of vinyl about 20 yrs ago. Then I started doing MP3 so I had no use for the albums. These are going the way of the dinosaur, I thought. Put the entire collection on sale when we did a yard sale. $2 per album. Probably 150 to 200 albums. Entire collection or most of the best 60's, 70's, 80's bands like KISS, Beatles, Jethro Tull, Pink Floyd, Aerosmith, AC/DC, Van Halen, Pat Benatar, Ted Nugent, Beach Boys, Led Zeppelin, Who, Skynard, Black Sabbath, Ozzie, Deep Purple, ZZ Top, Eagles, Doors, Velvet Underground, Queen, Kansas, Boston, bunch of big hair bands, some regional bands on the college bars, and so on and so on.
They weren't selling and I didn't want to lug them around anymore. After all, I have most of them on MP3 on my computer and my MP3 player. Some guy stopped over toward the end of day and said, I'll buy them all for $100. Sold!
Now my son is into vinyl and classic rock. We have a used music store in town and when I go in there it's like stepping back into the past. He literally has 10's of thousands of vinyl. All varieties of music taste. 33 RPM, 45 RPM, cassettes, 8-tracks. I'm find myself buying a bunch stuff that I sold for pennies decades ago for for of $10-30 each for my son. Once upon a time my vinyl collection musta be at least 3,000 to 3,500 albums but once I heard my first CD in 1983, I was convinced that vinyl was gonna be a thing of the past. So many advantages with CDs. No snap, crackle and pop. No rumble. Fantastic dynamic range. Way better signal-to-noise ratio. No sound degradation after multiple plays. No equipment maintenance (…turntable cartridge and needle…). I slowly but surely turned over my big 12”ers for the smaller 4-3/4” (approx.) compact discs. At the time, the bulk of my record collection were demo records so I didn’t pay anything for them (…nice perk for the years I spent in the retail record biz…) and since vinyl was still a thing, could sell my records and get good money for them. Long post short, I don’t regret getting rid of most of my records. Moving boxes and boxes of albums got to be a small challenge as well as storing them. I don’t know how many CDs I have but well over 1,000. And if you include all the CDs I’ve burned, easily talkin’ 1,500 at the very least. Wouldn’t be surprised if the total is closer to 2,000. I’ve thought long and hard about converting / ripping everything onto hard / flash drives but I’ve had a couple of failures that make me skittish about doing that and then getting rid of the hard copies. I’m NOT a fan of the mp3 format and 99.99% of my digital files are AIFF or WAV so that’s another “issue” I’d have to overcome or accept the added cost because of my reluctance to change. Obviously multiple back-ups is the answer. Or cloud storage. Decisions, decisions….
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