Downsizing the Collection
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I'm currently pricing 2,000 records for the College Park show. I've been sitting on these for years.
The goal is to return with NONE of them.
NONE.
The goal is to return with NONE of them.
NONE.
How much will I get for junk records? I recently cut out a couple hundred records to get my shit down to like 1500 records. I arranged them into a 1 dollar pile which is shit... a 2 dollar pile and a 3 dollar pile. Some of the three dollar pile shit is worth more but fuck it. Plus I have a bunch of records that are worth money but kinda suck... basically shit I bought on impulse that wasn't even that good. like 30-50 dollar joints.
I was just gonna sell em on the street sometime... but i really dont wanna sell all the shit record by record.
How much will stores give me for random junk?
I was just gonna sell em on the street sometime... but i really dont wanna sell all the shit record by record.
How much will stores give me for random junk?
how do you hope to accomplish that?
By the end, take the CRAP (and I had two boxes of CRAP that went through a house fire) and put it aside and write, "FREE TO GOOD HOME!" Someone gave me $20 for it at SoI's yard sale.
If that didn't work, I was going to throw it away.
You can ALWAYS get rid of it if you want to.
This same dicussion came up on a similar site I frequent.
I'm realizing alot of you have around 1000 or mabye 2000 records.
WHich is good. I know one dealer with around 20,000 records and it took him close to two months to move.
I'm realizing alot of you have around 1000 or mabye 2000 records.
WHich is good. I know one dealer with around 20,000 records and it took him close to two months to move.
I'm willing to fill a 5x5 Expedit, which would be about 2,000 records. I'm at about 60% right now. It will take quite a few years to get that last 40%, though. Maybe not.
I feel like I'm already at the "all killer, no filler" stage, but I'm sure I could pick out some tepids.
I feel like I'm already at the "all killer, no filler" stage, but I'm sure I could pick out some tepids.
I had to do sum culling recently. The easiest way i found, and quickest, was to make a rule. If there is not at least ONE song on the record I would listen to completely (not just with a dope sample) then i put it to the side. That said, alot of the shitty ones I didnt want had some nice loops or sounds, so i sampled them into the MP3, and have large stack of records waiting to get turned into bowls (thats another story itself).
This was just a quick cut and run i had to do, but the logic I think is there. In the end if the record hasn't got a song you would play on it...then really its not worth keeping, just sample the shit you want and toss it.
This was just a quick cut and run i had to do, but the logic I think is there. In the end if the record hasn't got a song you would play on it...then really its not worth keeping, just sample the shit you want and toss it.
but what if your tastes change or you hear something on the record at another time or dont know the record well enough yet?
how do you hope to accomplish that?
I realize that selling them all isn't realistic.. But I'll drop prices if people are holding back. I'm pricing stuff low and I'll give away a bunch if I have to. I need these records out of my life! Hopefully I can get rid of half at least.
Well were talking about records you have had sitting in your collection for ages, so for me, I can tell pretty much after a few listens if the shit is wack or dope (to my standards). I justr had heaps and heaps of shit stashed away 'for future use' and when i went thru it all i found that alot of it was crap, i mean why keep a record just for a horn stab in the intro of a song, or a snare sample... there the ones I culled.
I don't think my tastes will change drastically, just more refined nowadays, before I would collect shit cus it was a bargain, or cus people liked them generally, but now if I dont dig it, i wont keep it.
As for knowing the record well enough, I see your point there, Ive pulled shit out over the years I forgotten about or went back to and found something I liked... So you got to be selective, and it doesnt hurt to let your freinds go thru your 'culled' stack to see if they like anything in there, dudes will suprise you, but everyone knows they got some records they know they only played once when they got it, and will sit there forever. Plus during the culling process you get re acquainted with some old favourites.
On a side note semi related. Years ago I had done a mini cull and had about 50 wack pop style records ready to turn into frisbees (you know those 50 cent chances that are duds) I mean I had some of the shittiest tunes in that stack. Long story short, i bring a girl home with me, she see all my records, starts saying how she Loves records and has some herself. i invite her to have a flick thru my crates, and she goes to the wack culled stack, and every second record she flick by she pull out with some "oh my god, I luv this track" comments. It almost stopped me from rooting her...almost!
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