Record collecting still popular?

[Grafwritah]

Overall that isn't a disaster for records (sad for other reasons -- my folks are boomers!!), cause I feel like one of the things tying up older stuff, and slowing interest in older records, is that back when the hip-hop-rejuvenated genres were blowing up, they were still affordable. You had scores even in the 2000s, even posted on the Strut, that could not happen in a mature market. That closes off those records to new interested people. But maybe it's the "doo-wop collectros dying off" story over again and interest will only ever stabilize or fall. I suspect less so, because the hip-hop sample era genres are more relevant to current music even now, but what do I know.

I was never too picky on condition and whatnot because I was mostly playing around sampling but it's crazy to me now that in the early 2000s I was buying 60s-70s funk/R&B/jazz at times for 25 cents to a dollar per album. Admittedly not super raers (well, occasionally) but I never stopped to consider that would be temporary. Of course that's also how I wound up with 4 copies of Sisqo's album lol.

 

[klezmer electro-thug beats]

Hang onto it! You never know!

 

[Grafwritah]

Hang onto it! You never know!

When I left the US I sold almost everything I had to some guy with a store, or was starting a store, or something. I kept a couple of boxes of my favorites and a few interesting ones and that's all thats left. Sisqo did not make the cut!