I was reading a BBC news article today titled "The eight tribes of vinyl collector" http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-26990263 I am in the process of moving to a home that will be in a better location for the loved one when she hopefully arrives in a couple of months time. Whilst sifting through all my old stuff I have come across two old record cases containing around 50 x 45 singles and 75 x 33 LPs, all old fifties and sixties music that I haven't played for at least twenty five years. I don't feel like selling them as they remind me of good times and I probably wouldn't get the true value. What old records do you chaps have and what do you do with them?
I left vinyl behind in the 70s when I transgressed to tapes. I used to run a flea market stall, well my ex wife did and I helped when I wasnt on a rig, about 25 years ago and the ex wife and I bought and sold all sorts of things including vinyl. I used to buy a lot of stuff at auction. I bought, at one time, a vinyl looking 45 rpm which was in fact what they called an acetate, called 365 Rolling Stones by the Andy Oldham Group. It was semi instrumental but was basically the Rolling Stones developing a single and this was a record of their workings. I sold it to a dealer in London for £100 which was the best deal I could get but probably should have put it into a specialist auction.
That's probably the reason I will hang onto mine, you never really know what you've got. I have a few coloured Elvis 45s and old sixties EPs which I think are worth a bob or two. Buddy Holly wrote and sang Not Fade Away first (I think, could be wrong), you know how we like our trivia here
You know there's something romantic about having a flea stall, must be really interesting not knowing what people will come up with to sell.
I had a yellow copy of Elton Johns Yellow Brick Road that I gifted away. Silly me... Not much money in flea market stalls. We found that out and jacked it in. But it was quite interesting, yes.
Managed to locate 365 Rolling Stones on youtube. Sounds just the same. Pretty poor but I never considered it to be something they released, but maybe they did.
I met Mick Taylor formerly of the Rolling Stones at a pub I was stopping at in Suffolk, apparently he lived in the village. I had a discussion with him about Shirley Bassey, I was saying how arrogant she came across, he reckoned it was all show.
Got loads of vinyl up in the loft, although I did have a selective clear out recently when moving house. Still got loads of it ranging from early 70s to mid 80s. There's an awful lot of heavy metal and 80s indie up there above my head. I must get myself a usb turntable one of these days.
What sort of sound quality do you get once you have downloaded the vinyl to the USB, do you know Graham?
I've recorded vinyl to mp3 before, using the input on my computer and going through from a turntable, into a cassette deck and out through he cassette deck headphones socket into my laptop and it sounded great. I'd imagine a usb would be just as good but I've never tried it. It would certainly be easier to set up!
It sounds a really good idea, especially if the sound quality is reasonable, I'd never heard of the USB record player until you mentioned it, googled them and they are on offer at a more than reasonable price I would say. Certainly something to consider.
I guy I knew that I worked with had zillions of albums in all formats. He ended up, in the interest of saving space at home and listening through one medium, converting everything to and storing everything on a batch of ipods. I seem to remember he used a USB turntable.
It's something that's been on my wanted list for a long time but never quite seems to reach the top of it.
