Certainly good advice.
I happily did a lot of that kind of purchasing for my 2,000 album collection so it is surprisingly easy to find albums I haven’t heard in a couple decades.
New finds In Record Collection
Today, I finally replaced the tubes in the moving coil section of my Mac C2500 preamp. I purchased them almost 2 years ago from Upscale Audio. They are Gold Lion (Russian) 12AX7 tubes which were graded Platinum by Upscale. It was my pure laziness that I waited this long to install the tubes. So, wanting something really nice to play, I went to one of my record shelves...
Looking at the collection, I was drawn to the bottom shelf, which was chock full of new, unopened records, shrink wrap still tightly sealed. I had totally forgotten about these records as for years, I was on a buying spree and just kept buying but not listening. I think many of us can relate to that, perhaps not.
I pulled out what I thought was a box collection but it just one record in a box! The record was "The Yes Album" by "Yes" on double 180-gram vinyl @45rpm put out by Friday Records. The sound is amazing, dead quiet and the bass was so thunderous. I haven't gone through all the new records, but I did notice a couple of Nirvana albums, a bunch of jazz albums a few Jethro Tull, some Eagles and a mix of many others. It will take me a while to see what I will keep and what I will give away.
I guess the moral of the story is to look completely through your collection from time to time. You may find new records like me or find some gems you have forgotten about.