Thinking About Selling and Replacing My Pop/Rock Vinyl Collection


I have to say that my digital sounds so nice that it has made a large portion of my vinyl library obsolete. Somewhere in 2000 I sold off all vinyl and went straight digital. In about 2010 I decided to return to vinyl and most titles were bought off the used market from local stores or a collector friend I have in California. 

 

Today digital sounds so good that I cannot tolerate the low level noise of many records I have. I did a purge of artists I no longer listen to awhile back, but still have about 1000 rock and pop albums left. I also find that I am not a collector of a bands library. I like several albums from AC/DC but do not need to own all of them. yet I like everything from Dire Straits so I will own them. 

 

I am strongly considering making a short list of artists I want. And then buying sealed only copies off Discogs, Amazon, or Ebay if I cannot find current releases from Acoustic Sounds. I know this will cost real money, so I don't plan on getting back to that 1000 title mark. I find i love jazz, folk, blues, and Irish or world music as much if not more these days. So I will buy in those genres also. 

 

Been thinking about this awhile since this is not a small decision. But the more I ponder, the more it seems right for me. 

 

Anyone ever gone through this? 

neonknight

Showing 1 response by dogberry

50+ years ago I started to buy music, and as a kind of distinction from my brother I chose to buy it on cassette. Well, we all make mistakes!

Much of it was bought over again on vinyl, then on CD, then again as SACD, and now I'm back to vinyl as medium of choice, but accepting CD when vinyl is not available or too expensive.

The thought of dumping any of the mediums I own, just to buy it over again in another format is simply exhausting. Don't do it.