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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

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As strange a reason to keep material from performers early years at hand, as many are now no longer with us or quite aged and near end of life. The earliest mediums storing recorded Material is always going to appreciate in Value.

A work colleague in the last week went to see AC/DC Live, he thinks that this is the last chance, to see them with the health to endure a typical time allocated for a concert.

Probably makes sense to experiment with the PAVCR Manual Cleaning Method, to see what can be done for the replay quality.

Also makes sense to exchange the Inner Sleeves for Anti-Static Sleeves or another suitable type of sleeve, but do keep the original inner sleeve for the resale when it occurs, a collector of Vinyl might be purchaser and such things matter.

I have told the story about my 40ish years owned AC/DC Album on the Gon, where today following the PAVCR Manual Cleaning method, I would use this Album on any Vinyl Source of using a Cartridge of any Value. Not bad for a Album put into the must keep, but can't use any more Section on the Storage Shelves.

The Manual Cleaning Method has been to date has been very SUCCESSFUL at reducing Albums stored in the no longer to be replayed section in the Storage Shelving.  

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