I think the other thing is being prepared to travel. Picked up 5 on Boxing Day day for 20 bucks. Had to drive to Maylands to pick them up, round trip of about 130 km’s. That was on a 40 degree day in a car with no aircon.
Yeah, if I was the sort of person who did things and met people then I’d love to go hunting with you.
But I am not that sort of person in any way at all.
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Got an order in with some punk stuff I’ve been after for ages - Dead Kennedys, Descendents, this ace Dag Nasty single and the marvellous Gordons, one of NZ’s finest. Very happy indeed.
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Discogs median sales prices for some stuff has risen insanely in the past year or so. I don’t look to buy there but see the value in my own collection keep rising.
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Yeah, I wish I’d started on discogs a year or two earlier.
My little indulgence is getting costlier.
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Elmer. Cecil, Charlton, Moses, what a line-up!
Basic track listing a little controversial, still who could forget these classics:
Walk from an Egyptian
Open Up (Burn Holy Bush Burn)
Mediterranean Homesick Blues
Stairway to Canaan
Gimme gimme gimme (Manna after midnight)
How to make graven images
I’m in love with my calf
Aaron & Co Flow (Say Yahweh Say Yahweh Say Yahweh)
I’ve got a lovely bunch of commandments
Somebody that I used to covet
Sabbath Day’s Not Alright for Fighting!
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Two Princes Brothers.
Sowing The Seeds Of Love Indiscriminately.
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Quite some time ago I had a cabinet custom built for my music collection, as pictured.
CD’s in the top sections, 7" and 12" vinyl underneath, with some room for cassettes (and MiniDiscs a bit later on). A bit dated these days (hey, it was 20-odd years ago!) but still absolutely functional.
We changed our furniture and my collection outgrew it, so she was put out to pasture a while ago, and has collected dust in the shed.
I recently put her on Marketplace. “No-one will want that” I was told. In my heart of hearts I suspected they were right, but a part of me hoped there’d be some other music enthusiast out there who’d want her.
Sure enough, tonight a young guy (late 20’s I’d guess) came across to collect her. No hassle, no haggling. He was just super-stoked to have somewhere to perfectly store his CD’s and vinyl (he planned to put a CD player on the shelf originally designed for the singles). All power to him! I’m rapt someone will get some use from her… sadly she was destined for hard rubbish otherwise…
Just goes to show… music as a physical form ain’t quite dead just yet…
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Yeah I built two custom made shelves, one for vinyl and the other for cds. The cd one is full, plenty of space on the vinyl shelf still.
Unfortunately my collecting days are over, I will still buy a few bits and pieces here. Its just too expensive as a lot of the stuff I like comes from overseas and is almost impossible to find here in Australia.
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I’m not wanting to sound like a killjoy but was kind of influenced by Bakerrrs selling of his storage shelves. I’ve been wondering what does one do when one gets to an age where the vinyl and CD collection becomes a problem? I currently have a few thousand vinyls and CDs and associated ephemera taking up vast amounts of space in my large enough house/garage. I am getting to that stage in life where the prospect of downsizing my house to an apartment is looming. Thoughts?
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The only thing I’d say is think very carefully about selling your collection.
I’ve been lucky thus far. We live in a house big enough for a dedicated music room so I’ve never had to contemplate it. However, I’ve had a number of friends and acquaintances who ripped their CD’s and vinyl to hard-drives and flogged them. Only to suffer from “seller’s regret” a little while later and start buying-up again.
I did however get rid of a sizeable collection of music magazines/newspapers (Q, NME, RAM, Juke, Rolling Stone etc.) and posters. It was a wrench, but also somehow liberating… it gave me a whole cupboard back…
If you do really do want to get rid of things I (and no doubt others here) would be happy to go through a list and take some off your hands… 
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Still hanging onto my NME collection, I’m told they can command good money online but money can’t buy you love, or something like that.
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Yeah, I toyed with the idea of selling them, but couldn’t be stuffed with the hassle. They all just went in the recycling bin along with my issues of The Bomber Magazine (remember them?), except 2000 issues and the first issue from 2001, for obvious reasons… A few shelves’ worth of reminders of a sustained period of underperformance…
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I’ve got tubs and tubs of Jukes and RAMs and a reasonable number of English music newspapers. Never look at them but know I’d be sad if I ditched them…
I thought I would be… but no. I got a bit nostalgic flicking through them as I was binning them, but haven’t missed them at all.
Binning seems and, more accurately to me, sounds like a step I couldn’t bring myself to face. If I knew, for example, a library or museum was gonna take ‘‘em I’d probably get over it. But just thinking they’re landfill I’d need a Xanax.
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I looked at handmade storage for a while, but in the end I just repurposed my bookshelves.
I know this isn’t a solution for everyone.
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I tried that path. I thought the issues of Juke and RAM would definitely be of interest to the libraries and museums. Called and sent emails… complete indifference and being fobbed off from department to department. One even had the cheek to ask that I post them interstate (three fkn suitcases’ worth…) at my expense!
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