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There's a lot of old vinyl out there in the world. Twenty years ago, a DJ friend bought out the vinyls at a record shop for $4-500. We filled my Dodge Caravan w

There's a lot of old vinyl out there in the world. Twenty years ago, a DJ friend bought out the vinyls at a record shop for $4-500. We filled my Dodge Caravan with them, with the back seats removed ... bottoming out the suspension ... twice. Slowly driving them to his home as the van complained. So I'd guess at most about 40-50 cents a pound for that ... at-least half-ton? of vinyl. Recognizable artist names in that heap? Not many. There's a lot of vinyl out there. The world's been hard on shellac 78s. But vinyl?

tragomaskhalos 4y ago
Ah yes the sheer weight of the stuff - I remember helping a mate move house, he had a couple of tea chests into which he'd packed his records - trying to get them downstairs they might just as well have been filled with concrete
klodolph 4y ago
Yes, exactly. If you factor in the cost of listing records on eBay, organizing them, and shipping them, the idea of selling a bunch of used records ends up being a losing proposition. There’s too much vinyl out there and people only want the stuff they recognize, for the most part. You get the same feeling when you make a typo in your Spotify search. There’s a ton of music out there. There has been for a long time.
virgulino 4y ago
There is a Brazilian guy who did a lot of that, buying entire stores. He amassed the largest collection of vinyls in the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bu... https://thevinylfactory.com/features/inside-the-worlds-biggest-record-collection-an-interview-with-zero-freitas/ https://thevinylfactory.com/features/inside-the-worlds-bigge...
- 8bitsrule 4y ago
  Funny. "By age 30, he had about 30,000 records. About 10 years later, his bus company expanded, making him rich. Not long after that, he split up with his wife, and the pace of his buying exploded." That's what reactors do when the control-rods are pulled out!

tragomaskhalos 4y ago

Ah yes the sheer weight of the stuff - I remember helping a mate move house, he had a couple of tea chests into which he'd packed his records - trying to get them downstairs they might just as well have been filled with concrete

klodolph 4y ago

Yes, exactly. If you factor in the cost of listing records on eBay, organizing them, and shipping them, the idea of selling a bunch of used records ends up being a losing proposition. There’s too much vinyl out there and people only want the stuff they recognize, for the most part. You get the same feeling when you make a typo in your Spotify search. There’s a ton of music out there. There has been for a long time.

virgulino 4y ago

There is a Brazilian guy who did a lot of that, buying entire stores. He amassed the largest collection of vinyls in the world. https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bus-magnate-whos-buying-up-all-the-worlds-vinyl-records.html https://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/magazine/the-brazilian-bu... https://thevinylfactory.com/features/inside-the-worlds-biggest-record-collection-an-interview-with-zero-freitas/ https://thevinylfactory.com/features/inside-the-worlds-bigge...

8bitsrule 4y ago
Funny. "By age 30, he had about 30,000 records. About 10 years later, his bus company expanded, making him rich. Not long after that, he split up with his wife, and the pace of his buying exploded." That's what reactors do when the control-rods are pulled out!