record sale[s] on discogs

Woebot

Woebot

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chava said:
According to discogs my collection of 25 years is worth more or less exactly what I gave for them (judging by median price). I guess that's an ok investment. Especially considering my bad habit of selling lots of records by iconic house and techno producers from the 80-90s and obv those records are fetching crazy amounts now esp compared to all the kitchy, "off" records I kept which you can get for 1 euro now.
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we don't buy records as an investment do we?

also pricing presupposes that people will pay $X for #X. something is only worth what you can sell it for.
 
john eden

john eden

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Matthew said:
we don't buy records as an investment do we?

also pricing presupposes that people will pay $X for #X. something is only worth what you can sell it for.
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I think we do and we don’t if I’m honest. I’m sure we’ve all had clear outs where we’ve made calculations about resale value vs the pleasure to be had from a record.

When I buy a bottle of wine or some cheese I’m almost certain it will all be consumed and enjoyed and there will be nothing left of it afterwards that can be sold. But with vinyl there is always the potential to sell it on.

Generally tho there is more pleasure to be had devaluing a record whilst playing it, than keeping it pristine to sell it, for me.
 
subvert47

subvert47

I don't fight, I run away
Some of my records are worth a bit – as in a hundred quid odd, going by Discogs median selling price.

Balancing that out, I've got a shedload of drum'n'bass records which are worth fuck all.
 
Leo

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there used to be so many used record stores who'd give decent money for vinyl and cds. one of my biggest music-related regrets is not unloading a ton of stuff back them, narrow the collection down to things I truly love. contemplated selling on discogs but then would need to buy and store a bunch boxes for shipping, what a pain.
 
Leo

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thank you, @version. I don't merit an entirely separate birthday thread started by dissensians in exile like some other aquarians here, but it's all good.
 
luka

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Leo said:
thank you, @version. I don't merit an entirely separate birthday thread started by dissensians in exile like some other aquarians here, but it's all good.
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happy birthday Leo! i was able to give Barty a heads up on Corpseys birthday becasue hed been trailing the event for a month beforehand. he didnt let us forget. if you'd have done the same thing we could have looked after you.
 
Leo

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birthdays in times of quarantine: drank too much wine and danced around the kitchen while making dinner, much to the cats' chagrin.

thanks for the Tony H mix, @pattycakes_ We'll put that one on while cooking tonight!
 
Woebot

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john eden said:
I think we do and we don’t if I’m honest. I’m sure we’ve all had clear outs where we’ve made calculations about resale value vs the pleasure to be had from a record.

When I buy a bottle of wine or some cheese I’m almost certain it will all be consumed and enjoyed and there will be nothing left of it afterwards that can be sold. But with vinyl there is always the potential to sell it on.

Generally tho there is more pleasure to be had devaluing a record whilst playing it, than keeping it pristine to sell it, for me.
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speaking personally i gotta say i never once bought records as an investment. or thought of them like that. though i may have joked occasionally to that effect. and i've obsessively guarded and protected them (never lent one ever) not because of their value but their sanctity.

and i've never considered the [resale value] vs [pleasure to be had] equation. i've always proceeded on the assumption that i wouldn't be able to make a profit from their sale. so i suppose that's a mixture of naivety and cold calculation.

for me the criteria for keeping/losing them has always been whether or not they offend me (how ugly or beautiful they are in conception) or whether they BELONG in the collection (it all hangs together like a big matrix).

and going through the process of cataloguing them absolutely confirms this. because its organisational principle flies totally in the face of economic sense - in some cases from a negative financial point of view (why do i need so many country rock lps - or every single van der graf generator lp - or, the nadir, twelve inch hip-hop club bangers from the 00s) and some from a financially positive one (what possessed me, beyond mania to buy so many early grime twelves - or neue deutsche welle - or music concrete lps).

i know @john eden you're not saying exclusively one way or t'other.

if i'd sat down thirty years ago and considered that i'd wanted to make an investment out of it i can tell anyone what i would have done. i would have bought first edition mint "classic" lps and filed them away without listening to them.

BUT ACTUALLY time and again i'm seeing that would have been a bad financial decision over going with passion - because the oddest things have become valuable - for instance aaliyah's "one in a million" lp - no way was i expecting that to be so valuable - or the discarded hardcore twelve inches that i hoovered up from 1994 onwards (when i first met @blissblogger in fact) who in their right mind would have considered that to be valuable cultural capital?
 
subvert47

subvert47

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Matthew said:
BUT ACTUALLY time and again i'm seeing that would have been a bad financial decision over going with passion - because the oddest things have become valuable
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Absolutely. Some of my "best return on investment" records – some of which I have cashed in – I picked up mint in bargain bins for buttons.
 
john eden

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Yep absolutely Matt, it’s not usually a conscious thing but it does lurk about in the background for me.
 
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