"To the second-hand record shop with you!"

We don't have "used only" record stores in Rhode Island although they seem to be common in the Boston area.

I've never sold a record to a second hand shop. If I ever get read of any - which is v. seldom - I give them to charidee.

I don't sell my CDs to used CD stores, as the ones I've been to here in Norway always gives you a maximum of about 2 or 3 dollars per CD. It might take (slightly) more effort, but there's much to be gained for trading with people, or just putting up saleslists on various messageboards.
Admittedly some more obscure things can be all but impossible to get rid of that way, but sometimes I'll throw it in on a trade if I like the person I'm trading with (or hate him, mwahaha!)

As for the decision to keep something or not, well, if I only liked one song on an album, chances are I'll rid myself of it, as I have so many albums I love now that chances are I'd never listen to it anyways. I'm an album person more than a "song" person, I guess.
I'm finding my tolerance for albums has grown lower over the years, probably because I have so many albums now that I can go months, years without listening to something I love, even, which further highlights the fact that it's not worth keeping things I find subpar.

Thankfully I dont' have that collectors bug where I feel I have to own entire discographies of bands I like etc.

I don't sell records. Unless I'm really really really REALLY broke. And even then, it's like selling my children.

Oh dear lord, PLEASE, let someone not take me to task and scream at me for being a middle class spoiled student for DARING to make a metaphor about child slavery when half the world lives in poverty and child labour for fucks sake, you intolerable brat.

kate, honestly, that's SO not PC. < / wanker >

Yeah, but what if your child was Vanilla Ice?

If I'm interested in a big buy at Amoeba or the like, like I did the other week, I go through and try and do some honest to god culling to see what I can get in exchange. I don't take much back in the end, really, but this last time I got $102 credit on some discs, so hey.

I never sell records to used stores it would be like lynching gays

But so many of my records *come* from second hand shops... does that make me a child-slave-buyer?

You've gotta be ruthless, I think. Only like a song or two, then goodbye! But I do rip some mp3s in case I get the urge to listen to it later (which VERY rarely actually happens) purely as a precautionary measure.

I often used to do this when I was starting to run out of space on my current cd rack, so I'd look for stuff to cut just because I didn't like having to expand my collection into two seperate areas. This is now an impossibility because I have too much that I actually enjoy. Ah well, there are worse problems to have.

That said, used record shops rip ya off big time. I sell my stuff via half.com and usually get dollas inthe 5 bucks to 10 bucks range. Plus, no sneering clerks asking me why I bought something in the first place and offering me 25 cents.

Also not worth the hassle: non-rare vinyl

if it won't sell on ebay and i absolutely can't stand to have it in the house, i'll take it and trade it. very, very rarely do i get more than $1 a cd for this stuff, and there's no way i'd trade something i can get 8 bucks for on ebay for $1 or $2 credit.

I don't think I've sold anything to a record store since 1997 (I can remember what I took, and that I got $17 for it, which was exactly the amount of money I needed at the time). I've got some records I don't like that I should sell, and CDs I've got multiple copies of because of box sets, but I'm very lazy.

i always sell stuff back. i'd be dead broke if i didn't. usually if i feel i ever might want to listen to this again at least once for the rest of my life, i'll burn it before i sell it.

the store i go to has a one week 75% credit return rule. so i'll listen to a cd a few times and if it really doesn't grab me, i'll sell it back. if i think it's just ok, i'll burn it and then return it.

the store also gives about 4-6$ credit per cd, so that's totally worth it for me. if i can trade 2 or 3 cds to get one new/used cd, i'm down.

but i never sell records back. i know i'm never going to get what i think the record is worth. i have a bunch of stuff that i paid anywhere from 10-30$ for and if i sold them at the store, i'd only get 1-5$ trade. i think i need to start selling on ebay to get what i really think they're worth.

I've never been able to take anything back to the record & tape exchange. Even if I hate the record, it's usually something so embarrassing that I don't want to be seen in its presence, even if I'm trying to give it away or sell it. As for all the stuff I quite like but not enough - I'm convinced I will suddenly need them, one day many years into the future, be unable to find them anywhere and pine away. So they stay, too.

Despite this, my record collection is still pitifully small. ;)

I sell back stuff regularly, no longer to used record stores (they pay shit...) but on eBay.

Usually a combination of a) impending poverty and b) not really listening to it much / at all anymore.

Never really regretted selling anything either.

i don't sell records anymore. see "rec's you sold you wish you hadn't" thread for reasons why. the only things i sell to Roy are my own product.

i only sell stuff to 2nd hand stores that just won't sell on eBay. I've sold hundreds and hundreds of records (75% vinyl, probably more) over the years. These days i mainly sell stuff I've replaced on CD though..

The first and last titles i exchanged happened back in the 80s. I turned in five-or-so titles including the first Primal Scream Album -- stupid, stoopid, stoooophid.