Sold

Last 2 sold - Nine Inch Nails 'Fragile' and Magnetic Fields '69 Love Songs', both sold within a day of purchase, because they were both expensive multiple-disc sets and every time I looked at them I could only think of what expensive wastes of money they were, I had to get them out of my sight.

Did you play them first?

You should hawk them to us, the ILM faithful.

Dr C - yes.

Yoko Ono, Blueprint for a Sunrise: not that good
Miles Davis, In a Silent Way: I got the box set
NMH, Everything Is: not that good
Magma, M.D.K.: I have 2 better versions of it on other albums
Heldon, Stand By: not that good

I am about to sell some Jasmine Minks LPs if anyone is interested. The last time I really sold records was a couple months after I got married. We had duplicates of several records including: Castaway Stones, Louis Phillipe, and the Smiths.

Alasdair was very glad to now "own" some Dexy's albums but not to happy about B&S and Arling and Cameron. I'm not very happy about the drum & bass records sitting along side my soundtrack to Disney's "Cinderella".

Stop right there, Marianne! Which Jasmine Minks albums? I'm interested if they're in very good condition, good sleeves etc.

These days I give cd's away to friends who are in need for some music and aren't so addicted as I am. The last time I gave away that dreadful Breakbeat Era album and that Telefunken album (minor Boc imitators, good but not essential). Didn't listen to them. The Telefunken album got a nice and warm home.

But yeah Dr.C I know what you mean about that irrational feeling: once the choice has been made they feel dirty, meaningless.

Also, it's hard to ascertain what you're going to be into in another ten years; I've bought back quite a few records I sold years ago.

The last time I really sold records was a couple months after I got married. We had duplicates of several records including: Castaway Stones, Louis Phillipe, and the Smiths.

My wife and I did the big fuse several months before we got married. Somehow, it wound up feeling more symbolic of the commitment than the actual ceremony. "There's no turning back now, is there?" All those dupes turned into a new couch.

Cocteau Twins -- Aikea-Guinea 12" (got box set)
Cocteau Twins -- Echoes in a Shallow Bay 12" (got box set)

And then I needed money, so I rounded up old promo copies and crap buys:

The Orange Peels' So Far (only one even halfway-decent track, which is pretty sad when you're already imitating 60s pop)
Stereolab's Cobra... (the Stereolab record I'd only have listened to if I for some reason lost every other Stereolab record I own, plus a couple Flowchart discs in the bargain)
The Apples in Stereo's Discovery... ("It's not me; it's you")
Idlewilde's Hope is Important (promo, which I actually didn't listen to before selling it, because I was afraid it might be good and I needed the money), and
Sonic Youth's NYC Ghosts and Flowers: Scanning through the racks, I'd forgotten not only that I owned this but that Sonic Youth had released it at all. Remembering didn't make my life any better, so. . .

I very rarely sell things, though. It bothers me to have owned a record and know all about it but then not have it there as evidence -- if I, say, find myself thinking or talking about Cub's version of "Cast a Shadow," I need to be able to go grab the record and put it on.

Dr. C - yeah, lately I have been trying to sell stuff that I own on both CD and vinyl. The CD is the one to go. When CDs came out I ended up duplicating a good bit of stuff in the early to mid nineties, but now I'm trying to cut that down a bit. There are some titles I don't mind owning on both formats though, the collector's mentality, or something I might listen to in the car a lot (I find that b urned CDRs sometimes are more prone to skipping in car or pc cd players. But yeah, when I pull some CDs and decide to sell them I take them off the shelf. I usually sell the stuff on ebay, you get a better price than selling to a store, but it's more work. Stuff that fails to sell on ebay, I might take it to a store, etc., only occasionally do I actually put it back in the shelf (if it's not good enough for ebay, it's not good enough for the shelf...). Oh yeah, I should mention, there is a website called spun.com that will take your trades. You can order from them and send your trades back in the box they send, they cover postage. They occasionally give a good price, sometimes next to nothing. I have traded them a couple things for $1 or $2 that didn't get any buyers on ebay so... they are running a decent operation, very good quality/service, I hope they make a bit of money so they can stay in business. Just for the record I have nothing to do with them.

so, the last few things I sold were:
Yo La Tengo - I can hear the Heart Beating as one CD - had the vinyl
Bedhead - Beheaded & Transaction de Novo - same situation
Robyn Hitchcock - Globe of Frogs & Queen Elvis - same thing
Billy Joel - 2000 Years Millenium concert - someone gave it to my wife, we did not play it...

i notice the Yo La & Bedhead stuff was actually from the mid to late 90s, but in those cases I *knew* I'd sell the CD eventually...

DJ Spooky That Subliminal Kid, Under the Influence (this review should help you understand why...)
Shelby Lynne, Love Shelby (that horrendous John Lennon cover-- not to mention that horrendous CD cover--were all the excuse I needed; the rest of the album being not so hot didn't help, either)
Incubus, Morning View (need you ask?)
Femi Kuti, Fight to Win (bland)

I've never sold any of my albums! I gave some away, but that's all!

I don't have enough music to give away or sell five records; I love all of my grand 25 CDs. I gave my brother a Santana CD that I never listened to and that's it for that.

If you count promos, I'm sure I've sold 400, maybe more (always for credit). I get rid of stuff all the time. I like a steady flow in & out.

Like Dr. C, I have rules. Very rarely do I sell vinyl. It's just not worth the money. And I never sell a CD for less than $3. Anything less than that isn't really going to help me buy something new, so I might as well keep it around, if only for reference purposes. The last five I sold:

Buffalo Daugher - New Rock. "Great Five Lakes" is good, the rest is boring. Spun was paying $5, which is 1/2 a used CD, which CD will probably have at least two good songs (it's all math, you see.)

Built To Spill - Perfect From Now On. Spun was paying $6.50 for this one, almost a straight trade for something else that I'll probably listen to more. OK but not quite my thing (and not as good as There's Nothing Wrong With Love.)

Grandaddy - The Sophtware Slump. I liked this a lot at first, but didn't touch it for more than a year. And it didn't seem like I would again.

Stooges - Funhouse. I just don't think it's that interesting! And it had a good sell price.

Miles Davis - 58 Sessions. I have like 15 records by him, and I rarely listen to this one.