help me rationalize selling a bunch of good records on eBay

Acme - can you rent one from a shop? In the US? How hard is it to do? Because I'm a total idiot when it comes to burning things - I usually just drop stuff from my folder and right onto Nero - I know nothing about conversion, or anything

It's also sort of encourageing (or infuriating, depending on the situation) that a lot of records I've spent years searching for (and eventually found) have been getting reissued lately. I figure it's just a matter of time, right?

In this day and age, is anything really so rare you can't at least hear it somewhere?

Don't sell the records. There are other ways to make money.

Girlfriend and I are selling a short stack of african and reggae 45s and LPs, including a super rare original Jamaican press of an early Lee Perry produced Bob Marley and the Wailers; check em out:
http://shop.ebay.com/merchant/spoh_W0QQ_nkwZQQ_armrsZ1QQ_fromZ
the 45s are reasonably priced and worth a peek; the Ghanian student choral group is fun and the Natty Christmas is worth it for the cover alone

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i'm selling off all my vinyl. the only time my turntable is *ever* fired up is to copy stuff i'm selling. you won't miss them if you have a copy in some form or another.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 October 2004 00:23 (4 years ago)

lol slow process

A couple of them are gonna fly, watch them!

lol slow process

;_;

you need the space

I just sold a CD on eBay that I paid one dollar for many, many years ago. It sold for $46.00.

This Marley album is good!

Sold a big stash of vinyl yesterday (the rational side of me acknowledges that I will get enjoyment out of having more space). Spent much of the night lying awake worrying about having sold something great.

Maybe you did but it's doubtful if you gave it a lot of thought in the first place.

You can always turn the cash into something else that's great!

yea sometimes it's good to let go of stuff, even if you kick yourself for it later. i've held on to a lot of things b/c they were critically acclaimed at the time i got them, and even if i didn't really like it i'd say "just hang on to it in case you come around." but after 5 or 10 years it just feels like a burden having records that you don't really like or want to listen to. so much shit is available now on the web too that if i ever get curious about a record i sold i can go back and actually hear it. worst case scenario is that you buy it back again. that's happened to me a couple of times and it kind of sucks but you know you really want it then if you are willing to buy it again.

i've been trying to sell 150-200 cds over the past few months, there's a chain store around town that took only 5-70 of them but i have the rest. i still need to go to other places to get rid of the rest. cds were easier b/c i could rip all the ones i was having some doubt about.

*50-70