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" I can't be arsed to sell them on eBay…"
Why not?
Is it too much bother for you?
A few years back I cleaned up selling all my soundtrack LPs on eBay. It not only brought me some excellent $$$, it was a fine experience hooking up with film score lovers all over the globe. Yeah, it's time consuming, but I found it to be time well spent, and I highly recommend it.
Just sayin'...
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I'm likely taking a load of mine to a local secondhand book store that also deals in music and movies. The hipsters love their LPs these days, and I should at least get some store credit for them. You might check into that kind of option.
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As for the LP's, the best place to off load them and at least have the piece of mind that some of them might find a home is to pull up to a Goodwill type store and they'll usually take them all no questions asked. You'd be surprised at how many people of all ages slum through old LP records at Goodwill locations. I have a bunch to weed out myself and that's where they are headed.
That's what I was going to say. Donate them to a thrift store like Goodwill or AmVets. If you itemize your taxes, ask for a receipt with a dollar amount on it and you might have a deduction there.
If you have a scanner or a sharp camera, you might want to capture some of the cover art and back-cover liner notes first, for your digital collection.
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Ok, I debated where to post this as it isn't soundtrack related per-se nor does it quite fit under the trading post category but apologies to the moderators if I've got it wrong.
Anyway I have a fairly large collection of soundtrack LPs (no idea how many but basically my entire collection from about 1975 until circa 1986 when I switched to CDs). They have been boxed up for years and I never play them (don't even have a record player these days) and to be honest I've probably only held onto them for nostalgia reasons.
However, im shortly moving and I've taken the decision to bite the bullet and get rid of my LPs. The question is, how? I can't be arsed to sell them on eBay and I don't think any charity shop would make a fortune out of them (do they even take records any more?) but it would break my heart to just throw them in a skip.
The are about 5 or 6 LPs which were pretty rare at the time (japanese import of Orca Killer Whale cost me an arm and a leg at the time - coincidentally the same limbs that Bo Derek lost in the film) although I don't know if their value has subsequently depreciated due to CD issues. The vast majority of the albums are "normal" issue soundtrack LPs covering a wide spectrum of composers.
If there was such a thing as a soundtrack museum I'd happily donate them but absent one of those I'm open to suggestions. I'm not looking to make any money out of the. so if there is anyone here who would like to take a chance on a lucky dip and can collect them from me (I live in Essex, UK) then I'd be fine with that, but as I say I am open to suggestions as to how to get these to a good home.
Hi I live on the boarders of Essex and Suffolk and work in Essex a lot of the time and still collect records and cds
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), and a friend's daughter who had received her grandfather's player took a box full (she tells me that she does play some of them!)
