popsike.com is a good site for getting a decent guage on how much your vinyl might cost to buy or sell.
Top collection VdM... would love to finger it. Remember the Vinyl Justice sections on the Adam & Joe show? Loved that. "Now what are you doing with that sir?"
I'm currently putting my house back together after a nightmarish session of floor sanding (45m2 of it), including an hilarious screw thru a water pipe weekender, and I thought i'd count my records just for fun before I rehoused them in honour of this thread, but realised by the time I got to Abba that it wasn't going to be much fun at all. I too go in for alphabetical. Sorting it by genre would cause all sorts of debates. So it's Abba to Zip Code Rapists for me. All LP's too, must have 4 or 5 12" or something, and I hunt first issues tho I'm not an A1/B1 Matrix type obsessive, tho it does titillate me.
I flirted with the idea of buying one of those Ł100 turntable to MP3 type machines but didn't want to suffer the ignominy of finding out that it was actually better than the turntable I've got. I have vinyl that's heavier than the plate it spins on. It's a mid 80's Sony midi system that plays records at 34 and 1/4 rpm I'm sure. Everytime I hear a well known track on youtube or on the radio etc I'm going, 'It sounds far better on my system...'. The CD part of it died ages back (obviously), the twin tape deck bit died soon after (due to the fact that the covers broke off early doors), the radio bit is shagged, and the left speaker kicks in only after I give it a few slaps. The lead from the 'amp' to the turntable is as thick as your average iPod headphone. It's amazing that it still works after 25 years. The Grauniad was offering an all in one wooden gramophone/DAB radio/mp3 thingy recently for Ł149. Waste of money. I'd need to hire someone to transfer it - it would take a lifetime of pain.
I used to have an iPod. An 80G one, and almost had it half full. I gorged on downloading, CD transferring, bootlegging... the lot. I'd collect individual songs to make up full LP's that I'd got or didn't have. I had a noticeboard on the wall listing tracks I needed to complete an LP... I filled in all the details... I got a bit obsessed. I'd download whole albums illegally and never got round to sorting them properly, and then the Mac went tits up and I thought I'd lost dozens of LP's that I hadn't got onto my iPod and then two days after my son was born, the iPod was stolen from the back room while we were doing his nappy upstairs (we think) along with an iPhone that was given as a gift and bang... the lot has gone. Two years! We've managed to rescue a huge amount from the harddrive but much is missing and all of the titles are 'CHY%%$Ł' etc or some other shite. I just can't go thru it again. But nobody's gonna run off with my record collection in their pocket are they!? c*nts.
By the way - you can buy software (and I'm sure you know this) that actually puts the pops and crackles onto your digital formats for you - bringing the vinyl experience right at your door! I still laugh about that one - talk about full circle.
Came across this today... The World's Largest Record Collection :
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2j7F_4S2lgM&feature=related , after watching an outtake of Thurston Moore talking about Mike Watt whilst he was sat infront of his own
gargantuan rack Check it out at about 2:43.
PS... WFMU tuesday nights...
http://wfmu.org/playlists/BT. The best for me - the nearest to John Peel.
