What To Do With LPs?
 

I have a couple boxes of old albums...LPs. Mostly from late 60's to early-mid 70's. Anybody know of a place that would buy them...maybe one of those flea market vendors? Somebody else? Or if you have other suggestions, I'm listening.

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I sold records for 25 years, 10 years in a retail store, 15 years in mail order/online. Before I moved here six years ago I got rid of my personal collection of 4,000 albums. I cherry picked about 500 mint condition albums and sold them to an FYE store for a $1 apiece.

You can donate them to an organization, but not everybody wants them, best to call first and then you can take a IRS deduction.

Sell them yourself in a yard sale, you can probably get a quarter a piece if they don't look too scratched up. I sold about 1,000 in yard sales, usually in bulk something like 200 for $100. Mine were all in mint condition jacket and record and titles that people would want.

If you think it's something rare and it's in mint condition, go on eBay and look up the title and see if someone is selling the same title or similar. If you're lucky you might have something you can get $5 or $10 or even $25, maybe more. You'll need to know how to grade the record and you'll need to get mailers. Here's an example, this mint condition album still sealed just sold on eBay for $275.

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Here's a link to eBay, start searching:

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For mailers I would suggest Bags Unlimited in New York.

Album Mailer FOLDER

Gave the last of ours to our 18 YO granddaughter - see loves old rock albums and plays them all the time.

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when I was kid we use to us 78s as clay pigeon's. shoot them with shotguns. They now probably worth thousands. I got two boxes full of them I haven't even unpacked.

You can try here, but don't expect to get too much for them. There are some, (very few) that are worth a lot of money in pristine condition, but most of them are worthless.

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This site will help you grade them.
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Michaels sells record album frames.... I have a number of them hanging in an office...... picked ones based upon album cover

I'd say pass them on to your children. In my case, there was great sentimental value in my beloved albums, which were not in great condition. Let the kids decide what to do with them. Maybe in a few generations they'll be worth millions. I really miss albums. CD's and downloads just aren't the same. You can't read the jacket of a CD and downloads are just music sans personality.

Someone that does skeet shooting could use them! They wouldn't have to buy them clay pigeons! Sorry. Couldn't resist myself. : )

You might want to give these folks in Gainesville a call.

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I was up there last weekend looking for a Books A Million and this place was on my GPS as a BAM store.

It is no longer a Books A Million store, but are owned by BAM...and deal in a lot of used books/albums/instruments.

Sent you an IM.

I am interested if you could IM me. I sent an IM, but apparently to wrong Polar Bear :shrug:

we took our LP's to a vendor at a flea market. ( Jacksonville) but out of 300 or so he took about 25... we donated the rest to a thrift store benefiting Hospice.. but a warning.. we found out that some of the albums had posters and the posters are worth some $$ and can be sold on Ebay.. information too late .. the vendor told us he has a glut of albums and didn't need anymore but took the ones that were "rare"?

Update...

We're in the process of a few modest home improvements. After some research, one is going to be a room-to-room sound system and we're including a turntable. We will be keeping our LP's!! :)

The days of the need for huge receivers, speakers, etc. to get decent sound are over. We will have a a free-standing speaker in two or three rooms that will play music from our PC's, mobile devices, game machines, anything on our wireless network. One will have a turntable attached to it which will also play on any of the speakers as desired.

A few other modifications have to be completed before we install (more like simply plug in...heheh) the sound system, but it should be within a week or two. I can't wait! :)

In the future, if anyone has a nice collection to sell or is wanting to add to their collection. St. Petersburg has at least ten good record stores, the largest is Bananas Music. They have two buildings, one is a warehouse with over 3 million albums and you can look up online what's available.

Who is Bananas Music

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They also have an 11,000 square foot retail store next to the world famous Mazzaro's Italian Market on 22nd Avenue and 29th Street North in St. Pete.

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Mazzaro's Italian Market

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I'm a big time record collector with over 2,000 albums in my collection, mostly 70s and 80s rock. For those local people who are looking for albums you can visit the antique malls in Wildwood and the one on 44, they both have a few booths with records.

Bananas music in St. Petersburg is fantastic! they call themselves the biggest record store in the world and I believe them! They actually have two separate buildings, that is how many records they have.

Just to let folks that still have Vinyl Records know, 10 days ago, I sold my Vinyl Collection for $85,000. That's not a misprint! I still have several thousand LP's & 45's at home that I just couldn't part with.

Vinyl Records Returning
 

It was on the news just last week that vinyl records are being produced again. It was even showing how they are made. Might want to hang on to yours.

Go to Barnes & Nobles and the music room in the back. They use to have a few dozen vinyl albums located around the store, but now they moved out some of the CD's and have them all in one place. Probably about 500 in stock, however they are asking about $25 to $40 a piece for new records.

I had 4,000 albums in 2011 and sold about 500 through yard sales and 300 to a FYE store and threw away the rest. After selling records and CD's for 30 years through my store and then online website (Buccaneer Records), and having packed over 100,000 orders, I was too worn out (or retired) to sell anymore. Even though eBay is a great place to sell, it's takes time, knowledge and will become a fulltime job if you're not careful. Also, postage has gotten much more expensive, mailers are not cheap, and if you're not careful, unlike CD's that will fit in a mailbox, albums are many times left on a porch or inside a hot storm door and become warped.

Just out of curiosity could you let me know where you were able to do this, I would love to get a few hundred for all of the 78's and LPs I have.

You didn't give the 'who, what or where' that is usually required when making statements on a message board. If I were to guess, you were a DJ and had about 30,000 records, many were 45's which are perfect for a juke box, and others were rare releases that only radio stations would receive. Some were even the radio shows that came on vinyl, such as Jim Ladd and others. That's my guess because you didn't provide any facts.