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slipjig3The pack-and-purge odyssey continues apace. After much literal sweat and tears, I've just about finished with the Ayers Rock of boxes that stood since time immemorial behind the futon. (If you've been here before, you know the one. It was hideous.) All that's left is half of yet another box of random papers (dear gods, how many of these do I have?), some ancient Gateway computer equipment that's dumpster-bound, and a few boxes that I don't know what to do with. I come to you, gentle readers, for sage advice.
It's all music, in one form or another. Box #1 is all my cassettes: mixes by me and by others, album dupes and store-bought, with a few titles that don't exist in any other format.
Box #2 is vinyl LPs, a combination of mine and my mother's, which she sent me a year or two ago. Some first-edition Beatles stuff and the like in there, although in far from ideal condition.
Box #3 is Mom's old 45's. This is an interesting lot, because she kept buying them even after she stopped listening to music, wanting to save them for her kids to show them what music was like back then (not knowing that the oldies would stay). This meant that she was shopping for what was representative, and not necessarily what she liked, so there's Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and so on, all first editions. Unfortunately, she didn't save the sleeves, so resale value is very slim.
Thing is, I have no way of listening to any of these items right now, but I may have opportunity to rip some of them to mp3 at a future date.
Opinions? Keep? Try to sell? Trash? Keep some and not others?
It's all music, in one form or another. Box #1 is all my cassettes: mixes by me and by others, album dupes and store-bought, with a few titles that don't exist in any other format.
Box #2 is vinyl LPs, a combination of mine and my mother's, which she sent me a year or two ago. Some first-edition Beatles stuff and the like in there, although in far from ideal condition.
Box #3 is Mom's old 45's. This is an interesting lot, because she kept buying them even after she stopped listening to music, wanting to save them for her kids to show them what music was like back then (not knowing that the oldies would stay). This meant that she was shopping for what was representative, and not necessarily what she liked, so there's Jimi Hendrix and the Doors and so on, all first editions. Unfortunately, she didn't save the sleeves, so resale value is very slim.
Thing is, I have no way of listening to any of these items right now, but I may have opportunity to rip some of them to mp3 at a future date.
Opinions? Keep? Try to sell? Trash? Keep some and not others?
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Date: 2010-04-25 05:32 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-25 07:19 pm (UTC)JMHO
Date: 2010-04-25 06:15 pm (UTC)Having less clutter means that our place stays cleaner, longer and is so much nicer to live in. It is also "company ready" in less than an hour whereas in the (smaller) condo it would take us days to clean enough that we would allow other humans to enter our domicile.
This comment got longer than I intended but... seriously... other than the mix tapes (which I would keep) the other stuff is easily replaceable in other formats that take up less precious space.
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Date: 2010-04-25 08:28 pm (UTC)Also, as regards tapes - the life expectancy of magnetic tapes is 10-30 years. Tapes that were cheap or subjected to high humidity deteriorate faster than expensive ones kept in ideal conditions. If you're gonna keep old tapes until you get around to ripping them, make sure you do it before they're unusable.
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Date: 2010-04-25 09:45 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-25 11:16 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2010-04-26 10:42 pm (UTC)I'd say, look for a buyer on eBay. The sleeveless records might have a small lot resale value if they're in decent shape.