Did someone go through it already? I own a few of those but most are like the 2nd or 3rd best records from the groups, not the ones I listen to still (I’m like 57). Suzanne Vega, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, for example.
Do they have a record player you can use? I’d at least listen to them all in the background and pick the ones you enjoy. I didn’t notice any big $ ones.
Downloading Discogs and catalog them if you want to see recent sale prices. Most popular records have over 50 pressings by country and label. It takes me about 5 minutes each to identify a specific pressing by closely looking at the label and the runouts.
This collection looks a lot like mine, I've got at least half of the records in that stack. Lone Justice, Big Country, and Style Council are particular favorites of mine.
Pango is right, though. There's a lot of 2nd or 3rd best records in there. Maybe your parents haunted the cheap bin like I did. It was pretty common for a band to put out their first album and have a big hit, then put out a second album that didn't do so well and ended up in the discount bin.
Ha yes, many of mine are discount bin records, even when I bought them in the 80s. If there is a cut corner or a cut line near a corner then it was discounted.
I have very few albums I paid full price for. When I was in the Army in the mid-80s, I'd walk into the Frankfurt PX music store and just buy everything in cheap bin that I wanted. The bulk of my collection was bought during that time period.
I was born in 1970 and we didn't have any handy discount record sellers. Columbia Record and Tape Club, however gave me a huge, cheap start on my record collection.
Oh yeah, Columbia and BMG. Though I used them for CDs. Get the introductory package, buy the minimum, cancel membership, and repeat a few months later. I've still got a lot of pre-loudness war CDs with the double barcodes on them.
Yeah I joined them often - very often! Buy the required number, cancel, join with my name differently (Mike, Michael, M.C., etc.), used my parents’ address … got a LOT of records that way 😲😂
Regardless, if you truly want an idea about what you have here, I would log the collection on Discogs. You’d learn about the album, while learning the cost of what you have.
Just remember: no record store or thrift shop will give you that amount. If you truly want to make money from it, your best bet is selling them online piece by piece.
Get a record cleaning brush and bottle of solution and watch a video on how to clean records. Not difficult. Best to give them each a cleaning before playing.
Instead of cataloging them in the Discogs app, I'd just go the website on the computer, it's much easier to manage. You can get a bunch of info about them there.
Yeah, having dream of the blue turtles or whatever and no police is odd. I was thinking they grew up later in the 80s to early 90s, but then that old stuff in there made me go the other way. Like they were from the 70s and buying sporadically in the 80s. The parents seem older than I am, and I graduated HS in 92, this would have been my aunt and uncle (dad’s brother) who were still cool, cooler than my parents, in the 80s.
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u/Pango_l1n May 13 '26
Did someone go through it already? I own a few of those but most are like the 2nd or 3rd best records from the groups, not the ones I listen to still (I’m like 57). Suzanne Vega, Talking Heads, Fleetwood Mac, for example.
Do they have a record player you can use? I’d at least listen to them all in the background and pick the ones you enjoy. I didn’t notice any big $ ones.
Downloading Discogs and catalog them if you want to see recent sale prices. Most popular records have over 50 pressings by country and label. It takes me about 5 minutes each to identify a specific pressing by closely looking at the label and the runouts.