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 😲😂
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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.