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Here's a tale, I had a call recently from a woman in Glasgow who was moving to Arbroath (quite near me) and she said she wanted rid of her late husbands record collection as she didn't want to bring them with her when she moved. She explained how he was a collector and also a bit of a dealer so my interest was piqued especially when she said they were ALL classical records which I do know a fair bit about. So I bit the bullet and took the long drive to Glasgow which I had never been to before, but thanks to the sat nav found her right in the heart of the city. There were a few thousand albums, which seemed great but I would have needed a big van to take the lot if she accepted my offer. So I explained how I'd be happy to pick say 100 for £200 and she was happy with that on one condition, that I would have to dispose of the rest among the local charity shops of the city. Seemed like a fair deal I thought so i cherry picked this incredible collection and even though I was often pulling ones out by instinct or I just liked the cover (haha) I probably pulled around 200, "that's OK" she said, "take what you want as I just want them gone!"
So I was then left with the conundrum of where to get rid of the rest of these albums, I filled the car and headed to the local Oxfam Music shop, they accepted a few hundred but said no to the rest as they claimed to have too much stock (probably coz your a bit over-priced, I muttered under my breath.) Bear in mind these were NOT rubbish classical I must add, so quite why they turned the majority down was a mystery to me until I saw the floor to ceiling piles they had out the back, ridiculous amounts of over stock. Salvation Army claimed too that "no-one buys records anymore" WTF?! they also said they had so many out the back they didn't want anymore, i didn't even have time to go and have a look! I was confused and also getting slightly desperate to get rid of these records. Finally i found a small second hand shop in a back alley, I think it was called Relics and he was grateful for all the rest, around 2000 of them which ended up being 5 car trips from house to shop. The lady at the house also said I could help myself to any of them for free too as I was doing all the toing and froing, in the pouring rain I should add.
I was really happy with the ones I picked, so I shall flip a few of course to pay for petrol etc but the majority are keepers and the condition of all of them (apart from a 78 of Lenin's speeches which was cracked) was near mint, four of them below.
- lol @ Oxfam being expensive - I love diving in charity and second hand shops, but I simply don't bother with Oxfam for that exact reason.Nairn
- can i intern with you? we'll need to do something with my dog.imbecile
- additionally, who will be burdened with your collection later? will anyone know the breadth?imbecile
- nice :)********
- good q imbecile, my lad has no interest (he wants the cds) but I've a canny Scottish wife & a few good knowledgeable friends, but no-one else knows it like meGardener
- i had an older native american neighbor with a large collection many years ago, she loved sharing songs in the middle of conversations. it would be a treat to...imbecile
- peruse your collection asking questions learning of artists i'd never heard before. second request for you to begin digitizing some of the more peculiar works.imbecile
- so that's a bit annoying, my brain freezed for scientists or future generations to unravel the vinyl details & triv perhaps?Gardener
- Gardener explaining the intricate connections and history of his collection. https://i.imgur.com/…imbecile
- haha, yeahGardener
- Cool tale, bro (really :)jagara
- Is there an episode of your show with all "these are the weirdest and most insane records I own"? I imagine you have a few severely odd ones.jagara
- (i might have asked this before :)jagara
- so have iimbecile