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| What Do You Intend To Do With Your Collection ... | |
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| Tweet Topic Started: May 6 2013, 02:36 AM (1,302 Views) | |
| joto1989 | May 6 2013, 02:36 AM Post #1 |
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what do you all intend to do with your collection when the time comes to part with it. I reckon most of you are like me and dont think about it too much , It must be like planning your own funeral... we all know its coming but we dont want to think about it. I cant see the day at all when I part with mine but it pains me to think that my family would sell it all off after a lifetime of trying to put it all together. But I suppose once were gone we'll be past caring what happens to it. BUT if my kids sell my rarirties for a couple of quid I'll come back and haunt them.. |
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| socorro | May 6 2013, 04:10 AM Post #2 |
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What a great question. I've thought about it, but don't have an answer that settles the question. The best solution would be if someone younger became a fan. Above all, I would want it to go to somebody who appreciated at least a fraction as much as I do. That might mean including detailed descriptions of each item, and suggestions for how my survivors could find enthusiastic buyers. I thought about trying to make it a public resource, but that seems unrealistic. It would have to be an utterly fantastic collection to interest casual fans, and I fear that it would be poached by somebody who knew what they were worth. If I wanted to create a public resource, the most sensible thing would be a digital archive like what 57th and Garfield did for the Apple records. In fact, I suspect I will do this sooner or later. The real question is how long our particular affliction will last. The majority of serious collectors I know are in their 50s and 60s. I have this sad image of the market being flooded with a glut of unwanted treasures when we all start dying off. The thought of these artifacts that mean so much to me ending up in a landfill is profoundly depressing. On the other hand, there is avid interest in iconic jazz and blues recordings from nearly a century ago. Maybe the Beatles' place in our culture is more firmly fixed than we know. |
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| muffmasterh | May 6 2013, 09:42 AM Post #3 |
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oh yes what a great question and i have indeed given this some thought.. at the moment I have left instructions for it to go to Andrew in Austria to sell on commission on behalf of my " estate " however it could take him literally several years to list it all...and it is not just Beatles in there either... I did once consider leaving it all to the V&A but it would end up just languishing in a vault and whats the point of that..............other than i do think it has some historical import. I am open to other suggestions lol... |
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| meyers | May 6 2013, 04:24 PM Post #4 |
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Collecting vinyl is so much fun because this hobby is so varied. It conists of so many facets. One: the hunt. Either on the Internet, as a wolf hunting a record down over a period of time or as an ebay-sniper. And of course you don't just go on holidays like other people. You explore cities by wandering from record shop to record shop, throwing in important sights from the travel guide, while walking along. It even worked for me on Big Island Hawaii! Two/Three: Cleaning and archiving, which really is quality time with yourself. Four: Listening and enjoying the artwork. I think that part of being a collector and music enthusiast is the obligation to introduce this hobby to people close to you. Passing it on to the next generation so to speak. Finally, and this is my point, make sure there is a proper heir or even better a bunch of them. And, yes, I'm sure vinyl will survive - simply because the only thing you need to make it sound is a piece of paper you run through the groove. That simplicity is unbeatable and part of the attraction. And bands like The Beatles will of course survive too. Mozart did it and so will John & Paul, Mick & Keith or Pete and Eric. And, hey, if you had a bunch of contemporary artefacts from Wolfgang's 18th century household in Salzburg sitting in your cellar, would you worry ... |
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| muffmasterh | May 6 2013, 10:58 PM Post #5 |
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no indeed i go on hols and keep a regular check on whats on ebay .... they all think i am mad...lol |
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| joto1989 | May 7 2013, 03:58 AM Post #6 |
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can you imagine your post office bill to send all that to Austria... And at the risk of sounding dumb what is the V&A ??? |
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| Easy-E | May 7 2013, 05:55 AM Post #7 |
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The Victoria and Albert Museum :D |
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| muffmasterh | May 7 2013, 08:19 AM Post #8 |
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V&A correct, V&A is the UK museum that handles that kind of stuff...but it would go straight to the vault I'm afraid
Andrew would have to organise a container, I'd be dead so therefore would be past caring lol !! |
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| jimboo | May 7 2013, 08:31 AM Post #9 |
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Funeral Train of King George VI passing the vinyl factory Hayes 1952. Posted Image Taking the youngest and grand kids to London Thorpe Park in August. Staying at one of the Heathrow hotels. 10 minutes from the The Old Vinyl Factory. :D http://www.theoldvinylfactory.com/ http://www.theoldvinylfactory.com/the-hist...-vinyl-factory/ |
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| muffmasterh | May 7 2013, 03:28 PM Post #10 |
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Fantastic.....look at the old dears packing Rubber Souls, that could have been my mum, although she would have only been in the mid 40's then one point though it says : " Hayes. The site didn’t survive unscathed: it was bombed on July 7, 1944 " I'm not sure when the last bombing raid on Britain was but I thought it was earlier than that as by then the German two engined bombers were no longer up to the task.. of course it could have been a doodlebug ( v1 )...anyone have any info on this, maybe i am wrong..... |
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| namralos | May 7 2013, 03:46 PM Post #11 |
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If I get to be part of the mission to Mars, I may give my collection away. Who knows? |
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| gzzsbj | May 7 2013, 07:04 PM Post #12 |
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My daughter will have custody of the collection after my days (60 years old as I write, so hopefully a few years left to complete the collection?!). She's a great Beatles fan, having been brought up on a Beatles diet in the house. She winds me up sometimes by threatening to sell the lot , but I don't think she means it! So I've no intention of selling, just keep on collecting. I just keep reminding her that it's her inheritance I'm adding to every time another LP pops through the letter box. One thing I will do though is to label and catalogue them all properly one day, so she knows what's what. May we all live long and prosper! Richard |
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| Easy-E | May 7 2013, 11:31 PM Post #13 |
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Same here - the 15 yo son has become a vinyl hound and every once in a while I find my records migrating to his room where he has a modest stereo set up with a record player. He spends every cent he gets on new vinyl of current bands that he likes and fortunately he very good about handling them carefully and putting them away. He gets all my hand me downs (insread of me selling them on ebay!) and one day he'll become custodian of them. I also must get a ID system going about which ones are the properly rare and valuable ones so that if anyone has a rush of blood to the head they dont sell them for a song! |
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| jimboo | May 7 2013, 11:36 PM Post #14 |
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Was a doodlebug HAYES On the 7th July 1944 a German V1 rocket landed on the EMI factory in Blyth Road, Hayes, as a result a concrete shelter roof collapsed, killing 34 and injuring a further eighteen. A memorial to those killed in the bomb attack on EMI can be found in Cherry Tree Lane Cemetary, Hayes http://ourhistory-hayes.blogspot.co.uk/200...-communist.html |
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| muffmasterh | May 8 2013, 12:10 AM Post #15 |
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cheers jimbo. I knew I was right about that being too late for a conventional air raid !! That of course means the attack was not deliberate and that Hayes was not thereforedeliberately targeted because of it's war work, V1's could not be targeted with that kind of accuracy plus the Germans were fed false info from turned double agents to say the V1's were falling short causing them to adjust them....meaning that they would overfly central London and end up in places like.... Hayes
yes I've got to do that too before i snuff it !! |
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