Monday 3 March 2014

LIFE: Vinyl Kind of Weekend

Record Player Vinyl Collection Motown Record Vinyl

Our weekend pretty much started, and ended with vinyl. There was a huge, and I mean huge estate sale at the end of last week with a house of thousands and thousands (no joke) of records - from everything from jazz to blues, show tunes and some rock and roll thrown in for good measure. The majority were for sale for $1 so it would have been wrong to have not checked it out. 

Which basically meant Joe leaving me at the sale for a couple of hours to go through the walls of records and pick some out for ourselves. I think we came home with about thirty to add to our collection, I was mainly battling against seasoned resellers, luckily they weren't overly interested in the jazz or the blues so that was fine by me. What did we end up with well everything from Fats Waller to Billie Holiday via some Motown and Three Dog Night.

With talk about buying a house we've already packed up a box of vinyl - mainly the ones we can deal without listening to for a couple of months, as for the rest, I dread to think we physically and safety pack up and move 800 plus of them. This all reminds me how I should get around to doing an apartment tour - but it'll be without the fancy parts you find in similar posts on other blogs - you'll see it mess and all.

Anyway listening to vinyl, relaxing with five of them lined up, certainly is a nice lazy way to spend a Sunday and try to forget the coming stresses of the week ahead. Nothing beats that pop, the hissing and the crackling of music of years gone by coming back to life.

How was your weekend?

13 comments:

  1. I loooooove motown. Good pick!!
    My weekend happened to be pretty decent. c:

    <3
    Harlynn
    mindyourmadness.blogspot.com

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    1. I collect Motown records - living in Metro Detroit it's a fun challenge to find them - must have about 50 of them these days.

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  2. wow thats awesome that you have so many vinyl's!
    Lauren | OhHay Blogs!
    xx

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  3. My dad used to be a DJ so has a pretty impressive collection of LPs. My mum hates how much space it takes up but my dad just can't bare to part with it although, I don't think he even owns a record player anymore. I have so many memories of being really small and having my dad playing vinyl - normally when my mum was working the night shift and he let us stay up a bit later than normal! Haha

    Debi x

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    1. Aw it's a shame if he doesn't have a player any more - I can see us getting a house being the excuse to save some more players from estate sales. Records are my earliest memory of music, getting some crazy 1980's pop on and dancing around the living room!

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  4. Packing/lifting vinyl is one of my biggest moving-related dreads. I've whittled down my collection a lot having moved a bunch of times, but they're so heavy and keeping them reasonably organized can be tricky... I dated a guy years ago who owned THOUSANDS of records, and he wanted to keep all of them alphabetical as we packed them. Fun times! But I guess it's worth it if you have nice things to listen to, eh?

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    1. Oh I don't think moving will ever decrease our collection to be honest - and having more space for them will just give us extra excuse to keep on buying!

      We have ours separated into groups - Motown/Jazz and Blues/Classical/Pop and Rock and then our favourites are on a separate cabinet - somewhat alphabetical within their own categories and we'll probably try and keep that way just so it's easier to unpack them at the other end.

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  5. You have sooooo many records!! I am impressed by your collection and even more impressed after you move all of them! Good luck with that ;)
    You deserve a nice relaxing weekend, recharging and getting ready to be an adult on Monday... boo
    ~ K

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    1. Being an adult sucks doesn't it?!

      Seriously i'm hoping to have huge muscles by the time we're done moving everything!

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  6. I will assume you've been the Motown Museum then?

    I used to have a bunch of stuff on record but that was pitched when I went to CD. I still have my CD's but I mostly listen to stuff on my iPod. There are some aspects of records that I mean...namely the moment between buying it and listening to it at home. there was that sense of anticipation of hearing something new. With downloading, it is now instaneous. With a CD, I could pop in my car.

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    1. Nah we haven't made it down to the Motown Museum yet, weekends kind of get busy which is really the only free time we have. We still download and make cds for the car and stuff, but predominately vinyl is how we listen to music - I dislike how intangible downloading music is for whatever reason.

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  7. What a great collection! I would love to have a record player, but then again, I am already a big book collector so I'm not sure I have room to collect records too. (And by not sure, I mean definitely no room!!!)

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    1. Oh we really don't have the space that's for sure!

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