Vinyl: should it stay, or should it go?
On a recent queer eye for the straight guy, one of the closing comments was: ‘And if you’ve got something you haven’t worn for more than a year….give it to someone who will wear it..’.
I’m not bad at doing this with my clothes: but this mornining, I took a look up at my vinyl shelves, and started to wonder whether it’s time to get rid.
Most of my vinyl is too scratched to sell. I still have a few 12″ ers I use on my very, very rare DJ outings…now mainly 40th birthdays and office parties (where I’m chosing the DJ). We no longer have a working record player in the house. Out of a few hundred albums, there are probably only a handful that I both really, really love and haven’t yet replaced on vinyl.
All logic, says they should go.
Then again: that vinyl is like a photo album of my teens and 20s (and I have very few photos of my teens and 20s). The objects themselves carry memories with them, almost as much as the sounds on them. I might have a little rationalisation instead.