If anyone has been watching YT in the last week you may have seen that Acoustic Sounds in the USA have bought a record collection from a collector in Oregon, there are apparently approx 10,000 LP's involved, a mixture of Classical, Jazz, Pop and Rock music, there are a good number of highly sought after still sealed box sets from various artists within the collection.
But perhaps the highlight among the collection are some complete (or all but complete) limited edition, numbered, jazz collections still unopened, factory sealed, the jackets and vinyl untouched by human hand since being bagged up a good few years ago, these collections are being sold as individual complete collections and not as individual LP's, the price for 3 of these complete collections range from $17,500 USD through to $21,500 USD, and I think that tax may have to be added but I'm not sure how USA tax is applied.
I don't have that kind of money to splash out on a collection of mint, factory sealed, LP's but my hypothetical question is this;
You are now the proud owner of one of these Jazz Collections, the LP's are there in your listening room, your hifi is nicely warmed up and the TT is all set to receive it's next piece of vinyl to play, would you open one of the mint LP's from the collection or would you leave them intact and play something from your existing collection?
Me?
Well I would open, clean and then play them, the LP's were made to be played.
You?
But perhaps the highlight among the collection are some complete (or all but complete) limited edition, numbered, jazz collections still unopened, factory sealed, the jackets and vinyl untouched by human hand since being bagged up a good few years ago, these collections are being sold as individual complete collections and not as individual LP's, the price for 3 of these complete collections range from $17,500 USD through to $21,500 USD, and I think that tax may have to be added but I'm not sure how USA tax is applied.
I don't have that kind of money to splash out on a collection of mint, factory sealed, LP's but my hypothetical question is this;
You are now the proud owner of one of these Jazz Collections, the LP's are there in your listening room, your hifi is nicely warmed up and the TT is all set to receive it's next piece of vinyl to play, would you open one of the mint LP's from the collection or would you leave them intact and play something from your existing collection?
Me?
Well I would open, clean and then play them, the LP's were made to be played.
You?