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Vinyl is not lightweight. Placed on a shelf, if the shelf is too long and not supported in the middle the weight of the LPS will bend that shelf over time. Having over 1500 LP’s just moving those alone from ‘crib’ to ‘crib’ wears you down. Then the many different venues to actually hear the tunes. From 45’s to LP’s to 8 tracks to cassettes, to reel to reel, to disk, to MP. AND, once one finds an ideal location then begins the unpacking to place all in an organized manner whereby an album can be found. When I die, who would want the collection? Who would really know what to do with it? Over 40 years of life on those shelves. Beginning with Elvis, Frankie, Stones, Vangelis, ELO, Pink Floyd. Perhaps I should be happy that tunes today are so terrible (overall) tha to collect them is quite unnecessary. Long Live ROCK and ROLL!!
Yes, after my mother died, and I moved to go to college, I had to pretty much liquidate everything I had. If it wouldn’t fit into my 71 Firebird Formula 400, I had to get rid of it. Had to get rid of my stereo system, except for my cassette deck and headphones, with all the cassettes I’d recorded my album collection to. It was a real shame, there were a lot of albums I’ve never been able to replace on tape or CD over the years. :-(
Mark