Sold Date: March 20, 2022
Start Date: March 13, 2022
Final Price: £10.00 (GBP)
Bid Count: 2
Seller Feedback: 209
Buyer Feedback: 80

General background -

This is one from my personal collection. I started buying records back in the '60s, probably bought most of my stuff in the late '60s and '70s. I carried on buying vinyl through into the '90s, but by that point it was more out of habit than desire - I always though of myself as "a vinyl guy" and although I was buying CDs by then, I grabbed any vinyl albums by artists I liked or was interested in. In a lot of these later cases they mostly never even got played. By that point I wasn't actually using my record deck/hi-fi much - if I bothered to play anything it tended to be via the PC and its own attached mini-system. When I last moved house around 2001 my hi-fi system got ignored and has only very recently come back in to use.
But when I did buy albums, I always took great care of them. I have plenty of albums that I bought over 50 years ago that could pass for new - unmarked and perfectly clean players. I've always handled, played, and stored my records carefully. Typically they've been stored properly in thick protective sleeves in purpose built cabinets, and I've always used good quality systems to play them on - in the past things like Pioneer or AR decks, and since the '80s a Roksan Xerxes/RB/OC9 combination.
After dragging my vinyl around for some 50-60 years, I've decided to finally retire most of it. I shall keep some old favourites, but other than that it will go. I've always felt that listening to vinyl should be a dedicated thing, and there are few occasions now when I feel like just sitting and giving a record the attention it deserves. Having a bit of digital music burbling away in the background while I'm doing something else is more the norm for me now.

This is now the final set of albums I'll be putting here on eBay. I'm putting this last lot on as auctions, starting price £10, and anything that doesn't sell by the end of the auction will just go with the other 500-600 I shall dispose of elsewhere. This has been fun, but I'm not looking to turn this into a business and I don't want to spend any more time on this - in a couple of weeks time I will be just lurking here occasionally but no longer selling albums. My thanks to everyone who has bought any of the albums I've put on so far, and I hope you're enjoying your purchase.
(I've set a 4 day dispatch time, just in case everything does all sell and I have a lot of packing to do, but I will hopefully get stuff off in the post quicker than that)
This record -
Played once, probably not even all the way through. Bought on spec when I was trying out various artists/bands I'd read about but not heard. Sometimes that worked for me, and sometimes . . .

So totally fresh and unmarked. You could consider this a brand new copy.