thats a lot of vinyl

[puffy09]

no affil, but there's got to be a few good ones.

http://seattle.craigslist.org/skc/cbd/3711464002.html

 

[Windwalker]

What's an average record weigh, guessing 4 oz, so 4 per pound
8 tons is 16000 lbs
That's what 64,000 or so albums
1200/64k or about .02/album

of that 64000
my guess is
62,000 Christmas Albums
500 Lawrence Welk
500 John Davidson
500 Herb Albert
250 John Denver
100 Debbie Boone
50 Boz Scaggs

100 worth a darn

 

[puffy09]

Don't forget the 5 barbra streisand albums

 

[vintageboy]

Don't forget the 5 barbra streisand albums

and nail diamond

 

[proimage1]

That makes my head hurt just thinking about it !

 

[silvernutsaq]

There`s gotta be some Dan Fogelberg and Gordon Lightfoot in there also.

 

[jetblack]

20 pallets.......
20 collectibles........
1 collectible at the bottom of each pallet......

 

[bobsvinyl]

If all the boxes look like the one in the photo, I'd pass. There's going to be a bunch of warped records in there. From past experience, I guarantee any good ones will be in the warped pile.

 

[cableguy2]

Wait until they end up on the goodwill store shelves and buy what you want for a $1. That's what I do here.

 

[SPEC2man]

Imagine the weight placed on the LPs even 5-6 inches down .... can't imagine what the bottom would look like. Tacotime

 

[El Pee]

You might be able to bargain on that price, but even at 2 cents per album, you could buy them and donate them to goodwill for a tax deduction of $1 per album (a $64k tax deduction could be pretty sweet)... plus you'd have the opportunity to look through all of them and fond the one or two that are interesting. If you have a truck and a lot of free time, it could be an interesting way to spend the weekend.

Fortunately for my marriage, I do not have a truck or free time... nor do I live in Seattle..

 

[pauldrewry]

Don't forget Mitch Miller! The way they are piled in there make me cringe.

 

[oldvinyldude]

I have gotten to a point in my collecting/accumulating, that to be honest-I would have to admit that I would likely find perhaps a handful of keepers per pallet.

This is at once a comfort-as it means that I do not feel compelled to sift through every thrift's vinyl offerings every visit. It's been quite a while since I have found anything that suits my interest. It also somewhat depressing-as I realize that I am not likely to come across a 'vein' of record gold.

Kinda like the fantasy that I enjoy when I buy a Powerball ticket-thinking of all the things I would like to do with that money. Then I picture myself in a packed NFL stadium, and imagine the odds of my name being drawn for some contest there. Then I imagine the odds if there were 500 stadiums :sigh:

 

[damacman]

The only better way I could think to store them would be in my attic here in Phoenix. Good grief.

 

[peterfranks]

I'd like to know where they came up with 16,000lbs of LPs? Record store gone out of business? Someones collection? Would be interesting to know where they came from. Just a couple hours up the road from Portland ....

 

[zman]

Maybe they are rag outs from the thrift stores.

 

[Jeff M]

Looks like a Windham Hill on the top . I have a friend here that would buy them. He has over 30K in his basement, all in neat order too. He can zip thru a big collection real quick and keep what he wants. He sells the rest for $1-$3 for commons.

 

[24HACKER]

Got to be at least two or three Herb Alberts in there

 

[jeremyjustic]

well I have a real good idea where these came from. a couple of years ago a record store in seattle called bop street moved locations. The owner is a full on hoarder but when they were moving they had a giant sale, everything in the basement was a dollar. well as you can imagine the basement was crammed full records all in the worst condition imaginable, I searched for a few hours and walked away with 1 record. long story short the owner donated over a 100,000 records to goodwill, it was all over the papers and even here on AK. Well for the last year or so every thrift store was jammed full of 200 unplayable copies of "the first family" etc etc etc. you could always tell what came from bop street because there would be 30 copies of the same album all stuck together with mold. I am willing to bet these records came from that batch and goodwill is tired of having all this unsellable junk taking up their warehouse space. I wouldn't be surprised if they told you when you bought them that you couldn't redonate them to goodwill.