Collection strut 2024
kicks79
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So what's going on with your collection in 2024?
I'm in purge mode currently. I am coming to terms with the fact that post-COVID my DJ gigs have evaporated due to a mix of venue closures and new kids in the mix. I only had two paid gigs this year.
So I'm offloading tons of 12"s that I use to play out. Most of the hip hop from the last 24 years is going as well.
I need to make more space and cash for all the Brazil, prog, jazz, library, Latin and reggae joints I don't have.
I'm in purge mode currently. I am coming to terms with the fact that post-COVID my DJ gigs have evaporated due to a mix of venue closures and new kids in the mix. I only had two paid gigs this year.
So I'm offloading tons of 12"s that I use to play out. Most of the hip hop from the last 24 years is going as well.
I need to make more space and cash for all the Brazil, prog, jazz, library, Latin and reggae joints I don't have.
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I decided on a fixed amount of records in the collectron based on space in the home - it's around 1500. I got rid of stuff at shows to get down to that (and a lot of chud went to the thirft store at one point). I try to be much more discerning about what I buy, although still take chances on the cheap bins... just not as many at any one time/my instincts are better these days. I also spend more time now listening through my collection to find things I don't really need so that I can bring new things in. I feel like I'm in a good place with it all...
I put off going through everything to figure out what mildly interesting records deserve to be traded for what little credit a record store concerned about making a profit in 2024 will give me. Even if some of them wind up going to the thrift store, at least they will still be circulated.
I have a smaller CD and DVD collection. Last year I donated a large cardboard box of VHS tapes of dubbed, pan-and-scan versions of European cop films for the American rental market. I no longer need them as they have already been rereleased as originally intended in high def.
Keeping all the autographs.
This was in heavy rotation - 2nd wave ninjatune, I reckon.
I've got tons of CDs I need to dump as well. But def keeping all the DJ mix ones.
Combined catalogued count in Discogs is around 10k, which is short by a few K of vinyl.
ur kids are smrt tho
6K+ records per Discogs with some new shelving to clear the floor piles and a clear out of my storage space needed desperately.