Hmmm... Dare I Post This Up But Does Anyone

[Ian Williams]

I'm just going through several hundred 45's that I have. Its quite fun playing all the b sides and discovering tunes you've never heard before - there's a few good ones.

Me and a friend bought about a hundred or so 45's a while ago from a local record shop - some sold, we kept some and others refuse to sell no matter what the price...

Some of the 45's I've got I have no idea how I got them - I can usually remember purchases but not some of these.

So down to the title of the topic in question - what do you do with your very 'worthless' 45's that you don't like and can't sell? Give them away? Sell them for 50p each?

Or does anyone (admit) to chucking them into landfill?

I've got a Marge Joseph 80's 45 even Soul Sam would find hard to get people to dance to - what do I do with this one?

[Guest]

Get my Air gun out and through em in the air its a good bit of fun

[dthedrug]

I can remember Malcolm, From Memory Lane (John & malcolm) melting about a 1000 UK 6ts 45s because they were only VG+ DAVE K

[shute]

You can always send to me ?

I'll pay the postage !

[Bridgey]

Last April at my 50th, (Soul All-Dayer) my wife put 165 records out on the tables to either use as beer mats or for pure table dressing....

At the end of the night, there was 4 left.... UUUmmmmm

Also my Granddaughters toy box seems to have gathered about 30 ish, another UUUmmmmmmm

I have locks on all the other boxes....

[Linda4me]

I was at a Soul night about 35 yrs ago and the dj put a record on, the needle kept jumping and he took it off the turntable and skimmed it across the dancefloor ive still got it now and it plays perfect and the record was ...... Berts Apple Crumble-The Quick and if you're on here the answer is no,you cant have it back

[Ady Croasdell]

I woke up one Sunday morning to see Langham DStreet where I lived by the BBC in the West End covered in records. It took a few secs before I remembered that we'd played frisbees with a couple of hundred Major Harris (wrong title) on OOTP that I'd paid 1p each for!

[Guest]

I woke up one Sunday morning to see Langham DStreet where I lived by the BBC in the West End covered in records. It took a few secs before I remembered that we'd played frisbees with a couple of hundred Major Harris (wrong title) on OOTP that I'd paid 1p each for!

"Out On The Piss" is that what you mean by OOTP

[Ady Croasdell]

"Out On The Piss" is that what you mean by OOTP

In a nutshell!

[Matt]

In a nutshell!

Sell them back to the states and then they can sell them back to us!

[John Benson]

I once took a load to a (not so) local charity shop, never been back since!

[Kris Holmes]

I've thrown stuff away for sure, if it's super wrecked or things no one I know is into so I can't even give them away. I don't take them to thrift stores either because it sucks looking through your old castaways next time you go there. Biggest mistake was a few years back I got a pressing plant box of unplayed US stock copies of Beggin by the 4 Seasons when I bought a few thousand 45s from a closed store in Wisconsin. Got rid of a bunch either through sales or giving them away. After a while I had them on ebay & other sites at something like $5 buy nows & they just weren't moving. No one wanted the damn thing, so I took about 35 mint copies & threw them in the rubbish when I moved. Now it seems the price has picked up a bit again & some days I kick myself

Also had a box of Foolish Fool by Dee Dee Warwick, same story although even less people wanted that & it's still worthless so I don't kick myself so much

Take the crap out of circulation is my motto

[Pete S]

I've given literally thousands away. Whenever I buy a job lot I end up keeping about 5 records and giving the other 500 away. I only keep the Northern so anything else gets binned.

[Ralf Mehnert]

Tomorrow I will go to a local bar after work some of you will remember from last years Hamburg Weekenders. We always went there after the boat trip for a last drink on sunday night to calm down.

They have live auctions there from time to time, where the DJ (tomorrow Lars Bulnheim is on) plays the stuff he likes to sell and have to give some strange infos about each record via the mike. Minimum bid is 0.50 cent.

The rule: If no person will make a minimum bid, the DJ must break the record to pieces and throw it on the floor in front of him.

So all in all you can say: Lars Bulnheim will break a lot of semi-known Soul records tomorrow night!

[michael-j]

Take the crap out of circulation is my motto

yes, but who determines what is 'crap'? half the records talked about on this site are total crap IMO, but i'd never even consider throwing them away.

and Lars Bulnheim sounds like an idiot

[Ged Parker]

Tomorrow I will go to a local bar after work some of you will remember from last years Hamburg Weekenders. We always went there after the boat trip for a last drink on sunday night to calm down.

They have live auctions there from time to time, where the DJ (tomorrow Lars Bulnheim is on) plays the stuff he likes to sell and have to give some strange infos about each record via the mike. Minimum bid is 0.50 cent.

The rule: If no person will make a minimum bid, the DJ must break the record to pieces and throw it on the floor in front of him.

So all in all you can say: Lars Bulnheim will break a lot of semi-known Soul records tomorrow night!

Thats criminal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Never heard a soul record that I'd rather not own than own.

[Ralf Mehnert]

and Lars Bulnheim sounds like an idiot

Well...

....a friend told me: `Last time he did it he had to broke his spare copy of Coco & Ben on Earth World....`

...but I`m not too sure about that...

[John Benson]

In my defence, might I just add that the ones I got rid of were NOT soul records, just ones I'd picked up over the years in 'bundles' - such as 10 for a quid type of thing.

They just looked interesting but actually were cr*p!

[Guest Brian Ellis]

You can use them as stiffeners (one either side) when posting out records you've sold. Let someone else deal with your problem .

Brian

[Keithw]

used to be a advert in blues and soul

somewhere in london in the mid-70s

we buy all your records

[Tony A]

my ex missus threw about 4,000 away, glad they wern't all soul but about 800 of them were, lots of originals. GUTTED.

[Phild]

I'm just going through several hundred 45's that I have. Its quite fun playing all the b sides and discovering tunes you've never heard before - there's a few good ones.

Me and a friend bought about a hundred or so 45's a while ago from a local record shop - some sold, we kept some and others refuse to sell no matter what the price...

Some of the 45's I've got I have no idea how I got them - I can usually remember purchases but not some of these.

So down to the title of the topic in question - what do you do with your very 'worthless' 45's that you don't like and can't sell? Give them away? Sell them for 50p each?

Or does anyone (admit) to chucking them into landfill?

I've got a Marge Joseph 80's 45 even Soul Sam would find hard to get people to dance to - what do I do with this one?

I've thrown 100's & 100's away over the years. Just last year I threw at least 3-400 assorted Ric-Tic 45's away. For some reason I bulk bought loads of them in Detroit in the 90's. Nowt rare just Al Kent, Little Ann, Willie G, Andre Williams, JJ Barnes, Fantastic Four, that kind of stuff. Also a load of 70's/80's stuff including about 100 copies of Five Special - the More I get To Know You. Utter bilge. Don't whatever possessed me to buy them.

Phil

[purist]

I only did it the once, but it worked. I wouldn't do it today because I like to think I'm a better person now, but in the era I did it, I still had the dog eat dog attitude to life.

I filled a 400 size record box with all these horrible sounding but great looking "mistake" 45's (mostly bought as "uneducated guesses"), then I placed a few, maybe six, decent known records amongst them, making sure I put three at the front of the box, and a couple further in just behind this first three. These weren't big money things, maybe 10-15 quid classic oldies on original labels, but nice looking on a clean demo for example. I packed it as tightly as I could, so it discouraged flicking through.

I dropped into a dealers asking if they were interested in a trade. They looked at these first few including the 3 tunes placed for purpose, then asked me what I wanted. With a completely straight face I exclaimed that there were four hundred records in this box, and I knew this dealer had a nice wdj copy of a classic oldie that they wanted four hundred quid for, were they interested in a straight swap? The 'rule of con' relies totally on the other persons greed, and this dealer thought I was a mug and that they were ripping me off.

The only question they asked me was " Are they all Soul?" and I answered honestly that yes they were. They didn't ask if they were all Northern Soul, but I tend to think they assumed that they were because a). I'm a lifelong Northern Collector, and . they were Northern Soul Dealers.They handed me the wdj and insisted I took away the 400 count box (which must have been worth 20 quid of anybodys money)

As they used to say in the News of The World, I made my excuses and left, clutching my new acquired wdj. To be honest the dealer couldn't wait to see the back of me. They'd only looked at maybe ten records in this box and obviously wanted to go through their 'big hit'.

I'm not proud of myself, just telling an old war story......

[paup-ine]

You can use them as stiffeners (one either side) when posting out records you've sold. Let someone else deal with your problem .

Brian

I sold a record once, and popped and boot in as well, and had brill feedback

P

[Ady Pountain]

Fun thread this one.

In the 70s at Record Fairs, when we were bored, John Farrell and I used to play Record Fair cricket with an LP as the bat and 45s as the ball just to wind people up! The looks of horror were brilliant.

Pete Wid was the king though. He would take crap completely obscure UK 60s records to places like St Ives all dayers and spend hours winding up people, mainly DJs, that this was the best 60s record he had ever heard. Once it got to final price haggling he'd smash it over his knee saying "that's not enough". And one well known chap from the East Midlands was often seen picking up the pieces, and I'm not joking.

I throw records in the bin nearly everyday. Today I threw Hot "Angel En Tus Brazos" on Big Tree in the bin as it wasn't even worthy of recycling!

Lars is far from being an idiot, my favourite German Tart yes, but no idiot!

Dee Dee Warwick "Foolish Fool" is a brilliant record!

Ady

[Kris Holmes]

Dee Dee Warwick "Foolish Fool" is a brilliant record!

Yes, I love the 45, but didn't know what to do with 50+ copies

All my friends got a copy whether they wanted it or not, I sold a few for prices that weren't even worth my while. The drums are so tough on that record.

[Guest Dante]

I've thrown 100's & 100's away over the years. Just last year I threw at least 3-400 assorted Ric-Tic 45's away. For some reason I bulk bought loads of them in Detroit in the 90's. Nowt rare just Al Kent, Little Ann, Willie G, Andre Williams, JJ Barnes, Fantastic Four, that kind of stuff. Also a load of 70's/80's stuff including about 100 copies of Five Special - the More I get To Know You. Utter bilge. Don't whatever possessed me to buy them.

Phil

Don't ever do that again!

If you have more RicTics to get rid off give me a shout and i'll pay for them! Even if they're not rare.

[Phild]

Don't ever do that again!

If you have more RicTics to get rid off give me a shout and i'll pay for them! Even if they're not rare.

I'll get a list together. I still have 100's of 'em. Plus I still have over 100 copies of the Magictones - It's Better To Love on Mah's

Phil

[Guest]

Don't ever do that again!

If you have more RicTics to get rid off give me a shout and i'll pay for them! Even if they're not rare.

Got hundreds of the common Ric Tics Dante, many mint with some with water damaged labels....multiple copies on quite a few. Would take a while to sort and find them all but if you'd be interested then let me know and I can make a start!

[Guest Matt Male]

My only worry about snapping records or using them as cricket balls etc... is that some time in the future they might be the next big sound. Times change and different 45s come into and out of fashion. Today's cricket ball might be (in 20 years time) tomorrow's Mello Souls

[Guest]

My only worry about snapping records or using them as cricket balls etc... is that some time in the future they might be the next big sound. Times change and different 45s come into and out of fashion. Today's cricket ball might be (in 20 years time) tomorrow's Mello Souls

I thought about that before throwing copies of San Remos' I'm Satisfied' against a wall frisbee style, I was trying to break the styrene playing surface but keep labels intact. Murdered 6 copies before getting 3 to crack the way I wanted......kept thinking 'what if this starts getting played by Butch and becomes worth £100s!!' Then looked in the box at the other 100+ copies and next thought was 'I'll be f*cking rich if it does'

[Guest]

I've thrown 100's & 100's away over the years. Just last year I threw at least 3-400 assorted Ric-Tic 45's away. For some reason I bulk bought loads of them in Detroit in the 90's. Nowt rare just Al Kent, Little Ann, Willie G, Andre Williams, JJ Barnes, Fantastic Four, that kind of stuff. Also a load of 70's/80's stuff including about 100 copies of Five Special - the More I get To Know You. Utter bilge. Don't whatever possessed me to buy them.

Phil

No wonder records are rare, it's because people over the years have thrown most of them away!

Why didn't you list them all for for £10? plus postage, if you didn't want them? At least someone would have got some good out of them! What a waste.

[Ezzie Brown]

i like mis treating records in front of my mate brad,cos he dosnt collect but is appalled at the way i stack um every where ,unsleeved etc, except of course the ones i try to sell on here most monday evenings after a niter i look in my record box expecting to throw away the duff stuff my mates have traded with me at 6.30 when im dead... ........thanks lads

[Kris Holmes]

Seriously, there are still millions of thousands of those Ric Tic 45s out there, I wouldn't be worried about people taking a few hundred & doing what they want with them. The commons on that label will never be rare. Heck, there's bucketloads on ebay that never sell & just clutter up people's ebay stores & they're not even at $10 a copy for the most part. Some of you guys sound like you need to go look through a few thousand 45s & report back how many Ric Tic's you pass on because they're everywhere. Fantastic Four for DAYS........

I understand that throwing out records seems sacriligious to people & I used to think the same way, but there is definitely a poine where you've seen & accumulated so many soul 45s that you get a pretty good idea of what you're gonna be able to give away & what is unmoveable & if you don't jettison it any way possible, it will be with you to your grave. Wading through 300/400 common Ric Tic double ups sounds like hell in a handbasket, even if the guy pays you Maybe binning them was a bit harsh without offering them as a lot on here first apparently but I understand where the guy's coming from.

[Ian Williams]

Ian Williams 19 January 2010

I'm just going through several hundred 45's that I have. Its quite fun playing all the b sides and discovering tunes you've never heard before - there's a few good ones.

Me and a friend bought about a hundred or so 45's a while ago from a local record shop - some sold, we kept some and others refuse to sell no matter what the price...

Some of the 45's I've got I have no idea how I got them - I can usually remember purchases but not some of these.

So down to the title of the topic in question - what do you do with your very 'worthless' 45's that you don't like and can't sell? Give them away? Sell them for 50p each?

Or does anyone (admit) to chucking them into landfill?

I've got a Marge Joseph 80's 45 even Soul Sam would find hard to get people to dance to - what do I do with this one?

Hmm... looks like its a draw then - some folks would want everything that someone else was going to get rid of - and spend all night playing the b sides and playing the beat ballads at 78rpm to turn a slowie to a stomper

Whilst others have no qualms about binning some tunes or winding up their mates.

I'm now thinking that I'll take the box of 80 or so and sell some and have a 'free' why don't you recycle section

I wonder, like some car boot sales, if I'll come home muttering... "I couldn't GIVE them away...."

Edited January 21, 2010 by ian williams

[Guest ScooterNik]

Don't ever do that again!

If you have more RicTics to get rid off give me a shout and i'll pay for them! Even if they're not rare.

I'm with him. I'm not a collector, I've never been able to afford, but Ric Tic has always been special to me, a few of my earliest tunes were on that classic label. If you want shut and they're at a good price, I'm interested too!

[dthedrug]

Fun thread this one.

In the 70s at Record Fairs, when we were bored, John Farrell and I used to play Record Fair cricket with an LP as the bat and 45s as the ball just to wind people up! The looks of horror were brilliant.

Pete And was the king though. He would take crap completely obscure UK 60s records to places like St Ives all dayers and spend hours winding up people, mainly DJs, that this was the best 60s record he had ever heard. Once it got to final price haggling he'd smash it over his knee saying "that's not enough". And one well known chap from the East Midlands was often seen picking up the pieces, and I'm not joking.

I throw records in the bin nearly everyday. Today I threw Hot "Angel En Tus Brazos" on Big Tree in the bin as it wasn't even worthy of recycling!

Lars is far from being an idiot, my favourite German Tart yes, but no idiot!

Dee Dee Warwick "Foolish Fool" is a brilliant record!

Ady

YES THATS A GOOD ONE TO DO, I HAVE A PILE OF REGGAE RECORDS ALL THE SAME, AND NOW AND AGAIN TREAT THEM, I CANT REMEMBER THE RECORD BUT I KNOW I SENT 1 OUT OF THE BLUE TO RIC-TIC DAVE(58)KIL

[Guest Dante]

I'll get a list together. I still have 100's of 'em. Plus I still have over 100 copies of the Magictones - It's Better To Love on Mah's

Phil

Got hundreds of the common Ric Tics Dante, many mint with some with water damaged labels....multiple copies on quite a few. Would take a while to sort and find them all but if you'd be interested then let me know and I can make a start!

Let me know. I sold all of them, of course I regret it now. And you know this is, when you start buying again you never get round to picking up the obvious ones. Well, at least me.

Ric Tic is my favorite label of all time, it's so special to me, so drop me a PM if you've got anything...

[paultp]

You can use them as stiffeners (one either side) when posting out records you've sold. Let someone else deal with your problem .

Brian

I got a record from the states packed like this recently.

A fragile thing packed in 2 fragile things makes it only marginally less fragile. A piece of glass packed in between 2 pieces of glass?

BTW anybody collect Olivia Newton John records?

[Guest WPaulVanDyk]

ha ha ha Olivia Newton John mentioned on here.

i find that if you have records you hate or let's say stuff you have 2 of sell them if you can, if not give them to charity or someone who wants them

the one thing i wouldn't do is give away say soul stuff i not really a big fan of cause i can keep them in case sometime you was doing radio show or something and you can play them to please people who might like them or request them

[Guest welshruss]

In the late 70s i was going through a divorce......and my ex threw a liquid over a 200 box of northern that i always kept near the stereo ! Nowt wrong with that i thought "clean it up after the row"

Didnt realise it was bleach.......left it for a few hours......nearly every 45 was either warped beyond belief or marked so it was non playable.

Ooh i did see my arse that day.....but they all ended on the tip.......Happy days - no they wernt.

[posstot]

Funny you should ask. I have a dilemma at the moment. I bought a record ; Cards on the table Diplomats arock off what turned out to be a dirty rotten sicko mother foooooker. I dont like the thought of it in my house now, despite the fact this persons guilty fingers have been all over it...i have some bad Karma feelings.........should i forget it and leave it where it is or should i throw it out? snap it up and burn it? or just sell it??

[Djfriendly]

This is a fun post & horrific too. Thrown away records, Broken records, divorcee disaster stories - I have heard a few of those. Never let your missus know your favourite tunes (unless you are lucky enough to have a missus who is into her tunes too) - a friend of mine had a row with the missus & she found all the tunes on his favourite label & broke them.

I have tracked down quite a few people in the US who were in the business back in the day, who had thrown out their records. Not sold, not given away - thrown away - it is hard to hold back the tears when you get this news after going to the effort of tracking someone down.

Another reason rare records are rare is that people in the biz,radio dj's etc.. often kept what they thought was worth keeping & threw out what they didn't think much of or wasn't a hit. In someways this is understandable because they used to get pallets full of lp's delivered to the radio station every week & no one had room to store it all.

When they do hang on to some of the more interesting stuff it often tends to be local records & is usually in perfect shape whilst all their Marvin Gaye & James Brown records are trashed.

My advise would be never throw anything away because 1 man's trash is another man's treasure & what is not cool now might turn out to be cool in a few years time.

Look into if they are worth anything online & if not give them away to someone who might care. Last ditch charity shop.

[Djfriendly]

BTW anybody collect Olivia Newton John records? - YES! I have sold a few I have to admit (don't ban me) 1 man's trash is another mans treasure - it seems there is a collectors market for any "attractive" female singers,especially with picture covers, Madonna, ONJ, Mariah Carey... 

[NEV]

BTW anybody collect Olivia Newton John records? - YES! I have sold a few I have to admit (don't ban me) 1 man's trash is another mans treasure - it seems there is a collectors market for any "attractive" female singers,especially with picture covers, Madonna, ONJ, Mariah Carey...

[Keithw]

will always swap 50 crap records for 50 crap records

if anyone wants too--i might find 5 youve missed and visa versa

just no ballads/michael jackson/james brown please

Edited February 2, 2010 by keithw

[Jem Britttin]

Remember as a teenager back in the 70s, like many others, buying the 200 soul packs , me and my mate used to go halves on them , we would inevitavely end up with about only 20 records that we thought were any good , so I ended up with a bedroom full of records nobody wanted . My Mum kept giving me earche to get rid of them.

As we lived literally a stones throw from the river Nene me and my mate used to frisby handfulls of them into the river from a distance ....they fly for miles!! anyone else tried it .....God knows what ended up in there...I shudder to think

[Phild]

This is a fun post & horrific too. Thrown away records, Broken records, divorcee disaster stories - I have heard a few of those. Never let your missus know your favourite tunes (unless you are lucky enough to have a missus who is into her tunes too) - a friend of mine had a row with the missus & she found all the tunes on his favourite label & broke them.

I have tracked down quite a few people in the US who were in the business back in the day, who had thrown out their records. Not sold, not given away - thrown away - it is hard to hold back the tears when you get this news after going to the effort of tracking someone down.

Another reason rare records are rare is that people in the biz,radio dj's etc.. often kept what they thought was worth keeping & threw out what they didn't think much of or wasn't a hit. In someways this is understandable because they used to get pallets full of lp's delivered to the radio station every week & no one had room to store it all.

When they do hang on to some of the more interesting stuff it often tends to be local records & is usually in perfect shape whilst all their Marvin Gaye & James Brown records are trashed.

My advise would be never throw anything away because 1 man's trash is another man's treasure & what is not cool now might turn out to be cool in a few years time.

Look into if they are worth anything online & if not give them away to someone who might care. Last ditch charity shop.

I agree.

It's all too easy to not see the value of something that you've made, or been involved with.

I remember a few years ago binning a load of Soul City label test presses. Chris (King) and I had put a few double sider test presses (best side of 2 releases per 45) together to give to DJ's etc to promote the "new" label.

I had a fair few left and they didn't fit neatly into the record filing system, so they were moved around from one shelf to another until one day I just thought they were in the way and binned the lot.

Phil

[aintgotit]

I've given literally thousands away. Whenever I buy a job lot I end up keeping about 5 records and giving the other 500 away. I only keep the Northern so anything else gets binned.

What you mean you actually throw the stuff on the tip? Do you not know any youngsters startin a collection who,ll give the other stuff a hearing? i sometimes get Cato,s cast offs im proud to say, and thats the crux of t i guess , you never know what might appeal to you till you hear the music. im always grateful for a listen to stuff people have no use for or dont care for particularly.Its a tough thing to recycle is vinyl i suppose, if its unloved.

Edited February 2, 2010 by whatsthiscalled

[Djfriendly]

I heard a story about someone from a fairground buying up all the old shellac records to use in the shooting range because they shatter with quite a dramatic effect.