Need more tunes? I’m cleaning house.
Well, I’ve slowly begun the major task of selling off a lot of the CDs I own. At one point I had over 3,000 disks, but over the years I’d sold off quite a few and gotten it down to around 1,200 as of last year. Then began the major task of ripping them all to iTunes. 54 gigabytes later…
I sold off the majority of the pedestrian stuff to the local record shops, but I held on to the really good stuff to sell on Half.com and Amazon. This weekend, I made a solid dent in the list and was floored by how many CDs I have that are worth a bunch of money (being that they are out of print, imports, etc.). Some surprises:
- Shane MacGowan & The Popes - Rock and Roll Paddy EP was selling for $59.95-89.95;
- Sonic Youth (the self-titled EP on SST) was selling for $49.98-79.99;
- the original release of the Revenge of the Nerds soundtrack was selling for $89.99;
- The Chameleons UK - Strip was selling for $69.95; and
- The soundtrack to Psycho Beach Party was selling for nearly $50.
My Half.com shop is pretty packed with good stuff, most of which I kept pretty reasonable. My Amazon “z-Shop” has some interesting stuff in it as well (more of the import singles, etc.). For those interested in what’s out there:
- A slew of import singles from Ben Fold Five, Placebo, Portishead, Space and Skunk Anansie;
- some autographed disks from Goo Goo Dolls, Meat Beat Manifesto and Alec Empire (of Atari Teenage Riot); and
- assorted They Might Be Giants, Pixies, XTC, Komeda, and others.
There’s also a lot of miscellaneous exotica stuff like the Beat at Cinecitta CDs, Vampyros Lesbos, The Sound Gallery, etc. I love it all, but am trying to make room for a new office and need the shelf space.
If any of that is to your liking, enjoy, whether you buy from me or not. Also, I still have a lot of rare stuff I couldn’t find listings for on Half or Amazon. Do you know anywhere else I could look to sell them (apart form eBay… it takes way too long to list an item)?
