I was looking for a particular record to play this morning. 45 minutes later I wasn’t in the mood to listen to it. My record collection has become a collection, it serves no purpose other that taking up space. There is perhaps 200 records I play, of those maybe 50-80 I play regularly, and of those maybe 20 I would hate to part with.

That leaves approximately 800 records that just provide a point of friction between my desire to hear something, and actually dropping the needle. Now I could sort the albums by artist, or genre, alphabetical, decade etc. but what I’m going to do is choose the 200 I want to keep (50 per each wood crate), and box the rest up and sell them, either to a dealer, or through an auction house.

The first pass sort will be the easiest, that’s just all the jazz, weird stuff, 70s rock. Then doubles can go, or triples in some cases.

Two full boxes and I haven’t even had to make a slightly difficult decision yet. 150 down 550 to go. I’m going to try for one more box tonight, and the rest tomorrow.

I’m sure someone will appreciate some of the rarer stuff in there, records are made round to go round.