re: #17 teleskiguy

I’ve been raiding my parents’ LP collection this summer, putting my record player to use. Lots of classical; Liszt, Rachmaninov, Holst, Offenbach, Strauss, Mozart, Prokofieff, Grieg, Debussy, Tchaikovsky. Lots of old Stones records. Billy Joel’s “The Stranger.” Lots of first pressings; The Doors “L.A. Woman,” every Roy Buchanan record from the 70s, a white vinyl White Album, Led Zeppelin’s first five albums, Zappa’s first two albums, David Bowie “Ziggy Stardust” and “Space Oddity,” Focus, Yes “Tales From Topographic Oceans,” Talking Heads “Stop Making Sense,” on and on. There’s thousands of titles. Most of the records are in decent shape for playing, the sleeves are a little worse for wear, what with being in my parents possession and moving with them everywhere for decades. Pretty neat project.

We’ve got a friend in Germany who has two vinyl stores, one in Freiburg, one in Berlin. If you would like to have someone look at the collection, I could hook you up.

I would keep the collection and get a really good record player, but that’s me.