# Does anyone actually collect Vinyl LP's any more? Where to sell? What to do ? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [October 23, 2006, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595 "2006-10-23T17:28:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![fishbicycle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/aeb1de/32.png) [@fishbicycle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fishbicycle)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595/21 "2006-10-25T03:32:14Z")
[QUOTE=Mallory] How do you transfer vinyl to CD? I’ve been wanting to do that for a while. [/QUOTE] Another Doper asked that question once, and [this](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=272361) is what happened. ---
**Author:** ![Hodge](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Hodge](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hodge)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595/22 "2006-10-25T03:32:59Z")
[QUOTE=Mallory] How do you transfer vinyl to CD? I’ve been wanting to do that for a while. [/QUOTE] If you have a working turntable, you could just run the line out from your receiver to the line-in of your PC’s soundcard and use audio software such as [Audacity](http://audacity.sourceforge.net/) to record the audio to WAV, MP3 or any other format. It should then be a simple matter to burn those files onto CD. This is what I’ve done in the past and I plan on doing some more over the weekend. If you don’t have a working turntable, you could spring for a [USB model](http://www.ion-audio.com/ittusb.php). I know there’s an old thread around here that goes into a lot of detail about how to optimize the recording but it’s been awhile and my searches don’t seem to be turning it up. ---
**Author:** ![Scissorjack](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c67d28/32.png) [@Scissorjack](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Scissorjack)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595/23 "2006-10-25T03:51:12Z")
Another vinyl collector here: there’s a still a metric shitload of stuff that’s either not out on CD, or has been deleted from catalogue and costs an arm and a leg. There was a CS thread the other day, on someone looking to buy an old Shriekback CD, now out of print: secondhand copies are apparently going for $50; I picked up a great copy on vinyl for $2. A Flanders And Swann box set goes for $60 on CD; I got mine for another $2. A quick run through Audacity, trim out the clunks, pops and clicks, and they’re preserved forever on drive and CD. I’ve think I’ve got more vinyl now then I ever had when it was actually being issued. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 3:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595/24 "2006-10-25T03:56:16Z")
How about Craigslist, or even your local pennysaver? ---
**Author:** ![MerryMagdalen](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c2a13f/32.png) [@MerryMagdalen](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MerryMagdalen)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 9:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595/25 "2006-10-25T09:07:57Z")
[QUOTE=John Carter of Mars] My heirs can worry about what to do with my collection of vinyl records. They can have my _SUN_ label recordings of Johnny Cash, Elvis, Jerry Lee Lewis and Roy Orbison when they pry my cold, dead fingers from them! 🆒 [/QUOTE] Can I have first dibs on your cold, dead fingers, and all the vinyl enclosed therein? (Long life and health to you, of course!) ---
**Author:** ![Cartooniverse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cartooniverse/32/3084_2.png) [@Cartooniverse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cartooniverse)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 10:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595/26 "2006-10-25T10:41:54Z")
Craig’s List ! Better yet- someone local can meet up with me and take the stuff. Maybe I can cover the cost of the CD Recorder device. That thread, that thread was amazing- and pointed out everything vexing about Windows OS. Such hoops they wanted us to jump through. I bought a stand-alone CD recorder. Uses re-writable CD’s. I plan to re-use EACH ONE until it can no longer be burned into. Burn an LP, pop the RW-CD into the computer, burn in the music, pop out the RW-CD, rinse, repeat. In related news, one of my cats threw up on my desk last night. If I hadn’t left that CD Recorder device still wrapped in layers of bubble wrapping, this thread would be in the Pit right now. :eek: Craig’s List. I like it better than Freecycle, since it might yield me a coupla sheckels. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-actually-collect-vinyl-lps-any-more-where-to-sell-what-to-do/377595.md?page=1)