Please explain why DH needs to keep 400 old punk LPs when we don't own a record player?

[morningpaper]

This is a man thing, right?

Spiker, thank you!
Anyone who likes a bit of really trancy Giorgio Moroder will love that album
Lyra, I was off at college and had an ultimatum (fair enough) issued one weekend for execution the following.
I arrived home some weeks later. Most of it had sold, unbelievably.

Would that be as in "BAWN in the USA", MI?
I had no idea dp was a damn Yankee

He lived there for a whole four days. He is under the misapprehension this turns him into a red-blooded amalgam of Johnny Cash and Brooce.

He doesn't want to recapture his youth MP, he just doesn't want to lose everything from his past.

If you made him get rid of them he'd probably just buy them back one by one on ebay for more than he sold them for!

I've been known to 'rescue' multiple copies of my favourite records from charity shops. I just can't bear to leave them there so unloved with James Last for company.

have you seen the film JUNO?
best to let him keep them I think

Oh Marina, what a terrible story. I'm another female vinyl hoarder. I did freecycle some that I now have on CD, and put up more. But I wanted to give them to someone who would love my tatty old records and two batches were collected but other responses were just "oh, I'll take whatever you have". No one would want all of the rather bizarre range of records in question, I just don't believe it.

PMSL at DaDaDa.

And Morningpaper, we have to get rid of books, records and anything else, more than 50% of it all mine, not saying how much more, to make space for ds. Who was born last May.

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DH and I both share a veneration for vinyl, so I can't criticise there. Half of the vinyl in our house is mine.

DH's mum threw out his vinyl collection when he went away to university and didn't have the space for all of it. She says she didn't, of course, and that they are In The House Somewhere, but we have taken it apart and not found them. As some of them were quite rare, I replaced them for him as a wedding present.

On the other hand, DH does hoard Random Cables, and in fact all manner of obsolete computers and games consoles, all of which he says he'll get up and running one day, and none of which he ever plays on. It drives me nuts but I indulge him for the sake of marital harmony.

400 punk records, WOW I'd love to see that! That must hold alot of memories.
You just don't know how lucky you are MP

They're his LPs. They're a part of his life, his mental makeup, his history. Leave him alone.

But the DUST is a SHARED BURDEN

MP, books collect dust too. I should know!

hehe.... preparing for first baby? all the records went to his mum's attic

as for the random cables... my first day of mat leave was spent organising the cables. no more than two of any type, coiled, masking taped and reduced from a cupboard's worth to A SHOEBOX [proud emotcion]

Don't even think about selling them Though I'm sure I'd find plenty of interest in there....

My DH is same as OP and wont chuck his old records (again no player), autographs or American football/baseball shirts - that fit him when he was 16!

I however was made to give up my Soldier Soldier boxsets and Black and White film stills

At least LPs are cool! In very surrendered-wife style I finally tackled my DH's sock drawer - he had 57 pairs of socks and 25 odd ones.

I think you should buy him a record deck.

You can get a basic one nowadays that won't cost much.

There are also plenty of software programs around that can convert them to a digital file for prosterity. It takes a bit of time but it is worth it.

Vinyl is a dying genre at the moment. It is still prevalent and a standard in some areas of the dance scene such as d'n'b and hip-hop, but you find that the decks in clubs now are in a sad condition, unused and pushed out to the periphery.

There are lots of plus points for the use of digital formats - but i don't think we should be so quick to dump a carefully crafted collection that has had many years and man-hours devoted to it.

This'll fire you all up.

I just gave all my vinyl to Oxfam. Probably about 250 - 300 LPs and 100 or so 12" singles. Just looked at them all stuffed under the stairs and gave them away.

I'm not 20 any more and I finally realised it.

ALSO. I give about 15 - 20 boxes of books away to Oxfam every year. (I work in the book trade so I accumulate a LOT of books). My take is that there's a lot out there to read so you should pretty much just keep what you intend to read again sometime.

I recommend it. Very liberating.

ooh risky zebra - mp's hubby may be straight down to oxfam to buy some more after that news!

That's fine zeb. I am speaking from a music lovers perspective though and i still have all of my vinyl.

I still use it though.

I get it out in rotation from time to time and pick out the better ones to revisit all over again.

Just cos it is old doesn't mean it is shit.

Although - a lot of it is and will sit gathering dust i suppose.

MP, any chance of you or your DH listing what the records are? Would love to know. If they are any good then we perhaps could have him on as a guest slot on Dadsnet where we can ask him questions about the record selection. It would be much better from a dads point of view than someone like that Child parenting woman who got this website into all that trouble last year.

Nice to see you Eric, how you been?