Judy grasswire wants to know if they're worth buying

[franksolich]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10261088

Oh my.

grasswire (41,232 posts)    Sat Aug 9, 2014, 07:24 PM

Worth buying?

Or not?

Stopped at thrift store on my morning walk.

Hmm.

Tubs of 78 records from the twenties to early forties. Many in their original paper sleeves. Twenty five CENTS A TUB, with probably a hundred in each tub. Gee! The sign said "Use these for craft projects." I spose that means melt them down or something like that.
 
I pulled out ten individual records to bring home and look up. The Van Eps Trio looks good. Also the Six Brown Brothers who first recorded "Darktown Strutters Ball" in 1917. Chick Webb orchesra with Ella Fitzgerald BEFORE she was listed as the vocalist. And a later Chick Webb with her in one of her famous tunes: "A Tisket A Tasket". Lionel Hampton's "Jumpin' Jive".
 
Lionel Hampton's "The Heebie Jeebies Are Rockin' The Town" with flip side "Gin For Christmas". And so on....
 
I pulled out half a dozen empty sleeves for Bluebird and got them too.

Is it worth lugging this stuff home? There's a lot of Dorsey, Jimmy Lunceford, and other dance music. Condition seems to be moderate to very good.

TeamPooka (5,292 posts)   Sat Aug 9, 2014, 07:42 PM

1. They are a thrift store, they should know what they are worth. And they do.

grasswire (41,232 posts)    Sat Aug 9, 2014, 10:17 PM

3. in my experience, most thrift stores do NOT know the value of their stock.

They just want quick turnover.

A look at eBay shows values of $3-$40 for the kind of disks I saw. Let's see. 25 cents for 100 albums, sell for $3 each. That's a pretty good return.
 
But I think I'll pass.

Actually, Judy grasswire subconsciously knows the real problem is that she'd just buy them and keep them, never selling them.

And she's running out of space.

safeinOhio (8,131 posts)    Sat Aug 9, 2014, 09:37 PM

2. Only if they are in great

condition.

Scuba (39,506 posts)    Sun Aug 10, 2014, 08:55 AM

4. Depends on condition, but if good or better I'd have bought them all.

<<<notices the ^^^above primitive hasn't yet given away his real-estate to some Native American, and moved back to Europe, or wherever else his ancestors are from.

[BannedFromDU]

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10261088

Oh my.

Actually, Judy grasswire subconsciously knows the real problem is that she'd just buy them and keep them, never selling them.

And she's running out of space.

<<<notices the ^^^above primitive hasn't yet given away his real-estate to some Native American, and moved back to Europe, or wherever else his ancestors are from.

     "My concern with grasswire is that she has all of this clutter that she thinks is perfectly normal, and she keeps buying more. Oh, and she's a bitch, too."

[GOBUCKS]

I can see grasswipe Judy Smith, struggling down the sidewalk in Oak Grove, bundled up in the August heat as she strains to pull her heavily loaded Red Flyer wagon.

The wagon is heaped with hundreds of worthless 78rpm records. A few are jarred off the stack and fall to the pavement as the wagon's labored progress bumps across each sidewalk crack.

Many break when they hit the sidewalk, but the red-faced grasswipe picks each piece up and replaces it carefully into its paper sleeve.

Her overcoats soak through with sweat as she slowly makes her way toward the abandoned bodega where she'll store this latest load of treasures before moving it to one of her storage lockers.

[Dori]

Didn't she recently beg for money to fix a muffler?

[franksolich]

Didn't she recently beg for money to fix a muffler?

No, that was the grits primitive from South Carolina.

Judy grasswire from Oregon, to her credit, has never had a fund-raiser on Skins's island.

[GOBUCKS]

Didn't she recently beg for money to fix a muffler?

Not grasswipe Judy.

Her only vehicle is that little Red Flyer wagon.

She might solicit funds for a muffler but it would be a bulky scarf to wrap around her neck, so as to prevent the escape of any heat from within her overcoats.

[Dori]

No, that was the grits primitive from South Carolina.

Judy grasswire from Oregon, to her credit, has never had a fund-raiser on Skins's island.

We need a Dummy profile link here.

[landofconfusion80]

We need a Dummy profile link here.

Or we could just consult the files that we have on all the primitives.... that don't really exist  (think they'll buy that?)

[hillneck]

If Judy keeps this behavior up, she will be on the TV show "The Hoarders".

[JohnnyReb]

Suggestion: she could use them for roof shingles on a homeless camp shelter in the woods. Just put a big headed nail in the little hole to attach.

[diesel driver]

If Judy keeps this behavior up, she will be on the TV show "The Hoarders".

Not until a pile of her "treasures" falls over and buries her alive.   

[franksolich]

Not until a pile of her "treasures" falls over and buries her alive.   

The odd thing about the eBay primitives is that usually they boast about what they buy, and never about what they sell.

I suspect it's because the Internal Revenue Service monitors the forum--not a whole lot, because there's bigger fish on the internet, but some--to be sure the eBay primitives are paying their taxes on their windfall profits.

[BattleHymn]

I pulled out ten individual records to bring home and look up. The Van Eps Trio looks good. Also the Six Brown Brothers who first recorded "Darktown Strutters Ball" in 1917. Chick Webb orchesra with Ella Fitzgerald BEFORE she was listed as the vocalist. And a later Chick Webb with her in one of her famous tunes: "A Tisket A Tasket". Lionel Hampton's "Jumpin' Jive".
 
Lionel Hampton's "The Heebie Jeebies Are Rockin' The Town" with flip side "Gin For Christmas". And so on....

1. Grasswipe buys old 78s
2.
3.  PROFIT!!!

Grasswipe's humorous and rambling post is a perfect example of just how devoid of any real knowledge she is on practically any given subject.  I collect 78s, so her post really stuck out as being written by someone who is blindingly stupid on the subject.  Collecting 78s is not rocket science, but it requires someone who is a little more discerning than somebody who spends their days tugging around a rickety old red wagon with  hopes of flipping a profit on the first shiny thing she sets her eyes on.   

I'm actually disappointed that she didn't buy them.  She could have schooled the rest of the ebay primitives on proper storage/cleaning, condition grading, and  packing of said records, on her way to turning MILLIONS in profit. 

[franksolich]

I collect 78s, so her post really stuck out as being written by someone who is blindingly stupid on the subject.  Collecting 78s is not rocket science, but it requires someone who is a little more discerning than somebody who spends their days tugging around a rickety old red wagon with  hopes of flipping a profit on the first shiny thing she sets her eyes on.   

I'm actually disappointed that she didn't buy them.  She could have schooled the rest of the ebay primitives on proper storage/cleaning, condition grading, and  packing of said records, on her way to turning MILLIONS in profit.

It occurs to me that it seems playing one side of a 33.3 takes about 20, 25 minutes.

About how long did the old 45s and 78s play, on one side?

[BattleHymn]

It occurs to me that it seems playing one side of a 33.3 takes about 20, 25 minutes.

About how long did the old 45s and 78s play, on one side?

It depends on what the diameter is for the record, among a whole host of other things (absence or inclusion of needle lead-in/lead-out, true play speed, number of grooves).  On a typical ten inch 78, it's around 3 1/2 minutes.  Orchestral music was typically on twelve inch 78s, and their play duration is subsequently longer.  The "hotter" stuff typically ended up on the smaller records.  There are some pretty bizarre record sizes out there, up into the twenties of inches, if I'm not misaken.   

I only own a few 45s, and only for sentimental purposes (they were given to me).  I haven't played on in a while, so I can't give you a solid answer.  If I had to hazard a guess, I would say they're around the same length as a 78. 

Bear in mind that there are different diameter 33s as well.  I have 33s that are only ten inches in diameter, and as such don't play near as long as the  standard twelve inch size.

The last ten inch 33 I picked up would no doubt make the grasswipe primitive drool with envy, had she been able to purchase it for what I did, and see what the completed listing prices go for on her beloved Ebay (4000% profit).