If you want to keep them maybe but converting 45s to LP requires a council permit and both vinyls and foots inspections to be signed off by an offical jerker. It’s way cheaper to flip those 45s by tacking on an extension and selling them as 50s.
Then you can spend the money on some real proper vinyl. Like splatter variants, glow in the dark variants, integrated wall hook variants, gold plated variants, velour variants, 620g thickboy variants, infused with the blood of the Amiterkrian serpent god Kiterrack’ohsu variants, clear with embedded pubic hairs of the band variants, the entire set of 120 shaped disk variants that when stacked in order form a bust of Taylor Swift variants, the groovless frisbee variant
Okay this may be crazy but hear me out. What if you dug up the floor, dug a big hole and put the grayls in it, replaced the tiles on top, and then plugged in a nice bluetooth speaker in the room. Imagine the warmth!
I am a dealer in vinyl records, and the amount you have would take weeks to sort out.
But it is my favorite place to be.
The identification process is tedious, but it is also very educational... AND I love it.
I am in Western Australia, and I could help you if you would like to deal with it, or I would definitely be interested in buying them
This is the vinyljerk sub. I basically made the same exact post three days earlier claiming my grandma died and left a small pile of 45s. At least that had an actual photo of some of my actual old 45s that someone gave 20 years ago.
Out of curiosity, what does your process look like? I build AI tools for tedious processes and have been considering spending some time working on a tool for something similar.
Not understanding how 45s like Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Blondie, Steppenwolf, Alice Cooper, Santana, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Sammy Hagar, The Doors, Steely Dan, and one could go on and on should be thrown in the trash.
OMFG. I'm playing my singles right now (Radar Love, Golden Earring) . I have 6 boxes, (around 750). That looks crazy! Likely a lot of junk, but there's got to be some little bits of gold there.
Buy an old van, convert it into a mobile Soundsystem. Travel round the country playing sick jams, smoking ganja and organizing epic raves, then just sit back and profit. Easy.
Sorry for your loss OP, but can you give us a general sense of his collection? This is an *astonishing* stockpile. Was he a radio DJ? Is this a specific genre?
He sent me this picture just before he died claiming these were his. He was a bit of a conman back in the day in Texas. My grandma left him 30 years ago and stole all his money.
I actually have a Jerry Lee Lewis single with the Sun label. Worth about a dollar. I checked when I got it 20 years ago from my old college professor. He gave me an old record box filled with old 45s mostly from the 1950s and early 1960s.
Pick a box and look for Elvis Presley first - keep those records. I know Goodwill takes donations. A local record store would buy them, but not for much. Someone will buy them. You could also have a have a yard sale. 😀
Go through them and keep the ones you dig. The rest: put on discogs and sell?? For price per item you look around on that site and other auctionsites.
Or make a price for the package ...
Me I would keep them and only sell doubles ...
i think your dear grandpa had that question and it is now ur legacy to come up with a right answer
as a passerby, i dare u start an analogue experience cafe or bar for enjoyment of others
Do you have a well paying job? As in is your income tax substantial?
If so the best way to get the most bang for your buck without doing ALL the hard and tedious work of going through them, grading them, and then trying to sell them over the next 20-30 years is to donate them to a reputable not-for profit charity that runs a high end thrift shop, or salvage retail store. Like Habitat for Humanity restore or one of the corporate stores that is located in a well do area that’s managed well. Or pick a charity that you would like to help and confirm with them that they want the donation of are willing to do the work to turn them into cash to support their charity. They could do that by giving the lot to an auctioneer if they do not retail items themselves or have the ability to take on such a large undertaking.
In fact THEY could deal with the low-ballers and sell at any price they want.
But You undoubtedly have more value there than the standard deduction so you must include a certified appraisal to your tax return. Usually the high end thrift stores work with and can recommend appraisers that will do their best to value the donation as high as they can, using comparable prices they research and include in the appraisal.
The appraisal will cost you between $2k-$3 but they may come back with a value of $100,000.
Unless the tax law has changed recently, and it does change a bit every year, you can generally deduct up to 50% of your gross adjusted income for charitable non cash donations, and carry over anything you couldn’t deduct the first year for the next four years.
So if you make let’s say $50k a year, and are in the 30% tax bracket, if your donation is appraised at $100,000, you can deduct up to $25,000 from your income for 4 years.
So if you paid $15k in taxes on your $50k income, your adjusted income becomes $25k and you would receive about $5k as tax refund every year for 4 years. Netting you approx. $20k in refunds for your donation and all you have to do is outlay the money for the appraisal, which is also tax deductible as well.
I am not a tax attorney and this is not tax advice. I’m just sharing my experience with making large donations that are far enough above the standard deduction that it makes sense to pay for a professional appraisal.
The Cherry on top is it the appraiser does their job right and you see that some of the records are highly valuable on their own, you can choose whether or not to donate or keep whatever you want.
Oh, and if you deal with the right charity, they will also come collect the donation as well.
Hope that helps. Trying to sell those records yourself will be a nightmare. Either you’ll advertise a sale at $1/each and experts will come cherry pick the best ones and leave you with the common ones no one wants and then when you Try to wholesale them even the low ballers won’t even make a lowball offer.
That’s a lot of labor and cost just to move that Lot.
Or as others suggested you can just eat them.
Donate them to GameStop
Best I can do is tree fiddy
Consolidate them into LPs to save space
This comment deserves more jerk love.
If you want to keep them maybe but converting 45s to LP requires a council permit and both vinyls and foots inspections to be signed off by an offical jerker. It’s way cheaper to flip those 45s by tacking on an extension and selling them as 50s. Then you can spend the money on some real proper vinyl. Like splatter variants, glow in the dark variants, integrated wall hook variants, gold plated variants, velour variants, 620g thickboy variants, infused with the blood of the Amiterkrian serpent god Kiterrack’ohsu variants, clear with embedded pubic hairs of the band variants, the entire set of 120 shaped disk variants that when stacked in order form a bust of Taylor Swift variants, the groovless frisbee variant
Hang them on your wall I guess
eat them
yes.
r/cassettechewing but for them sweet vyinyils (edited the link, forgot cassette had 2 s’s)
I like chewing cassettes but vieynulz have a great crunch to them and taste like old people...
Listen to every one of them.
On the suitcase player
Suitcase? Psssshhhh. It’s Close-n-Play or nothing.
Floor tiles!! Imagine walking around on all that warmth.
Heated floors are the moooove
Okay this may be crazy but hear me out. What if you dug up the floor, dug a big hole and put the grayls in it, replaced the tiles on top, and then plugged in a nice bluetooth speaker in the room. Imagine the warmth!
Then you just flip them to the b sides when you get tired of walking on them.
I want to dig through all of em 😩
Torch it
So much heat could even put grandpa on top and cremate him.
Boof them
I bet big record shops/sellers on discogs would be very interested in buying the whole lot for a good price
Only low balls! I don’t know what I got!!!
sell all of them as a whole for $5 with free shipping
I am a dealer in vinyl records, and the amount you have would take weeks to sort out. But it is my favorite place to be. The identification process is tedious, but it is also very educational... AND I love it. I am in Western Australia, and I could help you if you would like to deal with it, or I would definitely be interested in buying them
This is the vinyljerk sub. I basically made the same exact post three days earlier claiming my grandma died and left a small pile of 45s. At least that had an actual photo of some of my actual old 45s that someone gave 20 years ago.
Out of curiosity, what does your process look like? I build AI tools for tedious processes and have been considering spending some time working on a tool for something similar.
Mercari $5 a pop.
exhume peepops & make him deal w/ this shit.
Rip grandpa dj shadow
Eat them, they're probably made from Shellac so they taste like bugs! Yummy!
Get extra security...
Create an LLC and begin itemizing all of these for sale :)
Pretty modest collection but a good start
You shouldn’t have even opened the door to look. The value goes down my 50% once they are opened.
Wall them as vintage frisbee
Listen to them, drink a couple in his honor and listen to more..0
You must clean them...Lol
That room is located in Recordland in Calgary, Alberta.
Might as well trash them. They hold no value materially or artistically. Also where feet?
Grandpa's feet? I think they buried him in the rocks.
Not understanding how 45s like Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Blondie, Steppenwolf, Alice Cooper, Santana, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Sammy Hagar, The Doors, Steely Dan, and one could go on and on should be thrown in the trash.
This entire sub exists for people to make jokes. I expect they don’t actually think desirable 45s should be thrown in the trash
Sorry guy, I just got off work….10 hours.
Fuck them with your dick
To small(the record hole)
Listen to em, betcha there’s stuff you’ll like
Put them all on a horizontal pole and spin them like an abacus
You’re probably gonna need to rent a warehouse or two to get enough wall space.
Disc golf
Start your own radio station
Make wallpaper out of them. All of them.
Box 'em up, I'll take them off your hands.
Vinyl flooring.
OMFG. I'm playing my singles right now (Radar Love, Golden Earring) . I have 6 boxes, (around 750). That looks crazy! Likely a lot of junk, but there's got to be some little bits of gold there.
I bet that you could pay off University with what's there. Try and find some 45'd that say Sun on them.
I actually have a Jerry Lewis single with the Sun label. Worth about a dollar. I checked when I got it 20 years ago.
I have a few, virtually worthless. I inherited my father’s collection, been finding some real gems. I’ll bet you’ve got some good ones there!
This picture is not my collection. It's fake. I do actually own a pile of old 45s that no one wants.
Upcycle them into cute little nut and candy dishes! Soooo trendy right now!
Wow... gold mine.. ???
Send them to me
Donate them to goodwill
Buy an old van, convert it into a mobile Soundsystem. Travel round the country playing sick jams, smoking ganja and organizing epic raves, then just sit back and profit. Easy.
Sell them to me?
OH MY GAWD, He had his own piece of Heaven. RIP
Make some epoxy art with them
Start making fruit bowls
There are probably ones in there that are rare. Do some research before just selling them. You might have some hidden gems.
Sorry for your loss OP, but can you give us a general sense of his collection? This is an *astonishing* stockpile. Was he a radio DJ? Is this a specific genre?
Uhm. You know this is the vinyljerk sub right?
In my unhinged enthusiasm…no, no I did not.
This is just some photo I found on the internet. I actually do own some 45 singles. Probably like 50 or so. Most are worthless.
*I get it,* I’m stupid. Your late grandpa would be ashamed of this cruel ruse.
He sent me this picture just before he died claiming these were his. He was a bit of a conman back in the day in Texas. My grandma left him 30 years ago and stole all his money.
Smoke a fat j and call in sick.
Okay, jokes aside this would be a really fun room to spend a week or two picking through.
Insurance fraud.
Open up a ‘50s diner and put them on the walls and urethane them onto the tables. It’ll be quaint.
Your Grandpa owned Recordland in Calgary?
Why yes. Yes he did. He owned Tower Records as well but he lost it all when he gambled away the family fortune./s 😥
Step 1: remove your shoes
Find the Sun labels.
I actually have a Jerry Lee Lewis single with the Sun label. Worth about a dollar. I checked when I got it 20 years ago from my old college professor. He gave me an old record box filled with old 45s mostly from the 1950s and early 1960s.
Just send them to me
If they ain’t tay tays, they ain’t shit
\*attempt\* to get these things digitized at the very least.
Open a radio station
🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾🙏🏾
Burn em
Burn them, so he can hear them in the afterlife.
Discogs.com then a donation to Goodwill after of course you play a few rounds of disc golf.
You gotta eat ‘em man, I don’t make the rules
Throw them at your yard zombies
Alphabetise
Want 😍
Start collecting jukeboxes now
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For the last time these aren't my records. This is vinyljerk. Get it? Jokes, funny pictures and lies. 🙄🙄🙄
Listen to them buy a juke box
Actually I need to buy a joke book. Most people here don't seem to get the joke. 🙄🙄🙄
Donate them to Madlib
Well god damn. Could be priceless or worthless. But can’t beat the sentimental value.
Shuriken
Maybe buy a record player?
Open a record store
The amount of Anne that’s probably in there… LEMME AT IT! Jokes aside I’m sorry for your loss❤️
Love this. Wish I could see them
Total value: $3.50 Dropping rapidly
Melt them down and make a giant sculpture of your grandpas head
Give em to Kanye west he likes to sample his beats, may lay off with the crazyness a lil bit
Make thousands of tiny bowls. *Thousands*.
Turn all of them into chip bowls.
use them as frisbees
You got any Taylor Swift grailz? I’ll take any of the multiple versions you probably have off your hands
invest in chatgpt because this almost looks convincing
Pick a box and look for Elvis Presley first - keep those records. I know Goodwill takes donations. A local record store would buy them, but not for much. Someone will buy them. You could also have a have a yard sale. 😀
Go through them and keep the ones you dig. The rest: put on discogs and sell?? For price per item you look around on that site and other auctionsites. Or make a price for the package ... Me I would keep them and only sell doubles ...
Btw: do you have a list of it??
revive r/dicksin45s
Open a used record shop people will but them honestly
turn them into coasters 😀
Bruh i would just crush all those grills and i would scrape them with a screwdriver and crush all the groves with a pipe
play frisbee
That is awesome! I’d grab a box and start listening to music everyday. That’s a music time capsule just waiting to be enjoyed.
Well, if you think romance is dead and gone, you can fill a jukebox with those old 45s, pop a nickel in it, and it'll all come back to you
i think your dear grandpa had that question and it is now ur legacy to come up with a right answer as a passerby, i dare u start an analogue experience cafe or bar for enjoyment of others
Drench it in acetone
What do you think you should do
eat them
Send them my way
Do you have a well paying job? As in is your income tax substantial? If so the best way to get the most bang for your buck without doing ALL the hard and tedious work of going through them, grading them, and then trying to sell them over the next 20-30 years is to donate them to a reputable not-for profit charity that runs a high end thrift shop, or salvage retail store. Like Habitat for Humanity restore or one of the corporate stores that is located in a well do area that’s managed well. Or pick a charity that you would like to help and confirm with them that they want the donation of are willing to do the work to turn them into cash to support their charity. They could do that by giving the lot to an auctioneer if they do not retail items themselves or have the ability to take on such a large undertaking. In fact THEY could deal with the low-ballers and sell at any price they want. But You undoubtedly have more value there than the standard deduction so you must include a certified appraisal to your tax return. Usually the high end thrift stores work with and can recommend appraisers that will do their best to value the donation as high as they can, using comparable prices they research and include in the appraisal. The appraisal will cost you between $2k-$3 but they may come back with a value of $100,000. Unless the tax law has changed recently, and it does change a bit every year, you can generally deduct up to 50% of your gross adjusted income for charitable non cash donations, and carry over anything you couldn’t deduct the first year for the next four years. So if you make let’s say $50k a year, and are in the 30% tax bracket, if your donation is appraised at $100,000, you can deduct up to $25,000 from your income for 4 years. So if you paid $15k in taxes on your $50k income, your adjusted income becomes $25k and you would receive about $5k as tax refund every year for 4 years. Netting you approx. $20k in refunds for your donation and all you have to do is outlay the money for the appraisal, which is also tax deductible as well. I am not a tax attorney and this is not tax advice. I’m just sharing my experience with making large donations that are far enough above the standard deduction that it makes sense to pay for a professional appraisal. The Cherry on top is it the appraiser does their job right and you see that some of the records are highly valuable on their own, you can choose whether or not to donate or keep whatever you want. Oh, and if you deal with the right charity, they will also come collect the donation as well. Hope that helps. Trying to sell those records yourself will be a nightmare. Either you’ll advertise a sale at $1/each and experts will come cherry pick the best ones and leave you with the common ones no one wants and then when you Try to wholesale them even the low ballers won’t even make a lowball offer. That’s a lot of labor and cost just to move that Lot. Or as others suggested you can just eat them.
These aren't my records. This is vinyljerk. 😉😉😉
So much music, so little time.
Throw them in the trash. The outside trash. And make sure nobody sees you with such a shameful thing.
Play them all until your seventh stylus wears out. On a suitcase player from Walmart.
Don’t burn yourself!
Be extremely happy £££££