I recall there has been some discussion on "completism" before, and may have crossed over with this.
For those who buy physical media, do you get rid of stuff or tend to just.. keep it?
Has it changed in recent years?
Does this change effect on how careful you are buying something?
I recall one friend concluding he prefers to buy LP, for sake of re-sale value. Generic 2nd hand black metal cd would be worth very little, but LP could be at least half of what you paid for, sometimes even more valuable than it was when you bought it.
I don't really relate at all to this attitude as if music is "investment", financially speaking.
It appears as if 2nd hand market has changed rapidly.
It seems as if "golden age" of private individuals both buying and selling their collections was some years ago. Postage rates, censorship/restrictions, all sorts of technical nonsense was on level that you could basically send out items globally. Now in many countries postage rates are too high to really justify buying cheap LP or cheap CD. With shipping included, price becomes so near of top-wanted hot item, that selling items that aren't that wanted is probably difficult? And on other side, the price tags of wanted stuff seem to have barely any sense.
Ebay basically ended(?) when discogs was popularized. Also a lot of physical stores disappearing, and you could no longer drop your excess to be someone else's problem.
A lot of people I knew, were annoyed about discogs policy changes, and simply either removed their items for sale (myself included) and some restricted sales only to domestic sales.
How, where, one "cleans up" the collection from stuff that is not wanted anymore? Is it easier to just keep the stuff, even if you would not listen it - until there becomes problems with lack of space?
I usually tend to like what I take to my own collection, and it is very small % of what goes back into circulation. Advantage for me is running both physical store and mailorder, process of re-selling is as simple as putting items on shelves of store. There are some items that was being listened this year and felt like no point putting it back to my own shelves. Just put it in 2nd hand records of store. For a lot of people situation is far more difficult, and the most horrid stories I have been told, is the simplest and easiest solution of just... throwing stuff to dumpster. If there is merely ton of work and effort, throwing stuff away as means of making space suddenly is most realistic way of doing it, huh...
