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Melissa, that's an long established reality. The entire catalog of mainstream classical LPs have been on the second-hand market for 20 years, and haven't sold. It's tragic, but the typical RCA, Columbia, Angel, Philips, DG records are commercially worthless. Budget labels even more so. I have a couple hundred albums culled out for disposal, and I think the trash is what's going happen to them. I hate to burden Goodwill with them. Rochester is stuffed full! Randy, YES. A microcosm. A canary in a coal mine. -----Original Message----- From: Association for Recorded Sound Discussion List [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Melissa Widzinski Sent: Saturday, August 11, 2012 8:11 PM To: [log in to unmask] Subject: Re: [ARSCLIST] Classical LP Price Guide? I agree with Randy. I just took 4 large crates of classical LPs to the Record Archive shop in Rochester, NY (some of you might remember from the conference) and out of it all, they only accepted 5 LPs. What they accepted was all more experimental in content. They had zero interest in anything pre-1900, so I took the rest to Volunteers of America to donate. -Melissa On Aug 11, 2012, at 7:52 PM, "Randy A. Riddle" <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > I have to wonder if the market for classical cds, particularly used > cds, has gone downhill a bit because of layoffs and cutbacks in higher > ed the past few years. I have one friend, a musician, that's typical > - he was laid off and pretty much had to sell a big swath of his > classical cd collection to get by. At first, he could sell them at > used cd/record stores; now they're glutted and don't take them unless > they're unusual. > > A significant component of the market for classical works is > associated with higher ed and arts organizations. > > On Sat, Aug 11, 2012 at 7:41 PM, Karl Miller <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >> As far as I know the only comprehensive price guide for Classical recordings was >> the one prepared and published by David Canfield. It dates from 2000 and, based >> upon my own experience, things have changed since then. Since I retired, my wife >> and I sell recordings (CDs and LPs) which are donated to our record company and >> use the profit to fund releases. The Canfield Guide lists Lyrita records at >> prices ranging from about $8-49. We just advertised a group of about 25 Lyrita >> discs (near mint condition) and sold but a few of them at around $7. each. More >> than half--no bids. I have found that some of the higher priced items still >> command a "higher" price, but in general, I have watched price fall >> significantly. >>