What will become of your record collection when you die?

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I always told my old roomie John that he could have first dibs on anything I had, and that he should sell off the rest to finance my wake or buy himself something nice or give the money to my folks. Now that I have a family, I think maybe I should retract that offer so that my son will some day be able to claim his birthright of too many Fall records.

You?

― Formerly Lee G (Formerly Lee G), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm sure I'll sell off all the records for food before eventually running out and starving to death, clutching my treasured Mastered by Guy at the Exchange and my unsellable copy of the first 12Rods album.

― nabisco (nabisco), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a hard time believing it will be of any value to anyone. If I'm lucky enough to live another 40 years or whatever, I doubt anyone's gonna care about records by then...

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― Shakey Mo Collier, Friday, 29 October 2004 17:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to wonder about this and had ideas of maintaining 'an archive' for some sort of posterity, mine or anothers. But you know, no need. Music is now ever more entrenched in a fluid digital domain, and maintaining a lot of discs rarely touched is pointless. I've been steadily winnowing down the collection this year and will continue to do so.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to will it to my closest living relative with explicit directions to sell it on eBay.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 29 October 2004 17:25 (twenty-one years ago)

I reckon about 1-2% will be salvaged by my descendents. The rest will probably get given or thrown away.

and maintaining a lot of discs rarely touched is pointless

How could a librarian say such a thing!!!

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Similar considerations here.

― JC-L (JC-L), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I'M GONNA DIE!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!??!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

― peepee (peepee), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

My sister will probably take it all from the house before my body is even cold.

― Leon Czolgosz (Nicole), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Though wasn't there that news story about CD's rotting over time? Hopefully I'll out-live my record collection.

― jel -- (jel), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

the smithsonian, or perhaps the Dan Selzer Not-Presidential Library.

― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

How could a librarian say such a thing!!!

Very easily, my friend.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know about my records.

But my mp3 collection will be donated to Lars Ulrich.

― Elvis is Dead, Friday, 29 October 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

"So when I die, don't cry, put my records in a coffin,
and bury me next to a very big tree with my MPC,
so they won't warp, as a corpse, remember me..."

― caspar (caspar), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

The moment I die, my record collection will up and vanish in a puff of smoke, and my laughter will be audible very faintly in the distance, LAUGHING MANIACALLY!!!

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 29 October 2004 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Split between my friend Rob, my nephews and my daughter, I suspect.

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

If I died tomorrow, I would want them to go to my little brother, whose taste in music I have worked very hard to cultivate.

― My name is Kenny (My name is Kenny), Friday, 29 October 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

My dog will eat them.

― mottdeterre (mottdeterre), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:19 (twenty-one years ago)

My kids will fight over who has to take them.

― briania (briania), Friday, 29 October 2004 21:23 (twenty-one years ago)

eBay

― Orbit (Orbit), Friday, 29 October 2004 23:59 (twenty-one years ago)

I hope they go into the collection of some weird kid who has a fetish for relics of the 20th century. Basically I want some kid to to love them the way Robert Crumb loves his old 78's of race music.

― Disco Nihilist (mjt), Saturday, 30 October 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

sub thread: you gets your hard drive? i want mine buried with me

― astroblaster (astroblaster), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Divided up among friends and people who I want to remember me well, I imagine. With explicit instructions that for every five albums of mine they listen to, they have to come by my grave and give me an informal but detailed critique of the album. Something to look forward to.

The box sets (and Pavement re-issues) go with me, though, so that I may fondle their glorious packaging and marvel at the detailed liner notes for all eternity.

― The Good Dr. Bill (Andrew Unterberger), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:30 (twenty-one years ago)

http://news.bbc.co.uk/olmedia/1365000/images/_1369921_cremation_ap300.jpg

― sometimes i like to pretend i am very small and warm (ex machina), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:32 (twenty-one years ago)

If it happens within the next few years, most likely my mother would do what I did to her records (with her blessing): donate them all to WFMU. (Hopefully they'll notice in time that the Abbey Road CD was a rare 1984 Japanese pressing and take the appropriate action.)

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Saturday, 30 October 2004 01:33 (twenty-one years ago)

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