Whats the worst thing for a vinyl collector? - Moving house.

I recently moved house..... well actually to be true I moved countries, from New Zealand to Australia.

When I moved from the UK to New Zealand I gave my entire collection of records away.... to people that would appreciate each genre...

It was 2007, the advent of mainstream downloading digital files (for free in some cases) and I thought I'm never going to need these records again - they are all their in the digital space - even DJing allowed you to use digital files - so I could just accumulate on a hard drive no bigger than a bible and i'd have everything I ever wanted.

After about 4 years, those missing records hurt me every day - they all got distributed across the UK to other people - cest la vie.

I collected again from about 2018 in NZ, mainly albums I always loved and then moved to Australia in 2022....

Best thing I did was put all my records in a different part of the house to my listening space.

All the shelving was up in the listening space to accept the record collection but I moved the records from a spare bedroom one by one - and listened to each record cover to cover before collecting the next to get put in the Ikea kallax.

So I got to listen to my entire collection over about 6 - 7 months... each track.

Im happy I did that.

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