[78-L] Record collecting [was (no subject)]

[Michael Biel]

From:  Robert M. Bratcher Jr.

 > I started buying records when I was 16 (1975) & became a collector at
 > pretty much the same time as I found the record collector shops in

> Houston Texas fairly quickly. Instead of chasing girls I was spending 
> good money on records at the collector shops instead!! Didn't start 
> dating until I was 18 & out of high school. What is it about women & 
> records? Very few are collectors & the ones I've met (except one 
> female collector I know) find the hunt for records very boring..... 


Ron L'Herault wrote:
> I amass records.  The difference between a buyer and a collector is the
> catalog the collector makes and the buyer probably doesn't have. 8-).  Women
> are seldom interested in a hunt unless it is part of a mating ritual (e.g.
> clothes) <big grin>.
>   

Actually my daughter (who I just got off the phone with and she is on 
her way to Strand Books to hunt up some books) is a rather good record 
hunter.  Some of you here have been witness to how the two of us operate 
as a team at the record disposal sales and the silent auctions at ARSC.  
When the two of us are together at a record sale, get out of the way 
because we are vultures.  Last year when I was not able to go to ARSC at 
Stanford, I was on the phone with her as the silent auction closed, and 
she did us rather well.

Mike (who also amasses records) Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com 

> -----Original Message-----
>
>
> At 02:33 PM 4/3/2009, you wrote:
>   
>> In a message dated 4/3/2009 2:24:44 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,
>> julianvein at blueyonder.co.uk writes:
>>
>> A  related subject: when did record collecting, as opposed to record
>> buying,  start?
>>
>>
>>
>> When, as a kid, someone gives you their records.
>>
>>     
>
> I don't know they exact year when people started collecting records 
> as opposed to buying them. Whats the difference between a record 
> collector & a record buyer anyway? The fact that a record collector 
> takes good to excellent care of whatever records he (or she) has in 
> their collection? Or is it something else?
>