I hear you. I have made sure in my will that there are people to do what needs to be done with my collection. I would be foolish to say I am going to keep this many until the day I die, but for now, I don't see me getting rid of anything. But i also really don't sell records or flip. I normally give records to friends. Doesn't really matter to me the price (sure, I''m not going to give away a $200 records, but you get the idea).
Not saying that for a pat on the back. It more comes down to I just want to share cool stuff with my friends...I'm also just lazy haha. But a lot of my friends are record collectors, but like myself (for the most part) don't engage with the online VC stuff...more so the VC YouTuber community. Which any time I try to check out that world, just seems super toxic (but I am sure that is with any fandom youtube community I assume)
Yeah, the auction showed up in my feed (I think it's private now) but it was like this 3 hour auction
I am not going to go all Fugazi on the guy and call him out on trying to make a dollar. I get it to some degree, when I owned a record store of course I needed to make money....but I also have different morals and values in terms of how I make those dollars. I am not saying I'm better a better person than Mike or whatever...I dunno as i keep saying to me it feels just gross.
What really bugs me, and why I guess I have been more active in this thread than any other thread on here in the 5 or so years I've been here is I'm sure he's not the only one and it's a bummer that this could be the direction this hobby goes (I'm sure people here will reassure me I'm wrong, please do haha) but like every culture or interest, when there are major dollars to make, someone will exploit it. High priced records aren't anything new.
OG Dischord releases for example have always been pretty high (and mike is right, at least from a 7" perspective, punk and really American 80s hardcore really have been leading the way for major prices for OGs)...but it's just funny to me that a guy that has nothing to do with punk and really could careless about it (I know I said that here already) is using that as one of the main reasons we should slab and grade these records. I guess it was bound to happen, but it's wild to hear him basically just say it so brutally...and it really does come off as a guy who does not care about anything but making money...it does not matter who gets stepped on.