Mine all mine!.

Man I love ebay bidding wars. Fastest internet connection wins! Ha!

Plus I am just a little bit drunk. Yay!

I've started listing all my old vinyl on ebay. And there's a bloody lot of it! Most of it is remnants from my embaressing musical-snob years of early studentship; when I would try and find that small as-yet-unheard-of band that was the Best Thing Evar until, that is, they got a single released in the charts and all of a sudden I'd lose interest. Lord how I hated that version of myself. Musical snobs are eville.

Anyway, it's interesting looking through it all. I loved vinyl then, it felt more real, more genuine than CDs. I loved playing it on my turntable, and felt proud to own it. Now I just see it as an inconvenience, and I'd much rather replace it all with the digital version.

Some the of vinyl is fabulous stuff; Super Furry Animals, Belle and Sebastian, The Delgados... all stuff I'm looking forward to getting on CD. There is a lot of crap amongst it though, a lot of stuff I bought because the band was underground and hence cool (musical snobbery = blindness in musical tastes). Urusei Yatsura may be a fantastic anime, but as a band it's pretty bad. Similarly, Mogwai are just too damned wierd for me. So it's all going!

I've still keeping the Real Old vinyl though; things I've picked up in charity shops, car boots and inherited from my dad. Joe Jackson, Elvis Costello, Simon and Garfunkel Most of these are beaten up and scratched and skip and are not worth a penny, but they're still fabulous albums and hence they're allowed to stay! They're not worth replacing with CDs, hence me keeping the vinyls.

One other thing I'm not yet selling is my eternally optimistic nestegg. My Stereophonics limited edition 9" vinyl version of Performance and Cocktails. I bought it mail-order, and have listened to it just once. After all, I have the CD! So it stays in it's protective box, safe from dust and creases. I bought it for I think £28, and one went on ebay a few months bac for £50! So it is appreciating! I'm hoping that in 10 years' time it'll be worth squillions! And I'll be rich and retire early.

Yes.