Metal collection without owner

BlackStele · Post by **BlackStele** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 9:53 am

Helm wrote:When you're dead you will no longer mind, but just saying.

Naaahhh, do you think so? I have quite different opinion, but, we will discuss it in another thread that I'll open!

Noisenik · Post by **Noisenik** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:11 am

deathster, this thread is awful and should be closed

but I just started even more awful one ...

BlackStele · Post by **BlackStele** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:21 am

awful threads rule!

deathster · Post by **deathster** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 11:38 am

no, its not awful thread, its pragmatic.

sovdat · Post by **sovdat** » Sun Aug 26, 2007 12:33 pm

I'd give it to the people who mean the most to me AND would appreciate the stuff the most - therefore my metallic friends with taste for music!

That is, if I'd get killed tomorrow or anytime soon, but maybe I'll live till 2080 I have no idea what I'd with my stuff then.

Post by **DaN** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:06 am

To just have my collection locked away till the end of days would be almost as bad as if someone threw it in the trash. I would hope that it gets distributed among my friends (don't think any relatives would be interested). Any other way would be a complete waste of great music.

Here's an interesting and somewhat controversial question: What would you do if a close friend with a great record collection passed away and no last will and testament was drawn up? Would you ask his/her family about the fate of his/her collection? Would you give them a fair price if they offered to sell it to you? Would you accept it if they offered it to you for free even if they don't know how valuable it is?

doomedplanet · Post by **doomedplanet** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 9:11 am

If this happened to someone close I would definitely ask about it and I would help the estate liquidate it so they could get a fair price for the stuff. If it was really valuable no way would I take it for free, even if offered to me I would make sure they got compensated.

DaN wrote: Here's an interesting and somewhat controversial question: What would you do if a close friend with a great record collection passed away and no last will and testament was drawn up? Would you ask his/her family about the fate of his/her collection? Would you give them a fair price if they offered to sell it to you? Would you accept it if they offered it to you for free even if they don't know how valuable it is?

Helm · Post by **Helm** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 1:52 pm

Here's an interesting and somewhat controversial question: What would you do if a close friend with a great record collection passed away and no last will and testament was drawn up? Would you ask his/her family about the fate of his/her collection? Would you give them a fair price if they offered to sell it to you? Would you accept it if they offered it to you for free even if they don't know how valuable it is?

I've been in this situation and the family asked me to take the records. I couldn't do it. These where the records that got me into HM, but once they're shadowed by the passing of a loved one, I wouldn't bear to play them. I considered it when they told me though, didn't come outright with my answer, but my final answer was no.

BlackStele · Post by **BlackStele** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:27 pm

DaN wrote:Here's an interesting and somewhat controversial question: What would you do if a close friend with a great record collection passed away and no last will and testament was drawn up? Would you ask his/her family about the fate of his/her collection? Would you give them a fair price if they offered to sell it to you? Would you accept it if they offered it to you for free even if they don't know how valuable it is?

DEFINITELY NO!! I wouldn't touch any of his/her records...Respect for the Dead and their Memory._

tbieri · Post by **tbieri** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 5:58 pm

If it's just for selling no ! Eventually i would sell it for his familiy if they want !

BUT ! If it's for keeping/caring them i say yes ! If i was at his place, i would be happy if they stay in good hands, rather then going to a Second Hand Store !

My father was collecting Bird Skulls (don't laugh !) My mother is keeping them now, and when she's dead i think i will take them, even if i am personally not interrested in them ! For shure i would not give them to somebody unknown !

BlackStele · Post by **BlackStele** » Tue Aug 28, 2007 6:00 pm

tbiery has a point!

Nicko McBuff · Post by **Nicko McBuff** » Thu Aug 30, 2007 12:47 pm

I'd leave it to a son or a close friend who'd enjoy 'em. I'd hate for it to end up in the hands of some extortionist 2nd hand dealer! There are a few around here!

snaps666 · Post by **snaps666** » Sat Sep 01, 2007 10:36 pm

About half a year ago a friend of mine was going to Afghanistan as a soldier, and he called me to ask if it was ok that he wrote in his will, that I would get his record collection if he died. I said that was a very strange question to get, and hard to answer. But he said, that I was the only guy he knew, that would take good care of his stuff, and/or make sure that it went on to other collectors if I didn't want it (doubles, ofcourse), and not just in some stupid 2nd hand shop that didn't have a clue. I got his point and agreed on being in the will. Fortunate he returned safely a few weeks ago!

If I died tomorrow, my entire collection would be stored away, and kept untill my son is old enough to understand what it's all about (he's 5 now), if he wants to keep it, or sell it and make a fortune, that's entirely his own decision...

DeathMetalWeenie · Post by **DeathMetalWeenie** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 11:26 pm

Have you thought what happens to your Metal collection after you have died? I mean unnatural death (accident, disease etc). This is difficult topic, but think about it at night before you go to sleep.
I know one guy drowned some years ago and he had cool stuff like early Running Wild PicLps etc. I do not know what happened to his records. Maybe his parents gave it to his close metal friends...who knows. Same question: what happened to Euronymous collection? Does anyone know?
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I know....Where I live the local second hand shop is called Dearborn Music, every-time someones older brother or cool uncle, or loner metal fanatic dies.

The family/ landlords/ relatives runs that stuff down there, because they pay cash and pay correct prices for collectors items, (and pass the cost on to the customer).

I have been there after some died, and the family was turning the stuff in, and I got to get tons of back-up copies of the favorites from Music for Nations, Noise/ SPV, Noise/ Rough trade. Metal Blade/ Enigma, Megaforce/ Important. Roadrunner/ Relativity, Roadrunner/ MCA, Combat/ Important.

Shit by the looks of the people turning in there loved ones CD's, you can tell they probably listen to John Denver, Al Jolson, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra. Because I know how much my parents think heavy metal is just subversive satanic noise, at best.

It is a win-win the family gets a few hundred dollars, the record store triples or quadruples there money, and I get the best of the essential world class releases.

I think it is cool, when these people are just casual collectors, and everything the family or landlord turn in is in mint condition.

Dark Stranger · Post by **Dark Stranger** » Fri Dec 23, 2011 2:27 pm

Just to absolutely sicken all my mates, I would state in my will that my vinyl is to be melted down and made into a coffin.