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Thanks for all your inputs. So, it sounds like the answer is that there's no store in NYC that will buy VHS Cassette Tapes. Oh, BTW. Raymond Stereo to answer your ques. No. Unfortunately, there ALL Movies & some Rock Concert or Live & other Music stuff (e.g. I have a tape of Woodstock, "Queensryche's 'Operation Mindcrime' " Vid, "The Police" "Syncronicity" Vids & "Led Zeppelin. The rest are movies: All the "Rocky" movies, "Forever Young", "Silence of the Lambs", "Marked For Death", "Jacob's Ladder" & a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head, but these are what I have. Sorry, no TV recordings.
So, sounds like I'll just chuck them - throw them out.
There's a store in Staten Island next to the Pathmark on Forest Ave that has used ones. I think they buy VHS as well, but even with a vast collection...you'll be lucky to get bus fare going home for them.
That's it in a nutshell. The stores will SELL then and rave about how rare and valuable they are but when thy are buying it's "Naaah, nobody wants that...I'll give you a quarter." The latter is probably closer to the truth.
For me, it is a combo of vintage gay porn, you know BEFORE condoms, and old movies from TCM. I don't know why I am hanging onto them...and the ugly cabinet they go in. The only one I watch once a year is the Andrew Lloyd Weber 50th birthday party...which was truly spectactular, with EVERYBODY. I don't even have a VCR player in the living room anymore.
You wanna see ugly...just blow up a VHS tape to 46 inches.
Thanks for all your inputs. So, it sounds like the answer is that there's no store in NYC that will buy VHS Cassette Tapes. Oh, BTW. Raymond Stereo to answer your ques. No. Unfortunately, there ALL Movies & some Rock Concert or Live & other Music stuff (e.g. I have a tape of Woodstock, "Queensryche's 'Operation Mindcrime' " Vid, "The Police" "Syncronicity" Vids & "Led Zeppelin. The rest are movies: All the "Rocky" movies, "Forever Young", "Silence of the Lambs", "Marked For Death", "Jacob's Ladder" & a few others that I can't remember off the top of my head, but these are what I have. Sorry, no TV recordings.
So, sounds like I'll just chuck them - throw them out.
Thanks!! I Really Appreciate your time.
You all have been really helpful.
All this stuff, are on DVD now. I have about 15 VHS tapes mostly music videos recorded from MTV in the 90's. Silence of the lambs is one of my all time favorite flicks and also SEVEN.
Almost all classic movies are on DVD now like I said...You can even find vintage porn film classics from the 70's which usually tells the story about young hippie chicks on their way to California encountering horny pothead males in some barn somewhere out in the Midwestern territories.
Kefir King, do you have any old TV recordings (specifically from local NYC stations) among your collection?
There's a second life for stuff like that (on YouTube). I myself have digitized TV recordings, both from my childhood and which I've acquired, and uploaded them there.
VHS's of movies and shows however, not so much, unless its something obscure that hasn't been released on another format.
It isn't legal though. Really a grey area; depends on if it is recognized and someone places a copyright claim on the material. That can even happen with live material like concerts, plays, etc ...
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