The BBC is selling off rare Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, David Bowie, The Beatles and er, Bathory albums from its Gramophone Library if you want to expand your vinyl collection

BBC vinyl auction.

The BBC is to auction off a fraction of its vast vinyl collection over the course of 2024, offering collectors an opportunity to acquire rare and valuable records by The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, David Bowie and more 'specialist' acts such as Bathory, Budgie and Cirith Ungol.

Fear not, these albums will not be deleted from the corporation's playlists, as the 285,000 records being made available are duplicates of records already in the BBC's vinyl vaults.