Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

the witch

i like to search "psych" in records and sort by highest priced first.

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=150178076644&ssPageName=STRK:MEWN:IT&ih=005

And me, I do the opposite, sort of...

what's really funny is to come across something that sold for loot then find the exact same LP and condition from someone else unbid upon.

do you guys get like an ebay digest of expensive record auctions??

The way I do eBay porn with records is to just type "rare" in the search line, sort highest price first. If you're registered with eBay you can look at completed auctions and that's where you get to see the mega-bucks that are paid for Northern Soul singles. Good God. If you are doing it with CDs it's better to put "OOP" in the search line (out of print). That's where you see what you could make if you owned Mosaic box sets and regional rap CDs from the '90s. Wow.

^^ if a seller is so desperate as to drop "rare" keywords, then it's almost always a turd. ergo, you are the enemy.

i've occasionally used 'rare' where the item is actually pretty scarce but i can see that it's really a pretty pointless thing to do

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MERCYFUL-FATE-KING-DIAMOND-BLACK-MESSAGE-RED-VINYL-MINT_W0QQitemZ320205639987QQihZ011QQcategoryZ1594QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

anyone want to buy 5000 country and bluegrass LPs?

i do. how much?

465 pounds sterling and almost six days left in the auction?! holy shit! should i start buying metal records?

A bit late to start now! Some 90s black metal vinyl sells for even more than that btw

Skot, where do you keep all this vinyl?

i don't know what i would do with a sudden 5000 records actually. put them in the basement for now.

i'd think of something. there is always room. 5000 records isn't THAT much.

5000 might be lowballing it. Took me five of the U-Haul record boxes (1.5 cu ft) to pack up the As and Bs of one section.

so who are you selling them to?

No clue yet, I just have to move the records somewhere so I can start fixing up my grandmother's house so she can sell it.

I'm trying to find out what's in there and if it can be sold in sections or if we need to find a bulk buyer.

Listen to every record, then eat it, then blog about it.

Some of the '70s bluegrass vinyl is awesome - paisley shirts & bellbottoms, invasion of the evangelical hippies.

Milo, if you see any records on the County label, I collect 'em. It was a label that reissued 78s in the sixties/seventies/eighties; tons of great stringbands, banjo pickers, hillbilly blues. a quick google search they're still going today, doing CDs, but it's the old LPs. Don't know if yer wantin to break up the collection at all, of course, but I for one am mighty curious as to what's in there. Where are you located, again? For some reason I feel sure it's not close to New York, which is a shame.

This ain't bluegrass:

http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-MISFITS-PLAN-9-1009-HORROR-BUSINESS-ULTRA-RARE_W0QQitemZ190191145132QQihZ009QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Good gravy.

Juno soundtrack in full effect
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Moldy-Peaches-LP-2001-Rough-Trade_W0QQitemZ200192270224QQihZ010QQcategoryZ58623QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

holy crap @ the moldy peaches. i think i linked to the horror business single on the rolling vinyl thread--the one before that sold for around 8 grand if i remember correctly. huge jump.

autographed Elvis album

at least, that's what I think this means:

I Doug Murray are selling are selling elvis record the record is live in person in Las vegas 2 record set for salke 5 millon dollars or best off . It is a one shape record elvis sigh my record inperson in 1968. You can contact me on email elvis2✧✧✧@ya✧✧✧.c✧✧ or call me at (x) if you are intrested email me or call me.

From Doug Murray

dude has -2 feedback!

lol, hadn't even noticed that!

that's the first thing to check! where is your brain?

i kinda wanna fake bid on it but i'm afraid that nobody else will follow me and i will be fucked.

cuz i totally bid that VU acetate up a few thou before they escrowed it out of reach

I called Doug Murray, no response. Homeboy better holla back.

Holy shit, that number is Long Beach … could this Doug Murray be the same as the Swedish one who plays for the Sharks? He actually owns the company Ubertap as well (http://www.uberdispensing.com/).

He also keeps good company:

http://www.uberdispensing.com/images/ubergirls/3.jpg

It's the Ramones V2.00

Hey ho's, let's go

http://cgi.ebay.com/13H-FLOOR-ELEVATORS-EASTER-EVERYWHERE-RAREST-MONO-LP_W0QQitemZ160206624790QQihZ006QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Just, you know, reading a listing of Bob's is kind of mindblowing, esp in this batch, the Velvets/Mono/Promo listing. But not as mindblowing as the cash he gets for these things.

If, in fact, there is another work of art comparable to this album (and this is a BIG “if”), it surely would not be a Rock album -- for there are NO known cultural antecedents and predecessors in the world of popular music, and no points of reference either. The only comparable thing that comes to mind would be Picasso’s Girls of Avignon, or Stravinsky’s Rites of Spring (both from 1913). In the world of contemporary music, the only session that comes reasonably close to the level of the chutzpah and artistic courage of the Velvets’ first album would be John Coltrane’s Ascension (recorded barely a year prior to Velvet Underground and Nico, and quite possibly exerting a strong influence on both Reed and Cale; compare, for example, the maddening cacophonics of the Velvets’ European son with the gushing, unrestrained eruptions of Coltrane’s pure, protean expression, to see what we mean)

^^ lollerskates

What else can be said of this album that hasn’t already been said? The album that defi(n)ed the era; the music that shattered conventions, the production that influenced everyone over the next four decades, the lyrics that sound fresher today than they did in 1967 and the Andy Warhol artwork that still captures the imagination. This is a sexy, moody, brilliant and occasionally violent work that would be impossible to reproduce today, in the age of political correctness gone amok. Most importantly, THE MUSIC!!!. This is the only album that will make you a honorary resident of New York City, without you ever having to set foot in it. From the opening track ("Sunday Morning"), to the last one ("European son"), Lou Reed, John Cale, Nico and the rest of the crew take you through the kaleidoscope of emotions, settings, ambients, situations, moods and rhythms, not all of which are for the faint of heart. The album includes some of the most beautiful, poetic imagery ever committed to a disc (I’ll be your mirror; Famme Fatale; Venus in Furs). Whether you are into singers-songwriters, pre-punk, beatnik poetry, or ‘60’s rock, this is a must-have.

We are pleased to present the rarest and hardest-to-find Thirteenth Floor Elevators album in existence: the monstrously rare STOCK – NOT WHITE LABEL PROMO -- MONO pressing of the Thirteenth Floor Elevators legendary, second album. This album is a proverbial Loch Ness monster of record collecting: everybody knows that it exists – or has heard that it exist, or knows someone who has one, or has heard of someone who found one, but no one has ever seen, let alone snapped a photo of it. We have a distinct privilege of presenting a GORGEOUS specimen of one such rare species here. We estimate that these STOCK MONO pressings are outnumbered by their more common STEREO cousins by a ratio of close to 1000:1. And, no, we are NOT exaggerating.

http://cgi.ebay.com/SARAH-VAUGHAN-w-CLIFFORD-BROWN-MINT-ORIG-1954-EMARCY-LP_W0QQitemZ350023924447QQihZ022QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting

In the entire history of eBay, still sealed original STEREO pressing of this album – we were told, and our own research bears this out – has never been offered before; not even once, in the entire 10-year history of the company. If this assertion is correct, this would mean that a still sealed ORIGINAL STEREO copy of this album is offered on collectors’ market about once every ten years or so – less often, mind you, than an undiscovered Brancusi sculpture or Da Vinci drawing. Unless you are willing to wait another 10 years to see another copy, our message is very simple: BID NOW. DON’T WAIT. THIS MAY BE THE LAST COPY YOU WILL EVER SEE.

http://cgi.ebay.com/MILES-DAVIS-KIND-OF-BLUE-SEALED-ORIG-STEREO-LP-SIX-EYE_W0QQitemZ160206891741QQihZ006QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

Like he needs free advertising. He is a rip though.

Someone tell me how this guy got copies of so much valuable shit. And how does anyone know he didn't just reseal half of them himself?

just buy the fucking reissue

When the moldy peaches signed to rough trade, rt didn't get their record out fast enough so they, the moldy peaches, made CD-r copies of it and sold it at Other Music.

Someone tell me how this guy got copies of so much valuable shit. And how does anyone know he didn't just reseal half of them himself?

he scours shows and stores for sealed anything salable. his ridiculous sales prices are due to:

1) savvy marketing (i.e., maintaining a huge list of past customers and doing email blasts to them after posting lists)
2) being in the eBay game for a long time, and cultivating a reputation
3) having record collector customers, but also high-end audiophile customers. the latter wouldn't even think twice about dropping $500 on some sealed MFSL turd.

who's the guy with the internet business who sells like insanely priced first press eagles records and shit like that for 300 dollars a pop? i always forget the name. he calls them, like, "hot" masters or something. just bonkers stuff. really common records for the most part. lots of sealed stuff. he has a whole long manifesto about first presses and certain pressings and why he can get away with selling 150 dollar pablo cruise records.

shuga?

ah.. better records. hot stamper!

http://www.discogs.com/groups/topic/155312

"ah.. better records. hot stamper!"

bingo!