http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l51zjpoB9k1qzyxdfo1_500.jpg
― omar little, Thursday, 30 August 2012 07:07 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Lili-Ivanova-My-Old-Friend-BalkanTon-vinyl-LP-Retro-/251131468852?pt=UK_Records&hash=item3a789a1c34#ht_1690wt_1182
― omar little, Thursday, 30 August 2012 23:38 (eleven years ago) link
jeez louise
http://www.ebay.com/itm/THE-SINGLES-ADOLF-HITLER-MERCY-RARE-7-UNKNOWN-DIY-PUNK-ROCK-1978-1-KNOWN-COPY-/120978056486?pt=UK_Records&hash=item1c2adaa526#ht_999wt_1086
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Le_115MLpxI&feature=relmfu
― scott seward, Friday, 7 September 2012 21:48 (eleven years ago) link
lol if someone whips out a shoebox of them in a fortnight's time
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Friday, 7 September 2012 22:00 (eleven years ago) link
not vinyl but still... wtf
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Now-That-s-Call-Music-4-/190739438375
I had no idea these early Now... CDs were so rare.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Saturday, 20 October 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
I had to do a double take, I thought for sure it was a BIN, but people have bid it that high, WTF??? You could buy all of those artists on cd or record for under $20 .
― JacobSanders, Sunday, 21 October 2012 00:03 (eleven years ago) link
Those early NOW! CD's are rare because at the time they were released (84/85) the CD versions sold in miniscule quantities compared the vinyl versions - The early ones were only single CD's and only had a small selection of tracks compared to double vinyl versions..
Subsequently, saddo Now! completists have to pay top prices to complete their collections...
― Talcum Mucker, Sunday, 21 October 2012 06:07 (eleven years ago) link
ended at £333
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 21 October 2012 09:57 (eleven years ago) link
I seem to remember reading an article in Record Collector that Now 4 is rarer than the others, for some reason.
― Pat Ast vs Jean Arp (MaresNest), Sunday, 21 October 2012 10:30 (eleven years ago) link
You could buy all of those artists on cd or record for under $20.
That's what I was thinking too. It's like K-Tel through the looking glass: "It would cost you about $7 if you tried to buy these songs separately!"
― clemenza, Sunday, 21 October 2012 14:03 (eleven years ago) link
Now! completists?
Do they display these things behind glass for their guests? What is the motivation?
― Evan, Sunday, 21 October 2012 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2012/may/10/saint-etienne-words-music-review
In 2005, when Saint Etienne's last studio album Tales from Turnpike House was released, rumour spread that the band was about to split up. It turned out to be false: since Tales from Turnpike House, the band have put out a Christmas album, a film soundtrack, a complete reworking of their debut album Foxbase Alpha by producer Richard X and – surely the kind of thing you could only really imagine appearing in a Saint Etienne discography – an EP issued solely to those who'd responded to an online appeal by band member Bob Stanley, looking for the handful of albums he needed to complete his collection of Now That's What I Call Music compilations.
― kraudive, Sunday, 21 October 2012 17:23 (eleven years ago) link
Popsike is only about vinyl, but by my reckoning that Saint Etienne Now 4 is probably 'worth more' than the "Now 4" comp...
― Mark G, Sunday, 21 October 2012 20:31 (eleven years ago) link
$750 for a Germs shirt. Free shipping and free paint holes/splatters.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/rare-punk-rock-70s-tee-shirt-/370313548975?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item56386854af
― Sex Kitten mind control slave (Dan Peterson), Tuesday, 23 October 2012 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
2 Kubricks wanted for an Indian YMO 7 inch.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/YELLOW-MAGIC-ORCHESTRA-YMO-Computer-Game-mega-rare-INDIAN-INDIA-prs-PS-45-/400329791149?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item5d3583d6ad
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 16:00 (eleven years ago) link
I don't know the intricacies of used record grading, but based on the photo I can't imagine how anyone could say the sleeve is in "very good" condition.
― Tuomas, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:17 (eleven years ago) link
It's like coin collecting grading. That sleeve is, indeed, in standard record grading, a 'very good'.
'Excellent' means not damaged in any way, but maybe small creases,'Mint' means perfect, shop quality.
conversely, 'Good' means it's not actualy ripped, and it might have previous owner's name in it in marker-pen...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:34 (eleven years ago) link
IME "Good" = most of the sleeve is basically present, if not all in one piece. Ripped a bit + marker pen is VG-
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:37 (eleven years ago) link
I mean, in terms of the vinyl itself, Good basically means "do not buy this record".
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:38 (eleven years ago) link
I remember a book dealer once glumly saying to me "'good' is not very good". :(
― Tim, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:39 (eleven years ago) link
I used to collect coins when I was little and hadn't got into music much.
I was going to sell some of the 'duplicates' I had but when I told my mum that the victorian penny I had that was worn flat but still you could see what it was, the date, etc was 'Good Condition', she had an absolute fit thinking I was trying to defraud whoever was going to buy it. She wouldn't budge, even afer I showed her the grading guide, and woldn't allow it unless I described it as 'terrible'. So, I didn't bother...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 November 2012 09:55 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/CLIFF-RICHARD-SPANISH-HARLEM-EVERGREEN-TREE-RARE-78-RPM-RECORD-1963-/370696526649?_trksid=p2045573.m2102&_trkparms=aid%3D555003%26algo%3DPW.CAT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D33%26meid%3D3825187453417546901%26pid%3D100034%26prg%3D1031%26rk%3D2%26
Hmm, now this is £26 at the moment.
Guess the final price?
(I am not selling this or interested in buying it, btw)
(I did put this on the SHELLAC thread, but that's ILoveVinyl so let's open it up...)
― Mark G, Friday, 30 November 2012 12:52 (eleven years ago) link
Only 900 copies world wife signed by flea including a snipping of his used bass string
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/261144478676/Flea_Helen_Burns_Vinyl_Signed_Bass_String
― scott seward, Wednesday, 26 December 2012 18:10 (eleven years ago) link
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality, ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES rare originals!!!
Uhh, have a look at the box dude, a Trident studios 1/4" copy made in 1980 ain't the ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Black-Sabbath-Master-of-Reality-ORIGINAL-MASTER-TAPES-rare-originals-/230893489136?pt=UK_Music_Other_Music_Formats_ET&hash=item35c2530bf0
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:44 (eleven years ago) link
"original master" is even unchecked on the box :|
― sufferin' sockattacks (electricsound), Tuesday, 1 January 2013 00:47 (eleven years ago) link
Shel Talmy put the multitrack masters of My Generation on Ebay back in 2001 in order to get the Who camp moving on a proper remix/remaster/reissue. Wonder if this is some sort of similar gambit by the producer/engineer (but yeah, obviously using nth generation tapes...)
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 13:08 (eleven years ago) link
Looking at the box it's just a 1/4 inch tape.. which means it's not multitrack masters...
From the box info it looks like a simple copy of the master tape made either for listening to, or maybe for making a re-issue pressing.
Either way, if it's on Ampex tape as the box says, then it's highly likely the tape is screwed anyway as most Ampex tape stock from that period suffers badly from sticky shed making the tape almost unplayable....
― Talcum Mucker, Tuesday, 1 January 2013 15:23 (eleven years ago) link
Sticky shed?
(I know..)
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 January 2013 09:46 (eleven years ago) link
Not vinyl, but still crazy.http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPIRITUALIZED-LADIES-GENTLEMEN-12-x-CD3-BOXSET-Original-1st-PRESS-/350684749952?pt=Music_CDs&hash=item51a670a080
― van smack, Saturday, 5 January 2013 02:52 (eleven years ago) link
Love that "Damien Hirst inspired design" in the description. No, it's "inspired" by any regular pack of prescription tablets.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Saturday, 5 January 2013 06:53 (eleven years ago) link
endtimes...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Eddie-Vedder-PEARL-JAM-quot-ten-quot-Original-Sealed-1991-EPIC-47857-US-CD-in-Long-Box/390564163547?hash=item5aef702fdb
― scott seward, Monday, 1 April 2013 14:22 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.collectorsfrenzy.com/details/221204325335/BILLY_NICHOLLS_Would_You_Believe_LP_1968_UK_1st_MINT
^^ kinda hate anyone who has this much money to spend on a record
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 1 April 2013 15:40 (eleven years ago) link
of course i hate the person who collects CD longboxes too tbh
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Monday, 1 April 2013 15:41 (eleven years ago) link
that Spiritualized one up there is completely batshit. I remember seeing those in the Virgin Megastore sale years after the album came out
assume the PJ one is too but I can't actually visualise what a CD longbox looks like exactly so for all I know they might have made next to none of them
― like ed balls fans know what a gif is (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 April 2013 15:42 (eleven years ago) link
is the guy writing the Billy Nicholls blurb the same as skot's JUST SHUT THE FUCK UP I FUCKING HATE YOU guy? if not he might as well be
― like ed balls fans know what a gif is (DJ Mencap), Monday, 1 April 2013 15:45 (eleven years ago) link
Longboxes weren't phased out for another couple of years, so the millions of people that bought Ten in 1991-92 in the US (because iirc, no other countries used longboxes) bought it in a longbox.
Endtimes indeed. That's the most baffling auction result I've ever seen, including, but not limited to, those auctions where people paid thousands for a potato that faintly resembled Richard Marx.
― Darth Magus (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 1 April 2013 15:49 (eleven years ago) link
i see lots of japanese cd artwork that is longbox shape. is annoying when you have to fit it into square spaces.
― koogs, Monday, 1 April 2013 16:05 (eleven years ago) link
that Billy Nicholls blurb made we wonder what Finley Quaye has been up to - wish i hadn't found out now :/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-20045707
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 1 April 2013 16:06 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-HANDLESS-ORGANIST-Weird-Incredibly-Strange-Album-Cover-ART-Holy-GRAIL-LP-SEE-/300878660204?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item460dc4026c
― Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:40 (eleven years ago) link
i just got an album in by a handless AND legless organist. so, mine must be worth double.
― scott seward, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:52 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.popsike.com/Little-Richard-Miller-Born-Without-Arms-and-Legs-Jesus-Use-Me/130634395897.html
― scott seward, Monday, 1 April 2013 18:54 (eleven years ago) link
Gatefold 2xLP of Pearl Jam's No Code was selling close to $300 -- down a bit these days -- i should have sold mine when it was a hotter commodity.
http://www.ebay.com/sch/Records-/176985/i.html?_fspt=1&_from=R40&LH_Complete=1&_nkw=no+code+pearl&_dcat=176985&Record%2520Grading=Mint%2520%2528M%2529&rt=nc
― suspecterrain, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:21 (eleven years ago) link
i made money on those. bought a couple when they were dollar bin records in the 90's and never played them. sold them later in ebay days.
― scott seward, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:44 (eleven years ago) link
yeah -- that was one of the very few albums i've ever purchased for the sole reason of resale -- never tempted to listen to it, i doubt i'd even play it with "your" turntable ;)
― suspecterrain, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:48 (eleven years ago) link
cool package though! with the weird art cards and everything.
― scott seward, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:49 (eleven years ago) link
i've noticed some of the opened ones are getting higher selling prices than sealed copies -- guessing buyers want visual proof that they'll get all that swag
― suspecterrain, Monday, 1 April 2013 19:53 (eleven years ago) link
no code is the best pearl jam record.
― i guess i'd just rather listen to canned heat? (ian), Tuesday, 2 April 2013 17:59 (eleven years ago) link
you would have to actually listen to every pearl jam album to make that determination though...
― scott seward, Tuesday, 2 April 2013 18:06 (eleven years ago) link
jack white record $1000+
http://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Dead-Wather-Die-By-The-Drop-Test-Press-Jack-White-TMr-/140915928535?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item20cf3e6dd7
original 60's james brown cape $700+
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Original-1960s-James-Brown-Famous-Flames-Stage-Cape-R-B-Soul-Mr-Please-/221223291198?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3381ef893e
#endtimes #mayanapocalypse
― scott seward, Saturday, 11 May 2013 20:40 (ten years ago) link
who are the jack white people? i just don't get it. what were they spending too much money on ten years ago?
― los blue jeans, Sunday, 12 May 2013 14:18 (ten years ago) link