This isnt all vinyl but a lot of it is and I wonder how much it will go for
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=4740162265&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:ITBut list all the crazy vinyl stuff on this thread.
― Ebay Addict, Monday, 27 June 2005 18:07 (eighteen years ago) link
― BackLikeCookedCrack, Monday, 27 June 2005 19:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=4741175699&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
― William Selman (William Selman), Monday, 27 June 2005 20:37 (eighteen years ago) link
$499 for a Supremes greatest hits is a bit much...I wouldn't pay a cent over $350.
― musically (musically), Monday, 9 January 2006 06:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Amateur(ist) (Amateur(ist)), Monday, 9 January 2006 07:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Monday, 9 January 2006 07:57 (eighteen years ago) link
THIS WAS DIANA "TRAMPSWITCH" ROSS, THE ORIGINAL 50s TRANNIE GANGSTA AND SHE RULED SUPREMES
― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 08:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― r3000, Monday, 9 January 2006 17:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Monday, 9 January 2006 17:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 9 January 2006 23:31 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dadaismus (Dada), Tuesday, 10 January 2006 16:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Friday, 13 January 2006 18:26 (eighteen years ago) link
― Michael Costello, Friday, 13 January 2006 22:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Fritz Wollner (Fritz), Friday, 13 January 2006 22:34 (eighteen years ago) link
Huh? which one? I think I have them all and they cost me less than a fiver each
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:41 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 January 2006 23:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― r3000, Saturday, 14 January 2006 01:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Saturday, 14 January 2006 02:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― don't start a RYE-OTT! (plsmith), Saturday, 14 January 2006 03:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 02:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― brokeback titty sanskrit (sanskrit), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 05:10 (eighteen years ago) link
Sarah 4 (fanzine only) for £19 also, almost a pound a page.
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:13 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link
ah: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ANOTHER-SUNNY-DAY-ANORAK-CITY-FLEXI-SARAH-RECORDS-C86_W0QQitemZ4818275760QQcategoryZ58677QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItemAnorak City - £34:20 just 2 days ago.
― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:36 (eighteen years ago) link
xpost
― jim p. irrelevant (electricsound), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 10:37 (eighteen years ago) link
Another Sunny Day records go for big bucks, tis true.
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Onimo (GerryNemo), Wednesday, 18 January 2006 12:25 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 2 February 2006 02:21 (eighteen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 2 February 2006 11:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Thursday, 2 February 2006 11:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 2 February 2006 18:16 (eighteen years ago) link
do you think graeme revell is trying to buy back his past?
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 11:14 (eighteen years ago) link
― Tuomas (Tuomas), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 11:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 11:29 (eighteen years ago) link
Not crazy, but it is kinnel.
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 12:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 12:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― frenchbloke (frenchbloke), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
There are loads of punk singles that go for hundreds of pounds -
Bad Brains - Pay To CumCrime - Frustrationa lot of singles featured on Killed By Death/Bloodstains comps (not all of them are that rare though)
I'm quite happy with my bootleg reissue of Pay To Cum, no need to splash out $1000 on an original copy...
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 15:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― r3000, Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:01 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― christoff (christoff), Tuesday, 7 February 2006 20:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― wombatX (wombatX), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:14 (eighteen years ago) link
anybody want to buy a bridge? (actually I've got that too)
― m coleman (lovebug starski), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:18 (eighteen years ago) link
― Nathalie (stevie nixed), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 12:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Wednesday, 8 February 2006 15:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 9 February 2006 02:17 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 02:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 19:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:22 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:30 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:33 (eighteen years ago) link
cuz by then everyone wanted stereo and they didn't make as many. try and find a mono copy of pipers at the gates of dawn. go ahead, i dare you.
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:43 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:49 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:50 (eighteen years ago) link
― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 12 February 2006 20:55 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Sunday, 12 February 2006 21:04 (eighteen years ago) link
― StanM (StanM), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:12 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Dave will do (dave225.3), Thursday, 2 March 2006 20:45 (eighteen years ago) link
-- StanM (Stan10...), March 3rd, 2006 7:12 AM. (later)
From that auction's questions:
Q: Hi - will you guarantee anonymity for the winner of the auction? Feb-25-06 A: Yes, I can GUARANTEE that the winner's name and their contact details will remain totally private. This information will not be disclosed to any third party unless I have the winner's consent.
"I don't want anyone to know what a fucking idiot I am for spending over twelve thousand pounds on a fucking Sex Pistols 7""
― S- (sgh), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Friday, 3 March 2006 03:40 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 9 March 2006 20:06 (eighteen years ago) link
There HAD to have been some shill bidding going on with this one!! According to the average completed auction thingy the average price of an LP of Revolver was about $20. So not only does this person sell his for $460, but they also have two people asking them questions, one BEGGING them not to end the auction early. It's not even in mint condition!
― musically (musically), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:08 (eighteen years ago) link
1) daft sticker on the front2) shrinkwrap on it
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:15 (eighteen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:23 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 10:27 (eighteen years ago) link
― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 13 March 2006 12:56 (eighteen years ago) link
― musically (musically), Monday, 13 March 2006 13:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:06 (eighteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:09 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:24 (eighteen years ago) link
― Last Of The Famous International Pfunkboys (Kerr), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:28 (eighteen years ago) link
The Beatles auction looks legitimate to me. Beatles collectors are obsessed with--and even specialize in--such minutiae as sleeve stickers. The condition of the record and everything else becomes moot. If you look at most of the heavy bidders for this auction, they all seem interested in Beatles stuff with "unusual" stickers.
Now whether or not that makes that copy of Revolver "worth" $400+ is another discussion entirely.
― r3000, Monday, 13 March 2006 17:35 (eighteen years ago) link
(breath)
One of the albums is 'evident' as an original pressing, and was $240 or thereabouts before the ad was cancelled/rescheduled.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:37 (eighteen years ago) link
― Chris Ott (Chris Ott), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:41 (eighteen years ago) link
Unless all his fans copy his handwriting style too. (which is quite possible)
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:48 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 March 2006 17:59 (eighteen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:02 (eighteen years ago) link
― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Monday, 13 March 2006 18:06 (eighteen years ago) link
See also: this.
And yet, somehow, I snagged a 12" of the Summer's Last Sound EP on Ebay a couple months ago for only eight bucks. Ha!
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Friday, 17 March 2006 21:11 (eighteen years ago) link
― gritty sanskrit (sanskrit), Friday, 17 March 2006 22:14 (eighteen years ago) link
Come to think of it, I still do!
― Myke. (Myke Weiskopf), Saturday, 18 March 2006 01:19 (eighteen years ago) link
― DJ Mencap (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 18 March 2006 10:42 (eighteen years ago) link
― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Saturday, 18 March 2006 18:21 (eighteen years ago) link
Well, I can't see it.
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:16 (eighteen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:28 (eighteen years ago) link
― meth lab for doug flutie (sanskrit), Monday, 20 March 2006 13:39 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 20 March 2006 15:47 (eighteen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 3 April 2006 15:05 (eighteen years ago) link
― r3000, Monday, 24 April 2006 18:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Dan Selzer (Dan Selzer), Monday, 24 April 2006 18:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:00 (seventeen years ago) link
― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― r3000, Monday, 24 April 2006 19:04 (seventeen years ago) link
― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― r3000, Monday, 24 April 2006 19:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Monday, 24 April 2006 19:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Monday, 24 April 2006 20:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
it's like he's dying to build up some positive feedback for that ONE BIG OPERA SCORE
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:10 (seventeen years ago) link
― R3000, Monday, 24 April 2006 21:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― gear (gear), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:28 (seventeen years ago) link
― r3000, Monday, 24 April 2006 21:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― morris pavilion (samjeff), Monday, 24 April 2006 21:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― the unbearable lightness of peeing (orion), Monday, 24 April 2006 22:14 (seventeen years ago) link
― amateurist0, Monday, 24 April 2006 23:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― r3000, Monday, 24 April 2006 23:58 (seventeen years ago) link
me:Item: This is a must have for record lovers! (4867500661)This message was sent while the listing was active.
i might be interested in bidding, but there's no way i'll pay $100 in shipping fees. a lot of ebay sellers try to rip off bidders by overcharging for shipping, you're not one of those people, are you?
donna:Item: This is a must have for record lovers! (4867500661)This message was sent while the listing was active.
No, Definatly not. If you you want to bid, I'll cut off the shipping price completly.
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 00:48 (seventeen years ago) link
― Daniel Peterson (polkaholic), Tuesday, 25 April 2006 13:12 (seventeen years ago) link
$800 buy it now.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 17:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― superbadger (superbadger), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 3 May 2006 21:36 (seventeen years ago) link
― jinx hijinks (sanskrit), Thursday, 4 May 2006 01:53 (seventeen years ago) link
Meic Stevens "Outlander" original LP - 478.32
― GALKIN (GALKIN), Thursday, 4 May 2006 03:31 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 4 May 2006 03:35 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 May 2006 07:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 4 May 2006 07:52 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 4 May 2006 07:56 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 4 May 2006 08:19 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 4 May 2006 08:45 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jacobs (LolVStein), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:05 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jacobs (LolVStein), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:07 (seventeen years ago) link
they just don't know what to look for:
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOZART-A-PARIS-OUBRADOUS-PATHE-191-197-BOX-7LP_W0QQitemZ4868220127QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 4 May 2006 10:22 (seventeen years ago) link
― Stormy Davis (diamond), Thursday, 4 May 2006 22:42 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=4877353148
― Tim Rutherford-Johnson (Rambler), Thursday, 11 May 2006 09:01 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=1469&item=9506976772
''Works on all men or your money back.'' Now you can't say that about the latest Embrace album!!!!
― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 11 May 2006 09:18 (seventeen years ago) link
― Kim Tortoise, Thursday, 11 May 2006 09:21 (seventeen years ago) link
― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Thursday, 11 May 2006 11:55 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:01 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Monday, 15 May 2006 03:07 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jacobs (LolVStein), Friday, 26 May 2006 20:06 (seventeen years ago) link
― Lanky Wanger, Friday, 26 May 2006 22:34 (seventeen years ago) link
― Jacobs (LolVStein), Friday, 26 May 2006 23:23 (seventeen years ago) link
I actually put this on watch hoping i might get it for $30. Haha. I won't be bidding now.
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:39 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:40 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 13 June 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Arctic-Monkeys-Five-Minutes-With-The-Arc-UK-CD-single_W0QQitemZ4893196853QQcategoryZ307QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem$270+
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Arctic-Monkeys-Five-Minutes-With-The-Arct-UK-7-vinyl_W0QQitemZ4893196863QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem for $230+
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:11 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Thursday, 15 June 2006 12:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― the eunuchs, Cassim and Mustafa, who guarded Abdur Ali's harem (orion), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Alex in SF (Alex in SF), Monday, 3 July 2006 22:13 (seventeen years ago) link
― mark grout (mark grout), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 07:30 (seventeen years ago) link
My copy is totally fucked though, it looks like the record has been sandpapered.
― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 4 July 2006 08:16 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Wednesday, 5 July 2006 21:02 (seventeen years ago) link
― Koogy Yonderboy (koogs), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 16:30 (seventeen years ago) link
― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 20:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― fortunate hazel (f. hazel), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 21:44 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Wednesday, 6 September 2006 23:18 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/RARE-CIRCULUS-CLEAR-VINYL-LP-NOT-CD-FOLK-PSYCH_W0QQitemZ300028295235QQihZ020QQcategoryZ1075QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/WITCHCRAFT-CIRCULUS-7-SABBATH-WOLFMOTHER-FAIRPORT_W0QQitemZ300028298660QQihZ020QQcategoryZ45543QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Monday, 25 September 2006 22:38 (seventeen years ago) link
?!
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:46 (seventeen years ago) link
?????!
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Monday, 25 September 2006 23:47 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:02 (seventeen years ago) link
though true, don't bite Vahid's schtick
― mr. brojangles (sanskrit), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:09 (seventeen years ago) link
― electric sound of jim [and why not] (electricsound), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:17 (seventeen years ago) link
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy (Kerr), Tuesday, 26 September 2006 00:18 (seventeen years ago) link
I got my old login back!
Thank you Nu ILX.
Can anybody provide me a link to the "sister CD thread" mentioned by the original poster?
― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 24 January 2007 08:46 (seventeen years ago) link
$40? Are you kidding me?
I have the 7'', maybe I should sell it if it's really going for this much...
― The Brainwasher (Twilight), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:08 (seventeen years ago) link
― the table is the table (treesessplode), Thursday, 1 February 2007 22:22 (seventeen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/RAREST-BOB-DYLAN-LP-ALBUM-IN-EXISTENCE_W0QQitemZ140127050490QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/FAINE-JADE-INTROSPECTION-LEGENDARY-1968-PSYCH-LP-MINT_W0QQitemZ140127051294QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
http://cgi.ebay.com/BRUTE-FORCE-EXTEMPORANEOUS-INSANELY-RARE-ORIG-LP-SEALED_W0QQitemZ140128329043QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
just look at all his auctions, basically. i want the gentle soul record he has a copy of.
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:16 (sixteen years ago) link
i want everything. ever.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
sealed first state mono VU & nico. FREE shipping!!!
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:23 (sixteen years ago) link
could be crazy warped or some shit. i wouldn't buy it.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:35 (sixteen years ago) link
sealed records can be fucked. oh they might look perfect till you play them.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:37 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah I was browsing this dude's listings over the weekend. pretty amazing.
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:40 (sixteen years ago) link
i see him once or twice per week. he does this shit in giant batches, full time. dude just goes to thrift stores and estate sales and shit all day everyday.
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:41 (sixteen years ago) link
*** ONE OF THE NICEST COPIES WE HAVE SEEN LATELY ***
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
*** GOOD LUCK FINDING ANOTHER STILL SEALED COPY *** is my favorite.
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:43 (sixteen years ago) link
I love the "lately"
You would think the world was picked over at this point to make that kinda digging fruitful .. thrift stores, estate sales, etc. but I guess not!
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:45 (sixteen years ago) link
people die every day, stormy.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
yes, but how many record collectors die everyday, worldwide? 10? 50?
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
they don't have to be hardcore collectors. just a few old hippies will do.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:58 (sixteen years ago) link
you guys saw that number 00000006 white album auction rite?
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 17:59 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/Beatles-ULTRA-RARE-UK-STEREO-WHITE-ALBUM-0000006_W0QQitemZ270128943287QQihZ017QQcategoryZ432QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― ian, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i know a dude who probably hasn't bought a record in 30 years, but what he has is jaw-dropping. i would kill him myself, but i'm too lazy.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
I got a bunch of mint condition prog the other day, charity shop. One went for £30, the capitlst.bast I am.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 19 June 2007 19:20 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a known fact bobdjukic have a shrink machine and a hairdryer
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 16:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/DAVE-MATTHEWS-BAND-THESE-CROWDED-STREETS-LP-OOP_W0QQitemZ150129531408QQihZ005QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
LOLOLOLOLOL (sorry)
― sanskrit, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 16:24 (sixteen years ago) link
haaaaaaaaaaaa
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 16:59 (sixteen years ago) link
That really is incredible sanskrit. I'm heading to my college town used record store today. I've got some DMB hunting to do.
― matt2, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 17:18 (sixteen years ago) link
And for sale by the same store: http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150133196404&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr4_PcY_BID_IT&refitem=150129531408&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget
Wasn't this just released last year or the year before? Are they really all gone already?
― matt2, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
i just went to a tag sale recently where th guy would go home with sealed packages from the department store circa 1972 and dump his package in a box to await my fingers many years later..i love the Carpenters record bag one was in that was still stapled w th receipt..I sold a bunch of th sealed stuff to an Ebay guy (Rosie(of the Originals fame),T-Bones,Johnny Tillotson,.,bleh,,but I kept Sam th Sham live and Play Country Guitar instructional w Jimmy Bryant,Smiley Burnette,Sandy Nelson,Augie Myers 1st LP,Cal Tjader etc..dreams still come troo even if its not gold nuggets.
― danbunny, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 17:36 (sixteen years ago) link
That Faine Jade album up there is great. Dunno if I'd pay that much for it though.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 20 June 2007 22:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/EDDIE-KENDRICKS-People-Hold-On-TAMLA-LP-1972-NORTHERN_W0QQitemZ230115997483QQihZ013QQcategoryZ306QQrdZ1QQssPageNameZWD1VQQcmdZViewItem
i know it's not that much money, but why are you selling a record for $110 when 2 were just up for auction. one sold for 10$ and the other didn't sell for 10$ (had a scratch on it).
― jaxon, Friday, 22 June 2007 01:51 (sixteen years ago) link
The "Buy it now" is like "I will sell it for THIS MUCH!!" and wait until someone needs it desp and there's no time for waiting for auction ends, or there arent any.
― Mark G, Friday, 22 June 2007 07:03 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that can be found for 75 cents (good record tho!).
there's a contrarian listing strategy where you throw something up to start for $10 and eat the extra fees for a $200 buy it now to subliminally influence bidders (but the buy it now disappears after the first bid). it's worked for me in the past kinda but i haven't done it in years.
― sanskrit, Monday, 25 June 2007 00:47 (sixteen years ago) link
believe in the wisdom of free markets
― sanskrit, Monday, 25 June 2007 00:48 (sixteen years ago) link
are you talking about the eddie kendricks? if so, find me one. they don't turn up around here and dude from sound library type store in SF told me it's a 30$ record.
― jaxon, Monday, 25 June 2007 03:20 (sixteen years ago) link
The greater fidelity results in crisper, deeper sound--undoubtedly the way Carlos D wants you to hear the record!
― Display Name, Monday, 25 June 2007 03:44 (sixteen years ago) link
sez "academy annex":
U.S. and Canada Rates - USPS Priority MailPLEASE NOTE NEW RATESEast of the Mississippi- $ 7.00 - 1st LP $ 1.00 - each additional LP $ 4.00 - 1st 45West of the Mississippi- $ 8.00 - 1st LP $ 1.00 - each additional LP $ 5.00 - 1st 45
PLEASE NOTE NEW RATES
East of the Mississippi- $ 7.00 - 1st LP $ 1.00 - each additional LP $ 4.00 - 1st 45
West of the Mississippi- $ 8.00 - 1st LP $ 1.00 - each additional LP $ 5.00 - 1st 45
What in the world could justify this?
― theboyqueen, Monday, 25 June 2007 06:28 (sixteen years ago) link
it's a very wide river.
― Mark G, Monday, 25 June 2007 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
easy, priority mail plus delivery confirmation starts at $5.25 these days. USPS doesn't have any free shipping boxes that are really suitable for 12" records, so you have to buy them, which will run you about $1-1.50 per box. so just to pay for postage and packaging, you're up to $6.25 minimum for a 12".
― f. hazel, Monday, 25 June 2007 07:15 (sixteen years ago) link
look, i just thought the DMB listing was funny. let's all be cool, just a little fun.
― sanskrit, Monday, 25 June 2007 16:49 (sixteen years ago) link
<I>What in the world could justify this?</I>
With new postage rates, it actually DOES cost more to ship to the west coast than it does, say, from NY to Florida. This is just a simple way of balancing it out--this seemed the best option rather than a) increasing ALL rates (even when it doesn't cost us as much) or b) determining postage on a case-by-case basis (postage scale not equipt with geographic variables.)
That said, our auctions are nowhere near as funny as b0bdjukic's. $600 for a STEPPENWOLF LP?!
― ian, Monday, 25 June 2007 16:57 (sixteen years ago) link
With new postage rates, it actually DOES cost more to ship to the west coast than it does, say, from NY to Florida.
I had no idea!
― theboyqueen, Monday, 25 June 2007 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
was in a record store in LA and there was the first Olivia Tremor Control record on the wall for 80$. i asked if it was special or something and dude told me that's what they go for on ebay?! i hope i still have those things
― jaxon, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
2nd OTC record goes for even more. that's the one i like.
― ian, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
I was really surprised to see Mamas and Papas LPs for, like, seven bucks in a record store here in Seattle the other day. Not that they're not great or worth it, but If You Can Believe Your Eyes and Ears is a thrift-shop staple almost as much as Whipped Cream and Other Delights.
― If Timi Yuro would be still alive, most other singers could shut up, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:57 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270142196831&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=017
― Brigadier Lethbridge-Pfunkboy, Thursday, 12 July 2007 22:59 (sixteen years ago) link
went to kstarke records in chicago this week, a little store on western ave set up by a vinyl collector. he basically does "graveyard wholesaling"--looking at garage sales, estates, and the like and buys tons of stuff for nothing at all, then turns around and sells it in his store for $5–10 or more (he saves the most valuable stuff for ebay). trouble is he is seemingly not concerned with condition so he'll sell a worn-down copy of some Dionne Warwick LP, whose jacket is split at the seams, for over $6. kind of ridiculous.
― amateurist, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i got rid of both OTC records a long time ago :(
― jaxon, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:27 (sixteen years ago) link
part of the problem is that ebay just follows different laws than stores. i don't think he's going to do good business selling a bunch of really beat-up r&b and classic rock (edgar broughton band! yeah!) LPs for nearly $10 in a little storefront on western ave. what goes for a few prize LPs on the interweb won't really follow for an entire store's worth of junk.
that said he has a lot of house/disco/electro/etc. 12"s. probably some stuff that's reasonably hard to find. but again, overpriced.
― amateurist, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i have to admit that recently i've taken to picking things up in record stores mostly because i know i can turn around and sell them on the internet for a big profit. i only do it like once or twice a year and it helps to fund all the other crap i buy. i feel a bit guilty about it but....
― amateurist, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:29 (sixteen years ago) link
why would you feel guilty about it?
― scott seward, Friday, 13 July 2007 22:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i do that. it's a good way to finance the next trip to the record store :)
― elan, Friday, 13 July 2007 23:00 (sixteen years ago) link
I still haven't better my £60 for a Sinister Ducks single.
Do people still pay much for Heavenly singles on Sarah?
― Colonel Poo, Saturday, 14 July 2007 01:36 (sixteen years ago) link
god i just looked at prices for some of my old hardcore 7"s. and they are in a box, in a basement full of bats and mildew.
fck.
― the table is the table, Saturday, 14 July 2007 02:05 (sixteen years ago) link
oh but all of these musicals records could sell for something. hmm.
― the table is the table, Saturday, 14 July 2007 02:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i am going to be selling many of the noize cassettes from my teenage years on ebay sometime soon.
― ian, Monday, 16 July 2007 01:06 (sixteen years ago) link
i looked up my good condition original vinyl of gang of four's "entertainment!" and it's still going in the $80-$100 range (though not $150 plus like it was before it was reissued), which makes me happy, especially considering i bought it for a quarter at a hippie fair in union, maine, nearly ten years ago.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Monday, 16 July 2007 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
All my G & VG stuff goes for like $12 lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 July 2007 03:34 (sixteen years ago) link
But then all my G & VG stuff is like jazz fusion that only beat diggers care about anyway. Oh and a couple NM Beefhearts.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 16 July 2007 03:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Feedback history for one of late bidders of the Boris LP:
Positive feedback rating Quick payment, pleasure to deal with. Seller: jayneyf ( 1300 [Feedback score is 1,000 to 4,999] ) 03-Jul-07 15:24 King Crimson-Red-UK Vinyl LP-1974 (#230141083805) -- View Item Positive feedback rating Thank You For Your Purchases & Rapid Payment!!! EXCELLENT E-Bayer!!!!!AAAAA+++++ Seller: anthony0070_9 ( 1360 [Feedback score is 1,000 to 4,999] ) 04-Jun-07 17:41 SUPER Lot Of 5 KING CRIMSON LP's--Exc/NM Cond (#200113302137) -- View Item Positive feedback rating Excellent. Very quick payment received. A+++++ Seller: khherts ( 1030 [Feedback score is 1,000 to 4,999] ) 21-Apr-07 18:49 Chris De Burgh - The Lady In Red (#320087722699)
― gnarly sceptre, Monday, 16 July 2007 10:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"i looked up my good condition original vinyl of gang of four's "entertainment!" and it's still going in the $80-$100 range"
more like $10-$20 range, but you still got a bargain for a quarter!
― scott seward, Monday, 16 July 2007 12:44 (sixteen years ago) link
dangit, over the winter i saw it go for $82. however the one i saw was in better condition than mine. oh well! it's extra cool for me since i later found a label on the inside of the sleeve that said it belonged to the dad of a kid i knew in high school. small world.
― Emily Bjurnhjam, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 02:09 (sixteen years ago) link
went to kstarke records in chicago this week...
I live right around the corner from that place, on Oakley. I used to go there often, but you're right, the condition of his items is capital S Shitty. But, I still have to give him props, because he gave me an incredibly good CDR mix of obscure italo hitz that one of his coworkers made.
― Z S, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 02:13 (sixteen years ago) link
there are some crazy expensive grateful dead TMOQs. i am glad being that much of a dork is prohibitively expensive for me right now.
― ian, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 03:45 (sixteen years ago) link
I am curious to see how this one is going to turn out:
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOVING-SIDEWALKS-Flash-RARE-LP-ORIGINAL-on-TANTARA_W0QQitemZ130133023094QQihZ003QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Stormy Davis, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 03:51 (sixteen years ago) link
sheesh. i'm content with a reissue thanks.
― ian, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 03:55 (sixteen years ago) link
Just checked popsike: That's on the low side for that one (at the moment, $530)
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 July 2007 07:50 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOMENTS-You-Said-RARE-NORTHERN-SOUL-45-On-DEEP_W0QQitemZ110165302807QQihZ001QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― ian, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 00:00 (sixteen years ago) link
are flexis vinyl?
sarah 13&14, £87 and counting
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sarah-Records-13-14-Flexi-disc-and-2-fanzines-RARE_W0QQitemZ190149418644QQihZ009QQcategoryZ58668QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
(i have two! i also recognise the seller's email address)
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:28 (sixteen years ago) link
Blimey, and I thought Sarah prices had gone down!
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:36 (sixteen years ago) link
damn, why did i practically give mine away :(
― zappi, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:50 (sixteen years ago) link
goodness. time to liquidate.
― electricsound, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 10:51 (sixteen years ago) link
i think ltm re-releases has taken the edge off the prices for the obvious things but poppyheads 7" went for £70 not long ago. sarapoly was stupid too, so the oddments continue to rise.
― koogs, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 11:53 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah i did well when i sold my sarapoly (which i got for free, it's not the sort of thing i would have paid money for)
― electricsound, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 12:19 (sixteen years ago) link
I wonder how Heavenly vs Satan does these days, I think that one was v expensive before the K reissue came out.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 14:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=230185067892&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=013 Crazy alright, I bought this same single for £2.99 on Ebay a few months ago. Stupid Nirvana collectors, Kurt's not even on this record, dumbasses!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:43 (sixteen years ago) link
It's all in the presentation!
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:45 (sixteen years ago) link
those go team 45s are pretty rare regardless
― electricsound, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I dunno, I've got 5 of them, and they were all cheap. The only one that's normally insanely expensive is the one Kurt actually was on.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Think about it, there'll be tons of "Go Team" ads there right now that aren't the Kurt band, but the 'rah rah' bunch. Add the word "Nirvana" and it'll come up on loads of people's automatic search notifier.
― Mark G, Thursday, 1 November 2007 11:52 (sixteen years ago) link
Uh the winning bidder was called 'thegoteam' so maybe it's just a K Records dork w/ too much money
― DJ Mencap, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:10 (sixteen years ago) link
Nah look at their previous auctions - all Nirvana & Marilyn Manson!
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 1 November 2007 12:14 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/MELLOW-CANDLE-UK-PROG-PSYCH-FOLK-LP-ORIG-FEMALE-VOCALS_W0QQitemZ320180123983QQihZ011QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
:-O
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 19 November 2007 17:21 (sixteen years ago) link
Eeek yeah, I saw that one too. God. Makes me wish I picked up the (too expensive) bootleg of it that was around this year.
― ian, Monday, 19 November 2007 17:54 (sixteen years ago) link
man that guy bought a lot of eekspensive records lately
― rizzx, Monday, 19 November 2007 18:01 (sixteen years ago) link
do you guys get like an ebay digest of expensive record auctions??? I WANT TO SUBSCRIBE
― 69, Monday, 19 November 2007 18:14 (sixteen years ago) link
I just always look at "iamthewitch" dude's auctions. anybody know who he is?
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 19 November 2007 18:27 (sixteen years ago) link
the witch
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 19 November 2007 18:33 (sixteen years ago) link
i like to search "psych" in records and sort by highest priced first.
― ian, Monday, 19 November 2007 19:53 (sixteen years ago) link
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...
― Mark G, Monday, 19 November 2007 20:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sanskrit, Monday, 19 November 2007 22:00 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ellaguru, Monday, 19 November 2007 22:30 (sixteen years ago) link
^^ if a seller is so desperate as to drop "rare" keywords, then it's almost always a turd. ergo, you are the enemy.
― sanskrit, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 03:42 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― electricsound, Tuesday, 20 November 2007 04:01 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MERCYFUL-FATE-KING-DIAMOND-BLACK-MESSAGE-RED-VINYL-MINT_W0QQitemZ320205639987QQihZ011QQcategoryZ1594QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 14 January 2008 01:04 (sixteen years ago) link
anyone want to buy 5000 country and bluegrass LPs?
― milo z, Monday, 14 January 2008 01:10 (sixteen years ago) link
i do. how much?
― scott seward, Monday, 14 January 2008 01:31 (sixteen years ago) link
465 pounds sterling and almost six days left in the auction?! holy shit! should i start buying metal records?
― elan, Monday, 14 January 2008 01:40 (sixteen years ago) link
A bit late to start now! Some 90s black metal vinyl sells for even more than that btw
― Herman G. Neuname, Monday, 14 January 2008 03:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Skot, where do you keep all this vinyl?
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 January 2008 03:13 (sixteen years ago) link
i don't know what i would do with a sudden 5000 records actually. put them in the basement for now.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 January 2008 03:28 (sixteen years ago) link
i'd think of something. there is always room. 5000 records isn't THAT much.
― scott seward, Monday, 14 January 2008 03:29 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― milo z, Monday, 14 January 2008 04:10 (sixteen years ago) link
so who are you selling them to?
― scott seward, Monday, 14 January 2008 04:16 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― milo z, Monday, 14 January 2008 04:23 (sixteen years ago) link
Listen to every record, then eat it, then blog about it.
― Whiney G. Weingarten, Monday, 14 January 2008 04:25 (sixteen years ago) link
Some of the '70s bluegrass vinyl is awesome - paisley shirts & bellbottoms, invasion of the evangelical hippies.
― milo z, Monday, 14 January 2008 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Monday, 14 January 2008 04:45 (sixteen years ago) link
This ain't bluegrass:
http://cgi.ebay.com/THE-MISFITS-PLAN-9-1009-HORROR-BUSINESS-ULTRA-RARE_W0QQitemZ190191145132QQihZ009QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Good gravy.
― ellaguru, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:04 (sixteen years ago) link
Juno soundtrack in full effect http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/The-Moldy-Peaches-LP-2001-Rough-Trade_W0QQitemZ200192270224QQihZ010QQcategoryZ58623QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― zappi, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 16:13 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Tuesday, 29 January 2008 21:45 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― StanM, Monday, 4 February 2008 20:45 (sixteen years ago) link
dude has -2 feedback!
― elan, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:22 (sixteen years ago) link
lol, hadn't even noticed that!
― StanM, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:33 (sixteen years ago) link
that's the first thing to check! where is your brain?
― elan, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:38 (sixteen years ago) link
i kinda wanna fake bid on it but i'm afraid that nobody else will follow me and i will be fucked.
― elan, Monday, 4 February 2008 21:39 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Mr. Goodman, Monday, 4 February 2008 22:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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/).
― Mr. Goodman, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:04 (sixteen years ago) link
He also keeps good company:
http://www.uberdispensing.com/images/ubergirls/3.jpg
― Mr. Goodman, Monday, 4 February 2008 23:06 (sixteen years ago) link
It's the Ramones V2.00
― Mark G, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 10:20 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey ho's, let's go
― StanM, Tuesday, 5 February 2008 10:35 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Wednesday, 13 February 2008 23:56 (sixteen years ago) link
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
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 00:01 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 00:02 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 00:04 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/SARAH-VAUGHAN-w-CLIFFORD-BROWN-MINT-ORIG-1954-EMARCY-LP_W0QQitemZ350023924447QQihZ022QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem#ebayphotohosting
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 00:06 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 14 February 2008 01:27 (sixteen years ago) link
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?
― Reatards Unite, Thursday, 14 February 2008 01:38 (sixteen years ago) link
just buy the fucking reissue
― jaxon, Thursday, 14 February 2008 01:57 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Thursday, 14 February 2008 02:46 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― sanskrit, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:14 (sixteen years ago) link
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.
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:19 (sixteen years ago) link
shuga?
― electricsound, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:23 (sixteen years ago) link
ah.. better records. hot stamper!
― electricsound, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.discogs.com/groups/topic/155312
"ah.. better records. hot stamper!"
bingo!
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://img184.imageshack.us/img184/4458/stamperdh3.gif
― electricsound, Thursday, 14 February 2008 03:47 (sixteen years ago) link
ESoJ... that might be the best image i've seen so far in '08. A+.
Hot stamper guy is even crazier than Bob D when it comes to the "getting way more than is socially acceptable (for an LP)" scene. On that note, I don't dislike Bob D. I would never think he had any shady business practices (resealing, etc) though I wouldn't be surprised if there are a fair number of unsatisfied/underwhelmed customers behind the scenes.
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Knowing Bob makes his listing hyperbole EVEN MORE HILARIOUS, to imagine it in his voice and with his phrasing.
― ian, Thursday, 14 February 2008 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
(props, btw, to sanskrit for first tipping me to the existence of hot stamper dude.)
I didn't know this Michael Hurley record existed until I saw this.
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=270212212581
― Thus Sang Freud, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smiles/folkways.gif
― electricsound, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i'm bidding on this but i have zero hope of being able to afford what it will surely go for
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=220202394122&ssPageName=STRK:MEBI:IT&ih=012
the one track i've heard from it is one of the most affecting pieces of music i've yet come across
― electricsound, Sunday, 17 February 2008 04:59 (sixteen years ago) link
shit ... I got 250 for my "First Songs" a couple of years ago. and it was a fucking EXCELLENT copy. pained me to part
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 17 February 2008 07:07 (sixteen years ago) link
how about this madness:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Chicago-Transit-Authority-1969-360-Sound-STONE-MINT_W0QQitemZ220200291353QQihZ012QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
$138 for a fucking CTA album ???
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 17 February 2008 07:10 (sixteen years ago) link
this one is sorta nuts too but i can at least TRY to understand it
http://cgi.ebay.com/Alice-Cooper-1971-WLP-PROMO-Love-It-To-Death-MINT_W0QQitemZ320216292399QQihZ011QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 17 February 2008 07:11 (sixteen years ago) link
My favorite Alice Cooper fan got a bargain on his Love It To Death WLP.. a mere hundred bucks.
Several xposts to Sang Freud: There's been a CD reissue of that Hurley, which I'd be happy to burn if you're interested. Did you catch Hurley when he played at the shop?
― ian, Monday, 18 February 2008 17:49 (sixteen years ago) link
Didn't know he played there! I did see him maybe a year ago at that place near your shop with all the couches surrounding the performer & big video screens and stuff. Sensory overload -- it was hard to focus on his songs. Thanks much for the cd offer, but now that I know it's out there I think I'll track it down on my own. Thrill of the hunt and all.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 18 February 2008 18:05 (sixteen years ago) link
it's on Locust and OOP or close, I would get it sooner rather than later.
$168 for Sublime Frequencies Tuareg LP:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=200199364315&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=010
― sleeve, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:10 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, I saw that. I was thinking about bidding for that guy's 'Elektronika Demonika' but I decided it doesn't hurt my feelings too much to just own the CD/DVD when it comes out. but that copy went for a lot less than the last one. I think G3rard C0sl0y might have been the winner?
as far as the Group Doueh thing .. man, I just fundamentally do not get people. For that price, you could score the first three (20 year old) Sun City Girls records and probably still have money to spare. Or you could, you know, pay $168 for a record that's what, a year old?
― Stormy Davis, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:25 (sixteen years ago) link
No keyword spamming in that listing then?
― Billy Dods, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:37 (sixteen years ago) link
For that price, you could score the first three (20 year old) Sun City Girls records and probably still have money to spare.
WORD
― sleeve, Monday, 18 February 2008 20:54 (sixteen years ago) link
damn! i've got that group doueh album. i'm gonna keep mine though. i like it.
― scott seward, Monday, 18 February 2008 21:05 (sixteen years ago) link
sorting through my grandfather's records I found one of these I wouldn't call it mint or near-mint, though.
― milo z, Monday, 18 February 2008 21:12 (sixteen years ago) link
Anyone have $3,000,000 to spare?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=140206309501#description
The World's Greatest Music Collection: 3 Million Records, 300,000 CDs, 6 million+ Song Titles
― Neil S, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 13:19 (sixteen years ago) link
hay guys did you hear about the 3 million record collection? wow huh
― electricsound, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 22:43 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/SEALED-BLUES-HENRY-THOMAS-1927-1929-12-2-LP-SET-YAZOO_W0QQitemZ190196663837QQihZ009QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― ian, Wednesday, 20 February 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
i mean, YIKES, the CD will only cost you $10! Less, probably!
guys .. only 4 hours left to bid on this sealed Free lp!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=330212280061&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=014
― Stormy Davis, Thursday, 21 February 2008 18:07 (sixteen years ago) link
HEITKOTTER SHREDS
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230235684145&fromMakeTrack=true&ssPageName=VIP:Watchlink:middle:us
― electricsound, Tuesday, 25 March 2008 23:29 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/Factory-Sample-LP-Durutti-Column-Joy-Division-Cab-Volta_W0QQitemZ320230790662QQcmdZViewItemQQssPageNameZRSS:B:SRCH:US:101
lol. this guy in long island is sitting on a ton of these, he sells one every two weeks. i picked on up from him last summer for like $20.
i think the people here must think it's the original 7"? someone is in for a surprise when they open that mailer..
― sanskrit, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:12 (sixteen years ago) link
lolz
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 28 March 2008 19:13 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah that is emabrrassing
― electricsound, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:15 (sixteen years ago) link
^so was that
yo, Ian, I found probably 50-100 County records when I was going through the collection before my uncle got his snake-handling hands on the rest ('to donate to a museum' - think he'll be disappointed when he figures out I pulled the records that were worth anything).
It'll be a few months before I can go through the ~1000 albums I pulled again, but I'll see what's there and e-mail you.
― milo z, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:22 (sixteen years ago) link
oooh, real cool milo!! i'd be psyched to see a list. if it helps i can send you a list of the ones i already have to relieve any unnecessary typing. i'm also looking for a few hoyt axton records, specfically. and townes van zandt of course!
― ian, Saturday, 29 March 2008 00:45 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260222339885&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 30 March 2008 17:56 (sixteen years ago) link
hope vini's doing ok
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320228495526
― sanskrit, Sunday, 30 March 2008 18:21 (sixteen years ago) link
I have this. Paid £10 for it
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ALCEST-Le-secret-ORG-mcd-Peste-noire-Watain-Lifelover_W0QQitemZ360035986668QQihZ023QQcategoryZ307QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Herman G. Neuname, Sunday, 30 March 2008 18:37 (sixteen years ago) link
i wonder why vini sold his guitar too
i hate the band name alcest so much
― electricsound, Sunday, 30 March 2008 22:35 (sixteen years ago) link
$255 and climbing for a Zoviet France CASSETTE!!!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=230237136822&ssPageName=MERC_BC_ReBay_Pr4_PcY_BID_Stores_W0_IT&refitem=230237125643&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=bid_confirm&usedrule1=CategoryProximity&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p167.m184&_trkparms=its%3DS%252BI%252BSS
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 April 2008 19:42 (sixteen years ago) link
You say (write) "cassette" as if it's a dirty word.
There were tons and tons of great underground records released only on cassette during the great "cassette revolution", which would have been... mmm... help me out boys, late 70s-early 80s?
C30-C60... etc
― factcheckr, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:02 (sixteen years ago) link
if somebody listed a bunch of the m squared cassettes i'd expect to see similar prices
― electricsound, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:03 (sixteen years ago) link
(thanks to mutant sounds i have no need to source them for myself)
xpost only because it is available on LP and CD as well...
― sleeve, Friday, 4 April 2008 01:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Ah... hmmm. memory is foggy from back then. According to Discogs is wrong cat#. I remember the Red Rhino release on wax. Don't remember if this cassette was released prior but suspect so.
Damn collectors aren't buying it to listen to anyway ;) Kinda like the Sister of Mercy - Temple of Love test pressing that I got $500 for...
― factcheckr, Friday, 4 April 2008 13:24 (sixteen years ago) link
I was just watching a couple of Go Team cassettes on Ebay that went for $125 each. There's also tons of power electronics/industrial/noise cassettes that fetch ridiculous amounts.
― Colonel Poo, Friday, 4 April 2008 14:43 (sixteen years ago) link
Skaters and related bands tapes sell for shitloads too.
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 4 April 2008 14:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Just spent $50 on Dissecting Table's first LP. This will be my 7th copy i think.
Most i ever spent was on a lacquer for the G.G.F.H. collectors club 7". came with a couple testpressings of 2 of their other albums as well and the original layout sheets for their press photos. I have a feeling the seller was a former Peaceville employee raiding the archives.
― Citizen, Saturday, 5 April 2008 17:24 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/Original-NIRVANA-Love-Buzz-Alt-45-SUB-POP-986-1000_W0QQitemZ280214878434QQihZ018QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 6 April 2008 01:25 (sixteen years ago) link
lol i've never seen shill bidding played so poorly
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=306&item=280208195392 then http://cgi.ebay.com/GRATEFUL-DEAD-1969-LIVE-PSYCH-2-LP-ORIG-W7-LBL-UNPLAYED_W0QQitemZ280214426163QQihZ018QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― sanskrit, Sunday, 6 April 2008 02:17 (sixteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/SUPER-RARE-K-U-K-L-THE-EYE-ICELAND-BJORK-CRASS_W0QQitemZ110240658556QQihZ001QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― stirmonster, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
i bet that record fucking rules, though.
― ian, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 04:51 (sixteen years ago) link
Is that even that rare? I always assumed most 'standard' Crass label releases (ie not the flexis or whatever) were pressed in fairly big quantities
― DJ Mencap, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 08:55 (sixteen years ago) link
I had that "Holidays in Europe" album, gave it to a friend who thought it was great (I thought it wasn't)...
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 09:03 (sixteen years ago) link
It's like:
Albums are not rare if supply > demand.
Soon as one person wants it and no-one wants to sell, then it's rare.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 09:04 (sixteen years ago) link
The Eye does rule, but no way is it worth that much.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 15:15 (sixteen years ago) link
Hey they used to have it listed at $299, it's a bargain now!
I'd imagine you would have to "Pay No More Than £30" for any Crass Records release. I think the most I've paid was £15 for Bullshit Detector #3.
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 9 April 2008 15:19 (sixteen years ago) link
The seller is listing it as "New Age" ?
― augustgarage, Friday, 11 April 2008 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
Is this shill bidding? I gave up 'cause it looked suspicious, no bidders that aren't doing this new private bullshit:
Bidder Bid Amount Bid Time 0***r( 394Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $62.87 Apr-24-08 14:01:06 PDT sleeve70( 291Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $62.00 Apr-24-08 15:00:04 PDT n***n( 1248Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) US $51.66 Apr-24-08 11:30:04 PDT .***m( 57Feedback score is 50 to 99) US $47.00 Apr-24-08 13:51:33 PDT .***m( 57Feedback score is 50 to 99) US $42.00 Apr-24-08 10:41:13 PDT sleeve70( 291Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $41.00 Apr-18-08 16:46:01 PDT .***m( 57Feedback score is 50 to 99) US $36.00 Apr-24-08 10:38:51 PDT 7***7( 184Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $25.88 Apr-24-08 04:59:41 PDT 7***7( 184Feedback score is 100 to 499) US $24.22 Apr-24-08 04:59:35 PDT s***a( 935Feedback score is 500 to 999) US $17.98 Apr-21-08 12:51:26 PDT .***m( 57Feedback score is 50 to 99) US $15.00 Apr-18-08 11:13:55 PDT w***a( 1415Feedback score is 1000 to 4,999) US $10.00 Apr-17-08 22:14:46 PDT
― sleeve, Thursday, 24 April 2008 22:03 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't get it? i mean, you were the runner up loser, so it was your price that jacked the final, not the potential shill. but maybe the other guy had a psychological effect on the other bidders? i see you bid twice, don't do this!
― sanskrit, Friday, 25 April 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
I guess my thought was, with these private accounts, how can you tell they aren't the same person or a group acting in concert to drive up prices?
Why is double bidding bad? I'm really more of a seller than a buyer, with less experience in that regard.
This should probably have gone on vahid's eBay 2nd Chance thread, but oh well.
― sleeve, Friday, 25 April 2008 15:04 (fifteen years ago) link
Nothing wrong with double bidding.
The other supposed shill upthread, well he/she bought one off me so I can vouch for him/her.
― Mark G, Friday, 25 April 2008 15:10 (fifteen years ago) link
what do you mean by "private accounts"? You know that eBay recently changed the policy so that *any* bidder other than yourself will display with the asterisks in there (which, yeah, I think is way lame)...
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 25 April 2008 15:34 (fifteen years ago) link
actually, '70s nostalg' was the winner, who bought from me.
Anyway, if the other bidders have reasonable levels of feedback (ten plus), they probably are genuine bidders. Lots of 'zero' ones and the cops (or ebay themselves) will be alerted, probably by the winner.
― Mark G, Friday, 25 April 2008 15:39 (fifteen years ago) link
-- Mark G, Friday, April 25, 2008 11:10 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Link
of course there's nothing wrong with it if you're a seller!
double bidding is bad because it's logically inconsistent and irrational. think about it, you should bid the maximum you were are willing to pay and then stick to that. you will end up paying out far less than that or exactly that if you win.
if you bid $40 and then get outbid, why up it to $50? now that someone else wants it, you suddenly want it more?
and what is up with these fools who microbid 8 times in a row. you can see it in the history - $20, $25, $30, $35, etc. this tells me they have no idea what something is worth to them. and what makes them look doubly idiotic is that when they finally are in the lead, they're only up by a few dollars -- and the competition just got pinged with an email telling them they've been outbid.
ebay makes a lot of money on the
― sanskrit, Friday, 25 April 2008 18:32 (fifteen years ago) link
irrationality of bidding wars. why do you think they dropped $$ into all this "shop victoriously" ad agency bullshit?
― sanskrit, Friday, 25 April 2008 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
Quite often, a buyer doesn't know the maximum he's willing to pay. He's moving back and forth in his mind - how much is it worth (objectively), how likely is he to come upon one again, how much can he afford, "I don't really need it"/"oh but I want it," etc..
There's nothing irrational or illogical about that. Purchasing decisions are as emotional as they are rational.
― milo z, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:08 (fifteen years ago) link
and what is up with these fools who microbid 8 times in a row. you can see it in the history - $20, $25, $30, $35, etc. this tells me they have no idea what something is worth to them.
hahaha, yeah .. this is the stupidest shit ever. Whenever I see this I purposefully submit multiple mininmum-increment bids until I've taken out every bid except their highest. I do this even when I'm just browsing, out of boredom, really .. because stupid people need to be punished
― Stormy Davis, Friday, 25 April 2008 19:28 (fifteen years ago) link
oh yeah. i was thinking of someone microbidding for the purpose of (temporarily) beatinf someone out. even better are people WHO DO THIS TO THEMSELVES for no reason. i can just picture them digging change out of their couch over and over again -- oh, i can afford a little more.
― sanskrit, Friday, 25 April 2008 20:09 (fifteen years ago) link
What. The. Fuck. http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220226906670
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 08:25 (fifteen years ago) link
christ on a crutch
i wonder if their other vinyl is worth as much
― electricsound, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 08:27 (fifteen years ago) link
awesome, i have copies on all the stuff he's getting bids on
ching ching
sadly not quite as many of the things he sold for big $$
― electricsound, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 08:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I only have the Ronan Keating 7" which probably isn't worth anywhere near as much. I think Youth Will Understand was only 500 copies, but still, fucking hell. Twee kids are rich these days!
― Colonel Poo, Tuesday, 29 April 2008 08:38 (fifteen years ago) link
3 Moondog 78s + 45
Each 78 was played once to get it on tape, and I've had them in storage since. The 45 rpm disc was pressed on clear red vinyl, and I'm afraid my kids got hold of it, and it has scuffs and scratches, so it's offered as a free bonus disc. On it Moondog plays with someone named SUZUKO.
― ian, Monday, 12 May 2008 17:17 (fifteen years ago) link
http://stores.ebay.com/Bill-Cosby-Charity-Auction
hipsters beware! $5000 cosby sweaters for sale!
― jaxon, Thursday, 5 June 2008 06:44 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rd=1&item=270265168914&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:IT&ih=017 !!!!!
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 22 August 2008 18:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ELECTRIC-WIZARD-WITCHCULT-TODAY-LP-VERY-LTD-EDITION_W0QQitemZ120295913922QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item120295913922&_trkparms=72%3A12|39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A12|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
― Herman G. Neuname, Friday, 22 August 2008 18:50 (fifteen years ago) link
want a Northern Soul single? Only $5300!
http://cgi.ebay.com/Rare-Northern-Soul-Killer-The-Primers-Hale-101-Hear-It_W0QQitemZ310088162728QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item310088162728&_trkparms=72%3A1207%7C39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C240%3A1308&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
― sleeve, Wednesday, 8 October 2008 23:54 (fifteen years ago) link
that's chicken feed:
http://cgi.ebay.com/SCARCE-Northern-Soul-45-Junior-McCants-KING-RARE-PROMO_W0QQitemZ180295199832QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item180295199832&_trkparms=39%3A1|66%3A2|65%3A3|240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
― scott seward, Thursday, 9 October 2008 00:12 (fifteen years ago) link
sweet deals though - only 3 bucks postage
― fantasimundo, Thursday, 9 October 2008 14:52 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/BRUCKNER-SYMPHONY-7-OSKAR-FRIED-1924-POLYDORS-7-78RPM_W0QQitemZ120313056707QQcmdZViewItem?hash=item120313056707&_trkparms=39%3A1%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A16%7C240%3A1318&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14
― ian, Sunday, 12 October 2008 02:55 (fifteen years ago) link
god imagine if one of them broke in shipping? heartbreak/tears/bloodshed.
― ian, Sunday, 12 October 2008 02:56 (fifteen years ago) link
not technically vinyl obv.
― ian, Sunday, 12 October 2008 02:58 (fifteen years ago) link
that polydor label looks awesome
― Lingbert, Sunday, 12 October 2008 03:57 (fifteen years ago) link
L-Bert, have you seen this website: http://www.tedstaunton.com/site.map/site.map.htm ?
Amazing stuff.
― ian, Sunday, 12 October 2008 04:14 (fifteen years ago) link
whoa hadn't seen that!
― Lingbert, Sunday, 12 October 2008 04:34 (fifteen years ago) link
the site is loading v slowly for me at the moment, but there's hours of entertainment.
― ian, Sunday, 12 October 2008 04:36 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.tedstaunton.com/labels/1930-1939.pages/Nippon.Polydor.1/image/nippon.polydor1.gif
― Lingbert, Sunday, 12 October 2008 04:45 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=120321027957WTF I just bought this on Ebay for £9 inc shipping. Mine has a the stuck on picture on green paper instead of red, is it just down to that being different? Other than that it's the same!
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 27 October 2008 10:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Is it good? I figure I'd like these lot but actually getting their stuff seems like a faff
― The Slash My Father Wrote (DJ Mencap), Monday, 27 October 2008 11:16 (fifteen years ago) link
I like this EP a lot, but I wouldn't pay 45 quid for it!
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 27 October 2008 11:20 (fifteen years ago) link
You can get most of their stuff on mp3 from their blog: http://blankdogs.blogspot.com
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 27 October 2008 11:22 (fifteen years ago) link
And by looking at that I've just answered my question - the copy I have with the green cover is a 2nd pressing.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Monday, 27 October 2008 11:24 (fifteen years ago) link
some Fucked Up pricinghttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FUCKED-UP-Humos-peligrosos-7-w-rare-insert-LMTD-20_W0QQitemZ110300031153QQhttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FUCKED-UP-Hoxton-c-nts-7-RAREST-sex-vid-reatard-tyvek_W0QQitemZ110300030454QQhttp://cgi.ebay.co.uk/FUCKED-UP-Fums-perillosos-7-RAREST-career-suicide-punk_W0QQitemZ110300029587QQ
― zappi, Monday, 27 October 2008 11:30 (fifteen years ago) link
lol blank dogs.i have a copy of the first blank dogs EP with a white cover, approximately 15 made. i should sell it. i might trade it to my friend, who screened the covers, for some old-timey LPs.
― ian, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:20 (fifteen years ago) link
i am still agog at the $600+ price-tag for F.J. McMahon's "Spirit Of The Golden Juice."
It IS a great record, but there's still nearly a week left.. god knows what it's going to end at.
― ian, Monday, 27 October 2008 15:45 (fifteen years ago) link
jesus. thank god for boots.
― news is dicks. (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 27 October 2008 17:06 (fifteen years ago) link
The F.J. McMahon just ended...
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320313074105&ssPageName=ADME:B:WNA:US:1123
Wowee.
― ian, Monday, 3 November 2008 01:29 (fifteen years ago) link
hahaha, i have this album that the same guy is selling. never seen one sell. maybe it will go for a zillllllllllion dollarz:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=320315051748&ssPageName=MERC_VIC_RCRX_Pr4_PcY_BID_IT&refitem=320313074105&itemcount=4&refwidgetloc=closed_view_item&usedrule1=CrossSell_LogicX&refwidgettype=cross_promot_widget&_trksid=p284.m183&_trkparms=algo%3DCRX%26its%3DS%252BI%26itu%3DUCI%252BSI%26otn%3D4
― scott seward, Monday, 3 November 2008 03:52 (fifteen years ago) link
he's selling those Phil Yost LPs right now too... god i want those. Takoma fetish.
― ian, Monday, 3 November 2008 04:47 (fifteen years ago) link
yikes, some sorta record for this record:
http://cgi.ebay.com/PSYCH-ROCK-LEAFHOUND-UK-Monster-Original-LQQK_W0QQitemZ230304809101QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item230304809101&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A3|39%3A1|240%3A1318
― scott seward, Saturday, 8 November 2008 00:47 (fifteen years ago) link
so nice of these dudes to toss in free shipping on their 4-digit albums.
― sleeve, Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:02 (fifteen years ago) link
i don't imagine there's too many more major label albums to fetch that sort of cash. has it never been properly reissued?
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Leaf Hound has been reissued on both CD and LP! And was widely available for a long time as such.
― ian, Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:16 (fifteen years ago) link
i've always wanted to hear the novells album that that same dude is selling so i just downloaded it illegally! yeah! i mostly wanted to hear it for the boyce & hart connection. not bad. not something i would want to spend 75+ bucks on though.
http://popsike.com/pix/20060527/4887433898.jpg
― scott seward, Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:18 (fifteen years ago) link
leaf hound record has always been pricey, don't get me wrong. but this is the highest i've ever seen it by far.
― scott seward, Saturday, 8 November 2008 01:19 (fifteen years ago) link
Buy it now!http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280264574682
― staggerlee, Sunday, 16 November 2008 17:44 (fifteen years ago) link
audiophiles. sheesh.
― ian, Sunday, 16 November 2008 18:03 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOONSTONE-1973-PSYCH-FOLK-LP-FEMALE-VOCALS-CANADA-KOTAI_W0QQitemZ220307291206QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item220307291206&_trksid=p3911.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A570%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318
^ i think you can get a reissue new for about $16.
― ian, Sunday, 16 November 2008 18:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Collectors don't want reissues.
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Sunday, 16 November 2008 18:16 (fifteen years ago) link
collectors are pathological tho.
― ian, Sunday, 16 November 2008 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
that oat bros. album that guy was selling (i posted the link above) went for 90 bucks, which is good to know. i could live without my copy. now he's selling that spruce album i sold a while back on ebay. i didn't get a ton for mine. i'll have to see what he gets for his copy.
― scott seward, Sunday, 16 November 2008 19:56 (fifteen years ago) link
This is a bootleg you idiots!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=160298729414
I'm actually watching this cos I could go and pick up a bootleg of this for £12 (which I thought was too much, previously) from a record store down the road...
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 21 November 2008 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
My bootleg of that cost a fiver I think. Imagine how much that guy could get if he spelled the name of the record label properly
― The tit man from the hilarious 'Loudon Wainwright III' song (DJ Mencap), Friday, 21 November 2008 10:10 (fifteen years ago) link
I dunno, £26 for a "fanclub' issue seems not bad for the people who can't get one down the road.
― Mark G, Friday, 21 November 2008 14:44 (fifteen years ago) link
Some reason why they can't just Buy It Now for £9.99?
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Friday, 21 November 2008 14:47 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330289640769
Um, I'm sure this includes a shit ton of good stuff but the price still seems hell of optimistic, 90s clip show relic man
― The tit man from the hilarious 'Loudon Wainwright III' song (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:05 (fifteen years ago) link
Naughty, naughty. Very naughty.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:09 (fifteen years ago) link
I reckon at that price, he's not gonna move that mountain.
― NickB, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Selling them individually would take forever, people!
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:13 (fifteen years ago) link
MVE would probably give him £30 for the lot.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:18 (fifteen years ago) link
Yeah, but he'd make more money. This guy is an Ebay-geezer noob.
x-post
― NickB, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:19 (fifteen years ago) link
He wants 75 grand yet can't be arsed to take a picture. No chance.
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:23 (fifteen years ago) link
or even mention what records there are.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:31 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.mrpayne.com/archive/photo_misc_Morris_Minor_and_the_Majors.jpg
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
8000 unsold copies of UV.
― NickB, Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:35 (fifteen years ago) link
http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/gallery/bo/bombaibtwypdb6728563437329590.jpg
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://bp1.blogger.com/_ucoF1Y4E914/R-qZmmc_o9I/AAAAAAAAATA/0Zynjvc5Fa0/s200/be.jpg http://bp3.blogger.com/_ucoF1Y4E914/R-ktjWc_o7I/AAAAAAAAASQ/R3dM5hgT7FM/s200/ezpeswae.jpg
― thereminimum chips (electricsound), Thursday, 27 November 2008 10:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Glaswegian Prog anyone?http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/CAPTAIN-MARRYAT-SUPER-RARE-UK-ORIGINAL-PROG-PSYCH-LP_W0QQitemZ150309863354QQ
― zappi, Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:22 (fifteen years ago) link
"I WAS BLOWN AWAY BY THE TOP QUALITY PROGRESSIVE ROCK SOUNDS CONTAINED WITHIN"
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:26 (fifteen years ago) link
Looks like a reproduction antique. I was in Glasgow in 1974 and I remember nothing of this lot.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:28 (fifteen years ago) link
nah its the real thing, my brother knows the seller apparently.heard this one Marcello? http://www.popsike.com/php/detaildata.php?itemnr=350044280224
― zappi, Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:32 (fifteen years ago) link
Nope, "Captain Marryat" seems to me like a "Roadblock" situation.
Don't recall the second one but they were never on Thingummyjig so I'm sceptical. "The Big Red Bus" indeed.
― Brother Belcher (Marcello Carlin), Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:49 (fifteen years ago) link
How easy could it be?
Make a prog album, get it pressed in Poland or somewhere, put one copy on e-bay, get three different people to bid it up to £20,000, wait until it gets onto Popsike as a matter of permanent record, then post another one on ebay.
― Mark G, Thursday, 27 November 2008 16:57 (fifteen years ago) link
^Wanna go in on a business partnership? Sounds like a plan to me.
ULTRA RARE PRIVATE PRESS 1978 SAN JUAN ISLANDS FREAK FOLK LP!
(freak folk is easier to fake than prog -- with prog you have to be able to at least pretend to play. mg + ee or whatever they're called seem to be able to get by fine with no discernible musical ability whatsoever.)
― staggerlee, Friday, 28 November 2008 02:42 (fifteen years ago) link
Well, I'm the mg, you can be the ee...
― Mark G, Friday, 28 November 2008 08:39 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/Arthur-Verocai-S-T-ORIGINAL-on-Continental-BRAZIL-FUNK_W0QQitemZ110324324768QQcategoryZ306QQcmdZViewItem?item=110324324768
Arthur Verocai s/t. at $730 w/2 days left. wonder how high it'll go
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 06:09 (fifteen years ago) link
yikes. or this latin funk album at 2700 w/4days left
http://cgi.ebay.com/RICARDO-MARRERO-A-Taste-SUPER-RARE-LATIN-FUNK-TSG-LP_W0QQitemZ330294505028QQcategoryZ58677QQcmdZViewItem?item=330294505028
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Wednesday, 17 December 2008 06:11 (fifteen years ago) link
oh, awesome, free shipping!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ATAHUALPA-YUPANQUI-HISTORIANDO-1941-1969-BOX-JAPAN-5-LP_W0QQitemZ250334692044QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item250334692044&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72:1205|66:2|65:12|39:1|240:1318|301:0|293:1|294:50
i came across this while checking out potential christmas gifts, and thought it looked promising until i saw it was out of my range.
― schlump, Wednesday, 17 December 2008 06:52 (fifteen years ago) link
OWN TISSUE FROM SCARLETT JOHANSSON & SAM JACKSONhttp://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220331665273
US $2,205.00 End time: Dec-22-08 21:35:00 PST (4 days 2 hours)Shipping: FREE shippingHistory: 67 bids
― (jaxon) ( .) ( .) (jaxon), Friday, 19 December 2008 03:08 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/job-lot-12-singles-albums-some-rare-all-sorts-drum-b_W0QQitemZ290282067221QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_WSJL_Wholesale_GL?hash=item290282067221&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=66%3A2|65%3A1|39%3A1|240%3A1318
uh.jpg
― please_stanton_dont_burt_em (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2008 12:07 (fifteen years ago) link
Shit's fucked up.
― Neil S, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:12 (fifteen years ago) link
Bidder 1Feedback score is 500 to 999 GBP 2,150.00 Dec-17-08 04:38:32 PST Bidder 5 GBP 2,100.00 Dec-17-08 03:53:46 PST Bidder 1Feedback score is 500 to 999 GBP 2,010.00 Dec-17-08 02:42:50 PST Bidder 5 GBP 2,000.00 Dec-17-08 03:53:11 PST Bidder 1Feedback score is 500 to 999 GBP 1,800.00 Dec-16-08 13:49:25 PST Bidder 2Feedback score is 50 to 99 GBP 1,800.00 Dec-16-08 15:25:30 PST Bidder 4Feedback score is 500 to 999 GBP 1,600.00 Dec-16-08 13:39:49 PST Bidder 1Feedback score is 500 to 999 GBP 1,550.00 Dec-15-08 05:20:47 PST Bidder 2Feedback score is 50 to 99 GBP 1,500.00 Dec-16-08 03:36:45 PST Bidder 3Feedback score is 100 to 499 GBP 1,440.00 Dec-15-08 07:21:25 PST Bidder 2Feedback score is 50 to 99 GBP 1,400.00 Dec-15-08 05:03:45 PST Bidder 1Feedback score is 500 to 999 GBP 1,400.00 Dec-15-08 05:20:14 PST Bidder 1Feedback score is 500 to 999 GBP 1,200.00 Dec-15-08 02:57:38 PST Starting Price GBP 99.99 Dec-14-08 12:21:09 PST
― one of the most disgusting savages in all the world imo (cozwn), Friday, 19 December 2008 12:18 (fifteen years ago) link
bidder 1 is a mongo
my husband just
Disappeared with out a trace we are still
trying to find him but it is not looking good and
I have to think of my children and christmas for
them so that is why these are for sale.
I am hoping for the return of my husband.
― please_stanton_dont_burt_em (DJ Mencap), Friday, 19 December 2008 12:38 (fifteen years ago) link
He's going to be angry when he finds his records are gone.
― Neil S, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:46 (fifteen years ago) link
"Your records missed you! They went out looking for you! We haven't seen them since!"
― Mark G, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:49 (fifteen years ago) link
What was she doing with that dipshit anyhow? A real man doesn't walk out and leave his Rebel MC records behind.
― NickB, Friday, 19 December 2008 12:51 (fifteen years ago) link
seller never send bank details; after 6 weeks: "article is no longer available"
96.9% feedback? No wonder her husband walked out eh
― Matt #2, Friday, 19 December 2008 13:22 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.de/JOSEPH-BEUYS-ORIGINAL-LP-JA-JA-NE-NE-La-Monte-Young_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQitemZ160307837202QQsspagenameZRSSQ3aBQ3aSRCHQ3aDEQ3a101QQsalenotsupported
six hours, that was fast.
― ✄ ▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸▸ (☪), Saturday, 3 January 2009 14:24 (fifteen years ago) link
That jungle collection above went for £630 it would seem... holy shit I really hope dude *isn't* coming back
― da cryypiä (DJ Mencap), Saturday, 3 January 2009 14:30 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=190276990307
I didn't even know The Well Tuned Piano was released on LP!
― sleeve, Saturday, 10 January 2009 20:13 (fifteen years ago) link
first swans ep, a bargain at $184
http://cgi.ebay.com/SWANS-Self-Titled-on-Labor-Records-N-Y-1982-Insert_W0QQitemZ190280262999QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl
― Edward III, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:43 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=220303406064
I mean, really?
― cozwn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:49 (fifteen years ago) link
cozen I make do with the cd of it
― Pfunkboy Formerly Known As... (Herman G. Neuname), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:52 (fifteen years ago) link
I have that lp
tht store's stuff is all crazily priced:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=350145944083
^^^I have one of these too
― cozwn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 17:55 (fifteen years ago) link
how about a pair of used shoes for $7000 from the same guy!
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/JOHN-LOBB-CUSTOM-MADE-OSTRICH-LEATHER-LOAFER-DRESS-SHOE_W0QQitemZ220264856016QQihZ012QQcategoryZ63850QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
― Jack Battery-Pack, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:15 (fifteen years ago) link
shugarecords is a srs goldmine of ebay price insanity
― cozwn, Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:18 (fifteen years ago) link
I have this, and the production is MUCH, MUCH better than the CD reissue.
― Dr More BS (libcrypt), Wednesday, 21 January 2009 18:53 (fifteen years ago) link
The CD reissue sounds like it's being played down a well.
how do you find out how much an LP is worth?
― set phasers to stan (cozwn), Thursday, 22 January 2009 09:15 (fifteen years ago) link
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51GGWXP58ML._SL500_AA240_.jpg ?
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Thursday, 22 January 2009 09:26 (fifteen years ago) link
head on over to waxidermy for more shugarecords related bemusement
― Cooking From A Stovetop (electricsound), Thursday, 22 January 2009 09:27 (fifteen years ago) link
nickb, is there an online version/equivalent?
― set phasers to stan (cozwn), Thursday, 22 January 2009 09:35 (fifteen years ago) link
I don't know I'm afraid. That book always seems to be the one lurking on the shelf of used record stores though.
― Yehudi Menudo (NickB), Thursday, 22 January 2009 09:45 (fifteen years ago) link
yes there is:
This site shows what vinyl (not CDs) went for on ebay, historically.
http://www.popsike.com/index.html
― Mark G, Thursday, 22 January 2009 10:03 (fifteen years ago) link
Popsike's the best one out there, I think, but this one also comes in handy sometimes:http://www.musicpriceguide.com/index.php
― Le Bateau Ivre, Thursday, 22 January 2009 11:58 (fifteen years ago) link
This one is of limited scope but of some use http://homepage.ntlworld.com/kennethdrury/price-guide.htm
― Billy Dods, Thursday, 22 January 2009 12:08 (fifteen years ago) link
Buy it NOW! http://cgi.ebay.ca/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370150950681
― staggerlee, Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:38 (fifteen years ago) link
a very nice original copy of the New Creation lp went for over $1200 the other day
― Cooking From A Stovetop (electricsound), Tuesday, 27 January 2009 23:47 (fifteen years ago) link
Pavement, Terror Twilight, 12 inch vinyl TEST PRESS Domino - 4999
― BIGrack HOOSein Obama (k3vin k.), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:01 (fifteen years ago) link
that guy is a douche
if i could get 20K for my signed elliott smith setlist i'd be on easy street
― Cooking From A Stovetop (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 00:09 (fifteen years ago) link
dude, list it
tht terror twilight listing is crazy
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 07:54 (fifteen years ago) link
holy shit. 25 grand?
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 07:56 (fifteen years ago) link
I'm going to list all my recs as £25,000 or best offer
― cozwn, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 07:57 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh shit, I had this and sold it with a bunch of other crap (i.e. Blood Circus, Swallow, Coffin Break etc 7"s) for not much at all. Go me.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 09:04 (fifteen years ago) link
that's a $15 record if it's lucky
― Cooking From A Stovetop (electricsound), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 09:09 (fifteen years ago) link
Oh good, I won't beat myself up about that one then. Helluva crappy record too iirc.
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Wednesday, 28 January 2009 09:30 (fifteen years ago) link
Hmm, Popside has it £26 at it's lowest, £100 at it's highest. Most around the £40-£50 mark.
If you see it for $15, get it!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:10 (fifteen years ago) link
Popsike, not popside, oops.
poops
― k3vin k., Wednesday, 28 January 2009 21:11 (fifteen years ago) link
Funny, I thought all Swans sounded like this...
― ilxor, Thursday, 29 January 2009 04:28 (fifteen years ago) link
WRONG
but I really came here to post this sublimely ridiculous $30,000 Michael Hurley LP...
http://cgi.ebay.com/MICHAEL-HURLEY-PARSNIP-SNIPS-RARE-VINY-LP-NEW_W0QQitemZ120370731779QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Records?hash=item120370731779&_trksid=p3286.m63.l1177
― sleeve, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:02 (fifteen years ago) link
LOL probably a decimal point issue -- it went for $261 the other day, and theres a $425 buy-it-now now
― 69, Thursday, 29 January 2009 17:12 (fifteen years ago) link
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the first swans EP is a sad story indeed. it's one of the best things they've ever done, but the mostly widely heard version of it is on the filth CD reissue which, as you point out, is a crap remix. I wouldn't say it sounds like it's being played down a well, but rather it lacks punch, it just sounds flat. it's a rather uppity record for swans, it "rocks" in the way some of the faster stuff on filth does but without the grimy production. the labor EP actually has a sheen to it, something I wouldn't characterize other swans recordings as having (until children of god).
I know at one time gira was selling the master tapes for $300 on swans.pair.com - this was probably around 1999 or 2000. it'll probably never get an accurate rerelease unless they go the mark e smith route and master a recording from the vinyl. which I seriously doubt will happen, given gira's obsessive quality control. then again, I never thought rob zombie would let soulcrusher out of the vaults but now there's this http://www.amazon.com/Let-Sleeping-Corpses-White-Zombie/dp/samples/B001H5HWTE/
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:02 (fifteen years ago) link
The Filth remaster isn't very good either.
― Badder Meinhof Syndrome (libcrypt), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:39 (fifteen years ago) link
Has Circus Mort been released on CD yet?
― Badder Meinhof Syndrome (libcrypt), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:40 (fifteen years ago) link
I found a blog that said Gira has no interest in issuing it on CD. I think I heard it at some point and, like the first Swans EP, it surprisingly didn't do anything for me.
― Glow In The Dark (Bimble), Thursday, 29 January 2009 18:54 (fifteen years ago) link
that circus mort EP is terrible. it should in no way be compared to the first swans EP (except in that bimble likes neither of them). have you ever heard the original mix, bimble?
― Edward III, Thursday, 29 January 2009 21:29 (fifteen years ago) link
I sold some crazy priced vinyl on ebay! :D
― cozwn, Friday, 30 January 2009 01:24 (fifteen years ago) link
Errr, like whut?
― Frank Sumatra (NickB), Friday, 30 January 2009 08:57 (fifteen years ago) link
tindersticks' curtains. £70.
― cozwn, Friday, 30 January 2009 12:29 (fifteen years ago) link
how much is this really worth?
― cozwn, Monday, 2 February 2009 12:40 (fifteen years ago) link
discogs truth bomb:
0 members have this0 members want this
― cozwn, Monday, 2 February 2009 12:41 (fifteen years ago) link
their release as polarbear may be worth something but it's no tigermilk
― what is your beef with the mac? (electricsound), Monday, 2 February 2009 12:45 (fifteen years ago) link
Popsike is a revelation, thank you. I need to get that Dib Cochran promo 7" auctioned - that's serious money.
― mike t-diva, Monday, 2 February 2009 13:36 (fifteen years ago) link
It is!
― Mark G, Monday, 2 February 2009 13:38 (fifteen years ago) link
damn, wish my drunken housemate hadn't scratched my copy of this Josephine Foster LP up
and Boards of Canada stuff still sells????
― zappi, Thursday, 19 February 2009 02:21 (fifteen years ago) link
This isn't on ebay but it still is crazy priced vinyl. There's 17 days to go and it is already at 26,000 dollars. Some say it may sell for close to 100,000 dollars and it's a 45 to boot !
http://www.raresoulman.co.uk/auction/all-auction'
Story about the history of the 45
http://www.goldminemag.com/article/Rare_Frank_Wilson_45_could_fetch_100000/
― oscar, Friday, 3 April 2009 22:38 (fifteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/MOVING-SIDEWALKS-FLASH-69-ORIG-PSYCH-SEALED-ZZ-TOP_W0QQitemZ290313013984QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item4398010ae0&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=72%3A1205%7C66%3A2%7C65%3A12%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
― The Wild Shirtless Lyrics of Mark Farner (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 7 May 2009 16:26 (fourteen years ago) link
Yeah, it's $2000 tops.
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 May 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
Doesn't even have 99th Floor on it.
― I KNOW WHAT YOU'RE UP TO (Colonel Poo), Thursday, 7 May 2009 16:32 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/DON-PULLEN-MILFORD-GRAVES-Live-At-Yale-1966-US-LP_W0QQitemZ380127515724QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item58815d944c&_trksid=p3286.c0.m14&_trkparms=65%3A13%7C66%3A2%7C39%3A1%7C240%3A1318%7C301%3A1%7C293%3A1%7C294%3A50
― ian, Sunday, 7 June 2009 19:02 (fourteen years ago) link
That's kind of weird that people are out there putting "Don Pullen" into the ebay search engine and then driving an admittedly rare record of his up to almost $1,000 when I always end up finding his records for $1 to $6. $10 once sealed.
What I mean is, dude doesn't command cash, at least consistently $10-$30, for any old record the way some avant/free jazzers do like Sun Ra or Albert Ayler. I mean, the record's private press and seeing that it sold for about $1,000 already, I don't actually think in my head, "There's something not right about that." I just wanted to point up the difference between that and what some of his other records sell for in the wild, that there doesn't seem to be much demand for most of his records from the point of view of picking up his stuff in a few different towns and one city.
― bamcquern, Sunday, 7 June 2009 23:29 (fourteen years ago) link
the ONLY don pullen records that sell for money are the ones that he made with milford. and they always have. first press copies of the yale thing go for 1000+ and even 2000+. no big thing. the same 5 people sell them back and forth to each other every few years out of boredom. like misfits fans.
― scott seward, Monday, 8 June 2009 00:34 (fourteen years ago) link
cripes.. a new high for this one
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&item=160340267213
probably should be more careful with my copy
― comedy cafe at the toxteth hotel (electricsound), Saturday, 13 June 2009 07:30 (fourteen years ago) link
almost every of the so-called "collector prices" refer to mint copies. imo, extensive listening to your records makes them 'worthless' for collectors.
― meisenfek, Saturday, 13 June 2009 17:36 (fourteen years ago) link
a well cared for record will remain in good condition. listening alone isn't generally enough to degrade a record unless it's being played with a faulty, heavy or otherwise inappropriate stylus.
― ian, Saturday, 13 June 2009 17:40 (fourteen years ago) link
yes.but try explain this to a 16yo with limited budget who recently bought 'Black Monk Time'.
― meisenfek, Sunday, 14 June 2009 08:41 (fourteen years ago) link
on CD, presumably.
― Mark G, Monday, 15 June 2009 06:53 (fourteen years ago) link
no. recently = round 1985. and it was the polydor re-issue on vinyl.
― meisenfek, Monday, 15 June 2009 22:38 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/UNPLAYED-MICHAEL-JACKSON-Thriller-EPIC-STILL-SEALED-LP_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ65Q3a3Q7c66Q3a2Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a0Q7c293Q3a2Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem19b4a1d3e7QQitemZ110404686823QQptZMusicQ5fonQ5fVinylQQsalenotsupported
― scott seward, Friday, 26 June 2009 16:20 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/michael-jackson-off-the-wall-1979-al-35745_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ65Q3a3Q7c66Q3a2Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a1Q7c293Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem19b49d60ffQQitemZ110404395263QQptZMusicQ5fonQ5fVinylQQsalenotsupported
― scott seward, Friday, 26 June 2009 16:27 (fourteen years ago) link
$545 for a copy of off the wall! i've got a copy in the store for five bucks.
― scott seward, Friday, 26 June 2009 16:28 (fourteen years ago) link
thousand bucks for thriller:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Thriller-LP-Vinyl-Original-EX-1982-EPIC_W0QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trkparmsZ65Q3a3Q7c66Q3a2Q7c39Q3a1Q7c240Q3a1318Q7c301Q3a1Q7c293Q3a1Q7c294Q3a50QQ_trksidZp3286Q2ec0Q2em14QQhashZitem3ef5c580a5QQitemZ270411333797QQptZMusicQ5fonQ5fVinylQQsalenotsupported
― scott seward, Friday, 26 June 2009 16:31 (fourteen years ago) link
good ol eBay chicken
― Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 26 June 2009 17:04 (fourteen years ago) link
a little/lot flabbergasted at the idea of a copy of thriller selling for more than $5. there are literally millions of them! MILLIONS!
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 26 June 2009 17:08 (fourteen years ago) link
that said, the store i work at got like twenty calls yesterday asking what mj stuff we had
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 26 June 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
people are ebay bombing MJ-related auctions, the tickets for his concerts are fetching up to $10k a pop, it's just people's idea of a joke
― master of karate and friendship for everyone (musically), Friday, 26 June 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
There's a big used record store here in Chicago, and when I was there a few weeks ago people kept walking into the store and all like "What's that song that went OH! Sherrie!" and then they would find that LP and they would pay $5-$10 for it. Kept happening over and over. I bet that place could sell MJ LPs for a good price today.
― Eazy, Friday, 26 June 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
xp but oh man what about the negative feedback!?! think about the negative feedback!
― pretzel walrus, Friday, 26 June 2009 17:17 (fourteen years ago) link
unpaid item strike
― Plunge Protection Team, Friday, 26 June 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
It's a shame we don't treat our health insurnace payments like we do our ebay bids.
― mottdeterre, Friday, 26 June 2009 17:47 (fourteen years ago) link
ok i know it's not vinyl but the thought's what counts
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=260513599252&ssPageName=ADME:B:SS:GB:1123
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Friday, 27 November 2009 23:07 (fourteen years ago) link
sorry: "it's the thought that counts"
― do you want to be happier? (whatever), Friday, 27 November 2009 23:08 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250585010361&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_2396wt_909
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:10 (fourteen years ago) link
how do we know that's a crazy price? maybe its a steal!
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:38 (fourteen years ago) link
how's this then? five banged-up jackson 5 LPs for $1,000:
http://cgi.ebay.com/JACKSON-5-ALBUMS_W0QQitemZ260558579843QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item3caa806883#ht_500wt_939
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:47 (fourteen years ago) link
Ebay noobs with twitchy fingers on the 0 key, I love 'em
― Ork Alarm (Matt #2), Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:49 (fourteen years ago) link
or a copy of MJ's "bad"?:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Bad-Vinyl-Album_W0QQitemZ160408159717QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item25591245e5#ht_500wt_939
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:51 (fourteen years ago) link
elvis LP for $400--not even a rare one?:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Elvis-Presley-From-Memphis-To-Vegas-Mint-Sealed-Album_W0QQitemZ310203319347QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item48398f0433#ht_2355wt_930
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
more dumbasses trying to pawn off michael jackson LPs for big money, in this case $400:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Thriller-Album-Vinyl-LP-Unopened-MINT_W0QQitemZ350319971555QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item5190b28ce3#ht_500wt_939
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
that's called wishful thinking. nobody's gonna bid on them. that fateful night they would have, but not now.
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:54 (fourteen years ago) link
i mean, you can TRY to sell something for whatever you want. dude with a copy of thriller signed by vincent price was trying to get 2 million for it.
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:55 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/MICHAEL-JACKSON-THRILLER-VINYL-1982_W0QQitemZ190375239192QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item2c533f9e18#ht_500wt_939
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Bad-sealed-record_W0QQitemZ180472719743QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item2a0503297f#ht_500wt_939
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Thriller-1982-Epic-Record_W0QQitemZ180474174760QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item2a05195d28#ht_500wt_939
they do realize these albums sold like 15 million copies or whatever, right?
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
the crazy prices that people actually PAY, that's another story.
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:56 (fourteen years ago) link
you can still make good money with MJ picture discs and sealed records.
― scott seward, Sunday, 28 February 2010 00:59 (fourteen years ago) link
debating with myself if i should sell my copy of this. i mean, i do like it, but...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=250579176970
― zappi, Sunday, 28 February 2010 01:28 (fourteen years ago) link
hard to know. maybe they'll get even bigger? or maybe they are at the peak of their exposure right now?
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 02:10 (fourteen years ago) link
wait--is the vinyl of their 1st album out of print in general? or just the white-vinyl version?
― by another name (amateurist), Sunday, 28 February 2010 02:13 (fourteen years ago) link
i'd sell that shit; i doubt that record will be nearly as collectible in 5 years, nevermind 10.
― Joint Custody (ian), Sunday, 28 February 2010 05:41 (fourteen years ago) link
(the beach house record)
it's been going for around $100 for a while now; I remember discovering when I finally got around to registering w/ Discogs and adding my collection 6 months or so that it was the first record I had that was worth three figures.
personally I'm never going to sell my copy because that album is amazing.
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 28 February 2010 21:37 (fourteen years ago) link
otoh I am thinking I should probably strike while the iron's hot with Mumford & Sons' debut 10"
― /no cobo (jamescobo), Sunday, 28 February 2010 21:38 (fourteen years ago) link
He's a real nowhere man,Sitting in his nowhere land,Making all his nowhere plans, for nobody.Doesn't have a point of view,Knows not where he's going to,Isn't he a bit like you and me?Nowhere man, please listen,You don't know what you're missing,Nowhere man, the world is at your command.
He's as blind as he can be,Just sees what he wants to see,Nowhere man can you see me at all?Nowhere man, don't worry,Take your time, don't hurry,Leave it all till somebody else lends you a hand.
Doesn't have a point of view,Knows not where he's going to,Isn't he a bit like you and me?
Nowhere man, please listen,You don't know what you're missing,Nowhere man, the world is at your command.
He's a real Nowhere man,Sitting in his nowhere land,Making all his nowhere plans, for nobody.Making all his nowhere plans, for nobody.Making all his nowhere plans, for nobody.
THE BEATLES: "Rubber Soul" LP. ORIGINAL UK PRESSING IN MONO, 3rd DECEMBER 1965.
PARLOPHONE: PMC 1267
MAITRIX; XEX 579 - 4 / XEX 580 - 4
EMI STAMPING CODES: GM 3* / GAP 3 *'4' was stamped and crossed out, '3' was either re-stamped underneath or perhaps both were stamped at the same timeand the mistaken '4' crossed out. I often find uncorrected mistaken digits on Beatles singles, EP's and LP's, my picturesshow both side's 9 O'clock digits. Including the maitrixes, all the information in the run-out grooves show this record wasdefinitely part of the original pressings made before the 3rd December 1965, release date. Anyone who seriously believesone pressing batch was enough for the average selling LP titles, let alone a new mid-1960's mono Beatles album, is living ina fantasy world.
THE TEXTURED LABELS HAVE:PRINTING IS IN THE 'Times New Roman' FONT USED FOR EMI /PARLOPHONE'S 1965 - 1966 LP's ."Sold In UK"'Gramophone Co.Ltd.' ON THE RIMS.'KT' IS EMBOSSED ON SIDE 2's LABEL.
ORIGINAL 1965 'Use Emitex' INNER SLEEVE, UNSPLIT, UNWORN AND BARELY USED, WITH ONLY MINOR AGEINGAND A GENTLE RECORD IMPRESSION, IN NEAR MINT CONDITION.
EXTREMELY RARE FIRST ISSUE 'E J Day' PRINTED MONO COVER, A LAMINATED FRONT WITH FLIPBACK EDGES.PPRINTED ON THE BOTTOM RIGHT EDGE NEXT TO 'E J Day' CREDIT IS:"Patents Pending" AND '12 LL' ('12' = December, I Have Never Understood How 'LL' Designated The Year - 1965.)THE VAST MAJORITY OF 1965 FIRST ISSUE/ORIGINAL "Rubber Soul" MONO & STEREO COVERS WERE MADE BY'Garrod & Lofthouse', WHO TOOK OVER THE 'E J Day' COMPANY IN THE SUMMER OF 1965.This is not the usual ebay seller fairy stories, I always wondered why the "Help!" cover never had any covers made by'E J Day' and while trading at record fairs in the early 1990's I met a former Garrod employee and he answered that and many other questions I had about 60's Beatles covers. With the take-over in the summer of 1965, all trading for'E J Day' was suspended and so "Help!" covers were exclusively printed by Garrod, once in control now 'E J Day' onlymade small single pressing batch for the upcoming "Rubber Soul." Out of intesrest, that same policy was true for the 1966 "Revolver" & "A Collection Of Oldies." 'E J Day' were set to work almost exclusively for Polydor related labels,and that was far reaching enough to leave Garrod to make virtually all the Beatles covers from "Rubber Soul."Ebay has created a bizarre situation where any angle to sell a worn out Beatles record possible is sought after, those who announce a 'mis-pressing/mis-spelling' due to a dot on a label, are really scraping the barrel. Virtually nothingof any significance has been discovered since those early days of Beatles conventions we traded at back in the 1980's.For all the re-treading of old ground and scouring labels and covers for dots or commas, I have held back on divulginga really significant ommision on a first issue Beatles cover due to being fed up with vultures ripping off my descriptions.Thyey have really missed something that would have upset EMI and makes an Apple logo two inches to the left, look asminor and common as that is on "Abbey Road." I decided to reveal all today, when it magically appears on other Beatles'experts' descriptions, you will know exactly who has is guilty of plagiarism.
Almost like a tradition that began in 1963, Beatles covers had Parlophone's circled '£' logo and like all registered logo'sthey had accompanying legal text stating that was a 'Trade Mark.' With psychedelia in music and and art beginning, thecover of "Rubber Soul" reflected both the era and Beatles intake of marijuana in the chose of the artwork. Paul revealedin 'Anthology' how it happened, Bob Freeman showed them pictures he had taken in John's house, to get the prespectivehe projected the slides onto a 12" cardboard square to simulate how they woud look on an album cover. Allowing them toto choose one for "Rubber Soul," one of the slide's slipped back at an angle and elongated the image, the Beatles loved itand shouted excitedly, "Can we have that one just like that?" The stretched images occupied most of the right side andbottom left of the cover, leaving the logical and asthetically pleasing position for the album title's lettering, to fill the topleft corner. "Rubber Soul" now had fourcover 'first's', the first Beatles cover without their name on the front and alsothe first time the boxed 'Parlophone' logo was moved from that top left cover to the bottom right corner. The third 'first'was the circled '£' logo was not printed in yellow, but the same brown colour s the early psychedelic /'pop art' curvylettering of "Rubber Soul." The fourth 'first' fourth was not including 'Parlophone' lettering underneath the '£' logo, theconfined space in the botton right corner, this was the actual beginning of art taking priority over record company policy."Revolver" was next to benefit from this break with convention and from here none of the following Beatles front covershad the EMI /Parlophone/ Apple logo's littering the artwork.
With the '£' logo in brown, it acted to make it inconspicuous and for all the examinations of ridiculous items on Beatlescovers and labels that are no bigger than a pin head. The above was directly tied into a major mistake.... but one only made by the EDay printers, on all the Garrod printed 1965 covers, as well as all the following UK "Rubber Soul" covers including into the 21st century, have this text printed underneath the '£' logo in that bottom right position."Trade Mark Of The Gramophone Co. Ltd."
When covers are unworn, you can see a faint outline around the lettering of a box, the text legally required to accompanythe Parlophone logo was completely left off on the EJDay covers only. I have sold more than my share of them over theyears and I can state the EJDay artwork or proof sheet was prepared with that mistakenly forgotten, you can clearly seehow it was assembled in two parts on the Garrod covers. Only the '£' logo was there and either it was ovelooked in 1965or more likely seen but felt it was uneconomical to destroy the covers because the original full size boxed Parlophone logohad been down sized to being really small. If you check the top left corners of say "Please Please Me" & "Help!" LP covers,just how large the original 1963 logo had grown and was due to appear on "Rubber Soul." I have taken a close up picturewith a Garrod cover's bottom right corner overlapping this cover, I try to explain everything with text because it gives thefuller story behind events like this, but that picture will clearly show how many dots etc. have been missed..... until now!AFTER THAT LOT I HAD BETTER DESCRIBE THE COVER ITSELF IN DETAIL BELOW, AS A SUMMARY, A BARELY USEDAND LOVINGLY STORED, REALLY BEAUTIFUL COVER WITH ONLY A RECORD IMPRESSION AND MINOR STORAGE.RARE OR NOT, I WILL GIVE THE STRICTEST POSSIBLE GRADING, EXCELLENT+++/ NEAR MINT CONDITION.
THE RECORD HAS ONLY BEEN PLAYED 5 /6 TIMES PER SIDE, EXCEPTIONALLY LOW FOR A MONO "Rubber Soul"AND ULTRA CARE WAS TAKEN WITH HADLING AND THE STYLUS. A REALLY BEAUTIFUL, TOTALLY UNMARKED RECORD WITH ABSOLUTELY STUNNING SOUND QUALITY, THE MANY ACOUSTIC TRACKS HAVE OUSTANDINGAUDIO CLARITY. MY GRADING WAVERS BETWEEN NEAR MINT AND MINT-, WHEN IT'S THAT CLOSE, AS USUALI OPTED FOR, NEAR MINT CONDITION.
SIDE 1"Drive My Car""Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)" "You Won't See Me" "Nowhere Man""Think For Yourself""The Word""Michelle"
SIDE 2"What Goes On" "Girl" "I'm Looking Through You""In My Life""Wait""If I Needed Someone""Run For Your Life"
John Lennon - vocals, acoustic & electric rhythm guitars & electric piano on "Think for Yourself"Paul McCartney - vocals, bass, piano & guitarsGeorge Harrison - vocals, lead guitar & sitar on "Norwegian Wood"Ringo Starr - drums & lead vocals on "What Goes On"
Mal Evans – Hammond organ George Martin piano on "In My Life" and harmonium on "The Word"
I am normally waiting to get to discussing the music, but I thoroughly enjoyed all the cover details, not just because revealing afact known thirty years ago among fellow Beatles fans is undocumented in say 'Record Collector', or heard of on ebay. Both aretoo hung up about ficticious 'loud cuts' and '1st, 2nd, third, fourth pressings' etc, when in reality a new Beatles album was morelike the biggest scale of vinyl production and related printed items the world had ever seen. All that aside, I hope to have givenan insight into how the Beatles covers developed and how unique "Rubber Soul" was, I could actually write even more becausethe UK colours were not deemed suitable for America, the Capitol cover was lightened and the brown LP title lettering changedto a golden colour. The EJDay cover is much darker than Garrod's printing, as my close up picture shows, time to discuss music!"Rubber Soul" was a milestone in the development of both the Beatles' musical creativity and for entering into the second half ofof the 1960's , even more so as a catalyst for what was to follow in that decade of wonders. Such fantastic sound textures withdeeply beautiful melodies enhanced by acoustic instruments would become the basis of all psychedelic music, first changes thatbegan such the most major change in direction for popular music ever know, affecting both the UK and the USA. The touch paperhad been lit, Brian Wilson was so strongly influenced in late 1965 /early 1966, he still regularly tells in interviews how he wasinspired by hearing "Rubber Soul," it spurred him on to producing his 1966 masterwork, "Pet Sounds." The Beatles had not madean overnight progression, right from 1962 every Beatles LP, EP and single traces their astoundingly rapid progression from theirearliest influences, r&b/blues & rock & roll. Bob Dylan had encouraged folk music and more meaningful lyrics, ironically in 1965Dylan was getting into more electric r&b music I just outlined, a cultral exchange between England & America was happening on ascale nobody could have predicted, it just evolved with leading artists running on pure inspiration and following their instincts.This was so rapid, only 1963 remained relatively stable, during 1964 and positively by 1965, the Beatles' songwriting centeredaround anacoustic instrumental style, that in itself accounted for why they were now placing the fullest emphasis onto melodiesand beautiful sound textures. Even though two out of their last three albums were dominated by writing film soundtrack music,newly written original songs on all three albums were favouring acoustic instruments backing intricate vocal harmonies, withoutever sacraficing their love of a 'shot of rhythym and blues.'
Guided by George Martin's production skills, unreserved encouragement and sympathetic ears, they were now gradually starting totake command of the Abbey Road recording studio. Without such a gifted ability to create new songs, they could not have made thealbum with such unique material. The recording sessions for "Rubber Soul" began in October 1965, their contracted two albums ayear schedule meant after "Help" this was getting very late in the year to start a new album from scratch without any new materialwritten yet. They had to come up with the entire album's songs without a single one left over from previous sessions, managing tonot only produce fourteen self written tracks and avoided performing any cover versions, they composed two further new songs forthe next scheduled 1965 single, "Day Tripper"/"We Can Work It Out." Not forgetting they had to fit in recording material for theirUK Fan Club annual Christmas record, I have recently fully detailed that for ebay. If you examine the Beatles tour schedule fromOctober and leading up to and including Christmas, add in TV, radio & media work, it was a monumental feat still unacknowledgedtoday. By that I mean the astonishing quality of those sixteen songs, plus it was certainly not a hurried or functionally producedbody of work, the greatest care possible went into the finished album, the Beatles had always been perfectionists about makingrecords, they were also backed up by EMI's sound engineers, who made certain the resulting stunning sound of the master tapeswas perfectly transferred onto vinyl. "Rubber Soul" is the most unique Beatles album, bridging two distinctive era's, from "Help"to "Revolver", now was standing on the very threshold to psychedelia, but not with studio effects just yet, just beautiful melodiesand softer textures that were always leading into new concepts in the mid-60's. Up until then, album were just a loose collectionof usually dis-jointed and unconnecting songs, "Rubber Soul" went beyond that, unintentionally or not, it was an album with songsthat flowed so sweetly into each other,it became the creation a single entity.
This stunningly perfect pressing has that incredible sound achieved, although for the actual order or sequence, not the very firstmade, like every latest Beatles LP and single, (EP's were losing their appeal by now) they were made in astronomical numbersto meet the colossal demand on the issue date and the initial first few weeks of sales leading up to Christmas. It was not by anymeans a coincidence EMI aimed their second album of the year's release. to fall during Novemberto December for very obviouseconomic reasons. Now I enter an era that sadly "Rubber Soul" should never be dragged into, lies and deceit when there shouldonly be a celebration of the beautiful music in both original mono and stereo, in fact, even digital sound has an honesty that hasnot been tainted by greed.
This record was positively pressed prior to the 3rd December 1965 release, normally that detail would suffice, first here are thereasons that conclusively place this in a British record shop on the above date. The labels are printed with all the lettering in thesame 1965 type face as found on the August 1965 "Help" LP, the "Sold In UK" text is in the tiniest lettering size ever used by EMI.I have to once again firmly dismiss the completely mistaken tag placed onto the first pressing with maitrix digits ending '- 1 /-1'.Add in the conclusively very first issue 'Earnest .J. Day' printed mono cover, everything associated with this album is from 1965.That has inncorrectly and outrageously inherited the ridiculous 'loud cut' title, thanks to an unbelelievable term in the UK's mainPrice Guide. (Record Collector). In fact the last copy of "Rubber Soul" I sold on ebay was a superb Mint- one, for that and severalother copies placed on ebay, even for on my own sales I have given my strongest possible disclaimer to that nonsense. I was notprepared to use a descriptive term that is totally untrue about a much loved really major Beatles record in order to attract higherbids. Unfortunately few who sell Beatles records regularly care less about the music, they blindly, well more deafly, pronouncea record has a 'loud cut' without even bothering to find out or personally verify if is true. It's now become accepted in the sameway as the children's fable,"The Emperor's Invisible Clothes." Surely someone who bough a copy found it was no louder than anyother of the 1960's mono originals? As someone once said, 'nothing is real', every Beatles first pressing is very special indeedbut the '-1 / -1' pressing and any one of the other originals have exactly the same precise George Martin mono mix, as intendedto give maximum power to balancing out the vocals and instruments. The volume levels are exactly the same! Not only for everyUK Mono"Rubber Soul", but on for the 1960's stereo records, how convenient nobody claimed that, then the maitrix digits did notneed to have batch rises due to so few being made. Play any Beatles record against a '66 original then you will hear a 'loud cut'! I can only continue being the only record seller who refuses to tell lies, if people choose to believe in myths than fair enough, butif you just want to hear "Rubber Soul" in all it's original 1965 mono glory, the condition of the record is absolutely vital, not the machine stamped digits.
This record does indeed hold that staggering sound, just as loud as they all are, a fantastic '-4 /-4' pressing that brings me fullcircle to where I first came in, the music on "Rubber Soul". As a 12 years kid smitten by hearing the latest Beatles album, thisis a staggering playing example of the true mix /sound of an original UK mono, "Rubber Soul".
Both labels are in pristine unblemished condition with untarnished ultra bright silver printing on the titles & credits, unscuffedlettering for "Parlophone" and their'£' logo, they are an unfaded deep yellow colour. The printing type face or font was uniqueto deep into the second half of 1965 and on into 1966, by the time of "Revolver" EMI reverted to standard printing until right atthe end of the year. In Beatles terms or by album titles, the first pressings only of "A Collection Of Oldies" re-inherited Romanfont printing, to become the last ever Beatles record with that. You will of course read all manner of contradictory claims beingmade on ebay, facts are facts and major details pertaining to covers and more importantly, inner sleeves come into play. Alsoby the August 1966 release of "Revolver", EMI changed the "Use Emitex" tracing paper lined inners for the plain white curvededges types. These labels have "Sold In UK" is in exceptionally tiny lettering," "The Gramophone Co. Ltd." was introduced justa few months ago on the "Help" album, that is obviously on the rims, completing the details of a late 1965 pressing.
Spindle use traces are showing this record has only been played four/seven times, for this 44 year old Beatles original pressingthat is is sensationally low, particularly for a mono record in the mid-60's. Especially low for such a mega heavyweight record,this is a real stunner, the gleaming, deeply glossy mint sheen is unspoilt by any marks on either side. I was pleasantly suprisedto find no playing/ handling traces, I refuse to subject stunning vinyl to floodlit conditions, especially when the entire record has absolutely stunning sound quality. Like so many labels with textured labels, one side has tiny little spoke line paper linesradiating from the centre hole from the pressing process that included punching out the centre hole. That was always done afterthe labels were fixed and often a slightly dome shape on one side and a lower, flatter centre is found from the same process.Often stated as being 'contract records. but every one made will differe even from the one made immediately before and afterthis , another reason why all that nonsense about '1st, 2nd, third, fourth pressings' always was and always will be used to sellpoor condition records and covers. This is a really beautiful looking record that thorougly deserves a Near Mint grading, and even then, with a totally unmarked, as new record with perfect sound, I hesitated over Mint-, because that was also deserved!As a quick summary of the overall sound quality, every track has the most perfect, crystal clear audio definition imaginable andlike all the 1960's UK Beatles singles, EP's and LP's, extremely loud and powerful indeed, enough said on that one! Like on everypressing from 1965 - 1969, the only track that has positively had some minor in-built pressing static/surface sound is "Michelle."It was corrected on "A Collection Of Oldies" but it is still rare to find a stereo or mono first pressing of "Oldies" perfectly clean, Isold a stunning stereo first pressing that was lasyt year,I always tell it exactly how it happened because I do not see the pointof glossing over the plain truth, EMI only very rarely produced tracks with surface sound but they were not infallible or immuneto human error. Any other absolutely minimal, miniscule surface sound is so minor, I do not hesitate saying this records one of the finest first/ original pressings I have been privileged to hear. Acoustic music is always prone to natural static and I neverpretend otherwise, however, the music has it's natural razor sharp edge, with the music signals at their fullest strength. As youmight have noticed just now with my firm refusal to buckle under pressure from other sellers or text books,"Rubber Soul"alwayswas a very special Beatles album to me, with some of my all time favourite songs. They are all acoustic based recordings with theminimal instrumental backing, leaving them completely vulnerable to having excessive needle noise.Those much loved tracks include, "Norwegian Wood", "Girl", "Nowhere Man" and "In My Life" etc. so I am very easily offended byhearing them below the staggering audio standard of sound reproduction EMI pressed them with. That's why over the years I haverejected more great looking, but poor playing original "Rubber Soul" LP's, from being good enough to sell, than any other Beatlesalbum. I can only repeat how a blunt 60's mono needle was very common, undetectable visually, but just one play was enought tocause horrific damage to the precious music signals that blunt subs unmercilly ploughed through, more like chalk on a blackboardto my ears. My same simple way of approaching every record I sell applies here, either"Rubber Soul" blows me away or it is not worthy enough to recommend.
Side 1's run-in grooves are silent and ultra smooth without any crackles or clicks and any low level static is not audible beforethe massive impact of power and audio sharpness of the UK mono mix, is heard on the intro for the opening track "Drive My Car".Paul's superb bass guitar lines are very prominent, the percussion was a major part of this track, sounding amazingly crisp and inthe 'real to life' authenticity analogue sound really delivers. It amuses to think this staggering in-built volume could be in anywaythought to be less than another pressing. I am afraid financial gain by claiming UK Beatles labels, covers and the one I find themost apalling of all, the sound itself, will long continue to be used to entice collectors. I know my records will perform exactlyas it 'says on the tin,' because I am not influenced or swayed by stamped digits, when I find I have bought a record with inferioror substandard sound reproduction, unless a major rarity, which few Beatles LP's are, I am fully prepared to accept it can neverbe re-sold, regardless of the visual appearance. The superb vocals ring out in perfectly defined audio, with the piano played byPaul pushed way up in the mix. This is indeed George Martin's mono mix being heard and enjoyed in all it's glory, this incredible opening track has a very strong r&b rhythm, the "beep beep" backing vocals are stunningly clear, a wonderful pressing like thisis not about volume alone, it places listeners in No.2 Studio, Abbey Road in 1965. In close up detail you can hear every singleindividual part of this song, or you can just let a colossal impact submerge you in the audio magic of The Beatles, I enjoy a bit ofboth! The ending fades into a totally silent gap, no crackles or static,I always include any natural static but there's nothing andI am straining my ears to check because this is one of those deeply tracks starting. Miraculously it means John's single acousticguitar intro to his beautiful "Norwegian Wood", is heard in superbly clean and clear sound. There simply is no actual static or surface/needle sound, George Harrison's sitar is in pristine audio and John Lennon's incredible vocal has a real cutting edge toit, add the powerful mono mix into the equation and this wondeful melody is just staggering to hear! If anyone reading this hasever tried to play a record for sound grading, they will understand the strange paradox of hearing such amazing sounding music,yet trying to ignore magnificent audio, instead straining your ears for the slightest hint....a record is producing such fantasticsound quality. I'm used to but it does seem quite bizzare on "Norwegian Wood" while this is plays with sheer audio perfection!When a record lacks the common noise or irritations and has such astounding sound as this stunning record, I get to thoroughlyenjoy my most loved Beatles songs. A major reason for being so objective and obsessed with finding perfection on original vinyl,the final note of the sitar fades away naturally into near enough silent grooves, before Paul's outstanding "You Won't See Me"begins with an ultra clean intro. I describe exactly what I am hearing and this happens to be an amazing record, another superbtrack in maximum sound quality, the backing harmonised "la-la-la-la" after the lines in the verses are as crystal clear as Paul'sbrilliant lead vocals are. As well as standard guitars, the instruments include a piano and a Hammond organ, on worn out vinyl,they become the victims of deteriorating sound. Not here! They are heard with their original full strength signals, still with thenatural edge undulled from heavy plays. The fade-out is perfectly clear of any needle sound so another smooth as silk gap givesa wonderfully clean intro to the sublime "Nowhere Man", as I said, this is some record! A stunning and deeply beautiful acapellaor vocals only intro, and from the first seconds to the last, this has just awesome sound, mega sharp definition on the vocals forthis song is the ultimate way to hear it, without one second of any static or surface sound. A very emphatic powerful mono mixtends to magnify one of, if not the John Lennon's greatest ever melodic vocal performances. John had introduced his personalexperiences into songs, giving him additional inspiration for his writing beautiful melodies and challenging lyrics. I am tryingto write an informative but concise description with sound quality the priority, or I indulge my fanatical love of discussing therecording sessions and out-takes etc. So far so good, I cannot avoid the superlatives for such a famtastic record, the backing harmonies are just breathtaking! Complete silence in the gap also waits for the intro to the first of the two great songs GeorgeHarrison contributed, "Think For Yourself ". Once again heard with the same stunning audio sharpness, with George's 'fuzzed'lead guitar in the clearest and cleanest audio, if you listen closely there's a very clever piece of percussion, just a little detailnow and again is impossible to avoid. After the verses, a shuffling drum part is closely followed by four beats on a tambourine.This record really is That Sharp! The mono sound on an unworn 1965 pressing is sensational! Absolutely silent grooves run into a perfectly clean intro to "The Word", one of the last songs written as time was running out, these are very mature lyrics,not that far from the 1967 message of, "All You Need Is Love", the sheer clarity on the George Martin played harmonium is a the ideal indication of how capable this1965 record is of such immaculate sound reproduction. Their vocals are astonishinglyprojected in the mono mix, reinforcing how these music signals are the equivilent of a just pressed record. Please bear in mindhow every second of this first side has been as perfect as you could wish to hear as we approach the last track. It requires sucha stunning record to validate previously made comments about static /surface on the same track of every pressing ever made."Think For Yourself" fades into a near silent/silent gap, a single acoustic guitar intro to Paul's very atmospheric "Michelle" isexceptionally clear but instantly I hear the same low level static there in 1965. There is in fact very little surface sound or asstatic found on "Michelle", but I insist on including the most minor surface sound, while stressing how it is minor and backgroundas I have found on every original/first pressing, it varies in degree and this is really minimal. Eveything musically is in the samestunning audio sharpness, I am trying to keep a distance from the term, 'first pressing' and it such a shame we have a contortedview of an otherwise uncomplicated Beatles pressing. Static or not, a great sounding "Michelle", now to try and keep Side 2 downto the same reasonably minimal amount of text after my extended headings!
Side 2's opening grooves are once again near silent, with barely any natural static before "What Goes On" powerfully kicks in soforcefully to make a real impact. This is Ringo's turn to sing the lead vocals, the Beatles were very fond of always providing himone track on every album to feature as the lead vocalist, that also happened in concert and what better than having John, Paul andGeorge singing the backing vocals! The instruments are exceptionally clear,with Ringo's lead and backing vocals in perfect soundquality, electric instruments here but the subtle arrangement finds John's rhythm guitar pushed up front and louder than George'slead. Such is the clarity all their guitars ring out with really outstanding sound, George's solo now commands all that volume as John eases back, the Beatles guitar playng ability never stood still, they were still young enought to be maturing as musicians in1965. Starting from an absolutely silent track gap, I will repeat that, a silent gap before my personal choice as "Rubber Soul's"most outstanding track,"Girl", if the had Beatles split up in 1965 this would have been greatness acheived, but the story was farfrom over yet. This is the toughest track for needle noise, ironically much more exposed than "Michelle," but this plays withoutany form of audible surface or needle sound at all, any 'way off in the background static' is much too faint to register and naturalto vinyl, I am only stating the obvious for a superb, magnificently clean sounding "Girl." The gentleness is unspoilt by anything,and that is allowing those beautiful backing harmonies to John Lennon's most stunning lead vocals, to be fully enjoyed in nothingless than staggering sound quality. John takes a long intake of breath between the verses and as he sighs very deeply, the audiodefinition on that really quiet sound is immaculate audio perfection. The simple, but very effective instrumental backing is very pronounced and to be so crystal clear, has nothing to do with outrageous claims for a 'loud cut'! This most certainly is one hell ofa powerful playing track, then so is every UK original pressing of "Rubber Soul" in mono and stereo! This is Master Tape sound,in a purity that defies the age of the 1965 analog recording, to master that onto vinyl is a part of the legend of both The Beatlesand the decade it originated from. A 'Golden Era' that produced 'Golden Music' makes sense to me, as I was saying before, thosewho invent such lies about records, now being perpetuated by ebaysellers, do not even vaguely appreciate the true magic of thismonumental LP. I do not set out to upset other sellers, but I care passionately about the music I have loved all my life, I can't and won't play their stupid games with something as sacred and precious as a Beatles album, this is the beautiful "Girl" not stampcollecting! The Greek sound from the acoustic guitar was Paul's idea after returning from a recent holiday in Greece. "Girl" fadesinto those problem free, ultra smooth gaps, then an ultra clean acoustic guitar intro to "I'm Looking Through You", in comes thevery powerful sound of the percussion, extraordinary audio clarity leaves me struggling to say how even the simplest tambourinerings out, is unbelievable, Paul's vocals are superbly clear and so is the piano played by George Martin. This track is the perfectexample of how effective mono actualy is. The true greats just keep coming,"In My Life" starts from near silent linking grooves,I am usually fed up mentioning the parts without music by now, but this is "Rubber Soul" and absolutely essential details for anypotential next owner. The sharpness makes the vocals a joy to hear and experience, a beautiful melody, but this has wonderfulsentiments expressed in the lyrics, John's vocal delivery is once more him at his most inspired, the melodic tone in his voice isparticularly heard when he hits that last really high note. With George Martin emphasing this melody with his exquisite piano,yet another reason this album became a major stepping stone to the next year's "Revolver". The Beatles could have successfullystayed at this amazing level of recording, but they were now on a roller coaster ride, which would lead to staggering records overthe next few years. "Wait" maintains the superb top quality audio, particularly with the vocal harmonies in the extremely sharpsound this record was pressed with. The pleasure of hearing these amazing tracks without someone else's wear is why I insist onpatiently waiting until audio perfection like this emerges from among the usual worn out originals. Ringo's percussion rings outin true life sound, the interchange between Paul and John's vocals created a very special song, then the gap as smooth as silk intoGeorge's second great composition ,"If I Needed Someone", now equal to Lennon & McCartney's songwriting, George's lead guitaris just as superb as the delightful vocal harmonies. Another wonderful melody given a stunning production, the vocal arrangementwas ofmaximum importance, the sheer quality of the audio enhances the glorious mono mix. So many great songs and to end thisside and the album, a reallystrong electric guitar riff punches out the intro to "Run For Your Life." John may have later on voiceda dislike for the lyrics during his time with Yoko and a better understanding of femenine rights, but his vocal was as great as anyof the tracks on "Rubber Soul". He was unhappy about sympathies the threatening lyrics, his upbringing in 1950's North England,was during a time when men adopted a different attitude to women, the interviews were made with John's more enlightened viewsafter meeting Yoko. The melody is as superb, once more the combination of the three guitarists created a distinctive sound of theBeatles in full flight, a great rhythm developed with Ringo's percusion pushing the tempo along. The sheer clarty here reflects onhow this immaculate record presented the most exposed acoustic tracks so cleanly but also powered out r&B performances like,"Run For Your Life" and "Drive My Car," a wonderful all round listening experience.
In spite of the mono format dominating, these first issue 'E J Day' mono covers were only had one printing batch made in such smallamounts, few are left in anything better than Very Good condition. This is one of the rarest Beatles first issue LP covers and I am not refering to the ommision of the legally required text "Trade Mark Of The Gramophone Co. Ltd.", but about how few were made.They were strictly pre-release printed, the fact this record was positively in the cover when bought at the beginning of December1965 does make nonsense about the 'first pressing' scenario so many accept as gospel. This LP was bought as part of a collectionof hardly played and lovingly stored from new and I can safely say even the inner sleeve is the one it left EMI's pressing plant in.The colours of the front artwork look stunning with their darker colour tones unfaded, my pictures show how glossy the laminateis, everything connected to 'E J Day' "Rubber Soul"covers differs in some way, the laminate is not as 'smooth' as found on Garrodcovers, a slight glazing effect that works superbly with that stretched picture, amazing how many Beatles innovations happenedby chance and they seized on something different. All I have to mention here is an expected impression from this massively thickand heavyweight record, but no creases or thumb held laminate crescents, just the merest storage and light handling way back in1965, the last time it was played before I did today.
The spine is completely different, it has a unique and distinctive shape, with heavy use of the record, this becomes sqaushed flatand as rarely seen as clearly as hardly used cover. The shape slants from either side into a central position, leaving the printedcentral titlealmost visible when the cover is laying flat in front of you. The background has an unaged, unyellowed pure white colour to 100% perfect black titles. The laminate is unworn and so they are perfectly preserved, my pictures will demonstratehow superb that is.
The top left corner/ spine tip has very minor and small wear, the bottom left/spine tip is near perfect, amazing for the standingtip of the spine. Top right is also near perfect, the bottom right is unworn and perfectly square shaped with a factory laminate finish. The extra thick laminate was tightly wrapped around the sloping corners and a small section on the bottom right did notstick,I detail all in front of me but I also differentiate from storage, wear or hanndling to a printer's finish.
Both opening edges are also in superb condition, with very crisp, sharp, unfrayed cardbord, the top and bottom edges are alsounworn and superbly strong.
Even the back panel has a different texture to the Garrod covers, open grained and more of an of-white colour, not that I amavoiding saying there is minimal ageing, but so minimal I am being over critical because of the textured top surface itself.All the printing including the eight Beatles photo's is unscuffed and unworn, the record impression has not caused ring wear,just a gentle slope near the bottom left of the placement inside. For a mid-60's cover I am stating the obvious because thereis no actual wear to detail except the tip of the spine. The flipback edges are in near perfect condition, the unique 'E J Day'wider and thicker vertical flipback next to the spine, helped keep the spine in such astonishing condition. A really beautiful cover with minimal traits of storage.
The original 1965 "Use Emitex" inner sleeve is also in superb condition, apart from minor ageing and the expected but gentlerecord shape impression of course.{Roy}
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http://cgi.ebay.com/BEATLES-Rubber-Soul-LP-UK-ORIG-1965-MONO-SUPERB-NR-MINT_W0QQitemZ250580131399QQcmdZViewItemQQptZUK_Records?hash=item3a57bd5e47#ht_10972wt_1065
christ
― musically, Monday, 1 March 2010 03:56 (fourteen years ago) link
I don't even care for the Beatles all that much, that description makes me want that LP. amazing.......bravo record nerd, you touched my vinyl geek nerve!
― chad, Monday, 1 March 2010 06:34 (fourteen years ago) link
too long; didn't bid
― zvooka socka lame (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 1 March 2010 06:36 (fourteen years ago) link
I read a bit of that info, and it's good to have (even to be stored on this thread, ta), but information cannot be copyrighted and I sympathise with the guy but this sort of info is key to the buyer as well as the seller.
Now, to go and check my reasonably good quality RubSoul mono.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 March 2010 08:02 (fourteen years ago) link
.. yep, much the same.
― Mark G, Monday, 1 March 2010 08:08 (fourteen years ago) link
re: beach house - considering how well their last two records have done, they seem like prime candidates for reissuing. i've made the mistake of holding onto OOP vinyl of recent vintage for too long and the reissues will take the original vinyl from $100+ down to $15.
― ('_') (omar little), Monday, 1 March 2010 09:43 (fourteen years ago) link
kinda tough call still, i always hate playing that guessing game
The first Beach House LP has just been remastered and re-pressed: http://www.heartbreakbeatrecords.com/mailorder.htm
This version is on black vinyl, so yours should hold some value. But still, now seems like the time to flip it.
― Barnaby, Hardly, Thursday, 4 March 2010 08:24 (fourteen years ago) link
Please bid on this, thanks!
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=190377684991&ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT
― A Derek Erdman, Monday, 8 March 2010 08:34 (fourteen years ago) link
Not vinyl; rather, a T-shirt. A yellowed, Beatles butcher cover shirt. For $10,000.00
WTF? I'm pretty positive this isn't original Capitol Records promo swag or anything, so what about it could justify the price?
http://cgi.ebay.com/ORIGINAL-VTG-BEATLES-BUTCHER-ALBUM-COVER-SHIRT-1966-L_W0QQitemZ260571565575QQcmdZViewItemQQptZVintage_Unisex_T_Shirts?hash=item3cab468e07
― I turn it up when I hear the banjo (Dan Peterson), Friday, 9 April 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Not Ebay, but...
http://www.vfeditions.com/product/view/17
― Barnaby, Hardly, Thursday, 15 April 2010 09:33 (fourteen years ago) link
free shipping:
http://cgi.ebay.com/Michael-Jackson-Thriller-Signed-by-Vincent-Price_W0QQitemZ170462909444QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item27b0619404
― 51|)e|-|4x012z (ojo), Friday, 16 April 2010 00:37 (fourteen years ago) link
free shipping though
― musically, Monday, 19 April 2010 00:52 (fourteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/RAP-CASSETTE-WU-TANG-RAEKWON-CUBAN-LINX-PURPLE-SEALED-/170475434586?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_Cassettes&hash=item27b120b25a#ht_500wt_968
― 51|)e|-|4x012z (ojo), Friday, 23 April 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago) link
the only cassette worth that much is the "Who's Johnny" cassingle
― musically, Tuesday, 27 April 2010 03:47 (thirteen years ago) link
only single by Kendra Smith & Steve Wynns first band The Suspects http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220599459157
― zappi, Monday, 10 May 2010 10:44 (thirteen years ago) link
http://desc.shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=mx-80++-yamaha&_sacat=0&_dmpt=Motorcycles_Parts_Accessories&_odkw=mx-80&_osacat=0&bkBtn=&LH_TitleDesc=1&_trksid=p3286.m270.l1313&_rdc=1
This guy's been trying to sell MX-80 Sound's three vinyl LPs for $199.99 apiece for several months now, even as more sanely priced editions of same have sold or gone unbidded-upon. I swear, it's as if the guy knows I exist and thinks I'm incredibly rich and/or incredibly stupid. Right, wrong, and wrong.
― Myonga Vön Bontee, Sunday, 6 June 2010 17:20 (thirteen years ago) link
one thing I'm never sure of is what's the rarest CD in the world?
― anagram, Sunday, 6 June 2010 17:49 (thirteen years ago) link
this is up there
http://cgi.ebay.com/Paul-McCartney-3-CD-single-My-Brave-Face-Austrian-/280515665528
― del griffith, Sunday, 6 June 2010 18:22 (thirteen years ago) link
xpost The Safety Ep by Coldplay usually goes for £500-1000 on ebay, there's one up at the moment http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=110543101688 so you can see what it goes for.
― State Attorney Foxhart Cubycheck (Billy Dods), Sunday, 6 June 2010 21:07 (thirteen years ago) link
There was an Adam Ant CD single on EMI which went for a grand at least.
― Mark G, Sunday, 6 June 2010 22:51 (thirteen years ago) link
I've seen a CD recently on Amazon (can't remember what title) up for $2,000 from an independent seller. I think it was a decimal place error though. Not sure.
― Evan, Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Found the details:
Beautiful Dreamer - Adam Ant - Notes: The single that got away! Its planned release was abandoned after poor sales of Wonderful. 4,000 copies were initially pressed of each CD single. All were destroyed...well almost all. Only 7 copies of CD1 are believed to exist as a result of them being sent out as promo copies after the radio promo CD supplies were depleted. They were recalled, and not all made it back. Only TWO copies of CD 2 are known to exist. The second of which turned up on eBay and was sold with a winning bid of £2120
― Mark G, Sunday, 6 June 2010 23:55 (thirteen years ago) link
Looking at the "Completed Listings" search is a fun way of finding crazy music that actually sold. This is the highest priced CD sold in the last 3 months (I think it goes back 3 months)
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SUSAN-BOYLE-CRY-ME-RIVER-ORIGINAL-FACTORY-SEALED-/280514103295?cmd=ViewItem&pt=UK_CDsDVDs_CDs_CDs_GL&hash=item414ff187ff#ht_746wt_1142
£1500 for a Susan Boyle CD!
― I'm being a smartass here, but in a fun way (NotEnough), Monday, 7 June 2010 06:51 (thirteen years ago) link
lolled hardcore @ "REGRETTABLE SALE" in the description there
― taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 June 2010 10:25 (thirteen years ago) link
God knows it would break my heart to live for two months by selling a ten-year old charity CD that I had never opened
― taqsim for Gaffney (DJ Mencap), Monday, 7 June 2010 10:27 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, cry me a river.
― a reprehensible gentility of trouser (staggerlee), Tuesday, 8 June 2010 05:25 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/TEMPTATIONS-WISH-WOULD-RAIN-1968-LP-Record-/130273991759?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item1e54ef5c4f
― Hubert Lolz (lpz), Monday, 2 August 2010 19:27 (thirteen years ago) link
wow. where's the logic in that?
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2010 19:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Write us if you have questions!
lol
― van smack, Monday, 2 August 2010 20:22 (thirteen years ago) link
I can think of a few
kinda glad i didn't see this one til after it was done & embarrass myself by bidding a couple hundred
http://cgi.ebay.com.au/71-MADRIGAL-Acid-Garage-Psych-Velvet-Underground-BEAST-/300450320468?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item45f43c1054
― eddie mcguire suppression ring (electricsound), Monday, 2 August 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wow... "wish it would rain" dude is also selling an '06 NBA ps2 game for $10,0000
AND.... "150 Maruchan Chicken Flavor Ramen Noodle Soup New" for $210
― hobbes, Monday, 2 August 2010 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
that ramen is NEW, folks
wait so
he just leaves these up forever and banks on drunk bids or what?
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Monday, 2 August 2010 22:40 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/Willis-Alan-Ramsey-Self-Titled-/400139441396?cmd=ViewItem&pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5d2a2b54f4
Used to seeing copies of this for under $6.... another copy sold for $20 recently. What's up, did it get blogged abt or something?
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 2 August 2010 22:44 (thirteen years ago) link
*eyes bank statement one more time, gets crazy idea*
― proud teabagger from rim country (arby's), Monday, 2 August 2010 22:47 (thirteen years ago) link
wish it would rain dude also selling "2 McCormick Caribbean Jerk Seasoning 3.25 oz per item" for $10.50.
and "3 Kool-Aid SUGAR FREE Cherry ON THE GO 10 packets NEW" for $16.50
and "3 Luster's Pink Original Oil Moisturizer Hair Lotion" for $20.00
takes all kinds, i suppose...
― by another name (amateurist), Monday, 2 August 2010 23:28 (thirteen years ago) link
Saw a $50 Rusted Shut lathe cut. I mean...what's the point?
― exquisiteboredom, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:19 (thirteen years ago) link
What is the story behind this?
http://cgi.ebay.com/PATHE-DTX-box-7-LP-MOZART-A-PARIS-FERNAND-OUBRADOUS_W0QQitemZ120602584261QQcategoryZ306QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D5%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D6675066650215231377#ht_1129wt_1139
― Evan, Tuesday, 3 August 2010 02:45 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/LYNYRD-SKYNYRD-LYNARD-SKYNARD-1968-SHADE-TREE-45-/350384165654?pt=Music_on_Vinyl#ht_500wt_971
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2010 00:58 (thirteen years ago) link
wow
― sleeve, Thursday, 12 August 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
uh, yeah.
a 1968 single that beats anything else they released by about three years (and beats their first album by five years!). and it's pretty damn good, too.
― by another name (amateurist), Thursday, 12 August 2010 01:01 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/71-MADRIGAL-Acid-Garage-Psych-Velvet-Underground-BEAST_W0QQitemZ270628491465QQcategoryZ306QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4340.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo=MW&its=C&itu=UCC&otn=5&ps=63&clkid=5988687508155960257#ht_6126wt_1136
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:08 (thirteen years ago) link
these douches just opened a brick and mortar store in mpls
http://stores.ebay.com/Shuga-Records/_i.html?_sid=24745785&_sop=3&_trksid=p4634.c0.m14
― i got what t.rex turok the mic right (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
lmao @ 2k for that john prine live record. bought mine for $15 (which is still a lot for a john prine record!) and i got a copy of that Mark Zydiak out of a dollar bin once. but sold it cuz it's not very good.
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oops wrong thread!
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― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:29 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/COWBOY-5ll-getcha-ten-LP-mint-WLP-vinyl-SD-864-1971-/350390187501?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item5194e1f5ed
^ good record but shouldn't cost you more than $10, ever.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Are these dudes thinking 70s vinyl + white label + promo sticker = expensive artifact? Cause I have record shelves FULL of them I would sell to them at 1/10 the price.
― All 10 songs permeate the organs (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:37 (thirteen years ago) link
Like, I know from years of reading Goldmine and seeing "WLP" like some badge of honor, but are there collectors that care about that anymore?
― All 10 songs permeate the organs (Dan Peterson), Thursday, 2 September 2010 17:42 (thirteen years ago) link
that madrigal record is a trip and a half. those guys were well ahead of their time. 'stoned freakout' is definitely one of the few tracks that totally lives up to its title
― do you know sixty (electricsound), Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:26 (thirteen years ago) link
― i got what t.rex turok the mic right (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, September 2, 2010 12:23 PM (5 hours ago) Bookmark
an acquaintance of mine told me the other day i should check that place out. what's their deal
― arby's, Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:30 (thirteen years ago) link
they sell ridiculously overpriced trashed crap on ebay, don't know if the same applies to their store
― do you know sixty (electricsound), Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:31 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah i'm wondering about the store
― arby's, Thursday, 2 September 2010 22:32 (thirteen years ago) link
browsed their website for pretty everyday records that i own and still have the price stickers on 'em. 3 to 5 times what i paid for the stuff at Cheapo and wherever. dumb.
― arby's, Thursday, 2 September 2010 23:15 (thirteen years ago) link
no sorry it's more like 2-3 and in a couple cases 4X but like still.
― arby's, Thursday, 2 September 2010 23:22 (thirteen years ago) link
holy crap that madrigal record went for $5100
― calling ralph and bill on the big white telephone (electricsound), Monday, 6 September 2010 04:47 (thirteen years ago) link
buying a sealed record for that much seems crazy to me. what if its warped?
― scott seward, Monday, 6 September 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
He/she (OK, he) will never listen to it so that's irrelevant.
― skip, Monday, 6 September 2010 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link
>:-[]
― arby's, Monday, 6 September 2010 16:45 (thirteen years ago) link
― arby's, Thursday, September 2, 2010 10:32 PM (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
sorry i was late on this but the store is even worse than they are on ebay...it seems like it's basically just a way for them to clear out all the garbage vinyl they acquire when they buy out collections and estate sales...so they ebay the valuable stuff...then put out all the beat up shit and charge like $6 for dollar bin shit....
so yeah i guess if you want to spend like $5 on a beat to shit Tommy Bolin record that doesn't even have a sleeve it's the place to go
― board of the living based heads (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:04 (thirteen years ago) link
^^ the worst kind of record store
― Aqua Buddha (herb albert), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:08 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha ha. Was considering visiting this place last time I was in mpls, but was way turned off by their $$$ vibe. Thankfully there's way better record stores there - Hymies for one.
― barry leavitt, Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:10 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah hymies is nice, total old school weirdo joint
i really love roadrunner for value, smaller but really well curated and always a lot of turnover and new shit...
― board of the living based heads (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 September 2010 21:13 (thirteen years ago) link
Stupid:
http://cgi.ebay.com/RED-RED-MEAT-HOT-NICKETY-TRUNK-MONKEY-RARE-1991-7-/260664656568?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3cb0d302b8#ht_883wt_1139
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:05 (thirteen years ago) link
Really now. What are you thinking?
― I will always think of you, while (quite) fondly, myself (Evan), Wednesday, 15 September 2010 05:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/FLAMING-LIPS-lp-HIT-DEATH-FUTURE-HEAD-prmo-NM-/310253569929?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item483c8dc789
watch this go for silly money
― Ride decided to give birth to a giant poop log & disguise it as a CD (jamescobo), Sunday, 26 September 2010 07:51 (thirteen years ago) link
first misfits single, $1,413.55
http://cgi.ebay.com/MISFITS-Cough-Cool-original-1977-7-Danzig-Samhain-/200535085579?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2eb0d2920b
― mr. mandelbrot flythrough vertigo, esq. (Edward III), Sunday, 31 October 2010 18:12 (thirteen years ago) link
JP Morgan employees have kids too :D
― meisenfek, Sunday, 31 October 2010 21:41 (thirteen years ago) link
this guy should literally be set on fire
― Joy Orbison wrapped in clingfilm (DJ Mencap), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 17:13 (thirteen years ago) link
that listing is bonkers. what a loon.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 17:21 (thirteen years ago) link
Aw man, I'm laughing too hard to wish him any ill will!
― Blastfemur (Dan Peterson), Wednesday, 10 November 2010 17:23 (thirteen years ago) link
and I add: Hey, fair play to you, dude.
― Mark G, Thursday, 11 November 2010 09:30 (thirteen years ago) link
Am I nuts, or is this excessive?
(Especially when he's got 6 available. Really?!)
― a confident, off-duty spy (staggerlee), Thursday, 25 November 2010 04:39 (thirteen years ago) link
excessive
http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=610122&ev=rb
― sleeve, Thursday, 25 November 2010 05:14 (thirteen years ago) link
is that something that people want really badly? i don't even know. i had that book that they used for that cover. i think someone actually bought it because of the album cover. should have priced it higher i guess.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 November 2010 05:15 (thirteen years ago) link
well there you go.
― scott seward, Thursday, 25 November 2010 05:17 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, Oneida had at least a box of these last time they toured the UK.
― ia! ia! Cartman fthagn! (aldo), Thursday, 25 November 2010 07:43 (thirteen years ago) link
that's a $6 record.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Thursday, 25 November 2010 08:02 (thirteen years ago) link
taking bets on what this will end at:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=330500298593&ssPageName=STRK:MESE:IT
― scott seward, Friday, 26 November 2010 01:21 (thirteen years ago) link
SOLO AVANT GARDE DRONE LONG BEARDS OOP YOU NEED THIS
― thrillionaire (electricsound), Friday, 26 November 2010 01:26 (thirteen years ago) link
Question & Answer Q: "you write: You should buy this even though you probably don't deserve it. It will give you something to aspire to in life. And might actually make you a better person." I assume you means th3 potential buyer is a complete and utter duffer because actually the well-tuned piano is rather dull and tedious. it only retains its mystique by being almost totally unavailable. listen to it! give me charlemagne palestine anyday. A: I have listened! Not to this copy. To another copy. On top of a mountain that was haunted by the ghosts of Ichabod Crane and Pat Metheny. The wind howled and the wine flowed. I learned how to pray that day... But, yeah, Palestine is a major block rocker. No doubt about it.
― aerosmith: the acid house years (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Friday, 26 November 2010 01:31 (thirteen years ago) link
i'd say it will end between $240-275, but if a bidding war starts, who knows.i forget what i paid for mine. i traded a rare john cage LP on dial and like $20 or something.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Friday, 26 November 2010 02:18 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm gonna say upwards of $400 -- popsike has them going for more than that, even recently.
― Thus Sang Freud, Friday, 26 November 2010 03:03 (thirteen years ago) link
This guy's pushing his luck with Peter Brötzmann vinyl:
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LP-Peter-Brotzmann-Trio-Adolphe-Sax-BRO-1-/150453902505?pt=B%C3%BCcher_Unterhaltung_Music_CDs&hash=item2307c05ca9
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/LP-Peter-Brotzmann-Octet-Machine-Gun-BRO-2-1-PRESS-/360271042344?pt=B%C3%BCcher_Unterhaltung_Music_CDs&hash=item53e1d3d728
I mean I want them but not that much.
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Friday, 26 November 2010 08:30 (thirteen years ago) link
http://www.studyzone.org/testprep/ela4/m/j0138169.gif
― scott seward, Monday, 29 November 2010 19:22 (thirteen years ago) link
that piano must be really well tuned.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 29 November 2010 19:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yowza! nice work scott!did that classical collection have any luc ferrari in it by any chance?
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 29 November 2010 20:32 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/Oh-Ok-Wow-Mini-Album-7-Vinyl-DB-Recs-Rare-/200444965006?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2eab73708e
Copies of this ep sold recently for 10 and 13 bucks. (This isn't even the hand-colored edition.)
― The animal magnetism of Tim Pawlenty (Dan Peterson), Monday, 6 December 2010 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
VG/VG- to boot.
― not everything is a campfire (ian), Monday, 6 December 2010 23:16 (thirteen years ago) link
And then there's this one:
http://cgi.ebay.com/TRANSPARENT-ILLUSION-Still-Human-Minimal-Masterpiece-/260498821267?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3ca6f09093#ht_1792wt_1141
Fine album, but
― Michael Train, Monday, 10 January 2011 03:00 (thirteen years ago) link
$500 per song: http://cgi.ebay.com/POND-ELEVEN-POND-BULLETS-12-MINIMALIST-DIY-MEGA-RARE-/180591039243?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item2a0c10930b#ht_1577wt_907
― Michael Train, Tuesday, 18 January 2011 22:57 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MOR-THIAM-DINI-SAFARRAR-RARE-FUNK-AFRO-/230582183460?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item35afc4e624
http://www.facerecords.com/shop/images/9/9901242_1.jpg
see that kid in the bottom right? thats Akon!
dope record though, needs a reissue
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m4m-YD53rMc
― zappi, Thursday, 10 February 2011 07:55 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/MGM-1444-The-Factory-Path-Through-The-Forest-MINT_W0QQitemZ150562970216QQcategoryZ27350QQcmdZViewItemQQ_trksidZp4012.m8QQ_trkparmsZalgo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D15%26po%3DLCA%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D7286616274859817189
Two bids!
― DL, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 09:58 (thirteen years ago) link
Well, "Path through the forest" is alongside "My father's name was dad" The Fire and The Flies' "Not your stepping stone" in the list of highly valuable psych singles. (Although that's a heck of a bid-up!)
That other "One in a million" one I don't know, but also: whew!
― Mark G, Wednesday, 23 February 2011 10:07 (thirteen years ago) link
nice little collection
fredereek hernando >>>>> path through the forest. worth every cent imo
― vag vag vag (electricsound), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 11:47 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah One in a Million were awesome. Their song "No Smokes" is crazy, kind of a freakbeat/psych precursor to Clark Hutchinson's stuff like "Free to Be Stoned" or "Death, the Lover." Um, vocally, mostly.
― curation and dilletantage (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Wednesday, 23 February 2011 13:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Crazy Priced Vinyl Hair On EBAY
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Friday, 25 February 2011 17:46 (thirteen years ago) link
5 hours left...http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=300526977397&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT#ht_1709wt_1141
― nerve_pylon, Sunday, 27 February 2011 18:26 (thirteen years ago) link
lolhttp://cgi.ebay.com/John-Bender-Plaster-Falling-LP-/130492498440?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item1e61f58208
― van smack, Monday, 7 March 2011 01:33 (thirteen years ago) link
(not sure where else to post this one, but) a few weeks ago i sold a kinda-sorta-little-bit-hard-to-find Merzbow thing on ebay, then was getting the shipping label ready when i noticed the buyer: J3ff M4ngum... pretty cool, huh?
― Damn this thread seems so....different without ilxor (ilxor), Thursday, 10 March 2011 19:35 (thirteen years ago) link
I once sold a book on eBay to Glenn Mercer. But not that Glenn Mercer, dammit.
― clamwich (staggerlee), Friday, 11 March 2011 03:56 (thirteen years ago) link
Ha, I sold a CSN&Y album to Allan Clarke. I presume it wasn't the same guy...
― Mark G, Friday, 11 March 2011 11:46 (thirteen years ago) link
my brother sold a bunch of rare electro 12"s to Aphex Twin a few years ago. a couple of weeks later he used some of the money to buy some fancy speakers for his home studio. after googling the name of the seller he found out that he'd bought them from Aqua. haha!
― zappi, Friday, 11 March 2011 13:37 (thirteen years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ABECEDARIANS-eureka-LP-M-Southwest-Audio-1986-d-284-/220277734053?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3349937aa5#ht_3558wt_907
A steal at 20% OFF!!!!
― Michael Train, Friday, 25 March 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
lol @ shuga
― ˆ°ᴥ°ˆ (electricsound), Friday, 25 March 2011 02:05 (thirteen years ago) link
yeah, shuga's whole shop is just... ridiculous. the mark zydiak record they're trying to get $$$ for is a fairly common rekkerd in these parts.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 25 March 2011 02:14 (thirteen years ago) link
any of these http://shop.ebay.com/i.html?_nkw=mfsl+cat+stevens
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Monday, 28 March 2011 21:46 (thirteen years ago) link
this are kinda ridic http://shop.ebay.com/?_nkw=UHQR
― tyler 'scratch' perry (diamonddave85), Monday, 28 March 2011 21:53 (thirteen years ago) link
THESE are*
was listening to half speed mastered air supply last night and it was totally 3D mayhem. sounded unreal.
― scott seward, Monday, 28 March 2011 22:21 (thirteen years ago) link
shuga is such an embarrassment to my city.
they are also known for buying up local records from small local labels then marking them up from $11 to $18 and selling them in the store (stuff that is in print and the label probably has like 700 of in boxes)
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:38 (thirteen years ago) link
are they affiliated to volcanic tongue?
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 28 March 2011 22:39 (thirteen years ago) link
no it's just some online seller from here who recently opened a brick and mortar store to buy collections and bring in new stuff...and to clear out all the poor quality garbage stuff he can't sell online and inflated prices.
but hey if you want to buy like 80s clapton records beat up and with no sleeve for $8 by all means. such a joke.
definitely has ruffled some feathers in the local record community.
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:43 (thirteen years ago) link
(it was a joke)
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 28 March 2011 22:48 (thirteen years ago) link
VT do horde stuff til it's OOP though then sell it for a lot. Notorious for it and that's just one of the reasons david keenan gets a lot of flak
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 28 March 2011 22:49 (thirteen years ago) link
oh sorry haha, but honestly nothing would surprise me anymore, not familiar with volcanic tongue
that's shitty business. my friend saw his own band's record there for $20 the week after they had their album release show (sold for $10 at the show and they still had 300+ of their 500 run left)
― Bleeqwot the Chef (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 28 March 2011 22:55 (thirteen years ago) link
hah here's a review http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/volcanic-tongue-glasgow
― Algerian Goalkeeper, Monday, 28 March 2011 23:00 (thirteen years ago) link
best record shop in glasgow - http://www.yelp.co.uk/biz/monorail-glasgow
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=370496931300
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:32 (thirteen years ago) link
Maybe that isn't crazy priced, there are supposedly only a handful of copies around. My boss is pretty happy about it though.
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Tuesday, 5 April 2011 04:33 (thirteen years ago) link
Not ebay but... http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/32158915?ev=bp_rel_det
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 5 April 2011 12:50 (thirteen years ago) link
god save the queen acetate
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&rt=nc&nma=true&item=280655369299
― if u see l ron this weekend be sure & tell him THETAN THETAN THETAN (Edward III), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:23 (thirteen years ago) link
if you are a REAL punk you won't pay more than $10,0000 for a record. you gotta stay true to the streets.
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:33 (thirteen years ago) link
$10,000 even
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:34 (thirteen years ago) link
dude gottpunch you should have snagged that heavy the world boxed set from your boss! makes me sad that it only sells for 20 bucks. so much time and effort involved...
― scott seward, Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
hey look the god save the queen acetate has free shipping
― if u see l ron this weekend be sure & tell him THETAN THETAN THETAN (Edward III), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:39 (thirteen years ago) link
"I've listed the postage as £4 but this was just to fill the section in. The winning bidder will be responsible for all insurance,shipping and postage costs"
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:44 (thirteen years ago) link
Sorry E3 ;_;
― Future Debts Collector (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 14 April 2011 15:45 (thirteen years ago) link
Yeah, I feel like I should buy their stuff, but just haven't gotten around to it. Where's a good album to start? One of the band members stops by our store once in a while with a box full of their stuff.
― GLOWER METAL (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Friday, 15 April 2011 05:13 (thirteen years ago) link
ask him if he has the debut! triple lp they put out themselves. that's one of the only things i still need.
i dunno, start earlier rather than later. the boxed set is just kinda over the top and crazy. especially the booklet that comes with it that lists every practice session they ever played.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 April 2011 12:04 (thirteen years ago) link
OMG! I Just Spent 5 Hours LIstening To Baltimore Basement Prog Weirdos *HEAVY THE WORLD*
― scott seward, Friday, 15 April 2011 12:05 (thirteen years ago) link
runes. that's the one i need.
― scott seward, Friday, 15 April 2011 12:06 (thirteen years ago) link
Hahahahaha....
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150599995372
K Records Tape Collection - US $4,999.99
― Barnaby, Hardly, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:38 (twelve years ago) link
?
Not really looking to sell, Check out the pictures
― charlie adam's sister's pants (onimo), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 11:55 (twelve years ago) link
Oh that K tape collection has been around for AGES. Must be piling up the listing fees by now surely?
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 12:54 (twelve years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/SEX-PISTOLS-GOD-SAVE-QUEEN-ACETATE-7-A-M-7284-RARE-/250815733170?_trksid=p4340.m8&_trkparms=algo%3DMW%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D6%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D9052825867378910906
Meanwhile, the Sex Pistols A&M Acetate, only nine or twelve of these!
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:39 (twelve years ago) link
£500 seems cheap. wasn't there something similar that went for thousands? (had been framed and presented to staff member or something?)
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:50 (twelve years ago) link
3 weeks ago (but that's not the one i was thinking of):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0113gqb
― koogs, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 13:51 (twelve years ago) link
Gina G acetate?
― a fucking stove just fell on my foot. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 14:11 (twelve years ago) link
It's £500 at the moment, but1) there's a while to go yet2) um, even now it would be easy to make one of these...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:02 (twelve years ago) link
saw this the other day which seems to be something similar but w/ some old Motorhead bootleg
― puppetry of the pulis (DJ Mencap), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:11 (twelve years ago) link
On April 15th this Sex Pistols acetate went for a whopping $ 23.887.06.
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:18 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, and that's just the Virgin Records edition.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:31 (twelve years ago) link
even now it would be easy to make one of these...
haha yeah that's exactly what I thought when I saw the pic. looks kind of not from the right time or place tbh
― ban this sick stunt (anagram), Tuesday, 10 May 2011 15:46 (twelve years ago) link
It went for £2275 in the end.
Right, where's those acetate blanks....
― Mark G, Monday, 16 May 2011 10:12 (twelve years ago) link
"My ex Brother-in-Law's shit record collection..." http://bit.ly/iXMUvq
― Barnaby, Hardly, Saturday, 28 May 2011 13:00 (twelve years ago) link
There's some great stuff there but had to say I was laughing so much I had tears rolling down my face.
― Cluster the boots (Billy Dods), Saturday, 28 May 2011 14:13 (twelve years ago) link
Amazon not ebay, but still:
Experiment IV / Wuthering HeightsKate Bush (Author) | Format: Vinyl
1 used from $7,897.10
http://www.amazon.com/Experiment-Wuthering-Heights-Kate-Bush/dp/B003MC4NOM/ref=sr_1_2?s=music&ie=UTF8&qid=1307310295&sr=1-2
Other copies go down to $5.
― xhuxk, Sunday, 5 June 2011 21:48 (twelve years ago) link
"My ex Brother-in-Law's shit record collection..." http://bit.ly/iXMUvq― Barnaby, Hardly, Saturday, 28 May 2011 13:00 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
― Barnaby, Hardly, Saturday, 28 May 2011 13:00 (1 week ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
Listing removed.
― Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2011 08:40 (twelve years ago) link
Right, I have found it.
Lol, appparently. (sigh)
― Mark G, Monday, 6 June 2011 08:54 (twelve years ago) link
has anyone heard these Milton Wright lps? i heard 'spaced' today because i was curious why it was 1500$ and it was so boring. i have so many dollar soul records that are better than this.
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=milton+wright&x=0&y=0
― jaxon, Friday, 16 September 2011 05:40 (twelve years ago) link
Was his records played by the later northern soul dj's? The guys who now write a lot of the liner notes for the kent soul comps? I like a little modern soul, but most of it sounds like bad philly knock-offs.
― JacobSanders, Friday, 16 September 2011 05:52 (twelve years ago) link
i guess one of his songs ended up on one of those strange games and funky things comps. and had that whole 'burned up in a factory fire, only a few survived' stories.
oh, i've heard this one (from the album before 'spaced')
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGEcvm5EMIA
― jaxon, Friday, 16 September 2011 06:10 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure about the £4.00 standard delivery charge here. For this kind of outlay I'd want it delivered to my door by a fucking unicorn.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sex-Pistols-God-Save-Queen-Original-1977-A-M-7-PROMO-BOX-/260857651148?_trksid=p4012.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D12%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D3128614179864208049
― Science, you guys. Science. (DL), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:17 (twelve years ago) link
Not sure about the £4.00 standard delivery charge here.
Heh. Well, since a year or two eBay has made it difficult for a seller to put in more as standard delivery. That's why you mostly see the lowest shipping charges in the automated listing, but people in their description adding "soz shipping is way higher but ebay won't allow me to enter it lol".
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 29 September 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=200653572256
― scott seward, Friday, 30 September 2011 00:29 (twelve years ago) link
Heh. Well, since a year or two eBay has made it difficult for a seller to put in more as standard delivery. That's why you mostly see the lowest shipping charges in the automated listing, but people in their description adding "soz shipping is way higher but ebay won't allow me to enter it lol".― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, September 29, 2011 8:37 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
i put "please contact me for shipping costs" pretty clearly in an auction for a book recently (i don't know generally how much books cost to send like i do for records). but the guy who won paypall-ed me immediately after winning the cost of the book and what ebay allowed me to put for shipping. it was a few bucks under for shipping. i told him this and he was like "can you just let it slide, bro" and i was kinda in a good mood and let it slide, but apparently i'm still bitter about it because i wasted 2 minutes to write about it on an internet forum.
― jaxon, Friday, 30 September 2011 00:55 (twelve years ago) link
aw :-)
This happens to me regularly and I can tell you, the "I'll let it slide bro"-feeling goes away pretty fast. It all adds up, too. So it makes for extra hassle getting back in touch to cough up the actual shipping costs. Most do pay up though.
― Young Swell (Le Bateau Ivre), Friday, 30 September 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link
"Please Note ** Sorry But I Will NOT Ship To Italy**"
!?!?!
― mark e, Friday, 30 September 2011 09:58 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, Italy has a bad rep for people going "hey where's my item?" and reclaiming off paypal/ebay.
This could be the buyer pulling a fast one, or the Ital postal service being bad/insecure, who knows.
― Mark G, Friday, 30 September 2011 10:06 (twelve years ago) link
Having said that, I've posted stuff all around the world, and only had one occurance of items not arriving.
Posted the same day to two different countries, you do the detective work....
― Mark G, Friday, 30 September 2011 10:07 (twelve years ago) link
Ital postal service being bad/insecure
this is the received wisdom
― whiney g. aimhouse (electricsound), Friday, 30 September 2011 10:26 (twelve years ago) link
yeah it has a notoriously dire postal service in general
I don't think I've ever lost anything there but I only really sell cheap CDs so maybe either ppl can't be arsed to quibble over a few euros or they don't look interesting enough to get opened by il postino
― the green manalishi (with the big boobies) (DJ Mencap), Friday, 30 September 2011 10:38 (twelve years ago) link
Well, I mostly send LP sized packages, handwritten addresses...
― Mark G, Friday, 30 September 2011 10:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-introducing-Beatles-LP-Sealed-/330524746292?_trksid=p4340.m1374&_trkparms=algo%3DPI.WATCH%26its%3DC%252BS%26itu%3DUCC%26otn%3D7%26ps%3D63%26clkid%3D6172686349591087745
Haaaaaa
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 01:41 (twelve years ago) link
3. Please stop sending me Email telling me what it worth, you never seen the record in person.
Thank You all for interest in this record, it will remain at the same price until sold.
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 01:46 (twelve years ago) link
hahahahahaha
― Bo Jackson Overdrive, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 01:54 (twelve years ago) link
What is this Alexander's store label she is focusing on? Is that really something notable?
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:55 (twelve years ago) link
i think it's just the price tag
― hilare appendage (electricsound), Wednesday, 8 February 2012 05:57 (twelve years ago) link
That's all though? Just making sure there isn't some kind of rock history at "Alexander's" that collectors would get excited over.
What a dolt, I mean:
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=350513102384
― Evan, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 06:07 (twelve years ago) link
I might have had one of those myself.
From http://www.eskimo.com/~bpentium/beatles/intro/intro.html
Covers for the stereo issue that list Love Me Do and P. S. I Love You, among the two columns of tracks on the back, are almost always fakes. Only a couple of authentic copies of these versions are known to exist.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 10:25 (twelve years ago) link
Also, here is a very similar one (same shop pricetag) to prove it is definitely a fake.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/INTRODUCING-BEATLES-SUPER-RARE-VEE-JAY-STEREO-RECORD-1964-/270903229447?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3f13173c07
― Mark G, Wednesday, 8 February 2012 10:32 (twelve years ago) link
Not vinyl, but something of note (Melvins tour van with murals painted by Kurt Cobain)
http://www.ebay.com/itm/150771070206#ht_500wt_927
― van smack, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:05 (twelve years ago) link
It probably smells awful inside.
― Tuomas, Monday, 5 March 2012 22:22 (twelve years ago) link
aptly-named thread revivalists of our time
― Sylv_ebanks (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 March 2012 22:43 (twelve years ago) link
you know, i don't really care too much about melvins or nirvana, but that's kinda rad. its the kind of thing you'd think the rock & roll hall of fame (something else i don't really care about) would spring for.
― scott seward, Monday, 5 March 2012 23:58 (twelve years ago) link
don't look at the carpet, I drew something awful on it...
― Paul, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 00:52 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/O-SEIS-SUICIDA-APOCALIPSE-PRE-OS-MUTANTES-GARAGE-PSYCH-TROPICALIA-BRAZIL-/320864768413?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4ab507d19d
just for interest: It's got 7 days to go, it's already £500
― Mark G, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
Oh shit thats Joel! I just saw him yesterday at my store. He's a nice guy, always good at making room in our vinyl section by buying a good chunk of it. Comes in all the time. Though I just put in my two weeks notice so he's another regular I won't get to see as often, yet I foresee myself spending lots of time there as a customer again.
― Evan, Tuesday, 13 March 2012 17:39 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/UNCLE-ACID-AND-THE-DEADBEATS-Blood-Lust-DIE-HARD-Lim-50-Electric-Wizard-Ghost-/170807262762?pt=UK_Records&hash=item27c4e7fe2a#ht_500wt_1132
― omar little, Saturday, 31 March 2012 05:35 (twelve years ago) link
quite possibly the stupidist thing i've seen in my entire life
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:34 (twelve years ago) link
well, other than Republican opinions about Treyvon Martin. Those are obviously the stupidest. or, really, anything from a Republican. But this is clearly second.
and I thought my Wolf Vostell lp was valuable..
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
at least it got that high through bidding, it wasn't a buy-it-now.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:36 (twelve years ago) link
i really want that uncle acid album tbh and would love to have it on LP but fuck that noise imo.
― omar little, Sunday, 1 April 2012 20:57 (twelve years ago) link
from the mps3 i heard -- sure, it's a good record. Not as good as any of the 4 Kyuss records. And i don't even like Kyuss that much.
One thousand bucks.
You could get half the Black Sabbath catalog on orignal Vertigo Swirl vinyl for that
― Stormy Davis, Sunday, 1 April 2012 21:34 (twelve years ago) link
Mark Kozelek 'White Christmas' & 'Little Drummer Boy' test press:http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=400294346807
Buy It Now: US $2,999.99
― Barnaby, Hardly, Monday, 30 April 2012 09:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=360473125077
$4999? Bargain!
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 July 2012 07:57 (eleven years ago) link
Convince me that it is (or isn't) ok for me to spend £50 on an LP...
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Friday, 13 July 2012 08:24 (eleven years ago) link
It's OK, if you can afford it. But what will you do with it once you have got it?
I get a bit dispirited when I've paid proper money for an LP which ends up getting 3 plays and going on the shelves with the rest. That seems to happen too often.
― Tim, Friday, 13 July 2012 08:33 (eleven years ago) link
(These days I have more fun scouring the cheap bins for £1 or £2 LPs which look unfamiliar. I'm just as likely to find something amazing that was as shelling out £££ for things other people seem to want. But that's hardly the point of this thread so feel free to ignore me.)
― Tim, Friday, 13 July 2012 08:37 (eleven years ago) link
I've never spent more than £25 on an LP but I could be persuaded to go to £50 if it was something REALLY AWESOME, but that's because I'm OK with just having things on CD (or even mp3) if they are hard to find on vinyl.
― The Eyeball Of Hull (Colonel Poo), Friday, 13 July 2012 13:01 (eleven years ago) link
Thesedays, those hard-to-find things get sold on once I've listened and either 'saved' or decided not worth it.
― Mark G, Friday, 13 July 2012 13:04 (eleven years ago) link
I'm with Tim.... finding obscure nuggets in the midst of crap in bargain bins is my biggest pleasure in record buying....
― Talcum Mucker, Friday, 13 July 2012 16:33 (eleven years ago) link
this is my world.
tis the best part of music buying ..
― mark e, Friday, 13 July 2012 16:42 (eleven years ago) link
What genres do you guys get the best success doing that with, though?
― Evan, Friday, 13 July 2012 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
Old house music, you can find gems for $1
― coal, Friday, 13 July 2012 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
you can get great country records for a buck or two apiece.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 13 July 2012 18:24 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, 1970s country keeps on giving the value. It continually amazes me how good some of the records by neglected c-listers can be. You have to be prepared to buy some stinkers though, they're often indistinguishable from the gems.
When I started collecting records, getting on for 30 years ago, 1970s reggae was similarly proper cheap. I wish I'd had a bit more money back then.
― Tim, Friday, 13 July 2012 22:53 (eleven years ago) link
man, the idea of cheap seventies reggae just thrills me. i wish. almost all reggae records, save some classics that have been pressed/booted a million times, are just plain hard to find in the states.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 14 July 2012 03:40 (eleven years ago) link
i love when people stumble upon my reggae 45s. its like they are dreaming. where am i, they say? pinch me. i could just put it all up online and make more money, but i'm nice.
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 July 2012 03:56 (eleven years ago) link
you kinda have to be a reggae dude to appreciate them though. and those people don't come around every day.
― scott seward, Saturday, 14 July 2012 03:57 (eleven years ago) link
around here i'm forever picking up weird and wonderful post-punk and new wave stuff for a euro or two...
shame i'm not into soca, as a local shop has recently dumped hundreds of soca 12"s in their bargain section for a euro a pop (correction, probably a good thing i'm not into soca..)
― Talcum Mucker, Saturday, 14 July 2012 07:53 (eleven years ago) link
I didn't buy it. Yet.
I greatly enjoy trawling secondhand collections for gems amidst the mundane too, but this instance is in the obsessive completism category, which is rather different.
― only NWOFHM! is real (krakow), Saturday, 14 July 2012 08:19 (eleven years ago) link
obassive completism is a dangerous pitfall of collecting (anything)...
there are very few artists whose complete output is worth owning.. and i tend to avoid completism unless i can pick up the non-essential parts for not-very-much..
A couple of months ago I decided to free up some space in my collection, and the first thing I did was release the non-essential completist parts of my collection back into the wild...
― Talcum Mucker, Saturday, 14 July 2012 09:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=300739151405
what in the name of fuck
― price lo matalan (DJ Mencap), Thursday, 19 July 2012 21:39 (eleven years ago) link
Recently sold on ebay for £60
― Mark G, Thursday, 19 July 2012 23:32 (eleven years ago) link
@ mark g : dont you ever sleep !?
[i'm not working - hence my excuse .. .]
― mark e, Thursday, 19 July 2012 23:34 (eleven years ago) link
I slept at one minute past my last message.
― Mark G, Friday, 20 July 2012 10:23 (eleven years ago) link
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=320945795698
I didn't know Stereolab fans had this money.
― Evan, Monday, 23 July 2012 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
goodness
― one dis leads to another (ian), Monday, 23 July 2012 21:01 (eleven years ago) link
the band were already collector bait by the time of this record, right? wonder if whoever at the plant did two or three of these with a mind to shifting them for big buxx at a later date. maybe they went to the band tho who knows
― price lo matalan (DJ Mencap), Monday, 23 July 2012 21:15 (eleven years ago) link
Like a Third Man records kind of thing? I mean, I don't know if thats what even those guys intend.Still, way higher than I think anyone would have expected it to complete at.
― Evan, Monday, 23 July 2012 22:37 (eleven years ago) link
Sorry, can't put myself into the mindset of a person excited enough to spend this kind of money on this item.
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/Details.aspx?id=150867801888
― Evan, Monday, 6 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
That's a notorious collectable, I remember reading about it a few times in Record Collector, though I can't remember the story now as to why it is so sought after.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Monday, 6 August 2012 20:14 (eleven years ago) link
so sad:
http://www.ebay.com/csc/Records-/306/i.html?LH_Complete=1&_nkw=jack%20white&_sop=3
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:29 (eleven years ago) link
someone should rent an apartment next to that store of his and just buy everything they put out as soon as they put it out.
― scott seward, Thursday, 16 August 2012 16:32 (eleven years ago) link
maybe someone would know the answer to this... why are some new and used records on amazon priced at $999 even though they're not priced that way elsewhere
― billstevejim, Thursday, 16 August 2012 19:56 (eleven years ago) link
f jack white, lamest
― one dis leads to another (ian), Thursday, 16 August 2012 23:47 (eleven years ago) link
hate that guy.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 August 2012 00:11 (eleven years ago) link
people who spend a thousand dollars on jerk white flexidiscs should be put to death.
― scott seward, Friday, 17 August 2012 00:12 (eleven years ago) link
or maybe they should just spend their money on, you know, like 200 really cool records that they will enjoy that will last a lifetime.
― one dis leads to another (ian), Friday, 17 August 2012 00:38 (eleven years ago) link
I'm convinced that the people that buy into those sorts of things don't actually like music. They're simply collectors of "stuff."
― Austin, Friday, 17 August 2012 00:50 (eleven years ago) link
billstevejim: they might be listed automatically at that price. You can get software doo-dahs to automate the process of listing on Amazon and such, especially in bulk, and there is probably some default setting when there is no existing price to match or such a situation.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Friday, 17 August 2012 22:25 (eleven years ago) link
there was a cool blog or something I read a while back that explained how booksellers use this software and end up having medical books on sale for like $100,000
― it's-a me, irl (DJ Mencap), Friday, 17 August 2012 23:09 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah there is a prgram/company called "Monsoon" as one example that you can set percentages of mark-up or mark-down to be competitive with other sellers listed per SKU.
― Evan, Tuesday, 21 August 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
program*
not ebay but i was digging around for this album online and went to amazon, and saw this. i feel like there should be an amazon thread for crazy priced vinyl too.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ScreenShot2012-08-28at10209PM.png
― omar little, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
See the comments above. Usually that can be attributed to neglect of the entry and the percentage at which a program like "Monsoon" will mark something up or down.
― Evan, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:19 (eleven years ago) link
And sometimes it's a nutjob. It depends on the ridiculous ratio.
― Evan, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:20 (eleven years ago) link
I want to get that album, too. I've been casually looking for it since it's release but never stumbled upon it used like I had hoped (CD or vinyl).
― Evan, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 20:22 (eleven years ago) link
One could potentially turn the brainless automation of price matching software to ones advantage in such cases...
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 07:15 (eleven years ago) link
elaborate?
― Evan, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:48 (eleven years ago) link
http://1gabba.in/pics3/altern8.jpg
― Mark G, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:52 (eleven years ago) link
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, August 29, 2012 3:15 AM (7 hours ago)
Like if someone actually purchases something at an unrealistic cost? Or are you just talking about when the software is used as intended?
― Evan, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 14:54 (eleven years ago) link
i think the suggestion is to post a copy of an item at a low price and wait for someone else's software to 'beat' it so you can purchase it? but the problem remains how to list an item without any fear of it 'selling'
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:04 (eleven years ago) link
Outrageous shipping costs maybe?
― Colonel Poo, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:12 (eleven years ago) link
that's what i was thinking.
― scott seward, Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:17 (eleven years ago) link
low grade?
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:31 (eleven years ago) link
"jacket only"
― one dis leads to another (ian), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 15:32 (eleven years ago) link
ian has it. It would be a very wrong and bad thing to do though.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Wednesday, 29 August 2012 20:23 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, but eBay has been a Deadwood-like dystopia of martial law since like forever. I think if you can beat the system, do it, so long as you're not actually fucking anyone over (at least not anyone who deserves it).
― If Assholes Could Fly This Place Would Be An Airport, Thursday, 30 August 2012 00:23 (eleven years ago) link
Something has always been fishy about seller "any_book" and they've been around forever.
― Evan, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:06 (eleven years ago) link
i've seen some "sleeve only" listings on discogs before but damned if i can remember what. maybe that was their scam?
― omar little, Thursday, 30 August 2012 03:15 (eleven years ago) link
Maybe they only have a sleeve and are hoping for someone that only has a record.
(I did see someone trying and failing to sell a mono SgtPepper in a stereo sleeve, I had the other-way-round and proposed a swap, all was good!)
― Mark G, Thursday, 30 August 2012 06:45 (eleven years ago) link
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
someone's hopeful (and most likely stupid)... it's well rare but $4000!
http://www.ebay.com/itm/400494846150?ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1423.l2649
It's an OG Indian Pressing of the Ten Ragas to a Disco Beat LP
― Stop the tape I got spittle all over my moustache. (Talcum Mucker), Monday, 27 May 2013 08:28 (ten years ago) link
Nice find.
I don’t think it’s that optimistic. In addition to the typical trainspotters, a lot of Euro superclub DJs hype it.
― Allen (etaeoe), Monday, 27 May 2013 18:28 (ten years ago) link
The re-release can be got for £18 or so.
Shall see..
― Mark G, Monday, 27 May 2013 20:20 (ten years ago) link
does seem crazy. they definitely missed a trick with not keeping the original artwork for the reissue though.
― stirmonster, Monday, 27 May 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
heard data world on the radio yesterday
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:26 (ten years ago) link
whoa rong thread
― flesh, the devil, and a wolf (wolf) (amateurist), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 02:59 (ten years ago) link
I'm still surprised at how much this one goes for:http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=archie+whitewater&incldescr=&sortord=ddate&thumbs=&currsel=
I mean, even without the reissue a few years back, it seems like there were a lot of them out there.
― Austin, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 03:41 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/LED-ZEPPELIN-I-1-1st-LP-1969-UK-1st-Press-TURQUOISE-STEREO-ATLANTIC-588171-RARE-/310674816267
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 10:17 (ten years ago) link
I had one of those, identical in every respect (including the 'near mint' quality'), except it had the usual orange lettering on the front, instead of turquoise.
It went for £250, which was nice, but blimey, what a difference a slight colour variation makes.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 10:35 (ten years ago) link
what a difference a slight colour variation makes.
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=bleach+waterfront&x=0&y=0
― i worked myself into a clam (electricsound), Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:09 (ten years ago) link
Hmm, 300 copies, and yet 163 have been sold on ebay!
(I know, they might well be the same copy in some cases, sold on (and on))
― Mark G, Tuesday, 28 May 2013 11:15 (ten years ago) link
£66 wanted for a 90's cassette tape of Hissing of Summer Lawns
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Joni-Mitchell-The-Hissing-Of-Summer-Lawns-Cassette-tape-1803R-/370780627114?pt=UK_Music_Cassettes_GL&hash=item56543f60aa
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 10:51 (ten years ago) link
Same seller also wants £66 for a Coldplay CD single that's on discogs for £2.
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 10:58 (ten years ago) link
.. or best offer..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 11:02 (ten years ago) link
Wow, that Zep album went for £2,000 in the end.
― my father will guide me up the stairs to bed (anagram), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 13:09 (ten years ago) link
That's what I mean.. £250 for a perfect "orange lettering version", exactly the wsame as the turquoise letttering version in all other respects.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 13:11 (ten years ago) link
Dude this cassette guy is killing me!
― Austin, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 13:26 (ten years ago) link
lol their most expensive tape is Then Jerico's first album for £98!
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 11 June 2013 13:39 (ten years ago) link
I don't get his selling rationale at-all, he has 17,000 odd items for sale!
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 11 June 2013 13:59 (ten years ago) link
Man, Morrissey/Smiths collectors are a breed apart.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 12 June 2013 09:29 (ten years ago) link
“ALL THIS RECORDS ARE USED i PLAYED IN THE CLUB ON THE BEACH FOR ABOUT 6 YEARS i HAVE ALL OF THEM THEY ARE ALL COLLECTIBLE YOU HAVE RECORDS THAT IF YOU KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR YOU CAND NAKE A FURTION i HAVE ABOUT 300 45 AND i HAVE ABOUT BETWEEN 2 AND 35 HUNDREAD lP ONLY SERIOUSE BUYER i WILL NOT SPLIT THIS LOT YOU BUY ALL AND I WILL LET YOU DO YOUR HOMEWORK AND DOUBLE YOUR MONEY”
― scott seward, Sunday, 16 June 2013 14:15 (ten years ago) link
ONLY SERIOUSE BUYER CAND NAKE A FURTION
― r|t|c, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:04 (ten years ago) link
link please!
― Evan, Sunday, 16 June 2013 15:13 (ten years ago) link
where is a seriouse buyer who nakes furtion
― dimension nickröss (DJ Mencap), Sunday, 16 June 2013 18:00 (ten years ago) link
BETWEEN 2 AND 35 HUNDREAD lP that might be a lot huh
― high inerja (seandalai), Sunday, 16 June 2013 21:51 (ten years ago) link
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/390608648526/DAVID_BOWIE_TIME_Picture_Sleeve_WORLDS_RAREST__FINEST_CONDITION_EVER_OFFERED
― mark e, Monday, 17 June 2013 08:21 (ten years ago) link
Dude wants $666 for GBV Box - he's dreaming.http://www.ebay.com/itm/261249990335?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649
― bodacious ignoramus, Monday, 22 July 2013 03:31 (ten years ago) link
sorry for the $400 reserve, but i don't really want to part with this set.
ha ha, yeah really, like, don't worry, dude, you won't have to.
Average price on Discogs is $133.88, with one recently going as low as $100
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Monday, 22 July 2013 03:51 (ten years ago) link
Ha, weird I just saw that myself and I haven't really checked eBay in at least a month. Maybe 2 min of browsing. I've it that box-spent $60 on it.
― Evan, Monday, 22 July 2013 05:56 (ten years ago) link
got
not crazy priced but gave me a lolhttp://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/171081645826
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 29 July 2013 19:45 (ten years ago) link
that is lovely
― trippin' on brostep beats (NickB), Monday, 29 July 2013 22:03 (ten years ago) link
It almost makes me want to buy it.
Almost.
― Austin, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 03:12 (ten years ago) link
http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/sip.gif
not very psychedelic at all
https://myspace.com/whitefeatherofficialpage/music/song/summer-days-80237665
― take that, bitterman (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 03:18 (ten years ago) link
Kind of Is This Desire? PJ Harvey-ish — not amazing or anything, but I listened to the whole song without much fuss.
― Austin, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 04:51 (ten years ago) link
I'm confused by this. The track on the Myspace page has the same title/artist name as the single being sold on eBay, but the singer is female and the track doesn't sound to me like it was recorded in 1983 (sounds more like late 1990s). Also, the account given on the eBay auction page doesn't match the more detailed account given here:
http://alansrobinson.150m.com/past9.html
(There's no mention of any female singer)
― dubmill, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 08:33 (ten years ago) link
Sorry, the way I presented that was a bit misleading. The eBay page and more extensive web page account DO more or less match, give or take a few minor details. But there is no mention anywhere of any female singer. Yet the 1990s-sounding Myspace track with female singer singing in what sounds like Scandinavian accent has the exact same song title and artist name as the record being sold on eBay and apparently recorded in 1983.
― dubmill, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 08:45 (ten years ago) link
Must be totally unconnected and just a coincidence that the band name and song title are the same.
― dubmill, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 08:49 (ten years ago) link
Unless they are trying to offload unsold singles to Syd stans.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 09:17 (ten years ago) link
I wondered if it was some kind of low level scam to deliberately fake an obscure early '80s DIY release, i.e. actually recording and pressing it up and pretending it was done in 1983. I concluded that it is probably genuine. But, as you say, the stuff about what a DJ or local newspaper reviewer said could be completely made up.
There are some recordings of this Cookie character on YouTube and he sounds nothing like the person singing on the Myspace "Summer Days" track so I think that is a red herring.
― dubmill, Tuesday, 30 July 2013 09:24 (ten years ago) link
the track on the myspace has vinyl rip characteristics (crackle at the beginning) so i dunno, not really that impt
― take that, bitterman (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 10:22 (ten years ago) link
yeah looks more like a weird coincidence
― take that, bitterman (electricsound), Tuesday, 30 July 2013 10:23 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/RARE-TOMMY-JOHNSON-ALCOHOL-AND-JAKE-BLUES-RIDIN-HORSE-PARAMOUNT-1250-VG-/300969625287
One of two known copies apparently...
― Neil S, Monday, 23 September 2013 15:05 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, I've been following this. Funny to think how the guy almost let it go for $4000 to a sneaking collector that picked up on the fact the seller didn't know what he had.
Not sure if it is necessarily 1 of 2, did you deduce that from the fact that someone in the questions mentioned digital copies seem to come from the same source? The price definitely suggests that it's one of two (for now) but was there really only one other known to exist before this one?
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 15:25 (ten years ago) link
sneaky*
the only known copy belongs to Pete Whelan a longtime collector.
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 15:54 (ten years ago) link
78 quarterly used to run a monthly feature called THE RAREST 78S in which they detailed who had which blues records and in roughly what condition. Not 100% complete and definitely not accurate anymore, but it gives a pretty good idea which records are, in fact, the rarest.
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 15:55 (ten years ago) link
not just blues records -- also country records and jazz records.
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
https://s3.amazonaws.com/DinosaurDiscs/78+Quarterly+No+7.pdf
you can read here about Whelan's low-grade copy, and another copy sighted by a collector who was unable to acquire it from a "nutcase" in Cleveland..
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:11 (ten years ago) link
Wow! So do you know of any collector circles right now clamoring about this?
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:51 (ten years ago) link
well, people are very interested in watching it! the consensus seems to be that it's better than the other known copy, condition-wise, and that it could go for some ridiculously astronomical amount. i'm hanging out in jersey again this week with some collector dudes at yazoo HQ and i'm sure this will be a topic of conversation.
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:52 (ten years ago) link
So this storage locker the seller says he acquired this from... I wish there was a way to track the history of that collection. Must have been a collector of note?
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:54 (ten years ago) link
i dunno man. some people are just hoarders! it seems like the storage lockers are this guy's? and his wife is making him clear them out? he's certainly got some other good 78s up though. there are definitely people out there who collect outside of the normal collector networks..
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:55 (ten years ago) link
i love that he's charging $4 for shipping.
― mizzell, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Yeah, like with baseball cards "Sold for $79,999 + $2.50 Shipping"
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:20 (ten years ago) link
― ian, Monday, September 23, 2013 12:52 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh yeah?? Listen to some "My Garden State" during your trip. I'll be nearby (childhood home) until Wednesday.
I didn't get to read the article yet- does it mention how many are thought to have been originally pressed?
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:27 (ten years ago) link
― ian, Monday, September 23, 2013 12:55 PM (31 minutes ago)
Yeah I think he bought up a locker somewhere and if so what a find.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:29 (ten years ago) link
my "1 of 2" source was that well known purveyor of truth Twitter, but what ian says seems reliable.
― Neil S, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:31 (ten years ago) link
Yeah I wasn't saying you were wrong! I was just curious. It's fun to learn about these rarities.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:34 (ten years ago) link
oh sure, no offence taken! can't remember the account it came from now...
― Neil S, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:35 (ten years ago) link
evan -- there's no note in the article about numbers pressed; there ARE usually company ledgers that indicate how many were SOLD, however. things that were not sold were destroyed and recycled -- during WW2 there were "shellac drives" where people would donate their old records to be repurposed for the war effort! strange but true!
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:37 (ten years ago) link
alas, i don't think the ledgers with sales info are available publicly on the internet. they probably reside either with individual collectors or in a library collection somewhere.
Hmm! Well I guess I'd have thought there'd be some story behind why this particular one is so scarce.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
well, it was the depression. and a lot of folks didn't have money to buy records, and record companies were pressing fewer records than before. it just probably didn't sell many copies!
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:55 (ten years ago) link
Then I hope someone treats us to a digital rip from this copy! Looks super clean.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:58 (ten years ago) link
more speficically -- this record was recorded 12/29, just after the stock market crash, and probably not pressed and shipped to stores until a bit later -- those were hard times, especially for black folks with limited money to spend on entertainment.
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:16 (ten years ago) link
The winner speaks!http://www.fuse.tv/2013/10/why-i-paid-37100-for-one-record
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Wow:
I traveled to South Carolina the night before the auction was over. I was that confident that it wasn't going anywhere else other than home with me. I checked into a hotel at 7 P.M. the night before it was over and e-mailed the seller and said, "I would like to come over and have a look at this before I make my final bid." He wrote back, "Nope. I'm definitely afraid of going outside the house with this thing. I don't want anyone knowing my address. You wouldn't believe what types of scams people have been trying to perpetrate on me with this record. Someone wrote me from New York City saying the record had been stolen from him and they wanted it back immediately. If you end up the winner, I'll meet you somewhere."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
ian, fess up!
― Evan, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
hahaha NOT ME MAN.i only try to scam ppl out of rare hillbilly records.
― ian, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
$2000 for a mint orig copy of The Hissing Of Summer Lawns? gtfo
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MITCHELL-Joni-Hissing-OF-Summer-Lawns-75-ORIG-NM-NM-EX-Play-Graded-/251449088561?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3a8b889a31
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
LOL
― skip, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
odd that his other items are reasonably normally priced. is there a crazy priced vinyl on discogs thread?
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXTREMELY-RARE-MONSTER-ROCK-YUME-BITSU-ANDREW-RIEGER-OF-ELF-POWER-LIMITED-ED-500-/120968347334?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item1c2a467ec6
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
That's insane. 500 copies, and not even in NM condition. I'm guessing the four watchers are just people watching to see if anyone actually bids on this. I don't know the record, but is there any precedent for that starting bid? Surely "one of the guys in Elf Power" is alone not enough to command such a price. Or is it?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
There are 10 copies for sale on discogs between £6-12!
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
Discogs, once again, proving to be the better place to buy vinyl online.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Just sent the seller a query as to whether, for that price, this album comes with an audiophile-grade turntable to play it on.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
Fwiw at least 'Be Afraid' is one of the nicest tracks of Yume Bitsu.
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
this one is crazy as apart from the ridiculous price, the seller doesn't even have a copy yet but is counting on picking one up on record store day.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/William-Onyeabor-What-12-Double-LP-Vinyl-RSD-2014-Record-Store-Day-/331174768770?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4d1b8df082
― stirmonster, Sunday, 13 April 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/sch/shoeskate05/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc
Look at all of the "sold" listings of the same RSD 2014 items...
― Evan, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
someone clearly wants to be sure they get a copy of the glow in the dark ghostbusters 10".
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
that dolly parton coverart is pretty dreadful ..
― mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
I hope this person can't get hold of all these records he's already promised (and sold!) to other people.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit why are Jack White tickets that much?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
cos the weeping angels are on support ..
― mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, as if I didn't think RSD stuff was ridiculous enough already.
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
I was looking at the Pixies' $200 new album and started surfing and found a bunch of "Bossanova" and "Trompe Le Monde" original CD singles for like $5. The b-sides on those singles are 1000000X better than anything I've heard off the new album.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
But they don't say "Record Store Day" on them.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
RSD exclusive l@@k oop!!!!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Does anyone actually type "l@@k" into an eBay search?
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
How about when an ebay listing has "WOW" in the title? I see this ALL the time too.
― Evan, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
This is why I failed as an eBay seller. Never once did I put "WOW" or "l@@k" into the item title or description.
It all makes sense now.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
i don't know but
141,544 results for "l@@k"
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
So, the short answer is yes.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tAIo5Ed2TKU/VCtlnEwMkmI/AAAAAAAAAQE/N2F2xWma7Xo/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-09-30%2Bat%2B8.21.26%2BPM.png
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
would love to get some antique viynl
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 10:37 (nine years ago) link
It's weird that for each album he's asking that much for each album.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Not ebay but is double crazy:
http://www.secretaudioclub.com/products/everythingeverdoingnothing?variant=920255729
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
It's a misleading website - I had a play with it..
The ordinary black vinyl with hand-made sleeve (100 available) is $10The test pressing version is $75 (there are five)The Super-splatter colour version (five) is $100There was a full-set version (one only) but that's gone.
(Digital download is $1)
Needless to say, I'm not checking out there.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Ohhhh that's confusing.
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Still- you can have the vinyl as colorful and limited as you want but if you're a nobody band what's the difference?
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Yr mom is usually good for one of everything. 3 guys, 3 moms, that's like $400 right there.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link
shellac not plastichttp://www.ebay.com/itm/Harry-Dial-and-His-Blusicians-Vocalion-1567-E-/331344200025?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4d25a74159
― ian, Monday, 20 October 2014 00:04 (nine years ago) link
Not eBay but the rarest UK Northern Soul 7" is up for sale, already £10,000 and just under a month to gohttp://www.raresoulman.co.uk/auction/9522/open-the-door-to-your-heart-our-loveStory of its discovery here http://www.soul-source.co.uk/soulforum/topic/314938-darrell-banks-open-the-door-to-your-heartour-love/?hl=%20darrell%20%20banks
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Wednesday, 26 November 2014 14:17 (nine years ago) link
that's amazing, great story. gotta love those old pressing plant employees.
― sleeve, Wednesday, 26 November 2014 15:27 (nine years ago) link
final price £14,543http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/news/open-the-door-to-your-heart-by-darrell-banks-holy-grail-northern-soul-single-sells-for-14543-9939078.html
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Monday, 22 December 2014 14:41 (nine years ago) link
I have a worthless copy of that 45. Not on London records, of course. It's a totally unremarkable soul song. So weird.
― Brio2, Monday, 22 December 2014 18:43 (nine years ago) link
12 Smiths fanzines, £999 plz
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/191470205880
― MaresNest, Monday, 5 January 2015 10:18 (nine years ago) link
was about to say there's no point linking to hopelessly optimistic chancers with zero bids but the rest of the car boot sale landfill this guy is punting, and the opening prices he wants, are kind of a treat tbh
― ganglier than the Pantilimon statue (DJ Mencap), Monday, 5 January 2015 10:26 (nine years ago) link
lol they're not even the original fanzines, a 2006 reprint!
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Monday, 5 January 2015 10:31 (nine years ago) link
The Ridiculous Craigslist Vinyl Ads facebook page is good for afficianados of loony record-sellers:https://www.facebook.com/groups/315512678614229/?fref=nf
― Brio2, Friday, 30 January 2015 21:20 (nine years ago) link
It's a closed group- any way to see the posts I presume they aggregate?
― Evan, Friday, 30 January 2015 22:01 (nine years ago) link
Nirvana 7 inch pic disc of 'Lake Of Fire' yours for £10,000
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/The-Rarest-Nirvana-Record-In-The-World-Lake-Of-Fire-Picture-Disc-GFS79P-/271778968977?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_3&hash=item3f4749f591
― MaresNest, Sunday, 29 March 2015 12:43 (nine years ago) link
Neil Young – Weight Of The World, 7" $82,244.00
http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/228418556?ev=bp_img
― neilasimpson, Friday, 10 April 2015 14:28 (nine years ago) link
Not eBay: http://www.ioffer.com/i/charles-manson-susan-atkins-autograph-signed-beatles-160431617?i=5039293
― Brakhage, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Wonder if Rollins can afford it
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 9 June 2015 18:47 (eight years ago) link
http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/jul/02/bob-dylan-test-pressing-blood-on-the-tracks-on-sale-12000
― anthony braxton diamond geezer (anagram), Thursday, 2 July 2015 10:25 (eight years ago) link
some amazingly optimistic pricing here:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/record-collection-/151813660838
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 14 September 2015 22:30 (eight years ago) link
I wonder what the cheapest price you could replicate that entire record collection for would be? the below is going for 25p on discogs marketplace for a start:
http://eil.com/images/main/Des-OConnor-With-Feelins-443572.jpg
― soref, Monday, 14 September 2015 22:47 (eight years ago) link
this one actually seems to be kind of rare? it doesn't appear on discogs, someone is asking £9.99 for it on another website
http://www.vinyltap.co.uk/media/catalog/product/cache/1/image/364x/040ec09b1e35df139433887a97daa66f/i/m/image_236192_3_1_3_5_8_6_6_10_1_75649.jpg
― soref, Monday, 14 September 2015 22:55 (eight years ago) link
my wife got shouted at by danny la rue at work once, i don't think she'd thank me if i blew her savings on that
― feargal czukay (NickB), Monday, 14 September 2015 23:17 (eight years ago) link
i reckon if you could be bothered you could find the whole lot for less than £50.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 01:05 (eight years ago) link
You're not paying for the records; you're paying for the curation.
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 01:17 (eight years ago) link
to think, you can save two whole trips to the dollar bins for the low low price of 2000 pounds.
― skip, Tuesday, 15 September 2015 13:53 (eight years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/Secret-Killer-Never-seen-INDIAN-FUNK-fuzz-ROCK-Moog-psych-garage-HEAR-LISTEN-/111652912214?hash=item19ff083c56
― just sayin, Saturday, 26 September 2015 08:34 (eight years ago) link
VERY RARE LPAMAZING DISCOVERY FROM INDIAThis is an impossibly rare LPI've never seen it in all my 18 years OF record collecting
SORRY FOR NOT REVEALING THE NAME OF THE ALBUM OR UPLOADING A PICTURE .....AS IT IS A SECRET :))
― just sayin, Saturday, 26 September 2015 08:35 (eight years ago) link
haha, that's hilarious
sounds a bit james last fusion to my ears but I guess it really is "FUNK/fuzz/ROCK/Moog/psych/garage"
― niels, Saturday, 26 September 2015 09:03 (eight years ago) link
What a dick.
― austinato (Austin), Saturday, 26 September 2015 14:52 (eight years ago) link
I have managed to find out what this is. A person told me privately (not the advertiser, someone else entirely), and I had a look around.
It's on sale at Discogs for £1800, and it sold recently on ebay for £250.
So, I think I can work out why the secrecy...
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
a future release on finders keepers ?
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 12:35 (eight years ago) link
mmm,
I dunno.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 12:41 (eight years ago) link
yeah, this could easily be by any of the 70s era KPM crew.
and so no ... not a FK release at all - i posted that before hearing the clips
― mark e, Tuesday, 29 September 2015 12:45 (eight years ago) link
dude should have probably put some clothes on before listing this sealed KISS album
http://www.ebay.com/itm/KISS-self-titled-first-album-SEALED-original-74-hard-rock-Casablanca-NBLP-7001-/221903704334?hash=item33aa7dd10e
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 18:49 (eight years ago) link
Oh my word.
― Tim, Monday, 5 October 2015 19:02 (eight years ago) link
He likes Kiss very much.
― Mark G, Monday, 5 October 2015 20:03 (eight years ago) link
was there a thread like this but for books?
― soref, Monday, 5 October 2015 20:17 (eight years ago) link
VG+....Fair when it's cold
― Ma$e-en-scène (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 5 October 2015 20:19 (eight years ago) link
xp it's called $900 Grandmothers aka Out Of Print Book Price Sticker Shock: Post Yr Links Here
but for some reason I get an error posting the link
― sleeve, Monday, 5 October 2015 20:20 (eight years ago) link
its gone now
― Cosmic Slop, Monday, 5 October 2015 22:34 (eight years ago) link
Anyone have one of these?
https://www.facebook.com/Almuniamusic/photos/a.183990734968903.40448.175005359200774/1057594794275155/?type=3
My New Moon CD is listed for $50+ now...
― skip, Tuesday, 6 October 2015 03:21 (eight years ago) link
money well spent...
http://www.ebay.com/itm/XANADU-10-PROMO-PICTURE-DISC-Olivia-Newton-John-Electric-Light-Orchestra-ELO-/331608877951?hash=item4d356deb7f:g:CAAAAOSwnDxUbjMM
― scott seward, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 15:24 (eight years ago) link
Yeah, didn't Olivia insist it was withdrawn because the record hole was right smack in the middle of her head?
― Mark G, Tuesday, 27 October 2015 16:29 (eight years ago) link
((( IF THERE IS NO INTEREST IN THIS COLLECTION I WILL DESTROY IT IN THE NEAR FUTURE. )))
http://www.ebay.ca/itm/MONSTER-VINYL-COLLECTION-FOR-SALE-MOSTLY-MINT-NM-45s-LPs-EPs-P-S-/151888621182?
Got $260,000 burning a hole in your pocket?
― skip, Monday, 23 November 2015 15:43 (eight years ago) link
((( THERE IS NO WAY )))
I WILL LEAVE THESE VERY RARE RECORDS THAT AS TAKING ME 60 YEARS TO FIND. BEHIND.
― George W. Lucas (diamonddave85), Monday, 23 November 2015 16:25 (eight years ago) link
JUST TRY ME
(( I WILL RITUALLY BURN EACH ELVIS RECORD SEPARATELY IF NOBODY PAYS ME 300 THOUSAND DOLLARS ))
I'M NOT KIDDING
― skip, Monday, 23 November 2015 17:17 (eight years ago) link
not ebay but the White Album #0000001 is up for auction:
http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/163/lot/71120/?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F163%2F%3Fpage%3D2%26key%3Dbeatles%26cat%3D%26xclosed%3Dno%26items%3D100
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 11:02 (eight years ago) link
lots of quite strange items in that auction. keith moon's panda bear anyone?
http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/163/lot/70917/?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F163%2F%3Fpage%3D2%26key%3Dbeatles%26cat%3D%26xclosed%3Dno%26items%3D100
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 11:12 (eight years ago) link
― niels, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 13:29 (eight years ago) link
haha excellent find
That "White album 0000001" is going to be huge..
Usually, those auction pages tend to not report what the final selling price was for long.
I daresay it'll end up getting mentioned in Record Collector anyway.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
must be interesting to be ringo starr and whenever you want a new car or house or something you can just go down to the basement, grab something, and sell it for $50,000.
― wizzz! (amateurist), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
How did Ringo get #1? If there were any justice, Yoko would have it.
― dlp9001, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:02 (eight years ago) link
if anything $50k for that record sounds light given that #5 sold for $30k.
― skip, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
http://www.julienslive.com/images/lot/2177/217755_4.jpg
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:05 (eight years ago) link
PLUS
Even More
― nomar, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:08 (eight years ago) link
The story was, that John had the first batch of the White album at his house, a builder who did some work for him was like "wow! the new album", John was "yep. You want one? any number except one to four."
So, I believe the $30K one was that guy.
Also, that John gave #1 to Ringo.
Which was nice.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 24 November 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
Seriously considering buying the Panda.
― the european nikon is here (grauschleier), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 17:15 (eight years ago) link
Needs to be an ilx fundraiser so we can all buy him and make him a mod
― she used alt+3 like an ascii heart (NickB), Tuesday, 24 November 2015 19:38 (eight years ago) link
"Uh dude what is like up with the owl figurines?""Verily my bro you will never believe who used to own them FUCKIN RINGO, MAN!"
What a weird-ass collection of stuff!
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 00:43 (eight years ago) link
Didn't somebody on ILX try to buy James Brown's couch once?
― brimstead, Wednesday, 25 November 2015 02:01 (eight years ago) link
Somebody, it appears, has copied Dark Side Of The Moon onto a 1/4 inch tape reel and is trying to sell it for £1500.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 1 December 2015 22:23 (eight years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/AMPEX-641-REEL-TAPE-PANCAKE-10-5-NAB-Hub-15ips-PINK-FLOYD-DARK-SIDE-OF-THE-MOON-/321920836629?hash=item4af3fa2415:g:e4UAAOSw0HVWC2EG
good one
― niels, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 22:49 (eight years ago) link
1500 dollars for four Madonna tapes. http://www.discogs.com/Madonna-The-Madonna-Collection/release/7035731
― skip, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 22:56 (eight years ago) link
current bid for white album #0000001 = US$80,000
auction finishes tomorrow @ 10:00 AM PST if you still want to get a bid in
― gazcom (NickB), Wednesday, 2 December 2015 22:58 (eight years ago) link
Mmm, it'll be three times that is my guess.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 December 2015 23:08 (eight years ago) link
yeah that estimate was obviously way too low.
― skip, Thursday, 3 December 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
Oh, is it still going?
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:16 (eight years ago) link
think it finishes at 6pm UK time? currently on $95k - i'm gone
― gazcom (NickB), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
Looks like it ends in about an hour.
― skip, Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:44 (eight years ago) link
*that* drumkit @ $400k
http://www.julienslive.com/view-auctions/catalog/id/163/lot/70811/?url=%2Fview-auctions%2Fcatalog%2Fid%2F163%2F%3Fpage%3D1%26key%3Ddrum%26cat%3D868%26xclosed%3Dno
― gazcom (NickB), Thursday, 3 December 2015 16:52 (eight years ago) link
it would appear that ringo is decluttering. is he short of money? is he planning to go into space?
― koogs, Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:06 (eight years ago) link
Charity gig. Plus decluttering.
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 December 2015 17:48 (eight years ago) link
There's a live auction room feed now, but it's going to take them a long time to reach the interesting lots. like keith's panda.
― gazcom (NickB), Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
that 00000001 is lot number 1005. they are currently on lot 14...
― koogs, Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:13 (eight years ago) link
Scared to poke around on thst site now in case I accidentally go big on some owl figurines
― gazcom (NickB), Thursday, 3 December 2015 18:17 (eight years ago) link
Owl figurines were def on my list of things I might needlessly end up with.
― hardcore dilettante, Friday, 4 December 2015 00:35 (eight years ago) link
Still going..
― Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 07:50 (eight years ago) link
Up to 677 right now..
― Mark G, Friday, 4 December 2015 23:01 (eight years ago) link
$2,100,000 or thereabouts for the drum kit.
― Mark G, Saturday, 5 December 2015 16:36 (eight years ago) link
that could buy an awful lot of owl figurines
― koogs, Saturday, 5 December 2015 16:41 (eight years ago) link
Listening in to this out of curiosity. Glad they just changed the auctioneer.
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:05 (eight years ago) link
Also, they're on Lot 989 now, so the white album will be up very shortly...
― NWOFHM! Overlord (krakow), Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
holy shiiiiiiiiiit:
~~~~~ Lot closed - Winning bid:$790,000 ~~~~~
― gazcom (NickB), Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:33 (eight years ago) link
hammer price is showing as a mere $650,000 though so i'm confused as to what the final cost was
― gazcom (NickB), Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:35 (eight years ago) link
auction house confirms it was $790,000
https://twitter.com/JuliensAuctions/status/673239335446032384
― gazcom (NickB), Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
it is a double album i guess
peanuts
― brimstead, Saturday, 5 December 2015 20:51 (eight years ago) link
£10 on CD from Amazon
― koogs, Saturday, 5 December 2015 22:01 (eight years ago) link
I was going to guess a 10x premium over the #5 record...holy crap
― skip, Monday, 7 December 2015 04:47 (eight years ago) link
I know, I called as three times the $80k bid it had reached by Thursday. Thought I had gone over. Nope, to say the least.
― Mark G, Monday, 7 December 2015 07:49 (eight years ago) link
£600 for a Mission 7 inch, has to be a decimal point typo.
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/371518054916?ul_noapp=true
― MaresNest, Saturday, 26 December 2015 21:07 (eight years ago) link
yes, should be before the 6
― ilxors ananimus (onimo), Monday, 28 December 2015 20:52 (eight years ago) link
Still, 599 nectar points...
― flyingtrain (sbahnhof), Monday, 28 December 2015 21:18 (eight years ago) link
£7,000 for a Phil Collins LP on Discogs. It's the arty Phil Collins, but still. Next most expensive one is £6,900 cheaper.
Phil Collins – My Heart's In My Hand, And My Hand Is Pierced, And My Hand's In The Bag, And The Bag Is Shut, And My Heart Is Caught.
http://www.discogs.com/sell/item/267269308
― neilasimpson, Thursday, 7 January 2016 09:33 (eight years ago) link
There's always this one..
http://www.discogs.com/Phil-Collins-My-Hearts-In-My-Hand-And-My-Hand-Is-Pierced-And-My-Hands-In-The-Bag-And-The-Bag-Is-Shut/release/7810008
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 January 2016 10:36 (eight years ago) link
FULLY SIGNED ON FRONT & BACK COVER (TASTEFULLY) BY BAND WHEN THEY PLAYED MY VENUE IN FRESNO CALIFORNIA
― niels, Tuesday, 19 January 2016 12:23 (eight years ago) link
Seller doing it wrong, should get the "Ziggy Test Pressing" guy to write his copy if he wants to push his fuckin luck like this: https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/280999442(For archival purposes, this is a 5,000 euro mono first press of "Piper at the Gates of Dawn")
― hardcore dilettante, Monday, 29 February 2016 03:47 (eight years ago) link
about to cop https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/311127119
― Captain Maximus, Monday, 29 February 2016 07:14 (eight years ago) link
Same seller has a 2000 dollar maroon 5 LP
https://www.discogs.com/buy/Vinyl/Maroon-5-Overexposed/311127113?ev=idrec
― koogs, Monday, 29 February 2016 07:22 (eight years ago) link
lol, not to mention a $15,000 Maroon 5 box set. https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/310999747
― Captain Maximus, Monday, 29 February 2016 07:33 (eight years ago) link
their prices start at $100 which is mostly new vinyl everyone else is selling for a quarter of that
don't understand the rationale behind this at all, I guess it's plausible that some wealthy sucker might throw them a few grand here and there but where does anyone imagine the market is for a hundred-dollar Hot Chip LP
― drive me to a girly rave (DJ Mencap), Monday, 29 February 2016 08:38 (eight years ago) link
Piper price drop to 4500 euros! Grab it while it's cheap!
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 03:41 (eight years ago) link
mad logic!
I only sell what i believe to be awesome stuff, and i'm pricing them based on a combination of their relative scarcity and degree of awesomeness. If you look at my listings on the desktop site rather than mobile, and look more closely at the absolute number of haves, wants, the have-to-want ratio, and the listener rating (adjusting for ratings sandbaggers), you'll see there's an internal logic to my pricing that is informed meaningfully by that information, along with a few other adjustments. i am ignoring past sale prices, because past sale prices have been an absolutely horrendous indicator of fair future pricing. What stands for great, rare music is of course entirely subjective, but what i'm certain of is the market currently has it wrong, as it almost always does. If you look at the history of rare record pricing over the last decade, it's laughable just how wrong the market has been. Ask yourself, what were most of these records selling for five to ten years ago? So was the market pricing right five to ten years ago? No, it was totally wrong! I'd argue the price of killer grail-class records has been and still is very low, rather than my prices being very high. I view the majority of albums i'm selling as national treasures, and part of our global cultural history, and there is a huge under-awareness of them by the majority of turntable owners and music lovers around the world.
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 04:22 (eight years ago) link
There's something to that, weirdly - I can't remember where I read it, but there's an article out there somewhere on how it was book dealers, not market forces, that created the market for modern first editions in literature and a number of other book collecting areas. Still I hope this guy's doing it as a hobby, because I think he's going to have a while to wait before the world catches up to his pricing.
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 05:12 (eight years ago) link
When that Pink Floyd album went on sale in 1968, it was priced at 18/- , did the market have it wrong?
(Spoiler: No. )
― Mark G, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 07:55 (eight years ago) link
hd: sounds like an interesting read please post if you find it again
― niels, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 09:41 (eight years ago) link
They may be national treasures but if they aren't rare then they aren't going to be expensive.
― skip, Tuesday, 1 March 2016 11:30 (eight years ago) link
Granted, this record is a total belter, and is a nice edition, and is small in number. However, $2,499.98 does seem a little off the scale. I do like that it's .98 and .99 though.
https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2619151?ev=rb
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 12:10 (eight years ago) link
guy's got some collection...https://www.discogs.com/seller/The-1-and-Holy/profile?sort=price%2Cdesc
― niels, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 12:29 (eight years ago) link
Yep, although seems to have an order of magnitude related problem with his pricing.
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 12:40 (eight years ago) link
Value is determined by desirability and rarity. He seems to have grave misapprehensions about both of those as it relates to his babies, I mean, record collection.
― skip, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 16:54 (eight years ago) link
Majority of his stuff is low-price, I think his method is "Not selling this one now, unless someone wants to pay £3K "
― Mark G, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 17:03 (eight years ago) link
Aaaaaand this is where the bubble goes 'pop'.
More like a slowly deflating hot air balloon, but when you see shit like this on a regular basis, that's usually a good sign that you're in the final stages of 'peak [whatever]'.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 20:15 (eight years ago) link
More like a slowly deflating hot air balloon, but when you see shit like this on a regular basis, that's usually a good sign that you're in the final stages of 'peak <whatever>'.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 2 March 2016 20:16 (eight years ago) link
Not ebay, but ouch...
https://www.reddit.com/r/VinylCollectors/comments/4d0c4o/selling_a_part_of_dads_collection_tomorrow_400/
― Evan, Sunday, 3 April 2016 23:30 (eight years ago) link
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/351301968054?clk_rvr_id=1013042965816&rmvSB=true
THIS TITLE IS SO RARE THAT THERE IS ONLY 2 OTHER SELLERS WORLDWIDE SELLING THIS RARE JAPAN PRESSING AND THE ARE SELLING IT FOR OVER $2000
― niels, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:30 (eight years ago) link
serious o_O when i saw this...
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Slapp-Happy-2005-11-25/dp/B01A9KNE9O/ref=sr_1_10?ie=UTF8&qid=1460381610&sr=8-10&keywords=slapp+happy
― no lime tangier, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:35 (eight years ago) link
None available? Was it one of those crazy prices generated by those systems resellers use?
― Evan, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:37 (eight years ago) link
that was what i was wondering. there is another version for around 50... but that one^ is a JAPANESE release.
or you could just get the twofer with desperate straights for a pittance in comparison to those.
― no lime tangier, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:46 (eight years ago) link
Discogs has the japanese CD for reasonable.
It's basically one of those crazy prices generated by those systems resellers use
― Mark G, Monday, 11 April 2016 13:50 (eight years ago) link
Based on the limitations of those programs or just the settings, they'll sometimes price things insanely high if there aren't other listings for sale that the program can calibrate against.
― Evan, Monday, 11 April 2016 14:56 (eight years ago) link
What are these systems? I've always wondered how these prices came about
― Duke, Monday, 11 April 2016 18:40 (eight years ago) link
worth it (no exaggeration): http://www.ebay.com/itm/DON-PULLEN-MILFORD-GRAVES-concert-at-yale-orig-66-PAINTED-private-free-jazz-/182058170754?hash=item2a63833982:g:T4kAAOSwoudW61DH
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 11 April 2016 18:50 (eight years ago) link
Resellers use them so they don't have to manually readjust their many many listings since the market value will fluctuate to something higher or lower than what an item was worth when they originally listed. It changes based on average prices of other current listings for the same item. It might readjust to something really wonky if there are no longer any other listings or activity to compare to.
― Evan, Monday, 11 April 2016 18:55 (eight years ago) link
would love to know if there is anyone out there that actually pays those ridiculous prices
gonna assume it's the same deal with this...
http://www.amazon.com/Microminiature-Love-Michael-Yonkers-Band/dp/B0056H0RI2
...since i just scored a still sealed copy for the equivalent of 7 or so pounds
― no lime tangier, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 07:55 (eight years ago) link
"Just might appeal to fans of The Fuggs,Stooges,Sonic Youth and Geordie."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 12 April 2016 11:44 (eight years ago) link
craigslist: http://i.imgur.com/BnlVmGM.jpg
― Evan, Sunday, 29 May 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/BnlVmGM.jpg
nice
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 29 May 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Windowlicker 12" - "We sell this record with an exclusive autograph of APHEX TWIN himself on the front cover!!!"
https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/177199771
€8,000.00 + shipping
― neilasimpson, Wednesday, 1 June 2016 08:38 (seven years ago) link
so was trying to track down a vinyl copy of Into the Unknown by Bad Religion...couldn't find anything less than about $150-200...so I saw somewhere it had been reissued as part of a vinyl box set of the Bad Religion catalog and found this on Amazon:
https://smile.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B004EC5IY8/ref=sr_1_1_twi_lp__1_olp?ie=UTF8&qid=1468252709&sr=8-1&keywords=into+the+unknown+bad+religion
like at a certain point...this is a box of fucking Bad Religion records!! how much could that possibly mean to you, how often would you listen to this?, also this is all available on spotify or itunes or youtube or whatever, and I'm a vinyl guy but like are you gonna get into the deep audiophile sonics of an 80s punk record that much???
fucking crazy
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link
i don't know, Bad Religion were HUGE in southern california in the 90s when I went to high school ... and a lot of their fans from back then probably own car dealerships in orange county now, so they've got dollars to burn.
― tylerw, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:50 (seven years ago) link
just saw this one -- $16,000: http://www.ebay.com/itm/the-freewheelin-BOB-DYLAN-withdrawn-LP/272275305918?_trksid=p2047675.c100009.m1982&_trkparms=aid%3D777000%26algo%3DABA.MBE%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20131227121020%26meid%3D0f38d5ad24ef49a39eb532666eaeb031%26pid%3D100009%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26mehot%3Dpp%26sd%3D371662826703&rmvSB=true
The rarest - and most sought after - of all Bob Dylan albums.
That's right - this is the 1A matrix pressing which plays the four tracks that were withdrawn. It is NOT the Canadian pressing or timing strip issue which list the deleted tracks but play the standard cuts. The labels and cover here show the replacement tracks - which is consistent with the few other mono copies that have turned up over the past fifty years. However, check the picture which shows the vinyl for Side 1: the middle track is "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall", and you should be able to see it is the widest band, since it is
― tylerw, Monday, 11 July 2016 16:52 (seven years ago) link
discogs sellers are asking between £380 and £400 for that Bad Religion box, which is still like twentysomething quid per LP but there's an affluent grownup punk market for it yeah
― Pat Umunna Glass (DJ Mencap), Monday, 11 July 2016 18:21 (seven years ago) link
You guys, when you see prices like that on Amazon it's usually the result of an auto pricing program that resellers use to keep their online marketplace items relevant to current demand without them having to manually re-upload listings. When this happens it's often some sort of silly error or result of a listing that has no comparison, thereby generating a really high wonky price.
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:28 (seven years ago) link
I used to work for a store that used one. Listings would increase or decrease by certain percentages to remain competitive as demand fluctuates. I didn't work with it directly so I'm not sure exactly what neglected settings make this kind of thing happen so often specifically.
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:31 (seven years ago) link
Honestly in the post Shuga world anything is possible IMO, like here's a 60 second Ford Station Wagon commercial from the 50s read by some dude from the show Wagon Train, a little more than the Bad Religion box but can you really put a price on something so rare and precious??
http://www.shugarecords.com/ford-motors-ward-bond-station-wagon-transcription-lp-vg-1959-acetate-usa-cbs
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 18:41 (seven years ago) link
also listed it for even more on ebay
http://www.ebay.com/itm/FORD-MOTORS-WARD-BOND-station-wagon-transcription-LP-VG-1959-Acetate-USA-CBS-/351077069094
god that guy is such a scumbag
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 18:45 (seven years ago) link
On Amazon though you'll see that happen quite often and for much sillier items at much sillier prices. It's certainly possible that it's a shuga records style nutjob just unlikely when on Amazon (unless there were some way to show that statistically I've got it completely backwards. Always possible)
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 18:54 (seven years ago) link
yeah i'm not doubting what you say also happens but inflated price are so nuts now on some stuff it's hard to guage what anything is "worth" anymore
it's just really hard for me to go over 30/40 bucks and that better be something that's in really nice shape that's hard to find and i really love the music
― Steve Gunn Mann-Dude (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 11 July 2016 19:23 (seven years ago) link
recently i sold a bootleg record for way too much on eBay (even though i clearly/prominently described it as an unofficial release), and i felt a little bit guilty. but i guess if somebody wants to give me money i'm gonna take it.
― dc, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:39 (seven years ago) link
Things are only worth what people are willing to pay. That's why I sort by sold and hope there's enough relatively recent data to get a reliable sense of demand.
― Evan, Monday, 11 July 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link
popsike sez this may not be overpriced, but still o_O
― no lime tangier, Wednesday, 17 August 2016 06:41 (seven years ago) link
golden era original uk pressings of unaccompanied violin stuff always goes for heaps of money e.g. these johanna martzy records from the 50s:
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=johanna+martzy&incldescr=&sortord=dprice&thumbs=&currsel=&endfrom=&endthru=&ipp=&sdc=
or this other leonid kogan (you can pick up the CFP reissue of this for 50p btw, it sounds great):
http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=sax+2386&incldescr=&sortord=dprice&thumbs=&currsel=&endfrom=&endthru=&ipp=&sdc=
― Rae Kwoniff (NickB), Wednesday, 17 August 2016 13:52 (seven years ago) link
yikes at those prices! have never looked into the high end classical market... is that down to rarity value or are those pressings really that much better?
― no lime tangier, Thursday, 18 August 2016 05:23 (seven years ago) link
Those really fringe classical collectors are pretty sycophantic.
― Austin, Thursday, 18 August 2016 05:26 (seven years ago) link
7000 euros for a Peruvian pressing of "The Wall" anyone? https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/519903144
I came across it as this one in my wants list is also crazily priced - https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/2574353?ev=rb
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 22:36 (six years ago) link
oops. sorry, meant to post this on discogs thread. apologies!
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 22:43 (six years ago) link
how about $20k for an 'orange' white album that was clearly a dye or marker job?
https://www.ebay.com/itm/Beatles-White-Album-ORANGE-COVER-USA-APPLE-Embossed-Numbered-INSANELY-UBER-RARE/182841679894?_trkparms=aid%3D111001%26algo%3DREC.SEED%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D41375%26meid%3D33c2829ff30641b1ad4dd163a30b3755%26pid%3D100033%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D182841679894&_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m2042
― akm, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:22 (six years ago) link
Lol, I just won a record from that guy yesterday.
― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:40 (six years ago) link
Same album was on a diff thread on here today
― Le Bateau Ivre, Tuesday, 24 October 2017 23:43 (six years ago) link
Why would anyone go through the process of printing a boot cover, pay the extra expense to emboss the cover, only to put legit records inside — doesn’t make sense.
lol this guy cannot be serious
The records themselves are fairly marginal. Of course that really doesn’t matter, since you can easily replace them.
the records are marked VG-. $10 says this is a beat up copy of the White Album spray painted orange
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 25 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
Just going on all information from anywhere on the internet that I can see, plus the information from my Beatles experts, it seems pretty likely that this will be your only chance to own this, as it’s the only copy anyone has ever heard of.
― niels, Friday, 27 October 2017 06:18 (six years ago) link
Only the front, of a sleeve that is made from one piece of card?
Its not coloured by marker pens, or someone's paint brush.
Its a spray paint job, then.
― Mark G, Friday, 27 October 2017 06:47 (six years ago) link
look at the clues guys. orange is a pun on apple; orinj is also an anagram of ringo. it's likely that this unique copy was pressed especially for him and if you can buy it for less than $3m, it's a steal
― plp will eat itself (NickB), Friday, 27 October 2017 08:50 (six years ago) link
if that sells I can guarantee I'll be painting all my copies of the white album and selling them for a mere $10k a piece
― akm, Saturday, 28 October 2017 20:48 (six years ago) link
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/First-Day-of-Issue-the-Beatles-White-Album-CD-Carson-City-Nevada-August-25-1987/302626135744?hash=item4675ec5ec0:g:c8EAAOSwFdtXzDfN
― MaresNest, Thursday, 22 February 2018 16:03 (six years ago) link
longboxes have really kicked up in value
― maura, Thursday, 22 February 2018 16:21 (six years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/i/253522160452
I mean, a guy from Manowar was in this band (not among the signers, btw), but cmon
― Paul Ponzi, Thursday, 5 April 2018 12:34 (six years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/The-Complete-Utter-Dukes-of-Stratosphear-by-XTC-Box-Set-2010-Ape-NEW/263819368442
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 13:48 (five years ago) link
It's been in my "Want" page for aeons, it just never comes up for sale.
I did get the "Fuzzy Warbles" box back whenever, for a daft price (literally had to re-contact the seller to ask "This is all the CDs? Not an empty box or "contains 2" type thing?" but it was.)
But seeing as how I have all the music from the box (actually, both orig albums and the new CD sets), it dunt matter.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 31 July 2018 14:59 (five years ago) link
4k for a knackered Jethro Tull promo poster.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Jethro-Tull-Poster-A-Passion-Play-Dancer-Vintage/153306672836?hash=item23b1ca2ec4:g:cGsAAOSw3-9cFxMi:rk:1:pf:0
― MaresNest, Saturday, 12 January 2019 19:19 (five years ago) link
Very Rare Misprint LP Two Side 3's - Communicate * [LP] by Sasha + John DigweedPre-Owned
$20,000.00 or Best Offer+$44.19 shipping
WILL REFUND 125% if returned with proof that item is not authentic...(VERY RARE; POSSIBLY ONE OF A KIND) Great investment opportunity This is hands down, one of my most prized possessions and may very well be priceless. If you were in the House/Trance scene back in the day, then you'd remember how hot and heavy the dance floor would get whenever the DJ dropped Trisco. This LP has two side 3's instead of the side 3 and side 4 that should be there. I didn't list this as a new item only because I have removed the record from it's sleeve, but it has never been played. The sleeve has very little wear due to sitting on the shelf but is in extremely good condition. Because I have never played the album, I cannot say wether or not the label is a misprint or if it's the label and the actual record as well.
Cheers and happy bidding!
A must have for any record collection. Album FeaturesArtist:Sasha + John DigweedFormat:VinylRelease Year:2001Record Label:Kinetic (USA)Genre:Electronic, TranceNumber Of Vinyl:Two 12” Records2nd Record is a Misprint with Two Side 3’s
― omar little, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 07:29 (five years ago) link
haha!
― kolarov spring (NickB), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 07:37 (five years ago) link
dude you sent me skunk digweed
― maffew12, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 12:09 (five years ago) link
If you were in the House/Trance scene back in the day,
signs that i'm out of element, number 48634896.
― Totally different head. Totally. (Austin), Tuesday, 5 March 2019 17:43 (five years ago) link
Because I have never played the album, I cannot say wether or not the label is a misprint or if it's the label and the actual record as well.
this is insanely lazy and funny because you could easily check any notes in the middle actually pressed on the record, or eyeball the number of and length of tracks on both sides and see if they match
― mh, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:42 (five years ago) link
groan
― ian, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
it's a must have for any record collection
― frogbs, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:44 (five years ago) link
ian how many times has someone tried to pull off something like this to you at the record store
― mh, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 22:45 (five years ago) link
hmmmmmm.... not things exactly like this, but people very often have an overinflated of what their beat up beatles records are worth.
― ian, Tuesday, 5 March 2019 23:11 (five years ago) link
LOLs.
You do see people asking about stuff like this on the webs; it's got the wrong label stuck on one side is it worth loads? Unless it's a fucking Quarrymen acetate, probably not mate.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:03 (five years ago) link
I once had in my possession a copy of The Fountainhead (yeah, I decided to hate read it) and there was a 50 page segment in the middle that was just the previous 50 pages repeated. I guess I should have held on to it as a highly sought-after collectible but I was mostly pissed that if I wanted to continue punishing my brain by reading Ayn Rand I’d need to find another copy so I threw it in the recycling bin
― mh, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:07 (five years ago) link
― ian, Tuesday, March 5, 2019 3:11 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
haha, this was an observation from a friend who worked in a record store. people incredulous that a beatles record in good condition isn't that rare a thing, feeling like they're being bullshitted
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
I've got a CD by Mary Margaret O'Hara entitled 'Miss Amercia' [sic]. Makeuthink.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 00:33 (five years ago) link
this is a weird ass phenomenon. if i ran a record store i'd be tempted to have a conversation like this:
me: would you say the beatles were popular, sir?
guy trying to pawn off beatles records: yeah, definitely.
me: would you say that they sold millions of records?
GTTPOBR: of course! they're the beatles.
me: so why would you think that one of those many millions of records is a rarity?
GTTPOBR: (sobs)
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 01:40 (five years ago) link
ah because 800k of them were treated in a haphazard manner, discarded or abused!so there are still a couple hundred thousand copies in decent condition?
― mh, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
I once had in my possession a copy of The Fountainhead (yeah, I decided to hate read it) and there was a 50 page segment in the middle that was just the previous 50 pages repeated.Serious question — how could you tell?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 04:16 (five years ago) link
GTTPOBR: (sobs) BECAUSE THERE'S AN ABNORMAL INSCRIPTION IN THE MATRICES, AND DO YOU SEE THE SHRINK AND HYPE STICKER? GIVE ME MONEY
Proceeds to storm home and plop it on ebay as Buy It Now with the word "WOW" in the listing title; it sits there for 5 years
― Evan, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 05:22 (five years ago) link
Would you like to capitalize your auction title for an addition $1.75?
GTTPOBR: oh goody goody
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Wednesday, 6 March 2019 06:29 (five years ago) link
xxp very good question
― mh, Wednesday, 6 March 2019 13:00 (five years ago) link
I think people get the idea that misprinted records, books, etc are valuable comes from stamp collecting, where I think that’s a “thing.”
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, 7 March 2019 00:00 (five years ago) link
Stamps and coins, because those are government productions that need strict quality control.
― nickn, Thursday, 7 March 2019 00:14 (five years ago) link
Serious question — how could you tell?
― yuh yuh (morrisp), Tuesday, March 5, 2019 10:16 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
hahaha
― budo jeru, Thursday, 7 March 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
I think people get the idea that misprinted records, books, etc are valuable comes from stamp collecting, where I think that’s a “thing.”― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, March 7, 2019 12:00 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Una Palooka Dronka (hardcore dilettante), Thursday, March 7, 2019 12:00 AM (three hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
people also like, like, weirdly shaped rocks and stuff.
― affects breves telnet (Gummy Gummy), Thursday, 7 March 2019 03:56 (five years ago) link
I’d pay good money for a copy of Rubber Soul where a pressing error made it shaped like a cock and balls
― moose; squirrel (silby), Thursday, 7 March 2019 05:10 (five years ago) link
pretty sure I remember seeing a rubber c&b for sale in a shop somewhere, will let you know if I recall where
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Thursday, 7 March 2019 06:56 (five years ago) link
Does it play "Baby you can drive my car"?
― Mark G, Thursday, 7 March 2019 07:50 (five years ago) link
I once encountered a CDr in a sealed pack that contained some kind of compilation of Police & Sting songs, which literally made it worth less than the 60p or whatever that it cost.
― *there's (Noel Emits), Thursday, 7 March 2019 08:11 (five years ago) link
Mint or NM condition original pressings of Beatles records are certainly worth money, because so manh of them have been overplayed and wound up just trashed. But they have also remained in print since they were released in various masterings so it's not like it's difficult to find excellent condition versions of those albums from some era. The more scarce ones are strange pressings from South America etc, particularly if they were variants with different covers or even album names.
― akm, Thursday, 7 March 2019 18:25 (five years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/165716435083?epid=11046044472
― omar little, Monday, 30 January 2023 21:46 (one year ago) link
Seller information
deepdiscount (366697)
― omar little, Monday, 30 January 2023 21:47 (one year ago) link
Weirdly specific price + generic info leads me to believe an automatic listing/adjustment program went haywire? IDK
― Evan, Monday, 30 January 2023 22:09 (one year ago) link
yeah deepdiscount are a big retailer, that seems like a mistake.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Monday, 30 January 2023 22:37 (one year ago) link
.. unless someone buys one...
― Mark G, Monday, 30 January 2023 22:49 (one year ago) link
No doubt an algorithm error. Weird one though.
― omar little, Monday, 30 January 2023 23:03 (one year ago) link
What was it priced at? it's at $28.76 now
― mh, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 16:05 (one year ago) link
it was over $800 lol
― "i'm grateful." (Austin), Tuesday, 31 January 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
wowza
― mh, Tuesday, 31 January 2023 16:32 (one year ago) link
not vinyl but
https://www.ebay.com/itm/324938955762
― omar little, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:03 (nine months ago) link
lmaoooo
― J. Sam, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 21:20 (nine months ago) link
I’ll give him like $20 for that
― The land of dreams and endless remorse (hardcore dilettante), Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:01 (nine months ago) link
It would be great if we could all message him variations of "I have one exactly like that, it's not that rare."
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:02 (nine months ago) link
his spiel is so laughably lazy. wtf is "multiple music collecting sources"
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:06 (nine months ago) link
There is no printing on the disc. It plays Van Halen.
― omar little, Wednesday, 28 June 2023 23:32 (nine months ago) link
it's gotta be a gag. you've all been had, he def just burned vh1 onto an unmarked cdr
― carthage marine park (Deflatormouse), Thursday, 29 June 2023 01:04 (nine months ago) link
not crazy priced exactly, but i was amused by this seller's description:
ON SEEING THIS AMAZING COLLECTION FOR THE FIRST TIME, THIS SELLER'S FIRST REACTION WAS INTENSE, ALMOST VISCERAL, DISBELIEF. IT TOOK YOURS TRULY ABOUT 10 MINUTES OF PINCHING, HEAD-SCRATCHING AND CONTINUOUS GASPING TO REGAIN HIS BREATH AND GRASP THE SHEER MAGNITUDE AND HISTORICAL DEPTH AND BREADTH OF THIS COLLECTION. ALMOST 70% OF THESE ITEMS THIS SELLER SEES FOR THE FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE, DESPITE THE FACT THAT HE HAD SPENT MORE THAN HALF A CENTURY COLLECTING RECORDS.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/354953649680
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 13:22 (eight months ago) link
And it’s all Herb Alpert and Firestone Christmas records
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 16:39 (eight months ago) link
breathless write up is OTT, but then again it is 16k records with tons of private pressings in there; stuff I'm not into, but I can see someone being blown away by this
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 17:01 (eight months ago) link
love the timecube style formatting, eBay still has vestiges of web 1.0 style
― brimstead, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 19:34 (eight months ago) link
oh ebay's design and UX is fucking awful. it's almost admirable.
― I? not I! He! He! HIM! (akm), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 20:16 (eight months ago) link
I wonder whose collection it was. Sounds like the seller is still living.
― Moritz von Oswald von Wolkenstein (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 20:29 (eight months ago) link
my eyes
― Scene report: Rochester MN (Matt #2), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 20:59 (eight months ago) link
this sounds pretty dope tbh
“Earl "Goggles" Freeman was an outcat's outcat: musician, poet, visual artist, and all-around interesting fellow. Born in Oakland in 1937, Mr. Freeman was a noteworthy but somewhat enigmatic musician who was most active recording-wise when he was an expat on the '60s Paris free jazz scene. His discography includes dates by Archie Shepp, Sunny Murray, Kenneth Terroade, Noah Howard, Selwyn Lissack, Mike Osborne, and even Gong's first record. A Korean War veteran, he often wore an aviator's cap and goggles, hence his nickname. (He is also rumored to have worn a parachute onstage on at least one occasion.) In 1972, French state investigators hauled Freeman in for questioning and subsequently declared that he possessed a "Dangerous Political Image". Under threat of imprisonment, he hightailed it to Amsterdam. He hung t for a while until some folks smashed his bass, signaling that it might be time for another move.
Freeman was living in New York City by the mid-'70s, w he would occasionally perform with The Music Ensemble. He also directed the Universal Jazz Symphonette, as heard on the elusive Soundcraft '75 album. While its fidelity leaves quite a bit to be desired, the LP is highly sought after because it features some of the earliest recorded work from William Parker, Daniel Carter, Raphe Malik, Billy Bang, and many other young players on the scene during that period, including Henry P. Warner and Philip Spigner, a.k.a. Adeyeme (incorrectly credited as Abe Yeme on the LP sleeve), who would later collaborate with Freeman in The Freestyle Band.”
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 2 August 2023 21:08 (eight months ago) link
i mean, the record was in my ebay alerts for a reason!
― budo jeru, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 21:47 (eight months ago) link
i've seen that seller shopping in nyc and long island record stores. when he left the l.i. store the owner said "yep, that's the guy everyone want to be." his records generally sell for absurd amounts. this collection does seem to be outside his usual wheelhouse, which is sealed classic rock records.
― Thus Sang Freud, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 23:04 (eight months ago) link
TSF you ever hit up Infinity Records in Massapequa? Not a record collector but I love that one.
― Deflatormouse, Wednesday, 2 August 2023 23:43 (eight months ago) link
that is my favorite LI store -- in fact it is the site of my bobdjukic sighting. haven't been there in a while though. joe the owner is good people.
― Thus Sang Freud, Thursday, 3 August 2023 00:11 (eight months ago) link
I love Bob; he has always been super kind to me and generally a pleasure to talk to. I haven’t seen him much the last few years though. A lot of record people are much worse.
Earl Freeman is an incredible character! Poet anbd artist as well as musician. My friend Adam had been working on an archive of his work - https://www.50milesofelbowroom.com/articles/500-earl-freeman.html
Also I like infinity records too!
― ian, Thursday, 3 August 2023 01:16 (eight months ago) link
Yeah it's my favorite store, love the staff there, fun to hang out and chat and browse, cool audio gear, record fair prices, nostalgic af.
city folks can do a day trip, it's right by the LIRR and you can walk over to Krisch's afterwards for the best ice cream on the planet :)
― Deflatormouse, Thursday, 3 August 2023 02:43 (eight months ago) link
no one met his reserve on that one.
― Thus Sang Freud, Monday, 7 August 2023 09:57 (eight months ago) link
Infinity is a quality store. I am kicking myself for not splurging on the sealed ZZ Top Rio Grande Mud I say there last year. One that got away.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 7 August 2023 12:38 (eight months ago) link
And just like that, I found a beautiful, though not sealed copy, for way less.
― il lavoro mi rovina la giornata (PBKR), Monday, 14 August 2023 00:11 (eight months ago) link
i'm happy to hear that! let the nerds buy the sealed records
― budo jeru, Monday, 14 August 2023 05:39 (eight months ago) link