Crazy Priced Vinyl On EBAY

Huh? which one? I think I have them all and they cost me less than a fiver each

Sarah 4 (fanzine only) for £19 also, almost a pound a page.

ah: http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ANOTHER-SUNNY-DAY-ANORAK-CITY-FLEXI-SARAH-RECORDS-C86_W0QQitemZ4818275760QQcategoryZ58677QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem
Anorak City - £34:20 just 2 days ago.

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Another Sunny Day records go for big bucks, tis true.

do you think graeme revell is trying to buy back his past?

Not crazy, but it is kinnel.

There are loads of punk singles that go for hundreds of pounds -

Bad Brains - Pay To Cum
Crime - Frustration
a 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...

anybody want to buy a bridge? (actually I've got that too)

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.

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!

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 :)

no one met his reserve on that one.

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.

And just like that, I found a beautiful, though not sealed copy, for way less.

i'm happy to hear that! let the nerds buy the sealed records

12.5k for a terrible sounding Joy Division record

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/156232472243

Definitely a few thousand too high, but the cheapest one on Discogs is 8k...

Nothing to see here, only a white album sleeve in EX condition for … I was considering making an offer for 50 quid just to make a point but on the off chance he accepted I didn’t want to actually buy it. https://www.ebay.ca/itm/115969331359?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=ncK3ceSlT5C&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=MrwkjLElSlS&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

If you put an offer in, the "buy it now" price disappears

For everyone? Surely just for the person who makes the offer.

Pink Floyd or not, I don't know why a blob of white ink on a misprinted sleeve magically adds about £16,900 to its value.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/266978014397

people who list stuff like that are such losers

so this isn't ebay.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3592698771

archive for when that link inevitably erodes: https://archive.is/gih8U/image

but i can't believe anyone is still trying to find ways to exploit rsd stuff.

for context: that is a listing for an album that is seeing rsd reissue in a week's time. it is technically for sale early, but at least twice what you would pay if you visited a store.

also yay gil scott-heron reissues.

I'm guessing these prices just prey on fans and collectors in really remote or rural places where there isn't a record store within 300 miles but they absolutely need to own RSD item x.

I think every record store I've been to in the past 10+ years has an overstuffed bin of heavily discounted RSD leftovers. The trouble is, you never know which ones those will be. There were only a few times I absolutely had to have a particular RSD title, and I'm pretty sure all of those records can still be obtained on Discogs for pennies on the dollar. Fool me once, Record Store Day!

people who have more money than motivation to go stand in line for a chance of getting a limited release is a phenomena that’s probably peaked, but is still a huge deal

I think coordinated groups standing in front of all the record stores in town to try to pick up the most in-demand releases to flip them on discord happens

I can't imagine the profit margin would be high enough to justify that, but I don't tend to run in those circles, so I'm sure you are right. Seems to me the folks doing that in 2025 are like the people who were keeping sealed Jar Jar Binks action figures based on similar precedents that are no longer applicable

people who spend a lot of time on collection-based hobbies including flipping items do all kinds of random stuff

The highest priced stuff I see is Gospel or Private Press Christian.

This 45 is priced at 32k euros

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/745659437

anyone see that advertorial on Discogs (love those btw) with Steve Aoki showing off his "slabbed" vinyl? instant vomit just everywhere.

if you don't already know what that means, you don't want to know.

ugh hate it in retro video games, have heard of people grading & slabbing vinyl for a while now but not really come across it as a "thing" yet

lol i'm trying to imagine what that could mean. probably for the best

Xposts then again...

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/2263718893

i saw a reddit post recently with someone complaining that usa customs "must have never heard of the sealed video game market" when they tried to bring one through. customs busted it straight open, completely eviscerating any collectibility.

sigh.

tbf it's just as weird that somebody would want a sealed video game as a sealed record

lol.

https://www.reddit.com/r/retrogaming/comments/s308jr/customs_opens_sealed_graded_n64_blues_brothers/

different sold listing from the reddit post, but

https://www.ebay.com/sch/i.html?_nkw=n64+%22blues+brothers+2000%22+sealed&_sacat=0&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313&rt=nc&_odkw=n64+blues+brothers+2000+sealed&_osacat=0&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1

sealed video games make even less sense to me, because the condition of the cartridge doesn't really matter. a discolored copy of Blues Brothers 2000 that's been sitting on the carpet for decades and has a bunch of dog hair in it will play just the same as that $299 copy. but that's not really true of vinyl; even when you're talking about extremely popular records I'd wager there aren't really a lot of *original* copies that still play perfect. like a sealed copy of Dark Side of the Moon or Sgt. Pepper from their original runs would be pretty cool to have, sure you could buy a 'used' copy but 99% of them will have some form of audible imperfection on them

I bought a sealed record once (Big Trouble in Little China soundtrack, a few years before the Mondo reissue). I didn't buy it because it was sealed. It was just the only copy I could find at the time. It ended up being too warped to play.

I mean, a sealed vintage record, obviously.

the sealed video game market is pretty much the same as the sealed, graded comic book market. you own a perfect copy of a cultural artifact. that's it!

my copy of strange ladies by david axelrod was sealed when i bought it off ebay in 2001...

...for ~$35 after postage fees. i mean, even adjusted for inflation, this is a new breed of idiocy. i watched a really good thing on youtube about how one particular "company" jumpstarted the sealed video game market during covid and the arrival point they got to in the essay was: HEY IT'S OKAY TO BE INTO THIS AS A HOBBY BUT YOU'RE GONNA GET SWINDLED HOPE YOU LIKE WASTING MONEY.

I have some friends into old video games and while they're not looking for sealed stuff, it became lucrative to clean up your aging stash of games and sell them to the new collector market. Doing things like buying loose boxes and manuals for games where you don't have the box, maybe even buying the little foam inserts for the boxes to make it seem like a "new" copy. The one friend, in particular, had a lot of games he'd bought over the years as a novelty and ended up selling most of his stash at a video game collectors show for a pretty nice bankroll

Discogs this time, 68.5k for a Japanese Ray Manzarek solo record?

https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3464667090

Obv a mistake, but still amusing, last one went for £15 in 2023

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/145823830635?_skw=pink&itmmeta=01JWPPKQ4APDH3SB8ENVPXJ2CN&hash=item21f3c7126b:g:wX4AAOSwJsRmZgvN

Or just buy a sealed one from Discogs for less than $50

i was so confused by the box it's in, i guess it's this?

https://rewindgrading.com/what-we-do/encapsulation-and-label

honestly i would hard pass on anything that has supposedly been authenticated by these bozos

record collectors are bad enough, but the people who come over from the "memorabilia" world are a whole different brand of ick

oh god, it was bad enough when it was comic books, even stupider when it was video games, and now it’s moved to vhs

I’d hope this is the end, but as more things become digital, the physical veblen artifact effect is only going to continue

going to put this early Jeff Koons work (no, I’m not advocating for Jeff Koons) here for reasons: https://www.moma.org/collection/works/81090

lol at the idea of “slabbing” a cassette

having said that i am quite taken aback at some of the prices paid for certain cassette issues

The cassette is in the format of a cassette and is released in the year 1970.

Has there been a discussion on the uselessness of AI-generated eBay descriptions? This one is a classic. I have been looking at auctions for old Walkmen and 95% of them have the same useless slop.

And it’s incorrect since the description elsewhere says that particular cassette dares from 1986. (And from the looks could be later than that since it’s from the “clear cassette” era which started around 1986).