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Maybe not.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 January 2017 20:54 (seven years ago) link

Apparently sales of eBooks have leveled off. Even my students tell me they look to them as escapes from the tyranny of the screen.

― The burrito of ennui (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 28 January 2017 16:30

Glad other people feel this way but I don't hear it often enough.

Robert Adam Gilmour, Saturday, 28 January 2017 20:55 (seven years ago) link

i'm reading more and more varied stuff since getting my kobo. and it's costing me less (being mostly public domain novels and amazon daily deals)

koogs, Saturday, 28 January 2017 21:42 (seven years ago) link

yeah, those are Death demos/live things. bootlegs.

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2017 21:43 (seven years ago) link

(and you do get to keep ebooks that you buy (if you free them from the amazon ecosystem)) xp

koogs, Saturday, 28 January 2017 21:44 (seven years ago) link

I like my Kindle for magazines and longform reads. But beyond the cheaper cost and convenience, I've found that an e-book improves upon a paper book only when the latter is really heavy. It's also counter-productive to switch on a screen at 3am when you can't sleep.

CDs though? I wish I had all of these ripped to non-lossy and sold ten years ago.

doug watson, Saturday, 28 January 2017 21:53 (seven years ago) link

while desperately looking for a decent cd storage solution, i came across this amazing thing on craigslist:

Diverse CD Collection ; 598 CDs
Many Rare & Imports
$10,000 Firm

Ranging from:
Experimental / Psychedelic / Avant Garde / Ambient / 20th Century Classical / Industrial / Rock / Jazz / Fusion / Alternative / Folk / Noise Rock / Punk

Recently Upgraded to Very Good Condition!!

This was originally a collection of 670 CDs (in alphabetical order), but due to a previous buyer and the collection sitting in an office waiting to be shipped, persons unknown must have removed 87 CDs from the collection. Impossible to tell which ones (since then 15 more CDs have been added). Some CDs are in still alphabetical order but some are mixed up. So some of it is a mix & match situation. The CDs are all in paper sleeves. The artwork inserts are boxed separately. As is. No Jewel Cases. See the list of the contents at the end of this ad.

The CDs have been upgraded to Very Good Condition (some even Mint). They have recently been inspected, cleaned and graded by an Expert of 40 years in the business.

Many of these CDs are Rare or are Imports, hard to get. Looking to sell to someone who understands what this is and can invest some time & TLC to get the collection back into shape. These CDs range from the $10. range up to $200. apiece in value!

Selling As Is / Sorry, No Returns.
Buyer can come out and visually inspect the contents if local.
Ebay calculates International Shipping (not free).

If you were to put together this collection piece by piece, it has been estimated that it would cost upwardly of $30,000.+ USD. The collection is worth at least $15,000. the condition it is in now. So the $10,000. asking price is actually Very Conservative.

Merchandise will be Shipped upon a cleared Paypal payment. And Insured for purchase price.

Please review original contents list (pre-87 CDs):

CONTENTS

Add N To (X)- Avant Hard

The Adverts- Best Of

AFX- Analogue Bubblebath [Single]

Agitation Free- Malesh

Albert Ayler- Love Cry/Spirits Rejoice

Älgarnas Trädgård- Framtiden Är Ett Svävande Skepp, Förankrat I Forntiden

Alternative TV- The Image has Cracked (Coll.)

Alvin Lucier- I Am Sitting In A Room

Ambient Systems VA

AMM- Newfoundland/Generative Themes/AMMMusic 1966

Amon Duul- Psychedelic Underground/Paradieswärts Düül

Amon Düül II- Best Of 1969-1974

Anal Magic & Rev. Dwight Frizzell- Beyond The Black Crack

The Animal- Gunsight

Anthony Braxton- Eugene (1989)/ Creative Orchestra (Koln) 1978

Anthony Moore- Pieces From The Cloudland Ballroom

Anton Webern- Complete String Trios & Quartets

Aphex Twin- Selected Ambient Works 85-92/Classics/Selected Ambient Works Vol

2/I Care Because You Do/Richard D. James Album/Come To Daddy (EP)/

Drukqs/

Ash Ra Tempel- Schwingungen/First

Atari Teenage Riot- Burn, Berlin, Burn!

Autechre- Tri Repetae++/Chiastic Slide/LP5/Cichlisuite/Peel Session

Axiom Ambient- Lost In The Translation (Disc 2 only)

Axiom Dub: Mysteries of Creation VA

Azita Youssefi (AZ)- Music For Scattered-Brains

Bark Psychosis- Hex

Bauhaus- 1979-1983

The Beatles- The White Album/Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band/Magical

Mystery Tour/Abbey Road

Big Brother & The Holding Company- Cheap Thrills

Bill Frisell- Bill Frisell Quartet

Bill Laswell- City Of Lights

The Birthday Party- Prayers On Fire/Hee-Haw

Black Sabbath- Paranoid/Vol.4

Blue Cheer- Vincebus Eruptum

The Blue Things- The Blue Things

Bliss VA real world records

Bjork- Homogenic

Bob Dylan- Biograph 1,2, & 3/Greatest Hits Vol. II

Brainticket- Cottonwoodhill

Brast Burn- Debon

Brian Eno- Ambient 1:Music For Airports/Music For Films/Another Green World

Brian Eno & David Byrne- My Life In A Bush Of Ghosts

Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Jajouka [Disc 1]

Brighter Death Now- Greatest Death

Brise-Glace- When In Vanitas...

Borbetomagus- Seven Reasons For Tears/Fish That Sparking Bubble (w/Voice Crack)

Buddhism VA

The Butthole Surfers- Psychic... Powerless... Another Man's Sac

The Buzzcocks- Time's Up/Singles Going Steady/Product (3 disc)

The Byrds- The Fifth Dimension/The Notorious Byrd Brothers

Cabaret Voltaire- Listen Up/The Living Legends/Red Mecca/2 x 45

Can- Cannibalism Vol.1/Cannibalism Vol.2/Tago Mago/Ege Bamyasi/Landed

Captain Beefheart- Safe As Milk/Strictly Personal/Trout Mask Replica/Mirror

Man/Doc At The Radar Station/The Spotlight Kid/Clear Spot

Caustic Window- Compilation

Cecil Taylor- The Brewing Luminous/The Cecil Taylor Unit

Charles Gayle- Raining Fire

Charles Ives- Ives, C.: Universe Symphony (Completed by L. Austin) / Orchestral Set

No. 2 / The Unanswered Question

Charles Manson- The White Album

Christian Wolff- Tilbury Pieces, Snowdrop

Coil- How To Destroy Angels/Scatalogy/Unnatural History 1/Angelic Conversation/

Gold is The Metal (With the Broadest Shoulders)/ Black Light District/Unnatural History II/

Elph Vs. Coil/ Worship The Glitch/Winter Solstice/Summer Solstice/Spring Equinox/Autumn Equinox

Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center 1961-1973

Come Organization Archives 1979 -- 1981

Come Organization Archives 1981 - 1982

Controlled Bleeding- Bladder Bags & Interludes

Count Five- The Very Best Of

The Cramps- Songs The Lord Taught Us/Psychedelic Jungle/Flamejob/Stay

Sick/Look Mom No Head!

Crash Worship- Asesinos/Triple Mania II

The Creation_ We Are Paintermen

Crispy Ambulance- Frozen Blood (1980-82)

Cromagnon- Orgasm

Current '93- Emblems: The Menstrual Years/In Menstrual Night/Swastikas For

Noddy/Earth Covers Earth/Thunder Perfect Mind/Of Ruine or Some Blazing Starre (The Broken Heart of Man)

The Damned- Damned Damned Damned/Machine Gun Etiquette

David Bowie- Space Oddity/Ziggy Stardust/Hunky Dory/ The Singles 1969 to 1993

David Schea- Satyricon

Dead Voices On Air- Piss Frond

Death In June- The Cathedral Of Tears

Derek Bailey- Incus Taps/Solo Guitar Volume 2/Han (w/Han Bennink)/Outcome

(w/Steve Lacy)

Del Shannon- The Story

Deutsche Amerikanische Fruendschaft- Die Kleinen Und Die Bösen

The Deviants- Ptoof

Diamanda Galas- Vena Cava

DJ Shadow- Endtroducing

DJ Spooky- Songs Of A Dead Dreamer

DNA- DNA

Document 02- VA (Dumb Type/Ikedo/Shibano/Ojima)

Dome- Dome 3 & 4

The Doors- The Doors/Strange Days/Morrison Hotel/Waiting For The Sun/L.A.

Woman

Dorati - Schoenberg - Webern - Berg

Download- Furnace/The Eyes Of Stanley Pain

The Dream Syndicate- The Days Of Wine & Roses

Dr. Octagon- Instrumentalyst

Dub Chill Out VA

Dutch Harbor Soundtrack

Dyzan- Electric Silence

Earthrise.Ntone.1 compilation

Edgar Varese- Music Of Edgar Varese (Columbia Symphony Orchestra)/ Varèse:

Arcana, Amériques, Ionisation, Etc. (Boulez)/ Carter: Symphony of Three

Orchestras, Varese: Deserts; Equatorial; Hyperprism

Einheit Brotzmann- Merry Christmas

Einsturzende Neubauten- Halber Mensch/Five On The Open Ended Richter Scale

Electric Eels- Beast 999 Presents The Electric Eels In 'Their Organic Majesty's Request'

Elvis Costello- This Years Model/Armed Forces

Etron Fou Leloublan- 43 x 3 (missing 3rd cd)

Evan Parker Electro-Acoustic Ensemble- Drawn Inward

Evan Parker-Keith Rowe-Barry Guy-Eddie Prévost- Supersession

Evan Parker + Ghost-in-the-Machine- New Excursions

Evan Parker & Paul Lytton- Three Other Stories (1971-1974)/

Experimental Audio Research- The Koner Experiment

Extreme Music From Africa (Susan Lawly)

Extreme Music From Women (Susan Lawly)

Fad Gadget- The Best Of

The Fall- Psychic Dance Hall/Live At The Witch Trials/Hex Enducation Hour/

458489 A Sides

Faust- The Faust Tapes/Faust IV/The Last LP/You Know Faust/Rien

Fille Que Mousse- Se Taire Pour Une Femme Trop Belle

The Flaming Groovies- The Groovies' Greatest Grooves

Frank Zappa- Freak Out!/Lumpy Gravy/Weasels Ripped My Flesh

Fred Frith- Eye To Ear/Guitar Solos

The Fugs- Second Album

Funkadelic- Free Your Mind And Your Ass Will Follow/Maggot Brain

Fushitsusha- Allegorical Misunderstanding

The Future Sound Of Jazz coll.1

Future Sound Of London- ISDN/Dead Cities

Gang Of Four- Entertainment!

Gastr Del Sol- Crookt, Crackt, Or Fly/Upgrade & Afterlife

George Crumb- Black Angels/Zeitgeist - Celestial mechanics

Ghost- Lama Rabi Rabi

Glen Branca- Symphony No.2/Symphony No.3/Symphony Nos. 8 & 10

God- The Anatomy of Addiction

Godflesh- Streetcleaner

Godz- Contact High With The Godz/2

The Golden Palominos- A History (1982-1985)

Group 1850- Agemo's Trip To Mother Earth

Gnawa Music Of Marrakesh- Night Spirit Masters

Gyorgi Ligeti- Kammerkonzert, Ramifications, Lux aeterna, Atmosphères/String

Quartets & Duets/György Ligeti Edition [Disc 5]/ Continuum, 10 Stücke F.

Bläser, Artikulation, Glissandi, Orgel Etuden, Volumina

Hafler Trio- Bang! An Open Letter/Seven Hours Sleep/A Thirsty Fish/ How To

Reform Mankind/Fuck

Harmonia- Harmonia

The Hampton Grease Band- Music To Eat

Headz Vol. 2 (compilation)

Henri Chopin- Audiopoems

Henry Cowell- Piano Music

Herman's Hermits- The Greatest Hits

Hermann Nitsch- Komposition Für Orgel/Sinfonie & Teil

Horde Catalytique- Gestation Sonore

Iancu Dumitrescu- Ed.Mn.1005/Objet Sonore Mysterieux/Pierres sacrées, etc. (ED.

MN. 1003)/ Ana-Maria Avram & Iancu Dumitrescu/Avram/Dumitrescu

Iannis Xenakis- Iannissimo ST-X Ensemble Vol.2/La légende d'Eer/Ensemble Music,

Vol. 1/Ensemble Music 2

Ice- Under The Skin

Iggy Pop- Lust for Life

Iggy Pop & James Williamson- Kill City

International Harvester- Sov Gott Rose-Marie

Into Topological Space compilation Disc 1

James Blood Ulmer- Harmolodic Guitar With Strings/Tales Of Captain Black

Jandek- Modern Dances/Six And Six/Interstellar Discussion/Follow Your

Footsteps/Blue Corpse/On The Way

Jefferson Airplane- Surrealistic Pillow

Jimi Hendrix- Are You Experienced?

Jim O'Rourke- Terminal Pharmacy

John Cage- Concert For Piano & Orchestra & Atlas Eclipticalis/Works for Piano, Toy

Piano and prepared Piano - Vol.3/Works for piano & prepared piano, Vol. II/

Complete String Quartets, Vol. 2 (Arditti)/ Music For Merce Cunningham/Sonata 8, Music For

Marcel Duchamp, Etc.

John Cale- Dream Interpretation: Inside The Deam Syndicate Volume II

John Coltrane- Expression

John Fahey- The Transfiguration of Blind Joe Death/The Voice of the

Turtle/Womblife/Return Of The Repressed

Johnny Thunders- L.A.M.F.

John Zorn- Locus Solus/Cobra-Tokyo Operations '94/Cobra: Live at the Knitting

Factory

Joy Division- Permanent

Karl Blake- Paper-Thin Religion (Solo Archives 1977-1981)

Karlheinz Stockhausen- Mantra/Prozession & Ceylon/Kurzwellen/Mikrophonie I, II

& Telemusik

Keith Hudson- Pick A Dub

King Crimson- In The Court of the Crimson King/In The Wake Of Poseidon

King Tubby- Controls/Dub Like Dirt

The Kinks- Something Else/The Kink Kontroversy/ Well Respected Kinks

Komputer- The World Of Tomorrow

Kraftwelt- Electric Dimension/Retroish

Kraftwerk- Ralf & Florian/Autobahn/Radio-Activity/Trans-Europe Express/The

Man Machine

Kronos Quartet- Short Stories/Released & Unreleased

Krzysztof Penderecki- St Luke's Passion

Labradford- Self Titled

Lake Of Dracula- Self Titled

Lard Free- Vol. III

Last Exit- Self Titled

Lee Perry- Black Ark In Dub

Lee Perry & the Upsetters- Scratch Walking/Chapter 1

Legendary Pink Dots- Faces In The Fire/Curse/Brighter Now/The Legendary Pink

Box/The Maria Dimension/Chemical Playschool Volume 8 & 9/Crushed Velvet Apocalypse

Lemon Kittens- We Buy A Hammer For Daddy

The Life Aquatic With Steve Zissou soundtrack

Link Ray & The Raymen- Mr. Guitar

Loren Mazzacane Connors- Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell! Hell!/The Daggett Years

Los Angeles Free Music Society- Unboxed

Lou Reed- Berlin/Transformer

Love- Love/Forever Changes

Lull- Cold Summer

Macro Dub Infection Vol.1

Macro Dub Infection Vol.2

Mad Professor & Lee Perry- Dub Take The Voodoo Out Of Reggae

Mahogany Brain- With (Junk-Saucepan) When (Spoon-Trigger)

Magazine- Real Life

The Mamas & The Papas- All the Leaves Are Brown

Marc Ribot- Shrek/Book Of Heads (John Zorn)

Mars- 78+

Masonna- Inner Mind Mystique/Mademoiselle Anne Sanglante Ou Notre

Nymphomanie Auréolé

MC5- Back In The USA/Kick Out The Jams

Meat Beat Manifesto- 99%

Merzbow- Music For Bondage Performance 2/Venereology/Age Of 369 / Chant

2/Noisembroyo/Ecobondage

Microstoria- Init Ding

Miles Davis- In A Silent Way/On The Corner/Bitches Brew/Agharta

Minor Threat- The Complete Discography

The Mirrors- Hands In My Pockets

Mnemonists- Horde

Moebius- Tonspuren

Moebius & Plank- Rasterkraut Pasta

The Monks- Black Monk Time

The Moody Blues Anthology Disc 1

Monte Cazzaza- The Worst Of Monte Cazazza

Morton Feldman- Three Voices For Joan La Barbara/Rothko Chapel, Why Patterns?/

Triadic Memories

Mouse On Mars- Idiology

Musica Electronica Viva- The Sound Pool/Leave The City

Musica Futurista Compilation

The Music Improvisation Company 1968-1971

Muslimgauze- Iran/Beyond The Blue Mosque/Gun Aramaic/Salaam Alekum,

Bastard

The Mystic Tide- Solid Sound/Solid Ground

Naked City- Absinthe/Torture Garden/The Black Box Disc 2

Napalm Death- Scum

Nature & Organization- A Dozen Summers Against The World

Neotropic- Mr. Brubaker's Strawberry Alarm Clock

Neu- Neu/2

New York Dolls- New York Dolls

Nihilist Spasm Band- No Borders

Nirvana Jungle Sky IV VA

Non- Easy Listening For Iron Youths/Receive The Flame

Nurse With Wound- The 150 Murderous Passions/Chance Meeting on a dissecting

table of a sewing machine and an umbrella/The Sylvie And Babs Hi-Fi Companion/

Homotopy To Marie/Soliloquy For Lilith/Large Ladies With Cake In The Oven/Sugar Fish

Drink (A Layman's Guide To Cod Surrealism)/ Rock'n Roll Station/Crumb Duck/

Thunder Perfect Mind/Spiral Insana/A Missing Sense/Who Can I Turn To Stereo?

O Brother Where Art Thou soundtrack

ORB- Live'93/The Orb's Adventures Beyond The Ultraworld/Orbus Terrarum/U.F.

Orb

Ornette Coleman- The Shape Of Jazz To Come/Free jazz/Town Hall 1962/Live At

The Golden Circle 1965 Vol. I & II

Os Mutantes- Os Mutantes

The Outsiders- C.Q.

The Pagans- Shit Street/The Pink Album

Painkiller- Execution Ground

Palace Music- Lost Blues And Other Songs/Viva Las Blues

Panacea- Low Profile Darkness

Parliament- Best Of

Pärson Sound- Pärson Sound

Peter Brotzmann- Machine Gun (Peter Brotzmann octet)/ Fuck de Boere (Peter

Brotzmann Sextet)/Nipples (The Peter Brotzmann Sextet)/Hyperion

(w/Marilyn Crispell

Pere Ubu- The Modern Dance/Terminal Tower

Pierre Henry- Apocalypse de Jean/Mix Pierre Henry 02. 1-Symphonie Pour Un

Homme Seul-Le Voyage/Mix Pierre Henry 03. 1-Variations Pour Une Porte Et

Un Soupir

Pierre Schaeffer- L'Œuvre musicale

The Pink Fairies- Do It!

Pink Floyd- Atom Heart Mother/Ummagumma Live Album/Saucerful Of

Secrets/Relics

Plastic People Of the Universe- Egon Bondy's Happy Hearts Club Banned/Pašijové

hry velikonoční

Popul Vuh- Affenstunde/Letzte Tage

The Pretty Things- The Psychedelic Years (1966-1970)

Psychic TV- Force thee Hands Ov Chants/Blinded Eye in Thee Pyramids/Mein

Gottingen

Public Image Ltd.- Public Image/Second Edition

Pussy Galore- Right Now!/Dial M for Motherfucker

Radiohead- Ok Computer

Rapoon- Vernal Crossing/Easterly 6 or 7

Rashied Ali Quartet- New Directions In Modern Music

Ravi Shankar- The Sounds Of India

Ray Russel- Live At The I.C.A.

Red Krayola- Parable of Arable Land/Glod Bless The Red Krayola And All Who Sail

With It/Hazel

REM- Reckoning/Murmur/Document

The Residents- Heaven?/Hell/Meet The Residents/Third Reich & Roll

Richard Hell & The Voidoids- Blank Generation

Richard Youngs- Festival

Robert Ashley- Automatic Writing

Rocket From The Tombs- The Day The Earth Met The Rocket From The Tombs

Rolling Stones- More Hot Rocks/Hot Rocks(disc 2 only)/Between The

Buttons/Aftermath/Their Satanic Majesties Request

Royal Trux- Accelerator/Singles, Live, Unreleased

The Saints- I'm Stranded

Sand- Ultrasonic Seraphim

Scissor Girls- We People Space With Phantoms/Here Is The "Is-Not"

Scorn- Evanescence

The Screamers- In A Better World

The Searchers- The Greatest Hits Collection

The Seeds- The Seeds/Travel With Your Mind

Shadow Music Of Java

Simon Wickham-Smith- Extreme Bukake

Simon Wickham-Smith & Richard Youngs- Lake

Skinny Puppy- Heaven's Trash (live)

Skullflower- Argon

Sleepchamber- Sirkle Zero

The Slits- Peel Sessions

Sly & The Family Stone- Anthology

The Small Faces- The Singles A's & B's

Soft Machine- Man In A Deaf Corner: Anthology 1963-1970/One/ Volume Two

The Soft Boys- 1976-81

The Sonics- Here Are The Sonics

Sonny Sharrock- Into Another Light

Spacemen 3- Recurring

Spiritualized- Lazer Guided Melodies/Pure Phase

SPK- Information Overload Unit/Auto Da Fe/Leichenschrei

Squarepusher- Feed Me Weird Things/Hard Normal Daddy/Music is Rotted One

Note/Budakhan Mindphone

The Standells- Best Of

State Of The Union VA

Stereolab- Peng/Transient Random-Noise Bursts With Announcements

Steve Lacy- Weal & Woe/Scratching The Seventies/Dreams

Steve Reich- The Desert Music/Music For 18 Musicians (Ensemble Modern)/

Proverb, Nagoya Marimbas, City Life

The Stooges- The Stooges/Raw Power

The Styrenes- All The Wrong People Are Dying/It's Still Artastic

Sub Rosa Sessions>Bari October 1996 VA- Hayward, Nus & Schea

Subsonic 1. Sounds Of A Distant Episode (Ribot/Frith)

Subway Sect- We Oppose All Rock & Roll

Suicide- The Second Album + The First Rehearsal Tapes/First Album + Suicide Live

Sun City Girls- Dante's Disneyland Inferno/Box Of Chameleons/Valentines From

Matahari

Sun Ra- The Magic City/Nothing Is. . ./Strange Celestial Road/Atlantis/Soundtrack To

The Film Space Is The Place

Tangerine Dream- Stratosfear/Electronic Meditation

Techno Animal- Re-Entry

Television- Marquee Moon

Terry Riley- In C/A Rainbow In Curved Air

Thelonious Monk Quartet With John Coltrane- At Carnegie Hall

This Heat- Deceit

Those Were Different Times- Comp of Styrenes/Mirrors/Electric Eels

Throbbing Gristle- Giftgas/D.O.A:The Third And Final Report Of Throbbing

Gristle/ 20 Jazz Funk Greats/The Second Annual Report/Rafters: Throbbing

Gristle Psychic Rally/Live Volume 3, 1978-1979

Tibetan Buddhist Rites From Monasteries of Bhutan: Vol. 1-Rituals Of The Drukpa

Order

To Live And Shave In L.A.- The Wigmaker

Tommy James & The Shondells- The Story

Tom Waits- Rain Dogs

Tony Conrad- Slapping Pythagoras/Outside the Dream Syndicate (W/Faust)

Trainspotting Soundtrack

The Trashmen- Tube City!

Trevor Wishart- Anticredos

The Troggs- Best Of

The Turtles- Golden Hits

Velvet Underground- White Light White Heat/Loaded/The Velvet Underground

Wes Montgomery- Incredible Jazz Guitar

West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band- Part One

Whitehouse- Birthdeath Experience/Buchenwald/Twice Is Not

Enough/Halogen/Quality Time/Mummy & Daddy/Birdseed/Cruise

The Who- Meaty Beaty Big & Bouncy/Tommy/Who's Next

Wire- Pink Flag/Chairs Missing/154

Wu Tang Clan- Enter The Wu-Tang (36 Chambers)

Wyclef Jean- The Carnival

X- Wild Gift/Los Angeles

Yoko Ono- Yoko Ono/Plastic Ono Band

Zombies- Odessey & Oracle/The EP Collection

µ-Ziq- The Auteurs Vs µ-Ziq/In Pine Effect/Royal Astronomy

13th Floor Elevators- All Time Highs/ Bull Of The Woods

23 Skidoo- Seven Songs

This collection has a very colorful history. After being sold once a couple of years ago there were some snags and I had to travel out of state to sue the buyer to get it back. Then I had to sue another party. Then I had to send the Marshals to physically retrieve the collection. So it sat in an office waiting to be shipped back. I had to hire someone to retrieve it. Somewhere along this line it was obviously "picked at." The whole process took about 2-1/2 years at great cost and personal stress.

nomar, Sunday, 29 January 2017 00:45 (seven years ago) link

Either he chose to keep his New Order CDs (the right move), or he's an idiot.

brotherlovesdub, Sunday, 29 January 2017 00:53 (seven years ago) link

Shit, I guess my collection is worth $100,000 firm, then. Maybe I will sell. . .

Soundslike, Sunday, 29 January 2017 02:06 (seven years ago) link

I would pay maybe $3-4K for that collection on first skim, but I don't have it so nbd

sleeve, Sunday, 29 January 2017 02:42 (seven years ago) link

I don't know. It sounds pretty half-assed to me. 87 discs missing and he won't tell you which ones. In paper sleeves without the original jewel cases. Lots of stray discs from incomplete box sets. Doesn't sound very collectible to me.

o. nate, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:09 (seven years ago) link

oh, missed that, lol

sleeve, Sunday, 29 January 2017 03:23 (seven years ago) link

p sure most of these cds go for ~2 dollars on discogs

feel bad for the guy and his delusions ;_;

niels, Sunday, 29 January 2017 10:02 (seven years ago) link

I just wonder what he's basing these numbers on. Median value on Discogs? Highest value on Discogs? The fact that he needs exactly $10,000 and needs it right away because this time the bookie really isn't screwing around?

Wimmels, Sunday, 29 January 2017 13:57 (seven years ago) link

lol I had a hard time selling actual legit rare CDs on eBay in recent years. this dude is sellin' a whole buncha Led Zeppelin IVs

Neanderthal, Sunday, 29 January 2017 15:31 (seven years ago) link

feel bad for the guy and his delusions ;_;

^^^^

the late great, Sunday, 29 January 2017 19:36 (seven years ago) link

xp I don't - he bought the CDs because he wanted them, and now feels entitled to a profit. Sad!

attention vampire (MatthewK), Sunday, 29 January 2017 19:45 (seven years ago) link

You would think, if you're a person who believes the above collection is indeed worth ~10k in value, you would do the following:

1.) Email the guy to meet him in person to inspect the collection for yourself.
2.) Book a roundtrip plane trip, car rental, and hotel stay (if needed).
3.) Inspect his shit to see what's missing.

Has to be worth the $700-800 in expenses if you're seriously considering this.

Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Monday, 30 January 2017 00:00 (seven years ago) link

He's come down to an $8,000 asking price now...

http://losangeles.craigslist.org/lac/emd/5961068094.html

Loud guitars shit all over "Bette Davis Eyes" (NYCNative), Monday, 30 January 2017 05:19 (seven years ago) link

he might get more responses if he actually put contact info in the listing

Neanderthal, Monday, 30 January 2017 05:23 (seven years ago) link

he actually looks like he copied this from an ebay listing

Neanderthal, Monday, 30 January 2017 05:24 (seven years ago) link

Well. He had sold it before

I hear from this arsehole again, he's going in the river (James Morrison), Monday, 30 January 2017 10:02 (seven years ago) link

federal marshals busting down a down a door with a battering ram and shotguns to rescue the' o brother where art thou' soundtrack

nomar, Monday, 30 January 2017 15:24 (seven years ago) link

lol @ this motherfucker

marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link

600 cds w/o cases for $10,000 gtfo

marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:13 (seven years ago) link

The Doors- The Doors/Strange Days/Morrison Hotel/Waiting For The Sun/L.A.

looool

marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:14 (seven years ago) link

Radiohead- Ok Computer

marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:15 (seven years ago) link

i mean hardly any of this shit is "rare" in any sense

marcos, Monday, 30 January 2017 16:30 (seven years ago) link

I'd be surprised if I got even $150 for that collection at Half Price Books.

erry red flag (f. hazel), Monday, 30 January 2017 22:40 (seven years ago) link

$8,000 folks, take it or leave it

Benylin Ascent (NickB), Monday, 30 January 2017 22:58 (seven years ago) link

he still has no contact info in the ad lol

Neanderthal, Monday, 30 January 2017 23:03 (seven years ago) link

This has got to be some sort of wind-up, see who takes the bait kind of thing...

henry s, Monday, 30 January 2017 23:09 (seven years ago) link

lol f. hazel's response is what I was thinking

either someone glanced through it and grabbed a handful of cds that looked decent that they'd want, or someone already did some smart cherry-picking and grabbed the actual rarities, right?

there are a few things in there that might be difficult to find if you're looking for a cd copy! but uhhh who is really tearing their hair out trying to find a cd copy of something in 2017?

mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 19:50 (seven years ago) link

there was a store (since relocated) in mpls (shuga) (they still sell on ebay) that would mark vinyl up to the most ridiculous prices, i think this strategy can pay off in two ways:

1) every once in awhile some dummy will actually bite and you'll make some ridiculous hundreds of dollars on a record you bought at a garage sale for 50 cents, effectively earning more than you would doing a normal $4 markup on a bunch of records, plus saving you a lot of time/etc because it's only one transaction and mailing

2) i would find that, browsing through these $300 lutheran college men's choir records from the 60s, all of a sudden you'd think "oh yeah $30 for a NM+ (he LOVED NM+, everything was NM+) of Every Picture Tells a Story by Rod Stewart that's not bad", so you'd get a weird stockholm syndrome and then maybe buy something that was only 2X normal price instead of 20X normal price

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link

(raises hand shamefully)

stuff like the Alvin Lucier especially I prefer on CD. Some nice rare stuff in that list but I'd bet it's been cherry picked already.

sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:00 (seven years ago) link

you'd get a weird stockholm syndrome and then maybe buy something that was only 2X normal price instead of 20X normal price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring

attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:06 (seven years ago) link

imo there's a 50/50 chance that the missing ones are just ones someone who wasn't a supercollector grabbed to listen to, like the missing items are all of the zepplin/rolling stones variety

mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link

The CDs have been upgraded to Very Good Condition (some even Mint). They have recently been inspected, cleaned and graded by an Expert of 40 years in the business.

dollar general (am0n), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:08 (seven years ago) link

cleaned

Noooooo

sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:11 (seven years ago) link

they wiped the cat piss and spiders off

mh 😏, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:12 (seven years ago) link

Good, related thread re: wacko pricing on LPs: the pathos of unsold stock

stein beck ii: the wrath of grapes (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:16 (seven years ago) link

cleaned

Noooooo

― sleeve, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 3:11 PM (fifteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this. when I see that something has been 'cleaned' I don't bid on it. Just leave it alone, grade accurately, and let me clean it if i choose to clean it once it's mine

Wimmels, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 20:29 (seven years ago) link

i love dirty finds, i found a dusty and dirty early issue copy (no name on the cover) of Neil Young's s/t album and cleaned it at home and it came out sounding sublime. same thing w/a copy i dug up of 'mr tambourine man' by the byrds. both of them a buck apiece.

nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 21:59 (seven years ago) link

big difference between cleaning LPs vs. "cleaning" CDs

sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:07 (seven years ago) link

you'd get a weird stockholm syndrome and then maybe buy something that was only 2X normal price instead of 20X normal price

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchoring
― attention vampire (MatthewK), Tuesday, January 31, 2017 2:06 PM (two hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah exactly, thx i wasn't familiar w/that term

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:09 (seven years ago) link

yeah for sure...an expert with a bottle of windex and a paper towel i'm guessing. over 40 years in the business of cleaning cds, cds having been around for 32 years.

nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:10 (seven years ago) link

oh, gotcha - I was thinking more of those "sand it down" type of operations, kiss of death for CDs imo

sleeve, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:16 (seven years ago) link

ugh yeah those. not sure why cleaning is very necessary beyond getting some gunk off, cd players from twenty years ago would skip bc of a speck of dust, the newer models will play through almost any defect that isn't a gouge ime.

nomar, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:19 (seven years ago) link

over 40 years in the business of cleaning cds, cds having been around for 32 years.

― nomar, Tuesday, January 31, 2017 4:10 PM (eleven minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

he was part of the beta program

blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:22 (seven years ago) link

so those buffing/sanding things aren't good for CDs? i was thinking of picking one up ...

the late great, Tuesday, 31 January 2017 22:26 (seven years ago) link


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