Post your Discogs user profile for discussion/bragging/desperate attempt to bond with like minds

also, NickB still beats me :) <3

https://www.discogs.com/user/blackirish/collection
haven't logged a lot on discogs but I'm a very active buyer. that old fave artists list needs updating and the wantslist is mostly outdated too. I logged a lot more on RYM where my user name is corcomroe.

the wantlist feature sends me daily emails about the same LP, every single day

it's the worst... like, I have 500+ items on this thing (most of which I just use because I don't want to forget to investigate them) but it sends me notices for the same 5 records from the same 10 sellers day after day.

I switched off the wantlist notification emails - I think maybe some sellers re-list their stock regularly to get peoples attention.

I deleted everything out of my wantlist having realised there was stuff that had been in there for ages, was inexpensive but I hadn’t bothered getting.

xp yeah I fucking take those out of my damn wantlist cuz I hate it so much, the re-listing trick. I wish you had a way to block sellers that do it.

PS if anyone has anything on my mostly ridiculous wantlist, I happily accept YSI options, mostly I just wanna hear them. it's been ruthlessly pared down to things that basically never get sold, so I never get emails.

Here's my seller profile: https://www.discogs.com/seller/akmonday/profile

Here's my mess: https://www.discogs.com/user/dinkytown/collection.

Wanted to get collection insurance, so had a go at cataloging a couple years ago and got through maybe C in rock/etc. and one box of singles before bailing. I don't have the patience to put a bright bare bulb on and look at the runout grooves for Humble Pie's third album to see which plant it was pressed at.

Now I just occasionally enter a record while listening, which makes it all the more futile, if I ever want to have a go at the rest.

Thanks akm, do you have a collection profile too?

"I don't have the patience to put a bright bare bulb on and look at the runout grooves for Humble Pie's third album to see which plant it was pressed at."

Major label albums from the 60s-70s in particular are such a chore to correctly add for exactly this reason. Sometimes runout isn't even enough to narrow it down (or it feels that way).

exactly. 77 variants of a record that (even today) is only worth $4. but my OCD won't let me just pick a close-enough option.

here's my very non-comprehensive work in progress - https://www.discogs.com/user/Emsworth/collection

oh god no, either do it right or don't at all!

xp

https://www.discogs.com/user/biznotic/collection

I've sorted this A-Z (I think), but this is about 90% of my vinyl, and about 50% of the CDs.

It's fun to check out other collections. Some nice stuff in there.

I highly recommend Discogs Enhancer Chrome extension.

https://www.discogs-enhancer.com/

Sleeve I checked your wantlist. I wish I had some of those Hurley rarities! And I wish I could help you out otherwise.

I wonder where anyone even finds cassettes NOT online... if a physical store even has cassettes they're common 80s titles or they're brand new indie titles. Never seen anything in between.

Wait, I lied I have some Swirlies cassettes I found in the wild. So besides that.

Oh wow I love it thank you for that tip! First thing I did was turn on the "everlasting collection" mode.

xp

That chrome extension is gold! The demand rating feature has already told me that I have on offer some EXTREMELY undesirable records

dang Citroën that is my kinda collection, nice

Evan the Hurley tapes I actually have on CDR (Hurley's homemade versions) but thank you! I try to be completist with him so I'd love OG tapes some day

honestly though the current World Situation is making me re-evaluate a lot of things including wantlists. I don't really "need" any of it.

likewise, Sleeve. looking through yours now, good stuff.

The demand rating feature has already told me that I have on offer some EXTREMELY undesirable records

if i understand the feature correctly, it means you have some records that are so desirable that everyone has them already! :)

Indeed, I read it wrong. Nevertheless I am ready to make DEALS on Leon Russell records.

Haven't finished up adding the last of the CDs. I converted to digital/lossless early on.

https://www.discogs.com/user/quartzcity/collection

https://www.discogs.com/user/flamingrev/collection

All of my vinyl. Never got around to adding CDs.

what's everyone's most rare, most treasured or most expensive item in their collection?

I have a copy of this, bought at a record fair for £2 in Bristol in 2000:
https://www.discogs.com/Suicide-Suicide/release/429836

Likewise picked this up for not much in the late 90s, there has been a real run on Fall records lately apparently:
https://www.discogs.com/The-Fall-The-Infotainment-Scan/release/469738

I treasure my box sets from the Vinyl On Demand label

for single LPs, 1st Jandek and 1st Sun City Girls are up there, also the 3rd Nurse With Wound LP

I used to have an original copy of Intersystems' "Free Psychedelic Poster Inside" but sold it, and kind of regret it

i posted this one before on some other thread but this is the most valuable thing that i've got. cost me 50p

https://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=33CX+1399

Most valuable rock record i have would be this one...

https://www.discogs.com/Keith-Cross-Peter-Ross-Bored-Civilians/release/3223440

...but tragically my copy skips a bit on the first track :(

After that i guess it would be the Faith / Void album w/ the inserts

Most valuable 12" i have is NM copy of this, which again cost me 50p:

https://www.discogs.com/Freeez-Stay-Hot-Footing-It/release/350213

Somebody asked me this question recently and I immediately thought it must be something indie from the 90s. Like my original presses of the few albums I have by The Divine Comedy, Tindersticks, Denim, Supergrass, Stereolab etc. When I got home I realised the correct answer was probably this Miley Cyrus RSD exclusive from a few a years ago.

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/10170138?ev=rb

I have my collection on Rate Your Music but I've never got round to listing it on Discogs. I guess now would be the time do it.

my most valuable records by median price (assuming I've actually added my most valuable records - about half of it I haven't got round to adding to my discogs):

The Carpettes - Small Wonder? 7" - £84.82 - did actually pay about £40 for this, it's the rarest single on Small Wonder records iirc which I was collecting at the time as I lived round the corner from where the Small Wonder record shop was
Various - London Popfest 2009 CD-R - £81.00 - ??? WTF ??? I would try and sell this but my copy skips. why would someone pay £81 for this? it's all previously released stuff!
Blonde On Blonde - Rebirth LP - £77.88 - one of my grandpa's records
Twilight Zoners - Hospital 7" - £77.40 - paid 25p for this iirc
Thee Oh Sees - Help LP - £68.85 - splatter vinyl, got it at a gig
The Seize - Everybody Dies 7" - £63.33 - paid a fraction of this but it's not a great copy tbh
The Bleach Boys - Stocking Clad Nazi Death Squad Bitches 12" - £60.86 - bargain for this one apparently
Puncture - Mucky Pup 7" - £57.12 - cost me a tenner. another Small Wonder single, best known for being covered by the Exploited, probably
Tall Dwarfs - 3 EP's 3x10" - £57.10 - think I paid £5 for this off Ebay years ago
Black Easter - Ready To Rot 7" - £56.94 - this one is on Killed By Death #5 which is probably why it's so much

Not to BRAG (incoming brag) but I got in on Duster before it became a cult hit. Nabbed Stratosphere back when it was a $10-15 LP via mailorder (can't remember if I got it somewhere dull like Amazon or something about 10+ years ago). But yeah kept putting off checking out the new one. Saw them live a handful of times in recent years ramping up to this release too.

Luna is associated with Tobin Sprout right? I asked him where I could get Let's Welcome The Circus People and he said ask the Luna shop. They got back to me many months ago and said they were putting one on sale for $85. Since that's $40 more than I was hoping to spend I declined and sure enough it's still sitting there in the discogs marketplace today.

I used to manage a store in NJ but rarely would my co-workers be on my wavelength, sounds like I'd have fit in better over there with you guys!
― Evan, Monday, March 30, 2020 10:16 AM

Nice! I was pretty unawares till the reissue – that Mark Richardson piece about rediscovery tipped me off, I think: https://www.theringer.com/music/2019/2/22/18233366/duster-reissue-discogs-rare-music-vinyl

LUNA's longtime owner is from Dayton, and did a lot of GBV and related releases for a long time. So yeah...that's us :) Shop is temporarily closed, but we're still selling online!

It's funny how people's tastes coalesce working in a store...maybe it's personalities/age/interest? A few of us are long-time friends/bandmates as well, and the manager has worked there 20 yrs (the store turned 25 in December). If you're ever in Indy, pull through! :)

So weird to imagine ebay existing at the same time that anyone would have valued original Tall Dwarfs records to be that cheap, at least not without major defects. Even if demand for NZ rock was low something like that would surely be at least £15. Or the vinyl boom of the past 12ish years has just calibrated me to such an extent I can't even remember anything different.

I would/will totally visit if I'm out there! I only have a very few friends with (varying) taste overlap "IRL". Jealous.

xp

I bought Weeville, Fork Songs and Dogma at the same time as the 3 EP's, same seller on Ebay. Paid £8.62 for all 3 of them total. tbf this was 15 years ago

Nuts

I don't have my stuff in Discogs, but a quick lookup of what I figure are my most valuable items by median:

The Chameleons - Tony Fletcher Walked On Water CDEP, $63.86
Jazz Butcher - In Bath Of Bacon CD, $70.00
Jazz Butcher - Big Questions CD, $92.50
Bill Nelson - Trial By Intimacy CD box (from 2012), $86.42
Scott Walker - In 5 Easy Pieces box (from 2006), $92.86
Colourbox - Colourbox CD box (from 2012), $137.90

One of my most valued and valuable records is the Air France 2x10". In 2010 I knew that was going to be a tough one to get in the future so made sure I did then.

Maybe way less "cool" but I remember killing myself trying to get that Calexico boxset. Mostly because it contained all of their more experimental leaning tour exclusive albums, and their sonic desert atmosphere evoking experiments are what appeal to me. Don't know how motivated I am to track stuff down like that these days but the biggest thrill might just be stumbling on anything underpriced. Everyone is hip to the online markets and the going rate on anything these days.

Hey Cow_Art with another huge collection! Great stuff. When it gets that massive I wonder what you come back to the most.

I ended up with 2(!) copies of DMZ02. One has been sold. Pretty good appreciation on that one! https://www.discogs.com/Digital-Mystikz-Loefah-Dubsession/release/341298

Frank Ocean vinyl is probably some of the most valuable stuff I have.

Evan, I’ve listened to everything at least a couple of times. There’s definitely things I return to and things that I’ll probably never play again.

Marty Robbins Hawaiian albums get a surprising amount of replay.

My most valuable items are the ones I paid the most for in the first place, although some of them have appreciated considerably in value, notably the VOD box sets.

I also have a lot of signed LPs which I imagine increases their value quite significantly, including a NWW LP which Steven Stapleton drew on specially for me.

While we’re at it: what do y’all have complete collections of?

I more or less have complete vinyl collections of everything put out by:

Modern Lovers/Jonathan Richman (probably took the most time and $$$)
The Breeders
Smog/Callahan
Silver Jews

Glenn Jones! The guitarist

xp

complete:
Thinking Fellers Union Local 282

almost complete:
Unrest
Virgin Prunes
Michael Hurley

I used to have some more extensive/impressive collections of stuff like Coil, C93, NWW, Legendary Pink Dots, Muslimgauze, etc but gave on "completism" regarding those artists long ago and have sold lots of it at this point

I have almost every Biota release, missing the super rare 1st LP

any luck getting a hold of a copy of hurley's nz/aus tour tape? he must have sold out of them by the time he got to dunedin unfortunately!

Think I managed to keep up with tful282 until about '95. Well everything except the leonard cassette anyway. Don't think I have a complete run of any band that has more than like 3 releases tbh

Basically, stuff that’s not common as dirt is going crazy. We’ve been asking “are we in a vinyl bubble” for at least a decade now, but this rapid inflation does feel like a huge bubble.

yep everything is a $20 record now, minimum

unless you go to stores that actually have a clue how inventory works. one of my local stores is actually looking for a bigger place!

I wonder if the "price history" tool is doing more harm than good. Sellers seem to be overreacting to the high price, thinking "well if one person paid that much maybe someone else will", or more accurately "maybe someone will pay 20%-50% more". I noticed the Sparks LP Hello Young Lovers was listed around $80 or so, then someone paid $110 for it, and now the only copy is listed at $250. cool economic ecosystem you got there

I mean that's what I was talking about, however the shocking development is that the higher price IS the accurate market price according to recent sales. That's why I'm begrudgingly forced to revise my long held view on these opportunistic vinyl sellers from "delusional" to "savvy" until this current value spike bubble bursts. Really difficult to fault someone for selling something at a price a buyer is willing to pay. Problem is we're at the beginning of that now. Median prices haven't updated yet because the mass rise in value is only a few sales deep on the majority of the examples in my own collection. But it's the case across the board, across genre. Vintage market looks like it's going to get very expensive once everyone catches on if sold prices continue to skyrocket, and all we'll be left with is the FOMO competition to buy the latest limited reissue or new release before it sells out and subsequently forever live at an inflated resale value.

well two things I suspect are driving that right now are 1) the pandemic, which is forcing people to take up insular and weird collectors' hobbies and 2) that lacquer factory burning down, which seems to have caused a shortage of new records, and from what I've heard it's taking albums up to 3 additional months to get pressed because there's such a backlog right now. which means things there's potentially a big market for can't get repressed - I can think of a lot of Bandcamp shit that would quickly sell out an additional run of 1000 or whatever but they're so backed up it's just not worth doing at the moment. so existing copies just go for 3-4x the original price and occasionally even sell which puts dollar signs in everyone's eyes.

Vintage market looks like it's going to get very expensive once everyone catches on if sold prices continue to skyrocket, and all we'll be left with is the FOMO competition to buy the latest limited reissue or new release before it sells out and subsequently forever live at an inflated resale value.

this feels otm. lately ive caught myself being tempted to pull the trigger on stuff for more than i want to pay, under the assumption that 5-10 years from now the market is only going to be more insane

...which of course becomes a self fulfilling prophecy

Yeah I've been resisting the urge to recalibrate what I find to be a comfortable price to pay for certain things. Too many variables to consider- rarity vs. general inflation vs. the market (covered above) vs. condition etc.

end of the day this is an pretty hot market right now so it seems inevitable that a bunch of pressing plants are gonna open up to ride the wave and perhaps even start undercutting each other. it might take a few years but I feel like there's too much money to be made right now for things to just...stay like this

Hello I still use discogs for cataloging my collection, indeed discogs still exists and has not imploded.

Come, look at all the plastic and junk I own

then show me your junk...

...

Brick and mortar stores that price based on discogs as gospel are going to just be silly... everything 2nd hand is going to be like $50 and up, but not because they're delusional but because they're savvy. The only stores that will be worth going to are the ones that are savvy but actually mindful about the important difference between online marketplace and local clientele.

this has absolutely held true, two years later. I'm finding the baseline price for your bog-standard 80's albums to be at a minimum $20, sometimes higher. Of course even new albums now seem to be priced at $39.99 half the time.

yep a used Gaucho was $20 at my local been-around-since-the-70s store the other day, we joked about it

it's probably gone now

i bought an album from a record store for $35 AUD yesterday that is normally $100+ when I see it at fairs - i think the store owner looked it up on discogs and saw “marketplace: 2 available from $30” so priced it based on that - if he had bothered to click through, the cheap one was badly damaged and the next one was $120

mentioned because discogs-influenced pricing at record stores is soooo boring and takes the fun out of it - so on the odd occasion a record slips through, it feels like a win

shops in more savvy markets (like the bay area) definitely price under discogs and ebay prices on the whole because they aren't stupid. I spent a lot of time in Rapid City SD over the last two years though and there were two record shops there; both with surprisingly good stock considering the location, but one in particular absolutely went with the highest prices on discogs for fucking everything. I mean, 80's issue Siouxsie records (which admittedly are kind of hard to find now) for $65.

I've been a little disappointed in my old boss from the shop I used to work at - he prices stuff 5-10 above discogs median with the thought that he can reduce aged inventory if need be and get away with better margins in the meantime, but it's deflating for consumers like me that are hip to actual going rates. Like, yes median discogs + shipping = comparable cost in the end but should go without saying you reward your in-store shoppers the ability to save hypothetical shipping fees to thereby facilitate more frequent visits. He's always been a bit too meticulous about margins at the detriment to a bigger picture strategy.

I will say that overall I've seen a little downtick in resale sold prices amongst stuff in my collection compared to my posts upthread from a couple years ago when people were pulling the trigger on really high sticker prices across the board. Hopefully things level off a little. Speaking about 2nd hand stuff specifically.