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Vinyl Collection
My dad is moving to a new house and clearing out a lot of his stuff. He has tasked me with selling off his giant, like-new collection of vinyl records, since he and The Internet are not friends.
Much of it is worth nothing, but there are also many collector's items in there. Eventually I will list it all on Craigslist and/or Ebay, but I know there are some aficianados here and I thought I'd give my friends first crack at them. I have only begun cataloguing everything he has, but here's a partial list. If anyone is interested in anything you see here, let me know and I'll research a fair price for it. A-Ha - Scoundrel Days A-Ha - Hunting High and Low Air Supply - The One that You Love Al Jarreau - L is For Lovers Art Garfunkel - Breakaway Bachman-Turner Overdrive - Best of BTO Barry Manilow - Barry Billy Joel - 52nd Street Billy Joel - An Innocent Man Billy Joel - Glass Houses Billy Joel - The Stranger Blood, Sweat & Tears - Three Blood, Sweat & Tears - Blood, Sweat & Tears Bon Jovi - Slippery When Wet Buddy Holly/The Crickets - 20 Golden Greats Chaka Khan - Chaka Khan (Side 1: Tearin' It Up) Cheap Thrills - Big Brother and the Holding Company Chicago - (Side 1: Niagara Falls) Chicago - Seventeen Chicago - (Two Disc Album, Side 1: Moving In) Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Déjà Vu Curtis Mayfield - Superfly Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual Dan Fogelberg - Greatest Hits David Allen Coe - Greatest Hits Dead or Alive - Mad, Bad, and Dangerous to Know Deep Purple - Shades of Deep Purple Diana Ross - Diana Ross (Side 1: Reach Out and Touch) Diana Ross - Baby It's Me Diana Ross and the Supremes - Greatest Hits Don McLean - Chain Lightning Duran Duran - Notorious Duran Duran - Rio Eagles - Desperado Eagles - Greatest Hits 1971-1975 Elton John - Breaking Hearts Elton John - Honky Chateau Elton John - Blue Moves Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road Elton John - Madness Across the Water Elton John - A Single Man Elvis Pressley - Recorded at Madison Square Garden Ensemble 109 - The Feelin is Mine Eurythmics - Be Yourself Tonight Fleetwood Mac - Fleetwood Mac Genesis - Invisible Touch Genesis - Selling England By the Pound Grand Funk - We're an American Band Head East - Head East Live! Howard Jones - Dream Into Action Huey Lewis and the News - Picture This Huey Lewis and the News - Fore! Huey Lewis and the News - Sports Jefferson Airplane - Crown of Creation Jefferson Airplane - After Bathing at Baxter's Jefferson Starship - Freedom at Point Zero Jethro Tull - Living in the Past Jethro Tull - War Child Jethro Tull - Aqualung Jethro Tull & London Symphony Orchestra - A Classic Case: The London Symphony Orchestra Plays the Music of Jethro Tull Joe Cocker - I Can Stand a Little Rain Joe Cocker - Mad Dogs & Englishmen Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison Johnny Cash - Johnny Cash at San Quentin Johnny Mathis & Deniece Williams - That's What Friends Are For Johnny Rivers - Changes Johnny Rivers - Rewind Journey - Evolution Journey - Departure Kansas - Two for the Show Klymaxx - Klymaxx (Side 1: Sexy) Kool & The Gang - Emergency Leo Kottke - Dreams and All That Stuff Lionel Richie - Can't Slow Down Lou Rawls - Tobacco Road Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell - Greatest Hits McGuinn, Clark & Hillman - McGuinn, Clark & Hillman (Side 1: Long Long Time) Meatloaf - Bat Out of Hell Michael Jackson - Thriller Mike & The Mechanics - Mike & The Mechanics (Side 1: Silent Running) Neil Diamond - Gold Night Ranger - Midnight Madness Nilsson - Harry Nilsson - Aerial Ballet Nilsson - Pandemonium Shadow Show Original Broadway Cast - Bye Bye Birdie Paul McCartney - Press To Play Paul Revere and the Raiders - All-Time Greatest Hits Peter Cetera - Solitude/Solitaire Phil Collins - No Jacket Required Philip Bailey - Chinese Wall Pointer Sisters - Break Out Queen - Killers (Live) Quincy Jones - You've Got It Bad Girl Raspberries - Raspberries' Best Ray Price - The Best of Ray Price REO Speedwagon - Life As We Know It Rocky Burnette - The Son of Rock and Roll Sergio Mendes - Brasil 86 Sergio Mendes - Confetti Sergio Mendes - Sergio Mendes (Side 1: Voo Doo) The Beatles - Let It Be The Beatles - Yesterday… And Today (cover steamed off to reveal censored image beneath) The Bee Gees - Here at Last… The Bee Gees Live The Bee Gees - Best of the Bee Gees Vol. 2 The Bus Boys - American Worker The Byrds - Greatest Hits The Cars - Candy-O The Commodores - Natural High The Doobie Brothers - Toulouse Street The Doobie Brothers - Takin' It To the Streets The Doobie Brothers - The Captain and Me The Doors - The Best of the Doors The Electric Flag - The Best of the Electric Flag The Everly Brothers - 24 Original Classics The Fifth Dimension - Stoned Soul Picnic The Frost - Frost Music The Hollies - The Hollies' Greatest Hits The Knack - Get the Knack The Le Roi Brothers - Forget about the Danger The Mamas and The Papas - Farewell to the First Golden Era The Manhattan Transfer - Vocalese The Manhattan Transfer - The Best of the Manhattan Transfer The Police - Synchronicity Tom Lehrer - An Evening Wasted With Tom Lehrer Tom Lehrer - That Was the Year That Was Tony Bennett - I Left My Heart in San Francisco Waylon Jennings - Greatest Hits Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson - Highwayman Whitney Houston - Whitney Houston (Side 1: Someone For Me) |
i'd pay five bucks each for Desperado, Aqualung, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road, and Thriller... but they're probably, if they're in good condition, worth at LEAST that just selling them to local record stores, and worth probably more eBaying them.
but five bucks apiece is what I can offer, so take it or leave it (i recommend leaving it! im offering you a bad deal!) |
Not even sure we have a local record store anymore. I'll look into what those four are worth--the problem with eBay is you see tons for sale, but no buyers. Doesn't matter if everyone lists their copy of an album at $20, it's not actually worth that much until someone buys it.
Besides, don't be so sure you'd be screwing me over with the price... Desperado has one auction listing it at 99 cents plus $3 for shipping. |
Dad had good taste. :thumb:
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lol - I was just thinking the same thing as xoB. Well that and I have many of those same albums in my basement.
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my point is, i'm broke (and cut off for the summer) and can't offer much, but worse comes to worse and i end up running out of food money from buying records, my dad would probably respect my purchase of vinyl (he's gone full-on crazy-ass audiophile) enough to give me enough to eat with to make up for what i spent on records. i still say i'm offering you a bad deal if i include shipping in what i've offered you, but if you have paypal or if a snail-mailed cheque is acceptable, and you'd take my paltry price, i'd still pay you twenty bucks for those four. i'll be the one getting ripped off if the four are not in great condition, you'll be the one getting ripped off if they're in less than great condition, i guess, but i payed more than that each for the copy of each that i've previously bought of each of those that my dad has assumed control over in my absence and won't give back. tooootally your call. edit: not that i'm accusing you of offering lemons or anything, i'm just saying, i'm willing to offer five bucks with shipping apiece to own something as cool as a copy of aqualung or desperado, even if what i get for that five bucks isn't even of playable quality. |
There are some really iconic albums there, but I guess that means there are lots in circulation, and these would only be really valuable if in excellent condition. Still to a collector, they'd be interesting.
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These are all in pristine condition. Zero scratches on any of them. For all that my dad is a full-on crazy-ass audiophile himself, he barely ever played them. I was going through the collection going, "My dad owns Duran Duran? WTF?"
Rumor has it that he once told my mother, "the day you want a divorce, just let me come home to find you spinning my records on the kitchen floor, and it's done." And she still didn't do it, even when she did want a divorce. |
I have digital copies of at least half that already. I'd buy some, if I still owned a record player. I shudder to think what it would look like if it were all on vinyl.
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I talked to the local "we buy used vinyl" guy. He picks what he wants from your collection and pays a quarter to a dollar for each. I'd sell them all for fifty cents each, if he took them all. |
I so wish I still had my beautiful console.
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Not a single Led Zeppelin Album? or is he just not willing to part with them?
I'd have paid a couple sheckels for some old KISS vinyl. I used to have all of them (when I was 9-11 yrs old) but as angry teenagers with developing musical tastes, My friend Dan and I realized that they suck, so we shot them all full of holes with a Ruger 10/22. (Sylvia Segress model) |
What's listed is only about 1/3rd of the collection. I guarantee you there are several Led Zeppelins in other crates. I should go through more of them tonight.
Maybe. |
Dibs on lz1!
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dammit
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Sorry, I folded laundry instead. Maybe tomorrow night.
Maybe. I can't even say, "Fuck it, I'm taking everything to a record store and I don't care if they give me $5 for it all," because they are so goddamned heavy, just the idea of loading them into the car again makes me shield my eyes and pretend I didn't see them sitting there... Mark my words, it won't be done before school starts in late August. |
If you wanted to make a project out of it you could put them on ebay one at a time as the artists die. Quick put up Deep Purple! or not...
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Not a bad idea, actually.
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I feel your pain Clod, omg
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I have a friend with more vinyl records than a decent sized college radio station from back in the day. He loves getting records and even had his own label for a while. I suppose it's still a label as long as he has a website up and bins of unsold inventory in his basement.
You walk into this family's house, and into the living room, and all you see are records. They line the walls on shelves from floor to ceiling. About a year ago, he and some other of his vinyl buddies found out about another vinyl guy who was moving, or died, or something, and all his records were being thrown into a dumpster in his driveway. They spent the better part of a day in that dumpster going through all the records. My friend left that day with his trunk, and back seat, and passenger seat, full of records. Thousands of them. He said it was really difficult for him because he left so many behind in the dumpster. He was only picking the most unique stuff that he didn't already have. The guy works at the Library of Congress, so maybe that explains in part his desire to have the most complete collection he can. Every time I go over, he's got a different random record playing. And his kids are getting into it too. Last one I remember was Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. |
That guy should be in the Guinness book of ...
Nevermind. Skip the steak. |
Zen, I'm glad to see the meds are beginning to work.
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My videotaping of It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown, was spoiled by news reports of that incident. |
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Oh no! Guns don't kill people, adequately correct eyesight does! |
Well, if you read that article it says that she missed the first couple people she shot at. maybe you gave her the wrong prescription, god bless you
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Clodfobble:
Back on track. I'll buy Roxy Music's "Country Life" if it is the original album cover. |
What does that one look like?
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Oh yeah, that's a kinda famous one... I'll keep an eye out for it.
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It was in the third box I checked. Turns out though the records themselves were stored alphabetically (mostly), the boxes were not labeled in any way. This is the first light of day this record's seen in ... over fifteen years I'm guessing.
It always was a favorite of mine. Still is. Attachment 39783 edited to add: I'm not putting a nsfw tag on this. I bought it in the store like this, no brown (hahaha.. started to type bra..) paper wrapper required, etc. I understand there are those that might be oooo ... Sorry. |
You know that's an old picture because there is clearly bush.
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Finally finished, two weeks after school started. Sad to say, there is no Led Zeppelin at all, Jim. I asked my dad WTF, and he says, "oh yeah, well about ten years ago I went through and, anything that I also had on CD, I threw out. What's left is only what I had never replaced on CD, maybe a third of everything I ever owned."
And yes, by threw out, he means in the garbage. :o Oh well. |
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