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I visited an estate sale last Saturday. In addition to the requisite box of LPs in the basement selling for $1 each, there was a plastic tub by the checkout containing 3 LPs
1. Prince "Parade"
2. Police "Synchronicity"
3. Men At Work
They were marked $25 each. They weren't autographed and didn't appear to be special editions of any kind. I asked one of the estate wranglers why they were so expensive, and she replied that the homeowners claimed they had seen these titles sell on eBay for that price or more.
I laughed, but when I returned Sunday to claim a Adcom GFA-535 multiroom amp, Parade and Synchronicity were gone.
Any ideas as to why these particular titles would be fetching such a premium? (My wife has a copy of "Parade." It's actually music from the movie Under the Cherry Moon, a turkey which pretty much stopped Prince's film career dead in its tracks.)
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I should just put the collection up on eBay and hope for a sucker, I MEAN buyer...
The only thing unusual about "Syncronicity" is that dozens? of covers exist, with the colors used and arrangement of the colors varying. That said, it is a very common album that sold in huge numbers.
I don't see how any of those three would command more than a buck or two at an estate or yard sale.
BTW, I've looked at your linked webpage "Don't Judge an LP By Its Surface." Interesting comments regarding grading and use of digital transfer and restoration to improve a less than perfect record. I will often buy a relatively rare record in lesser condition, knowing that it will clean up dramatically with transfer to digital and use of "Click Repair." My general rule of thumb is that a record can improve one or two grades, e.g. from VG to NM with proper restoration of WAV files, assuming of course there's no extensive groove damage.
and apart from a few possible one-off or promo pressings of it, this "monotone" version is worth a few bucks to collectors.
I've seen a few copies over the years, however I seriously doubt this is the version the OP saw in the overpriced bin section.
"One this was all Black Plasma and Imagination" - Michael McClure
If there is localized groove damage, it may be addressed manually to varying degrees of success. I've come across some pretty gnarly LPs -- a lot of my father-in-law's 1950s era stuff -- and have only had to completely abandon a handful of tracks out of more than 300 titles.
Cheers!
I passed up a NM shill in shrink copy of parade at the junk shop yesterday selling for $1 because I already have it.
I could have bought synchronicity 4 or 5 times this year for $1 each at the same junk shop.
MAW. The copies I see are usually trashed but it's a $1 record if ever there was one.
Damn! I should sell my current copies for $25 each, then re-buy when I next see them for a buck apiece! ;-)
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