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Hey all,Unless you live in a mansion, you have to sell records to make room for new records, at least every now and then. I've done this twenty years (keeping my collection at about 2500). To keep the size reasonable, I have sold six or seven thousand records.
I realize now that I have only one weird regret: a Pink Floyd bootleg described below. If you can help me find it, great, but I'd also be curious to hear everyone else's stories about the record that you got, and then, because you just weren't thinking, you gave away or sold.
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brixton77
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My small-time sob story:
Anyway, I had a Pink Floyd bootleg (pressed in the mid-1980s), which was a high quality recording of an early '70s Floyd concert in either Copenhaggen or Stockholm. The record cover was black and white (only one record in it), but nicely printed, and had a picture of cow[s?] on the cover. I bought the record at the same time, and from the same Goldmine seller, as Dylan's Ten of Swords. [which I was smart enough to keep!], so circa 1983? Does anyone know the record?
Apparently, when I was about to go to grad school in 1989, I sold the damn thing. I can't even remember to whom. Grrrrr. I think this was an accidental sell: I swept out a big pile [about 2500 records in one month], and, somehow, that one must have gotten mixed up in there.
I sold some good records that month [all of the Fugs in mint on the original pressings, for example], but I sold them for good money, after I I knew that they were not records I needed to keep forever. [I still like the Fugs, and still don't regret selling the originals.]
So, it's funny how, after all this time, and all those damn records, there's that one record [which can't be all that rare or valuable] that sticks in my mind.
Memory is a funny thing...
Follow Ups:
My biggest regret was when I was working for Audio Associates in the 80's and they were clearing out there Mo-Fi's. I bought a lot of them but I left behind the Sinatra Collection and the UHQR of Finger Painting. It's not so bad because I now own a lot of the Sinatra original pressings and I have the Blue Note of Finger Painting but I still wish I had bought those Mo-Fi's!
and Harmonia Deluxe by Harmonia on Brain Records
Can't even remember why or exactly when but I probably commited this foul act when I was in college. The only one I'm still left with is a
picture sleeve US copy of Honky Tonk Women.What a bozo..........
And I also recently noticed that I'm missing all my Roxy Music LPs, and have no clue where they went. I just can't imagine that I dumped them.
I got the Peel Slowly and See cd box and figured I didn't need it anymore. I probably didn't need it but it would be cool to still have. I have no intention of replacing it as It's not my current cup of tea. It's just a nice piece that I originally bought for $1.
A double-live Clash Fan Club issue, recorded at Brixton if memory serves. Not being a fan I didn't put down the $1.00, but I'm sure many others will tell me off.
I saw a Mono copy of Beatles Yesterday & Today, Butcher Block cover in seemingly very good condition for $100 at a store called the Dedicated Record Collector in SJ, California. This was probably around the early 1980's. I had just gotten out of college and was pretty broke so $100 seemed like a fortune so I didn't buy it. It wasn't like I didn't have $100, it just seemed way too pricey at the time.
Back around 1990, when albums were being quickly replaced by CDs, I had a chance to buy sealed, unopened Rolling Stone and Frank Sinatra MFSL box sets at $100 a set. I bought two Rolling Stones box sets, figuring that I would sell one and make a little money in a few years.I kept one completely sealed and sold it a couple of years ago for $900! 800% profit in 13 years!
Man, I wish I had bought every single one that they had available!
I could have paid cash for my house!
I was in Tower Records, the one closest to The Bottom Line, we were there to see Jaco Pastorius. He was amazing. On the way home we stopped to buy records. They were closing out their audiophile section and had MFSLs on sale. Dark Side of the Moon was $15 !!!!I only had a bit over a hundred on me and didn't have any credit cards yet. So, I bought seven of them with the money I had. The guy at the register thought I was nuts.
I held them all until 1995, when I thought the market had peaked and sold them for $125 a piece. I sure wish I had saved one. Regret #2.
Dean.
hi kitty!
I sold it to a collector in New Zealand for a great price, but I wish I had it back. I didn't like Nick Drake's music that much back then. Now I do.
It's a nice little boxset of hard to find Kate 7" 45 singles. No earthshaking loss since I taped it, but I always miss it around this time of year for the song "December Will Be Magic Again."
Mine wasn't vinyl.... Back in the early '90's, I found a yard sale in which the guy had old Mc tube gear for sale (this was long before I got into the game). I have no idea what series, but it was a tuner, pre and amp. I recall the tuner had the blue "electric eye" that indicated signal strength. He wanted the exorbitant price of $100 per component. I bought the ML speakers instead. Ouch,...(accompanied by the loud report of boot applied to butt).Cheers,
I had to sell the LPs I wanted myself as the "easy stuff" just didn't sell. My booth was beginning to bulge at its seams because I'd find so many collections, grab the good stuff for myself, and put the flotsam and jetsam in the booth for sale.I'd find collectible C&W, which I wasn't interested in at all, but I'd also find early Rock, of which I was only moderately interested in. So, I regret the Buddy Holly and other historically important individuals, not so much the early Elvis but there were some LPs people (and now myself) would kill for that I sold for 10 bucks, 20 bucks...not too much more than that.
I found a Teddy Wilson LP on the Parker (Bird) label and was excited as hell, until I played it. It sounded as if someone was standing outside the room (quite large room if I recall...a really big bar???) out in the hallway with a mike and a portable reel to reel. The sound was abysmal! But it was great Jazz! And I sold it for 10 bucks 'cause it wasn't an audio gem!
Stupid, stupid, stupid! Shortly after that empty headed decision, I sold the LPs in the booth to another guy and quit the LP sales gig forever. Just in time because that weekend I found enough Bo Diddley and Chuck Berry amongst others to satisfy any Rock collector!
I think...I'm not sure...that the cover was a David Stone Martin cover.
that I think had a David Stone Martin drawing on the cover. I used to sell a lot of great jazz lp's in Goldmine magazine years ago, and certainly do regret selling them. However, at the time I was not a *record* collector, but a *music* collector. I would record them, as I play graded them, on a reel-to-reel tape so that I would have the music.I sure do miss being able to hold and read the covers, though.
About 10 years ago I moved and started selling a bunch of my LP's. I really regret selling many of them. I find myself trying to rebuy copies on ebay at inflated prices and usually in worse condition than my pristine copies. The most heartbreaking mistakes include:Univers Zero - 1st on Atem - fantastic sound
Third Ear Band - Music for Macbeth
Art Zoyd - Phase IV
Matching Mole - 1st
Soft Machine - 1st
Present - triskaidekaphobie
Ouch!That's good stuff. Would love to have (or even hear) an original copy of the first UZ album. I have the Cuneform issue.
I did get another copy of the Univers Zero on Atem on ebay for $40 advertised as NM but it was VG side 1 and VG- side 2. Sound quality is truly outstanding though. I almost can't bare to listen to it though with all the ticks & pops when I think about how I could be listening to my old mint copy! I've tried to obtain another copy but it looks like I will have to pay $60-$100.Thank God I didn't sell my Third Ear Band - "Elements" or my Nazca LP. Both are similar in style and are very nice sound quality.
I've been trying to buy Elements on Ebay for about a year with no luck. I love Music from Macbeth though.Nazca is another I want to hear but it's pretty hard to find.
about 1984, in fact. Sold the whole bloody lot to Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh.
I was an out of work steelworker with no prospects, a toddler, and a TT that skipped if someone in the room sneezed hard enough. I got good $$ for those LPs, put food on the table for a month.
And for the last three years, I've been buying a hell of a lot of those albums back from, yes, Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh.
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Three that spring to mind that I regret particularly (all bought new):Pete Townshend/Who Came First/original US Track
Jimi Hendrix/Rainbow Bridge/original (probably) US Reprise
Beatles MMT German Apple (killer sound!!)
...oh and make it also Beatles LiB mid-70s UK Apple, THICK pressing (killer sound!!)
:O(
Had sealed UHQR's that I held onto for four or five years. Kind of had them as an investment in mind when I bought them. Had the Floyd DSOTM on regular Mo-fi as well as Tea for the Tillerman by Cat Stevens and a spare UHQR of Pepper and really am not much of a Supertramp fan so it wasn't a huge loss, BUT, I wish to hell I had hung onto that Cat Stevens Tea for the Tillerman on UHQR.
I have the UHQR of Tea for the Tillerman and I'm glad I still have it. I played it for the wife a few weeks ago and she also ejoyed it.
... not that it's worth millions, but I would like to have it back. Actually, I would like to have back ALL the LPs I have sold, as well as the semi-vintage stereo gear. No, the gear wasn't killer, but great for nostalgia.At the time, I needed the money :^(
nt
1. Cowboy Junkies -- Classic Records reissue (45 RPM) -- never played, sold cheap
2. Ella & Louis -- original release, first pressing, mint
nt
last year for $.50? Man is that a well recorded Lp or what? And great music. One ofthe many things I dislike about winter, garage sales almost non existent :(
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but have you seen the prices that they fetch now (Classics, 45RPM)? I actually sold it for the price that I paid for it new. The reason? I didn't know how to get my LP12 to spin at 45 RPMs. The new Lingo kinda solved that problem. Now, I wany my LP back!!!! ;-)
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