Ebay, Light Of My Life, Fire Of My Loins, My Sin, My Soul

what should we list my wife's original copy of GBV's 'propeller' for?
should we put a reserve? do it buy-it-now?

roll the dice. start it at ten bucks. live dangerously.

i never have understood setting a reserve on records, it usually discourages me from bidding. i prefer the seller to start the record at either the base amount they want for it or starting cheap and letting people decide what they want.

i kind of agree on no reserve.

skot: don't want to start it low because, tbh, it's only "worth selling" if it's gonna help us significantly pay off our vet bills/other debts. so i don't want to list it at $10 and have it only sell for $200, even though that's a lot of money, ya know

tbh, i think we might just put it up buy it now for $1000 and see what happens lol.

mike rep cover art.

there are gbv records that sell for money???

propeller was ltd to 500 copies with hand made covers... routinely sells in the 700-1000 range. sometimes more, sometimes less, but that's kinda the average i think.

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=guided+by+voices&incldescr=&sortord=dprice&thumbs=&currsel=

i wish i still had my records from high school, white bee thousand, vampire on whatever, devil between my toes

records, man.

there was this one gbv 45 i had with a great song called shooting star, i think, it was good

here's the exhaustive (and exhausting) gallery of Propellers: http://www.angelfire.com/pq/propellerclub/

which cover do you have, ian?

i've always made good money on gbv stuff. steady sellers. like pearl jam.

it's not mine, it's helen's, but it's a mike rep drawn cover. like the one on that website but without the red.

man. I don't have anything with a Mike Rep drawn cover, but I *do* have an original of GBV's 'Sandbox'. On whatever label they released it on. I bought it direct from Scat ... after the either the 'Grand Hour' EP or the 'Vampire' LP came out, Scat started selling a bunch of GBV backstock early LPs through their mail order distro catalog. I loved the 'Grand Hour' thing so much that I punted on a copy of 'Sandbox.' Didn't buy the others because I was a broke youngin'. Later I got the 6lp box set, so ever since I've had two Sandboxes.

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=guided+sandbox&x=0&y=0

seems like I could hope for $50?

anyway Ian , I'm with Jordan .. reserves = bad! I personally don't bid on 'em. waste of time

Jordan!

sorry !!! JACOB! my bad bro, i'm way tired

That's amazing, how did she come into possession of one of the original Propellers?

my wife was in indie rock band in the nineties, worked at kim's in manhattan, worked at matador rekkerds for ages.

/braggin

you guys should go see bunnybrains. maybe. coming up. nyc. wish i could go. to hang.

speaking of matador. and 90's bands. and "lo-fi" records.

unless your wife hates my brother. i can never remember who hates him...

siblings, what you gonna do, right?

your wife is cool ian

lol no helen likes dan, so does pat. last time i saw bunnybrains p.g. six was the opener.

i love my wife a lot.

pat is going on tour! i think the closest he's playing to you is somerville. played at the flywheel recently i think.

5/3/12 Radio -- Somerville, MA w/ Major Stars
5/4/12 Casa Del Popolo -- Montreal Canada w/ Harris Newman
5/5/12 Tranzac -- Toronto ON Canada w/ Picastro
5/6/12 Happy Dog -- Cleveland,OH
5/7/12 Empty Bottle -- Chicago IL
w/ Solar Fox ,
Spires that in the Sunset Rise
5/8/12 Zanzabar -- Louisville KY w/ Luke Roberts
5/9/12 Ace of Cups -- Columbus OH w/ Sundown, Moon High
5/10/12 DC Nine -- Washington D.C. DC w/ Sundown
5/11/12 Johnny Brenda's -- Philadelphia PA
w/ The Strapping Fieldhands, Chris Forsyth, Kohoutek
5/12/12 Golden West Cafe -- Baltimore MD

no fair playing Somerville on a night i cannot attend.

Saw The Strapping Fieldhands play at Cake Shop a year ago or something and I think me and my girlfriend were the only ones who showed up that weren't opening for them. Or at least it was practically that way.

"Hi I got the lp and the record itself have alot of spots on it, on both sides. Im gonna have it cleaned and see if they come out. "

i wonder abt stuff like this. people not using precise words so that i have NO IDEA what this guy means by 'spots.' iirc the record was NM. i think maybe he means dust particles??

http://www.ebay.com/itm/251058551237?ssPageName=STRK:MESELX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1555.l2649#ht_500wt_1053

i have no idea if anyone is gonna bite at this price, but it's gotten 150+ views since noon...

think it might be a tough sell to start it so high but good luck man!! I shared your link on Facebook. I think before you mail it off I should come over and visit it. soak in the aura.

have you thought about trying to post it to a GBV fan forum or something? like is this thing still active? http://www.gbv.com/postal.html

or maybe the Matador msgboard

http://launch.groups.yahoo.com/group/peep-hole/

what do you ebayers make of this guy (assuming you're familiar w/ him)
http://stores.ebay.com/bobdjukic2
i guess his store is down but there is some evidence of his wares here
http://bobdjukic.blogspot.com/

its missing his funny item descriptions tho

we've talked about him before somewhere. Ian knows him I guess. HOT STAMPERS!!

Jesus Christ, $2325 for a Skip Spence record!

*** BEAUTIFUL, ORIGINAL, FIRST PRESSING!~PROMO ***

http://better-records.com/

STUNNING MASTER TAPE SOUND ON SIDE ONE! And side two, at A+ to A++, is excellent in its own right. This is an incredible recording, a member of our Top 100, but it takes a copy like this to make it come to life.

I confess to not ever having taken this album seriously, dismissing it as a commercial collection of pop hits with as much depth as the L.A. river, but I was wrong wrong WRONG. This is a great album on the right LP, not the compressed piece of grainy cardboard pop we're used to. The typical pressing barely hints at the tremendous energy and top-quality musicianship that characterizes practically every track on this wonderful record.

speaking of 45s:
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&_trksid=p4340.l2557&item=170843563402&nma=true&rt=nc&si=xewc69QXGdoxEcJpJ2xg97Bw3aE%253D&sspagename=STRK%3AMEWAX%3AIT&orig_cvip=true&rt=nc#ht_592wt_1330

o_O

WTF???

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Light-On-The-South-Side-2-LP-Book-12870-/110876881429?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item19d0c6f215#ht_2827wt_1086

Ouch! I have no idea what that is but judging by the description, I'd buy one for $6.16...

It's a beautiful set. 2XLP and a really wonderful coffee style photo book.

an essay by nick hornby can kill the value of anything.

holy grail right here

http://www.ebay.com/itm/HOLY-GRAIL-PARTRIDGE-FAMILY-SCREEN-GEMS-RECORDS-SHIRLEY-JONES-DAVID-CASSIDY-/320912068600?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4ab7d98ff8

Until now. Because “The Forever Family”, a rock band with two reality TV shows starring Shirley Jones in development from Las Vegas Nevada, needs to raise $1,000,000 to purchase a very special very destroyed and very infamous house to renovate and shoot another pilot, they are offering their greatest and most prized possession up for auction: Their priceless set of Screen Gem Records.

poor shirley...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ePtNsyzt8PU&list=PL000961408A733E34&index=2&feature=plcp