i love that he's charging $4 for shipping.
― mizzell, Monday, 23 September 2013 16:57 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah, like with baseball cards "Sold for $79,999 + $2.50 Shipping"
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:20 (eleven years ago) link
well, people are very interested in watching it! the consensus seems to be that it's better than the other known copy, condition-wise, and that it could go for some ridiculously astronomical amount. i'm hanging out in jersey again this week with some collector dudes at yazoo HQ and i'm sure this will be a topic of conversation.
― ian, Monday, September 23, 2013 12:52 PM (28 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Oh yeah?? Listen to some "My Garden State" during your trip. I'll be nearby (childhood home) until Wednesday.
I didn't get to read the article yet- does it mention how many are thought to have been originally pressed?
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:27 (eleven years ago) link
i dunno man. some people are just hoarders! it seems like the storage lockers are this guy's? and his wife is making him clear them out? he's certainly got some other good 78s up though. there are definitely people out there who collect outside of the normal collector networks..
― ian, Monday, September 23, 2013 12:55 PM (31 minutes ago)
Yeah I think he bought up a locker somewhere and if so what a find.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:29 (eleven years ago) link
my "1 of 2" source was that well known purveyor of truth Twitter, but what ian says seems reliable.
― Neil S, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:31 (eleven years ago) link
Yeah I wasn't saying you were wrong! I was just curious. It's fun to learn about these rarities.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:34 (eleven years ago) link
oh sure, no offence taken! can't remember the account it came from now...
― Neil S, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:35 (eleven years ago) link
evan -- there's no note in the article about numbers pressed; there ARE usually company ledgers that indicate how many were SOLD, however. things that were not sold were destroyed and recycled -- during WW2 there were "shellac drives" where people would donate their old records to be repurposed for the war effort! strange but true!
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:37 (eleven years ago) link
alas, i don't think the ledgers with sales info are available publicly on the internet. they probably reside either with individual collectors or in a library collection somewhere.
Hmm! Well I guess I'd have thought there'd be some story behind why this particular one is so scarce.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:52 (eleven years ago) link
well, it was the depression. and a lot of folks didn't have money to buy records, and record companies were pressing fewer records than before. it just probably didn't sell many copies!
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:55 (eleven years ago) link
Then I hope someone treats us to a digital rip from this copy! Looks super clean.
― Evan, Monday, 23 September 2013 17:58 (eleven years ago) link
more speficically -- this record was recorded 12/29, just after the stock market crash, and probably not pressed and shipped to stores until a bit later -- those were hard times, especially for black folks with limited money to spend on entertainment.
― ian, Monday, 23 September 2013 18:16 (eleven years ago) link
The winner speaks!http://www.fuse.tv/2013/10/why-i-paid-37100-for-one-record
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:07 (ten years ago) link
Wow:
I traveled to South Carolina the night before the auction was over. I was that confident that it wasn't going anywhere else other than home with me. I checked into a hotel at 7 P.M. the night before it was over and e-mailed the seller and said, "I would like to come over and have a look at this before I make my final bid." He wrote back, "Nope. I'm definitely afraid of going outside the house with this thing. I don't want anyone knowing my address. You wouldn't believe what types of scams people have been trying to perpetrate on me with this record. Someone wrote me from New York City saying the record had been stolen from him and they wanted it back immediately. If you end up the winner, I'll meet you somewhere."
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:10 (ten years ago) link
ian, fess up!
― Evan, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:52 (ten years ago) link
hahaha NOT ME MAN.i only try to scam ppl out of rare hillbilly records.
― ian, Wednesday, 16 October 2013 17:53 (ten years ago) link
$2000 for a mint orig copy of The Hissing Of Summer Lawns? gtfo
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/MITCHELL-Joni-Hissing-OF-Summer-Lawns-75-ORIG-NM-NM-EX-Play-Graded-/251449088561?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item3a8b889a31
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 21:00 (ten years ago) link
LOL
― skip, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 21:07 (ten years ago) link
odd that his other items are reasonably normally priced. is there a crazy priced vinyl on discogs thread?
― stirmonster, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/itm/EXTREMELY-RARE-MONSTER-ROCK-YUME-BITSU-ANDREW-RIEGER-OF-ELF-POWER-LIMITED-ED-500-/120968347334?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item1c2a467ec6
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:20 (ten years ago) link
That's insane. 500 copies, and not even in NM condition. I'm guessing the four watchers are just people watching to see if anyone actually bids on this. I don't know the record, but is there any precedent for that starting bid? Surely "one of the guys in Elf Power" is alone not enough to command such a price. Or is it?
― Jimmywine Dyspeptic, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
There are 10 copies for sale on discogs between £6-12!
― Just noise and screaming and no musical value at all. (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 00:20 (ten years ago) link
Discogs, once again, proving to be the better place to buy vinyl online.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 02:37 (ten years ago) link
Just sent the seller a query as to whether, for that price, this album comes with an audiophile-grade turntable to play it on.
― a lot of really bad records changed my life (staggerlee), Wednesday, 26 March 2014 04:05 (ten years ago) link
Fwiw at least 'Be Afraid' is one of the nicest tracks of Yume Bitsu.
― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, 9 April 2014 14:39 (ten years ago) link
this one is crazy as apart from the ridiculous price, the seller doesn't even have a copy yet but is counting on picking one up on record store day.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/William-Onyeabor-What-12-Double-LP-Vinyl-RSD-2014-Record-Store-Day-/331174768770?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item4d1b8df082
― stirmonster, Sunday, 13 April 2014 17:42 (ten years ago) link
http://www.ebay.com/sch/shoeskate05/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_ipg=&_from=&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&rt=nc
Look at all of the "sold" listings of the same RSD 2014 items...
― Evan, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:53 (ten years ago) link
someone clearly wants to be sure they get a copy of the glow in the dark ghostbusters 10".
― erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
that dolly parton coverart is pretty dreadful ..
― mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 18:58 (ten years ago) link
I hope this person can't get hold of all these records he's already promised (and sold!) to other people.
― Kitchen Person, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:06 (ten years ago) link
Holy shit why are Jack White tickets that much?
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:41 (ten years ago) link
cos the weeping angels are on support ..
― mark e, Sunday, 13 April 2014 19:42 (ten years ago) link
Ugh, as if I didn't think RSD stuff was ridiculous enough already.
― austinato (Austin), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:05 (ten years ago) link
I was looking at the Pixies' $200 new album and started surfing and found a bunch of "Bossanova" and "Trompe Le Monde" original CD singles for like $5. The b-sides on those singles are 1000000X better than anything I've heard off the new album.
― ▴▲ ▴TH3CR()$BY$H()W▴▲ ▴ (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 13 April 2014 20:09 (ten years ago) link
But they don't say "Record Store Day" on them.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:37 (ten years ago) link
RSD exclusive l@@k oop!!!!
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 18 April 2014 18:56 (ten years ago) link
Does anyone actually type "l@@k" into an eBay search?
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:28 (ten years ago) link
How about when an ebay listing has "WOW" in the title? I see this ALL the time too.
― Evan, Friday, 18 April 2014 19:32 (ten years ago) link
This is why I failed as an eBay seller. Never once did I put "WOW" or "l@@k" into the item title or description.
It all makes sense now.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:34 (ten years ago) link
i don't know but
141,544 results for "l@@k"
― christmas candy bar (al leong), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:35 (ten years ago) link
So, the short answer is yes.
― austinato (Austin), Friday, 18 April 2014 19:37 (ten years ago) link
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-tAIo5Ed2TKU/VCtlnEwMkmI/AAAAAAAAAQE/N2F2xWma7Xo/s1600/Screen%2BShot%2B2014-09-30%2Bat%2B8.21.26%2BPM.png
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 02:34 (nine years ago) link
would love to get some antique viynl
― Eyeball Kicks, Wednesday, 1 October 2014 10:37 (nine years ago) link
It's weird that for each album he's asking that much for each album.
― austinato (Austin), Wednesday, 1 October 2014 14:24 (nine years ago) link
Not ebay but is double crazy:
http://www.secretaudioclub.com/products/everythingeverdoingnothing?variant=920255729
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:32 (nine years ago) link
It's a misleading website - I had a play with it..
The ordinary black vinyl with hand-made sleeve (100 available) is $10The test pressing version is $75 (there are five)The Super-splatter colour version (five) is $100There was a full-set version (one only) but that's gone.
(Digital download is $1)
Needless to say, I'm not checking out there.
― Mark G, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 14:42 (nine years ago) link
Ohhhh that's confusing.
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:54 (nine years ago) link
Still- you can have the vinyl as colorful and limited as you want but if you're a nobody band what's the difference?
― Evan, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 16:56 (nine years ago) link
Yr mom is usually good for one of everything. 3 guys, 3 moms, that's like $400 right there.
― hardcore dilettante, Wednesday, 15 October 2014 17:35 (nine years ago) link