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Not Many Beatles Records

Condorsat

Condorsat

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I own two Beatles Vinyl pressings ... Abbey Road & Let It Be. Both were modern re-issues of recent years.
Own the Mono CD box set ... the above titles were not part of that set.

Back in the day ... childhood I owned Hey Jude (compilation), Sgt Pepper's & Let it Be. None of those records survived.

During the dollar bin days ... Beatles albums were still pricey & sought after by collectors ... never found any at a good price in decent shape ... usually they were trashed. During those days ... I never paid up for Vinyl.

Once ... 10+ years ago ... at a Half Price Book store I was looking at a MFSL Beatles Box set. The records looked NM- to VG++. They were wanting about $600 at the time ... thought about it ... but $600 would buy a lot of legacy Vinyl back then.

Folks know me, know I am an avid record collector. I've been asked this numerous times. Record collector ... so you own all the Beatles records? :no:

Been thinking about buying the Beatles Mono Box set (Vinyl).

What say you? ... anybody not have many Beatles records?
 
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That would be me. We're in the same spot geographically and prices are high. I got the Red Album as part of a collection, and bought the Blue when I saw it for $8. Found a Rubber Soul in the dollar bin, and while it looks like hell, it plays VG+, so I can live with it.
I'd recommend the Red and Blue for folks want to know just what the Beatles are about without the giant outlay of cash.
 
Although I have all their studio albums on CD I don't have a single LP. You just don't see them around here in the thrifts or at yard sales. I haven't seen a Beatle LP in many moons_:oops:
 
I've only got two, Sgt. Peppers and Magical Myster Tour. I recently found both at a thrift priced at $4/ea so figured why not pick them up? The are both early releases though I haven't bothered to look up the specifics, VG+ and had plastic sleeves over the jackets so someone really liked and cared for them.
I don't listen to the Beatles much but have considered picking up one of the box sets because it would be nice to throw one on occasionally but on the other hand I could probably pick up legacy CDs of every album for about a third the cost.
 
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I bought the 2014 mono box when it was released and consider it to be some of the best money I ever spent on audio. The bass and drums especially stand out on these.
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2014 release on Mono Box ... good grief ... was not aware that the box had been out that long.

I've read that the recordings were mastered from Analog tapes.
 
I have far far too many Beatles records and box sets, I thinned some down a while ago to Robert, but still bought more. At this point I really have to see something special to bite but I'm going to go though it again and move some along.
 
My Beatle days are about twenty years behind me.Therefore when looking for vinyl I picked what was available in the thrift pickings.Found a few vg+ titles and bought a couple over the net.Never spent more than $10 a record.Same when the new Zeppelin reissues came out I said the same thing.My primary Zep days are behind me so why would I want to spend big money on records I'll hardly ever play.It is true about Beatles records being scarce out there in the thrift world.I did buy the remastered 2009 cds of Revolver and Rubber Soul.
 
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I found one, Let It Be, at a Goodwill a while back. I have a couple 45s I inherited from my grandfather as well. I haven't played them yet, but they're beat up (Let It Be was without a sleeve and the 45s came from a jukebox).

I do have all of their recordings digitally though. And I mean all of them.
 
I'm another one with only two Beatles LP's. They are Sgt. Peppers and Abbey Road. Both were bought new when first released.
 
Most everything except when things started to fall apart. No solo albums from any, and two Sgt. Pepper's. Domestic USA and Parlaphone. A number of 45s too.

BTW, Sgt. Peppers was amazing to listen to with headphones.
 
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I've had every album from Revolver on for years, plus the two anthologies, Red & Blue, all purchased in the 70's. All are still very playable, but no longer scratch-free. When I first got back into this hobby, new Beatles pressings were pretty thin on the ground. When I saw some for $25 each in a Music Direct flyer, I decided to get a couple but when I went to their site, the price had risen to $50 each. I was so upset at what I considered gouging that I refused to buy any. Then for awhile nothing was to be found at normal prices, and the $50 price was starting to sound like I should have gone for it. When the stereo box set was announced, I went overboard and bought two, one of which sits unopened in case I live long enough to scratch up the first set...

I had also purchased the stereo and mono CD box sets, so I had plenty of Beatles, a lifetime supply actually, when they announced The Beatles In Mono LP set, and it got such good reviews, that I had to get it, and am very glad I did. I had listened to the mono CD set on one Quad when the other was down, and it sounded like an archetype, like pure, distilled Beatles, if you will. There are some minor differences in the material itself between the two versions, stereo and mono, but the sonic superiority of the mono LP set is real, IME. I play it in stereo however, no mono rig yet set up, and I don't even have a mono switch anymore. It just sounds great! The jackets are nice and "authentic", too.
 
I've had fairly good luck picking up Beatles stuff at garage sales, auctions, CL buys, etc. The one glaring hole is Yellow Submarine. I'll probably buy a reissue sometime. That mono box set has been really tempting me for a while.

I have a much harder time finding anything from the Rolling Stones.
 
I have beat up Hard Days Night and Help, both bought new when they first came out.
I wonder how they would sound with a good cleaning or if they are too far gone.
I also have a VeeJay Introducing the Beatles album bought maybe early to mid 70's.
Just remembered, I have the "red" and "blue" albums as well.

I did buy the Stereo CD box set when it first came out. The ping pong mix is strange. Many people prefer the mono version.
 
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Dang, you all make me feel like I'm obsessive and a record whore, I even have Ringo albums. Could quiet possibly have every song any of them did together or apart and all on records.

Hell I even have George's album that came out after he died. Believe it or not I never shop records at GW, but this day I looked and found it, I didn't even know it existed.

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I have some original Beatles albums that a friend gave me. They are cool to have but were played a lot so they are kind of played out. Still fun to own them though. I agree, I've never seen Beatles vinyl in the wild other than one time at a record store specializing in NOS vinyl. They were costly if I recall, this was about 7 years ago now.
 
Most of mine are "from the day" but in good to vg. Let's see:
Meet the Beatles, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Magical Mystery Tour, The White Album, Abbey Road, Let It Be, The Beatles 62 -66, The Beatles with Tony Sheridan and Their Guests (pre Ringo). Also have some George Harrison and Ringo solo's and a number of cd's.
 
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