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Not Many Beatles Records

I've only got 2 or 3 older ones (bought new, but not necessarily when released), and another 2 or 3 in the last year or so. Although I'm now rocking 3 turntables, I don't actually use them heavily...just a side or two every few days.
But that's changing, and I've gotten more LP's in the past month than the previous 20 years.
Now, here's the part that is pertinent to this thread; I've gotten to be buds with a local tech who is still in his shop 6 days a week, but losing interest in routine repair work. He's happy to work on 'interesting' stuff, provided I don't rush him, but he says he's having more fun just selling old LP's...and he's a big Beatles fan. Yeah...he's looking out for me, putting stuff under the counter. Sure, if he finds a real gem, he'll probably keep it and give me his old one out of his personal stash, but I reckon his old one will be a lot better than what I might find.
If you say something nice to me, maybe I can hook you up :) .
 
I have a original " white" ,revolver, rubber soul, Beatles again, sgt peppers, and Beatles 62-66 and 67-70. I'd guess they're a probably a "good"
I have a 2009 abbey road which I don't feel is a great pressing. I have a 1995 abbey road which I believe sounds pretty good, and an unopened abbey road from around 1980. And finally an unopened meet the Beatles from around 1980....
 
I got "Meet The Beatles", "The Beatles Second Album" and "Beatles '65", all three mono. I bought them for $1.98, maybe $2.98 each, brand new and sealed. Of course, that was in the early 60s. I also have two 2 record sets in stereo, "The Beatles/1962-1966" and "The Beatles/1967-1970". I also bought them brand new and sealed for I believe $7.98 each set back in 1973. I also have I believe, 6, maybe 7 original 45s. Also bought them brand new and sealed for about 39 cts each back in the early 60s.
 
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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.
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You'd probably like to talk to my ex's father. He had an entire room devoted to his Beatles music collection. Records, R2R, Cassette, CD, bootlegs, interviews, concert tapes, videos, posters. It was kinda crazy but he used to make me cassette copies of whatever I wanted. This was back in the early 90's and the tapes are long gone but I wish I still had them. I'm sure he still has the collection but I haven't talked to him in years.
 
Eh, I think they count, original first issue McCartney, ram, .....and Lennon's last , double fantasy unopened...
 
I bought my first Beatles album, Let it Be when I was 13 living on Maui. Got the Blue one new in California and all the others I collected because they were just there and for a buck. I have about a dozen 1st pressings including the 2nd state version of Yesterday and Today in stereo. I also have a bunch of albums from the individual members. I really haven't listened to the Beatles in years.
 
I have a few first pressings and several repressings (no new ones though, all from the 70's or earlier). I have 9 studio albums (10 if you count both copies of Abbey Road) and 6 compilation albums (20 Greatest Hits, 1962-66, etc).
 
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Eh, I think they count, original first issue McCartney, ram, .....and Lennon's last , double fantasy unopened...
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Oh, man! Double Fantasy was a traumatic one for me. That record was everywhere, and then John was gone. I think I let Double Fantasy sit unplayed for fifteen years after he died, maybe more.
 
They are becoming scarce on the ground.
Let it be is a fairly common find around here along with a couple of others but I've been hoarding them for a few years.
The top row from Sgt Peppers until the one pulled out on the right.
Also got a blue box just in view top right, sold an Aussie gold box
They don't get much play these days.
Also got a John Lennon Ringo and George Harrison section
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I was only a fan of Rubber Soul and later material. I had a few group and solo pressings, some original, some reissued. I sold them all when I had three kids in college at once. Now I have them on CD.

I've found out from hunting records that many people will buy Beatles records even if they don't have a tt because of their reputation for being pricey. My best luck has been at estate sales where the collection has not been picked through. I found two MFSL pressings last summer at an estate sale.

Like anything else, you have to be out looking constantly to find Beatles albums for cheap money.
 
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I've got the white album, Let it Be, Magical Mystery Tour, The Blue best of, and Imagine on vinyl. I have Hey Jude and Rock and Roll Music on cassette. All found at thrifts or tag sales cheap. I traded a couple old Beatles records because I'm more of a fan of their later stuff (maybe a mistake). I gave my number to a guy who I bought my boombox from this weekend. He said he has about 100 classic rock records he's looking to sell, so hopefully I'll be adding titles.
 
I started with my parents original pressing of Help! Which had been played on a Garrard in a console with, as I remember, a penny taped to the tonearm at various times. From there I just grabbed any & every copy of any Beatles album I'd run across for less than $10 bucks. That's netted maybe 10 different BA's (or individual member's albums), with NM SQ after being maticulously RCM'd. Grew tired of the slow progress and decided to invest & test a sealed MFSL copy. Liked it enough to hunt more of them down in Ebay auctions and and ended up with (8) more sealed's. That pretty much satisfied my need for dead quiet Beatles LP's. But recently I've been dabbling in Japanese pressed records and have gotten NM Japanese first pressings of Abbey Road, Rubber Soul, All Things Must Pass (sort of a Beatles record), just to see how everything compares.

After all that, The Beatles LP's don't really get a lot of playtime around here. I'm more into the individual member's pressings. I'll always be on the lookout for Beatles OP's but I'm not on a mission to fill out that collection anymore as I've got enough good sounding Beatles to make me sick and tired of Beatles. Plus CD's I accumulated while hunting down the LP's.
 
Most of mine are from "back then" as well. First LP I ever bought was the soundtrack to "Help!," which I still have. The EMI Parlophone reissues of the early English albums I find particularly nice sounding. My collection probably includes everything produced while they were still together, though most after "Beatles VI" were passed along to me rather than bought.

At Saturday's Frankenfest in Clinton, I got a very clean copy (dare I say it, "mint?") of Capital's "Meet The Beatles" in Mono from an AK member at a very reasonable price...:)
 
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Somehow, I still have three old Beatles albums. The White Album A 0565193; A Hard Day's Night; and Help. I'm not sure when I bought them, but it must have been back in the 70s or before. It looks like the Hard Day's Night Album was released before they even had ZIP Codes, as the address for United Artists is 729 Seventh Ave, New York, 19, New York.

Once upon a time, I had the "unauthorized" version of the Japanese CD of Abbey Road, but I sold it for a lot of money.

As for what I usually listen to: I have the Apple "Apple" release with all the albums on a flash drive. I guess I bought that a few years ago on Amazon. The drive has MP3 files, FLAC files, etc. No copy protection.
 
This may invite some flamers... I was 18 when the Beatles arrived, and they reigned for 5 years (as a group). They reigned over my entire social set and generational subculture. I always thought they were way overrated and their later stuff insufferably pretentious, and some of it was just bad bubble-gum music. But I never had the nerve to say so — I'd have been stoned as a heretic. (I was stoned frequently, but not as a heretic).

There, finally got that off my chest.

But they did do American a profoundly big solid. People forget the timing. The assassination of JFK plunged the country into a dark and tragic depression. You had to have experienced it and felt it to understand what I mean — otherwise it's just words.

The Beatles arrived 2 months later, a massive upper, just what we needed, and there was joy in the land. The "quality" of the music didn't matter.

In his inauguration, JFK said "We're passing the baton to a new generation..." He didn't know it would be the Beatles and the bands that followed.
 
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The thing with Beatles records is that folks always thing they're waaay more valuable then they really are. I can't tell you how many estate sales and yard sales I've been to where records were a buck or two each, except Beatles records were 10 or 20.... Case in point: this has been on the local CL for years: https://washingtondc.craigslist.org/mld/clt/6013547666.html

Myself, I have a bunch of Beatles albums (and some are really special) but honestly I don't listen to them that much, though I love having them.
 
I've pretty much always owned The White album in one form or another. Several years ago I picked up Sgt. Pepper on vinyl, a stereo 70's reissue. Couldn't understand what all the fuss was about. That was it until the mono 2014 vinyl reissues came out. I was really curious about these because of the fact that they were all analog and pressed in Germany. So I bought the White Album, Pepper, Revolver and Rubber Soul. Well, it's true that you haven't heard Pepper until you've heard it in mono. In stereo it's a fluffy pop record. In mono it's an in-your-face rock record and I like the mono version much better. The quality [sound and pressing] of the 2014 mono vinyl reissues is top notch. One complaint which I have read and I too experienced this: these albums are very static prone when new. Mine were all noisy the first few plays but eventually became dead quiet. As for the music Rubber Soul and Revolver are good albums but I still think the Beatles are overrated. If they did more songs like Helter Skelter I think I could love them. They're no Iron Maiden, that's for sure. ;)
 
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