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Your biggest vinyl score??

yaya97

yaya97

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I am a vinyl nut and love all my records but a few finds really stand out IMHO:

My top 3:

8 RIVERSIDE first pressing ( blue reel to reel deep groove mono) Bill Evans albums of which one was sealed since 1959 ( portrait in jazz) all for $100 at a used book store.

My latest purchase: an authentic Beatles butcher 3rd state in very good condition ( one rip that does not distract) for $95 .It has no glue residue and the grain on the cover is perfect.

Best for last, a mint, (perhaps never played??), John Coltrane "Giant Steps" ( black Atlantic label) that to this day has the best sonics of my collection: $15again at a used book store.

Any good stories of finds or records that you are looking for??
 
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Recently got an 11 LP JAZZ set on Folkways records, 1958 mint, 11 dollars for the set of 11 LP's at GW. I have really good luck with vinyl scores for some reason, equipment, not so much, but this was a really nice find.
 
Not much value wise, but I have a quite a few musical scores. Records I bought out of curiosity without knowing what was on them, that turned out to be excellent.
 
My best was a volume buy from a co-worker. His brother had given him his old albums to sell for funds, about 700 in all. I gave him more than he was asking after giving them a once over. Among the titles, Velvet Underground & Nico -well all of Velvet Underground, the Kinks catalogue through about 1973, the Who catalogue, Beatles including fan club Abbey Road and two White Albums (one on white vinyl), Rolling Stones early releases, Van Morrison, The Move, Street Walkers on Vertigo, John Coltrane, Thelonius Monk, Soft Machine (4), Kevin Ayers catalogue on Harvest, and on and on. He collected tangentially as well, so any solo work from the groups was in there as well (Lou Reed, John Cale, Robert Wyatt, Whitney Chapman, etc.) This is off the top of my head, this collection was in VG+ all the way through. I had a blast playing through them and still find ones I forgot about, a great restart to my interest in vinyl. I really had no idea as to how to value them at the time, but they've proven to be a big score as time marches on -the best thing is it was all great music to my ears.
 
Like jancumps before me, I have to say the best scores are those I buy blind--walking into a record store, seeing something that looks cool, not knowing what exactly I'm buying, and then getting home and discovering I love it. A lot of these I've just picked up because the cover looked cool, purchased with no idea of what music is inside.

Examples throughout my record buying career:

1973 -- Miles Davis' On the Corner
1975 -- New York Dolls first LP
1975/6 -- Patti Smith's Horses
1976 -- first Ramones LP
1976 -- The Modern Lovers
1977 -- Never Mind the Bollocks
1977 -- My Aim is True
1989 -- The Melvins' Ozma
1990 -- Fugazi's Repeater

to name a few...
 
I think I need to clarify my idea of value. I am not necessary talking about value as in resale value (I know I am not a seller of my stuff unless I have doubles) but more like rare (the velvet and Beatles by Tannyhovan is a score to me), exceptional sonics or just the piece that was missing from a collection.
As I mentioned, my Coltrane Giant Steps does not a pop thus it feels like her is playing in my loft!.
As for the Beatles butcher, It was the missing piece of my collection. The Butchers are not rare ( at least 20 of them on ebay) but the one I have fell into my allocated budget. I have seen people spend over $1000 ( blue note jazz often) just to get the "one' missing from a collection.....
Next hunt will be for a Led Zeppelin II mastered by Bob Ludwig...... Will see......
 
I don't look at scores that way. Or at least I find that kind of meaningless and not much fun.
 
I picked up Mad Season - Above for 38.00. It might be my fav recording and it normally sells for 150-300.
 
2 years ago, all for $50. Many audiophile pressings and played on superior quality gear...


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gmku said:
I don't look at scores that way. Or at least I find that kind of meaningless and not much fun.
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So let me ask this. You're sitting in at your desk and a co-worker says casually "Hey, my brother is moving way out of state and he left me his albums. There's some nice stuff as I recall. I don't want them, I figured you might be interested for oh, the price of five 180g reissues. You interested?"

You'd say no.

My BSometer says otherwise, ha!
 
I wouldn`t worry about gmku`s euh comment-opinion or whatever you want to call it..just a comment to comment......
 
I sort of understand where gmku is coming from, but myself, I sure as heckfire wouldn't say no to a good deal on a bunch of good LPs!
 
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