Finally Got One! Cd's or Lp's That Took You Years To Acquire

Not terribly tough to find - but it took me a while to find a new copy at a reasonable price.

 

This was 30 years ago, before every album was an Ebay search away, when you had to get lucky at a store or record show, I used to literally dream about finding a mono Beatles White album. The dreams would occur at least once every couple of months. Once I got my hands on a copy, never dreamed about it again.

 

Took me friggin years to get my sweaty paws on this one, finally got it a few months ago.

 

Took me years to find a CD of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's I Talk With Spirits, which is long out of print. I'd look for it in every record shop I visited. Last year, went into the Haight-Asbury Amoeba Music and found TWO copies. Left one there for some other damned soul to find.

 

Today: Genesis Trick of the Tail Japan for US CD with smooth case. NM $5.

 

Bambi Molesters - Dumb Loud Hollow Twang. Paid close to $80 for it - not long after, a copy in better condition showed up for $30. Now I have two. Muahaha.

There's a third copy on Discogs, also for $30. It hasn't sold in more than two months or so. I'm tempted to pick it up and have three copies of what was my holy grail back in 2014, but I don't want to be "that guy". Despite how rare this is it's apparently not worth much and nobody seems to want it but me.

Also, it wasn't years, but I'm about to come into possession of the super-rare Mike Scott/Waterboys outtakes disc Sunflowers. One of my white-whales down...

 

I know it's horrendous but it took me so long to find a copy of "Having Fun with Elvis On Stage". Eventually a friend aware of my plight bought me a copy, but I was still disappointed that I never found it myself...so much so that when I did, I bought another copy. I never said I was a cool guy.

 

finally got a complete copy of the rolling stones singles box 1968-71

twice before I found it used for a decent price only to discover it was missing the booklet (I wonder if it was the same copy but I found them at different stores in different cities in California).

I know I coulda got one online for not outrageous prices but that's no fun.

 

Usually it's the promo's that take me forever to track down (that aren't a car payment), this one, about a decade along with it's brother Obsession which is still on the list.

 

This looks interesting, thanks for posting.

 

The DADC Bruce Springsteen "Born To Run" in mint condition. Found it about 2 months ago.

 

Roy Harper's Lifemask on CD. Finally found one at an acceptable price a year ago.

 

Pardon my ignorance, but what is the significance of this release? It looks like a cheap K-Tel record. Is there Steve Hoffman participation maybe?

 

Is that the one to have?, my local thrift had a DADC stamper for a couple bucks
My CMU Pitman manufacture sucks

 

Apparently I now have a £100 copy for sale!

Seriously though - congrats! I'm assuming that's for a vinyl copy? (As opposed to the CD.) I have both editions - vinyl and CD - from back in the day.

My long term search CD was Cypress/Afoot by Let's Active. Finally tracked down both versions - the IRS original and the Collector's Choice reissue. (No apparent differences between them - except for the artwork - as it turns out.)

I already had some rare CDs from my early days of CD player ownership: Metallica's Garage Days Re-revisted, Game Theory's Lolita Nation, Klark Kent's Kollected Works, etc.

The next CD I'm hunting for is Tim Buckley's Starsailor. Not in a super hurry for that - I have a couple of different vinyl editions.

Cheers,
Paul

 

The most recent item to get crossed off my "holy grail" list is a minty CD copy of So It Seems, the only and altogether excellent album by Duet Emmo (the collaboration between Wire's Graham Lewis & Bruce Gilbert and Mute Records honcho/electronic producer/synthesizer pioneer Daniel Miller).

 

Exactly. He mastered it. Out of print and hard to find.

 

For a long time, I avoided the Clash's Sandinista! due to its sprawling scope and dodgy reputation, though I knew a few of the key tracks here and there. I finally gave in and started absorbing it and now I think it's a misunderstood gem. It also let me to a greater appreciation for its successor, Combat Rock, which I'd previously written off as an uneven misfire.

 

Yes. Our host made a thread about it. I have another that has quite a number of surface marks on it as well, but not one that was perfectly clean until I found the one I posted about.

 

I can think of six that I've wanted since my teen years and have since found:

John Kongos-Kongos (with "He's Gonna Step on You Again")
Love Sculpture-Blues Helping (with original die-cut cover)
Love Sculpture-Forms and Feelings (with "Mars")
Warner Loss Leaders-Looney Tunes
Beatles-the coveted white vinyl white album
And finally, Beatles-butcher cover, second state

 

1. Black Sabbath UK S/T Vertigo Swirl LP
2. Budgie NTYBOAF, original UK MCA LP
3. Budgie In For the Kill, original UK MCA LP

 

It took me years to obtain a copy of Ali Akbar Khan's Indian Architexture on SACD. That set was a very tough find. I paid dearly.

Padmavibhushan Dr. Ali Akbar Khan* - Indian Architexture

 

It took me years to find an original German pressing of 'Die Mensche-Machine' by Kraftwerk, pressed on red vinyl. I finally got a near-mint one for £150 a couple of years ago, which seems a lot, but is nowhere near what this one went for on eBay recently: KRAFTWERK DIE MENSCH MASCHINE 1978 MINT RED WAX | eBay

 

Not so much an album. But a specific track. Early '90's I went to a couple of concerts of the Dutch band The Serenes. I was very impressed by one song which didn't appear on their albums. Took me fifteen years before I discovered this track was called White Man's Grave and was an extra on a cd-single.

 

Going back to the late 80's / early 90's (pre-internet), it took me close to two years to track this down. Oddly enough, I found it at a small independent record shop in NYC that primarily specialized in Jazz. The owner of the store took pity on me after seeing me in there several times and asked me what I was looking for. He made a call to a friend, and the next week I was in there he had it waiting for me. After all that trouble, I don't even have it anymore.