The seventies vinyl issue used to be really, really common, the eighties one with the terrible sleeve wasn't hard to find either. It's the only record I've ever bought from Urban Outfitters, I was walking past, and they had the Sundazed issue in their window for a fiver or less, so I ventured in and bought a copy, definitely not my sort of shop, but I'll go anywhere for vinyl.
I can remember Goodbye & Hello still being in print (and with its gatefold intact) and quite widely available. The others were in print, too, though they tended to be found only in specialist outlets like Probe in Liverpool or Selectadisc in Nottingham. Hst, I have a memory of finding Blue Afternoon and Lorca in Our Price! But it was the debut that didn't seem to be available anywhere, though I searched high and low for it ..... I think it was the only Buckley title that was o.o.p. in britain.
Ah yes I remember you talking about this before. I suppose I was making a generalisation based on what I observe in the shops. I like your strategy of not letting the flippers have a look in the back room!! Do you think the majority of people who 'know' they have valuable collectible records (because they've checked online) take them to record shops or sell online themselves (or get a relative to do it)? I've really seen a drying up of pop/rock vinyl in the chazzas over the last few years.
I got a PSI stereo vinyl for AU$2 at Savers last year. The CD always seems to be a bonus disc on Phil Spector compilations.
I think it's more that the collectors aren't dead yet and their relatives haven't had a chance to unceremoniously dump their collection on charity shops. I assume the point when this happens in more frequency will be around the time when that generation of musicians starts dying. I speculate that these are the people spending big money on the originals at the present moment. The demand will stop being there and the value of the collections will also nosedive. It simply won't be worth taking them to record shops due to the cost of fuel.
I know that local shops often have to deal with people who have looked up their collections online before offering them and quite often they offer them after having tried eBay/Discogs and likely sold the cream, add in all the records going to sons, daughters, nieces, nephews and the new generation of record dealers, and it's a miracle that shops get anything decent in, I assume charity shops are further down the food chain and getting offered far fewer decent collections, when I was still regularly hitting boot sales records were definitely harder to find.
You optimist I think that once a collection reaches a certain size, or quality, the collector lets family members know it has a good value and even if he hasn't suggested a disposal route they are very unlikely to donate it, in the last few years some auction houses have really jumped on the vinyl bandwagon often quite aggressively, they are definitely getting a lot of major collections that would previously have ended up in shops.
Understandable. I don’t scan bar codes but I confess I do sometimes look up my Discogs collection (taking care not to obstruct other shoppers!) because it’s now got to the size (or maybe because I’ve got to that age) where I don’t always remember what I actually own. In charity shops it’s not about the price anyway. In proper secondhand record shops it might be worth checking the price if it’s more than about a fiver but even then they deserve a premium for the bother of actually running a bricks and mortar shop and for customers not having to pay postage.
I see it a few times a year at the car boots, more often as part of sets like Back To Mono than as a standalone CD. Its absence from charity shops right now may be explained by the time of year - I know my local piles up all its Christmas CDs in the back room, and only puts them out in December. I have a standalone CD version, it's a guilty pleasure. The tunes are great, but it's the sound of Hollywood Movie Christmas, and listening to it feels a bit like voluntarily submitting to cultural hegemony. I have to listen to Joyeux Mutato by Mark Mothersbaugh afterwards as a pallette cleanser!
Yes, Leeds is terrible for Chazzas. I used to live in the centre, and since I've moved there are loads more better options. I was in Bradford the other week and there were MUCH better offerings for music diggers.
Quick selection from my local Oxfam. They're not the CHEAPEST, but they do have some more interesting and obscure stuff, so I can stomach a couple of quid for some. Bryan Ferry - Bete Noire (1987) - Don't know the album, but never seen it in the chazzas before. Roy Orbison - Mystery Girl (1989) - Rarely see Roy records that aren't compilations. Features the excellent 'You Got It'. Lab Coast - Walking on Ayr (2014) - Never heard of this band, but this seems to be their 3rd album. Early listens suggest it is right up my street! Rob Wisnewski - This Day and Age (2020) - Another artist I don't know, but quite nice country. Reminds me slightly of Drive-By Truckers Otis Redding - The Dock of the Bay: Definitive Collection (1987) - Just so many classic songs. The Woody Guthrie Collection (2000) - Double CD fatbox. Always enjoyed listening to his music.
Many thanks to Alexlotl of this parish for a lovely Dusty Springfield collection that arrived today. Can't wait to play it.
I've just been rediscovering this album. It's really very good. Didn't do much commercially, owing to a November release and the wrong lead single. The original mastering is superb too, so you should enjoy it from that perspective! EG.
Acquired a copy of The Critics Group / Living Folk. I thought this one looked pretty clean, it wasn't expensive at all. But it has atrocious surface noise just like my other copy. It is basically an Italian bootleg live recording so I now suspect the vinyl which they used was pretty bad. Anyway, it's a thrilling live recording with Ewan MacColl and Peggy Seeger. The Song of Choice makes a rare outing. It is similar to the one on John & Sandra but it's Terry Yarnell singing it. I note with some derision that some lucky duck bought a copy of John & Sandra on eBay for £20 recently! High time Decca treated the Argo catalogue with the respect it deserves and put out reissues of the stunning ZFB series!
a very different week for me. picked up this lot for £6.50 Omni Trio - The Angels And Shadows Project (01.2 Mix) Various Artists - Moving Shadow 02.1 Mix by Timecode Various Artists - Moving Shadow 01.1 Mix By Timecode Various Artists - Moving Shadow 00.1 (A Decade Of Classics) Transglobal Underground - International Times Eminem - The Marshall Mathers LP 2 The Killers - Wonderful Wonderful most chuffed about : all the moving shadow cds (which includes the omni trio mix cd). moving shadow = proper d-n-b label, i.e. rob playfords (aka timecode) label, and these label spanning mixes totally hit the spot. also, transglobal underground sits well alongside the banco de gaia cd i picked up last week, and will be a perfect chilled sunday listen.
Dearie me... To be fair it's probably the 1973 Ringo album, which I one I do understand people listening to.
Yeah, I've seen the awful covers a lot in the past. I'd only pick up the original London pressing to be honest, or of course a US one. I can't stand it when they change original artwork on covers.
There's a copy of John and Sandra on the wall in a local shop, it's not overpriced, and it's been there for a while, I have thought about seeing what they'd accept for it in trade.
I do like early Moving Shadow, I still have a lot of 10"s and 12"s from back in my junglist days, quite shocked by how much many appear to be fetching.
I remember thinking a while back, how I felt absolutely no need to own any of Ringo Starr's solo work. The guy couldn't sing and couldn't write songs and letting him sing on the Beatles' albums undermined their quality, I feel. Then, I picked up that Apple GH CD from around 2003 - I rationalised the purchase on the grounds of liking Photograph and the slide guitars on It Don't Come Easy (plus, it was dirt cheap).
I haven't posted my finds for a while - I finally caught Covid at a festival over the Jubilee weekend and had two weeks out of action, not leaving the house. But here are some of the CDs I've found since then: Madness - Total Madness (CD/DVD) Bonnie Tyler - Faster Than The Speed Of Night - a bit of Steinman bombast! Phil Collins - Face Value - not really a solo Phil Collins fan, but this, his first album, isn't bad. 3 for £1 - The last two were the original issues, in perfect condition. Gerry Rafferty - City to City/Night Owl (2CD) £1 - finally found these two great albums on CD. Renaissance - Scheherazade £1 - no rear inlay - someone had put in a narrow case. Israel and New Breed - Live From Another Level (2CD) 50p - gospel music. Stone Roses - Stone Roses (remastered) £1. David Gilmour - Rattle That Lock (s/s) £1. Aphrodites Child - 666 - 2CD fat box - contains some deeply weird music, but sounds great. Nice orange Vertigo labels. Elvis Presley - Elvis Country - compilation - with quite a loose interpretation of the word "country"! The Clash - The Clash 3 for £1 The Clash - London Calling (25th Anniversary 2CD+DVD) £3 - I bought this set from a charity shop over 10 years ago - the package was in perfect condition but one of the discs was trashed. Now at last I can replace it!
