LP's that have NOT held their value over the decades.

Most of my customers are just looking for records to play, not so much the type buyers that seek out pressings. It is more like, "oh the Kinks, I remember them" (if it's a boomer), or, "oh the Kinks, I think I was reading about them online, they were suppose to be good" (if it's a teenager).

 

I had a price guide in the 1990's that listed Sgt. Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour in mono as $300 to $350 in VG condition. I thought I lucked out as I bought both of these for 50 cents each in a garage sale. Discogs now show these with a median value of $25 to $30 (at least my copies). Not quite the bonanza I once thought.

 

mono copies of the 60s albums and everything up to Muswell Hillbillies have a fairly high value in good condition, the other stuff not so much and demand is certainly lower than other bands but they do have a diehard following. My experience is many of them are older collectors who already own copies though so they can take awhile to move.

 

When I thought like this and cheap vinyl was everywhere it was the best time for buying music for me. Of course it wasn't online then, more through music magazines and books, but I got into so much music I didn't expect to and bought so many good records then. When a Kinks record would show up, probably a repress, and people weren't rushing to Discogs as soon as they saw it, looking up matrix numbers and all that crap. It's a shame you have to be quite rich to build up a record collection now and there are greedy bastards with barely any interest in the music all over it now.

 

Shouldn’t the value of any record just be what it means to you musically rather than a commodity up and down value ?

 

Should but some people buy records to collect rare ones or to flip.

 

must be something in Oz. In the US , all 4 of these artists have become "gold" in NM , condition , even later pressings sell very well , and 20+ easy in NM

 

you gave those away , that is an easy $60 bill in NM here

 

Not here , any of the Mercury albums are a $30+ bill in NM , here
even the WB Lps are $15 , and in most cases a $20+ bill in NM here

 

Not here , not even close

 

anything not in NM , or at least VG+


if you find any Monkees albums on Colgems in NM
and let them go for less then a $50 bill
you are not too smart

 

Not in our neck of the woods
NM will get you a $25+ Bill

 

I agree , it is like no one knows who they are today
they are still a $10+ bill in NM
but they have jumped like everything else

 

Melinda?

 

NM
both are $50+ bills
very easy

 

Condition is more important then ever
A lot of buyers are NM or NM-
or they are not buying

 

"River" is insane , and instant sell in NM

 

Good call on The Nazz (and Rundgren, in general) even in NM , they are $10=15 dollar bill

 

Definitely, until a ****ehawk dealer has a scuffed up copy of these records and they are still expensive. Sadly I see younger buyers picking up mediocre and worse condition copies of Zep, Floyd type albums at record fairs at far too high prices. Ones that wouldn't fetch anything like the price they are charging if they went to sell them online. It's mostly the experienced record buyers who are after mint records all the time.

 

I think you are correct

 

$20 bill in true NM here

 

and they sell right away

 

a little more in NM
I can sell it for $80+ in NM , maybe a $100+ with a gorgeous jacket

 

Not sure what you mean. I think this discussion is about monetary value which has nothing to do with how much you like something. Whether or not monetary value matters is another thing but it can matter if you are selling and need the money, or if the thing you want is too expensive to afford!

Tim

 

Bad and Dangerous sell for as much as Thriller here in NM

Original HIStory LPs
in NM
you can ask whatever you
want , a local store, sold one for 2k