If you had a Time Machine what Vinyl would you buy and the year?

LET`S GO!!..........

 

Probably the 1950s for all of the Blue Notes.

 

You do realise that once time travelling will be possible, there won't be any rare and expensive record anymore, right ?

 

Like others have said, 1967 to pick up as many "torso" covers of the Velvet Underground & Nico as I could find.

 

Like all get rich quick schemes you've got to get into the game early to win.

 

1996: there were various pop up shops selling masses of vinyl dirt cheap. People's collections that they had dumped to buy CDs.
I bought lots, but still wish I could back and buy basically everything, or to sift through the many copies of the big classic rock albums they had, rather just buying the first copy to hand. I know the point is to choose a year, but that year everyone's collections were up for sale.

 

Dream Theater - Images and Words and many more 90's records since they don't get a nice reissue reissue campaign that often

 

Then when you return to the present, you are visited by your future self, who tells you to sell all your vinyl NOW!

 

If time travel is possible, all hell will break loose, and rare records will be the least of your concerns.

 

No need for a Time Machine to find clean Hot Stamper OG pressings. All i need is my iPhone, discogs.com and any one of multiple used record stores or GoodWill.

 

Late December 1971.

I would buy all the first pressings of Hunky Dory I could carry, Nick Drake's first two albums and early Island and Vertigo LPs that did not sell in droves. In other words - all the records I used to drool over in the racks but couldn't afford on my pitiful paper round earnings.

A question: how would we go about obtaining vintage currency that would be acceptable back in the day? I don't think record shops then would accept my current credit card...

 

That's the funny part. Vintage currency could cost you more than the records do now.

 

I'd probably travel back in time to Bell Sound in the 1970s and rescue all the master tapes which were literally thrown away.

 

I'd say 1980. December 7 in New York City, to be exact. After buying Double Fantasy so that John could sign it for me, I would track down a certain fat creep and use "excessive means" to prevent him from going to the Dakota the next day.

I think you know where this is going...

 

'76- '83 Buy up all the P-Funk, funk, disco, punk, reggae/dub, and postpunk that is either very cheap or cut out that is very popular now(B-52s, Devo, P-Funk Casablanca cut out, Ramones first 4, Stooges, maybe Zappa, etc.,) Pick up a Kak debut or two for myself and some prime UK orig vinyl 60s psych.

 

~1955-1970 - I would buy all the albums for which Robert Flynn and Reid Miles designed the cover.

 

Also the absolute first thing I would do with a time machine!

 

I'd go to 1966. I'd buy 1 box of stereo and 1 box of mono sealed Beatles butchers.
Then, while I'm there, I'd find out where all the unsold VJ 498s are. And I'd find a few Can't Buy Me Love picture sleeves. I'd probably also grab a few mint Capitol album covers, and follow the 66 tour and get all of them signed by the full band, remembering to take pictures to prove it.
Then , I'd get my ass back into 2018, go to a big auction house, sit back, have a whiskey, and watch the money flow in!

 

What a great idea I am glad I started this thread like your trip the best so far,enjoy your whiskey,cheers mate.

 

Just in case anybody is able to do this- Don’t forget to style your hair and dress accordingly- so not to appear conspicuous.

 

If I had a time machine, I wouldn't be wasting my time on LP's...I'd head right down to the local Circuit City, and stock up on DCC CD's, so I could sell them here during the 'aughts!
Of course, having bostered Marshal's quarterly P-&-L statements like that, maybe he wouldn't've gone outta the business, and they'd still be list price... /

 

Or, take your iPhone, and walk through crowds in NYC holding it up to your head whenever somebody takes a picture...then when you come back, you can start your own paradox collection!

 

Not to derail the thread.....
but I always thought if a guy from the 50s came to the present and saw everybody walking around with strange handheld gadgets in front of them.... the 50s guy would assume that people are checking for radiation with geiger counters.

 

On the other hand, what are all these mysterious guys doing holding cellphones up to their heads, years before cellular service! Stupid, stupid future dudes!

 

Time machine questions are difficult for me, because not only would I want to raid any dwelling where a record could possibly be, I'd want a durable reel-to-reel & endless supply of tape to get all the great radio stations left,right & center, an endless subsciption to all the teen magazines, a storehouse full of Fenders & Gibsons, and last but not least, charm aplenty to land myself a cute dancing Go-Go girl.