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

Gotta tell me the name of this magical record store you're going to. (I assume it has a time machine attached?)
You're gonna need a couple $50's and then some just to pick up River of Dreams on vinyl these days, never mind the other 13.
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And you're not getting GH I&II for under $25 or Storm Front for under $20 unless they're basically destroyed.

 

But a baker's dozen of Glass Houses maybe... I was always running into that particular record back when I had black fingers!

I'm pretty confident that obscure British Folk LPs will always retain a decent value.

 

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Dealers buying from other dealers is a common practice. Most of them participate. Some might hold back items to make sure they have them when doors open but trading before the doors open is common practice. There's very few that wouldn't buy or sell before doors open. Usually they are doing one or both.

You'll have a lot of dealers on your "hope not to cross paths" list if this bothers you.

 

They were, but is that all you listen to? To be fair this is a thread asking about prices and values.

 

Of course, but most aren't out for maximum greed and love a lot of music as well as collect themselves. The ones that are all about profit and nothing else don't have anything to offer me so I don't buy from them or want to waste time on them. I have a huge lot of records across many genres including plenty these people would love the money from in excellent condition, as well as ones these soulless types would turn down that I love and ones they wouldn't have a clue about that are sought after, so it's doing me alright. Every one gets played. Most record dealers are good people and passionate about music. The ones I like are about being fair and not overly greedy. Luckily there are plenty around here and they've been around a long time. The greedy ones don't seem to last long.

 

In the '80s, free (and clean) copies of both of those weren't hard to come by around here.

 

I never see the 70s albums for £5. I know this as I don't have them and I'd pick them up cheap. I can imagine them being a hard sell though. The concept albums didn't even appeal at the time and the sleeves are awful! They always seem far removed from The Kinks that UK fans love.

 

The Fugs' Golden Filth has plenty of noisy guitarwork, and the patter was amusing enough to me that at one time, I would repeat the routines for others myself.

 

Free is more than I'd be willing to pay for something I'd never play.

 

I sold mine for more than I paid for it back in the late '70s; would have held onto it longer, but the rent had to be paid; I think I got around $5 for it, which means I doubled my money on the c/o copy..

 

I've never peeled the banana on the c/o copy I bought c. 1970, though I did lift enough of it when it was new to peek underneath.

 

Probably 50-75% of the classical LPs that I have I've acquired in the past 10-15 years, at modest prices, many at MSU Salvage, where a very large collection was dumped a few years back.

 

A record I paid about $2 for - 50 years ago. He used to play live around here at the time for like $1 cover, and did so for years, 'til Live Bullet.

 

Funny to me as they are the only ones on that list that I've ever owned records by; the first 2 Aerosmith LPs were actually pretty popular around here, and early on, they played here in town several times.

 

Got the 1st MG LP w/DS's finger for 50 cents new as a c/o c. 1969, and the subsequent ones at 'then new' LP prices, $2-$4 (mono was still often an option then, for $1 less). I always thought MG '69 was under-rated too, for that matter.

 

Of course, it's all subjective; I wouldn't pay $1 for the complete recorded works of EJ, just as most folks wouldn't pay $1 to buy the jazz stuff that I'd be willing to pay a great deal more than $1 for.

 

Perspective is funny; of thousands, I've paid c. $25 for LPs maybe 20 times, at most, if that many.

 

But still, a sizable percent more than you paid for them.

 

The "value" of an LP is entirely down to how badly someone wants it, at that particular moment.

 

Funny, I looked up Bunkville too, and my own house was on the map, so it may be that I live there too, and I've always found it a pretty easy place to blow my cash on inexpensive music storage choices, like 45s, LPs, CDs and '78s...

 

Or the next day, when they come back to buy it if it's still there, something I've done many times.

 

50 years ago, they were 2 or 3 for $1, sealed & new, and still didn't sell.