Most trashed records (by genre)

My friend gave me a bunch of records from a family members estate and they were all junk, except for stone mint copies of introducing the Beatles and Meet the Beatles. I researched them and they don’t seem to be worth much.

 

it's all according to what pressing, stereo or mono?...label variations, etc. there's a few good places on the net to look up the exact pressing you have of ITB...there were many bootleg pirate copies of that album...

 

Ditto on metal. I do some thrift digging and the vast majority of metal that I've encountered has been in abysmal shape. Somebody still buys them too because they're always gone later on - even the batch that looked like they'd been dragged down a gravel road behind a truck, then removed from their jackets and dragged some more before being safely stored in a moldy basement for 3 decades. They can't possibly be for display and there's no way they sound like anything but a raging bonfire when played, but by God... somebody still wants them.

And as an aside, I'll nominate Herb Alpert albums as the most likely to have a return address mailing sticker pasted to the inner label.

 

They’re both mono pressings and given the age of all the other albums, I’d say they’re original. They look unplayed.

 

a Mono MTB is a fold down of the Stereo...good for the cover, but in great shape might have good value...like I said there are ways to tell if ITB is a boot...George's shadow is strong..
https://www.archer2000.com/chronicles/Counterfeits/Introducing.html

 

I agree that it's kind of hard to find used 80s metal albums that aren't trashed. I feel like I've also seen a fair amount of trashed 80s goth records.

 

Funk. With the exception of DC go-go records for some reason. On the rare occasion I’ve found a go-go record, it’s usually in pretty nice condition. Funkadelic records? WAR records? Forget it.

Not a genre per se, but anything in the ‘60s-‘70s that was largely bought by teenagers. More often than not if I see decent copies of Kiss, Monkees, or Alice Cooper records, they’re ‘80s pressings. Or imports.

 

I thought this thread was going to reference Rolling Stone's long-standing love affair with progressive rock.




Dan

 

Alice Cooper for sure. Trashed every time.

 

Used Jazz albums.

 

1950's rock and roll "party" records such as Here's Little Richard are usually toast from what I've seen. Being pressed on styrene doesn't help.

 

Early Rock-n-Roll albums are usually rough, all the nice ones are locked in lifetime collections. As for hard rock and metal, there was plenty of decent copies to be had before vinyl got popular. Collectors like me snatched them up back then.

 

I don't think I've ever seen any Reggae from the 60's but I got a huge score of 70's stuff from a DJ collection at a local church thrift a couple years back. This is part of it, but there were probably 100 records in a couple of milk crates. All in nice condition.
I asked the lady how much they wanted and she says "$10".
I say, "each?"
She goes, "No, for all of them..."
"What about the crates?" I say..
"Keep the crates"

I was a haappy boy that day...
For example...

 

What's the Studio One 12" top left under the Pablo?

 

Man, you have a good eye. That's Sugar Minott - Love & Understanding on side A. Side B is, If I were a Carpenter - Ernest Wilson I can't say I'm all that knowledgeable about these, but I remember some of the artists from back in the day. They are all 45 RPM discs. It's generally pretty good stuff. Not much filer, if any.

 

It takes years of experience that's a nice 12", decent money these days as well, looks like you got very lucky and picked up a great selection of music, you don't see that sort of collection very often any more.

 

Funkadelic albums are always trashed if you can find them

 

I could tell by your moniker that you might know a a little about it . I know quite a bit about jazz records but as far as reggae goes I don't know who's popular. As an example could you tell me what that Studio One record might be worth?

 

With hard rock and metal, it’s the same thing as punk, post-punk, and similar records from the ‘70s and ‘80s, which is that they were pressed in limited numbers.

 

Jackie Evancho, Susan Boyle and Andy Williams' Christmas LP's...a common victim of the Crosley player some grandma's family bought her for her birthday back in 2008...
(bonus points for a similarly-tortured Slim Whitman disc on Ronco in the same collection...)

 

I haven't seen any Funkadelic records in the wild lately. I got mine long ago. But I have some kind of Funkadelic bootleg that I got from Tower records when they were going out of business years ago, that I have no idea what it is.

 

I can personally take responsibility for a number of Little Golden Records played backwards by-hand on my original Silvertone back in 1961...

(image is as close as I could find...)

 

I bought a VG copy of Funkadelic’s Uncle Jam Wants You about 12 years ago for $10. Every other one I’ve ever seen in the wild was either trashed or $75 because it wasn’t. Same for Parliament, except those are usually more like $50-60.

 

Assuming it's condition is as nice as it looks in the photo I'd say $80-$100, any period Studio One 12" is money and some are a lot more than that.

 

Hmmm... Thanks for that info.