What's a record that you know exists but you've never been able to find?

The Shining Soundtrack LP. I know I could buy one on Discogs for $80 or so but I want to run across a cheap one. I just know there's a copy just sitting there under appreciated in some budget bin somewhere!

 

The CD for Marti Jones's UNSOPHISTICATED TIME. Both the original issue and the privately pressed [sic?] reissue.

 

Likewise...… the UK mono version of Bookends is a fold-down, so the chances of me coming across a genuine mono copy over here at a record fair or charity store are virtually nil. Still I have various S&G singles in mono, and also now mono copies of the first three albums, so this has to become my top priority.

 

All Lights F****d On the Hairy Amp Drooling, the cassette-only debut by Godspeed You Black Emperor. "Released" in 1994 in a tiny edition of 33 copies, this has incredibly never been offered for sale online or circulated. A copy was apparently found in Halifax a few years ago, but the apparent owner did a quick fade after whipping up some excitement among fans on Reddit.

 

There are a few on eBay right now, high, but not insanely priced for a Holy Grail CD ...

Rare Marti Jones Unsophisticated Time CD OOP 82839508629 | eBay

 

Fables from a Mayfly: What I Tell You Three Times Is True by Fair to Midland. Brilliant prog metal album. Only 200 vinyl copies pressed. It's on my Discogs want list. Two copies have come up for sale and the were gone even as I opened the email alert.

 

"Misterious skin" and "white bird in a Blizzard" by Robin Guthrie and Harold Budd.
Well, i can find them (on the web) but the prices are outrageous for my pocket.
When a reedition? Pleeeeeease.

 

A cd i want but cannot find is 'Is it safe?' by phd.

 

I have that UK fold-down, not a great sound, but still fun to have as an odd slice of history. I do love my UK mono 3AM and Parsley records, but I've strangly never seen a UK mono of Silence...

 

Yeah. I've seen that one a few times, and almost pulled the trigger. But I don't love that one. I like it. I think it's a good album. But it's just not a great one, IMO. If I saw it for a decent price in the wild, though, I'd probably do it. But Midnite Vultures is still the Holy Grail for me.

 

I'm a hard core Beatles LP collector. Here are a few commercially-released LPs (i.e., no promos or one-offs) that are confirmed but I have never seen offered for sale.

US, Beatles VI, green label record club version
Ecuador, Rubber Soul
Norway, A Hard Days Night
Nigeria, Abbey Road

 

Australian mono copies of the White Album surface occasionally. A nice one sold a few weeks ago on ebay. They're certainly not falling from the sky though.

 

Most anything can be found online at some point. In the wild is another story. An original copy of Emily-Emily in the wild is my white whale, almost nill it will ever happen..

 

I got so tired of waiting for this cd I stopped putting off buying a turntable-----so glad I kept the vinyl!!

 

Both wonderful records-----went OOP so quickly because they're movie soundtracks??

 

I may be mistaken or not understand what you’re looking for but I just looked and there’s a lot of different masterings and formats available at Discogs at relatively cheap (I don’t count anyone’s dough) prices.

 

Sealed huh... you’ve still got a couple of days to email the big guy wherever he’s hanging out until blast off. The North Pole; South Beach? Ruby’s Bar on the Coney Island Boardwalk?

 

The version of “Runaway” that Del Shannon recorded for the TV series Crime Story. The sound is updated and the lyrics were changed to reflect the dark noir tone of the series.

 

Blow his mind and send it to him for Christmas.

 

I own a recent pressing of this. It was not expensive.

https://www.amazon.com/Blind-Joe-Death-John-Fahey/dp/B0040BJH7M

 

I inherited one from my old man... it's in rough shape... but i keep it anyway.

 

https://www.amazon.com/Metallica-2L...UTF8&qid=1545376623&sr=1-2&keywords=metallica

 

Is one I don't even know the name of,
nor the artist, nor the name of
any song on it .. but it is out there,
(I am hoping optimistically)
and if so I'll find it, or a needledrop
CD, one day !

It may well have been a private-pressing
vinyl record or even an acetate, and I guess it was likely recorded sometime
between 1966 and '71 or '72 because I first heard it played as a lightly scratchy disc around '73 or '74 and it sounded like it was waxed during the peak of the garage-punk era which began to wind down and make way for psychedelia and psych-punk in about late-'66 to '67. There were some "hold-outs" ~ local bands that strove to keep the mid-60s punk aesthetic alive even after its heyday was finished, into the early 70s while period recording equipment and instruments were still in working order and some smaller local studios still in operation. So it could be one of those kind of artifacts.

 

Here you go:
Del Shannon - A Complete Career Anthology 1961-1990

 

I dont know. I think Blizzard was a limited edition from the start. I never saw that one cheap, maybe it was when was out.
Misterious skin had the prices up very quickly, because i think i remember prices being normal and me (stupid me) not buying it thinking i could buy it later. Then out of the blue the prices were horrendous.
This is common on classical music boxes. One day costs 15, the next day 150. Petroleum is cheapper than some records.