Prize Czech - De La Buhloone Mindstate Promo LP
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That's not true Howard - a legit US Tommy Boy promo (not the Uk issue! not the later issue with the cover!) would sell for $40-60.
I sold a copy semi-recently for $50. Damn hard to turn up... you can still get good coin for the promo De La Soul Is Dead too.
I sold a copy semi-recently for $50. Damn hard to turn up... you can still get good coin for the promo De La Soul Is Dead too.
Well there wasn't a legit commercial issue at the time, I tend to think those UK presses sound like crap...
A couple years back there was a store here that had 10 copies of this 'promo' for sale at 20 euros each.
Promo my ass.
(not necessarily speaking on yours ZachD, but on dodgyass 'promo' bootlegs)
The promo was the only official US release that was available at the time. There's since been at least one (UK) bootleg of it, which is probably what you've seen for sale.
I think the clearlake has gotten many a boot, even some that look fairly convincing, while buhloone seems to have missed a major booting. I only know the Tommy Boy promo white label (with art on the label, not an A-List looking white label) and the Big Life UK version.
Big Life has a picture sleeve, but it's kind of faded and silly looking. Tommy Boy promo came in a Tommy Boy sleeve. It's better vinyl too, if I remember correctly.
i have a big life pressing with a plain white sleeve, i always assumed it was a boot.
i recently got the us promo in a trade for some crap i had laying around
i recently got the us promo in a trade for some crap i had laying around
Yeah - the "De La Soul is Dead" promos weren't merely 2LP, they were also individually number-stamped and included a few songs that were left off the single-LP standard release.
As JP has been saying - "Buhloone Mindstate" never got a legit U.S. release on vinyl. I always thought that was strange and the album does beg for a 2xLP just for sound quality alone.
"Low End Theory" was the same deal too, right? Just the promo, single vinyl LP from Jive?
Crazy. I got a copy at sound library years back for 20 bones
This is akin to "I saw a copy go on ebay for $13.49", what one record in one store sold for five years ago is anecdotal as hell.
Are you sure you have a legit, orig promo copy? Because it was certainly on the wall from time to time, maybe yours had a couple nicks or was missing the original jacket or some such.
Crazy. I got a copy at sound library years back for 20 bones
This is akin to "I saw a copy go on ebay for $13.49", what one record in one store sold for five years ago is anecdotal as hell.
Are you sure you have a legit, orig promo copy? Because it was certainly on the wall from time to time, maybe yours had a couple nicks or was missing the original jacket or some such.
Could have been in VG+ condition (which for the old TSL was pretty much like anyone else's NM-!). I've come up on a lot of stuff for "under market" because they graded it as being less than pristine but, by any one else's standards, was perfectly playable.
Yeah, what are OGs of those selling for now? At their height, I don't think they were moving for much more than $100-150. I can see "Buhloone Mindstate" holding value at around $50. Wonder how much the "Double Huey Skit" test presses are going for these days. I bet that's taken a dive too.
All my schitts are immaculate. And I tracked this record on ebay for a bit. I had a habit of copping multiples of my favorite records for a while, just in case anything happened to my good copy & for the odd trade. I think I got 5 copies of this record over a span of 5-6 years. They were all around the 20-25 dollar range & all are dead mint. I have 4 copies of clearlake, all OG, but that record seems to be worth not so much right now.
All I'm saying, II think Johnny or Cool Chris could put this up on their wall for $50 at their respective stores and the shit would sell, easy. It's entirely possible that one could buy it cheaper elsewhere but I think there's a market out there who'd still drop fiddy on it.
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