The gatefold version sells for even more: http://www.popsike.com/DAMONSONG-OF-A-GYPSYANKH-TEXTURED-GATEFOLD-COVER/270525189691.html
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The gatefold version sells for even more: http://www.popsike.com/DAMONSONG-OF-A-GYPSYANKH-TEXTURED-GATEFOLD-COVER/270525189691.html
The gatefold Damon sold for $5K 20 years ago when a dealer proclaimed there were only 10 copies ever made.
The big psych LP's are at their second peak right now and have been there for about 5 years.
The first peak was in the early 90's pre-Ebay and it took 10 years of ebay to get back to that level.
The folks with world class 50's Rock & R&B LP collections should have sold 10+ years ago.
The big psych LP's are at their second peak right now and have been there for about 5 years.
The first peak was in the early 90's pre-Ebay and it took 10 years of ebay to get back to that level.
The folks with world class 50's Rock & R&B LP collections should have sold 10+ years ago.
My dad has tons of stuff that falls into this category, LP's & 45's, but he's just a major fan of the music and couldn't give a rat's ass about their worth. He's got a bunch of white test copies w/ hand written labels and promos that he got from his cousin that managed a few regional groups/singers from that period. I don't even bother going through them cause I know I won't get them til he (God forbid) passes.
Dragonfly, Azitis, The Music Emporium,and The Majic Ship on Bel- Ami are a few I've watched increase in value. The Index, Fraction, Christopher and that Mariani record on Sonobeat are kind of holding steady.
Yeah, I'm sorry--I was thinking less of reissues (I know that Cold Sun technically wasn't a reissue, but you know what I mean) and more in terms of limited-edition contemporary (or then-contemporary) releases: e.g. Third Eye Blind vinyl back then, or Stones Throw Rapper #472 or Third Man shit now. That stuff will have its red-letter days at the market, no doubt, but think it will have comparatively few of them.
I also extend my skepticism to second- and third-generation rap collectors/speculators who have visions of paying for their hovercars with copies of "Burn Rubber" or whatever. During the Texas/Bay regional-rap reawakening a few years back, a number of dudes were saying that in ten years that shit would be the new Random Rap, but I think that by the time that stuff hit, the information saturation level was just too high, fucking the commercially necessary cocktail of proprietary-knowledge-of-the-few-plus-ignorance-of-the-many all up. Again: The folks that knew, knew, you know? And a lot of folks knew, cuz. I just can't see post-internet rap records doing Cobra MCees money.
But you know what? I'm feeling that my particular strain of crankiness here is angled somewhat perpendicular to the thread. So I'm just gonna kinda ease out and go needle-drop this Gauntlet record that I'm pretty sure is gonna be a piece of shit. Good evening.
If I had it to do all over again I have no doubt I'd do it the same way....I put out records so people could hear them, not as some speculative long term investment....If I had, they'd probably be worthless and I'd have a closet full of shit.
And at least in the beginning they were "limited" because we weren't sure we could sell 300 copies!
stratasphere saidragonfly, Azitis, The Music Emporium,and The Majic Ship on Bel- Ami are a few I've watched increase in value. The Index, Fraction, Christopher and that Mariani record on Sonobeat are kind of holding steady.
I don't think any copy of the Index has sold for as much as the first few did in the 80's.
The Music Emporium is finally back to the price it was at pre-50 OG copies showing up at the Roanoke Record Room in the 90's.
I wouldn't advise paying the "going" price on any of those others in 2010 as an investment for the future.
A great number of the 60's and 70's private press LP's never sold out.
I could write a book about the various ways that folks disposed of their "closet of shit"......only to have them be worth $$$ years down the road.
My favorite was the guy who used 100's of his 70's blues/rock LP as a "slip 'n slide" for his kids across the front lawn!
I could write a book about the various ways that folks disposed of their "closet of shit"......only to have them be worth $$$ years down the road.
My favorite was the guy who used 100's of his 70's blues/rock LP as a "slip 'n slide" for his kids across the front lawn!
Yeah, I was talking to James Goode of the Excels and he told me they frisbee'd a couple hundred copies of their 45 "Let's Dance" in a lake...but I suppose its things like that create it's super scarcity...
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Used to measure the space between beams and then encased inside a wall.
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Traveling carnival used them for a baseball/record breaking game.
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Used to measure the space between beams and then encased inside a wall.
Used for skeet shooting (2)
Traveling carnival used them for a baseball/record breaking game.
Lost in tornados (2)
I like the infamous (in hardcore collecting circles) story of both colors (blue & red vinyl) of the Youth Of Today "Break Down The Walls" 12" on Wishing Well where they were nailed to a deck & then watched curl up in the california sun...... It is thought than at least 66% (200 copies) of the 300 pressed were destroyed.
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