The one record you regret trading or selling over the years

[Rishan]

the one record would be Archie Whitewater. It was my first ever large purchase ($50!) from TSL back in '99 when they had a whole box of unplayed promo copies. Took me a couple of weeks thinking it over before I finally pulled the trigger! I think it goes for about $150 or more now and is still one of my all-time favourite LPs.





I actually sold my whole collection in about '06 to go live overseas and those next few years were the best of my life, so I'll never regret selling for that experience. I would love to have some of those back, especially the promo hip hop LP's, but 2 following closely behind the Archie would be Gil Scott-Heron 'Winter in America' and Ahmad Jamal 'Awakening' that I just can not seem to find anywhere

 

[fishmongerfunk]

rishan - i have a clean dupe of awakening, if you need...

 

[Rishan]

crabmongerfunk said:rishan - i have a clean dupe of awakening, if you need...




hey, thanks, crabmongerfunk, will bear this in mind and might holler at it soon. Short of trades (and cash - just sorted the new tax year investments) right now. Would love to find this clean in the field again, as I did with my old copy (and Winter, what a pleasant day that was) but it's a distant dream where I'm currently at.

 

[cai]

RAJ said:Stark Reality.





Thankfully, there's this:

[strong]STARK REALITY - ACTING, THINKING, FEELING (6XLP + 7" BOX SET)[/strong]





[em]Acting, Thinking, Feeling marks the first time that psychedelic jazz ensemble The Stark Reality's Discovers Hoagy Carmichael's Music Shop album has been reissued in full (the 2003 Stones Throw Records anthology Now only contained half of the original album's music). The anthology also contains the band’s out-of-print Roller Coaster Ride (first issued as 1969 on Now-Again in 2003), and a series of recently discovered, previously-unreleased tracks in a 6 LP + Bonus 7" "complete works" box set.[/em]




Oh wow.. I've already got the Now 2LP but might opt for the 3CD of Acting, Thinking, Feeling... way cheaper.

 

[LoopDreams]

I don't know why my brain seems to be able to records go once their gone... though the Ray and His Court that I got completely stiffed on by a dude who did a chargeback grinds my gears something fierce... I sometimes regret letting go a mint Ndikho Xaba LP that I had pulled cheap, but I did get a fair trade for it . I let a Lloyd McNeill Washington Suite go for way to little a while back (they then re-issed it but it's not the same. Bahhh water under the bridge.


My worst experience by far was having a bunch of records stolen.... then a bunch were listed on ebay by someone I knew who had pulled them at our local dig, wtf.

 

[Hollafame]

I try not to harbour these kinds of regrets, but I sometimes feel a twinge when I think about selling my Nick Ayoub - Montreal Scene OG for two bills a few years back. Would love to have that one back on the shelf. At least I was prescient enough to rip the audio first.

 

[LaserWolf]

I regret nothing.


I started selling records in the 80s, needless to say in todays popsike dollars I have lost a fortune.


But most of the time I sold records for a better price than I paid, and I set the price.


Yes, I have miss priced many records, but hey, can't get mad at someone one for having more knowledge than me.





OP: When you made the trade for a whole bunch of records that you wanted, that would have cost you hundreds of dollars on ebay, did you go back to the junk store and give them some more money? Or were you laughing about how you ripped them off?





The guy you did the trade with gave you what you wanted. He may have sold the copy you traded, but only if he had a back up. He is not in the business of selling records, he is in the business of sharing his collection with the world, djing, mix tapes, production... Or I got the wrong guy.

 

[djtopcat]

"The guy you did the trade with gave you what you wanted. He may have sold the copy you traded, but only if he had a back up. He is not in the business of selling records, he is in the business of sharing his collection with the world, djing, mix tapes, production... Or I got the wrong guy."





I think you got the wrong guy buddy lol He sells and buys, and is a record fanatic. Probably owns one of the largest rare soul/funk collections in the PNW.


See this is where we differ in opinion though. The junk store I bought the lp from didn't give two shits about the value, as all the records were the same price $2!


They were selling, I was coaxed into trading, big difference. A real "friend" would say "hey man that's a crazy rare soul lp, what do you want for it?"


He didn't tell me that, he just said he'd like to have it, and I'm a nice guy. He offered up some break records in trade, and when I found out he sent it to England I returned them.


Sorry I don't deceive my friends like that, and the poster who said "he wasn't your friend" was correct because his actions proved it. I recently asked him if he could please help me locate a local Christian rock record of a band my mom knew in the early 70's called Wilson McKinley. I had no clue it was that sought after, but not on the level of H.C. Let's just say I'm not holding my breath for him to come through. Lol Anybody here have an OG Hot Chocolate?

 

[LaserWolf]

I agree with the not my friend part.





If you approached it as; I'm just doing the trade because he's my friend and it's a $2 record, then you were ripped off.


But dude gave you a few hundred dollars worth of trade (Lyn Christopher,JB's,7-Eleven 45,and a handful of rock breaks) that should have been a clue.


Maybe I am miss reading, but it sounds like you walked away from that trade thinking you had traded a shitty $2 record for a few hundred dollars worth of records you wanted.


Did you feel guilty for taking advantage of your friend?


I don't think you should have.


The record had no value to you. The stuff you got was stuff you wanted.


Your "friend" was happy. You were happy.


Then your knowledge increased and got sellers remorse.


But the record did not wow you. Only reason for wanting it back was for more profit.





That your friend didn't share his knowledge is kinda whack.


But begrudging his profit is kinda whack too.


He still has a copy, and one of the largest rare soul/funk collections in the PNW.


People who care more about profit than records don't have large personal collections of raerers.

 

[djtopcat]

Nah I knew it was at the very least rare, even if I got the bands mixed up at first. I was a pretty knowledgable collector even back then. I think the thing I'm still salty about is just not replacing what I gave back. That would of been the right thing to do. Either way it was so long ago now, it just happens to be my top vinyl regret of all time hence the topic question, I have many more less painful ones believe me haha





Like this record I left in a box when I moved sealed fml









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[LaserWolf]

I hear you.


I've made so many record mistakes in my life I can't count em.


That's why I forget em and move on.


Plus you thought, friend, found out "friend". That'll stick in the craw.

 

[yoigotbeats]

Antonio Castro - Welfare 45





was one of the few records I didn't have doubles of when I sold jawns to downpayment my House. Now that the records gone down in value, I'm on the hunt!