These are some of the albums that have made they way into my grubby hands in the last couple of weeks. I hit Northampton pretty hard the other week, I was only there a couple of days but still crammed in a boot, one auction and several charity shops. The best stuff turned up on my doorstep when I got home when a bloke answered my ad and rang saying he had a load of singles. I went round to his fancy static caravan and although the records were alright but nothing special and as I was saying my thanks but no thanks he asked if I liked The Beatles. Yeah sure, I said, so he pulls a record case out full of fab four and solo albums, “I want a fiver each for these, no offers” erm, OK so, I bought the lot, it’s what he wanted. Nice original UK 1st mono pressings, although there was a White Album with only one disc but it had the bits, lovely copies of Ram, Walls & Bridges etc, and…
October Vinyl Finds
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A first press gold & black 1H/1H in quite incredible condition. I have only had 2 other copies in 40+ years of collecting, both came from car boots and both were scratched to hell and one never even had a sleeve, so this was gold indeed.
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A pile of Lindisfarne and folk albums in an auction win also included this 2016 release which turned out to be nice surprise.
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Also included was this short but delightful album which clocks in at less than 25 minutes. I saw Jarvis Cocker talking about it in the latest edition of Record Collector mag too.
https://i.imgur.com/6ZOTRNF.jpg
Karma is most likely real, I dropped a box of albums off at a charity shop in Milton Keynes and flicked through their album selection in the racks and came across this wee beauty, case closed.
Those Imgur images are no longer available in the U.K. @Gardner, safeguarding issues
Can see them in Canada if I click on the links. That PPM is amazing! I think you should give the guy more money!
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I’ve not heard Jarvis or anyone talking about this album I picked up in a charity shop in Morpeth on the drive home, I bought it for the sleeve art. Lady in the shop said the school is in the Newcastle area..
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I paid a fiver for this one-sided interview disc, Ian explains the stories behind the songs.
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I found a bunch of nice classical records on my travels too. Blagging access to the back of the shop I found 3 boxes they had all priced up at a fiver each (can’t believe they actually looked any of them up tbh) and in with them were 2 copies of this box set but I chose this one which had an undamaged box. A fiver a record seemed to be the magic price on this trip, spooooky.
Ahh, but these albums were a pound each so I guess that blows that theory.
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Imgur works fine from here in Melbourne. Post away !!
Nobe of the image links will work in the UK as mentioned above . Perhaps use a different method if possible as this will be a permanent thing.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4gzxv5gy3q
I’ve had myself beamed to Copenhagen this morning, but now I’m falling foul of the “Imgur is temporarily over capacity. Please try again later.” nonsense (aka ‘total lie’) wherein, presumably, Imgur can detect the use of a transporter facility and pretend not to be able to respond.
As soon as I can get the helm’s attention on my communicator, I’ll try nipping over to a few other places…
…now that I have re-materialised in Brussels, the Imgur links will resolve to show the images, though not natively within the Afterword post. The Belgian air seems to have mysteriously lifted the 403 fog (over-capacity, try later yadda yadda) however. This is getting tiresome!
That’s what Imgur gives (gave) you when you’re using a VPN to beam yourself somewhere. Jolly unsporting.
I find the pics will work in UK if you use a VPN, but I have have moved the host to my photobucket and reposted my descriptions if that helps.
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A first press gold & black 1H/1H in quite incredible condition. I have only had 2 other copies in 40+ years of collecting, both came from car boots and both were scratched to hell and one never even had a sleeve, so this was gold indeed.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/79e5b6d9-eecf-45b5-8cba-0d4fb5717949/1dbc5eba-074c-4579-8eeb-8bebc1c54870.jpg
A pile of Lindisfarne and folk albums in an auction win also included this 2016 release which turned out to be nice surprise.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/79e5b6d9-eecf-45b5-8cba-0d4fb5717949/d7e00305-151c-4be4-ba4b-7ae3efe3a105.jpg
Also included was this short but delightful album which clocks in at less than 25 minutes. I saw Jarvis Cocker talking about it in the latest edition of Record Collector mag too.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/79e5b6d9-eecf-45b5-8cba-0d4fb5717949/5800f30b-73f0-462e-b77e-bf4426ec073f.jpg
Karma is most likely real, I dropped a box of albums off at a charity shop in Milton Keynes and flicked through their album selection in the racks and came across this wee beauty, case closed.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/79e5b6d9-eecf-45b5-8cba-0d4fb5717949/78a6e119-7337-4918-95c5-8b2c2dd1d5b1.jpg
I’ve not heard Jarvis or anyone talking about this album I picked up in a charity shop in Morpeth on the drive home, I bought it for the sleeve art. Lady in the shop said the school is in the Newcastle area..
https://hosting.photobucket.com/79e5b6d9-eecf-45b5-8cba-0d4fb5717949/ae8fa5c6-5635-4b9d-a0ca-ba04a761aa5b.jpg
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I paid a fiver for this one-sided interview disc, Ian explains the stories behind the songs.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/79e5b6d9-eecf-45b5-8cba-0d4fb5717949/58b41c26-6c2b-42b1-8968-71af2298165f.jpg
I found a bunch of nice classical records on my travels too. Blagging access to the back of the shop I found 3 boxes they had all priced up at a fiver each (can’t believe they actually looked any of them up tbh) and in with them were 2 copies of this box set but I chose this one which had an undamaged box. A fiver a record seemed to be the magic price on this trip, spooooky.
Ahh, but these albums were a pound each so I guess that blows that theory.
https://hosting.photobucket.com/79e5b6d9-eecf-45b5-8cba-0d4fb5717949/583aa741-5032-457d-a55e-decb1976a825.jpg
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I once came across a copy of PPM, the cover had a huge chunk taken out of 3 corners, no inner sleeve and the LP was totally unplayable and looked like it had been left out in a crater on the moon
I managed to sell it for £50 and that was in 1984
I think the copy you have @Gardener is worth a number followed by 3 zeroes
I have just sold it – I have a top b/y label copy anyway, it went to America for £1,188.94 crackers! lol
I’ve got a gold label mono PPM first pressing left to me by the late Mrs thep. Might buy me a week in a care home I guess.
Bed and breakfast only
this sorts Xmas for a family of 4
I hate you 😉
I’m ruthless at culling vinyl, if it’s going to sit on a shelf for 10+ years it’s got to go. The only problem is knowing what has sat unplayed for 9 years.
That school is in Birtley, and I drove past it just last night. Bryan Robson is their most distinguished old boy, I see, and would, I thought have been at the school at about the time that that was released. I can’t imagine him being in any school bands, but you never know.
As mentioned in my ATM thread about selling records, and as requested by @vulpes-vulpes, these are some of the finds so far from my sister’s collection, with the top value found on Discogs. All in great knick.
Nick Drake – Five Leaves Left – Misprint, mislabelled in vgc+ Dscogs reckons up to £400 or so
Bryter Later – original press – vgc+ – up to £1500
Pink Moon – 1st press – vgc+ – up to £980
Rolling Stones – Some Girls with uncensored inner sleeve – vgc+ – up to £50
Beggars Banquet – early UK stereo press – £200
Shirley Collins / Albion Band – No Roses – superb condition, probably never played, – up to £100
Led Zeppelin 4 – early UK pressing – £1200
Ian Carr and Nucleus – Labyrinth – £125 (we played a track and it is the most prog ever)
Led Zeppelin 2 – misprint – 2nd pressing – £220
Led Zeppelin 4 – early UK pressing – £1200 ? maybe an added 0 there
Thanks @NigelT,
I have a copy of Some Girls which I don’t think I’ve ever played – thus it must be Mint or Near Mint in Record Collector-speak. The reason I’ve never bothered to spin it is that I also have a 12in pink 45 vinyl copy of Miss You, by far my favourite Stones track post-Brian and Mick, and that’s had lots of spins over the years.
Pray tell me, what constitutes this ‘uncensored inner sleeve’ of which you speak? Mine comes in the inner sleeve that peeks through the cut-outs in the main sleeve, but I have no idea if it is rude or not.
I’ve got the No Roses LP too, in absolutely perfect nick and had no idea it was worth anything above average, but its not going anywhere as I love it.
the inners were withdrawn due to objections by the estates of some of the images used, I have both censored and uncensored
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Ah, so I have the censored inner sleeve, but in the cover with the cutouts – and sadly therefore not at all collectable! Thanks for the info.
Your sis has good taste!
Yes, we both always enjoyed our music. We have talked about this recently as I clearly remember her introducing me to some great records. I was born in 1950 and she is nearly 6 years younger, so I was buying the records in the 60s, but I do recall her getting the Monkees first LP (sshhh….it’s been nestling in my records for years), and when I left home in 1969 she was 13. However, over the next few years I remember her getting Hunky Dory (before Bowie made it big), Can’t Buy a Thrill (she’d heard Do It Again at a disco and had badgered the DJ to keep playing it), Led Zeppelin 3, History of Fairport Convention and others, and I would come home from time to time and find different stuff to what I was listening to.
I guess it helped that she was living at home in that there London, and she worked in a record shop a bit later. She’s an interesting character – spent time at the Ballet Rambert school and used to go dancing at Cecil Sharpe house, and she and her friend once gatecrashed a ‘men only’ Morris session and struck a blow there for women’s lib. She also auditioned for Pan’s People….unsuccessfully….and went to few TOTP shows. There is a clip of her dancing near Gary Glitter, but that doesn’t get on TV much these days for some unaccountable reason.
Cor, she’s almost exactly my age, and from what you’ve told me, ballet, auditions, activism, groovy dancing on the telly, I think I am developing a crush.
Wow
Remember Nigel although you have some very valuable records they are only worth what a buyer is prepared to pay
Saying that those records are very sought after, good luck
Your sister has great taste in music and appears a very interesting character
That’s one way of putting it.