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Author: MrFab
Date: 05-08-12 13:35
So who'd a thunk it? Was in a fine local record emporium and saw up on the wall a copy of Black Flag's "Nervous Breakdown" 7" going for...wait for it...$600.00. You gotta be frikkin kidding me. I coulda bought it in the '80s for a couple bucks.
I did make a tidy profit during a big record sell-off a few years ago - not only did my early punk/wave/mid-80s SST stuff pay off handsome dividends, but (and I never expected this) my cassettes almost all sold, mostly Golden-Age hip-hop. I'm sure we remember when tapes, pushed out by CDs, were basically landfill, and if you bought a Husker Du album in '85, you were only gonna get a couple bucks for it at the resale counter.
I also cleaned up on my Moog/Space-Age records that I started buying in the late '80s for 50-to-99 cents a pop, and saw their value skyrocket by the mid '90s.
Who'd have guessed that Michael Jackson records would be worth anything? Man, the used shops couldn't give away copies of "Thriller" back in the day.
So what's hot? What's not? What should we be buying right now that's currently languishing in the bargain bins? Seen anything drop in value that I should have unloaded? And why the hell is private-press '60s psych going thru the roof, but the sometimes equally entertaining (if not more so) private-press lounge singers are still in the thrift stores?
And are CDs ever, really, worth anything?
Post Edited (05-08-12 13:54)
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Author: HollowbodyKay
Date: 05-09-12 10:33
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And why the hell is private-press '60s psych going thru the roof, but the sometimes equally entertaining (if not more so) private-press lounge singers are still in the thrift stores?
Because ... private press or not ...
60's Psychedelia will always be 60's Psychedelia, while lounge will always remain ... lounge.
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Author: MrFab
Date: 05-09-12 12:51
Yes, but who'd have guessed that Moog records would be rescued from the E-Z bins and go up on the wall for $40? As Fats Waller said, one never knows, does one? Or was that Dick Hyman...
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