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Things That Gladden The Heart

GreiginFife said:
Tracking down and negotiating a not unreasonable price on a very rare record. Not cheap but not as expensive as the recent sales history would suggest. I missed out on a copy back in 1994 because the guy at the record store put one aside for me and then promptly confused someone else for me and gave them the copy that was meant for me.

That's a few proper rare ones I've tracked down this year.

Also blew the seller's mind when I told him that there's no need to use unsightly tape repairs on side split sleeves and the good old pritt-stik works wonders. Also retains value in the sleeve (if original company sleeve) by not having big visible tape repairs.
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I had to smile about all the repair stuff. This was one of my wife's, it was only when I started selling all my LPs did I find out it is meant to look like that. The clue is is in the title of the record "Secondhand". I was just going to chuck this one down the charity shop and then found it sells for up to £100

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jim8flog said:
I had to smile about all the repair stuff. This was one of my wife's, it was only when I started selling all my LPs did I find out it is meant to look like that. The clue is is in the title of the record "Secondhand". I was just going to chuck this one down the charity shop and then found it sells for up to £100

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If the vinyl has no scratches or defects that affect play then, even with a ring worn sleeve, you could be looking at £130-150.

Minor defects like bag rash and hairlines don’t matter as long as they don’t click or pop.
 
GreiginFife said:
Tracking down and negotiating a not unreasonable price on a very rare record. Not cheap but not as expensive as the recent sales history would suggest. I missed out on a copy back in 1994 because the guy at the record store put one aside for me and then promptly confused someone else for me and gave them the copy that was meant for me.
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You've been trying to get hold of a record for over 30 years? That's impressive stamina. I'd have given up eons ago. Respect!
 
Neilds said:
My wife has found out she has passed the latest stage of tests to see if she can donate a kidney to our niece. A day of tests - scans, x-rays, kidney function tests about 3 months ago and finally got the green light. Next stage is a chat with the surgeon and then the ethics committee (to make sure she isn't being coerced or paid) and hopefully the transplant operation can take place around the end of September. Been a long process but there is now light at the end of the tunnel.
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Awesome. What a thing to do for someone. I would do the same if I could, but I’m not even allowed to give blood anymore.
 
cliveb said:
You've been trying to get hold of a record for over 30 years? That's impressive stamina. I'd have given up eons ago. Respect!
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Not the first one, probably won’t be the last either. My record collection is almost like an audio history of my life and being able to track down the ones that got away more than gladden the heart.
 
Pre-Covid times this would have been an irritation, but getting to the station and finding out the whole Met Line is down and I can't get to work means a bonus day working from home. Which also potentially means golf at 4pm... 😄
 
GreiginFife said:
If the vinyl has no scratches or defects that affect play then, even with a ring worn sleeve, you could be looking at £130-150.

Minor defects like bag rash and hairlines don’t matter as long as they don’t click or pop.
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Vinyl from the 1960's without scratches - a very rare thing indeed. You should see the state of my original Led Zeppelin 1st album

I know most of my 1975 and beyond do not have scratches simply because we used to tape the record and listen to the tape to keep the record in pristine condition.
 
jim8flog said:
Vinyl from the 1960's without scratches - a very rare thing indeed. You should see the state of my original Led Zeppelin 1st album

I know most of my 1975 and beyond do not have scratches simply because we used to tape the record and listen to the tape to keep the record in pristine condition.
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If you use the Discogs standards, for example, then bag rash (from taking it in and out of the inner sleeve and it being compressed in the sleeve by other records) and hairlines are normal for a record in Very Good Plus condition and in that particular album's case, put it in the £130-150 bracket. Even scuffs that are visible but aren't audible are ok.

For records kept in their sleeves over years with no use, the only enemy is dust and dirt build up. Easily solvable but also easy to cause damage if not cleaned correctly (as I have found out much to my chagrin).
 
GreiginFife said:
If you use the Discogs standards, for example, then bag rash (from taking it in and out of the inner sleeve and it being compressed in the sleeve by other records) and hairlines are normal for a record in Very Good Plus condition and in that particular album's case, put it in the £130-150 bracket. Even scuffs that are visible but aren't audible are ok.

For records kept in their sleeves over years with no use, the only enemy is dust and dirt build up. Easily solvable but also easy to cause damage if not cleaned correctly (as I have found out much to my chagrin).
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I had to smile about record cleaning.

I had not played any of my vinyl for over 20 years. When I decided to start selling it all the first thing I did was to buy a deck to USB player to digitise all of them. I found my old cleaning kit and the velvet one on a foam base fell apart.

One of the good things at that time was I managed to find online a service manual for my 40+ year old Technics deck so got it working properly again and got good money for it.

Discogs was good for setting my prices just wish I had known about it before selling my Pink Floyd collection and realised I had sadly undervalued it and would have been a lot better off selling individual records rather than the set as one.
 
Prince Harry getting stitched up in court :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: :ROFLMAO: He'll have use some of his Royal Highness wife's money to foot the bill.
 
GreiginFife said:
Tracking down and negotiating a not unreasonable price on a very rare record. Not cheap but not as expensive as the recent sales history would suggest. I missed out on a copy back in 1994 because the guy at the record store put one aside for me and then promptly confused someone else for me and gave them the copy that was meant for me.

That's a few proper rare ones I've tracked down this year.

Also blew the seller's mind when I told him that there's no need to use unsightly tape repairs on side split sleeves and the good old pritt-stik works wonders. Also retains value in the sleeve (if original company sleeve) by not having big visible tape repairs.
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I’m a fan of using Pritt stick to sort split sleeves. Yet to work out the best way to fix split inner sleeves (with text, graphics) that are split on a fold edge. Think the only way is going to be ‘invisible’ tape.

I’ve got a load of these for many of the 1970s/80s punk and post-punk/New Wave albums I’ve inherited from my brother-in-law…he clearly wasn’t one for much caring for his album inner sleeves and many are completely split open down one or more edges - or maybe best to just leave split…get hold of some new inner sleeves and put the vinyl in that, keeping the original inner sleeve as an ‘insert’.
 
Being out of golf for a while isn’t all bad. Managed to get an Oak bookcase and a set of Walnut and Maple lamp tables finished and out the door. A week ahead of schedule.

Also managed to get two large slabs of Cherry milled down to 1 x 6 boards ready for starting a coffee table. Most productive Saturday in a while.
 
Lord Tyrion said:
Out in Newcastle tonight. It's Magic Weekend, full of rugby league fans. Fans of all different teams, out together in pubs, restaurants, all having a great time. How sport should be.
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I wholeheartedly agree. My favourite away day is Fulham, home and away fans enter through the same turnstiles and sit in the Putney end, some mixed. Always have a beer before and at HT with Fulham fans. Never seen any bother and bever had any issues with the Fulham fans. All good craic. We usually end up in the Dukes Head, a great pub with a selection of ales.

Sport as a spectator is generally great untill you get into football league terrority and they all turn into Stone Island clad neanderthals.
 
Pin-seeker said:
Lad I work with was going,I’d never heard of it before (not a rugby fan).
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It's been happening for a few years but rugby league doesn't get much mainstream coverage so it would slip by unless you follow the game. It went to Leeds last year after a number of years in Newcastle but it seems it wasn't as popular there so they've brought it back. No slight on Leeds but the geography of St James Park relating to the city centre, train station, pubs, restaurants etc makes it easy for fans.
 
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