recent vinyl finds
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I got a call and went to visit a woman in town who said her husband died 3 years ago and that she wanted to get rid of his collection which was now in the garage. She told me she planned to put them into auction sometime but as she saw my ad offered me the chance to take what I wanted for £5 each. So I spent over £1,500 and she was very happy with that, even inviting me to come back in a few weeks before they all get carted off to auction and the pictured selection is just a quarter of what there was. She said just wants shot of them and doesn't care about their possible value, but I didn't take the piss, I basically took what I actually wanted to keep as there were so many I had never seen before and I have been collecting for over 40 years! There were whole runs of Tom Waits, Cure, Soft Machine, Nick Drake, tons of reggae, punk, jazz and folk, sometimes it was like flipping through my own collection. So these pictured are just a few of the ones I have been listening to and enjoying in the last week or so, but I'm looking forward to going back again and digging deeper. I left thousands of CD's, box sets, so many unopened, but I can't even imagine when I'd get the time to listen to the entire Spooky Tooth back catalogue for example. The experience has also made me reconsider what I should keep of my own collection, so many of his were in such good condition I have upgraded many of my own and so will be doing a big cull to make room for his and put ones of mine I have not played for years back into the wild, what goes around comes around.
Excellent late 70's comp produced by Hal Willner, which came with a label catalogue.
Another great compilation, this one of mid 70's progressive Virgin artists.
Lots of Robert Wyatt related records including all his solo albums and appearances like on these three.
I left all the Steve Miller related albums as I pretty much have them all, but I had not seen this soundtrack before.Other odd ones I liked to look of.
This double on Dead Oceans was a sweet surprise too.- Curious... What is your most expensive (value) vinyl? Do you ever find some gems in these collections you get? Just wondering. :)hydro74
- I sold my most valuable one a few years ago : https://gripsweat.co…Gardener
- I still have super rare stuff squirreled away of course lolGardener
- The Banksy sold to a Paris art gallery, I took the kids on holiday with the proceedsGardener
- those matching mole records have been on my wantlist forever... i'm sure i remember watching an interview with zoot horn rollo recently where he mentionedkingsteven
- that virgin compilation.kingsteven
- That Bill Fay. He has the best Jesus etc cover, but There is a Valley is one of those hits. Great find.garbage
- "the fury of the moment they felt, but could only silently look above" is something I wish wasn't relevant right now.garbage