From Greg Earle Sent Fri, Mar 27th 1998, 00:38
From Greg Earle Sent Fri, Mar 27th 1998, 00:38
PJ writes:
> If you think $300 is absurd, you should see some of
> the prices that older psychedelic and progressive can get!
> ...
> I myself (in one extremely rare instance) paid $500 for a record. Nurse
> With Wound, Current 93, Whitehouse, TG, Coil, and many other early Industrial
> artists regularly have records go for up over the $300 mark. I sold the
> first Nurse record for $300 [...]
Is there some place where these hyper-inflated prices are mentioned? Like
"Goldmine" or some obscure 'Net auction site?
I probably have a lot of the aforementioned stuff just gathering dust, because
I'm completely out of that loop. Can I sucker some rivethead kid into taking
my TG "United" 7" (with camo pic sleeve bag) for $300? :-) (Damn, now I'll
have to go kill my dog for destroying my original Cosey Fanni Tutti "Time To
Tell" cassette ... :-( )
What's my "Ambiant Otaku" going for nowadays, anyway? :-)
> It really bears thinking about why the music isn't enough and why having the
> "genuine" article matters so much to people. I think that the music is all
> that matters myself.
Agreed, but modulo the packaging. For example, I'd bit on a Joyrex J9i
because of the tracks *and* the packaging. On the other hand, I think the
one-sided AFX "Falling Free" remix of Curve isn't worth the packaging (i.e.,
one-sided, plain record, no pic sleeve, etc.) so I'm happy to have it on a
CD-WO burn. (Thanks and a tip 'o the hat to Ian)
- Greg (the suddenly greedy old record collector)