Looks like Dusty Groove raided the Tribune Company
white_tea
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Did they snag WGN's archives or just the Chicago Tribune's promo stuff? Not sure. In any event, looks like an OK haul.
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I see his LP is on the Four Corners label, which was Kapp's "world music" subsidiary...
He has at least two.
Kindly,
parallax
Seems like the kind of thing that he should have been onto.
Just wondering,
what wouldn't be store stock, for example?
ha. actually, this looks like a promo only score.
well there's a difference between good store stock and chud stock. the stuff they posted is the type of stuff that will likely sell fast.
For a shop. On a whole, you'll likely sell 20 $5.00 records a hell of a lot quicker than 1 $100 record.
The average price per record in those photos is about $50, and several of those titles kick ass.
Next time your being "grueled" like that, let me know and I'll take over.
Yeah, I would guess those were albums sent to the Tribune to be reviewed? In that case they'd likely be promo copies that have only been played a few times at most.
i think $50 per record in those photos is crazy talk... however id love to sell my records to you directly if those are the prices you see in those photos!
The Bowie alone is $300.
Hells Belles = $150
Lyn Collins = $100
Donald Austin = $100
Yardbirds (if promo) = $200
The Scott Walker, Lee Hazlewood, Jorge Ben and Them, all hold up the average.
My figure is the truth, and if you have records like these, by all means sell them to me!
These days it's a lot easier to sell one $150 record for $100 than 10 $15 records for $100
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Any way you look at it this was a nice haul......not sure how it compares to the other 8,000 LP buys from major city newspapers, but in 2012 this is a Top Ten score........haters are jealous......I'm jealous.
i like this concept and would love to read details about the rest of the top ten.
im not being sarcastic, just trying to live through the success of others
flawlessly hilarious
i too want to be regaled with tales of large scores
uhh, where are you pulling this pricing out of? that lyn collins is not a $100 record. $100 for donald austin is on the very high side. even for ebay pricing, which is like 30% higher than an expensive shop.
donald austin=$50 to $75
outside of boutique shops
in nyc stores both those records sell well at close to a hundred tho
Yes I do, and these prices are a *bit* high, but not unprecedented. I've sold white label promos of Think for $100 and the Donald Austin used to go for over $100 years ago, though I never understood why (except for maybe Funkadelic completism).
But yeah, now I'd sell them for less than $100.
The problem with this is that the folks who make these type of scores don't typically floss it online because there are too many jealous haters that can screw up their deal, even after the fact.
I know of one score so far this year that would make most Strutters heads explode but am not at liberty to give details for a variety of reasons. Cherry picking 200K records and pulling 6,000 hundred buck and up pieces.
But 80 hundred count boxes of clean LP's would almost certainly be in any Annual Top Ten (in the U.S.) since 2000.