Shouldn't be this hard to find / expensive thread
mrmatthew
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The "recently discoverd " thread got me to thinking that I'd really like to have legit digital and/or vinyl copies of some of my fave Kinks records and geez-o-lou they are either super expensive, out-of-print or unavailable on Itunes.
WTF! This was thier biggest record and it has thier biggest hit on it, why cant i get a decent used copy for less than $50?
What other records should be easier/more available, that aren't...and im not talking about your Boscoes or other raers, but major label, big sellers.
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same here and the setsales always elude me
I have experienced similar scenarios, especially with the 60s rock bands. My assumptions are that:
1) These records are close to 50 years old now
2) Finding one of these records (despite selling in good numbers back-in-the-day) in anything close to EX condition is incredibly difficult.
3) The emergence of re-mastering and Deluxe Editions has given us super-crispy, clean and amazing-sounding digital files. A crackly and poppy LP is a lot harder to sell to ears that have gotten used to the cleanliness of digital. Thus, EX and NM vinyl prices have gone through the roof. And you only have to look at some of the prices being paid for sealed copies of million-selling LPs to know this isn't changing anytime soon.
4) Good records - LPs - groups - will always sell, and the Kinks are definitely one of the bands with a superb discography.
I could theoretically make your and mrmatthew's dreams come true with a setsale if I knew where anything was. Keep your eyes peeled.
Some records showing up/commonness is very regional, which I always find funny.
US first pressing VG++ for $40, NM for $75
you already know about this hot new band--and yet you're in there sniping all my WANTS, mussin up my continuing rock education...
whatEVER
My Kinks update:
I got all the easy ones, waffling on the early shit. But all I have left of the seriously mega era is Will Age Greens Society (got the discography offa torrents--that's the right name yes?). That one looks like it's gonna cost me forty fifty bucks. I won't spend that much on a record unless I get to touch it first. Touch it.
OMG I can't believe you guys never heard the Kinks bro wtf srsly
for me it's always been Iron Maiden records. I have no idea what's up with those. Or Beatles. I'd like to have some Beatles records but they're all twenty bucks. Weirdos. Comeon.
Still looking.
Nina Simone is another one. Always thought her records would be pretty easy to find but didn't see them very often.
I had a beat-up copy for maybe ten years before finally copping a cheap clean one in the closing-down sale at this spot in North London about five years back. For reasons I've never been able to establish, it's always been a bit of a tough catch in the UK. It was never super-expensive either (although maybe Dilla stans caused the price to spike?), just very scarce.
but you would think a store would consider warwick common abd the sweater vest would not do something to change there minds
Like when I found UGK's entire early discography in the 50 cent bin at Amoeba in San Francisco.
sick holmes!
I got most of my Saafir 12s (at least the ones that came out in or before 1998) in Greensboro, NC, for 95 cents a pop. I guess folks just weren't trippin' off the Westbound Hound.
Cool, I'll be looking out.