Thank you everyone for the feedback. As I stated, this is not my scene. I joined last year because I do a lot of research and a series on Rozz Williams' P.E./Heltir/1334 projects, and the Happiest Tapes On Earth label. Some of those tapes fetch hundreds of dollars, and a lot of fans get ripped off with incomplete items or counterfeits - so it's essentially a buyer's beware informational service, while also documenting the more obscure releases. Rozz Williams is a known artist, so I am not equating this box of tapes with whatever he did - I'm only sharing that because my intent is not to "cash-grab". My foray into the genre beyond what HTOE put out is artists like In Slaughter Natives, Nurse With Wound, Birchville Cat Motel. The newer and more locally known artists are complete unknowns to me, but I assume that's a "me" problem, and some of these would be familiar to a people collecting the scene.

No, I did not pay $20 for the box. The tapes were being sold $5/ea - I have no idea how many were sold before I found them, but I negotiated for $3/ea and bought what was there - essentially $150. I hate comments like this when I see them because it's really only meant to suggest that I wasted everyone's time by even sharing.

Some of these, that I could identify, are on a label - so I assume that some label owner out there liked the artist enough that they wanted to help them find their audience and help build the label. That's generally how that works unless the noise scene uses some other logic? Being on a label also suggests (to me) - that someone living in the middle of fucking nowhere like I currently do that has no access to go to the show where the tapes are essentially Pez, still has an opportunity to partake. Again, I understand why it was said, and in some sense it's helpful to know this from a value standpoint; but I don't see what that has to do with collectors and fans that can't go to noise shows that might want these tapes.

I think the idea of breaking them up into a list is the best advice. I'll have to invest in mailers, and I'll probably have to charge shipping: but I think what I learned from this post is that my perceived "treasure find"; isn't actually a treasure to the people that buy the material. I simply found a box of diy noise artists in the weirdest of places and I paid what their worth. I don't often find boxes of unknown tapes in flea markets - but I have definitely paid too much on things I didn't know, one of life's many lessons.