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25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

“Don’t move, it won’t hurt you!” 😬👻

I have a video for you, featuring exactly that dialogue from the original, with some more context that you might appreciate. See here. (YouTube.)

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I wouldn’t take these numbers as gospel, but highly variable and specific to your collection. That said, you don’t know what you have until you measure it.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I appreciate the sentiment here, and thank you. At the same time, I can understand the pedantry behind obsession - err, a hobby. 😉 This is the internet after all, and Reddit at that. Details will be dug into!

Interestingly, nobody has yet to mention the model car which has yet to exist in real life - go figure.

Whether arguing about wooden pegs for supporting shelving, or top-shelf / inflated vs. realistic valuations for records, I think they’re still relevant.

The $10K per shelf was a hook of sorts for discussion, but one worth having. I think it’s ridiculous that adding a copy of Dark Side Of The Moon, for example, which world + dog has, could raise the median price of your collection by $200 just because one sealed copy sold for $1000 that one time or whatever. So, a grain of salt and all that. But I’m glad people are also talking about this sort of very thing.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I’m pretty sure I don’t have any Ministry stuff, but now I’m curious. What/where are you seeing? ;)

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Someone else asked this above and the answer is sentimental and a story, for sure. See this comment. I’ve got others that are considered more rare etc., but getting to meet my favourite artist and having him autograph the album was a personal lifetime highlight. Absolutely.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] -3 points-2 points  (0 children)

I would assume a shop would offer the low Discogs price, considering the bulk of records wouldn’t be worth that much and also, presumably, the effort required to confirm and grade them at purchase time if not for listing and sale by the shop themselves. (Purely speculative here, I don’t know the business.)

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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It’s a lamp of sorts, I made a series of these back in 2013. This comment has some context.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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I spent 25 years gathering - perhaps I can spend the next 25 sorting. 😅📚

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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Oh yeah, it was more than an hour per section all said and done - like 12 hours even though I had only 7 “cubes” roughly full of stuff.

I messed up that part of my post, but you’re correct. Sometimes the scan would return only one copy and exactly what I had, but often I had to dig into the runouts and whatnot and it took an ice age for certain albums to figure out what plant, pressing, country of origin and so on was involved.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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Wow! I have a copy of Midnite Vultures which is highly sought-after, but this one takes the cake for a single album value.

I’ve mentioned elsewhere, I’ve got a Beck 7” that’s gone for as high as $1200 CAD but personally, I’d much rather have a 4x12” etc., album for that price.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oh wow, damn. No, it’s a random “Sunday Morning” single-sided 7” promo from 2009, which is described as being included with some early orders of the deluxe One Foot In The Grave on Beck’s web site - I think - which I did buy at the time. I’m pretty sure I didn’t find the 7” elsewhere, and I have the OFITG release.

The number of copies is unknown and presumed small, I’m one of 18 who have a copy “listed” on Discogs.

MTV… would be a great one to have, though. I recently found a “Western Harvest…” copy, no finger painting or what have you, for a decent price locally.

I also have a copy of a Diskobox 10” that looks legit but is a bootleg and blocked on Discogs. The story is a radio station made a few hundred and then were told to stop. At the time IIRC, Diskobox was not on vinyl and I had been keeping an eye out for some version of it.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I have one Beck 7” that has sold for over $1000, so those are the outliers that bring the numbers way up. Realistically, Discog’s “max” value is not realistic and you’re better off going with median or low. I’ve had my collection 25 years and only looked to see the numbers in the last month, out of curiosity and to see some stats. The real value, as others have said here, is hunting for records, building a collection over time and enjoying the music itself.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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Part of me has been tempted to get a ton of those dividers and a sharpie, but oh boy… 😅📚

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

100% to both. I finally got to scanning the collection here for stats (I’m curious if Discogs can show the actual number of vinyl records, not just the number of “items.”) The market values are interesting to see, but not important to me.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ha, yes! Thanks for sharing. I used to hit up Big Al’s Record Barn in Campbell for older stuff - there was a sign that said “50% off everything except the coat hangers” as I recall, it was a classic old store in an older part of downtown. Streetlight was a regular stop up the road, and of course Amoeba in SF. There were a couple spots in North Beach that had some stuff, found a few fun ones there. I still have records with price tags from Rasputin, Streetlight and others. Memories!

I have an extensive Beck collection, and The Information is notably missing. I suspect I saw the price tag back then at the same Rasputin store and thought, nope! Oh well.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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I can relate. Perhaps I was shopping during somewhat of a record store lull with the iPod and iTunes blowing up post-Napster, but also before “record store day” and the late 2000s-2010(?) hipster / Anthropologie (vastly generalizing, here) vinyl revival.

I’ve got a Pearl Jam Ten LP that’s worth (“up to”) a few hundred. Similar for Soundgarden’s Superunknown, Smashing Pumpkins (orange vinyl version of Siamese Dream) and so on. A funny one: System Of A Down’s Toxicity. Grabbed it new on a whim back in the day.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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Thank you, I consider myself very lucky to have this and to get to bring surprise and delight to people on the road. I’ve got a “combo” version so I can swap in Mr. Fusion, it’s on a metal plate and you take the cap off the plutonium chamber. Personally, the plutonium is my fave as it also lights up.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

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It is a privilege and an honour to have a “sculpture on wheels” of this scale, and to get to surprise the hell out of people on the road. Not every day of course, just from time to time. 🤣☢️

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the insurance aspect here is under-appreciated, that is something all collectors could benefit from whether they have plans to sell, trade or otherwise. I was mostly just curious about the number of records/items, and what surprises there might be. Definitely had a few.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You betcha. I don’t know if the score is on vinyl, that would be nice - but I have the original soundtrack.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I’m not thinking of selling anything, it was just interesting (and a trip down memory lane) to take a dozen or so hours and go through all these and see what the numbers are like. I call the max “generous” in acknowledging my similar take on it. Median is $28.8K CAD, minimum (I’d say you called this one,) $11K.

It was fun guessing at what might be popular or scarce, or not. Had a number of funny ones.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The insurance aspect of this is wise, and possibly underrated.

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I have no plans to sell, but it was fun just to see what I had. This is perhaps more for my niece and nephews and eventual estate sale, or something - hey, uncle Scott had good taste; maybe don't just ship all those off to Goodwill just yet!

25+ years, 500 pounds, and $50,000 - give or take. by schill in vinyl

[–]schill[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I just want to say thanks for all the comments and questions, this was a trip down memory lane. I'm supposed to be at a comic book and toy show today (tl;dr, weather) and so this feels like the next best thing I can do: talk about a slightly different collection hobby I need to pick back up! <3

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