Comments on: Top Prices for Jazz Vinyl Rarities

By: lennib

lennib — Sat, 08 Dec 2018 15:58:06 +0000

Jimrjim, about 3 moves had 7000 or so lps,78’s, turn into close to your # of 2500. Past few years have had been eliminating more. Don’t know how close I’ll get to your # of 300, but I might. Some regrets; yet this past week or so realized I can stop acqusitioning and continue eliminating and in doing so, enjoying it. For me it was deciding I didn’t want to be a “record boy” anymore. As you said the music is either available somewhere or it’s in your head.

By: Drew

Drew — Thu, 06 Dec 2018 01:10:09 +0000

First time poster, long time reader. I am 35. Definitely cannot even come close to affording a $1600 dollar record. I think I have paid over $100 for an individual release 3 times. It is getting harder and harder to find steals, but the hunt is part of the fun for me.

By: jimrjim

jimrjim — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 22:44:37 +0000

lennib, I’ll turn boxcars in a couple of months. Until 2016 I had about 2,500 jazz lps, the vast majority in VG+ or better shape. I wasn’t listening to 2,200 of them and once I committed to a major cull…well that was it. The recent Mingus “Jazz In Detroit” release has dropped me into a Don Pullen bender and I admit to momentarily regretting that gigantic purge. Then again I’ve discovered one 1986 appearance on youtube that rivals anything the pianist ever put on vinyl. Had I simply slipped a record off the shelf I would have missed this performance for another twenty years, or possible forever. Boxcars isn’t old…but it isn’t young either.

By: greenspan

greenspan — Tue, 04 Dec 2018 14:00:54 +0000

Blame the central bankers and money printing for the rising prices of jazz vinyl. All asset classes have risen dramatically since the recession.

By: Chewy

Chewy — Mon, 03 Dec 2018 20:06:23 +0000

never seen the richardson before

By: lennib

lennib — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 19:46:46 +0000

Jimrjim: I prefaced my remark on ‘MH’s’ by stating “most MH’s I know..” indicating this was a personal observation and in no way meant to be an overall proclamation/judgement. I’m sure large pocket MHers exist.
Aaron: I’m boxcars ( a craps term) in age.

By: Mark

Mark — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 18:41:51 +0000

I just turned 45

By: cellery

cellery — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:38:05 +0000

@Aaron: I’m 30 so I’d guess I’m one of the youngest around here, heh. I do some record dealing on the side so I buy quite a bit, exactly because I’d never be able to afford buying $100+ records for myself otherwise – this hobby is way out of my regular income bracket. Even then I try to buy (and sell) as cheaply as possible. I used to buy via eBay a fair bit up to about half a year ago but nowadays I don’t check it that regularly anymore, prices there have gotten WAY out of control.

By: japhy

japhy — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 15:08:30 +0000

Dang! Looks like I might need to list my NM-/NM- Richardson. Daddy needs to buy some Christmas presents! For myself. More records.

Speaking of New Jazz titles, I was recently doing my near-daily flip through the junk at Goodwill when there, nestled between all the Mitch Miller, Barbra Steisand and Ray Conniff, was a NM first press of Charlie Rouse + Herbie Mann “Just Wailin’.” Not a holy grail by any stretch, but for 50 cents I walked out a happy man.

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Fri, 30 Nov 2018 08:04:13 +0000

Aaron: I have got nothing to hide, my age is 77. There is an advantage I have over you, youngsters. I started collecting when the transition from 10″ to 12″ took place. So I saw it all happen, but I could never have foreseen the rise in value of my cherished albums, which I only bought for their artistic value.