Comments on: The Rise of the Second Pressing, Redux

By: Al

Al — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 13:40:48 +0000

To Jan. There’s nothing wrong with it at all, in my view. I totally agree with you on the sound quality and listening to a second pressing LP is certainly preferable, to me, than listening to a CD. I was just commenting on the change in the market and the new reality that these are going up in value, which is nice for a collector like me who is looking for ways to shrink my collection as opposed to growing it.

By: Jan

Jan — Sat, 10 Apr 2010 12:06:48 +0000

I bought a nmint New Jazz copy of 4,5 & 6
for 100 $ last year and what is wrong with this ?
The cover art is fine, pressing and sound quality are great and the Prestige original would have cost me 500 or 600 $ in a similar quality. I think it is indeed a little crazy to pay 100 $ for a second pressing but isn ´t paying 600$ for a first pressing crazy as well ?

By: rmueller

rmueller — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 23:53:04 +0000

you are right that 30 to maybe 70 would be a right price here, depending on condition. Fortunately there are still sources where you can get those prices a opposed to EBAY which will always be higher because there is a direct relationship between price and the number of potential buyers. In the old days when you came across a rare record once in a blue moon by searching though hundreds of auctions and used record stores, you coud generally get it for cheap because there was a limited market competing for it. EBAY has raised the price of everything but there are still non-EBAY sources

By: Rudolf

Rudolf — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 19:18:43 +0000

Al: for a while in the past I bought New Jazz re-issues of Prestige albums, as alternates to my Prestige originals. For he same reason I sold them in the meantime, but they fetched much more than the $ 30 to $ 40 you mention.
For a non-initiated buyer, who looks for an original DG LP with the New Jazz violet label, it can be an interesting purchase, until he knows better. I think that buyers should be knowledgeable, they buy at their own risk. If this Djukic is more intelligent than his buyers, so let it be.

By: ceedee

ceedee — Thu, 08 Apr 2010 07:08:14 +0000

Hey,what’s with that Dolphy label? How often do you see one ‘aligned’-for lack of a better term-that way? Hmm…

By: Geraint

Geraint — Wed, 07 Apr 2010 23:35:15 +0000

…talking of our friend bob: he’s back (& up to no good):
http://cgi.ebay.com/ERIC-DOLPHY-OUT-TO-LUNCH-N-M-ORIG63-BLUE-NOTE-MONO-LP_W0QQitemZ350337652078QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item5191c0556e