One of my biggest pet peaves!! I run into that alot in used sections here in Minneapolis. Example: First OG pressing of Star Wars soundtrack in VG condition. Some bonehead slapped a sticker directly on the cover!!
They do that in Tucson too, 😂, so it is not just a Minneapolis thing. Hate when you can barely peel of the sticker or when the sticker rips some of the artwork off the album no matter how careful you are.
@@ralphbolton4865 Maybe it is because it is a irrational thought that you just accepted? "pressing vinyl" is a manufacturing process,---and the record is made by man. Really, what are you guys "thinking"?
That Stevie Wonder record may have come from a radio station, who didn't want the DJs to play the first track on the air. They'd often cover up or scratch out tracks that contain obscenities or didn't fit the station's format, and also to reduce the chance of someone borrowing the record and never bringing it back. And also, the next year whose calendar will match up with 1974 is 2030.
I love when sellers set a 20$ price tag on a record, and say its VG++ when the whole damn cover is a giant falling apart at the seams ringwear worn copy. And you're like "Are they kidding me?". Yeah, we got those here in Sweden as well.
At the record store I go to, I have seen record covers that were almost ripped apart along the edges, but at least they will not sell them for more than 4.99 US dollars.
It is really only a complaint if you are forced to buy the product, like the health care system that now resembles a nationalized system of a 3rd world nation.
Prices are nuts right now. The "vinyl revival" can't die soon enough for me. Also, I had the same KISS experience. Something happened to me between those 2 albums. Maybe it was the lack of a hit single. Great video.
I TGINK ITS WHEN THEY HAD THE I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU DICO SONG CAME OUT. I USED TO HATE KISS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. AND M9ST DISCO. BUT THEY DID THAT SONG. GO FIGURE....
"It's staying for 14 bucks!!" " You never see Barbara S. records!!" Hilarious quotes!!! to name a few! Thanks for making me smile today! People take records so seriously all of a sudden! They were always important to me..🎃 Firm!
Leif Garrett was bad enough, but a Stevie Wonder album with tape around the edge 🤣 ? That Emerson Lake and Palmer album from 1978, which looks like a Bee Gees cover sells for a dollar at the record store I go to, and they have at least two copies of it.
So true about the trickle down effect. I started buying records because you could get decent old albums for under $5. Not anymore. It’s become a rich man’s hobby💰
Ha! This has to be one of the most amusing and funny segments I've seen is sometime. I'm laughing myself silly. Unbelievable pricing. I appreciate you sharing these.
Generally I’ve found antique malls overprice everything as it’s already been picked and the sellers are paying rent, but this is really bad. The condition of some of these are non sellable in my opinion. Also: Kenny G: “$40 FIRM” lmao
Kenny G is in my opinion torture i wouldn´t listen to a record with him playing not even if they pay me ,much more paying good money for a record of him, ,maybe it´s regional thing ,i just don´t get it
I was in rural PA at an antique mall. ECM and Bluenotes were $2. At the mall next door, mostly OG European pressings Paul Desmond, Brubeck, Monk, Coleman, Gil Evan and a ton more all at $3 each. They were so clean I thought they were brand new. Guy who bought put his name and year bought on the back, he was stationed in Germany from 1961 to 64 and bought all these at the base store.
@@RobertFithen if you come to PA hit me up. I'll show you a spot. The owner isn't into vinyl he puts them in boxes and puts 3 bucks on them no matter what the Album is. I got some decent stuff from him.
Your videos never fail to cheer me up, and this was one of my favorites. One technique I've noticed is putting a crappy record in a protective sleeve. It easily doubles the price.
Nothing worse when your local newspaper or news station does a report on "collectibles"and than everyone with say that Carole King Tapestry calls your record shop to let you know they will sell it to you for a 100 bucks
My hometown had an antique store and the ONLY reasonably priced record was Thick As A Brick ($5). The rest: $12 for a Cher record $45 for a Linda Ronstadt record $50 for Meet the Beatles $80 for the Hair soundtrack (I tried hard not to laugh out loud when I saw that)
There's a guy in limerick ireland who has a place where everything is like this price. He has a sign outside the door that basically says "buy something or get out" so everytime I'm down there I make a point to walk about and not buy a single thing lmao
They're really wasting everyone's time with these prices and mold covered records. Two days of this, shop after shop after shop, I'm glad I got a nice video out of it that gave people a laugh. That's really all you can do... laugh.
I live in Memphis and honestly this has been the case for decades. I don't understand why people would pay to have a space at an antique mall and then not lower prices if an inventory item hasn't sold for a couple months. Sheffield's (antique mall) is the only place I would even venture to go.
Respect man. You’re in it for the music, I’ve always been in it for the music too. Flipping to make money has never been a thing for me. I’d rather kick back & spin the 33’s man. Great video btw, a shame I’m in the UK coz that booth sounds worth a trip.
i used to work at a record store in south texas… a lot of those prices seemed in line with the boss’s pricing ethos 😅 every time someone who actually knew what they were talking about came in they would scoff at the prices and i would laugh with them and throw them a discount!
Robert, those prices are every where! Over priced for unplayable records or covers that are falling apart in your hand. I went to a record show and the grading and prices were outrageous. Watch out CD lovers the price increase is coming your way. Have a great day.
I see this in antique stores when I visit them . Over priced Vinyl that never sells that's why I gave up on Antique stores as they are "dealers" . Thrift stores and yard sales are one of the very few ways to get vinyl cheap these days . Although I'm in the trades , I always sneak in that I collect vinyl records to my customers . Sometimes they have records that they give away for free as they are clueless about the resurgence although it's only happened twice in about 20+ attempts haha .
Heck, I still buy CDs at estate sales for a dollar a piece all day long, yeah, in Memphis. If I were guessing, I'd say a lot of these vinyl dealers are buying at estate sales, because I see them there all the time. I buy books, not vinyl.
Yeah I'm getting fed up with this crap. I used to enjoy buying records. I always could find good albums for good prices. That ship has sailed. I'm glad people like records again. But we really need to stop the stupidity involved. Buying records isn't anywhere as fun as it used to be.
Hi Robert - very entertaining in a tragic sort of way. Ever thought of interviewing people who are purchasing these? Love to know what they are thinking.
in my area record stores are full of very expensive reissues of classic albums and they will never understand that many people have given up on the idea of selling valuable vinyl in stores because the stores either cherry pick or offer next to nothing. I chatted with one seller who said a store offered him a nickel for a stack of vinyl and he was going to put the records in a dumpster instead.
@@rwparker1968 I remember these stupid stickers you'd put on the outer perimeter of the label side of a CD to get it to stop the "wow" and "flutter". WASTE of money, time, thought....
“C” is for Cookie is a master piece. It has his version of “If I Knew You Were Coming, I’dev Baked A Cake”. If you don’t have that album; can you call yourself a collector? 😜 It is instantly clear when someone who doesn’t collect vinyl, sells vinyl, but doesn’t know two shits about vinyl. In one way, it makes it easy. You just need to see one ridiculously priced record, and you can move on. Another great vid. 👍
Great video and yes these antique people have lost their minds! There must be and Antique Monthly that had an article about fleecing record buyers! I have a place where I go and I educated her and introduced her to Discogs! Of course she had to be re-educated because she always wanted to take the median or the high price! So what I do now as they go through the collections that she has and I pull what I want and then I sit down at the front desk and go through Discogs one by one! I gave her 40% of the medium and I’m happy with that! But it looks like the people that you’re talking about and showing I have a completely lost their minds😂
Nobody buys the records though so they are not fleecing anybody . I stop by a local antique store about once a month if I happen to be walking my dog in the area , there's 3 dealers in the store and none of the records move .
Great video! I am just astounded by these prices. I'm no economist, but it doesn't seem consistent with the law of supply and demand - am I missing something? At any rate, a number of months ago, you posted a video in which you found several amazing 45s for between 50 cents and $2.00 - I hope you have another experience like that soon! As for me, I'm going to keep looking for that first pressing of Love Forever Changes. Be well!
"I'll give you $100 for the half a gatefold, the copiously molded one and the rare Herb Alpert". Lol. So glad you found that Goner stall so your trip was worth it!
Our antique shop booths have gone the very same route. The records often look like someone played Frisbee with them in a gravel parking lot and they want a fortune for them. As soon as they heard records were popular again...
Quantum used to be in Bartlett where I live. It's an awesome antique store and glad to see you had a good experience. I been shopping Memphis records for almost a decade and the prices have gotten ridiculous. There used to be a few hole in the walls with better prices but they closed up during Covid.
Whenever I come across a place like this I make it very clear to them how ridiculous it is. Either the records mean nothing to their business or there are actually poor rubes out there that pay these prices every once in a while. That Christopher Cross for $22 is just an absolute crime. My local shop can't give that album away quick enough. There's about 8 in the dollar bin right now.
@@RobertFithen I've never been to Memphis, but I've seen this mostly in places that prey on tourists. Last really bad one I saw was a bizarre shop in Smithville, NJ. It was one of those "good old days" type stores that sells unlicensed beatles and i love lucy merchandise. In stark contrast, the antique store I go to every week sells records $2.50 each no matter what, much like the good one you talked about.
@@RobertFithen This exploitation of records/vinyl prices is widespread. I was back home in Ireland 4 years ago and in Limerick city at a beat up charity shop and saw dozens of similarly beaten and battered records, inside and out, selling for 10 euros and more. We're talking Richard Clayderman/ Jim Reeves garbage here! It's a global vinyldemic folks.
That ELP album cover could pass for a Bee Gees album. I think it also got a one star out of 5. I have a copy, and it is not too bad, but I paid a buck for it, and it was unopened.
@@manfredmann2766 Cool. Have you heard the extended version of Thicker than Water? It's beautiful. RUclips: Andy Gibb. (Love Is) Thicker Than Water 1977 Pop Purrfection Version
Yeah, I see this from time to time here in Finland as well. Luckily, flea markets where "normal" people sell their records are still somewhat of a gold mine from time to time, but usually even amongst common people they know what the records' are worth. Still, you're definitely able to do some nice finds here. Stores however, like antique shops and used books stores... They take a premium for what is essentially crap, regular records you couldn't even give away on any given record fair.
I've been wanting to make a similar video for a while now because I'm seeing this insanity here at many of the record stores in Brooklyn. Trashed KISS records for $15 to $20, records with mildew and water damage and parts of the cover torn off for $10 to $20. Recently I ran across a copy of Joni Mitchell's "Blue" that looked like it had been found under the wheel of a bus, faded and worn, heavy ring wear, pencil and pen marks all over her face. The price? $50!! AND the next time I was at that store it was gone, so evidently someone bought the damn thing.
@@meyerkarl5276 Unfortunately there will be people who will pay these prices, just like with Sringsteen tickets for $2K-4K. Some will pay whatever prices, money come too easy to them. Hoping there will not be many of such people.
Some of the more underrated artists are: Mountain, Utopía, Poco, The Tubes, The Stawbs, Hot Tuna, Jethro Tull, etc. Found great albums from each and luckily paid between 1 and 3 dollars for each. The albums were virtually unblemished.
That strangley doesn't happen too often in Los Angeles but is laughable when it does. Those prices are unbelievable! It is nice to think of someone else coming to find some good deals after your turn. Whenever I (rarely) come across The Records S/T album or Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout I grab them and give them to friends who do not have them.
Last time I was in Memphis, the actual record stores were great. And I agree Goner is AWESOME. Antique stores and yard sales…Nuts! Everyone is trying to cash in on their “rare collectibles” (especially in tourist towns that hope to rake in some Yankee dollars)🤪
i have most the records you showd but allot of them i bought 4 for a dallar including alice cooper schools out love your show now you cant find or afford what the thrift shops charge
lol. "Antique" sellers are literally just going on discogs, seeing the highest possible price for an album, and then pricing theirs the same, not accounting for different pressings, cover variants, track variants, etc. They don't understand that records are a completely different market that they just aren't exposed to. Over in the antiques world i'm sure old=value, but that couldn't be further from the truth over in the record world.
unbelievable crazy.... I will say though double check George Strait prices, you might be surprised, if that record was really clean and in the shrink, $35 is about right. I've sold a lot of his records on discogs and at record store i sell at, they always sell quick and most are in the $15-$30 range, he def has a following.
More than happy that I bought 90% of my library thirty years ago at average $5 a pop. Thanks for the info of "Tonight's the Night" ($5) , Goodbye Waterface side two dead wax, black and silver Reprise lable. Added bonus double fold , " Welcome on Miami Beach, Ladies and Gentlemen " insert. Also info of Aerosmith debut, knew it was an early press , just not how early👍
Same here - bought most of my modest collection between '89-'93, some mostly nm copies for as little as $0.50, most probably averaging $4. And at my age, there's not much else or more that interests me enough to spend this kind of money.
Just got back into collecting, and I'm floored at the pricing at the shops. I somehow picked up "Bridge of Sighs" for $3, but everything else was an embarrassment.
Damn, I've been looking for that Tommy James version of the Doors debut for years! That was absolutely classic when you pulled that out of the sleeve. The madness has to stop. I just discovered your page a few days ago - great content man you say it how it is. I don't make videos anymore on the tube, but I just found you on IG. -Chris
@@RobertFithen I had a find like that once but it worked in my favor. Pulled out a Donovan LP from a collection and out popped the 13th Floor Elevators first album! Don't have a cover for it and it's about VG but still better than the Donovan!
A lot of these people that put out crappy records at those prices think that no one makes lps anymore. They think that they have an endangered species that is quickly disappearing. So that $68.07 price you see on The Osmonds, Bert Kampefert, Ray Conniff (And The Singers) or Classical Music For People Who Hate Classical Music, are prices that make sense to them, and their Pot Of Gold visions. If you think you have a virtual goldmine you are not going to charge tin prices. The funny thing about it is you can tell these people must not read. At Barnes & Noble, bins after bins of brand new vinyl meet you, as you walk in the door and through the store. Maybe these opportunistic pricers should be told as you walk out the store "Do yourself a big favor, and go read a book."
Reminds me of how bloated the retro gaming market has become - remember going into a “retro” gaming store in a mall some years back and they had a bunch of loose NES cartridges, and they weren’t even in great shape, had peeling labels in places etc. - they wanted $50+ for common games like Contra and SMB, and $300 for an old yellowed SNES in the back. I “nope”d out of there pretty quick.
A few years ago my wife and I bought an entire estate sale's vinyl collection so that we could weed through the two to three thousand records at our leisure, take what we wanted for our collection and sell the rest. Out of our haul there were about ten records of value, some obscure audiophile classical vinyl, some Portuguese jazz and a Blue Note album of moderate value but the rest was borderline worthless: Herb Alpert, musicals, Barbara Streisand, etc. We literally gave them all away, an entire pickup bed full of them in decent condition. Antique mall vendors are the most clueless about vinyl values - and the most hopeful that their absurd prices will resonate with local chumps. Even the most casual of collectors know better than to pay those prices, esp. with Discogs on our smart phones.
A local video game store started selling used vinyl. All crap condition at top prices. A Johnny Cash album I picked up was in especially bad shape. The vinyl looked like it had been dragged across a warehouse floor and the jacket was held together with brittle making tape. Asking price: $25. Unfortunately, in the last few years or so Half Price Books has also fallen into this habit.
I went to an antique mall about a week ago and noticed the same thing. They had Revolver 2012 Stereo press marked as "Rare 1966 Beatles Album GREAT CONDITION" for $70
Same problem at my local antique market. Their prices are hopelessly out of touch for scratched LPs warping in the sun. I've never seen them actually sell anything when I walk past :)
Some guy at Beatlefest Chicago tried to sell a Don Henley 12” for $35 and he tried to tell me that he was giving me a deal because in New York he can get $50 for it. He told me that “i’m nice enough to give you a price on it I figured you’d buy it!” I told him $5 for it an he got real mad.
Lifelong Kiss fan here and UNMASKED is absolute power pop perfection. Followed them through every line up change, every genre and that album still holds up to this day. So many great songs!
I agree with you Robert about the flipping. I was at a Mr K's a few years ago and found several Metallica albums but I already have them. Just left them for hopefully someone who didn't. While the high priced garbage was laughable , gotta say you made out well on what you did buy. Great video as always
Great video! I'm late to this one, BUT - I have a story that relates to this absurdity you have so hilariously highlighted. There was a flea market at the fairgrounds in my hometown about a month ago; 1 seller had "sealed, vintage" Beatles LPs priced at $100 and up. Some of these "sealed" albums looked like they had just wrapped common kitchen cling wrap around them; others looked like they had attempted some sort of amateur shrink wrap treatment with a heat gun or something - they were shrunk too tight and were squeezing the covers out of shape. ALL of the "new" LPs had significant ring wear and noticeable damage. Hopefully no one was fooled by this rotten tactic... Some sellers (like the ones you highlighted) may be just clueless, but this was just outright fraud!
Yeah, I can believe it. When I worked at Blockbuster Video as a teenager, we had a heat gun and a roll of wrap that we would wrap pre-rented videos to sell. (We would sell them as used) So it must be somewhat easy to get the two tools necessary to shrink wrap something.
Thanks for this one, we don't see enough PSA's like this and yes, it has gotten wacky out there. A few years before lockdown I started seeing "priced" records at certain Goodwill stores, same thing...beat up, scratched to hell and often not even the correct disc. One could go to an actual record store and get those common records VG+ in a dollar bin (maybe $2 or $3 these days) and most of the "money records" you showed could be had at those prices or way less BUT they would be VG+/NM- and maybe with the correct record inside and mold free! Crazy that people don't even bother to look at the actual vinyl when pricing these.
old school original pressing records, in theory are very cool. unfortunately, so many millions of them were printed back in the 70s and nobody really took care of them, which is why they're all scratched up and worthless. as a collector myself, it's very rare to come across an original pressing of anything from that era in really good condition.
Thanks for making this video. I've been looking for a good source of old vinyl in Memphis. The thrift stores out here aren't as well-stocked as they used to be.
I so hope these booth dealers somehow get to see this video and you absolutely roasting them. Please do more of these and run this crackheads through the muck.
There is a shop in Stoughton Massachusetts that is absolutely crammed from floor to ceiling with records, guitars, cds, and the shopkeeper tells me he has another warehouse space crammed with more merchandise than he can move. The problem is that he nitpicks and overprices every single item to the point where you can barely buy anything, so nothing in his store ever moves.
The same thing is happening in every kind of specialty market. Yet the entitled crybabies go online to bitch about it instead of just walking out of the store.
Hilarious video! We have a few great stores up here that sell VG+ vinyl for $5 ea. And even $1 bin VG+. I'm kind of shocked by some of my finds. My best to date is the original pressing of 2 lp Manassas with the poster and photo sleeves of Stills on heavy vinyl for $5 VG. Most just needs a cleaning. Here's a question for you Robert: What's up with the 1 and 3 side and the 2 and 4 side set up on the double lps? I'm still trying to figure that one out!
Good lord! Who’s paying those prices!? I guess I need to sell off my LP collection pronto, i could make a fortune. Mine are well kept and don’t look like they’ve been ice skated on. 😂😂😂
Just wow! Tiny little island state of Tasmania, Australia here, we have no antique malls or bizarres with the booths. The antique stores that have records at all are usually pretty bad - not close to most of what you showed. I've made good connections with a couple. One just now dabbling now in vinyl when it happens along. He's actually pricing from the online average resale and undrcutting by five or ten bucks, so for now at least I've got a fairly untapped well of saught after OG goodies. Thrift stores are getting pretty evil though. The hands down best place here is weekly auction house lots. Inspection is a must, but you can get some nuts stuff if you're persistent and take the warehouse mark up into consideration on your bids (17%).
Sorry that your Alan Parsons record was defaced by the "B.T." written on the front cover. Next time I see Bernie Taupin, I'll tell him that he should have known better.
I can’t believe the prices…I could sell my regular 70’s records for big money at this place. My record store in Boston could have cared less about my old records like Jethro Tull, Canned Heat, etc
New watcher, enjoy your content. I'm from Memphis and this is a hilarious embarrassment. Thank goodness I never go to those antique malls because those are outrageous. I've found some nice things on a couple of those buy nothing/give-away groups on Facebook and at garage sales (only a few sadly) even though everyone hosting those thinks they're a vinyl record appraiser.
Craziness! Feel sorry for all the people just starting their collections. New deluxe box sets now into the $500 range which includes garbage. Very sad.
Good deals can still be found, you just need to know where to shop. Same day this video was posted I was at my local record store and I saw Meet The Beatles LP in much better condition than the one in the video, for just $7 (vs $100 in the video). Just don't shop at these ridiculous places, let them sit at their overpriced records.
I found my Mono copy of Meet The Beatles LP for $.99 at a Goodwill some years back. I found an early (if not first) pressing of Zappa Hot Rats for a quarter (25 cents) at a thrift store in Yuma. It needed to be cleaned and flattened, but a local Record shop near me does that (or used to do it - I think they still do) so for a grand total of $2.25, I had that FZ record.
Wow, that is painful. Just think I paid $4 for my mono copy of an original pressing of The Psychedelic Sound of the 13th Floor Elevators at a flea market a few years ago. Geez and to think I was bitching because a local record store had a decent copy of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's debut on Cotillion for $15 in average condtion (vg+ lp with a cover with ring wear). Back in the 90s when I bought mine it was $5.99. This was also the store that had a mono "Something Else From The Kinks" for $25 because it was rare and near mint. Times have changed.
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That Kinks album in (U.S.) mono was promo-only and exceedingly rare.
I would take a bunch of albums from here and sell them to the dealers there. Even if they give you half, you would still come out ahead. And don't forget to push about how "rare" they are, especially if you have one with duct tape.
lol. you never been to a used record store to sell stuff? i gave away my collection for free on craigslist instead of selling for pennies to those bastards.
Yes, I’ve seen that. Old run of the mill LPs in charity shops and antique shops. This video made me laugh so much!!!! $35 for half a Doors gatefold album!😂🤣😅
I had an education at looking at vinyl records some years back. It was always condition of the album it self and the condition of the album cover. It was the motivation behind purchasing the product or not depending on the price. Sometimes came across test pressings in VG. and exceptional condition that were purchased at a fair price and are now at a premium price for a changed market these days.
Come to Clinton Tennessee next time bro...I will buy you a cup of coffee... Those are ridiculous prices we've got some really cool antique stores in our town. Clinton Tennessee was voted in the top 10 antique stores in the country... And laughably we even have Martha Stewart stamp of approval with her favorite antique town.
Hey guy 😃 maybe they're doing what ebay sellers do... I recently went on ebay to buy an pb copy of a book I always wanted to read... should sell for about 2 or 3 dollars. People selling the book must not have checked the completed listing to see what the book actually sells for, just what other sellers are asking so now every seller is asking $40.00 or more. Not a first edition, battered old paper back- $40.00. The sellers you encountered know nothing about records, and are probably looking on ebay to see what sellers are asking. Great vid!!!
Some of that is eBay 'recommending' to sellers what price to list... the evilBay fkers do get more fees from the sellers final value fee (being item price plus their overpriced global shttin ripoff).
Best time to get OGs for a buck each was the early nineties, when everyone were on CD bandwagon pre discog era, now all the buck LPs are all beat up and scratched with molds...and a great marketing division is up with Remixes and Re issues...I wish u were in that chat with Fagen..good one Rob.
Good finds! I found a copy of "The Common People" and a Poppy label "the late great Townes van zandt" at an antique mall for like $10. A booth that was selling common Beatles stuff for ridicuous prices. Also Karen Dalton at another place for $3. ITs always in booths where the sellers are pricing common stuff at stupid prices. They always miss something
I completely agree. It's the same here in the UK. The charity (thrift) shops are wise to the vinyl trend and have started asking silly prices for vinyl. It's a shame, as it's likely to put new collectors off buying them.
Remembered back in the early 2000s when I went thrifting and hoarded hundreds of records because they looked good, some were even unopened. I did not even own a turntable to play them on, but I paid no more than 59 cents for each. Multiple albums by The Beatles, Floyd, Priest, Kiss, Scorpions, Van Halen, The Clash, The Ramones, etc. Nowadays those thrift stores or goodwill stores are selling the good albums on Amazon. Any album that is left in those type of stores is either trashed or something that nobody wants or both. I feel like the only time I will find a decent record at a goodwill, is when an employee probably got too lazy to sift through them and separate chaff from the wheat, which is probably why I recently scored an excellent copy of Inversions by Stevie Wonder and an Abacab album by Genesis. However, one can still find .99 cent CDs by quality bands nowadays.
With charity shops you need to get niche and hope that whoever is doing the pricing isn't familiar with that niche (or discogs!). Classical vinyl for example.
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A lot of people think that if they got something old, it’s automatically valuable. I see this everywhere and with everything.
everything is the last of the V8 Interceptors.
i'd be worth a million .
You mean Beatles albums won't pay for my daughters college education?
@@tonystephens6858 Maybe a Master-Class tutorial on You Tube.
I always noticed that most old records, often pre 1970, are worth very little unless it’s big name (doors, beatles, stones).
I love how these "knowledgeable vinyl record experts" place the price sticker directly on the album cover. True professionals there in Memphis.
One of my biggest pet peaves!! I run into that alot in used sections here in Minneapolis. Example: First OG pressing of Star Wars soundtrack in VG condition. Some bonehead slapped a sticker directly on the cover!!
They do that in Tucson too, 😂, so it is not just a Minneapolis thing. Hate when you can barely peel of the sticker or when the sticker rips some of the artwork off the album no matter how careful you are.
Joe biden should make it a federal offence to put stickers on records. I am currently de-stickering my whole collection. Very tiresome,but worth it.
@@manfredmann2766 Goo Gone to the rescue!
Only way to prevent losers from stealing and sleeve switching. Normal price stickers can peel off with no residue.
I was told by one vendor, "They don't make records anymore. "
😂😂😂That’s kind of true. They just press vinyl these days….
@@mike_burke true, never thought of it that way.
I make records every year.
That's a lie.
@@ralphbolton4865 Maybe it is because it is a irrational thought that you just accepted? "pressing vinyl" is a manufacturing process,---and the record is made by man.
Really, what are you guys "thinking"?
“It’s The Beatles so I KNOW its worth money” said the woman selling an unplayable Apple reissue single for $25
Before the resurgence of “vinyl”, many record stores in Houston had everything for $1🤣
1980 Led Zep 1st lp turquoise lettering paid 2 gbp. 2023 now 1500
That Stevie Wonder record may have come from a radio station, who didn't want the DJs to play the first track on the air. They'd often cover up or scratch out tracks that contain obscenities or didn't fit the station's format, and also to reduce the chance of someone borrowing the record and never bringing it back. And also, the next year whose calendar will match up with 1974 is 2030.
It was usually done with a wax pencil. I worked in radio for almost 30 years, never saw anything like that Stevie Wonder album.
im pretty sure it was just a clever way of hiding the roach eggs and shit stains.
I love when sellers set a 20$ price tag on a record, and say its VG++ when the whole damn cover is a giant falling apart at the seams ringwear worn copy. And you're like "Are they kidding me?". Yeah, we got those here in Sweden as well.
that's almost everyone on discogs
At the record store I go to, I have seen record covers that were almost ripped apart along the edges, but at least they will not sell them for more than 4.99 US dollars.
It is really only a complaint if you are forced to buy the product, like the health care system that now resembles a nationalized system of a 3rd world nation.
Prices are nuts right now. The "vinyl revival" can't die soon enough for me. Also, I had the same KISS experience. Something happened to me between those 2 albums. Maybe it was the lack of a hit single. Great video.
I can't wait for the bubble to burst, but even then, I don't know if these sellers will get the message.
I TGINK ITS WHEN THEY HAD THE I WAS MADE FOR LOVING YOU DICO SONG CAME OUT. I USED TO HATE KISS IN ELEMENTARY SCHOOL. AND M9ST DISCO. BUT THEY DID THAT SONG. GO FIGURE....
Kiss SUX !
Vinyl is here to stay.
if you play a Kiss record backwards, you might actually hear a good song.
"It's staying for 14 bucks!!" " You never see Barbara S. records!!" Hilarious quotes!!! to name a few!
Thanks for making me smile today! People take records so seriously all of a sudden! They were always important to me..🎃 Firm!
I would not take a Barbara Streisand album if you paid me 14 bucks.
@@manfredmann2766 No harsh to Babs but I am with you!🙉
Thanks Bob for such an entertaining video. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the price tags on some of those records in altrocious conditions.
Leif Garrett was bad enough, but a Stevie Wonder album with tape around the edge 🤣 ?
That Emerson Lake and Palmer album from 1978, which looks like a Bee Gees cover sells for a dollar at the record store I go to, and they have at least two copies of it.
There is an infamous seller in an antique mall near me. The most ridiculous was $70 for literally just the cover of Pearl Jam vitalogy
So true about the trickle down effect. I started buying records because you could get decent old albums for under $5. Not anymore. It’s become a rich man’s hobby💰
Ha! This has to be one of the most amusing and funny segments I've seen is sometime. I'm laughing myself silly. Unbelievable pricing. I appreciate you sharing these.
This video was hilarious! I can't believe those prices. You did get some great records for $5. Take care.
Generally I’ve found antique malls overprice everything as it’s already been picked and the sellers are paying rent, but this is really bad. The condition of some of these are non sellable in my opinion. Also: Kenny G: “$40 FIRM” lmao
You couldn't pay some people to take some of these just because they wouldn't want the mold in their home.
Kenny G is in my opinion torture i wouldn´t listen to a record with him playing not even if they pay me ,much more paying good money for a record of him, ,maybe it´s regional thing ,i just don´t get it
@@RUfromthe40s there might be a region in the world where people pay for $40 for Kenny G vinyl in a parallel universe haha
@@vintageaudioemporiumthose are the only options , in Japan(no ofense) or in a parallel universe
It should have said "Kenny G: Soft"
I was in rural PA at an antique mall. ECM and Bluenotes were $2. At the mall next door, mostly OG European pressings Paul Desmond, Brubeck, Monk, Coleman, Gil Evan and a ton more all at $3 each. They were so clean I thought they were brand new. Guy who bought put his name and year bought on the back, he was stationed in Germany from 1961 to 64 and bought all these at the base store.
Next stop. Pennsylvania!
@@RobertFithen if you come to PA hit me up. I'll show you a spot. The owner isn't into vinyl he puts them in boxes and puts 3 bucks on them no matter what the Album is. I got some decent stuff from him.
Your videos never fail to cheer me up, and this was one of my favorites. One technique I've noticed is putting a crappy record in a protective sleeve. It easily doubles the price.
Thanks! I've seen that too.
Nothing worse when your local newspaper or news station does a report on "collectibles"and than everyone with say that Carole King Tapestry calls your record shop to let you know they will sell it to you for a 100 bucks
My hometown had an antique store and the ONLY reasonably priced record was Thick As A Brick ($5). The rest:
$12 for a Cher record
$45 for a Linda Ronstadt record
$50 for Meet the Beatles
$80 for the Hair soundtrack (I tried hard not to laugh out loud when I saw that)
“ A fool and his money,are soon parted “ has become so true the past decade and especially during and after Covid .
There's a guy in limerick ireland who has a place where everything is like this price. He has a sign outside the door that basically says "buy something or get out" so everytime I'm down there I make a point to walk about and not buy a single thing lmao
They're really wasting everyone's time with these prices and mold covered records. Two days of this, shop after shop after shop, I'm glad I got a nice video out of it that gave people a laugh. That's really all you can do... laugh.
I live in Memphis and honestly this has been the case for decades. I don't understand why people would pay to have a space at an antique mall and then not lower prices if an inventory item hasn't sold for a couple months.
Sheffield's (antique mall) is the only place I would even venture to go.
Sheffield's was good for mid century antiques, at one time. That and $0.97 guy is cracking me up.
Live here too. I agree.
I just bought four STRANGLERS albums for 2$ each at a Salvation Army
Respect man. You’re in it for the music, I’ve always been in it for the music too. Flipping to make money has never been a thing for me. I’d rather kick back & spin the 33’s man.
Great video btw, a shame I’m in the UK coz that booth sounds worth a trip.
We need to bring down the bs in the used record market. Just a little. LOL!
i used to work at a record store in south texas… a lot of those prices seemed in line with the boss’s pricing ethos 😅 every time someone who actually knew what they were talking about came in they would scoff at the prices and i would laugh with them and throw them a discount!
Robert, those prices are every where! Over priced for unplayable records or covers that are falling apart in your hand. I went to a record show and the grading and prices were outrageous. Watch out CD lovers the price increase is coming your way. Have a great day.
I see this in antique stores when I visit them . Over priced Vinyl that never sells that's why I gave up on Antique stores as they are "dealers" . Thrift stores and yard sales are one of the very few ways to get vinyl cheap these days .
Although I'm in the trades , I always sneak in that I collect vinyl records to my customers . Sometimes they have records that they give away for free as they are clueless about the resurgence although it's only happened twice in about 20+ attempts haha .
Heck, I still buy CDs at estate sales for a dollar a piece all day long, yeah, in Memphis.
If I were guessing, I'd say a lot of these vinyl dealers are buying at estate sales, because I see them there all the time. I buy books, not vinyl.
@@thenaturalmidsouth9536 I do the samething for CDs. They are still the best deal around at this time.
@@bigstar33thriftymusiccolle7 also my opinion
Yeah I'm getting fed up with this crap. I used to enjoy buying records. I always could find good albums for good prices. That ship has sailed. I'm glad people like records again. But we really need to stop the stupidity involved. Buying records isn't anywhere as fun as it used to be.
Hi Robert - very entertaining in a tragic sort of way. Ever thought of interviewing people who are purchasing these? Love to know what they are thinking.
in my area record stores are full of very expensive reissues of classic albums and they will never understand that many people have given up on the idea of selling valuable vinyl in stores because the stores either cherry pick or offer next to nothing. I chatted with one seller who said a store offered him a nickel for a stack of vinyl and he was going to put the records in a dumpster instead.
Discogs is causing some of this with their prices by last 10 sold. It basically means prices always goes up and never really level out.
You don't put masking tape all around the circumference of your vinyl records? I thought everyone did that? 😳
It was a secret among audiophiles: the precursor to painting the edges of CDs with a green marker.
All it would take is someone people had blind trust in to do it, and then they would do it too.
Likely did that to use it as a frisbee so you don't cut your hand , I could see a 12 year old kid doing this .
The first track on that record must be hideous hahaha
@@rwparker1968 I remember these stupid stickers you'd put on the outer perimeter of the label side of a CD to get it to stop the "wow" and "flutter". WASTE of money, time, thought....
“C” is for Cookie is a master piece. It has his version of “If I Knew You Were Coming, I’dev Baked A Cake”. If you don’t have that album; can you call yourself a collector? 😜
It is instantly clear when someone who doesn’t collect vinyl, sells vinyl, but doesn’t know two shits about vinyl. In one way, it makes it easy. You just need to see one ridiculously priced record, and you can move on.
Another great vid. 👍
I hope 2023 will give us a UHQR of "C is for Cookie"
Grover is better
Great video and yes these antique people have lost their minds! There must be and Antique Monthly that had an article about fleecing record buyers! I have a place where I go and I educated her and introduced her to Discogs! Of course she had to be re-educated because she always wanted to take the median or the high price! So what I do now as they go through the collections that she has and I pull what I want and then I sit down at the front desk and go through Discogs one by one! I gave her 40% of the medium and I’m happy with that! But it looks like the people that you’re talking about and showing I have a completely lost their minds😂
Nobody buys the records though so they are not fleecing anybody . I stop by a local antique store about once a month if I happen to be walking my dog in the area , there's 3 dealers in the store and none of the records move .
Great video man and nice perspective. I always enjoy the visuals
Great video! I am just astounded by these prices. I'm no economist, but it doesn't seem consistent with the law of supply and demand - am I missing something? At any rate, a number of months ago, you posted a video in which you found several amazing 45s for between 50 cents and $2.00 - I hope you have another experience like that soon! As for me, I'm going to keep looking for that first pressing of Love Forever Changes. Be well!
looking for forever changes too, my cd copy has disk rot
@@sawyer3715 I hope we each find a copy, friend.
"I'll give you $100 for the half a gatefold, the copiously molded one and the rare Herb Alpert". Lol. So glad you found that Goner stall so your trip was worth it!
Our antique shop booths have gone the very same route. The records often look like someone played Frisbee with them in a gravel parking lot and they want a fortune for them. As soon as they heard records were popular again...
Quantum used to be in Bartlett where I live. It's an awesome antique store and glad to see you had a good experience. I been shopping Memphis records for almost a decade and the prices have gotten ridiculous. There used to be a few hole in the walls with better prices but they closed up during Covid.
Whenever I come across a place like this I make it very clear to them how ridiculous it is. Either the records mean nothing to their business or there are actually poor rubes out there that pay these prices every once in a while. That Christopher Cross for $22 is just an absolute crime. My local shop can't give that album away quick enough. There's about 8 in the dollar bin right now.
But this is an entire city. I must have gone to 10 different shops with multiple booths in each one. lol
@@RobertFithen I've never been to Memphis, but I've seen this mostly in places that prey on tourists. Last really bad one I saw was a bizarre shop in Smithville, NJ. It was one of those "good old days" type stores that sells unlicensed beatles and i love lucy merchandise. In stark contrast, the antique store I go to every week sells records $2.50 each no matter what, much like the good one you talked about.
Maybe they stole them.
@@RobertFithen This exploitation of records/vinyl prices is widespread. I was back home in Ireland 4 years ago and in Limerick city at a beat up charity shop and saw dozens of similarly beaten and battered records, inside and out, selling for 10 euros and more. We're talking Richard Clayderman/ Jim Reeves garbage here! It's a global vinyldemic folks.
Hilarious video. And I'd forgotten about that Leif Garret album cover that tries to draw the eye exclusively to his crotch. 1:20
That ELP album cover could pass for a Bee Gees album. I think it also got a one star out of 5. I have a copy, and it is not too bad, but I paid a buck for it, and it was unopened.
@@manfredmann2766 Cool. Have you heard the extended version of Thicker than Water? It's beautiful. RUclips: Andy Gibb. (Love Is) Thicker Than Water 1977 Pop Purrfection Version
Yeah, I see this from time to time here in Finland as well. Luckily, flea markets where "normal" people sell their records are still somewhat of a gold mine from time to time, but usually even amongst common people they know what the records' are worth. Still, you're definitely able to do some nice finds here.
Stores however, like antique shops and used books stores... They take a premium for what is essentially crap, regular records you couldn't even give away on any given record fair.
I've been wanting to make a similar video for a while now because I'm seeing this insanity here at many of the record stores in Brooklyn. Trashed KISS records for $15 to $20, records with mildew and water damage and parts of the cover torn off for $10 to $20. Recently I ran across a copy of Joni Mitchell's "Blue" that looked like it had been found under the wheel of a bus, faded and worn, heavy ring wear, pencil and pen marks all over her face. The price? $50!! AND the next time I was at that store it was gone, so evidently someone bought the damn thing.
That's silly, I hope no one buys their overpriced trash and they reduce the prices.
I know, idiots need to stop paying these prices and stop the madness.
@@meyerkarl5276 Unfortunately there will be people who will pay these prices, just like with Sringsteen tickets for $2K-4K. Some will pay whatever prices, money come too easy to them. Hoping there will not be many of such people.
Some of the more underrated artists are: Mountain, Utopía, Poco, The Tubes, The Stawbs, Hot Tuna, Jethro Tull, etc.
Found great albums from each and luckily paid between 1 and 3 dollars for each. The albums were virtually unblemished.
That strangley doesn't happen too often in Los Angeles but is laughable when it does. Those prices are unbelievable! It is nice to think of someone else coming to find some good deals after your turn. Whenever I (rarely) come across The Records S/T album or Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout I grab them and give them to friends who do not have them.
Last time I was in Memphis, the actual record stores were great. And I agree Goner is AWESOME. Antique stores and yard sales…Nuts! Everyone is trying to cash in on their “rare collectibles” (especially in tourist towns that hope to rake in some Yankee dollars)🤪
i have most the records you showd but allot of them i bought 4 for a dallar including alice cooper schools out love your show now you cant find or afford what the thrift shops charge
to be honest most self respecting vinyl collectors wouldn't touch these with a barge pole !
Yeah dude. I only approach Discogs with my pole.
😂, would they touch them with a tower crane??
Thanks for the laughs, those prices are crazy. Glad you found some gems.
lol. "Antique" sellers are literally just going on discogs, seeing the highest possible price for an album, and then pricing theirs the same, not accounting for different pressings, cover variants, track variants, etc. They don't understand that records are a completely different market that they just aren't exposed to. Over in the antiques world i'm sure old=value, but that couldn't be further from the truth over in the record world.
Great video!! This is insane those prices, some of them looked like they’ve been in a car accident 😳
unbelievable crazy.... I will say though double check George Strait prices, you might be surprised, if that record was really clean and in the shrink, $35 is about right. I've sold a lot of his records on discogs and at record store i sell at, they always sell quick and most are in the $15-$30 range, he def has a following.
Those sellers are insane for asking such prices, most of the records they try to sell you have to pays someone to take them!
They get most of them for free and are just hoping for the best .
Leif Garrett 😂
More than happy that I bought 90% of my library thirty years ago at average $5 a pop.
Thanks for the info of "Tonight's the Night" ($5) , Goodbye Waterface side two dead wax, black and silver Reprise lable.
Added bonus double fold , " Welcome on Miami Beach, Ladies and Gentlemen " insert.
Also info of Aerosmith debut, knew it was an early press , just not how early👍
Same here - bought most of my modest collection between '89-'93, some mostly nm copies for as little as $0.50, most probably averaging $4. And at my age, there's not much else or more that interests me enough to spend this kind of money.
Same here! I bought most of them 10 or 20 years ago fo $5 or $10 a pop!
Same here.
Just got back into collecting, and I'm floored at the pricing at the shops. I somehow picked up "Bridge of Sighs" for $3, but everything else was an embarrassment.
Dang, I forgot all about the Grover Sings the Blues album. It has the amazing track
"What Do I Do When I'm Alone?" I think we all know what that is.
Damn, I've been looking for that Tommy James version of the Doors debut for years! That was absolutely classic when you pulled that out of the sleeve. The madness has to stop. I just discovered your page a few days ago - great content man you say it how it is. I don't make videos anymore on the tube, but I just found you on IG. -Chris
Thanks!!
@@RobertFithen I had a find like that once but it worked in my favor. Pulled out a Donovan LP from a collection and out popped the 13th Floor Elevators first album! Don't have a cover for it and it's about VG but still better than the Donovan!
A lot of these people that put out crappy records at those prices think that no one makes lps anymore. They think that they have an endangered species that is quickly disappearing. So that $68.07 price you see on The Osmonds, Bert Kampefert, Ray Conniff (And The Singers) or Classical Music For People Who Hate Classical Music, are prices that make sense to them, and their Pot Of Gold visions. If you think you have a virtual goldmine you are not going to charge tin prices. The funny thing about it is you can tell these people must not read. At Barnes & Noble, bins after bins of brand new vinyl meet you, as you walk in the door and through the store. Maybe these opportunistic pricers should be told as you walk out the store "Do yourself a big favor, and go read a book."
Reminds me of how bloated the retro gaming market has become - remember going into a “retro” gaming store in a mall some years back and they had a bunch of loose NES cartridges, and they weren’t even in great shape, had peeling labels in places etc. - they wanted $50+ for common games like Contra and SMB, and $300 for an old yellowed SNES in the back. I “nope”d out of there pretty quick.
A few years ago my wife and I bought an entire estate sale's vinyl collection so that we could weed through the two to three thousand records at our leisure, take what we wanted for our collection and sell the rest. Out of our haul there were about ten records of value, some obscure audiophile classical vinyl, some Portuguese jazz and a Blue Note album of moderate value but the rest was borderline worthless: Herb Alpert, musicals, Barbara Streisand, etc. We literally gave them all away, an entire pickup bed full of them in decent condition.
Antique mall vendors are the most clueless about vinyl values - and the most hopeful that their absurd prices will resonate with local chumps. Even the most casual of collectors know better than to pay those prices, esp. with Discogs on our smart phones.
I got halfway through your comment, thinking this story sounds familiar, before I noticed it was you. Hi David
@@Doug928374 Hi Doug! Assuming either Renck or Waltonbaugh ...
:^)
@@nazcaplain The W one.
A local video game store started selling used vinyl. All crap condition at top prices. A Johnny Cash album I picked up was in especially bad shape. The vinyl looked like it had been dragged across a warehouse floor and the jacket was held together with brittle making tape. Asking price: $25. Unfortunately, in the last few years or so Half Price Books has also fallen into this habit.
I went to an antique mall about a week ago and noticed the same thing. They had Revolver 2012 Stereo press marked as "Rare 1966 Beatles Album GREAT CONDITION" for $70
Great video - I've been there with those over-priced "antique" malls!
Unbelievable. You called it, brother. Great Video.
‘Looks like a basement wall..’ hahahaha. Those prices are even more ridiculous than here in nyc.
Same problem at my local antique market. Their prices are hopelessly out of touch for scratched LPs warping in the sun. I've never seen them actually sell anything when I walk past :)
I wonder where these people get their prices? I’d love to know if they ever move any inventory…
Finally someone here is thinking a little. You practically answered your own question. You're one step closer to seeing the light.
Some guy at Beatlefest Chicago tried to sell a Don Henley 12” for $35 and he tried to tell me that he was giving me a deal because in New York he can get $50 for it. He told me that “i’m nice enough to give you a price on it I figured you’d buy it!” I told him $5 for it an he got real mad.
Lifelong Kiss fan here and UNMASKED is absolute power pop perfection. Followed them through every line up change, every genre and that album still holds up to this day. So many great songs!
I liked a lot more than I expected.
KISS is 100% ASSCLOWN music......
I agree with you Robert about the flipping. I was at a Mr K's a few years ago and found several Metallica albums but I already have them. Just left them for hopefully someone who didn't.
While the high priced garbage was laughable , gotta say you made out well on what you did buy.
Great video as always
Great video! I'm late to this one, BUT - I have a story that relates to this absurdity you have so hilariously highlighted. There was a flea market at the fairgrounds in my hometown about a month ago; 1 seller had "sealed, vintage" Beatles LPs priced at $100 and up. Some of these "sealed" albums looked like they had just wrapped common kitchen cling wrap around them; others looked like they had attempted some sort of amateur shrink wrap treatment with a heat gun or something - they were shrunk too tight and were squeezing the covers out of shape. ALL of the "new" LPs had significant ring wear and noticeable damage. Hopefully no one was fooled by this rotten tactic... Some sellers (like the ones you highlighted) may be just clueless, but this was just outright fraud!
Yeah, I can believe it. When I worked at Blockbuster Video as a teenager, we had a heat gun and a roll of wrap that we would wrap pre-rented videos to sell. (We would sell them as used) So it must be somewhat easy to get the two tools necessary to shrink wrap something.
Thanks for this one, we don't see enough PSA's like this and yes, it has gotten wacky out there. A few years before lockdown I started seeing "priced" records at certain Goodwill stores, same thing...beat up, scratched to hell and often not even the correct disc.
One could go to an actual record store and get those common records VG+ in a dollar bin (maybe $2 or $3 these days) and most of the "money records" you showed could be had at those prices or way less BUT they would be VG+/NM- and maybe with the correct record inside and mold free! Crazy that people don't even bother to look at the actual vinyl when pricing these.
It is amazing how prices in some of these booths are nuts. There are a few good ones around our area. Great video!
old school original pressing records, in theory are very cool. unfortunately, so many millions of them were printed back in the 70s and nobody really took care of them, which is why they're all scratched up and worthless.
as a collector myself, it's very rare to come across an original pressing of anything from that era in really good condition.
“Laughably” is right! I laughed my head off at your commentary. Thanks, budd.
Thanks for making this video. I've been looking for a good source of old vinyl in Memphis. The thrift stores out here aren't as well-stocked as they used to be.
I so hope these booth dealers somehow get to see this video and you absolutely roasting them. Please do more of these and run this crackheads through the muck.
There is a shop in Stoughton Massachusetts that is absolutely crammed from floor to ceiling with records, guitars, cds, and the shopkeeper tells me he has another warehouse space crammed with more merchandise than he can move. The problem is that he nitpicks and overprices every single item to the point where you can barely buy anything, so nothing in his store ever moves.
Love the video. I’m a comic collector and it’s a very similar experience. Bad condition-high price. Even for issues no one would care about
The same thing is happening in every kind of specialty market. Yet the entitled crybabies go online to bitch about it instead of just walking out of the store.
Hilarious video! We have a few great stores up here that sell VG+ vinyl for $5 ea. And even $1 bin VG+. I'm kind of shocked by some of my finds. My best to date is the original pressing of 2 lp Manassas with the poster and photo sleeves of Stills on heavy vinyl for $5 VG. Most just needs a cleaning. Here's a question for you Robert: What's up with the 1 and 3 side and the 2 and 4 side set up on the double lps? I'm still trying to figure that one out!
"Auto-coupled" made for the record changers of the past where you stacked records on a long spindle to play. Stack the 2 records, then flip them over.
Good lord! Who’s paying those prices!? I guess I need to sell off my LP collection pronto, i could make a fortune. Mine are well kept and don’t look like they’ve been ice skated on. 😂😂😂
Just wow! Tiny little island state of Tasmania, Australia here, we have no antique malls or bizarres with the booths. The antique stores that have records at all are usually pretty bad - not close to most of what you showed. I've made good connections with a couple. One just now dabbling now in vinyl when it happens along. He's actually pricing from the online average resale and undrcutting by five or ten bucks, so for now at least I've got a fairly untapped well of saught after OG goodies. Thrift stores are getting pretty evil though. The hands down best place here is weekly auction house lots. Inspection is a must, but you can get some nuts stuff if you're persistent and take the warehouse mark up into consideration on your bids (17%).
Sorry that your Alan Parsons record was defaced by the "B.T." written on the front cover. Next time I see Bernie Taupin, I'll tell him that he should have known better.
I can’t believe the prices…I could sell my regular 70’s records for big money at this place. My record store in Boston could have cared less about my old records like Jethro Tull, Canned Heat, etc
New watcher, enjoy your content. I'm from Memphis and this is a hilarious embarrassment. Thank goodness I never go to those antique malls because those are outrageous. I've found some nice things on a couple of those buy nothing/give-away groups on Facebook and at garage sales (only a few sadly) even though everyone hosting those thinks they're a vinyl record appraiser.
"Laughably overpriced" is the only way to describe record-hawkers at antique malls.
awesome video, when i see stores that do this i always think "hell if i go by their price guide my collections worth millions!!!"
Craziness! Feel sorry for all the people just starting their collections.
New deluxe box sets now into the $500 range which includes garbage. Very sad.
I don't see many new people getting into Vinyl at the momment . Average Joe doesn't have $32-$50 to blow on a new record right now .
Deluxe Boxed sets are not for casual fans nor beginners.
Good deals can still be found, you just need to know where to shop. Same day this video was posted I was at my local record store and I saw Meet The Beatles LP in much better condition than the one in the video, for just $7 (vs $100 in the video). Just don't shop at these ridiculous places, let them sit at their overpriced records.
I know some places. Like the $5 booth.
I found my Mono copy of Meet The Beatles LP for $.99 at a Goodwill some years back.
I found an early (if not first) pressing of Zappa Hot Rats for a quarter (25 cents) at a thrift store in Yuma. It needed to be cleaned and flattened, but a local Record shop near me does that (or used to do it - I think they still do) so for a grand total of $2.25, I had that FZ record.
really enjoyed this video, you really hit the mark, good luck on making more videos
Wow, that is painful. Just think I paid $4 for my mono copy of an original pressing of The Psychedelic Sound of the 13th Floor Elevators at a flea market a few years ago.
Geez and to think I was bitching because a local record store had a decent copy of Emerson, Lake & Palmer's debut on Cotillion for $15 in average condtion (vg+ lp with a cover with ring wear). Back in the 90s when I bought mine it was $5.99.
This was also the store that had a mono "Something Else From The Kinks" for $25 because it was rare and near mint. Times have changed.
That Kinks album in (U.S.) mono was promo-only and exceedingly rare.
“Looks like a basement wall “ 😂 great vid
I would take a bunch of albums from here and sell them to the dealers there. Even if they give you half, you would still come out ahead. And don't forget to push about how "rare" they are, especially if you have one with duct tape.
The dealers likely get them for free or very close to free .
lol. you never been to a used record store to sell stuff? i gave away my collection for free on craigslist instead of selling for pennies to those bastards.
The prices on these records actually upset me.
Yes, I’ve seen that. Old run of the mill LPs in charity shops and antique shops. This video made me laugh so much!!!! $35 for half a Doors gatefold album!😂🤣😅
You know the quality is totally crap too. So funny. $35 FIRM for a cut in half doors greatest hits record.
I'd love to know the story behind them putting "firm" on that.
I had an education at looking at vinyl records some years back. It was always condition of the album it self and the condition of the album cover. It was the motivation behind purchasing the product or not depending on the price. Sometimes came across test pressings in VG. and exceptional condition that were purchased at a fair price and are now at a premium price for a changed market these days.
I have a record store down the street with a freebee section that is mostly better than what you find in Memphis antique malls apparently
Come to Clinton Tennessee next time bro...I will buy you a cup of coffee... Those are ridiculous prices we've got some really cool antique stores in our town. Clinton Tennessee was voted in the top 10 antique stores in the country... And laughably we even have Martha Stewart stamp of approval with her favorite antique town.
Hey guy 😃 maybe they're doing what ebay sellers do... I recently went on ebay to buy an pb copy of a book I always wanted to read... should sell for about 2 or 3 dollars. People selling the book must not have checked the completed listing to see what the book actually sells for, just what other sellers are asking so now every seller is asking $40.00 or more. Not a first edition, battered old paper back- $40.00. The sellers you encountered know nothing about records, and are probably looking on ebay to see what sellers are asking. Great vid!!!
Some of that is eBay 'recommending' to sellers what price to list... the evilBay fkers do get more fees from the sellers final value fee (being item price plus their overpriced global shttin ripoff).
Best time to get OGs for a buck each was the early nineties, when everyone were on CD bandwagon pre discog era, now all the buck LPs are all beat up and scratched with molds...and a great marketing division is up with Remixes and Re issues...I wish u were in that chat with Fagen..good one Rob.
Good finds!
I found a copy of "The Common People" and a Poppy label "the late great Townes van zandt" at an antique mall for like $10. A booth that was selling common Beatles stuff for ridicuous prices. Also Karen Dalton at another place for $3. ITs always in booths where the sellers are pricing common stuff at stupid prices. They always miss something
I completely agree. It's the same here in the UK. The charity (thrift) shops are wise to the vinyl trend and have started asking silly prices for vinyl. It's a shame, as it's likely to put new collectors off buying them.
Remembered back in the early 2000s when I went thrifting and hoarded hundreds of records because they looked good, some were even unopened. I did not even own a turntable to play them on, but I paid no more than 59 cents for each.
Multiple albums by The Beatles, Floyd, Priest, Kiss, Scorpions, Van Halen, The Clash, The Ramones, etc.
Nowadays those thrift stores or goodwill stores are selling the good albums on Amazon. Any album that is left in those type of stores is either trashed or something that nobody wants or both.
I feel like the only time I will find a decent record at a goodwill, is when an employee probably got too lazy to sift through them and separate chaff from the wheat, which is probably why I recently scored an excellent copy of Inversions by Stevie Wonder and an Abacab album by Genesis.
However, one can still find .99 cent CDs by quality bands nowadays.
With charity shops you need to get niche and hope that whoever is doing the pricing isn't familiar with that niche (or discogs!). Classical vinyl for example.