I just found a collection of rare 70s & 80s art-rock, prog-rock and Kraut-rock. what should i do.

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i was at a store and the entire new arrivals rock section was someone's collection of this stuff. really cool shit that i've never actually listened to, but read a ton about. i don't know where i'd start if i actually bought any of it for myself, and not sure i'm into proggy shit right now, so wouldn't want to waste the money on myself when there's other things i want my money to go towards.

it had stuff like: Cluster, Kluster, Univers Zero, Henry Cow, Slap Happy, Samla Mammas Manna, Eugene Chadborne.

seriously way too much for me to remember. lots of Euro shit that i'd never heard of but could tell from the covers that it was from the same collection. all of this stuff was between 8-20$, and then on the wall they had This Heat's "Deceit" for 40$.

so, should i go in there and buy this stuff up to sell it on Ebay? is there anything you fucks are looking for? Dominique? should i just say screw it and hope one day i find a whole collection of the kinda shit i'm listening to at the moment?

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Where?!?! Cluster? I can never find that.

Who would buy Deceit for 40?

― David Allen (David Allen), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

What was the collection called? Was it CDRs? I made a 10-disc CDR set of that stuff, maybe someone burned it, or did the same.

If you haven't heard any of it, I'd get it.

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I would purchase those records if you have an inkling of interest. You could always sell them again.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

no, not a compilation, all original records. vinyl. wax. 12"s

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I think "collection" means "record collection". xpost

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

http://img.slate.msn.com/media/78000/78325/000330_fidelity01.jpg

― Alex in NYC (vassifer), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

oh, that's cool. however, if I were you, I'd look at what they had and then go online to see what's available on CD. Unless you really love vinyl, you can get pretty much everything by the artists you mentioned on CD at places like Forced Exposure, waysidemusic.com and rermegacorp.com.

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 17 January 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, buy it. i'm sure some geek will pay big money to take that stuff off your hands.

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(xpost... dominique's advice is sound)

― cathy berberian (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

The vinyl is worth more $$, sure. Plus it sounds better, is easier to roll spliff on and is cooler. I guess this is another thread.

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:07 (twenty-one years ago)

u wood bee surprized at how not rare alot of those records u mentioned are.get a mini cassette recorder speak all the titles into it,put all the ones u want on hold,go home,do some research ,and return to pick out the hens teeth.

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that's what i'm gonna do. maybe sans the mini cassette recorder and just a piece of paper

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't just write down titles! You will need to make extensive notes on everything that might be a variant. For instance: does the dragon on the cover -- the one on the right, rising out of the pool of pudding -- have three eyes or eight? Are there plastic underwear attached? If not, write down: "no underwear attached." These things make a great difference in value.

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmmmmmmm. pudding

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

buy that shit

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

no dragons in henry cow, nabisco. more like, does the Marxist diatribe on the back cover contain actual references to communism or just cryptic comments about "labour" and "the state".

― Dominique (dleone), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Why not just leave them there for someone who actually wants them?

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

How can you see all that on the back cover of a CD? xpost

― mcd (mcd), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Why not just leave them there for someone who actually wants them?
-- walter kranz (kurtraa...), January 17th, 2005.

That would be a decent thing to do, speaking as someone that can't afford expanses of music I love. I mean, I have other expanses, so I don't complain (much), but there are less and less copies of more and more records that haven't found their way into expensive collector's circles.

― Pangolino again, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:38 (twenty-one years ago)

If there's no pudding on any of them then they're just not worth it!

― nabisco (nabisco), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm... underwear pudding...

― peter smith (plsmith), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

in all actuality, this is probably what i'll really do, seeing as how i'm lazy (don't want to have to deal with going back down there a few times, researching it, taking pix, posting on ebay and going to the post office) and i wouldn't want to risk buying a bunch of stuff and having it not sell.

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Pudding on an LP?

― Pangolino again, Monday, 17 January 2005 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

How can you have your pudding if you don't eat your meat?!

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 17 January 2005 19:46 (twenty-one years ago)

This site give values for prices realised on auction sites http://www.popsike.com/index.html assuming you're buying to sell.

― Billy Dods (Billy Dods), Monday, 17 January 2005 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, if you really want to get into buying and selling records for profit then that's one thing. Otherwise there are probably better things you could do with your time.

As a musical recommendation though I'd recommend picking up any of the Cluster stuff. Personally I'd probably pick up anything that was around the $8 mark if it looked interesting and probably nothing over the $20 mark unless it was something I was specifically looking for, but that's just me.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:29 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm not too sure about that popsike site, every thing i've looked up has sold between $50-300. seems rather high.

― Hella Fitzgerald (JasonD), Monday, 17 January 2005 23:38 (twenty-one years ago)

popsike is actual ebay results, so you can take them as a reasonably accurate guide.

― the surface noise (slight return) (electricsound), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Condition is everything for collectable vinyl. I love Henry Cow and Slapp Happy, but I'd still probably buy it on CD.

― nickn (nickn), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 00:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of that stuff is really really good. Buy as much as you can and sell it only if you're disappointed.

― Mike O. (Mike Ouderkirk), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 01:07 (twenty-one years ago)

If the Slapp Happy album is Sort Of, see if it has the Alcohol single inside. If it does, buy it.

― dlp9001, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:40 (twenty-one years ago)

The back cover of the "Alcohol" single (with Peter Blegvad's variations on a glass of liquid) is one of my favourite record sleeves, along with the "Totally Wired" single.

― Pangolino again, Tuesday, 18 January 2005 03:54 (twenty-one years ago)

"i make like bill cosby/and pop her in da puddin'"
-Cam'ron

― Forksclovetofu (Forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 06:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Cluster albums, particularly of the precious vinyl variety, should go to Cluster fanatics. Eventually the dust will settle and everyone who is a Cluser fanatic will have been visited by a Cluster Santa Claus. Then peace will be on earth for several hundred years.

― Bimble... (Bimble...), Tuesday, 18 January 2005 07:50 (twenty-one years ago)

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