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Jeff Buckley-Live At Sin-é (1993)

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  Artist: Jeff Buckley Title: Live At Sin-é Label: Columbia Format: CD EP Cat #: 44K 77296 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 12/13/25 Sell Price: $7.63 Discogs Last Sold: 12/1/25 VG+/VG+ $3.95 Low: $1.33 Median: $3.72 Average: $3.98 High: $7.63 Current low price: $2.99  Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26 Have/Want: 893/117 Where Sold: Villa Rica, GA Time it took to sell: 4 month Where and When Bought: discarded collection street find Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The Greenpoint found bag of CD's continues to produce sales, this time with the second Jeff Buckley sale this month, the original Live at Sin-é.  Originally this was issued as a commercially released 4-song live EP before his 1994 debut Grace.  Since he passed in 1997, this was expanded to 34 tracks when his woodshedding at the NYC small venue became legendary. "Mojo Pin" was revisited as the opening track on Grace and it o...
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Nick Drake-Maximum Nick Drake (2004)

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  Artist: Nick Drake (Written by Keith Rodway, Read by Sian Jones) Title: Maximum Nick Drake Label: Chrome Dreams Format: CD Cat #: ABCD187 Year of Release: 2004 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 2004 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 12/10/25 Sell Price: $5.76 Discogs Last Sold: 3/30/24 VG+/VG $3.00 Low: $3.00 Median: $5.76 Average: $4.71 High: $5.76 Current low price: $3.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6 Have/Want: 23/6 Where Sold: Huntington, NY Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: $2 cd lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: D- Sad To See It Go: No Chrome Dreams "Maximum..." series is the type of thing you find in a bookstore cutout bin.  This one, like I suspect all others, consists of no music and a drug store biography of the performer in question.  The books-on-tape reader sounds like she possibly never heard the artist she was reading about and reads the text like a haughty schoolteacher's aide.  She never fails to accent a single sentence w...
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Roger Hodgson-In The Eye Of The Storm (1984)

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  Artist: Roger Hodgson Title:  In The Eye Of The Storm Label: A&M Format: LP Cat #: SP 5004 Year of Release: 1984 Country and Year of Edition Issue: Canada 1984 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ with glossy printed inner sleeve Sell Date: 12/8/25 Sell Price: $9.80 Discogs Last Sold: 9/13/25 VG+/VG $5.76 Low: $2.07 Median: $4.29 Average: $6.40 High: $34.77 Current low price: $1.99 G+/VG, $3.02 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 58 Have/Want: 1350/36 Where Sold: Bellevue, WA  Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: vinyl lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+ Sad To See It Go: No "Had a dream/It was WAR/and they couldn't tell me what it was FOR..."-In The Eye Of The Storm Stepping out from sharing vocals with the recently passed Rick Davies in Supertramp, In The Eye Of The Storm is the sound of Roger Hodgson taking over.  In the selfish tradition of prog, nothing was to be compromised or left to chance.  Roger played all the instruments save some female b...
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Gruppo Sportivo-10 Mistakes (1978)

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  Artist: Gruppo Sportivo Title: 10 Mistakes Label: Epic Format: LP Cat #:  epc 82793 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1978 promo Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 12/8/25 Sell Price: $6.38 Discogs Last Sold: 7/25/25 VG+/VG $1.00 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.74 Average: $3.92 High: $7.00 Current low price: $1.33 VG+/VG UK Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 35 Have/Want: 274/40 Where Sold: Bellevue, WA  Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: vinyl lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The debut from Dutch new wave 70's band Gruppo Sportivo had one foot in prog and another in 60's "Beep Beep Love" has a tangential Beatles feel of "All You Need Is Love" and "Superman" musically quotes both Zappa's "Take Your Clothes Off When You Dance" from We're Only In It For Money and Del Shannon's "Runaway" keyboards.  Later "I Shot My Manager" combines Marley's "I S...
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Jeff Buckley-Mystery White Boy Live '95-'96 (2000)

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  Artist: Jeff Buckley Title:  Mystery White Boy Live '95-'96 Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #: CK 69592 Year of Release: 2000 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2000 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 11/25/25 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold 11/20/25 VG/NM $3.00 Low: $1.40 Median: $3.12 Average: $4.05 High: $9.99 Current low price: $1.52 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26 Have/Want: 1182/123 Where Sold: Montebello, CA Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: discarded collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No The electric posthumous release Jeff Buckley's mother put together, Mystery White Boy, is distinctive as a loud rock record.   Led Zeppelin and the grunge of the day, I'm lookin' at you Stone Temple Pilots, have clear influence on this music.  Yes, Jeff was an "artist", son of Tim and user of Gary Lucas guitar (but not with this band).  Jeff's warble, something that made my skin crawl a little as it ...
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Red House Painters-Old Ramon (2001)

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  Artist: Red House Painters Title: Old Ramon Label: Sub Pop Format: CD Cat #: SPCD 565 Year of Release: 2001 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2001 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 11/30/25 Sell Price: $9.99 Discogs Last Sold 11/23/25 VG+/VG+ $3.93 Low: $2.99 Median: $5.81 Average: $6.63 High: $18.00 Current low price: $2.50 G+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 32 Have/Want: 1602/167 Where Sold: Southport, NC Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No "Playing Hanoi Rocks and Social D/my sweetest angel set me free.."-"Cruiser" Mark Kozelek's "romance" record, bloodied but not not unbowed by the metoo# blender he later found himself in.  Like Louis CK, Chuck Berry and John Lennon, you can't try to box the subversive arts of rock 'n roll and comedy in a moralism matrix.  The person will come out of the box to reign in blood for generations to come.  ...
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Frank Sinatra-Frank Sinatra (1967)

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  Artist: Frank Sinatra Title: Frank Sinatra (The World We Knew) Label: Reprise Format: LP Cat #:  FS 1022 Year of Release: 1967 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1967 Pitman Pressing Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 11/26/25 Sell Price: $20.88 Discogs Last Sold 10/29/25 VG/VG $8.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $7.00 Average: $7.37 High: $20.88 Current low price: $10.99 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 134/54 Where Sold: Lafayette, IN Time it took to sell: 6 months Where and When Bought: Whatnot vinyl auction lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No I've been on a bit of a Reprise-era Sinatra kick of late.  Somehow, of the dozen or so ones I got dirt cheap on auction and mostly played, I hadn't got around to hearing this one until now.    Rock critic land always preferred the Capitol years and even the Columbia ones.  Reprise albums always got a bit of the short shrift except for maybe Strangers In The Night.  This one is th...
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