The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Soundtrack (Electric Light Orchestra & Olivia Newton-John) Title: Xanadu Label: MCA Format: LP Cat: MCA 6100 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition: US 1980 Repress Gloversville Press Sell Price: $7.99 5/29/24 VG/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 5/27/24 VG+/VG+ $8.00 Low:$0.87 G+/G+ Median: $6.18 Average: $9.20 High: $45.00 NM/NM Current low price: $6.00 G+/F, $6.90 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 26 Have/Want: 1888/139 Where Sold: White Cloud, MI Time it took to sell:  2 years Where and When Purchased: Facebook marketplace lot a couple year ago around $4 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No " In Xanadu did Kubla Khan . A stately  pleasure - dome decree"-Samuel Taylor Coleridge Mass media had some deep thoughts for this kitschy roller rink movie that came out in 1980 when I was 10.  After taking the soundtrack out of the library later that year, I got a used promo copy that I sold years ago for around $15.  I bought this ...

  Artist: Charles Mingus Title: Pithecanthropus Erectus Label: Atlantic Format: CD Cat: 8809-2 Year of Release: 1956 Country and Year of Edition: US 1987 with 1981 reissue cover and Nat Hentoff notes preceding the Mingus notes Sell Price: $3.75 VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 5/18/24 VG+/not graded $1.44 Low:$1.44 Median: $3.84 Average: $4.07 High: $12.00 Current low price: $2.35 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 29 Have/Want: 483/83 Where Sold: Clarks Hill, SC Time it took to sell:  10 years Where and When Purchased: Smash on St. Marks early 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No If ever there was an album that needed liner notes, Pithecanthropus Erectus is it.  Mingus did them himself and the opening title track we are told is a tone poem about the first man to stand apart from the animals in the prone position.  Mingus in 1956 gave a dim view towards man who has 4 stages put to music: evolution, superiority-complex, decline and destruction.  Sinc...

  Artist: Wilco Title: Summerteeth Label: Reprise Format: CD Cat #:9 47282-2 Year of Release: 1999 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1999 Listed Condition VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/25/24 Sell Price:$2.95 Discogs Last Sold:5/24/24 NM/NM $5.43 Low: $0.77 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.24 High: $7.67 Current low price: $0.95 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 64 Have/Want:1727/94 Where Sold: Clarks Hill, SC Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: sometime in 1999 used can't remember if store or internet Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Wilco has been an established mainstay featuring Jeff Tweedy for so long I forgot that the period I bought in real time essentially had featured Jay Bennett as well as Tweedy before Jim O'Rourke replaced him a "celebrity" partner in the band.  Bennett was summarily dismissed after Yankee Hotel Foxtrot and the I'm Trying To Break Your Heart film helped make Wilco bigger than they were.  I started to ignore them aro...

  Artist: Metallica Title:  Reload Label: Elektra Format: CD Cat #:62126-2 Year of Release: 1997 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1997 Listed Condition VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/25/24 Sell Price:$3.34 Discogs Last Sold:4/18/24 G+/generic $0.99 Low: $0.99 Median: $2.00 Average: $4.04 High: $13.99 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 42 Have/Want: 3042/279 Where Sold: Clarks Hill, SC Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: new upon release probably Sounds on St. Marks NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The Metal Militia's companion follow-up to Load, named Reload, continued on the path of artful decline.  Certainly there were hits here with videos to accompany them. "The Unforgiven" got a sequel.  Back then, the word from the media was it was countrified with pedal steel, but I'm thinking I hear more King Crimson. The biggest was the live standard album opener "Fuel" that always seemed a little forced action ...

  Artist: Warren Zevon Title: Mutineer Label: Giant Format: CD Cat #:9 24618-2 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 Listed Condition VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/20/24 Sell Price:$8.88 Discogs Last Sold:4/17/24 M/VG+ $5.00 Low: $2.99 Median: $8.00 Average: $7.80 High: $12.00 Current low price: $11.06 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 258/28 Where Sold: Albany, CA Time it took to sell: 5 months Where and When Bought: Facebook CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No I first purchased Mutineer in 2002 after Dylan started playing the title track of this album live on a regular basis.  I hadn't really been listening to Zevon much since Sentimental Hygiene in the late 80's, although I got back on board around this time with this and his checkout album The Wind as well as My Ride’s Here and Life'll Kill Ya.   The first Zevon record I ever bought was his cover of Ernie K-Doe's " A Certain Girl " on a 45 when Bad Luck Str...

  Artist: Ian Anderson Title: Walk Into Light Label: Chrysalis Format: CD Cat #:  50999 0 70406 2 7 Year of Release: 1983 Country and Year of Edition Issue: EU 2011 Remaster Listed Condition VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/17/24 Sell Price:$13.99 Discogs Last Sold:1/10/24 VG+/VG+ $10.87 Low: $10.87 Median: $14.05 Average: $13.55 High: $15.22 Current low price: $10.87 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 20/3 Where Sold: Eddystone, PA Time it took to sell: 2 months Where and When Bought: Facebook CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C- Sad To See It Go: No Ian Anderson's debut solo release can be looked at in different ways.  The 1980 Jethro Tull album A, was originally to be released as an Anderson solo album.  However, this is really part of a trilogy of 1982-4 albums featuring keyboardist Peter Vettese.   The jocular liner notes on this edition written in December 2010 by Anderson himself give an explanation for this foray into early synthesizer and away from Ma...

  Artist: Bob Dylan Title: Bob Dylan Label: Columbia Format: LP Cat #: PC 8579 Year of Release: 1962 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1970's reissue Listed Condition VG/VG+ Sell Date: 5/2/24 Sell Price:$8.93 Discogs Last Sold: 3/5/24 NM/VG+ $9.00 Low: $3.98 M/VG+ Median: $12.49 Average: $12.81 High: $24.99 M/NM Current low price: $12.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 16 Have/Want: 285/176 Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: Worcester used That's Entertainment mid 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No "You're No Good!" the 3 year old Reverse Collector proclaimed to his mother.  "David! That's an awful thing to say!  Go to your room!"  I was just saying what was on the cover of the Bob Dylan song list on the album I had.  I was a fluent reader by age 3, as opposed to simply memorizing text my parents read to me when I was 2.  I understood the concept of "Good" and "Ba...

  Artist: Al Green Title:  Let's Stay Together Label: Hi Format: LP Cat #: SHL 32072 Year of Release: 1972 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1972 Capitol Record Club Listed Condition VG/G+ Sell Date: 5/9/24 Sell Price:$10.01 Discogs Last Sold: 9/1/23 VG/VG $27.99 Low: $10.01 VG/G+ Median: $23.99 Average: $24.09 High: $40.00 NM/NM Current low price: $13.45 G+/G Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 98/581 Where Sold: Saline, MI Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: Worcester used Al Bums early 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No I've had the album 40+ years and outside of the title track I've finally got myself "right" with it.  For whatever reason, I didn't know the songs on the record start to finish so I gave it a good 4 listens before I even started in on writing this.  The time I bought Let's Stay Together, Al Green albums on Hi were fairly scarce in general despite his massive success.  This album peaked...

  Artist: The Yardbirds Title: Over Under Sideways Down Label: Epic Format: LP Cat #:LN 24210 Year of Release: 1966 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1966 Mono Santa Maria Listed Condition VG/P  water damaged cover 1/3 page each side peeled off, vinyl good shape Sell Date: 5/9/24 Sell Price:$6.20  Discogs Last Sold: 3/10/24 VG/VG+ $20.00 Low: $4.00 VG/generic Median: $19.49 Average: $24.29 High: $70.00 M/VG+ Current low price: $8.00 G+/G+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 47 Have/Want: 1596/390 Where Sold: Saline, MI Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: in a box lot or dollar bin Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No I can't fully remember what cheap bin I got this cover-trashed/decent vinyl copy of the Beck-era Yardbirds.  The cover on both sides was partially pulled clean off.  A copy in good shape with a drill hole went for $70, so as far as deals go, this went with a couple other similar deals.  The buyer was looking for fl...

  Artist: Shellac Title:  Terraform Label: Touch and Go Format: LP Cat #: TG200 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1998 180 gram vinyl with handwritten note "The joke's on you. You are a boring person" signed Steve Albini with 850 on the back of the slip of paper Listed Condition VG+/VG+:  Sell Date: 5/8/24 Sell Price:$23.74 Discogs Last Sold: 5/11/24 $37.63 Low: $15.00 3/28/24 VG+/VG+ Median: $29.05 Average: $30.46 High: $69.99 Current low price: $33.09 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 4318/1063 Where Sold: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: new upon release NYC Kim's Underground on St. Marks Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No A few days ago in my previous Shellac write-up, I told you there was a sale I "lost"  that sold almost immediately upon Albini's death after being up for sale at various higher prices for about 9 years.  Since I've given my eulogy already, I...

  Artist: The Allman Brothers Band Title:  The Allman Brothers Band At Fillmore East Label: Capricorn Format: 2XLP Cat #: SD-2-802 Year of Release: 1971 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1971 Listed Condition G+/G+ Sell Date: 5/9/23 Sell Price:$7.31 Discogs Last Sold: 4/19/24 VG+/VG $25.00 Low: $5.00 G+/F Median: $24.91 Average: $36.86 High: $161.28 NM/NM Current low price: $10.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 18 Have/Want: 538/365 Where Sold: Saline, MI Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA That's Entertainment $1.49 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No Since we had a recording from Fillmore West yesterday, I might as well tackle the sale of recordings from the Fillmore East today (from a completely separate buyer).  Makes you wonder if there was some Bill Graham in the news.  I took a quick news glance and didn't see anything.  His birthday was in January.  I have no idea why the stars aligned this way. The b...

  Artist: The Byrds Title: Live At The Fillmore February 1969 Label: Columbia/Legacy Format: CD Cat #: CK 65910 Year of Release: 2000 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2000 Listed Condition VG+/VG+: hole punch in UPC Sell Date: 5/6/24 Sell Price:$3.75 Discogs Last Sold: 4/25/24 $7.87 VG/VG Low: $1.75 Median: $4.24 Average: $4.28 High: $7.87 Current low price: $2.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 30 Have/Want: 524/45 Where Sold:Charlotte, NC Time it took to sell: 12 years Where and When Bought: early aughts not sure where in NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No One of those releases that looks great on a shelf, but it took me 24 years after buying it to get around to paying any attention to this excellent live recording.  I guess that means I should force myself to read David Fricke's liner notes as well.  Sweetheart Of The Rodeo came out August 30, 1968 only 8 months after The Notorious Byrd Brothers and Dr. Byrds and Mr. Hyde came out a week before ...

Artist: Shellac Title: The Rude Gesture (A Pictorial History) Label: Touch 'n Go Format: 7" Catalog Number: TG123 Year of Release:  1993 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1993  "Cut Your Hair" painted in gold along with the traditional "The Rude Gesture a pictorial history" stamp Sell Price: $36.97 Sell Date: 5/8/24 Condition: NM/NM Discogs Last Sold  5/99/24 VG+/VG+ $10.74 Low: $3.74 Median: $15.21 Average: $17.64 High: $49.99 perfect copy with insert Current  low price:  $10.74 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 20 Have/Want: 3137/540 Where Sold: Madison Heights, MI Time It Took  To Sell: 9 years Where and When  Bought: new late 93/early 94 at Venus Records on St. Marks NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No With the unexpected passing of Steve Albini Tuesday night, the old maxim that nothing sells records like an obituary cleared out the remaining Shellac records that I had up at an inflated price for peculiarities with t...