The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Golden Smog Title:  Down By The Old Mainstream Label: Rykodisc Format: CD Cat #: RCD 10325 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1996 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/28/25 Sell Price: $3.75 Discogs Last Sold: 8/29/25 NM/VG+ $4.09 Low: $1.78 Median: $3.73 Average: $3.83 High: $8.99 Current low price: $1.49 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 91 Have/Want: 1658/54 Where Sold: Glen Allen, VA Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: Venus St Marks NYC $1 late 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Golden Smog were the Mpls supergroup of roots rockers primarily known as a Jayhawks spinoff with Gary Louris and Marc Perlman.  Jeff Tweedy is in it as Scot Summit and even wrote "Pecan Pie."  So is Dan Murphy from Soul Asylum.  The singer is Kraig Johnson from Run Westy Run.  The band had a run roughly from 1992-2007. One thing about this album is that of 14 songs, at least half jump out at instantly enj...

  Artist: Urge Overkill Title:  Exit The Dragon Label: Geffen Format: CD Cat #: GEFD 24818 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/28/25 Sell Price: $3.09 Discogs Last Sold: 6/27/25 VG+/VG+ $3.00 Low: $0.77 Median: $2.20 Average: $3.13 High: $10.00 Current low price: $1.98 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 46 Have/Want: 613/32 Where Sold: Glen Allen, VA Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: used Sounds NYC $8.99 sticker still on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Exit The Dragon is a weird record to me.  At the time it came out I bought it used for $8.99 probably the month it came out.  I don't remember playing it beyond once and not liking it all that much.  This, considering I loved pretty much everything the band put out before Exit The Dragon.  Urge went on hiatus after that for over a decade, so I never got to reconsider the songs live over years.  I'm s...

  Artist: Buffalo Tom Title: Big Red Letter Day Label: Beggars Banquet/Megadisc/EastWest Format: CD Cat #: 7 92292-2 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/28/25 Sell Price: $4.85 Discogs Last Sold: 7/5/25 NM/VG+ $1.88 Low: $0.88 Median: $2.00 Average: $2.53 High: $8.80 Current low price: $0.74 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 60 Have/Want: 836/31 Where Sold: Glen Allen, VA 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 I was playing catchup with 90's Buffalo Tom recently with some cheap CD lots.  I bought the album before this in real time as I did the first two, but for me there were a bit of diminished returns going on that made me lose interest in the band by the time this came out.  Of course, as far as commercial success and the bands live performance that album was the peak and this was number two.   In Octobe...

  Artist: Ronnie Wood Title:  1234 Label: Columbia Format: LP Cat #: FC 37473 Year of Release: 1981 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1981 Pitman Pressing Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/22/25 Sell Price: $7.99 Discogs Last Sold: 6/13/25 VG+/VG+ $5.00 Low: $3.45 Median: $5.00 Average: $5.46 High: $8.00 Current low price: $4.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 56/15 Where Sold: Fort Pierce, FL Time it took to sell: 2 months Where and When Bought: auction bundle Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Solid solo album from Woody between the Stones Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You's release.  Despite my extreme love for that era of the Stones in real time, it didn't extend to Stones solo album completism the way the Beatles did.   When the record kicks off with the title track, it almost sounds like a mix of 80's Dylan and a Keith Richards sung track.  Since Ron Wood played on Dylan's Shot of Love that year and appeared on his mi...

  Artist: Maria Fatal Title: Maria Fatal Label: Atzlan Format: CD Cat #: AZT-201-2 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 8/15/25 Sell Price: $12.99 Discogs Last Sold: 8/2/22 VG/VG $2.99 Low: $2.99 Median: $4.00 Average: $5.99 High: $12.99 Current low price: $14.42 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 14/2 Where Sold: Hamilton, NJ Time it took to sell: 2 weeks Where and When Bought: found in a bag of discarded CD's on the street Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No One morning I was walking in Greenpoint past a record store and there was an empty box on the street "Free CD's!"    Thinking someone got a haul, I kept walking.  Around the corner there was a shopping bag with CD's scattered around that clearly had been rained on.  The contents in the bag itself looked ok and I had a free arm so what the hell, I'll take them home for further review.   I was tempted to ditch i...

  Artist: The Beach Boys Title: Love You Label: Reprise/Brother Format: LP  Cat #: MSK 2258 Year of Release: 1977 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1977 Los Angeles Pressing Listed Condition: G+/VG Sell Date: 8/15/25 Sell Price: $12.33 Discogs Last Sold: 8/11/25 VG+/VG+ $9.99 Low: $3.95 NM/VG+ 2/15/22 Median: $9.99 Average: $10.58 High: $26.20 3/27/24 VG+/VG+ Current low price: $12.16 VG+/G Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 322/136 Where Sold: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: new Facebook marketplace $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C+ Sad To See It Go: No The Beach Boys Love You was a long time curio for me.  I knew Christgau gave it an A and it was slaughtered in the first two Rolling Stone Record Guides.  I'm somewhere in the middle of these opinions.   It has since been reassessed as later period good Brian Wilson-led album.  The songs themselves didn't make it with the band out of the 70's, but " Roll...

  Artist: Peter Jefferies/Robbie Muir Title:  Catapult b/w The Fate Of The Human Carbine Label: Ajax Format: 7" Cat #: AJAX 016 Year of Release: 1990 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/14/25 Sell Price: $5.45 Discogs Last Sold: 7/13/25 NM/generic $7.00 Low: $3.53 Median: $7.71 Average: $7.52 High: $11.65 Current low price: $7.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 146/72 Where Sold: Braddock, PA Time it took to sell: 10  years Where and When Bought: new 1991 probably In Your Ear, Allston, MA Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Hot off the heels of their Dunedin supergroup Plagal Grind with Alastair Glabraith and David Mitchell of the 3D's . Peter Jefferies (from Nocturnal Projections , This Kind of Punishment ) and Robbie Muir (from The Rip ) issued a couple singles in the early 90's together after playing the New Zealand scene roughly a decade in other projects.  Plagal Grind's lone 12" issue...

  Artist: Stiffs, Inc. Title: Nix Nought Nothing Label: Onion/American Format: CD Cat #: 9 14527-2 Year of Release: 1995 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1995 slipcase promo Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/13/25 Sell Price: $4.00 Discogs Last Sold: 1/9/21 VG+/generic $1.61 Low: $1.61 Median: $2.81 Average: $2.81 High: $4.00 Current low price: $15.88 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 4/2 Where Sold: San Francisco, CA Time it took to sell: 15  years Where and When Bought: got as promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Stiffs, Inc were a " Continental band " (the NYC club) that made it to the "big time."  This meant they got Rick Rubin level distribution on the short lived (1994-6) Onion imprint headed by Johan Kugelberg.  Onion was mostly responsible for pilfering the Ohio bands of Datapanik like V3 and Thomas Jefferson Slave Apartments into the major label chain.  Did they sell any better?  Who knows.  I was shocked...

  Artist: Randy Newman Title: Sail Away Label: Reprise Format: LP Cat #: MS 2064 Year of Release: 1972 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1975 gatefold Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/12/25 Sell Price: $8.06 Discogs Last Sold: 7/22/25 VG+/VG+ $7.00 Low: $3.00 G+/G+ 12/4/24 Median: $8.00 Average: $10.03 High: $35.00  M/NM 12/2/24 Current low price: $4.50 VG+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20 Have/Want: 2092/220 Where Sold: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 3 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace $4 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No "You'll be happy as a monkey in a monkey tree..."--"Sail Away" Randy Newman always had a tongue in cheek acerbic world view.  "Sail Away" envisions a slave traders pitch to come to America the Beautiful to kick off the record.  The other side blows up the world on the opening track, "Political Science."  "There goes London, there goes Par-ee..."   I don't kn...

  Artist: Peter Case Title: The Man With The Blue Postmodern Fragmented Neo-Traditionalist Guitar Label: Geffen Format: LP Cat #: GHS 24238 Year of Release: 1989 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1989  Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ gold stamp promo with original inner sleeve Sell Date: 8/11/25 Sell Price: $24.99 Discogs Last Sold: 6/24/25 NM/NM $19.99 Low: $2.91 2/21/24 VG+/VG Median: $11.31 Average: $13.02 High: $26.00 1/29/24 NM/NM Current low price: $4.65 VG+/VG+ cut in right hand corner Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 20 Have/Want: 784/67 Where: Sainpoint, ID Time it took to sell: 2 weeks Where and When Bought: Whatnot bundle auction Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No I've been beefing up my vinyl inventory of late getting auction bundles since my sales have slowed down a little.  I got this in a bundle as a bit of an afterthought but it went for $25 bucks, which is probably more than the total for the 10 or 15 albums I bought it with.  Most ...

  Artist: Metallica Title: ...And Justice For All Label: Elektra Format: Cassette Cat #: 9 60812 4 Year of Release: 1988 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1988 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/8/25 Sell Price: $22.00 Discogs Last Sold: 8/1/25 VG+/VG+ $13.99 Low: $5.00 Median: $12.99 Average: $13.34 High: $59.99 Current low price: $8.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 1235/471 Where: Williamsburg, VA Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A Sad To See It Go: No Part of the first five album foundation that made the band, the 4th Metallica album on some days might be my personal favorite.  I certainly bought the CD the first week if not day it came out at Tower Records on Mass Ave in Boston.  When I found this cassette in a lot of $2 tapes, I knew instinctively this single title would possibly flip to pay for the whole lot, which it did.  Metal tapes sell. The narrative alw...

  Artist: Grails Title:  Burning Off Impurities Label: Temporary Residence Cat #: TRR 118 Year of Release: 2007 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2007 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/3/25 Sell Price: $6.56 Discogs Last Sold: 6/4/25 NM/VG+ $4.56 Low: $1.50 Median: $5.66 Average: $5.52 High: $7.99 Current low price: $6.67 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15 Have/Want: 481/71 Where: Carson City, NV Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace $2 or $3 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See It Go: No Grails was one of those bands I was curious about hearing, and I had no idea why.  Didn't know they were from Portland, OR or had Emil Amos, who drummed on the Om record I didn't hear the next year.  All I knew was a band name I heard somewhere and snapped it up in a cheap lot of cds.  In the back of my head, I knew I'd flip it someday. This is ambient post-rock.  With that sentence, I find myself imitating the video...