The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Mountain Title:  The Best of Mountain Label: Columbia/Windfall Format: LP Cat #: PC 32079 Year of Release: 1973 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1973 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/23/25 Sell Price: $4.57 Discogs Last Sold: 7/12/25 G+/G+ $3.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $4.79 Average: $7.14 High: $25.84 Current low price: $5.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 24 Have/Want: 1245/34 Where Sold: Portola Valley, CA Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA That's Entertainment $2.99 handwritten $2.99 sticker still on it early 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No I got The Best of Mountain as a used companion to my copy of Climbing! in my early 80's used record collecting.  The story I bought the record at used to handwrite the price on their labels and switched over to the typeface labels around 1984.  This copy still has the handwritten sticker on it.  The cover is weird because the face with the spine on ...

  Artist: EC8OR Title: Spex Is A Fat Bitch! Label: Digital Hardcore/Intercord Record Service Format: CD Maxi EP Cat #: DHR MCD 9/IRS 911.779 Year of Release: 1997 Country and Year of Edition Issue: Germany 1997 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/27/25 Sell Price: $4.47 Discogs Last Sold: 9/17/24 NM/NM $3.93 Low: $2.63 Median: $4.20 Average: $4.72 High: $8.14 Current low price: $5.27 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 32/24 Where Sold: St. Louis, MO Time it took to sell: 15 years Where and When Bought: new Etheria East Village Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No The Berlin techo punk of EC8OR always sounds good to me.  Sort've a cross between Riot Grrrl, X-Ray Spex and "The Future" which is now over a quarter-century past.   They found a way to make me like "electronica."  It's got an involuntary headbanging quality that I somehow find irresistible in small doses.  A 6-song EP like this is the perfect length for this type of...

  Artist: Alice Cooper Title: Killer Label: Warner Bros. Format: 8-Track Cat #: 8WM-2567 Country and Year of 8dition Issue: US  Red Shell Listed Condition: VG+/VG PRO REFURBISH Tested Start to Finish Sell Date: 10/23/25 Sell Price: $8.52 Discogs Last Sold: 7/6/23 VG+/VG $6.95 Low: $6.95 Median: $7.73 Average: $7.73 High: $8.52 Current low price: $5.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 11/34 Where Sold: Dawlish, Devon, UK Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought: ebay lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No One of, if not the best album of Alice Cooper, the band and the man.  Several of these made the seminal Greatest Hits album--: Under My Wheels," "Be My Lover" and the song I always confused for the title track, "Desperado."  However, it is side 2 where the "album tracks" shine. With this 8-track, the sequencing is not altered which forces the 8-track fade on 2 songs: "Halo of Flies" and my radio go to ...

  Artist: AC/DC Title:  Powerage Label: Atco Format: CD Cat #: 92446-2 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1994 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/21/25 Sell Price: $11.04 Discogs Last Sold: never Low: $11.04 Median: $11.04 Average: $11.04 High: $11.04 Current low price: $15.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 99/113 Where Sold: Potomac, MD Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $2 lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No AC/DC's 1978 classic was the last record that was sorta American "underground" in it's day peaking at #133 although it was far more established top 20 in Australia and Europe.  While it might not have been as insane non-entity to 7 million certified that Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap became, Powerage was slow burn finally reaching gold in 1981 and platinum in 1990, long after Bon Scott was in the ground.  When you hear "Down Payment Blues" you thin...

  Artist: Taj Mahal Title: Taj Mahal Label: Columbia Format: Cassette Cat #: PCT 9579 Year of Release: 1968 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1980's reissue (telltale big 1 on shell) Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/22/25 Sell Price: $9.68 Discogs Last Sold: 10/17/25 NM/VG+ $17.00 Low: $3.00 Median: $6.50 Average: $8.47 High: $17.00 Current low price: n/a Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 0 Have/Want: 25/42 Where Sold: Post Mills, VT Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $1 or $2 lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No I finally got to see Taj Mahal live a couple years back on a rainy night in Prospect Park .  The show was free and postponed a few days because of the fires in Canada had smoke making its way to NYC making the air unfit for singing outdoors in Brooklyn.  At least when it rains you can breathe. I got this cassette a couple years back in a dollar or two lot of cassettes.  This was an...

  Artist: Rush Title: Moving Pictures Label: Mercury Format: CD Cat #: P2 00048 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US mid 80's Columbia Record Club Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/24/25 Sell Price: $5.17 Discogs Last Sold: 9/8/25 NM/NM $9.00 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.12 Average: $3.65 High: $9.00 Current low price: $3.05 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 12 Have/Want: 509/254 Where Sold: Brooklyn, NY Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $3 lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No Somehow in recent years I've managed to accumulate 4 copies of Moving Pictures--3 on CD and on cassette.  The one that sold was an early 80's Columbia House copy, but I have a BMG one and a remastered one as well as an 80's cassette.  My vinyl copy sold long ago.  Given that Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson have decided to take Rush back out on the road, once could only guess that whatever Rush pieces I have layi...

  Artist: Aerosmith Title: Greatest Hits Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #: CK 57367 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1993 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/21/25 Sell Price: $5.04 Discogs Last Sold: 9/26/25 NM/VG+ $2.00 Low: $0.88 Median: $2.00 Average: $2.53 High: $5.99 Current low price: $0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 91 Have/Want: 1411/42 Where Sold: Potomac, MD Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $3 lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No As solid as a basic Aerosmith Greatest Hits as you could hope for, this 70's cap off released in 1980 as a Nice Price afterthought has evolved into being a 12 million and counting seller in the US.  It took 6 years to sell it's first million from 1980-1986 and was last certified at 12 million in 2021, four years after it hit the 11 million mark.  For people that want the 70's hits but not the later pop ones.  That compilation ...

Artist: Aerosmith Title: Night In The Ruts Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #: CK 57366 Year of Release: 1979 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2008 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/21/25 Sell Price: $7.36 Discogs Last Sold: 5/22/25 NM/NM $8.00 Low: $2.81 Median: $5.74 Average: $5.96 High: $12.31 Current low price: $5.51 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 232/44 Where Sold: Potomac, MD Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $3 lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No  Aerosmith was such a New England mainstay that even before the arena opened in Worcester you would see the 1979 tour shirt all over the place that had 'N' and 'R' crossed out and switched to reveal the true meaning. I got Night In The Ruts on record in the early 80's as a Columbia House overstock close out copy for like $3 and this remastered  CD from 2008 that sold I got a couple years ago in a CD lot.  This initially was a pla...

  Artist: AC/DC Title: If You Want Blood You've Got It Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #: 69699 80205 2  Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2009 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/21/25 Sell Price: $6.58 Discogs Last Sold: 8/21/25 VG/VG+ $6.00 Low: $0.10 Median: $4.62 Average: $5.58 High: $20.00 Current low price: $3.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 251/109 Where Sold: Potomac, MD Time it took to sell: 2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $3 lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No "Sounds like Riff Raff..."- John McKeag pre-DJ years into tape recorder with cheap cassette and the opening cheers of If You Want Blood playing in the background circa 1981 Since the Bon Scott era of AC/DC is essentially flawless throughout the main releases, the question becomes a sliding scale of A and A+ in terms of what was played and how often.  If You Want Blood You've Got It documents the band in 1978. T...

  Artist: Lou Reed Title: The Blue Mask Label: RCA Format: CD Cat #: 07863 54221-2 Year of Release: 1982 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2009 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/18/25 Sell Price: $6.58 Discogs Last Sold: 9/24/25 VG+/NM $6.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $5.00 Average: $5.52 High: $9.99 Current low price: $9.52 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 3 Have/Want: 312/103 Where Sold: Brockton, MA Time it took to sell: 1 1/2 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $3 lot a couple years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No I forgot I had sold and rebought the reissue CD of Lou Reed's The Blue Mask.  I went all the way to my storage space with no other orders looking through an R shelf that at this point only had Berlin and Magic and Loss. Sure enough, I bought it in a lot a year or two ago and it was sitting it the "to play" box in my record room. This is really the only time I've ever listened to the album a few times in a day.  In fact, although...

  Artist: Mike Oldfield Title:  Tubular Bells Label: Virgin Format: LP Cat #: VR 13-105 Year of Release: 1973 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1973 Richmond Pressing Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 10/2/25 Sell Price: $4.46 Discogs Last Sold: 9/14/25 VG+/VG+ $10.00 Low: $1.99 VG+/VG VG+/VG Median: $5.00 Average: $5.67 High: $14.95 VG+/NM 1/5/25 Current low price: $0.99 G+/VG, $1.99 VG+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 55 Have/Want: 3146/316 Where Sold: Sun City West, AZ Time it took to sell: 3 years Where and When Bought:  facebook $3 lot a few years ago Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No The intro to Mike Oldfield's Tubular Bells was so ingrained in popular culture from The Exorcist  that the actual entire piece was an afterthought much like Beethoven's 5th or Rhapsody In Blue.  I'm just as guilty as anyone else for only knowing a short snippet of this music even after hearing it.  So ingrained in worldwide consciousness, Oldfield...

  Artist: Oasis Title: The Masterplan Label: Epic Format: CD Cat #: EK 69647 Year of Release: 1998 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1998 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 9/29/25 Sell Price: $3.91 Discogs Last Sold: 9/29/25 VG+/VG+ $5.00 Low: $1.29 Median: $3.35 Average: $3.97 High: $13.99 Current low price: $3.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 27 Have/Want: 1273/102 Where Sold: Los Angeles, CA Time it took to sell: 14 years Where and When Bought:  used internet early aughts Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No One of those odds and sods type of releases, The Masterplan compiles B-sides issued throughout the 90's heyday on various UK releases.  The album leads off with a new song "Acquiescence" which roars in the bands typical sound. I flat out forgot I even had this CD and, in all honesty, didn't know what it was in terms of the bands output until today.  At the time I got "the first one," "the big one," "the latest one...