The Reverse Collector

  Artist: AC/DC Title: Back In Black Label: Atlantic Format: CD Catalog Number: 16018-2 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition: US 80's repress BMG Music Club Sell Price: $4.74 Sell Date: 9/10/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 9/10/26 VG+/VG+ $5.00 Low: $0.99 Median: $3.77 Average: $3.94 High: $10.00 Current low price: $2.00 Curren Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 155/327 Where Sold: San Diego, CA Time It Took To Sell: 3 years Where and When Bought: Facebook marketplace Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No "Have you heard "Hell's Bells?"  It was a question posed to me circa Christmas 1980.  I somehow had not even though I knew the top 40 hits "Back In Black" and "You Shook Me All Night Long."  Well,  the neighbor George that was a little older than me got the record for Christmas and brought it over to my friend John's house to play it.  Soon all would change.  I would hear "Hell's Bells...

  Artist: Jefferson Starship Title: Freedom At Point Zero Label: Grunt Format: LP Catalog Number: BZL1 3452 Year of Release: 1979 Country and Year of Edition: US 1979 Goldisc gatefold cover Sell Price: $5.99 Sell Date: 6/16/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 2/7/26 NM/NM $17.03 Low: $1.00 Median: $4.00 Average: $5.59 High: $17.03 Current low price: $3.25 G+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 13 Have/Want: 421/64 Where Sold: Huntington Beach, CA Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought:  Facebook lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C Sad To See It Go: No  With the inescapable hit "Jane" kicking off the record, there was much unfamiliar corporate rock for me to wade through on Jefferson Starship's Freedom At Point Zero.  It isn't as "corporate" as it seems, as with the once 60's radical Kantner that somehow made hits over 3 decades under different monikers and approaches. This was the start of the Mickey Thomas era on vocals.  Paul Ka...

  Artist: Jackson Browne Title:  Hold Out Label: Asylum Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: 5T 8511 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition: US 1980 Sell Price: $2.57 Sell Date: 6/21/26 Condition: VG/VG tested   Discogs Last Sold: 1/17/25 VG+/generic  Low: $2.57 Median: $2.64 Average: $2.64 High: $2.71 Current low price: $2.00 VG+/no cover Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 26/10 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought Ebay 8 track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No  Jackson Browne's Hold Out was the first album by him that I bought independently of my mother getting it.  This was solely due to having a number one album collection in 1980 and Hold Out made that apex for a week in September of that year.  I remember my mother was working at a Rite Aid when I bought the record at our local 24 hour store that sold new records.  I excitedly called to tell her, since...

Artist: Heart Title: Bebe Le Strange Label: Epic Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: FEA 36371 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year of Edition: US 1980 Sell Price: $3.42 Sell Date: 6/10/26 Condition: VG/G untested, has bubbling, spine has some tearing  Discogs Last Sold: 3/1/24 VG/no cover $4.00 Low: $3.00 Median: $3.50 Average: $3.58 High: $4.00 Current low price: $3.00 VG/no cover Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6 Have/Want: 32/18 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took To Sell:  3 years Where and When Bought Ebay 8 track lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See It Go: No  With their syrupy mid-80's MOR hits, you'd forget that Heart earlier 80's records were still firmly rooted in Led Zeppelin inspired territory.  Bebe Le Strange was a big hit in it's day with the hit "Even It Up" but the rest of the album also seems very good overall.  The title track sounds like a Led Zeppelin live instrumental break of "Rock and Roll" (I think---this ha...

  Artist: George Thorogood and the Destroyers Title:  Move It On Over Label: Rounder Format: LP Catalog Number: 3024 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1978 Sell Price: $4.44 Sell Date: 4/7/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 3/30/26 NM/NM $6.00 Low: $0.99 G+/G+ 3/5/26 Median: $4.71 Average: $5.77 High: $22.00 VG+/VG+ 11/7/25 Current  low price:  $0.85 G+/no cover, $2.75 VG+/VG Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 172 Have/Want: 9688/233 Where Sold: Clifton, VA Time It Took  To Sell:  3 years  Where and When  Buught: Facebook marketplace Gwiz-gau Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: No There are some things about George Thorogood that are "best in class" for what he is doing.  George manage to put an original slant on the blues bar band format and make it playable on commercial rock radio for a good long time.  He's racked up 8 Gold records to date in the US and Move It On Over was the first to b...

  Artist: Van Halen Title:  Women and Children First Label: Warner Bros. Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: W8 3415 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year  of Edition: US Columbia House reissue, Grey Shell Sell Price: $5.20 Sell Date: 3/29/26 Condition: VG/G+ PRO REFURBISHED tested start to finish Discogs Last Sold: 12/5/22 VG/not graded $3.50 Low: $3.50 Median: $4.35 Average: $4.35 High: $5.20 Current  low price:  $8.00 G/no cover Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 29/38 Where Sold: Fort Worth, TX Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years  Where and When  Buught: Ebay lot Gwiz-gau Grade: A- Sad To See  It Go: No " Oh yah, Van Halen! "-cromagnon Junior high schooler from New England in the early 80's expressing his music taste Van Halen was the award winner of Blue Collar radio rock in the early 80's among the kids for sure.  Borch belt Diamond Dave went further to the Catskills and Eddie Van Halen and his brother Alex wi...

  Artist: Ted Nugent Title: Scream Dream Label: Epic Format: LP Catalog Number: FE 36404 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year  of Edition: US  Coumbia House Terre Haute Pressing Sell Price: $4.24 Sell Date: 3/11/26 Condition: VG+/VG  Discogs Last Sold: 2/1/26 NM/VG+ $8.00 Low: $0.57 Median: $5.00 Average: $6.50 High: $32.99 Current  low price: $2.99 VG/VG  Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 57 Have/Want: 4057/166 Where Sold: Flushing, MI Time It Took  To Sell:  11 years Where and When  Bought: Al Bums Worcester early 80's $3.99  Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See  It Go: No My favorite "later" period peak Nuge aka 1980, the third of four with vocalist Charlie Huhn although Ted sings lead on 7 of the 10 tracks including the hits.  Scream Dream was the last solo Gold record (Damn Yankees early 90's supergroup run and his best of notwithstanding).  Ted could still headline arenas at that point.  When my local i...

  Artist: Pete Townshend Title: Empty Glass Label: Atco Format: LP Catalog Number: SD 32-100 Year of Release: 1980 Country and Year  of Edition: US  Coumbia House Terre Haute Pressing Sell Price: $5.06 Sell Date: 3/6/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 6/26/24 VG+/VG+ $2.88 Low: $1.12 Median: $5.06 Average: $5.32 High: $10.00 Current  low price:  $4.72 VG+/VG Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 15 Have/Want: 214/28 Where Sold: Asheville, NC Time It Took  To Sell:  11 years Where and When  Bought: Al Bums Worcester early 80's $1.99 sticker (crossed out from $2.99) still on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See  It Go: No This may be the best set of songs Pete Townshend put out after his glory years with the Who.  You can compare this favorably to The Who By Numbers and Who Are You start to finish as well as Face Dances and It's Hard immediately after this.  Every track was instantly memorable to me even though I probably h...

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...