The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Weezer Title: Weezer Label: Geffen Format: CD Catalog Number: 069493045-2 Year of Release: 2001 Country and Year of Edition: US BMG club edition Sell Price:$3.37 Sell Date: 7/5/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 6/28/26 VG+/VG+ $3.33 Low: $0.25 Median: $3.43 Average: $3.42 High: $6.50 Current low price: $5.00 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 4 Have/Want: 394/11/4 Where Sold: Robertsdale, AL Time It Took To Sell:  11 years Where and When Bought: BMG record club 2002 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No  The third Weezer album is an early aughts saturation rock album that I usually ignore. I picked it up after the year end Pazz & Jop critics poll had it in it's top 40.  I didn't care about Weezer or particularly like the first album despite it's Ric Ocasek production when it came out and ignored the second album completely even if it got cult status at some point.   Imagine my surprise when I started ...

  Artist:  Björk Title: Post Label: Elektra Format: CD Catalog Number:  61740-2 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1996 Sell Price: $4.99 Sell Date: 3/1/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold:3/8/25 M/M $4.35 Low:  $0.99 Median: $4.85 Average: $4.83 High: $14.95 Current Low Price: $3.71 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 30 Have/Want: 4797/633 Where Sold:  Columbia, SC Time It Took  To Sell:  1 year Where and When  Bought: Facebook CD lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: No It's a little odd that I remained mostly ignorant of the content of  Björk's second solo album Post and the turbulent times in it's wake.  This was despite the fact this was my second go round having the CD after the last one I had sold in 2014, I could only remember her version of Betty Hutton's " It's Oh So Quiet ."  Little did I know the violent storm left in the albums wake included an Bangkok airpor...

  Artist: Cat Stevens Title: Teaser And The Firecat Label: A&M Format: 8-Track Catalog Number: 8T-4313 Year of Release: 1971 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1971 Sell Price: $5.69 Sell Date: 1/28/25 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 11/7/24 VG/no cover $3.99 Low: $1.25 Median: $4.00 Average: $3.97 High: $5.69 Current  low price:  $2.88 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 127/60 Where Sold: Rancho Cordova, CA Time It Took  To Sell:  1 month Where and When  Bought: 8-track ebay lot sometime last year Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A Sad To See  It Go: No Steadily from my purchase of different 8-track lots, I have a ton of Cat Stevens 70's titles that I never owned before.  The only one I ever had on vinyl was a dollar copy of Catch Bull At Four, but this might be the one I should've bought. No 70's child escaped "Moonshadow," "Morning Has Broken" or "Peace Train."  There is a deceptively simple greatness to those s...

  Artist:  Björk Title: Debut Label: Elektra Format: CD Cat: 61468-2 Year of Release: 1993 Country and Year of Edition: US 1993 Sell Price: $5.41 VG+/VG+ 8/18/24 Discogs Last Sold: 3/23/23 VG+/VG+ $1.99 Low: $1.99 Median: $4.44 Average: $4.55 High: $6.54 Current low price: $4.44 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 1 Have/Want: 66/121 Where Sold: Williamsburg, VA Time it took to sell: 3 months Where and When Purchased: facebook cd lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No One of those things about Björk is I find whatever she does enjoyable at some level even if I don't always find it particularly memorable or musically impactful.  That said the stand out thing of this record is sonically memorable, because when I first listened to Debut yesterday, the music was playing in the background, then something sonically stood out to grab my attention.  The sound of pleasant background music becoming foreground because the person switched rooms during the 4th track "T...

  Artist: Eagles Title: On The Border Label: Asylum Format: LP Cat: 7E 1004 Year of Release: 1974 Country and Year of Edition: US 1974 CTH Pressing Sell Price:  $3.99 G+/G  Discogs Last Sold: 3/7/23 VG/G $4.99 Low:$2.00 VG/G+ Median: $8.00 Average: $8.87 High: $33.00 NM/NM Current low price:  $3.06 G/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 44 Have/Want: 1487/159 Where Sold:  Charleston, SC Time it Took to sell: 8 years Where and When  Worcester That's Entertainment early 80's dollar bin Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No It's so easy to bag on the Eagles.  Like Sting, Don Henley falls in to a "so serious he seems a bit pompous and his solo career is shit" sort of thing.  In it's day, however I took the Eagles seriously, particularly the Joe Walsh era which will be represented in the next write-up.  I always thought a little less of the era that got compiled on the mega-selling anthology Their Greatest Hits 1971-1975.   It...

  Artist: Donald Fagan Title: The Nightfly Label: Warner Bros. Format: CD Cat #: 9 23696-2 Year of Release: 1983 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US  1983 Target Label Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 3/12/21 Sell Price: $11.99 Discogs Last Sold: 8/31/21 NM?VG+ $15.00 Low: $4.98 Median: $13.99 Average: $13.98 High:$25.00 Current low price:$9.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:3 Have/Want: 245/126 Where Sold:Sacramento, CA Time it took to sell:10 years Where and When Bought: Columbia House sometime in 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Donald Fagan's The Nightfly, an ode to the late night Jazz DJ, made little impact on me when it was released.  You might say I even actively didn’t like it.  At some point I got a record club cd copy in the 90’s just to have it, but it didn't make it beyond a spin. Now that Steely Dan is without the late Walter Becker, The Nightfly has been incorporated into it's overall oe...

  Artist: Steely Dan Title: Two Against Nature  Label: Giant Records/Reprise Format: CD Cat #: 9 24719-2 Year of Release: 2000 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2000 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 10/28/21 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold: 9/27/21 $2.00 Low: $0.95 Median: $2.00 Average: $3.06 High:$8.95 Current low price: $1.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 51 Have/Want: 1340/95 Where Sold: Graham, NC Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: mail order end of 2000 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No The canon of Steely Dan has been reassessed so many times that you might as well just give everything an A.  Well, Everything Must Go from 2003 hasn't had a peep of notoriety and that is the last one with Walter Becker. The initial sniffing trajectory was there was a decline starting with The Royal Scam, but I noticed in a NY Times review when they came back to the stage in the mid-90's t...

  Artist: Oasis Title: Definitely Maybe Label: Epic Format: CD Cat #:  EK 66431 Year of Release: 1994 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1994 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/14/21 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 5/26/21 $1.50 VG/VG+ Low: $1.17 Median: $2.87 Average: $2.72 High: $4.00 Current low price: $2.40 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 21 Have/Want: 468/192 Where Sold: Hazlet, NJ Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: internet 90's for 75 cents on half.com Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No Oasis are one of those bands I initially wanted nothing to do with, even when my friend John deemed Morning Glory excellent back when it was new.  There was something about it that just sounded too commercial and boring to me.  For whatever reason, I decided I needed to get their discography at some point in the mid aughts, when every title in the catalog could be had for under a dollar (plu...

  Artist: Cheap Trick Title: In Color Label: Epic Format: LP Cat #: PE 34884 Year of Release:1977 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US mid 80s Terre Haute Gatefold Listed Condition: VG+/G+ spine damage Sell Date: 5/21/21 Sell Price: $8.99 Discogs Last Sold: 4/29/21 VG+/VG $9.85 Low: $0.99 G+/F Median: $9.88 Average: $12.07 High: $26.95/NM/NM Current low price: $8.00 G+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8 Have/Want: 932/118 Where Sold: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums mid 80's new $4.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No Of the classic Cheap Trick run in the 70's, In Color was the one I always thought was the weakest.  That is a solid album, left of Heaven Tonight and Dream Police, but a bridge between the first and the hit making period of those 2 and Budokan.  The transition was a spritely, embryonic "I Want You To Want Me" which became the live hit we all kn...

  Artist:  The Doors Title:   Morrison Hotel Label:  Elektra Format:  LP Cat #:  EKS-75007 Year of Release:  1970 Country and Year of Edition Issue:  US 1976 Gatefold Reissue Listed Condition:  VG/VG Sell Date:  3/30/21 Sell Price: $14.99 Discogs Last Sold:  2/22/21 VG+/VG+ $19.00 Low:  $9.00 VG/G+ Median:  $14.24 Average:  $15.95 High: $30.00 NM/M Current low price:  $13.98 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:  23 Have/Want:  1792/404 Where Sold:   Brooklyn, NY Time it took to sell:  5 years Where and When Bought:  Worcester That's Entettainment early 80's $1.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  A- Sad To See It Go: No "I woke up this morning and I got myself a beer!" was Jim Morrison's salvo that opened Morrison Hotel.  It was inescapable well beyond Morrison's death a year later. "Roadhouse Blues" rolled and rolled and rolled. The album is divided into two titled sides.  Side O...

  Artist: The Doors Title: Strange Days Label: Elektra Format: LP Cat #: EKS-74014 Year of Release: 1967 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US Allentown Record Co. variant of original press Sold Price: $12.99 Listed Condition: VG/VG Sell Date: 10/16/20 Discogs Last Sold: 8/31/20 VG+/VG+ $40.00 Low: $3.75 Median: $12.00 High: $125.00 VG+/VG with detailed notes Current low price: $1.00 F/F, $10.50 VG/G,  $19.00 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 32 Have/Want: 1458/660 Where Sold: Cambridge, MA Time it took to sell: 4 years Where and When Bought: Worcester, MA Al Bums $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go?: No This is a weird sell with prices all over the place with all sorts of conditions.  Someone got $125.00 for as VG/VG+ this with a heavily detailed description.  My copy did contain the inner sleeve with a tear on the photo and the lyrics so I think my buyer got a deal at $12.99, but this had been put up for bigger money (I can't fully remember I mi...