The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Thurston Moore Title:  Trees Outside The Academy Label: Ecstatic Peace! Format: CD Catalog Number: E# 91c Year of Release: 2007 Country and Year  of Edition: US 2007 Digipak Sell Price: $3.86 Sell Date: 3/13/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold:1/14/26 NM/VG $9.35 Low: $1.00 Median: $4.33 Average: $5.21 High: $13.21 Current  low price:  $3.00 NM/NM Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 35 Have/Want: 897/60 Where Sold: Toronto, ON, Canada Time It Took  To Sell:  15 years Where and When  Bought: Etheria NYC on Ave A New $11.99 or so Gwiz-gau Grade: B+ Sad To See  It Go: No Trees Outside The Academy was an album I looked forward to when I got it and yet somehow it was an eternal "for further review" release.  Now that that day has come, I'm not sure exactly why.  At the time I was excited to hear that Thurston had decided to issue a "real" album of new songs.  I was a big fan of Psychic Hearts and after that it eve...

  Artist: Lou Reed Title: New York Label: Sire Format: CD Catalog Number: 9 25829-2 Year of Release: 1989 Country and Year  of Edition: US reissue Sell Price: $5.20 Sell Date: 3/13/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 12/6/25 VG/NM $2.50 Low: $0.99 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.42 High: $6.00 Current  low price:  $4.00 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 74/73 Where Sold: Saco, ME Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years Where and When  Bought: Facebook marketplace $2 lot Gwiz-gau Grade: A Sad To See  It Go: No "It's hard to give a shit these days"-Romeo Had Juliet New York was a return to a stripped down guitar-bass-drums sound Lou had adapted on The Blue Mask earlier in the 80's.  These are always my favorite records of his for that reason.  It was lyrically grumpy enough to go Gold in the US 8 years after release.  You can't pin 2026 political poles on Lou.  However much of the descriptions and disputes within the ...

  Artist: Julian Cope Title: World Shut Your Mouth Label: Island Format: 12" Catalog Number: 90560-1 Year of Release: 1986 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1986, SRC Pressing Sell Price: $3.54 Sell Date: 3/6/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 2/18/26 NM/VG+ $3.00 Low: $0.99 Median: $2.48 Average: $2.55 High: $5.00 Current  low price:  $1.99 VG+/VG Current Number on  Sale at Discogs:19 Have/Want:309/21 Where Sold: Asheville, NC Time It Took  To Sell:  3 years Where and When  Bought: Facebook marketplace $3 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See  It Go: No Julian Cope's 5 track 12" EP has since been folded into the expanded CD edition of 1987's Saint Julian.  The bombastic "World Shut Your Mouth" is probably Julian's biggest song and propelled Saint Julian onto the lower regions of the charts and giving him an alternahit.  At the time I didn't like it, but time heals all wounds. As for the rest, there is a Pere Ubu cover of " ...

  Artist: Dropkick Murpnys Title:  Signed and Sealed In Blood Label: Born & Bred Records Format: CD Catalog Number:DKM2-532420 Year of Release: 2013 Country and Year  of Edition: US 2013 Sell Price: $7.73 Sell Date: 2/25/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 1/24/26 NM/VG+ $9.99 Low: $2.00 Median: $7.00 Average: $7.13 High: $15.00 Current  low price:  $5.00 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs:3 Have/Want: 708/135 Where Sold: Maplewood, NJ Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years Where and When  Bought: Facebook $2 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See  It Go: No Dropkick Murphys were one of those bands that were recommended to me early in their history ever since they had a split single with the Ducky Boys as the next wave of Boston Oi somewhere in the mid-90's when the Rat was still around in Kenmore Square shortly after I moved to NYC.  Funny I just checked and that same friend recently was talking abou a new band Haywire while we...

  Artist: The Cure Title: Disintegration Label: Elektra Format: CD Catalog Number: 60855-2 Year of Release: 1989 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1989 SRC Sell Price: $11.24 Sell Date: 2/6/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: $11.24 Low: $1.18 Median: $9.99 Average: $10.01 High: $19.00 Current  low price:  $4.34 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 17 Have/Want: 2774/988 Where Sold: Columbus, OH Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years Where and When  Bought: Facebook $3 lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See  It Go: No I always thought of Disintigration as the third of a trilogy.  Certainly as a sequal to Pornography, which is my undisputed favorite Cure album.   I had to scratch my head as to what was the third album in the trilogy and for good reason.   Back then Disintegration was rumored to be the end of the band and a return the heavy goth of Pornography and Faith before it.  Nowadays Bloodflowers  from 20...

Artist: Babe The Blue Ox Title:  People Label: RCA Format: CD Catalog Number: 07863 66844-2 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1996 Sell Price: $5.61 Sell Date: 2/3/26 Condition: M/NM sealed hole punch in barcode Discogs Last Sold: 1/26/26 N/NM Sealed $9.08 Low: $0.95 Median: $2.97 Average: $3.49 High: $9.95 Current  low price:  $1.40 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 21 Have/Want: 162/15 Where Sold: Evanston, IL 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 noticed Brooklyn's Babe The Blue Ox has been playing live again locally in recent years, so when I was pulling titles from a cheap Facebook marketplace lot, I got this in the box a couple years ago with the intent to give it a listen.  I never got around to it.  The copy came sealed and sold that way, and the only way you can get the record by streaming is to ...

  Artist: Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Title:  Murder Ballads Label: Reprise/Mute Format: CD Catalog Number: 9 46195-2 Year of Release: 1996 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1996 SRC Sell Price: $7.25 Sell Date: 1/17/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 1//1/26 VG+/VG+ $1.99 Low: $1.99 Median: $4.00 Average: $4.30 High: $8.13 Current  low price:  $3.99 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 16 Have/Want: 942/177 Where Sold: Columbus, OH Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years Where and When  Bought: $2 Facebook marketplace lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B+ Sad To See  It Go: No By 1996 Nick Cave was entrenched enough in American popular culture via a 1994 Lolapalooza tour that when he finally returned here in 1998 he was permanently minted theatre level and has only seemed to get bigger as the years ago by.  This 9th record stradles that world with Bad Seeds names like Mick Harvey and Jim Sculvanos as well as later featured collab...

  Artist: Bob Mould Title:  Workbook Label: Virgin Format: CD Catalog Number: 7 91240-2 Year of Release: 1989 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1989 Sell Price: $4.66 Sell Date: 1/1/26 Condition: VG+/VG+  Discogs Last Sold: 5/2/25 NM/NM $5.95 Low: $1.36 Median: $3.00 Average: $3.36 High: $6.74 Current  low price:  $2.00 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 28 Have/Want: 979/66 Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN Time It Took  To Sell:  15 years Where and When  Bought: new upon release probably Newbury Comics Boston Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See  It Go: No Bob Mould's solo debut, Workbook came in the immediate months following the breakup of  Hüsker Dü.  It was a complete remake/remodel of the sweaty noisemonger that led that trio through the 80's. Like fellow Mpls cohort Paul Westerberg, Bob was now the property of respectable corporate alt-rock and all that implies.  I think it took a little time for Bob Mould to g...