The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Arthur Prysock Title: Coast To Coast Label: Old Town Format: LP Catalog Number: LP 2005 Year of Release: 1963 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1963 Sell Price: $4.45 Sell Date: 2/27/26 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 11/2/25 VG+/generic $3.5 Low: $0.71 Median: $2.35 Average: $2.86 High: $8.99 Current  low price:  $0.50 F/F,  $2.25 VG+/VG Current Number on  Sale at Discogs:35 Have/Want:106/6 Where Sold: Palm Beach Gardens, FL Time It Took  To Sell:  2 years Where and When  Bought: Whatnot auction Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See  It Go: No I've been told on more than a few occasions by different people that the BUSINESS of selling records is about volume not about getting best price.  Volume collecting is also a different beast, because when you do it on a budget you are looking to buy a bunch of different titles that aren't moving and get them at the cheapest price point possible.  I was engaging in the addic...

  Artist: Frank Sinatra Title: Frank Sinatra (The World We Knew) Label: Reprise Format: LP Cat #:  FS 1022 Year of Release: 1967 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1967 Pitman Pressing Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 11/26/25 Sell Price: $20.88 Discogs Last Sold 10/29/25 VG/VG $8.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $7.00 Average: $7.37 High: $20.88 Current low price: $10.99 VG/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 134/54 Where Sold: Lafayette, IN Time it took to sell: 6 months Where and When Bought: Whatnot vinyl auction lot Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No I've been on a bit of a Reprise-era Sinatra kick of late.  Somehow, of the dozen or so ones I got dirt cheap on auction and mostly played, I hadn't got around to hearing this one until now.    Rock critic land always preferred the Capitol years and even the Columbia ones.  Reprise albums always got a bit of the short shrift except for maybe Strangers In The Night.  This one is th...

  Artist:  Elvis Costello Title: North Label: Deutsche Grammophon Format: CD + DVD Catalog Number: B0000996-10 Year of Release: 2003 Country and Year  of Edition: US 2003 promo Sell Price: $3.27 Sell Date: 12/21/24 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold: 8/28/24 VG+/NM $0.58 Low: $0.58 Median: $2.00 Average: $2.22 High: $6.00 Current  low price:  $1.99 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 15 Have/Want: 239/8 Where Sold: San Francisco, CA Time It Took  To Sell:  13 years Where and When  Bought: promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  B Sad To See  It Go: No Around the time this album came out I was still working at Tee Pee and Dale was working at the desk behind me.  Dale somehow got a promo of North and asked me if I liked Elvis Costello and gave it to me.  I don't know if this orchestrated album on the old classical stalwart label Deutsche Grammophon ever got played until the other day when this copy sold. This particular promo editio...

  Artist: Linda Ronstadt & The Nelson Riddle Orchestra Title: What's New Label: Asylum Format: LP Catalog Number: 9 60260 Year of Release:  1983 Country and Year  of Edition: US 1983 Sell Price: $3.11 Sell Date: 3/13/24 Condition: VG+/VG+ Discogs Last Sold  3/11/24 VG+/VG+ $4.00 Low: $0.50 Median: $2.70 Average: $2.94 High:  $10.00 Current low price:  $0.74 Current Number on  Sale at Discogs: 564 Have/Want: 6239/82 Where Sold:  White Cloud, MI Time It Took  To Sell:  9 years Where and When  Bought: discarded collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade:  C+ Sad To See  It Go: No Linda Thermostat, as my Dad referred to her in the 70's, decided she needed a radical reworking in the 80's.  She was a long way from when my father brought home her Don't Cry Now album lent to him by a co-worker about a decade before.  That was an "alt-country" record before the genre existed and it got heavy household airplay by my mom....

  Artist: Nilsson Title:  A Little Touch of Schmilsson In The Night Label:  RCA Victor Format: LP Cat: APL1-0097 Year of Release: 1973 Country and Year of Edition: US 1973 Indianapolis Pressing Gatefold Listed Condition: VG+/VG+  Sell Date: 7/12/22 Sell Price: $5.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/13/22 VG+/VG+ $22.00 1973 Gatefold Cover, Orange Labels, Indianapolis pressing _ VINYL: Almost NM, shows no signs of being played but has a couple few very light surface marks. Center hole is unworn, no spindle marks and labels are clean _ COVER: Above average VG+ _ DEEP CLEANED with new clear inner and outer protective sleeves Low: $2.99 VG/G+ Median: $7.00 Average: $11.06 High: $50.00 M/M still sealed Current low price:$1.01  G+/VG, $7.00 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 106 Have/Want: 3703/180 Where Sold:  Valdosta, GA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Worcester used flea market mid aughts Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It...

  Artist: Billie Holiday Title: The Quintessential Billie Holiday, Vol. 1 (1933-1935) Label: Columbia Format: CD Cat #:CK 40646 Year of Release: 1987 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 Columbia Jazz Masters series Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/2/21 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold:4/8/21 Low: $1.00 Median: $2.00 Average: $3.00 High: $7.65 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 116/8 Where Sold:Falls Church, VA Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: Smash on St Marks NYC early 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A+ Sad To See It Go: No The first volume of stellar Columbia recordings by Billie Holiday is unimpeachable.  The track from these years that always stuck with me was "Yankee Doodle Never Went To Town."  If there was any better Black indictment of white history books, I'd like to know about it.  He didn't even have a pony! With a premature passing in 1959...