The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Theweddingpresent Title: Hit Parade 2 Flying Saucer / Boing! / Loveslave / Sticky / The Queen of Outer Space / No Christmas / Rocket / Theme From Shaft / Chant of the Ever Circling Skeletal Family / Go Wild In The Country / U.F.O ./ Step Into Christmas Label: Bizarre/Planet Records Format:  CD Cat  BP 40302-2 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/24/22 Sell Price: $4.99 Discogs Last Sold: 6/10/22 VG+/VG+ $4.00 Low: $2.00 Median: $4.00 Average: $4.11 High: $7.37 Current low price:$3.82 VG+/G+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 107/4 Where Sold: Maplewood, NJ Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: internet mid aughts used Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No The second volume of the Hit Parade single series compiled in 1992 and repackaged yet again in 2003 to combine the two, was a point of critical mass for me.  Too much of a good thing, and I dropped off ...

  Artist: The Wedding Present Title: Bizarro   Brassneck / Crushed / No / Thanks / Kennedy / What Have I Said Now / Granadaland / Bewitched / Take Me! / Brassneck/ Box Elder / Dont Talk, Just Kiss / Gone / Be Honest Label: RCA Format:  CD Cat  2173-2-R Year of Release: 1990 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1990 Listed Condition: VG+/VG drill cut in left corner of tray card Sell Date: 4/29//22 Sell Price: $3.49 Discogs Last Sold: 11/2/21 NM/NM $3.00 Low: $0.99 Median: $3.00 Average: $2.75 High: $5.00 Current low price:$2.00 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs:21 Have/Want: 292/38 Where Sold: Minneapolis, MN Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Bought: Nuggets in Boston used $10 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Quite solid album from the Weddos, the bonus EP I remember as a promo added tracks recorded by Albini including the Pavement cover "Box Elder Mo."  A John Peel wet dream!  Why I've blown off the write up?  Probably b...

  Artist: Theweddingpresent Title: Three b/w Think That It Might Label: RCA Format:  7" Cat  PB45181 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1992 The Hit Parade Series #3 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/31/22 Sell Price: $3.49 Discogs Last Sold: 5/12/22 M/M $3.12 Low: $2.18 Median: $3.26 Average: $3.53 High: $6.04 Current low price:$2.08 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs:31 Have/Want: 1072/74 Where Sold: Encino, CA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Boston Newbury Comics new when releasaed Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No I had a run on Mr. Gedge's titles, with 3 different titles selling from three different buyers over the past month.  What better way to start off with the single titled "Three?" The Hit Parade was a monthly singles series from 1992 that was reissued on CD in two volumes afterward.  They were coming off two of their greatest albums, Bizarro and Sea Monster.  Albini didn't rec...

Artist: The Wedding Present Title: Go-Go Dancer b/w Don't Cry No Tears Label: 1992 Format: 7" Cat #: PB45183 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1992 Sold Price: $3.99 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 9/4/20 Discogs Last Sold: 7/26/20 Low: $1.95 Median: $3.78 High: $9.52 Current low price: $2.92 VG+/VG+ Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25 Have/Want: 800/63 Where Sold: Denver, CO Time it took to sell: 4 years Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Boston, new $4.99 import Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go?: No I got into the Wedding Present around the time the Albini remixes came out after Bizarro.  Sea Monsters, which Albini recorded came out after that and I bought it as a $20+ CD import.  They had Wedded themselves to the American Independent Revolution, "Box Elder Mo" by Pavement was the other part of it.   Prior to  Bizarro I had lumped them in with import Brit-pop that I didn't want to shell out $15 an import for on vin...