The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Phil Ochs Title: Tape From California Label: A&M Format: LP Cat # SP-4148 Year of Release: 1968 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1968 Monarch Pressing Listed Condition: VG+VG+ Sell Date: 5/6/22 Sell Price: $7.99 Discogs Last Sold:10/17/21 vg+/VG $5.50 Low: $2.50 Median: $6.98 Average: $6.57 High:$9.98 Current low price:$1.99 VG/F, $4.95 VG/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs:6 Have/Want: 45/32 Where Sold: Cumming, GA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: used early aughts Nuggets $8.99 sticker on it got at 50% off sale  Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No My childhood introduction to Phil Ochs passed down to me was All The News That's Fit To Sing from his Elektra years in the early 70's when Phil was still alive.  I remember when I was a little kid my mother saying he died,  since she knew I had her record.   I played it on my 3 year old toy record player with 60's Dylan and early Judy Collins and a bunch of Van...

  Artist: Th' Faith Healers Title: Lido This Time / A Word of Advice / Hippy Hole / Don't Jones Me / Reptile Smile / Moona-Ina-Joona / Love Song / Mother Sky / It's Easy Being You / Spin 1/2 Label: Elektra/Too Pure Format: CD  Cat # 9 61425-2 Year of Release: 1992 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 Listed Condition: VG+/not graded (by accident, a generic VG+) Sell Date: 4/25/22 Sell Price: $4.49 Discogs Last Sold: 3/18 /22 NM/NM $14.95 Low: $3.55 Median: $4.99 Average: $6.61 High:$14.95 Current low price:$15.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:4 Have/Want: 290/33 Where Sold: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: used 1992 at Sounds $7.99 sticker on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No This came out first on Too Pure as an import around the brief time I was doing summer air at WHRB's Record Hospital in 1992. Boston was so awash in quality rock radio that Harvard's nightly program could make a show of the left of the l...

  Artist: Metallica Title:  St. Anger Label: Elektra Format: CD + DVD Cat # 62853-2 Year of Release: 2003 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2003 Digipak CD with booklet and DVD Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 5/2/22 Sell Price: $2.99 Discogs Last Sold: 4/27 /22 VG+/VG $3.00 Low: $0.01 Median: $3.00 Average: $5.11 High:$15.00 Current low price:$0.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:53 Have/Want: 1858/165 Where Sold: Westmont, IL Time it took to sell: 11 years Where and When Bought: internet new when it came out Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No When St. Anger came out, I was still purchasing Metallica releases immediately even after Load/Reload.  I ordered this online, and I think I was still waiting for it in the mail when my friend Jimmy told me it had an awesome drum sound. I do like the snare sound. Many hate it.   It's almost like an industrial piece of scrap metal klang throughout.  Unfortunately there are some reoccurring things ...

  Artist: Ideal Title: Monotony b/w Das Geheimnis Der Grosstadt (Downtown Mystery) Label: WEA Format: 7" Cat #:K 19192 Year of Release: 1982 Country and Year of Edition Issue: UK 1982 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 4/30/22 Sell Price: $3.99 Discogs Last Sold:  1/29/22 VG+/VG $2.49 Low: $0.94 Median: $2.18 Average: $2.76 High:$6.31 Current low price:$3.75 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:3 Have/Want: 17/26 Where Sold: Flushing, NY Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No German New Wave.  This particular single apparently has an alternate version with an English verse, but that hasn't made the value skyrocket.  This has been sitting on the pile for years and went for an uneventful $3.99. The song itself is pleasant and the B-side is an instrumental.  Keyboard with Annette Humpe as the A-side vocalist singing about the boredom of airports. Pleasant I guess.

  Artist: Fu Manchu Title: Kept Between Trees b/w Bouillabaisse / Jr. High School Ring (7 Karat) Label: Slap A Ham Records Format: 7" Cat #: 6 Year of Release: 1990 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1990 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 4/26/22 Sell Price: $29.99 Discogs Last Sold:  4/9/22 NM/NM $35.00 Low: $23.05 Median: $29.99 Average: $30.05 High:$50.00 Current low price:$26.21 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:5 Have/Want: 208/197 Where Sold: Concord, CA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Boston new $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B+ Sad To See It Go: No The first single from long running California stoner rock band Fu Manchu came out on the Slap-A-Ham label which also had a Melvins single I bought.  At the time it didn't seem like there would be a large room, skater punk contingent to make them an international decades long touring entity.  It just seemed like an obscure noise rock single with a cover of a guy with a big fo...

  Artist: Otis Rush Title:  Right Place, Wrong Time Label: Hightone Format: LP Cat #: 8007 Year of Release: 1976 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1986 Listed Condition: VG+/VG corner clipped Sell Date: 4/26/22 Sell Price: $15.99 Discogs Last Sold:  4/9/22 VG/VG+ $10.00 Low: $10.99 Median: $15.00 Average: $16.06 High:$24.00 Current low price:$16.84 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:6 Have/Want: 231/52 Where Sold: Edmund, OK Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Worcester, Al Bums, used late 80's around $3.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No Left handed guitarist with the West Side Chicago electric blues sound.    This 1976 album was reissued 10 years later on the Hightone label after being the lone release on the Bullfrog label. The record is top flight electric blues but takes a left turn on the ballad "Rainy Night In Georgia" that closes side one.  Before this track there isn't really anything to date the sound and the guit...

  Artist: Various Artists ( The Brogues , Chosen Few , Au Go-Go's , Chris Morgan & The Togas , The Knickerbocker s, The Tigi's , Mark and the Escorts , The Other Half , The Jefferson Handkerchief , The Peanut Butter Conspirac y, The Seeds , Fire Escape , The Lyrics , Fenwyck ) Title: Mindrocker, Vol. 1 Label: Line Format: LP Cat #: LLP 5115 Year of Release: 1981 Country and Year of Edition Issue: Germany  Listed Condition: VG+/G+ Sell Date: 4/26/22 Sell Price: $14.99 Discogs Last Sold:  11/22/21 VG+/VG $10.00 Low: $7.37 Median: $12.99 Average: $13.15 High:$21.04 Current low price:$10.53 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:19 Have/Want: 222/79 Where Sold: Almeda, CA Time it took to sell: 7 years Where and When Bought: Worcester, Al Bums, New mid 80's around $5.99 Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No Mindrocker, named after the Fenwyck track, was a 13 Volume German compilation of independent 60's psych singles conceived for Line  Records by Hans Hermann Po...