The Reverse Collector

  Artist: The Pooh Sticks Title: Who Loves You b/w The World Is Turning On Label: Sweet Virginia Format: 7" Cat #: SWEET VA 001 Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition Issue:US 1991 Lilac Marbled Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/27/21 Sell Price: $6.99 Discogs Last Sold: 6/5/21 $6.00 Low: $5.49 Median: $6.00 Average: $6.18 High: $7.06 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 2 Have/Want: 30/15 Where Sold: Lawndale, CA Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought:  Newbury Comics, Boston new 1991 $4.49 sticker on it Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No The Pooh Sticks were a band I initially got into by getting a copy of their 1989 cover of The Vaselines " Dying For It " before I ever heard the original version.  For whatever reason, nothing the Pooh Sticks did after that I enjoyed as much.  I was really into the Pooh Sticks version  of this song!    I tried a...

  Artist: Various Artists (Lydia Lunch, Matt Heckert, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Charles Manson, Mr. V.O. Real, Jello Biafra, Allen Ginsberg, Anton LaVey, Henry Rollins, Whipping Boy) Title: The Birth of Tragedy Magazine's Fear-Power-God Label: CFY Records Format: LP Cat #: CFY 004 Year of Release: 1987 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 Listed Condition: VG+/VG Sell Date: 8/21/21 Sell Price: $12.99 Discogs Last Sold: 5/19/21 $12.50 Low: $8.00 VG+/VG Median: $11.75 Average: $11.57 High: $16.50 NM/VG+ Current low price: $9.84 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:17 Have/Want: 151/58 Where Sold: Los Angeles Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought: Worcester Al Bums New $7.99 when released Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No An amazing assembly of poets, punkers, industrial wastelanders and psychopaths.  The best cut by far is Anton LaVey reading Book IV with authority.  Lawrence Ferlinghetti delivers The Lor...

Artist: Drunks With Guns Title: Alter Human Industrial Fetishisms Zombie b/w Leprosy / Enemy Label: Dental Records Format: 7" Cat #: Dental Records 02 Year of Release: 1987 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1987 500 pressed Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date:  8/22/21 Sell Price: $29.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/2/21 $21.18 NM/VG+ Low: $7.50 G/G+ Median: $32.00 Average: $28.08 High: $40.00 Current low price: $29.41 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 8 Have/Want: 86/153 Where Sold: San Jose, CA Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought: In Your Ear Alston, trade for Dope Guns and Fucking In The Streets Vol II 2X7" in 1990 after the cd came out Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: Yes The classic third single, I believe final  of the Doskocil/Seitrich era, was a classic B-side. "Culture is my enemy! Music Is My Enemy!" rails the closing track of the side.   Drunks With Guns first wave of singles were perhaps among t...

  Artist: Santana Title: Moonflower Label: Columbia/Legacy Format: 2XCD Cat #:C2K 63594 Year of Release:1977 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 2003 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/19/21 Sell Price: $6.99 Discogs Last Sold: 5/4/21 Low: $1.96 Median: $6.85 Average: $6.51 High: $11.00 Current low price: $6.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 14 Have/Want: 182/60 Where Sold: Baltimore, MD Time it took to sell: 6 years Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B Sad To See It Go: No This Santana album I managed to ignore completely despite it being a #10 platinum album, the biggest until the Clive Davis comeback era.  This double was a mix of 1977 studio tracks and a Greatest Hits Live approach since 1974's live Lotus was deemed to be uncommercial for the US market until it was issued in 1991.  A shocking story, since you'd think Carlos Santana was big enough to do what he wanted to and was putt...

  Artist: Tad Title: 8 Way Santa Label: Sub Pop Format:CD Cat #: SP 89b Year of Release: 1991 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1991 original cover Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/16/12 Sell Price: $24.99 Discogs Last Sold: 7/1/21 $27.99 Low: $9.98 Median: $21.00 Average: $20.80 High: $35.00 Current low price: $23.21 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 177/112 Where Sold: Union, SC Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: Newbury Comics Boston new upon release Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No The last great Tad album and the last one on Sub Pop before graduating to the majors.  This was released with a found photo that was subsequently pulled from distribution by legal threat from the unhappy cover models.  The image remains for eternity throughout the interwebs by record collectors worldwide.  I long considered this a crown jewel of my collection, holding out for $100 and $50...

  Artist: Jack Tragic Title: White Nigger Rising Label: Old Nick Productions Format: CD Cat #: 68 IOU 1 Year of Release: 1989  Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1989 Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/2/21 Sell Price: $14.99 Discogs Last Sold: 3/13/21 Low: $10.45 Median: $14.64 Average: $14.99 High: $19.00 Current low price: $11.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 5 Have/Want: 10/6 Where Sold: Chicago, IL Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Bought: NYC St Marks Venus Records $1.00 sticker on it early 90's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A- Sad To See It Go: No "He who feels it, knows it"-Bunny Wailer "You gotta hear the Jack Tragic.  It's fuckin' relentless" said someone I knew coming home from a 12 hour minimum wage record store shift.  At some point a couple years later, I found a dollar copy in the cheap bin, the stickers of price reduction mounting.  I had to hear it to see how relentless it was. ...

Artist: Zappa/Mothers Title: Roxy & Elsewhere Label: Barking Pumpkin Format: CD Cat #: D2 74241 Year of Release: 1974 Country and Year of Edition Issue: US 1992 BMG Music Club edition Listed Condition: VG+/VG+ Sell Date: 8/14/21 Sell Price: $7.99 Discogs Last Sold: 6/30/21 Low: $1.99 Median: $8.43 Average: $8.00 High: $13.98 Current low price: $5.50 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 15 Have/Want: 195/76 Where Sold: Hazlet, NJ Time it took to sell: 6 yeaars Where and When Bought: consignment collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: B- Sad To See It Go: No One of those Zappa albums I never bought or listened to that was part of a consignment collection given to me to sell 6 years ago.  Finally it sold, so now I'm giving Zappa's Roxy & Elsewhere a little attention.  I was surprised that when his son Dweezil had the opportunity, he did a 40th anniversary tribute show back in 2013-4. These tracks are part of the continuing evolution of live Zapp...