The Reverse Collector

  Artist: Creedence Clearwater Revival Title: Bayou Country Label: Fantasy Format: LP Cat: 8387 Year of Release: 1969 Country and Year of Edition: US 1969 Hollywood Pressing Sell Price: $7.31 VG/VG 7/9/24 Discogs Last Sold: 6/29/24 VG/VG $12.00 Low: $1.99 Median: $12,00 Average: $21,85 High: $130.43 Current low price: $1.99 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 23 Have/Want: 13380/2419 Where Sold: Timaru, South Canterbury, New Zealand Time it took to sell: 8 years Where and When Purchased: used Worcester That's Entertainment early 80's Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No CCR's 2nd is so good I have very little to say about it.  Yeah, you get my second favorite CCR number after "Fortunate Son," the album opening "Born On A Bayou."  You also get "Proud Mary" in the middle of the second side.  They might be kings of the 3 minute single, but the epics fade out sometimes if not hammered out to completion. So what of the rest?  All top tier, m...

  Artist: Bob Dylan Title: Planet Waves Label: Columbia Format: SACD Cat: CH-90339 Year of Release: 1974 Country and Year of Edition: US 2003 SACD Promo Sell Price: $7.31 VG+/VG+ 7/8/24 Discogs Last Sold: 6/17/24 NM/VG+ $11.99 Low: $5.13 Median: $9.97 Average: $11.35 High: $39.97 Current low price: $6.64 M/NM Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 25 Have/Want: 541/61 Where Sold: Sherman Oaks, CA Time it took to sell: 10 years Where and When Purchased: promo Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No "Today on the countryside it was hotter than a crotch...."-Bob Dylan "Tough Mama" In NYC today when I took a walk to storage to retrieve my SACD copy of Planet Waves, it was every bit as hot as the crotch in "Tough Mama."  Yesterday I bought about 15 Dylan cassettes for $1 each including Planet Waves and this sold right around the same 24 hour cycle.  I got a care packet from Sony back in 2003 with half the SACD titles, which I quickly bought the rest of and a ...

  Artist: The Band Title: Life Is A Carnival b/w The Moon Struck One Label: Capitol Format: 7" Cat: 3199 Year of Release: 1971 Country and Year of Edition: US 1971 Sell Price: $4.43 VG+/VG+ 7/8/24 Discogs Last Sold:  7/1/24 M/M $25.00 Low: $1.00 Median: $3.10 Average: $3.40 High: $5.80 Current low price: $3.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 10 Have/Want: 65/19 Where Sold: Toyohachi, Achai, Japan Time it took to sell: 3 years Where and When Purchased: discarded collection Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No A couple excellent tunes from The Band's 1971 Cahoots album, their 4th.  I managed to ignore it completely over the years.  Don't ask me why, it's just how that carnival of life unfurled. The A-side has made their Greatest Hits compilation as well as Rock of Ages and The Last Waltz, so I guess it has been respected as part of the Band's major works.  Hey buddy would you like to buy a watch real cheap.  Allen Toussaint does the horn arrangem...

  Artist: The Cars Title:  T he Cars Label: Elektra Format: Cassette Cat: TC-5135 Year of Release: 1978 Country and Year of Edition: US 1978 no barcode Sell Price: $8.99 VG+/VG+ 7/6/24 Discogs Last Sold:  7/1/24 M/M $25.00 Low: $0.99 Median: $3.99 Average: $4.71 High: $25.00 Current low price: $3.00 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 6 Have/Want: 323/193 Where Sold: Chico, CA Time it took to sell: 2 months Where and When Purchased: $2 cassette lot on internet Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No I bought a cassette lot a couple months ago and suddenly I had two cassette copies of the first Cars album.  My vinyl I had used from the early 80's with giant initials magic markered on the cover had sold long before this blog in 2016 for $6.99.  This tape bettered that by a couple bucks and I have another copy up for $18.99 as of this writing.  Over time The Cars sell no matter the format. Every single track except maybe "Don't Cha Stop" was a bona fide A...

  Artist: Various Artists (Chic, The Michael Zager Band, Village People, GQ, Cher, Alicia Bridges, Love and Kisses, Donna Summer, Cheryl Lynn, Instant Funk, Karen Young, Patrick Juvet, Voyage, DC LaRue, Musique, Dan Hartman, Peaches and Herb) Title:  A Night At Studio 54 Label: Casablanca Format: 2LP Cat: NBLP-2-7161 Year of Release: 1979 Country and Year of Edition: US 1979 Sell Price: $8.39 VG+/F worn spine 7/2/24 Discogs Last Sold:  6/25/24 VG+/VG $11.37 Low: $1.00 Median: $15.00 Average: $20.50 High: $74.19 Current low price: $1.99 G+/VG Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 44 Have/Want: 2942/466 Where Sold: Arlington, MA Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Purchased: $1 bin in Boston early 90's I forgot the store Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: A Sad To See It Go: No This compiles the peak of Disco top 40 circa 1978 where most of these tracks dominated the radio.  Lots of one offs along with Casablanca stars like Donna Summer, Cher and the Village People whose meg...

  Artist: Get Fucked Title: Get Fucked Label: Level Plane Records Format: CD EP Cat: LP59 Year of Release: 2004 Country and Year of Edition: US 2004 Sell Price: $3.32 VG+/VG+  6/30/24 Discogs Last Sold:  12/16/23 VG+/VG+ $4.18 Low: $1.99 Median: $3.11 Average: $3.38 High: $8.00 Current low price: $2.11 Current Number on Sale at Discogs: 12 Have/Want: 78/16 Where Sold: Fort White, FL Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Purchased: $1 cd wall Kims on St. Marks NYC Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C- Sad To See It Go: No I probably bought this for a dollar because I liked the band name.  Who wouldn't like a name such as Get Fucked? I didn't realize this label also put out my friend Dawn Black's band Books Lie in the same year.  I bought this knowing absolutely nothing about the band and 20 years later I still knew nothing before I put the CD on. Well, musically it's kind of a generic wall of screamo.  It's 8 tracks that blast by fast with things I sometimes like...

  Artist: Oxford Collapse Title: Remember The Night Parties Label: Sub Pop Format: CD Cat: SPCD 727 Year of Release: 2006 Country and Year of Edition: US 2006 Sell Price: $2.99 VG+/VG+ hole punch in UPC 6/20/24 Discogs Last Sold:  11/15/23 VG+/VG $1.75 Low: $0.81 Median: $2.15 Average: $2.82 High: $6.00 Current low price: $1.08 Current Number on Sale at Discogs:38 Have/Want: 172/10 Where Sold: Burnaby, Pasadena, CA Time it took to sell: 9 years Where and When Purchased: straight up can't remember guessing NYC used somewhere mid aughts Gwiz-gau Letter Grade: C- Sad To See It Go: No Every once in a while there is a CD in my collection I can't for the life of me remember buying.  By 2006 when this came out I was long out of buying everything on Sub Pop.  This was a short lived Brooklyn band, maybe somebody recommended them to me.  Maybe I was flipping though a CD bin and felt "adventurous."  This was the sort of driving indie rock I guess I would like in the m...