Off Topic Last Album(s) You Bought

latest CD: Lindemann - Skills in Pills
latest Vinyl: Hawkwind - A Space Ritual - to replace the old, no-longer playable copy from 1973

 

There are still some shops but you are unlikely to get too much dosh for them. Some that still buy are Disc Discovery (Spring Bank), the one in the indoor market near Hepworth Arcade entrance (Spin It) and a shop that has opened recently near Ye Olde White Harte which I don't have the name. Also Golden Oldie is still trading on Cottingham Road.
Alternatively you could sell on 'internet, EBay (they'll greedily take 15-20% cut though) or Gumtree. If you want to find out how much your records could be worth, look at Popsyke site which gives end of sale prices. Must be at minimum in very good condition mind. Good luck!

 

Thanks for all the replies and Popsike.com is excellent. I'm sitting on a few quid here all thanks to the previous owner of the house.

 

Bear in mind valuations are massively dependent on condition.

Look up Bird's Nest Records on Facebook (or PM me) - local dealer who may be interested in viewing what you have. Tell him Hull Music Archive sent you. If you've got any local stuff I'd be interested myself.

 

Buyers won't give you great prices because they know what their buying so condition, pressing...etc become ways of them knocking down the price, plus they have to make a profit on top so will never pay you what its worth.

If you have the time I would take advantage of the current vinyl boom and list them on ebay, amazon marketplace and discogs people that know nothing about vinyl will happily pay the going rate on there.

 

Can any collectors give us an idea which bands are the most collectable/sort after on vinyl?

 

The most expensive album ever sold on discogs was from the NYC Hardcore band Judge, it went for just over $6000.

I remember reading a while ago that a Northen Soul single by Frank Wilson sold for £25,000 as well.

It really doesn't matter what the genre is, its essentially how rare something is, the Judge album was one of 110 copies, I think the Frank Wilson one was limited to 250 copies.

Anything that charted or was mass produced at the time will always have little value simply because there's so many copies available.

 

If you want to know the value of any records, look them up on discogs, it has practically everything listed.

 

Well, it varies sometimes, but just as a rule of thumb, if you bought vinyl LPs around 1995-1999, when they were largely being phased out for CDs and before the MP3 generation, they can shift for good money because there were less of them being pressed. For example - Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - Boatman's Call Lp has sold around £120-140. I sold Neil Young's '- Sleeps With Angels LP last December for £62.
As for the most collectable artists, well it has to be the item that makes the band collectable or valuable. If you have the Sex Pistols - God Save The Queen on A&M (withdrawn after the band was evicted from the label, but 200-300 copies slipped out) you are talking at anything from £7,500 upwards. Obscure punk, psychedelic or prog rock usually shifts well too.

 

It goes without saying that the best way to maximise what you have is to sell individually on EBay (or Discogs, if you're in no hurry).

However getting rid quick means either flogging as a job lot or going to a dealer. The portrayal of dealers in the post above is a little generic and slightly unfair - many dealers are collectors themselves and will not rip you off - the one I mentioned above fits into this bracket and I can guarantee that as I know him personally. (I'm not him, nor am I a dealer, though I am a collector). Obviously you won't get as much as if you sold them all yourself but that's surely obvious. Depends whether u have the time and inclination.

Make no mistake, condition is of VITAL importance so if you sell them yourself, make sure you grade them as accurately as you possibly can.

 

Yeah it's not right, it doesn't have Frank Wilson on it for starters. The Quarrymen acetate is owned by Macca I think, so not really buy-able!

 

(Not Paul McShane - the other one).

 

To be honest nobody knows what it's actually worth, it's pure speculation. Though "****loads" is undoubtedly fairly accurate.

 

Before anyone gets excited they're clearly not the regular editions in most cases (my copy of Double Fantasy cost £2 I think), they'll be rare oddities in some way.