Name some of your collectible, rare, hard to find records, CDs or...

[johnnie]

..other forms of recorded media.
I started collecting albums at the age of 5. By the time I was 8 I had a huge collection (35 or so..lol) It was a big collection for my age anyway. I now have over 1,000 vinyl, close to that many CDs and a lot of other crap.
Through the years I have collected some pretty cool things.
Here are a few things I have:

*AC/DC- Powerage Promotional release
*Elvis Presley- 78 of Hound Dog/Don't be Cruel
*Hank Williams- 78 of Hey Good Lookin'
*Stone Temple Pilots - Purple on purple vinyl
*Alice in Chains- Jar of Flies and Sap double vinyl (still sealed)
*The Beatles- Sessions (An album that was going to be released of unreleased songs-it never came out, but I got a copy)
*Soundgarden-Black Hole Sun CD singles boxed set

That's a few. I'm sure I can come up with a lot more.
What cool things do you have?

[KitchenWitch]

1. The original release CD

of the Rolling Stones "Sticky Fingers" (the CD with the real zipper)

[johnnie]

5. Cool

I didn't know they released that. I have a vinyl version of Sticky Fingers that was "remastered". I have one with the zipper too, but I don't know if it is a first issue.

[KitchenWitch]

7. It is pretty cool

I actually got it used at one of the CD reseller places we have here. Burnt a copy of it then put it away!

[benburch]

2. The Runaways picture disk.

Released after they broke up.

[johnnie]

28. Picture disks were cool

I have a few, but off hand I can't remember which ones. Strange..I have no Runaway albums. I liked them too. I wonder what happened?

[MADem]

3. I have most of Elvis' 33 rpm records, originals, too

No scratches, either. I've often wondered what they were worth!

I also have a TON of records from the 60's and early 70's, also in playable condition. Haven't played them in some time, but I hung on to my high end turntable...ya never know!

[quispquake]

8. Not worth a dime...any of them...

You can dump them off with me if you want :evilgrin:

[johnnie]

The older Elvis ones might be worth some

The soundtracks mainly. This stuff is like anything else, it is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it.
I will take the Elvis ones off your hands...LOL.

[MADem]

45. I went through my box and found these with a quick flip

Elvis' Christmas album
Fun in Acapulco
Kissin'Cousins
King Creole
For LP Fans Only
50,000,000 Elvis Fans Can't Be Wrong
GI Blues
Blue Hawaii
It Happened At the World's Fair
Vol 3 Elvis' Golden Records
Pot Luck with Elvis
Elvis Presley/Loving You

I also found a live VENTURES album--The Ventures ON STAGE, Around the World--In Japan, England, and the US...boy did I love that, back in the day!

I've got a shitload of stuff. I probably should think about selling some of it, but I've no idea what the value is, plus, I am somewhat lazy about that sort of thing! And then, there's the memories!

[johnnie]

47. I know what you mean about the memories

I have some albums that are trashed, but I have had them since I was a little kid and I can't think of throwing them out.
The Ventures album would be fun to listen to. And that's a decent Elvis collection too:)

[Ksec]

4. Ive got some Beatles

some Beach Boys albums, Wilson Pickett and Ive got a big stack of old 45s. Not sure if theyre collectible.

[johnnie]

30. I'm sure some are

Beatles and Beach Boys are always big names in the collectibles.

[mark414]

6. i HAD a pretty extensive early to mid 90's indie rock 7" collection

but i had to sell them this summer to pay the bills :cry:

i got nearly $1000 for it though...so not bad

[johnnie]

9. I've been tempted

I think I have some stuff that I might be able to get a bit of cash for. Maybe one day I will start getting rid of some of it.

[mark414]

10. i really didn't want to

but i didn't have a job and i didn't really have a choice...they were the only thing of value that i owned :cry: :cry: :cry:

oh well...only stuff, food was more important...but still...:cry:

[RandomKoolzip]

11. Most of these have been sold, but:

-Megadeth "Wake Up Dead" Picture disc, shaped in the form of their mascot

-Pink Floyd, "when the Tigers Broke Free," NM Pic sleeve 7"

-Thirteenth Floor Elevators "Easter Everywhere," VG+ First Edition, on International Artists

-Cecil Taylor, "Unit Structures" SEALED First edition

-A variety of bootlegs, some of which I recorded myself...artists include Jawbox, Sonic Youth, Bob Dylan, Guided by Voices, etc.

-Coffin Break "Pray" NM 7", SubPop's Single of the Month Club March 1991

-Neil Young, "Eldorado" CD

-Germs "Forming/Sex Boy" 7"

-CrawlSpace, "Solitary Smokestack Head" 7"

Plus, I have a shitload of 7"s by obscure hardcore bands that probably ain't worth shit, but are interesting to have.

[johnnie]

17. Did it kill ya to sell them?

Or did you just stop collecting?

[RandomKoolzip]

19. It woulda killed me NOT to sell them.

My rent was wayyyy overdue.

[Wickerman]

12. A punch of old punk 45's, some picture disks

from the Butthole Surfers, The silk-screened and numbered cover of the first Camper Van Beethoven lp, and lots of limited release stuff just 'cuz it was of limited interest when released.

[johnnie]

18. I have a Sex Pistols box set on vinyl

I think it has 5 albums in it with interviews and live shows. It's not something I put on every day.

[gordianot]

13. Several

It's a Beautiful Day LP My highest dollar item
Songs of Innnocence LP Allen Ginsberg sings wierd
Ravi Shankar LP this is an early 60's small 33 lp rare
lots of old records I am transcribing to CD's


I used to have all of the BOZO the clown record books. My mother threw them away along with my comic book collection.:grr:

[johnnie]

24. I've done some to cd

It's a long process, so I just keep my turntable operable.

[gordianot]

31. I am always shocked at how well they trun out.

Almost as good as a new CD.

[warrens]

14. Several copies of the first two VU albums

The original release of Small Faces Ogden's Nutgone Flake with circular die cut and snap case

Original die-cut release of Pretty Things, SF Sorrow, sealed

Original issue of Anarchy in the U.K. with sleeve

Hard cardboard promotional poster for The Stooges

whole lotta stuff like that. I sold off a bunch of it this summer, but I kept the really good stuff.

[johnnie]

25. SF Sorrow rocks, I have it on CD though

I see what you liked or like. Good stuff there.

[Burma Jones]

15. I got:

A Couple of old Vee-Jay Beatles LPs
78 of Johnny Cash - Ring of Fire
78 of Johnny Cash - Big River
CD of Beatle Studio Outtakes - Tracks
LP of Pink Floyd Concert, Pre Dark Side, post Barrett
CD of Band on the Run without Helen Wheels
LP of Vaughn Meader's The First Family autographed by Meader
LP - An Evening with Wildman Fischer - features Frank Zappa
45 of Mike Oldfield's Don Alfonso

[johnnie]

26. Yikes

That's some cool stuff.

[Abelman]

16. I don't, but I will

my Dad has pledged to leave me his albums when he dies. So, they'll be mine in thirty years or so! (of course, I hope they become mine later than sooner)

Some of these include:

The Rolling Stones Sticky Fingers LP (with the zipper, outtasight!)
Actually, a lot of Stones albums, original releases.
Some Beatles stuff, the Magical Mystery Tour complete with storybook. The White Album as well. Some Led Zep, some Pink Floyd. He's got a ton of albums, but I can't remember all of them.

[johnnie]

22. That's some good stuff

If I end up with my father's records, I will have a lot of Hungarian gypsy music, some Christmas albums and other odds and ends that I haven't stolen yet.:)

[Abelman]

32. lol

Taking my father's stuff is how I got most of my books, actually. And my mother's too. I like the term "purloined." I've never looked up the exact definition, but I like the way it sounds.

I purloined their literature.

[jeff30997]

20. I have...

The first wax cylinder recorded by Edison.Does that count as a rare, hard to find record ? Bah! I think I'll trash that old useless piece of junk.:silly:

[johnnie]

21. LOL

Naw, you can send it to me.

[progressoid]

23. I found about a dozen mint condition Zappa

records at a garage sale in the 80's....25 cents a piece!

Then in the nineties I had to sell them (for food or something). I get a decent price but then Frank died and now I wish I had them.

Damn hunger.

[johnnie]

27. Yeah..hunger sucks

When my neighbor moved, he gave me a lot of Zappa and some of the Mother's records. They aren't in the best condition though.

[Bridget Burke]

29. Whistler, Chaucer, Detroit & Greenhill

(The Unwritten Works of). Embryonic Texas folk rock.

Parable of Arable Land and God Bless the Red Krayola & All Who Sail With Her (by Red Krayola). Plus Corky's Debt to his Father by former Krayola Mayo Thompson.

Easter Everywhere by 13th Floor Elevators (Alas, no copy of Psychedelic Sounds...)

The first Holy Modal Rounders LP on Prestige. Plus Indian War Whoop & The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders--but one can actually listen to HMR #1 without your ears bleeding.

2 LP's by Uncle Walt's Band. (Damn, they should have been world famous.)

Herschel Berry & The Natives. (Who also should have been famous.)

In Texas Last December by Richard Dobson.

Singles by BOTH the Hemmer Ridge Mountain Boys & The Ooze Brothers.

(Time to fire up the turntable!)

Edited to add: All vinyl!

& why not add The Chieftans in China--quite rare on CD. How many western musicians can jam with the Chinese dudes?

[johnnie]

33. Admittedly, I never heard any of that

But it really sounds interesting. Is it folk?

[Bridget Burke]

35. Mostly local/regional artists & not easy to categorize....

Natives & Elevators: ROCK!

Red Krayola: Avant-rock & weirdness.

Richard Dobson & the Hemmer Ridge boys: Folk. (Running Buddies of Townes van Zandt.)

Holy Modal Rounders #1 is deranged Old Timey, with one tune featurign the first recorded use of the word "psychedelic." Further experimentation rendered some of the later works almost unlistenable--but collectible!

Uncle Walt's Band were smooth folk/swing. Lyle Lovett was a fan & helped get 2 CD's released from the LP material.

[Strawman]

34. Pixies Surfer Rosa/Come On Pilgrim on one CD

The Cult's "Bega 65" CD version of the "Love" album
A vinyl Billy Idol picture disc interview
The Complete Works of Goober & The Peas
Throwing Muses Firepile EP's
The 45 of Mr. T's song "Mr. T's Commandment"
A 45 "Count Scary" Christmas record (Detroit Du'ers will remember Count Scary)
A 45 with the Detroit Tigers' version of that "Talkin' Baseball" song

None of it is worth anything but they are kind of rare

[johnnie]

38. I have a Cleveland Browns one

We heard it over and over on local radio, but I bet no one else has ever heard it. It was the 12 days of Christmas and they went through all the Browns names.

[Strawman]

42. Six Ozzie Newsomes, Five Brian Sipes!

and Sam Rutigliano in a pear tree.

[johnnie]

44. Close..lol

A Sam Rutigliano super Bowl Team.

[elfin]

36. Your query sent me to the closet with the old LP's

that haven't made it to half price yet. Was SURE I had the original Louie Louie given to me by a swooning student way back when. Couldn't find it.

But did find "AIRMAN!" apparently bought by my deceased husband when he was in the Air National Guard avoiding Nam in the sixties. Does that count?

It was recorded at Lackland with the "cooperation of the Us Air Force" in 1959.

From the jacket

"HERE ARE the voices of basic training: the fearsome shouts of the TI's, the groan-filled cadence of PT, the barracks bull session, the stammered security instructions of the big inspection, and the recruit's piercing scream before he lands in the icy waters of the obstacle course."

[johnnie]

37. Sure it counts!

That reminds me of an album my father had. The sounds of the Marine Corp. or something like that. He was a proud marine when I was a kid and we actually had to listen to that..lol. I need to get that from him and listen to it a few times and reminisce of my childhood..lol.

[Throckmorton]

39. Autographed copy of White Christmas

Buh-Buh-Buh Bing signed it himself in front of my dad and grandmother.

[johnnie]

43. Whoa

Umm, that's a good one. Shezzz

[Beetwasher]

40. "Pros and Cons of Hitchihiking" W/out the Black Tape Over Her Ass & Signed

by Roger Waters...in mint condiition.

Lot's of other stuff too, but that's probalby the coolest.

[johnnie]

46. Yeah, that is really cool

I have the album, with tape on the ass..lol. It isn't signed either..of course. That's a good one.

[Beetwasher]

50. It Was Only Out For A Few Days Sans The Tape, It's Very Rare

They recalled it immediately, so not that many were printed...I bought it the first day it came out, so I got one!

I got it signed many years later when I was working for Sony...RW was impressed that I had a copy sans black tape! I've also got some cool pics of me w/ RW.

Honestly, I've got so much cool collectible stuff from my days in the biz it's hard to remember all of it!

[Magrittes Pipe]

41. The original pressing of Solar Radio's "The Impossible Space."

Due to a misprint, it was labeled "The Impassible Space."

Only about 70 came off the presses before they caught on and replated it.

[johnnie]

48. That's a find!

I have a strange one. I bought a later day (78 or so) Donovan album at Woolworth's once. One side is him and the other side is some pretty bad rock band that I have no idea who it is. I always wondered if they released a lot of those.

[HEyHEY]

51. I saw one of those at the Solar radio museum in Caracas

They were huge in Venezuela

[Magrittes Pipe]

52. Uh... that's not a museum.

That's a dude's garage.

[ChavezSpeakstheTruth]

55. They have one of those in the case at the Vinyl Solution in the Village

[Magrittes Pipe]

49. Oh! I also have the True Believers E.P. (1979, New Age records)

and the first Gibson Bros. 45.

[quispquake]

60. Wow...the Gibson Bros...

I saw them years ago with Jon & Cristina from Boss Hog...a GREAT show...

[MrSlayer]

53. Every Slayer picture disc, promo, bootleg and demo.

All original Stones albums, a few Beatles original singles. I also have a bunch of picture discs and cutout singles from other bands such as Metallica, Venom and W.A.S.P..

[fudge stripe cookays]

54. Not much anymore...

but I had the Split Enz True Colors album with the cool hologram on the vinyl.

And for years my brother had the green 45 for "Merry Xmas (War is Over)". I think it may still be at my mom's place. But it's in pretty bad shape.

FSC

[d_b]

56. I want your Purple on purple Vinyl.

x(

[johnnie]

57. You can't have it!

When my ex-fiance' and I split up years ago, she took it. I was pissed! I went to where she was staying and demanded it back..lol. She had some other things of mine, but I didn't care. I wanted that album. I got it:)

[d_b]

58. Blah

It will be mine! :evilgrin:

[d_b]

64. delete

[mitchum]

59. Pink banana Velvet Underground cover signed by Cale, Morrison, and Tucker

I love Lou, but he's a bitch

[johnnie]

63. I've heard that about him

Love him too, but not enough to seek him out.

[quispquake]

61. Let's See...

A few...

--The Moray Eels Eat the Holy Modal Rounders (saw someone posted the first one by them...this one is REALLY WEIRD).
--Velvet Underground-White Light White Heat (Original)
--X-Ray Spex-Germ Free Adolescents (although not so collectible on vinyl any more since the CD finally came out)
--Arthur-Dreams & Images (Great psych record on Lee Hazelwood's label)
--Martin Denny-Exotic Moog (Yes, I need to dub this off for a friendly user here on DU...I'm REALLY SLOW about that kind of thing!)
--Bonzo Dog Band-Gorilla (Mono promo...don't know if it was ever officially released in Mono)

And tons of rare indie/punk/noise 45's from the 80's as well as a lot of limited psych/folk oddities from the past few years. I still LOVE vinyl, and buy cool stuff when I can find it...

Great thread btw!

[johnnie]

65. Love the Bonzo Do Dah Dog Band

They crack me up.
And thanks, I thought it would be cool to see what people have. Now that I am done casing the joint, I will go buy my black hood and pry bar.:)
There is some cool stuff on here that people have.

[Ivan Sputnik]

62. Elephant's Memory

on an Apple label casette tape.
"Produced by John Lennon and Yoko Ono"

[johnnie]

66. He used them for some of his projects

I'm sure you know that. They ended up suing him, or Yoko..one of the two.

[d_b]

67. An original pressing of Black Flag's

Nervous Breakdown EP

An original pressing of the Meat Puppets first 45

[frylock]

68. dead kennedys - fresh fruit for rotten vegetables with the orange cover..

still has the poster that was included as well. I have 3 different vinyl copies of this LP (orange cover, black cover w/anonymous band on the back, black cover w/anonymous band's heads removed for copyright violation). Also most of the Iron Maiden 12" releases (incredible artwork).