Tag: records
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Never Mind The Covid* It’s Record Store Day! (*Actually We Still Need To Mind The Covid)
As eagerly anticipated by record collectors globally as the release of the Autumn/Winter Argos catalogue was when we were kids. Or, if you are as old as me (and if you collect records there’s half a chance you will be), the Peter Craig or Freeman’s catalogue. Record Store Day, usually scheduled in April of each…
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Your Guide To Selling Vinyl On eBay, and More About The Discogs Median Price Myth
Part 3 of a real-life test to see whether you can make decent money from selling vinyl. (Here’s part 1) Ah, eBay. Perhaps only Sergio Aguero, as he scored with 93:20 on the clock to win Manchester City’s first league title for 44 years has ever experienced a high as euphoric as the feeling you…
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How To Buy A Set of David Bowie’s Classic Albums on Vinyl For Less Than £100
The story so far: I have made a bet that I can buy a full set of Bowie‘s albums (in their original vinyl versions – and in excellent condition with all the inserts) from The Man Who Sold The World to Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps). That’s fourteen albums in fourteen days. Total budget: £100.…
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How I Tried To Buy David Bowie’s Classic Albums on Vinyl For Less Than £100
Just how cheaply can you buy a full set of Bowie‘s ’70’s vinyl records? “The trouble with buying old records” said my friend Chris after several pints of Adnams, (if I can paint you a brief picture) “is that everyone suspects they’re worth something, so it is difficult to get a real collector’s item unless…
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Don’t Panic! The Secret To Investing On Record Store Day
Don’t Panic! Those “hot” new Record Store Day releases may not be as essential as you think…. As Record Store Day looms ominously like a looming, ominous thingy, and the first flurry of tents begin forming queues outside the nation’s record stores in the same way Eastern European Migrants do outside the UK in the…
Every record tells a story 