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For sale: GLORIA GAYNOR "This Love Affair" (UK Polydor) M- £30 (inc. UK P&P) Classic 1978 mover, this copy looks unplayed in Polydor company sleeve. Paypal as gift prefered, PM if interested. Thanks...

I just threw up in my mouth a little bit... Might be time for me to start taking part of that obscene alternative tax on the poor... the lottery!

I think when someone describes a record as autographed, it's generally implied that it's signed by one of the people who MADE the record, not OWNED it. But, now that you mention it, looks like half my collection is now autographed!!!

Surely an autograph can only increase the value of a record? If it in any way decreased the value, you'd be daft NOT to keep the one with that extra bit of history and personality. I'm usually really fussy about condition too. But some records I keep the scruffy looking one which plays fine and sell the pristine mint copy, knowing you'll get that extra bit of cash. Then again, sometimes I keep the mint one, knowing the scruffy one will go for not much less in value. I'm sure that's helped you, no end...

Various "Ž— Guerrilla Reissue V.2 Label: Fabulous Soul Records "Ž— GRI-002 Format: Vinyl, 12" Country: US Released: Genre: Funk / Soul Style: Funk Tracklist A1 Count Yates — At The Soul Inn (Edit) A2 Count Yates — At The Soul Inn (Bonus Beats) A3 Chester Randle's Soul Senders* — Soul Brother Testify (Edit) A4 Chester Randle's Soul Senders* — Soul Brother Testify (Bonus Beats) B1 Fabulous Souls — Take Me B2 Fabulous Souls — Take Me (Bonus Beats) B3 Beau Dollar* — Who Knows? B4 Beau Dollar* — Who Knows (Bonus Beats) Looks the same as the copy on Discogs... same catalogue number, same label etc.

Looks like copies for sale on discogs for about three quid. It just looks like an out and out boot, isn't that what you thought when you bought it? The words "bonus beats" would definitely date it as at least late 1980s...

PM me with your offer if you're still looking. Are the black and white ones second presses, or different in any other way?

If it's 6 min 20 sec then it's an extended mix - label says it's an English/Spanish version? So, as far as 12"s go - it's the first pressing. But you have to get your facts 100% right, because if the soul police feel your collar over this, it would be easy to get flustered and get in a muddle and face possible arrest. Best case scenario is you might receive a formal caution, with threats of the case being forwarded to the procurator fiscal - but doubtful it would come to anything. A fine perhaps. Thankfully the days of being put in the stocks and having bootleg 7"s frisbeed at you was outlawed round about the time corporal punishment was banned in schools. Whether this decision has led to widespread bad behaviour and attitude problems with the new generation of DJs is a moot point, and is occasionally debated among more enlightened soul enthusiasts...

Is there not a case that this is a record which possibly fell through the cracks until relatively recently. The three Japanese gentlemen who own these aren't jetting around the world playing them to packed clubs full of writhing young trendies, and my local library doesn't have a full set of Blackbeat magazines... There's no copies on Popsike, so perhaps none have passed through eBay? It would be safe to surmise that it's pretty rare anyway. Or maybe Jazzman could just have asked Butch!

Personally, I don't think you can, you can only blame the buyers. If someone wants to pay £750 then more fool them, they're the ones distorting the price. You see it on eBay all the time, a record which sells for £100 one week, next week another copy sells for £20. If people don't like the price, don't pay it, and the price will fall to its natural value. Which can obviously vary on a weekly basis.

Hi Rhys Got a UK Nolan Porter on Probe for £70, I know how you love those UK stock copies... PM if interested.

Oh well, I guess I just aren't very northern soul, then... Since when was wrecking your prized possessions while out deejaying with a couple of rusty old nails, which just happened to be on the decks at the time, considered to be 'Northern Soul'??!! I played at a mod do one night which had one of those vintage twin deck things. Every styrene single I played got the worst cue burn I've ever heard. Spending £100 on a pair of carts sounds VERY northern soul to me. The other thing I don't understand is playing carvers of CD tracks with the "most venues don't have CD players" argument. A carver costs £15 - a CD Walkman costs £15. Just buy a CD player instead and play the ORIGINAL not a pretend single!!!

Good thread! I think the worry is when you think back to the first "expensive" record you ever bought, and how your upper limit (everyone has one, right?) rises on an annual basis on a curve completely exponential to inflation... I clearly remember going to a record fair in the early 90s and agonising over spending £25 on an Evie Sands single off Mr. Manship. I circled the fair about five times weighing up the pros and cons, listening to the record on a portable each time, taking a deep breath and taking the plunge. I've since played that record 100s of times, and still DJ with it. Fast forward about a decade and I'm on the phone to the same man, arranging a three month payment plan for a £500 single. After paying it up, I found myself thinking "what the **** have I just done???!!!" Heard plenty of stories of living on beans and toast for a week after a hefty purchase. In the words of (non-soulie) Julian Cope "any money NOT spent on records, is money wasted...!"

REDUCED TO £70!

For sale: NOLAN PORTER "If I Could Only Be Sure" (UK Probe PRO 580) 1972 EX £80 £70 (inc. Recorded UK P&P) Classic floor-filler on a nice UK stock copy - this copy has a "Factory Sample - Not For Sale" sticker over the Probe logo on A-side, like the example pictured here. Paypal please (as gift preferably), PM if interested...

Guess that would depend if it's a bootleg v a legitimate re-issue. Imagine what would happen if someone played a bootleg of a re-issue. Do two negatives make a positive?

Aye, white demos have Handle It on both sides... Issue is the one to get. Unless you collect white demos and don't mind missing out on superior flip sides... a potential thread in its own right?

Wow, I can't believe I got it right in my post!!! Straight onto the wants list it goes. Even knowing three people who own this is impressive, I reckon...

Ha! Deejayed at a wedding last night, had to wire up the decks and plug into the mixing desk. Unplugged the iPod, and plugged in the decks. Few people were up dancing and I thought it was sounding absolutely rotten. Frantically checked the mixing desk and couldn't believe that the channel I'd plugged into had a button switched on. The button? The "vocal eliminator" button... I thought in 25 years I'd made every mistake, but good to see there's still fresh ones.

Guess it all depends on whether they're original record label demo acetates or custom pressed soul bootlegs. Sometimes hard to tell, unless they have different artists on both sides etc.

Ha! I was gonna say, if it exists "penny" would know about it... But I've never heard of it, and surely there's not THAT many Motown tracks which are undocumented. Unless it's a Turkish press. Or a Lebanese one. Or an Italian one. Or.... C'mon, get a scan of your pal's single up. One of the three, would love to see it. And add it to my wants list!

It maybe doesn't really count, but there's Erma Franklin's version (same backing track) which was unreleased till it came out on a Kent comp LP... But you'd expect there to be hundreds of covers, yet my mind's blank!

For sale: The Debonaires "Headache In My Heart" b/w "I'm In Love Again" (UK Track) EX £60 Fantastic original UK press of great female dancer. This copy is in lovely condition, couple of light paper scuffs. P&P extra. Paypal as gift preferred. PM if interested...

Don't know who listed the one on Ebay, but search for Musonic - they seem to cover most makes and models. There's quite a few they don't make any more, which means the price of existing stock is only going one way...

Hi Richard Weird... They're tucked away in a sub menu here: https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/7-45rpm-Record-Sleeves-/370832476866?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item5657568ac2 You select size, material, snug or mid fit, and quantity. Says it's free postage, not sure if that's right though. Let me know how you get on!