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it is a great Milwaukee soul record, not garage at all. "that's love" is a killer sweet side (although that's not what people are buying it for). it comes up pretty regularly on ebay, you should get some idea of prices via popsike.

aesturarium is an early 2000s reissue done by a chicago record collector (who also reissued some phil cohran material). it did get pressed twice on washington sound though, once as the first family (with a blue label) and once as sugarhill (with a yellow label). not sure which one is first but both have identical recordings.

yes, although there are certain trends you can point out if you make more specific statements. I would say that higher end rarities are going up in price and most lower end stuff that is still around has gone down. Obviously some lower end stuff has become higher end rarities as copies have dried up. Similar things have happened to the doowop market, the higher end rarities are still very high, even though there are much fewer collectors they are fighting for the top items and mostly have cheaper items.

clearly some things are coming down though. and some things are going up.

isn't there a more expensive bowie LP cover? I think it was diamond dogs, like you could originally see the dog's testicles and they withdrew it and airbrushed it out.

Jacklyn 1004 does not have "I'll run". Jacklyn 1001 is much more common but it's still worth more because the "I'll run" side is the main side people want.

a jenges issue of the same tracks is much rarer (and sells for surprisingly more). I would think 50 pounds is fair for a renee copy.

I laughed at this: "This could be the last copy on eBay, as the rest sink deep into the collector's vaults. Bid now!"

I don't think you're really disagreeing with what I was saying. I wasn't trying to say the sex pistols isn't rare, I was trying to say that (like the beatles) it is "important" and well known enough as a specific collectible that random people who collect records would buy it. Those same people have never heard of frankie beverly on rouser or a bazillion other rare soul records.

at least one soul source member recently did a bunch of ebay auctions with all stolen scans not noting they weren't of his record

I agree with what george is saying. The people buying the sex pistols are the same people paying money for a beatles butcher cover, it's something that has some sort of legendary rarity that generic "vinyl collectors" (as opposed to specific genre collectors) buy. There are definitely enough of those people with money. Many soul rarities that are even slightly rare are much rarer than the sex pistols and butcher cover I also agree that rare, good records in soul and other genres will increase in price and that certain "classic" northern records don't sound that good to the new generation of soul collectors that didn't grow up on the scene. Those records will not rise in price and might drop.

Also, "love your pain runs deep" is the same track that frankie beverly and the butlers do on gamble. but each version credits the performing group so it's not clear who stole from whom.

here is one side https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YqiwtSMNDqI I don't know the other side but it might be a cover of the los bravos record?

someone else once posted a copy of the young divines on note held together with a razor blade (but not a disposable razor replacement like above!).

Just wondering -- what happens if you superglue the cracked styrene?

that sinceres was super cheap!

DORIS & KELLEY - YOU DON"T HAVE TO WORRY on Brunswick. Clean, probably unplayed copy of this now classic, slow burning, psychedelic sweet soul cut. It's a nicer looking multicolor stock copy in a brunswick sleeve. I think this act is from Florida. $105 + $3 shipping US $6 shipping overseas. Paypal only, no surcharges. PM me or (better) email me at boba@panix.com. Here is audio (not from this copy): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0sK3_7DN9g

nice playlist

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There definitely are rare records by Fletcher btw.

is this really an original press of this record?

i actually got that copy, it actually was just dirty and after i cleaned it played with virtually no noise. but it has what looks like heat damage, like some lack of gloss and pitting in the vinyl. the copy i just got has some wear in addition to the same pitting but still plays well. I started the thread because i got two records from totally different sources with the same damage. it's similar to when copies of a record all seem to be water damaged when they originate from the same source where a basement flooded or somethiing.

I didn't get them both together. I just know there's some cases where the entire run or some of the run was heat damaged -- that's the case with the ultimate blacks on hitstown, nobody has ever seen a non-hazy, clean playing copy.

isn't supernatural a show that mainly girls in high school watch?

you should note that that's the excellent later modern / uptempo version of the pretenders "I call it love" on carnival 560, should sell at that price.