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Not sure if this is the right site for this buy I cannot find this record, any clues ?

Thanks

 

Type "irish story lady" Record in google or your favorite search engine. Doesn't look to be worth trying to sell on its own.

 

Irish Story Lady-The Storm
Price per Unit (piece): $2.00
(http://wehaverecords.com/component/...lypage/pop,0/option,com_virtuemart/Itemid,26/)

 

Unfortunately at an auction you'll hear someone yell; 'PULL!'

 

Slightly OT, but I was researching old records - I've got some - and found that the majority are nearly worthless.
There is a small market for some genres: older rock; early Motown; early jazz. But even in those genres, most are worth only a few dollars, and then only if record and jacket are in excellent condition.
A local vintage record store has mentioned that for most records, made in the thousands, they already have many examples in stock, and cannot pay anything for another copy in mediocre condition. There are of course some exceptions.
I've found that some internet research will often show current prices.
So sadly, my old Kingston Trio, Grateful Dead, and Iron Butterfly records are pretty much worthless. I do have a rare electronic music record, circa 1965, one of the first in that genre, that is worth maybe $20. And a boxed set with instruction booklet, "How to Disco Dance" that amazingly, is selling for $20.

 

When I go to estate sales, there is a group of mostly men who run to the records.
They know what they are looking for obviously. I have a few albums here that I keep for posterity but aren't worth anything. I don't even look at records when I am at a sale.

Good to hear that Disco still gets some attention Steve, I miss the days those days.

 

Hi Pearls,
So do I!!!!
greg

 

Sigh...I bought my husband a record player that records his records onto an ipad type device...do you think I can get him to use it? No we just have to sit with those piles and piles and piles of records....

 

Some pre-WWII jazz and blues 78s on obscure labels, i.e. rarities, are worth $$$$. Most of the rest aren't worth much. Find something on Paragon in the stack and you may have some money.

 

Seems only you got that Komo.

 

Maybe cuz I know about firearms .....or maybe cuz I'm used to your sense of humor.......in any case I have to Skeet-daddle..!
Later !!

 

Some of us understand Mo-skeet-o rather well. I have friends who shoot. I only shoot off my mouth.

 

I got it, but you probably couldn't hear me laughing.

 

Ha!

 

Record collections are tough sell. Folks might remember I mentioned I sold one last year. It was very large @ 3,500 pieces or so. Had folks from different States schedule appts. to pick it up and never show. Used multiple sites to list it on. Finally sold it and very cheap, approx. - .10 per record. (for me, it was a refusal to move it across Country a third time). At any given time, just on Craigslist alone, in a large-ish city, there are typically 5-15 collections or more available for sale you are competing against.

People are def interested in rock and jazz as mentioned.

 

I was in Best Buy last month and noticed they had 4 different turntables for sale...it's been decades since I've seen that.

 

I think vinyl technology has improved beyond CDs.
I was able to secure both a short center pin and 45 mount for my Maganvox console stereo while in Tennessee.
Paid too much...but couldn't find them around.
Now I don't have to use the rack for albums and can now play 45s!
Some of which I got in TN. 2 are Bobby Darrin.
Hmmmmm....maybe I'll do that now!

 

I have a stack of old 78s and 33s (40s and 50s, I suspect,) sitting on the floor next to my desk, that my late father-in-law passed on to us in the 70s. For reasons I do not recall, I ended up with them and have been schlepping them around the country, even though I have no desire to listen to them. Vast majority are "classical" music (which I do like BTW) but I have plenty of that genre on CD and my turntable does not have 78 speed anyway. I just hate the thought of sending them to a landfill.

AND the turntable has been a plant stand since 2005!

 

I use my stereo often.....to my great delight !!!

 

Me too!
And I have at least two other nice ones in storage as well as a few turntables, one is a tracking type.