My Giant eBay Haul aka What Have I Gotten Myself Into aka Land of Many Classic/Dud Declarations

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After searching for "Used LP," I pulled up this auction. I am now 20 LPs richer all for the low low price of $2.29 (plus a large shipping fee of course).

What I've got is an assortment of the familiar (Springsteen, Beatles, Willie Nelson), some crap (I'm pretty sure I'm going to be using the Phil Collins albums as frisbees), and then a load of other things I'm almost completely in the dark about.

C/D on this haul:
Bruce Springsteen - Born in the USA
Beatles - White Album
Juice Newton - Juice
U2 - The Unforgettable Fire
Smokey Robinson - Where There's Smoke
Stevie Nicks - Bella Donna
Kenny Rogers - Kenny
Willie Nelson - Always On My Mind
Willie Nelson - Without A Song
Supertramp - Crime of the Century
Sheena Easton - Best Kept Secret
Dr. Hook - Pleasure and Pain
Fine Young Cannibals - s/t
Phil Collins - No Jacket Required
Phil Collins - Face Values
Cheech and Chong's Wedding Album
Jackson Browne - Lives in the Balance
Chris De Burgh - Man of The Line
Neil Diamond - Love Songs

45's
Bruce Springsteen - Tunnel of Love and Two for the Road
Debbie Gibson - Lost in Your Eyes and Silence Speaks a Thousand Words
Van Halen - Finish What Ya Started and Sucker in a 3 Piece
Rod Stewart - The Wild Horse and My Heart Can't Tell Me No
RCA - Waiting for A Star To Fall and No Apologies

This sorta makes up for the non-event that was the Great Amazon Firesale of 2005.

― Matt Chesnut, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, I bet I could sell shittier records for a lot less.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

dud.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Kenny Rogers' Kenny has a small motherlode of GREAT breakbeats!!!!

― donut debonair (donut), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Please to define "large shipping fee" so as to give ILX a better understand as to where the line of dudness should be drawn.

― David R. (popshots75`), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

wow. at garage sales you can't GIVE these records away. Except for the White Album, that's worth the 2.99 price alone.

― 57 7th (calstars), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

oh wait. i read $20. yeah, worth $2.29. maybe worth $5. not much more, AFAIC.

― peter smith (plsmith), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

you could make your money back if you sell them at a store. unfortunately, the only ones anyone would buy are the good ones, hence the catch-22

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Make sure you keep "Juice" because it's got "Angel of the Morning" on it, which is more than worth your $0.12 or whatever the pro-rated price of that album is.

Strangely enough, I got that album for free. The store I got it from was giving away a bunch of vinyl that (according to them) had no resale value. Even more surprising, they were also giving away ABC's "The Lexicon of Love" (I grabbed that as well).

That store went out of business a few months later. Perhaps there's a point to be made here, but there probably isn't.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

if only the store hadn't given away that free vinyl, they might still be in business

― Gear! (can Jung shill it, Mu?) (Gear!), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Or if they hadn't bought so much ABC stock.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Any store that banks their future on Juice Newton is likely doomed to failure.

― MindInRewind (Barry Bruner), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

before you turn phil collins' face value into a frisbie, consider that it contains "in the air tonight," which may be the single best song in your entire haul.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

"in the air tonight" ---> Skeet pull.

― dave225 (Dave225), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, I don't know what you guys are talking about, for 2.29 you hit the jackpot. Supertramp AND Phil Collins.

A Neil Diamond to boot.

― David Allen (David Allen), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Shipping is about $20 more, but considering this is going from Saskatchewan to Texas, it's not too bad. Price per album is just a bit over a buck.

And re: Juice Newton, I love "Angel in the Morning," but haven't heard anything else. But I'm holding on to that one for sure.

― Matt Chesnut, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:02 (twenty-one years ago)

why oh why would you buy these to ship from sask to tx - when you could easily find all that at your local thrift store for the aforementioned 2.29 or so

― rentboy (rentboy), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:07 (twenty-one years ago)

umm xpost w/rentboy

these lp lots aren't really worth it. go to any record store with a decent amount of used records and you'll find at least a dozen records for a dollar or less that is better than what you got.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 23 February 2005 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

um, matt, are you sure it's not the "angel of the morning" by merilee rush that you love?

"queen of hearts" ---now that's the juice newton gem.

― reo, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Positive. Just listened to it a couple of days ago.

― Matt Chesnut, Wednesday, 23 February 2005 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

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