It's still got the sticker on it! I had completely forgotten that. It has loads of scuff marks on it which is prob why I was so resentful at the time, but one of those cases of looks shit, plays near mint without a crackle.
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My friendly Bognor record dealer swears by 60s vinyl. He was telling me about a With The Beatles that looked like a brillo pad had been all over it. He said it played with hardly a crackle after a good clean.
aug 30, 2025, 4:30 pm • 3 0 • view
Ditto. My copies of Granny Takes A Trip - Purple Gang and Softs Love Makes Sweet Music cost me 5p and 10p respectively off Camden Market early 80s - both look Brillo'd. LMSW even has a tiny crack in the run in groove. Both play near mint.
aug 30, 2025, 4:35 pm • 5 0 • view
I think Brillo'd could be a new Discogs grading.
aug 30, 2025, 4:49 pm • 2 0 • view
The mad thing is that this album was only 17 years old when you found it. It's the equivalent of finding the 3rd Portishead album today. Who knows where the time goes?
aug 30, 2025, 3:36 pm • 6 0 • view
From a collecting point of view I suppose this is that limbo period just pre-CDs and re-issue labels like See For Miles etc. The only stuff I remember being silly prices was northern soul rarities but then that was always microclimate of its own and even then there were still bargains to be found.
aug 30, 2025, 4:27 pm • 4 0 • view
I mean this is the period in Northampton where the Northern boys were putting me onto pop-psych-soul oddities like David & The Giants, I Can't Face The Animals, Manys the slip between cup and the lip, Outer Limits Just One More Chance etc and I was finding them all for a quid.
aug 30, 2025, 4:32 pm • 2 0 • view
Welcome. 16 years after WW2 I was born, 16 years later I Feel Love and Never Mind The Bollocks were released. Is time expanding?
aug 30, 2025, 11:33 pm • 1 0 • view