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| 29th Nov 2016, 11:23 AM | #61 REPORT | |
 | Jace59 Member since Jul 2016 1330 Points Moderator | Going back a few years now, in a second hand shop, picked up an almost mint copy of The Stones, Their Satanic Majesties Request with the original 3D cover for 50p. The owner would charge a higher price for a well worn record and virtually give away a good condition one. His reasoning was if a record was well worn it must be a good one as it's been played a lot whereas, if it's in really good nick it can't be much good as it's hardly been played. Totally ignoring the fact that some people do actually look after their records! |
| 29th Nov 2016, 12:32 PM | #62 REPORT | |
 | Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3745 Points Moderator | I'm very attached to my copy of Satanic Majesties... It took me five weeks to buy it in 1992! ...It was one of those "on the wall" behind the counter in my local record shop, and I was very taken with it. I asked the chap, and he said it was £25. This was a fortune for me then, as it was in a school summer holiday, and I was strawberry picking (supermarkets, Wimbledom etc.), and I was very bad at it, and so didn't earn much. Got up at four in the morning every day, and walked the four miles there and back every day (for an eight mile round trip), except on Friday, where I would go to the record shop after a shift to put another fiver on the counter for the record, and I would have him play me one track from the album (I didn't want to have the whole thing played through in one go, so that I'd have a few surprises when I finally bought it outright). It was a great day when I laid the last fiver on the counter. Satanic Maj wasn't a fancied album at all back then, and I only played it a couple of times to be honest... not being particularly taken with it myself, except for the cover  And it's only since digging it all out of the loft, and joining this site that I've become aware that this album has "appreciated" somewhat, and discovered I have the mono 1p / p1 matrices. But it brings back such great memories, I could never part with it now... So I'd have to say that this £25 record is my most expensive bargain... and still my best. |
| 29th Nov 2016, 1:31 PM | #63 REPORT | |
 | zabadak Caddacack oh da ca-caddacack, shy shy skagellack Member since Jun 2010 4156 Points | Very underrated album IMO!  |
| 29th Nov 2016, 2:52 PM | #64 REPORT | |
| Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3745 Points Moderator | Well I've also given it a better listen since getting it down again... and I think that as for most people, it's growing on me. It's a bit jarring first time round, if you're expecting a "Rolling Stones" type of experience, it will always suffer this comparison, and of course, being loomed over by the mighty shadow of Sgt. Pepper... but if you can come to appreciate it on it's own terms, it's really rather good. She's a Rainbow alone is brilliant. |
| 29th Nov 2016, 6:43 PM | #65 REPORT | |
 | Quad5point1 SUBS Member since Jul 2012 10688 Points | Back in the days of £SD Their Satanics was far and away better value than Sgt Pepper  |
| 29th Nov 2016, 10:03 PM | #66 REPORT | |
 | Lee Wrecker If you can't dig me, you can't dig nothin' Member since Nov 2013 2282 Points | Decimalisation has a lot to answer for. |
| 30th Nov 2016, 2:08 PM | #67 REPORT | |
| zabadak Caddacack oh da ca-caddacack, shy shy skagellack Member since Jun 2010 4156 Points |
Magic Marmalade wrote:
Well I've also given it a better listen since getting it down again... and I think that as for most people, it's growing on me.
It's a bit jarring first time round, if you're expecting a "Rolling Stones" type of experience, it will always suffer this comparison, and of course, being loomed over by the mighty shadow of Sgt. Pepper... but if you can come to appreciate it on it's own terms, it's really rather good. She's a Rainbow alone is brilliant. Later, someone at Uni had the LP and I loved it at first listen! |
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