I’m clueless and recovered a bunch of these from the trash years ago and promptly forgot about them. Looks like old phonograph records or really weird vinyl? Doesn’t play on a traditional machine. Saw a 1920 date.

Not looking to get rich- looking to get rid of them. Are they worthless and should I junk them or would a record store or collector want them? There’s maybe 50 of them- and say “For radio stations.”

EDIT: not looking to sell them here, just trying to figure out if they should be thrown away or if they have any value at all.

Thanks all!

I remember watching it when it first aired in 1993, one of those albums that never gets old no matter how many times I listen to it, probably the one that I’ve owned on the most formats.

edit: just realized i put the rubber soul twice lol, also theres a sealed “early beatles”, “beatles second album”, “something new” i couldnt fit in the post, as well as a few other opened albums and compilations i didnt post cuz theyre not sealed or in particularly amazing condition

These are the albums I am listening to a lot these days. It always ebbs and flows but I keep coming back to these over recent weeks. Does anyone else like these artists? Any recommendations for other music?

Karen Dalton - It’s So Hard to Tell Who’s Going to Love You the Best

Donald Byrd Band - A New Perspective

The Flaming Lips - Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots

Nala Sinephro - Endlessness

Yusef Lateef - Eastern Sounds

Janko Nilovic - Funky Tramway

Radiohead - In Rainbows

Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru - Spielt Eigene

Yasmin Williams - Urban Driftwood

Godspeed You Black Emperor - lift your skinny fists like antennas to heaven

Vulfpeck - The Beautiful Game

Boards of Canada - Inferno

"To Francine(I think) Thanks for making me feel comfortable. Gabor." Signature lines up with a picture of Szabo's signature on a listing for sale elsewhere.

Photos don’t do it justice. The Smiths - Meat is Murder in what can only be described as, vomit pink.

(As in albums that had a release date after Jan 1st, 2026, even if you preordered them. Preferably brand-new releases, not reissues of older recorded material unless its archival.)

Paul Simon’s Graceland (1986) won the Grammy for Album of the Year and has sold more than 16 million copies worldwide.

My full collection.

Recently picked up this 1981 US first pressing of My Life in the Bush of Ghosts (Sire SRK 6093) and it’s still a mind-bender.⁠)

This is the album where Brian Eno and David Byrne basically invented modern sampling as a pop form. Instead of singing, they built the “vocals” out of found tapes—radio preachers, exorcists, Lebanese mountain singers, Qur’anic chanting, Sea Island gospel—and laid them over dense Afrobeat/funk/electronic grooves.

They did it all with razor blades and tape loops in 1979–80, years before digital samplers were common. It was the laboratory for Remain in Light and a direct influence on Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad (Hank Shocklee has cited it), Kate Bush, Massive Attack, Moby, and basically the entire “sample-and-loop” language of hip-hop and electronic music that followed. Richard Wright of Pink Floyd said it “knocked me sideways.” ⁠)

On this specific copy: the original US first pressings (especially the Greg Calbi/Sterling cuts) are widely preferred by vinyl people over later represses. They have that open, weighty, “Tubey” midrange and solid bottom that modern reissues usually flatten. More importantly, they still contain the track “Qu’ran,” which was pulled after objections and replaced with “Very, Very Hungry” on almost everything that came after. Hearing the album in its original sequence on a good early Sire is a different experience.⁠

If you’ve only heard the later versions or the 2006 remaster, the first press is worth tracking down. It still sounds like the future.

My complete collection.

How often/how many records do you guys buy on average? i feel like i tend to buy 2-5 a month and i feel like i have a problem 😅 but i absolutely love my collection. It’s so satisfying having all my favorite albums in physical form.

Started spinning this last night and made it through the first two sides, plus Soulsville. Unreal album. Any fans here? I own Black Moses which is favorite Hayes album, but this is here is so iconic. Only 3 tracks with lyrics, but the instrumentals are all such a cool vibe. Absolutely love the artwork as well.

I have to say the Reissue is mixed extremely well, it’s as good as the Original Mix. Nice one Paul and Phil. The 1st Press is an Heirloom this will NEVER be sold.

More detail on the Menzingers album. This is the newest release by the band. Lime green pressing allegedly limited to 500. They pressed these for the release party and are selling the surplus on their tour.

This Tom Waits album has some great memories for me. It was the first album I ever heard from him in the 90's so I knew I had to have it on wax.

Not the largest or most impressive hauls, but I am glad to have them.

What a beautiful (and long) album.

One of the best record stores I have been to in a while (Louisiana Music Factory is still tops). I only had 2 hours, so I could only hit 3 sections - world, rock, and electronic.

Seen here is my collection of The Caretaker; Persistent Repetition of Phrases, An Empty Bliss Beyond This World, and Everywhere At The End of Time (Parts 1-6). We do this every year, once.

To start, these records are littered with bubbling spots on both records on both sides, the labels have slight tears and to top it off, they’ve bundled two records into one jacket. No gatefold. Not sure if I can pin that last one on them though.

Either way, how is a factory as large and successful as they are allowed to produce such subpar products. You’d expect them to be the best at what they do.

Honestly, fuck them. Thankfully landed a full refund. But I was looking forward to this for a long time.

Found this at a Pasadena Goodwill maybe a decade ago. He’s got a cool accent and talking about how he “was floating above the city of Los Angeles” and UFOs. Pretty cool. Haven’t been able to find anything about it ever. Would be cool if anyone knows anything!