I Wish I Still Had...

[Doug Hess Jr.]

Unfortunately I grew up too late to get those super albums like the The Beatles Butcher Cover or Alice Cooper's "Schools Out" complete with the desk that opened with stuff inside...but for you more furtunate folks...what records (LP or 45) do you wish you still had. These are those prized one's that you didn't realize while you scratched them up, drew on them with crayon or sold at a garage sale that you should have kept them in mint condition?

Example: A good friend of mine had 10 of the original picture sleeve Beatles 45s when they first came out...all crayoned up now because he was 5 years old at the time.

[Lorin]

I wish I would have kept all my DC5 mono lps and all their picture sleeve 45s.:(

[Gary]

No comment.

Hurts too much. :(

[Chris Desjardin]

I had an original, first state (no paste over) Beatles Butcher Cover. My grandfather got it in the 60's from the UMASS dorms. It seems some kids left it in the hallway, and he was a janitor. I was 8 and I had just gotten into the Beatles, so my grandparents gave me all of my mother's old records, and this was in the batch. Unfortunately, I became a STUPID teenager who sold it to a used record store for $60. It seemed like a lot at the time, and I really wanted a new car stereo. It still makes me sick when I see what it sells for on ebay.

[Andrew]

Wish I still had all my old records, then I could sell them all over again!!! :D

[Chris Desjardin]

I forgot to mention my Butcher cover was a first state STEREO version - worth even more!

[PsychFan]

I had a red-vinyl Japanese mono Beatles Help! LP that I sold on eBay to help pay for my Rega turntable. I hadn't liked the sound of it ... I found it muffled and veiled and dull.

I got a very pretty penny for it that went a long way toward the Rega ... but now I wish I had it 'cause I suspect I'd like it a lot better with a REAL analog rig and a decent cartridge!!!

[btomarra]

I was out of work and needed cash and so sold my vinyl Beatles collection (White album numbered, rainbow swirl, green, and apple label lps of all the Beatles albums.

However, I do have a Capitol mono Sgt Pepper, and a pasted over mono Butcher Cover in really nice shape.

But, I still regret letting the others go.:(

[Paul Chang]

I have never sold/given away anything in my record collection except for a few duplicates. But this one still hurts - the MoFi Rolling Stones Collection. Circa 1989, I hesitated on a mint one, which appeared unplayed, for $100. It sat on the shelf of a used record store in Isla Vista, CA for months. (The one other than Morninglory Music. It hurts so much that I can't bear to remember its name.)

Then in 1990 Michael Fremer's article about MoFi dumping it for $200 was published in TAS after it had been sold out. A few weeks later, Audio Advisor raised it back to the $300 regular price from the $250 sale price. And I refused to pay the extra $50.:(

Sometime during that period I went back to that store in I.V. to find out it had been sold a week or two earlier.:mad: :( :mad:

[Joe Koz]

I had a red-vinyl Japanese mono Beatles Help! LP that I sold on eBay to help pay for my Rega turntable. I hadn't liked the sound of it ... I found it muffled and veiled and dull. Don't feel bad. No turntable set up would make the Mono Help! sound any better. IMO

[Dave B]

The list of records I wish I still had is far too large and painful to recall, but more importantly, I wish that I had both the equipment and foresight to take better care of my records over the years. It wasn't until the mid-seventies that I got a decent turntable. By then, many of my favorite LPs had been badly damaged by my previous turntable's ceramic cartridge and my poor care. Now I often find myself paying 100 times the original price to replace LPs I once had in my collection in the sixties and seventies. Thank God some people were straight enough back then to remember to put the records back into thier sleeves!

[Highway Star]

I had both Beatle EP's that had 4 songs on each and came with cardboard picture sleeves. Bought them both in late '66 and somewhere through the years they disappeared! :mad:

[Ronflugelguy]

My cover of meet the beatles first pressing , had the cover corners chewed up by my two year old brother. He still claims that all that music he listened to when he was little messed him up!