Replying to a message of Russell Tiedt to Bob Ackley:

 RT> Hello Bob.

 RT> 19 May 03 14:03, you wrote to me:

 RT>>> I like the sound, tho I do wonder if the tempo is not just a wee
 RT>>> - wee bit  slow. :-)

 CA>>>> I am anxious to get my vinyl onto CDs before it is too late.
 CA>>>> I've already lost a few Ventures albums to careless handling
 CA>>>> and a Larry Adler album my daughters tell me would cost $300 US
 CA>>>> to replace. :-\

 RT>>> YOUCH !! $300 for a LP, all the more reason to look after them
 RT>>> carefully.  

 BA>> The most I've paid for a single record (not a record set) was $15.
 BA>> I'd been looking for the d*mn thing for over 25 years and finally
 BA>> located a copy (1957, 'The Creature' by Buchanan & Ancell - which
 BA>> I'm sure no one around here ever heard of).

 RT> Still a little heavy for vinyl these days, but if it is something you
 RT> have  been looking for for yonks, then it is worth it.

Actually I picked it up about 15 years ago.

 BA>> Found a couple of neat LP's at a local estate sale.  Original
 BA>> Chancellor (Philadelphia label) issues of the first LP by Fabian and
 BA>> the first LP by Frankie Avalon.  Also a copy of the original 1952
 BA>> Columbia 78rpm release of "I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa
Claus" by Jimmy
 BA>> Boyd.  I suspect they're worth quite a bit more than what I paid for
 BA>> them (I got all of the records - LP's, 45's and 78's - being sold
 BA>> for $5).

 RT> Where am I when such thing happen. 

Estate sales and auctions, and sometimes garage sales, are probably the
best places to get this stuff at reasonable prices.
Unless, of course, there's somebody else there that's bidding against you.
At one local auction I was bidding on 3 Elvis Presley LP's against
some girl.  As the bidding got up around $80 I suddenly realized that (a) I
*had* two of them already and that $80 was an awful lot of money for the
*one* additional record.  I dropped out and let her have it.
Some years ago the same auctioneer conducted two auctions a week and about
2 miles apart.  At the first one I picked up a box of Edison 78 rpm
(actually 80 rpm) records (they're about 1/4" thick) for $30.  At the
second one a small box of what appeared to be ordinary 78 rpm records went
for $105 when I got out at $100.
At yet another auction there was a stack of LP's that was about four feet
high.  It was almost entirely junk, but way down near the bottom of the
stack was a copy of the Beatles' White Album.  Unfortunately several
somebodies besides me also noticed it and instead of selling for less than
$20 that stack went for a couple of hundred.

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