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49 pages in and this thread finally starts making sense.

 

White Whale:

Bohren & der Club of Gore. Sunset Mission

About 25 tests floating around, never made it to an official release

 

Out of price range:

Weakling. Dead As Dreams

Around 200-300$ a piece, mostly pretty bad condition..someday..

 

Waiting for the good price:

Wolves In The Throne Room. Diadem of 12 Stars

Goes for 60-100$ which is fair. Waiting for the right pressing+condition+price tag

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White whale LP:

Royal City - At Rush Hour the Cars (Canadian band, defunct label, nothing showing up on Discogs for more than a year, even CD is insanely hard to find)

 

 

Out of price range:

Hold Steady - Separation Sunday

Beulah - When Your Heartstrings Break

 

White unicorn (does not exist on vinyl but sure wish it did):

Paul Westerberg - Stereo/Mono

treble charger - Maybe It's Me (90s Canadian alterna-rock...so good!)

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Ill give it a real shot

 

White Whale

-Bigwig-S/T 7 inch

I don't think one has ever been sold on discogs

 

Just out of my price range

-Less Than Jake-Losing Streak Picture Disc

i've said enough about this album

-Queens Of The Stone Age-Songs For The Deaf

a non bootleg version

-Swans- The Great Annihilator

this is close to happening...

-Blind Melon-Soup

no reason for this not to be repressed along with the S/T MOV

-Butthole Sufers-Independent Worm Saloon

really not that expensive but i can't justify paying 60 for it.

 

Someone where between an expensive album and a white whale 

-Face To Face-Big Choice 

blue promo,comes up for a sale a few times a year

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Ill give it a real shot

 

White Whale

-Bigwig-S/T 7 inch

I don't think one has ever been sold on discogs

 

Just out of my price range

-Less Than Jake-Losing Streak Picture Disc

i've said enough about this album

-Queens Of The Stone Age-Songs For The Deaf

a non bootleg version

-Swans- The Great Annihilator

this is close to happening...

-Blind Melon-Soup

no reason for this not to be repressed along with the S/T MOV

-Butthole Sufers-Independent Worm Saloon

really not that expensive but i can't justify paying 60 for it.

 

Someone where between an expensive album and a white whale 

-Face To Face-Big Choice 

blue promo,comes up for a sale a few times a year

 

I'd definitely call BC a white whale.  I took me a few years to find a copy, even with cash in hand.  I've seen two copies pop up for sale this calendar year and both went for 250 plus. 

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How'd you get a copy? The bay?

 

Regardless; my post was an attempt at a joke. I think the way people use 'white whale' on this thread is super liberal. I guess I should have used 40oz to Freedom or something.

 

Instagram in fact. Dr Strange Records bought a large collection that included a ton of Converge and Integrity pieces and the clear with shards was apart of it. I called up several hours after they posted they bought this collection on the off chance they still had it... and they did. Gave me a good deal on it too.

 

Also, it showed up yesterday. I came.

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Instagram in fact. Dr Strange Records bought a large collection that included a ton of Converge and Integrity pieces and the clear with shards was apart of it. I called up several hours after they posted they bought this collection on the off chance they still had it... and they did. Gave me a good deal on it too.

 

Also, it showed up yesterday. I came.

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Nice score.  Bill from Dr. Strange is a good dude.  Glad he too care of you.

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Just out of my price range

-Less Than Jake-Losing Streak Picture Disc

i've said enough about this album

 

 
Losing Streak took me a long time to find for a decent price. Ended up getting it from discogs a few weeks back for about $50 instead of the standard $70-$80 I always see.
 

I really wish they would just repress those LTJ albums so i dont have to spend a large chunk of change on a damn picture disc...

 

You and me both. All their early albums are a pain to find for a decent price.

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  • 2 weeks later...

I'm just going to put a bunch of them out there

 

Ceasar Frazier: Ceasar Frazier 75

Ceasar Frazier: Hail Ceasar

Guns N Roses: Live Like a Suicide/Use Your Illusion I and II/Live Era 87-93

 

In particular, Hail Ceasar.  It's got a bunch of smoking hot Prestige label musicians at the top of their game.  Melvin Sparks on guitar, Houston Person on Sax, Idris Muhammad on Drums.  The album just crackles along with funky flow and doesn't let up.

 

The two Frazier albums usually command around 100 apiece because they're so obscure and received such a limited pressing I think.  I can get the 2 albums on one CD for 15 but its just not the same.....

 

Edit:  I haven't found any of these yet....

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like 12 years ago i saw a copy of the meat puppets' s/t debut at a local record store for like $8 or something and passed it up because i hadn't heard it at that point. turns out it's one of my favorite records ever and i've been looking for a copy forever. i don't do the whole ebay thing at all and i don't spend more than $15 or so on used lps as a rule, but i finally got a copy today.

I'm the same way.  I don't like spending more than 15 in cash either, and when I get something more than 15 I usually prefer trading for it.  I got my copy of s/t for 14 and I don't regret it at all.

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had the opportunity to buy all these at reasonable burgers and fries prices, just kills me thinking about it. But that's the score. These are hardly impossible, but way too pricey:
 

  • Beck- Sea Change, either of the three pressings, Mobile Fidelity being my favorite missed opportunity.
  • Ryan Adams- Love is Hell : was, until MF released the new LTD box set. 
  • Interpol- Our Love To Admire
  • Sigur Ros- Takk. Badly needs a repressing so it can go on sale for 4.3 seconds.
  • Massive Attack- Heligoland/ Burial- Four Walls LTD 1000 gold dust
  • The Good, The Bad & The Queen- S/T. Saw one for $13 brand new 2009. Facepalm
  • Aphex Twin- Drukqs
  • Ben Howard- Burgh Island EP  LTD 1000
  • Explosions in the Sky- Friday Night Lights OST
  • Magnetic Fields- 69 Love Songs Box Set. Had my chance. 
  • Ryan Adams- Live After Deaf Box Set
  • Asobi Seksu- ST
  • The Virgin Suicides- Air OST

Gems of the earth

 

  • Faunts- Remixed/ M4/ Feel Love Thinking Of.
  • Trespassers William- Having
  • Ultra Orange & Emmanuelle- ST
  • Architecture In Helsinki- Fingers Crossed
  • Johnny Flynn- Been Listening, Demo Recordings
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