The overnight rotation.
I used to play full album sides at 2am on overnight rock radio. These days it's records from Bay Area estates and private collections, graded to Goldmine standards and filed on my shelf, A to Z. Selling a collection? Here's how I buy.
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Quilapayún
X Viet-Nam
VG+/VG+$403.99
Chilean nueva canción, 1968, on Jota Jota. Pressed in a country that later tried to erase the label.
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Röyksopp
Profound Mysteries
Sealed$199.99
A 2022 box set on the band's own label, still sealed. Box sets are the format that vanishes fastest, because people open them.
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Pilgrim Travelers
Travelin' Along
VG+/VG+$199.00
The Pilgrim Travelers on Famous, 1960. Gospel quartet sides that mostly went to church basements, not collectors.
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Johnny Cash
At Folsom Prison
VG+/VG+$90.99
Recorded in front of the inmates at Folsom in January 1968. The Columbia stereo pressing, clean on both counts.
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D Generation
No Lunch
VG+/VG+$84.99
New York punk on Columbia, 1996, pressed as a ten-inch.
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Hound Dog Taylor
Live At Florences
VG+/VG+$113.99
Live, 1981, on JSP. Slide guitar recorded in a room with people in it rather than a studio.
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Neil Young
Freedom
Sealed$170.99
A sealed longbox from 1989. The format CD collectors chase, because almost everyone threw the box away.
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Moby Grape
Chalet Ballroom 1966
$489.99
Signed. A 1966 Chalet Ballroom bill in mint condition — the Bay Area poster trade at its source.
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Abbazaba
Bill Graham Presents in San Francisco 1968
$342.99
Bill Graham Presents, San Francisco, 1968. Mint.
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Grateful Dead / Quicksilver Messenger Service
Avalon Ballroom 1966
$244.99
Avalon Ballroom, 1966 — the Family Dog's room, and the other half of the San Francisco poster story.
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Butterfield Blues Band
Bill Graham 1967
$195.99
Butterfield Blues Band, a Bill Graham bill from 1967. Mint.
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Sold
Abandoned
Killed By Faith
NM/VG+Sold Oct 11 · $94.00
1985 on Savage Beat, graded NM — which is not the condition records from that scene usually survive in.
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New on the shelf
The 24 newest arrivals, filed where they live. Pick a letter to browse all 2,975 records on the shelf. 34 went home this week. They're under Sold.
- HOODr. HookPleasure & PainVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- HOODr. HookMakin' Love And MusicVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- HOODr. HookA Little Bit MoreVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- HOODr. HookBankruptVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinVerities & BalderdashVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinSequelVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinShort StoriesVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinPortrait GalleryVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinOn The Road To Kingdom ComeVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinLiveVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinHeads & TalesVG/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinHeads & TalesVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinPortrait GalleryVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinLegends Of The Lost And FoundVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinLiving Room SuiteVG/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinLiving Room SuiteVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinSniper And Other Love SongsVG/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinLiving Room SuiteVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinDance Band On The TitanicVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CHAHarry ChapinDance Band On The TitanicVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- QUIQuiet RiotMetal HealthVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- HENThe Jimi Hendrix ExperienceElectric LadylandVG/VG (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- FLEFleetwood MacRumoursVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
- CLALouis Clark / Royal Philharmonic OrchestraHooked On ClassicsVG+/VG+ (opens the eBay listing in a new tab)
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1,649 comments, and none of them mine
The eBay account goes back to 2005. That was household clear-out. The record store started in 2023.
“Item came exactly as described and was shipped with care in terms of the overall packaging. Timeless vinyl that is typically hard to find in the stated condition. I would recommend this seller”
The Stylistics | Rockin' Roll Baby · b***1 · Aug 30, 2026“Excellent! NM Hendrix! Great seller. Packed well, great price, as described. This is a seller you should follow for vinyl”
The Jimi Hendrix Experience | Are You Experienced? · i***k · Sep 7, 2026“This was packaged well. The condition was nice and new just as it was described in the description. The item came quickly and the communication with the seller waa good. I would definitely use this seller again”
The Osmonds | Christmas Album · m***1 · Sep 2, 2026
What's your record really worth?
A $15 reissue and a $150 original can wear the same cover. The difference is scratched into the dead wax, the smooth band around the label. Type what's written there and my price check gets you to your exact pressing and what copies like it actually sold for.
Free. Your run-out goes to Discogs to find the pressing, and nothing else leaves your browser. Only have the cover? The catalog number works too. Here's how I price a record.
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That's the spot for your records. If you're clearing out a collection, yours or a parent's, I'd like to see it. I come to you anywhere on the Peninsula, and for the right shelf of records I've been known to drive a good deal further.
It started as my own collection and turned into a store when the shelves ran out of room. These days my dad digs alongside me on weekends, and he knows more about pressing history than he has any right to. My daughters are learning to grade too.
- Send me a noteA rough count, a few phone photos of the spines, and anything you know about where the records came from. That's genuinely all I need to start.
- I do the homeworkI research every pressing the way I'd want mine treated: dead wax, labels, the works. You'll know what you have before you decide anything.
- A fair, plain offerOne number, explained. Take it, sleep on it, or shop it around. No pressure either way.
Or write to [email protected].
Liner notes
Thoughts on records, pressing lore, and what turns up at the dig.
How I Price a Record, and the Time I Got It Badly WrongTwo common Santana LPs sat in my store at $194.99 and $205.99. Why asking prices aren't a market, and the method I use now.
Four Harry Chapin Records, Most of a CareerDebut, peak, mid-flight, return — 1972 to 1980, then he didn't get to make another one. The whole arc is on the shelf right now.
She Was There: Five Emmylou Harris Records and the Ghost of Gram ParsonsFive albums from one collection — Elite Hotel, Pieces of the Sky, Luxury Liner, Cimarron, and Evangeline. Each one is a chapter in the same story.
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