Biggest Collectors

[Chris Anderton]

I was chatting to a guy on the phone tonight about a record he was buying and he was telling me about the stuff he has bought recently, a thousand pound tune here a 2k tune there...the thing is i had never heard of the guy before and here he is with a major collection spending thousands of pounds a year. I was wondering who are todays biggest spenders, i`m not asking dealers to name their best customers and you dont have to name names but just looking for stories of guys (or gals) spending big money all of a sudden?

In my experience these guys tend to disapear as quickly as they appeared but thats not saying they are all like that.

Recently I have been selling a lot of records to the US and I know Shifty has a guy in New York that is buying a lot of big records.......

Chris

[pikeys dog]

Ian G Lang - buys a load of stuff off Manships auctions - and quite a bit off eBay...

[Simon T]

I was chatting to a guy on the phone tonight about a record he was buying and he was telling me about the stuff he has bought recently, a thousand pound tune here a 2k tune there...the thing is i had never heard of the guy before and here he is with a major collection spending thousands of pounds a year. I was wondering who are todays biggest spenders, i`m not asking dealers to name their best customers and you dont have to name names but just looking for stories of guys (or gals) spending big money all of a sudden?

In my experience these guys tend to disapear as quickly as they appeared but thats not saying they are all like that.

Recently I have been selling a lot of records to the US and I know Shifty has a guy in New York that is buying a lot of big records.......

Chris

Alan Dawes

[Chris Anderton]

Never heard of either of em! Are they new collectors or guys who have been around a bit?

Im just selling my place and moving in with my fiance, she says what i make on my place i can do what i want with, am i gonna buy a load of records....?

No.........but i might buy one!

Chris

[Missgoldie]

There are a few very serious spenders here in oz, The Don Gardner from manships auction came here.

A friend of mine spent well over the odds for the Natural impulse 45 last year and he doesn't DJ soul out.

On one hand I find it baffling spending THAT much cash on one 45, on the other, I'm glad we have these rare records in the country and I suppose if I had that kind of cash I'd do it too.

[pow wow mik]

it's weird and kind of a shame to thinkof all those great records sat in rich folk's bedrooms if they're folk who don't get involved in any way - monster rare tunes that never get heard out while a lot of the working DJs play the same old easy to get stuff.

On one hand it's good that it'll keep demand and prices up - no one wants their collection to be worth f*** all in 10 years! - but on the other hand, it's a shame I never get to dance to a great tune because it's sat in a vault in Germany or somewhere.

Something like the Trent Sisters - it should have been bought for the mod scene - where it was intended to be - being danced to and enjoyed (and given to me to play!) like significant paintings are bought for the country!

I heard about a guy in NY who outbids everyone on everything who's buying tons of stuff who's a millionaire and just hoards them. Millionaires usually spend £1000s on cars / holidays / houses etc., If they decide to spend some of their disposable on rare records, the price variations must mean nothing to them. We all shit our pants about whether a record is worth £300 or £400...why would they give a f***? they spend that £100 difference on a meal without thinking, it means nothing to them.

It's surely one of the great justices in life that, untill recently at least, really rich people have been too busy getting really rich to bother developing good taste in music and therefore leave the good records for the soulful scum!

Edited November 22, 2006 by mik parry

[Guest Pete Griffin]

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[Guest Stuart T]

it's weird and kind of a shame to thinkof all those great records sat in rich folk's bedrooms if they're folk who don't get involved in any way - monster rare tunes that never get heard out while a lot of the working DJs play the same old easy to get stuff.

Do you reckon rich folk really keep their records in their bedrooms?

Don't think someone should be a working DJ if they only play the same old easy to get stuff.

Tin hats on please, I think this just turned into an oldies v newies debate!

[Guest ShaneH]

Do you reckon rich folk really keep their records in their bedrooms?

Don't think someone should be a working DJ if they only play the same old easy to get stuff.

Tin hats on please, I think this just turned into an oldies v newies debate!

don't worry it won't start for a while.....winnie has just took his yorkshire terrier for a walk

Shane

[pikeys dog]

don't worry it won't start for a while.....winnie has just took his yorkshire terrier for a walk

Shane

Surely that should read Shitshu

To go with his baggy trousers and patch covered vest....

[Guest Stuart T]

don't worry it won't start for a while.....winnie has just took his yorkshire terrier for a walk

Shane

Is he allowed out after dark again?

[arnie j]

I was chatting to a guy on the phone tonight about a record he was buying and he was telling me about the stuff he has bought recently, a thousand pound tune here a 2k tune there...the thing is i had never heard of the guy before and here he is with a major collection spending thousands of pounds a year. I was wondering who are todays biggest spenders, i`m not asking dealers to name their best customers and you dont have to name names but just looking for stories of guys (or gals) spending big money all of a sudden?

In my experience these guys tend to disapear as quickly as they appeared but thats not saying they are all like that.

Recently I have been selling a lot of records to the US and I know Shifty has a guy in New York that is buying a lot of big records.......

Chris

was just wondering who are the biggest collectors in britain today ?

[Guest rachel]

Tin hats on please, I think this just turned into an oldies v newies debate!

Not in my forum

[Guest Stuart T]

Not in my forum

So you're so anti old threads (not Spencers Winston) that we're only allowed progressive new ones?

On topic, I know a few people who have bought heavily in recent years who are selling up. I look forward to the prices coming down before I start buying a lot again.

Edited November 22, 2006 by Stuart T

[Rushden Vic]

chris in my opinion what was a predominatley white working class collecting scene in the 70s and 80s has become a plaything for those with more money than sense to give a examples when i was buying collecting the rarer stuff in the early 80s i was taking home about £150 a week wages . but buying what were top rarieties at the time like lester tipton £100 don gardner £120 chuck holiday £35 jimmy gresham -teri de £40 and then by the late 80s having to pay 200 for the likes of yvonne vernee ,jimmy burns, ramona collins larry clinton etc etc . but my point is a top rare record was accessible to ordinary guys on average wages ,and everything i bought was because of my passion for the music and it was more about having the knowlege and contacts to aquire the records.now it seems just a case of sitting back and if your cheque books big enough you can have what you want with a few obvious exeptions. and as you say a lot of the big money collecters last a few years then disapear i could name plenty ,they must get bored after buying 30 -40 trophy pieces. i still have the same desire as i did 30 years ago for collecting but now dig deeper for the more obscure . ,

[Val (Chunky)]

chris in my opinion what was a predominatley white working class collecting scene in the 70s and 80s has become a plaything for those with more money than sense to give a examples when i was buying collecting the rarer stuff in the early 80s i was taking home about £150 a week wages . but buying what were top rarieties at the time like lester tipton £100 don gardner £120 chuck holiday £35 jimmy gresham -teri de £40 and then by the late 80s having to pay 200 for the likes of yvonne vernee ,jimmy burns, ramona collins larry clinton etc etc . but my point is a top rare record was accessible to ordinary guys on average wages ,and everything i bought was because of my passion for the music and it was more about having the knowlege and contacts to aquire the records.now it seems just a case of sitting back and if your cheque books big enough you can have what you want with a few obvious exeptions. and as you say a lot of the big money collecters last a few years then disapear i could name plenty ,they must get bored after buying 30 -40 trophy pieces. i still have the same desire as i did 30 years ago for collecting but now dig deeper for the more obscure . ,

Bleedin' ell Tony....I think I've got to agree with a lot of what you've said there mate

Back in the day most of the people I knew were on about the same wage and built their collections by a bit of wheeling and dealing and deep crate digging. The sort of guy's I knocked around with (you know who they are Cliff, Trev, Tony...) also bought records that were not necessarily big nighter spins and built up collections that way. It always seemed to be a bit more of a level playing field back then some how.

[Guest NASHEE]

chris in my opinion what was a predominatley white working class collecting scene in the 70s and 80s has become a plaything for those with more money than sense to give a examples when i was buying collecting the rarer stuff in the early 80s i was taking home about £150 a week wages . but buying what were top rarieties at the time like lester tipton £100 don gardner £120 chuck holiday £35 jimmy gresham -teri de £40 and then by the late 80s having to pay 200 for the likes of yvonne vernee ,jimmy burns, ramona collins larry clinton etc etc . but my point is a top rare record was accessible to ordinary guys on average wages ,and everything i bought was because of my passion for the music and it was more about having the knowlege and contacts to aquire the records.now it seems just a case of sitting back and if your cheque books big enough you can have what you want with a few obvious exeptions. and as you say a lot of the big money collecters last a few years then disapear i could name plenty ,they must get bored after buying 30 -40 trophy pieces. i still have the same desire as i did 30 years ago for collecting but now dig deeper for the more obscure . ,

OMG in1974 I was picking up £11.56 in 1979,,,,,£36

[Marc Forrest]

I remember my first 45s set sale list from the UK in 1986, prices were all in UK pounds from 5 up to 25...me I was still in school and simply couldn`t afford these prices...so after getting over my first shock I decided to work as cleaning man at Lufthansa`s just before school in the (absolute !) morning hours...I was making about 250,- DM (about 70 UKP back then) and started off collecting in a serious way first two expensive 45s were Generation "Hold On" (off Soul Bowl) and Tommy Neal "Happening" on Palmer (off George Sharp), still have both and strangely enough both have not have had any climax valuewise..still have them so I must be a collector (to gap the bridge to another topic on here)

[Chalky]

chris in my opinion what was a predominatley white working class collecting scene in the 70s and 80s has become a plaything for those with more money than sense to give a examples when i was buying collecting the rarer stuff in the early 80s i was taking home about £150 a week wages . but buying what were top rarieties at the time like lester tipton £100 don gardner £120 chuck holiday £35 jimmy gresham -teri de £40 and then by the late 80s having to pay 200 for the likes of yvonne vernee ,jimmy burns, ramona collins larry clinton etc etc . but my point is a top rare record was accessible to ordinary guys on average wages ,and everything i bought was because of my passion for the music and it was more about having the knowlege and contacts to aquire the records.now it seems just a case of sitting back and if your cheque books big enough you can have what you want with a few obvious exeptions. and as you say a lot of the big money collecters last a few years then disapear i could name plenty ,they must get bored after buying 30 -40 trophy pieces. i still have the same desire as i did 30 years ago for collecting but now dig deeper for the more obscure . ,

gotta agree with you Tony

(PS Just a thought but some of the names mentioned might not appreciate their name being publicly displayed)

Edited November 22, 2006 by chalky

[Guest Phil Richards]

I was chatting to a guy on the phone tonight about a record he was buying and he was telling me about the stuff he has bought recently, a thousand pound tune here a 2k tune there...the thing is i had never heard of the guy before and here he is with a major collection spending thousands of pounds a year. I was wondering who are todays biggest spenders, i`m not asking dealers to name their best customers and you dont have to name names but just looking for stories of guys (or gals) spending big money all of a sudden?

In my experience these guys tend to disapear as quickly as they appeared but thats not saying they are all like that.

Recently I have been selling a lot of records to the US and I know Shifty has a guy in New York that is buying a lot of big records.......

Chris

Chris i am not a collector i just dj so if i want to play something that costs £3,000 i buy it

but i like it better when i buy something for £10.00