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Very true Chalky, ebay UK is hardly worth looking at these days - things are either optimistically priced or lost amongst all the recent boots.

I don't know if this may be a help to you: Music Magpie They pay cash for used CD's. You type in the bar code for the CD; they make you an offer; you package the CDs and send them; they pay you. Not used it yet as I've only just found it, but it may be useful to offload unwanted CDs.

But ..... https://cgi.ebay.com/NORTHERN-SOUL-Al-Wilson-The-Snake-FRENCH-VERSION-Hear_W0QQitemZ290390692227QQcmdZViewItemQQptZMusic_on_Vinyl?hash=item439ca25183

"a little light popping"

There's one on [my site.]

There's a copy of this on at the mo at £50 Think I have two copies, both mint minus. Cheers Paul

It's a trailer advertising a film. The thing with advertising is that if it doesn't appeal to you then you can rest assured it isn't aimed at you.

I can't remember but it was three records that had a good value, I hadn't paid full wack for them and they were going to go on my sales site. So I reckon we were both happy with the deal I was anyway, love the record.

You traded yours with me

That's what makes the record so good!

Buy scratched records!

There's a Jackie Paine on ebay [here]

Yeah, I get the touchy feely thing, I like to know where my music is. But would I get a shiver down my spine from a bootleg? Maybe only when the "original" is on acetate (which are not real records anyway). I dunno, I'll have to try this out for myself. I suppose it has to do with what I said about vinyl being the medium of the 70's - people our age are used to it and so prefer it. I remember when CDs first came out and vinyl was pronounced dead, loads of people slung records and replaced them with the same albums on CD. Motown re-released a load of Albums as 2 on 1 CDs. I liked my vinyl though so didn't bother (I'm tight too).

They are only making and selling them because people are buying them, that's the saddest thing. I cannot get my head round why people want bootleg vinyl these days. I can understand 70's bootlegs because vinyl was the medium of the day (until the technical revolution that was the cassette tape). But why buy 2010 bootlegs? CD's are cheaper, lighter and more convenient, downloads are much cheaper and lighter and much more convenient. What kind of thrill does anyone get from playing a 2010 bootleg in the comfort of their own home? Playing them out is bizarre, its like pretending to have something you haven't. And why bother? If you don't have an OVO policy then play the tunes from something more convenient, like a CD or a laptop. I've seen people playing out Motown Yesteryear which I thought was pretty crap but 2010 bootlegs? I find it wierd. Can anyone explain it? I can only hope that it is a younger generation who are discovering vinyl and NS at the same time.

I got a record from the states packed like this recently. A fragile thing packed in 2 fragile things makes it only marginally less fragile. A piece of glass packed in between 2 pieces of glass? BTW anybody collect Olivia Newton John records?

You'll probably find that the pictures shown in that listing are scans of an original so you won't see a lot of difference. I would imagine whatever turns up will be new vinyl with new labels scanned from an original. Best thing to do is only buy scratched records from now on with all these bootleggers about.

I'm with ken - soap and warm water. Small bit of washup in fairly warm water Immerse the vinyl (not the label) and watch the sh*te float off. Sometimes hold record in water for a minute or so slowly turning. Immerse in clean warm water then wipe with a wet, proper record cleaning cloth. Dry with a different (dry) record cleaning cloth. Repeat if required. Sometimes I rub soap onto a wet record (after initial immersion stage) with my finger and then immerse it in clean water, before wiping and drying. Seems to get rid of all the dust and grime that accumulates on records and the water gets rid of a lot of static. Doesn't get rid of the scratches but some records that look pretty trashed play really well after this treatment. Doesn't cost 2 Grand either! Edit: Think I'll put this in my blog

JM's 5th (published 2008) has them at 75 & 100 Dunno what the going rate is, sorry.

There's one just gone up on ebay [here] - Buy It Now

Seller also has an "ultra rare" Mungo Jerry - In The Summertime I think it was a hit all over the world and was No 1 in the UK for the whole summer when it came out. 10/10 for trying though.

I've just realised I did! I'm old enough to have been there first time round, I heard NS and went to a couple of local nights, I even went to Wigan once (about 1975) but was never really "on the scene". I lived in York at the time and going to York Soul Club these days I know nobody that I could/would have known in 1975. In 1995 I was working in Camden and for my wife's birthday I went into one of the record shops and bought some original soul LP's for her (Sam Cooke, Marvin Gaye etc). She has always liked soul music and even has a small collection of NS boots from the 70's. I didn't collect records really though I did have some LPs. Listening to the LP's and Helen's bootlegs got me hooked; I even put up a website called "Our Northern Souls" (geddit? - we were living in London). More for doing the website to be honest, the tinterweb was still relatively a novelty then. I joined the internet mailing list "keepingthefaith", conversed with other people who had been into Northern Soul for ages, heard new music (to me), bought some records off Pete Smith (he sent me a tape and list of records no more than a tenner) and went from there. 1997 saw me meeting Jo and Martin - we had only conversed in cyberspace - and These Old Shoes was born. I went to my first allnighter in 1998 - 100 club - at the age of 41. I now talk almost as good a load of b*ll*cks about NS as the next man, although I am still not sure of the difference between an oldie and a newie. So I got into Northern Soul via the Internet and social networking! Cheers Paul

The only issue I have had with a (very) few sellers in the states is when they massively overgrade a record and when you take it up with them they offer you a refund if you send it back. Sounds OK? Anything expensive goes back, but if it is a cheap record it isn't worth returning as in most cases you have to send it tracked (£8 = $12) and you only get the refund for the amount of the record. You can end up spending $40 and getting $20 back plus no record. I'm sure they know it isn't worth the return so deliberately send you a trashed record, one guy claimed that I had trashed the record as it was OK when he sent it! (I had to throw it away). I'm sure that they look on your ebay feedback, see that you buy Northern Soul (sometimes at a high price) and think you have fiddled them in some way and so send you a trashed record. Maybe I'm just bitter, and it is only a few sellers. These days I try to buy from sellers that I know but when you find a good record that someone has listed in amongst a load of rubbish you grit your teeth once you've won and prepare for the iffy packaging; iffy grading; will they send it; etc. Funny old game Cheers Paul

I think I'm on the side of those that think that buyers who repeatedly claim they haven't got things are just dishonest. The standard post (UK and from the states) is surprisingly efficient. I can only remember two parcels not getting here from the states; one was back in 98 and was a pack of cheap records, the other was last year sent insured but only tracked in the country of origin - I'm convinced it was stolen at this end by someone in the postal service who saw the value of the insurance and knew it wasn't being tracked in this country. I got my money back but lost £30 on the exchange rate change (and postage) over the time it took to sort out. So no Troy Dodds and minus £30 for the privilege. I actually think it is safer getting records via the standard postage as long as there isn't a high value on the front. Isn't it a good rumour that the Hatton Garden diamond merchants send all their stuff standard post because it is so anonymous and so stuff never gets stolen? Or was that in a film? As a seller I won't send anything that has been paid for by paypal unless the buyer pays sufficient postage for it to be insured to its value. Post goes missing all the time and people are dishonest. With paypal always finding for the buyer it is too easy for people to pay standard post and then claim it hasn't arrived. Saves them the cost of the record. The b*st*rds! I agree with MB - chop their nadgers off.

Spat my coffee out! errrr.... your tongue is in your cheek there, yes?

Just received an almost pristine demo of this if anyone would like one: Carolyn Cooke - I Don't Mind - RCA 8553 WLP - M- 50 It's not on my web site yet, you can listen to the tune (not from this copy) [here] Recorded post included, Special Delivery is £3 extra, paypal welcome at no extra charge. Please pm me if you would like it. Cheers Paul Edit: And it's in a company sleeve