Cover-up

Still looking!

Looking for a copy of: Nathan Bartell ‎– Ooh Baby, I Love You / If I Could Win Your Love (Soul-Po-Tion) Any help much appreciated. Thanks!

If it was in a radio station archive, it'd be the promo they were sent. I seem to remember when all the BBC stock turned up 15 years or so back, there was talk that the BBC had many titles in triplicate and, as previously mentioned, had libraries scattered around the UK which were being assimilated. So they were downsizing to "just" having everything in duplicate. I know somebody who visited the BBC library for a Record Store Day feature a year or two ago and apparently it was absolutely vast - just an insane amount of records. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b08mdly5 And lastly, apparently, there was a feature on a daytime show in the 80s where listeners got in contact with a story about a record they had which had gone missing - the circumstances surrounding it etc. I think they finished it when listeners would get in touch claiming to have lost their Tintern Abbey single (£1000 psych single, for example) while at a wild party, but eventually the powers that be clicked that a few of the stories might have been made up for nefarious purposes!

Been enjoying Patti Jo again, which led me back to this thread. And while trying to find a way to hear Steve's "This Is The Price" acetate - I found a link to this site with Patti Jo releases on Allsun, including aforementioned "This Is The Price": https://www.allsunrecords.com/artists/pattijo.html Does anybody know anything about these?

Never seen or heard of a Ska Beat company sleeve - would love to see one.

Looking for: 80s Ladies "Turned On To You" (UK Streetwave 1986) UK 7" release - any help appreciated...

A fantastic read, thanks Mark. Although I respectfully disagree with: "As Ian Clark predicts, that’s when this venue goes into NS history as an iconic club along side illustrious names such as the wheel, the Torch, Wigan, the Mecca etc." I don't think there's any doubt that the 100 Club already takes its place in NS history - long may it continue!

Looking for: 7" Jesse Gould "Out Of Work" (P&P) Please PM with price and condition. Thanks for looking!

Never seen one of these - can you post a label scan? Ta!

Anyone?

Not sure that bills are going down - if you're charged 10% sales fee, then 10% is 10%, regardless of whether the bill is in dollars or pounds. You sell your record for £10, fee is 10% = £1. Converted into dollars, then back into pounds - doesn't really make any difference what the exchange rate is, you'll still pay the same fee. Except paypal will rip you off with their crap exchange rate...

It's not 20% of the total sale, it's 20% VAT charged on their 8% sales fee. So, 20% of 8% = 1.6% (so fees are now 9.6%) - on a £10 record you're paying an extra 16p.

Nice of them to include a free 70s disco Casablanca sleeve with it...

Looking for: Jesse Gould "Out Of Work" (P&P) on 7" in decent condition. It's maybe a bit disco for members on here, so might be lurking in someone's sh*te box. Any help appreciated - PM me with condition and price. Thanks for looking!

The text on the label looks very slightly different to my eyes - exact same layout, but the small print just looks slightly thinner...

Thanks Paul, appreciated!

Looking for a 7" of: THE SOURCE feat. CANDI STATON "You Got The Love" (UK Streetwave) The 1986 single on Streetwave, not the house/techno version which charted. Please PM with condition and price - thanks!

I've got a bunch of UK ones - would be happy to trade for US ones I need...

Does the original not play for a bit - even if it's in the dad's imagination?

So far we've had cover versions of AC/DC and Black Sabbath! What next?! Really enjoying this thread...

The original of Amazing Love is backed with Popping Poocorn (on Ro-Jam). The re-issue of Amazing Love has Love Of My Girl on the flip (on Three Diamonds). Don't think it was re-issued on Ro-Jam, looks like you have an original! Nice double-sider...

The original post was aimed at an example I gave for sales for Gwen McCrae's "Keep The Fire Burning" on UK 45 - various members couldn't believe it was selling for £30+ and I merely uploaded the attached screengrab from Discogs showing that, on numerous occasions, it HAD sold for in the region of £30. At no point did I say the single is worth £123, or even bring the crazy price into question, it was obviously an anomaly - I was merely showing that sales of £30 weren't unusual. Are there really dealers who buy their own stock at massively inflated prices, pay the fees on the bogus sale, and then sell the next copy for far under the bogus price, swallowing up the bogus fees into the new transaction? I have no idea... but previous historic sales figures are out there, so can't see why somebody would be suckered into paying over the odds. Unless they want to. What about Manship's "Tainted Love" auction which finished at £800+ this week? Should we assume that didn't happen unless it can be proved that the money actually changed hands?

Pretty sure it's a different label - Four Sonics label is Detroit-based, with three releases in total. Story I heard was it was Keb Darge found Patrinell Staten on a digging trip with John Manship, the deal being Keb got all the funk and John got all the soul. So... Keb had to hand it over!

Err, okay, getting back to the original post - "why is this record selling for £30+?" Well, there must be SOME people chasing it and buying it - recent sales on Discogs attached, showing it's not just an optimistic blip. 38 members have it, 329 people want it. I've actually got the 12" and the 7" - not a huge fan of the slap bass solo on the twelve to be honest...