Always keep your 'throw-away' media. It's the stuff that everyone else throws away that ends up being rare and valuable. If only I'd kept all my old Marvel comics. I blame my parents — and for once I'm probably justified in doing so. I'll try and do better as a parent. But please remind me, because I'm liable to forget.
I think this badly-pressed 33 rpm 7" EP, sellotaped to the cover of Sounds in 1988, may have been briefly quite valuable because one or both of the Pixies tracks were unavailable now. But either some spoilsport included them on a compilation or not enough people threw away the EP, because it seems to be quite easy to get at a reasonable price.
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Glad you mentioned "badly pressed" because I was convinced I was responsible for my awful copy (and the impact that would have on its value!).
If memory serves, the best thing about the EP is how scarily young and skinny Black Francis looks on the picture on the back of the sleeve.
Posted by: Andy | 27 July 2009 at 02:21 PM
Blimey, I hadn't noticed that, but, yes, your memory does serve, even if it's a slightly cruel servant. Black Francis looks about 18 (he's the same age as me, so must have been 22 going on 23), and is smaller in the pic than the diminutive Joey Whatsisname!
I think it's not just the pressing. The (live) recording of The Wedding Present song is so poor that it manages to make my hundreds of pounds of hi-fi emulate a portable transistor radio. I was seriously worried for a moment that my stylus had been b*ggered.
Posted by: David | 27 July 2009 at 09:36 PM