Collectors' regrets

[tomas]

Not buying the Detaching From Satan EP (Paul Chain) when I saw it in some second hand recordstore in Ghent 5 years ago, for 6 fuckin' euros! My metal interest was at its lowest ...

Not buying LPs when I was getting into metal in 1994.

Edit:
By the way: Paradoxx sukx!!!! Totally awful!

[great_knuthulhu]

A record store in the nearest town where I grew up went out of business around 1986-87. It was a tiny shop, but they had lots of European metal. They had a sale and were selling a case of vinyl for around €200. I don't remember the exact contents (none of those LPs were rare at the time, obviously), but there was most of the Mausoleum stuff, probably most of the Black Dragon releases, NWOBHM stuff, lots of Swedish material (I remember Heavy Load, Gotham City and some other things there - they actually had a lot Swedish metal singles. I saw quite a few of the ones in Dan's "101" list there). I think there must have been a couple of hundred albums in it. I had the money, but only picked a few items.

One of the LPs I bought was Haunting the Chapel. A couple of months later I let a friend loan it, and it came back totally ruined. Argh. All the other LPs I bought at that sale, I have still got, and they are all in great shape. Like Manilla Road's Open the Gates from Black Dragon.

And I'll add my voice to those who don't rate the Paradoxx. It's totally uninteresting.

[nightsblood]

Hollow Ground- I've come so close so many times

Missed a copy of the Hollow Ground EP in the pic sleeve for $75. My girlfriend and I were driving home for spring break and while she drove I flipped through a Sale list i got in the mail right before we left. I saw the HG listed and almost pissed myself, but we were on the road in the middle of nowehre (and this was 1995, before everyone and their cat had 5 cell phones). when we got to my parents' house hours later, i called the guy up and said I'd take it, but he told me he'd sold it a few hours earlier.
I missed a 2nd copy w/ the pic sleeve about 2 years later. When I called, the guy said, "sure it's yours" but then he called back about 30 minutes later and told me he'd forgotten that it had actually sold earlier that day. He was extremely apologetic and gave me a good buy on some other items to sorta make up for it, but still...
Also ended up losing a copy on ebay by less than $5 in early 2004. Finally ended up buying a sleeveless copy.

[Astaroth]

Man I have a few regrets, mostly paying absolute fucking crazy prices for stuff but that doesn't really bother me too much now. It did at the time though.

- Trading the SoL Domni Satnasi LP for some really crap CD's and an EP (I have no idea why I did this) but luckily I got the LP back
- Paying $200 USD for the Inquisition MLP
- Trading my Sad Ex Magus LP for Gods of War and it arrived in the mail snapped in half - again luckily I got the LP back as well as Gods of War from someone else

Probably got a lot more but in hindsight it's not too bad. I guess I'm like Jerry in that 'even Steven' Seinfeld episode except I'm not Jewish

[Nightlock]

Probably got a lot more but in hindsight it's not too bad. I guess I'm like Jerry in that 'even Steven' Seinfeld episode except I'm not Jewish

Great to see another fan here I'm a huge Seinfeld fan.

[mega_lodon]

It always hurts when going through some old Mags and see those Hellion advertises with all the early BM (not only) stuff getting sold for special low prices.

You hit the nail right on the head, ouch!

[DaN]

Earlier this year I went through some boxes of stüffs stored at my dad's, and discovered this ancient list of demos (about 75% of the collection) that I was selling off in the early 90's. Backstory is that I was a die-hard demo collector since the late 80's, but then discovered obscure vinyl sh*t in the mid 90's and needed cash. I COULD have just made the effort of getting proper employment, but nooooooo.... "let's just sell off these silly cassettes instead"



Descriptions are in Swedish (sorry) and the hand-written numbers are the prices in Swedish SEK. Today 10 SEK is about $1. Please kick my balls next time u c me

[bigfootkit]

Descriptions are in Swedish (sorry)

No need for apologies DaN, even as someone who doesn't speak a word of Swedish i'm fairly sure i still caught the jist of this description.

[Zombie Dance]

Earlier this year I went through some boxes of stüffs stored at my dad's, and discovered this ancient list of demos (about 75% of the collection) that I was selling off in the early 90's. Backstory is that I was a die-hard demo collector since the late 80's, but then discovered obscure vinyl sh*t in the mid 90's and needed cash. I COULD have just made the effort of getting proper employment, but nooooooo.... "let's just sell off these silly cassettes instead"



Descriptions are in Swedish (sorry) and the hand-written numbers are the prices in Swedish SEK. Today 10 SEK is about $1. Please kick my balls next time u c me

Dude...

Black Satan from Sweden demo? I believe this actually belongs in a museum! Ex Entombed members making silly satanic grind!

[DaN]

Descriptions are in Swedish (sorry)

No need for apologies DaN, even as someone who doesn't speak a word of Swedish i'm fairly sure i still caught the jist of this description.

Ha ha, I knew there was a word for that phenomenon and had to google it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

Black Satan from Sweden demo? I believe this actually belongs in a museum! Ex Entombed members making silly satanic grind!

Crazy thing is this is one of the tapes I don't even remember owning, but apparently I did
...but also

[bigfootkit]

Ha ha, I knew there was a word for that phenomenon and had to google it: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onomatopoeia

Yup, it's the true universal languague, to hell with Esperanto.

[mordred]

"Total TESTAMENT-thrash, det bästa dom gjort" is something you don't say nearly often enough these days!

[DaN]

"Total TESTAMENT-thrash, det bästa dom gjort" is something you don't say nearly often enough these days!

["...the best they ever did"]
Yeah, not the type of qoute you see very often from me nowdays

...but there were some support-your-local-scene prejudice involved here. That ATROCITY demo was incidently vinylized by my old buddy Viktor Hedin a few years ago: https://www.discogs.com/release/1902309 ... -Not-To-Be

Nothing too special, but Go-Västerås!

[humus]

Descriptions are in Swedish (sorry) and the hand-written numbers are the prices in Swedish SEK. Today 10 SEK is about $1. Please kick my balls next time u c me

These days I think you would be able to sell most of that stuff with those prices but in EUR instead of SEK.

Talking about demotapes, something very random popped into my head yesterday and that is that in 2007 when we visited the Arnhem metal meeting (first time seeing Nifelheim!) there was the Belgian magazine Mindview with a stand over there doing a raffle. Buy a ticket and to each ticket was attached a demotape from their archives.
Of course when my friend and me saw the tapes we went berzerk and didn't even read about the raffle, so we just started going through the tapes picking things out, totally ignoring the irritation of the guy on the other side of the table. Eventually he was able to tell us about the raffle but because we already had many tapes in our hands he agreed for us to just buy the amount of tickets needed to get the number of tapes we had picked out. Also keep in mind that it was 2007 and basically no-one gave a fuck about demotapes around that time, so probably he was selling raffle tickets at a rate of one ticket per hour before we came along.
I don't remember too much of what I got but it was for instance Voidd from Japan. So pretty obscure stuff. Now the regret is, this is more than 17 years ago. I would really like to go over those tapes again and see what kind of obscure treasures we missed due to simply not knowing the bands/releases at the time.

More random stuff that haunts me: back in the early days of ebay there was a Belgian seller with an original Hellhammer demotape. Went for the equivalent of 50 euro or so, which was too expensive for me at the time. Pretty sure it was the actual tape being reviewed in Orkaan or Sucks magazine that was being offered.


Edit: Corroseum archives for the win. I actually posted the tapes I got in the recent scores thread back in 2007.
Voidd - Pain studio live demo 1992
Voidd - Advance tape 1992
Exoto - And then you die demo 1991
Cabal - Satanic rite demo 1991
Yosh - 1991 demo
Crucifer - Festival of death demo 1992
Typhoon - demo
Thrash forward - demo 1990
Dreft - Butchered demo 1991
Mortal enemy - Tame the beast within demo 1994
Mortal reign - Return to battle demo 1990

[DaN]

Corroseum archives for the win. I actually posted the tapes I got in the recent scores thread back in 2007

My first reaction to this quote was "What does he mean ' Corroseum archives'...??"
...and then I realized, yeah, this forum is that fucking OLD now, and amazingly enough, some people still stick around *..and also heart emoji*