Hahaha! Hello there. I know what you mean. I get a rush of excitement when I see records to dig through. I still remember the excitement of running through the grocery store at 5 years old heading for the toy isle 😂. Thanks for watching and commenting. Enjoy! It’s only going to get better.

Hi Mark. You’re right about the variety of music in this locker. It seems to be a very diverse mix. I like that. See you on the next dig. Steve

Thanks, Dom. I’ll be “Seeking a gem 💎” or gems for a while it looks like. Thanks for stopping by!

Hi Rob! Thanks for the sub! I’ll get you back. Cheers to you!

Hi Monie! You’re right. Condition of most of these records, even the old ones has been pretty amazing. Lots of fun discovering what’s in these boxes. Thanks for watching.

Than you, Bob! It’s going to be fun fun fun!

Thank you, Trish.

Hello there, Jack! Great to meet you! I dig your channel bio! I too love talking all things music related! So far it’s been fun and rewarding. I subbed you back and I’ll be checking out your videos too. We appreciate you joining us on the fun exciting digs. I’m loving minty Keef Harley Band pull. Take care, ✌🏽Steve

Thanks for watching! So far it’s been a lot of fun going through these. Appreciate you virtual digging with us! ✌🏽🍻

Thank you, Richard! Enjoy our new adventures. We greatly appreciate your support.

Hi Richard I just noticed that wasn’t subscribed to your channel through my new channel The Vinyl Record Mission. I just subbed your channel. Sorry for the confusion.

I’m going to be digging there for a while. I’ll be lucky to get over there once a week at best maybe twice a month. I had to leave a lot behind. I need to find a cheap portable to go through all those 45s.

Thank you, George! Glad you enjoy it! It’s only going to get better. I subbed you back. Cheers.

Thank you FVA! I’m really excited about this new chapter of my life. I get to hang out with my best friend, Ryan, doing what brought us together as best buds!

Hey there JT! Thanks for subscribing! I subbed you back buddy. I’m super excited about this opportunity! It’ll be great to hear your thoughts on these record digs I’ll be doing, for who knows how long. Take care. Steve

come to ohio for some hot fun instead lol

Ryan and I are best friends. I know what you mean. My coming over here to dig once a week could be worse than a stock market crash on my 403b 😂. Lucky for me I have a large personal collection of my own of very sellable records that Ryan accepts in trade for whatever I want to take home with me. No money ever changes hands between us. Thank you for watching and commenting. We appreciate your support. Steve

¡Muchas gracias por ver todo el camino desde la hermosa Zacatecas, México! Sus amables palabras y deseos son muy apreciados.

Thanks for watching and commenting. I’m very excited about going through this mountain of records. See you on future digs.

Hahaha 😂 I’ve had a hard time leaving. Just like you said, I could dig here until I got through everything or hurt myself lol. Unfortunately and fortunately I have a full time job. I can only get out here once a week. Thanks for watching and commenting. Cheers. Steve

Hey Steve! Thanks for checking us out! I hope you enjoy these digs. So far it seems like fun for the entire family lol. I look at hundreds of cases of wine and liquor at work so I guess this doesn’t look much different than that to me. The overwhelming part for me is moving these 60 pound sons of guns around every week. I guess I could consider it working out 🏋️ lol. Get my fat arse in shape. I would have loved if all that hagar were halen! That Ziggy record is a great one. We appreciate your support. See ya around, Steve

👍🏽👍🏽✌🏽

Hahaha! Right fellow New Mexican. Both Ryan and I have homes in Taos! It’s Heaven up there! Peace DJchancia!

Thanks for pointing that out. Please do tell lol. We don’t claim to know everything. I completely understand if you don’t want to share. We eventually get around to checking everything. Thanks for watching and commenting.

Thank you for watching and commenting. It’s going to be fun flipping through all these records. See you on the next dig. 😊✌🏽

😂😂😜 Too good, Stevie, too good! Thanks for subscribing and making me laugh as always. Cheers

Hello Trish! Nice to meet you! Enjoy our vinyl adventures. Cheers Steve

Batdorf & Rodney is still there. What a cool story that is! I have some Red Rodney in my Jazz collection. He’s a fantastic trumpet player!

Yeah.. Mark went to my high school Valley HS. He is such an outstanding 2nd guitarist for John's nice songs. They recorded their debut at Muscle Shoals, and predated America's big impact( debut ) by a few months ! CSN is really the originators of that acoustic folk rock, though..

@@jtsrecordroom3963 I have their first Atlantic lp on a white label promo. It’s a phenomenal record that basically went unnoticed in 72. They should have been bigger. Every song is good.

Right.. Their 1st album was 1970, actually. Yeah, my copy is my OG that I bought shortly after the album release They were well known in the smaller city of Las Vegas, because they had lived there up until their signing in LA by Ahmed to Atlantic ! Thanks for getting back to me.

Yes Sir I did. You got talent David. I subbed your channel. Great stuff!

Two of the no less! Good looking out! 😉

I’ve added some great records to my personal collection since digging through Ryan’s inventory. He’s definitely not a hoarder. He makes a great living buying and selling records. I’m lucky to be like a brother to him. That Armando SciaScia Phantom Record is a killer! Do you know about Armando’s other recordings?

Hello there, M2M! You are absolutely correct to ask us to slow down the flip. I just realized it after I posted my second dig video that I was pushing too fast. I will definitely slow it down for future videos. Thank you so much for politely asking. We really do appreciate you watching and subscribing. Thank you for your input. See you on future digs. Take care. Steve & Ryan.

Damn! Did I miss that one!? Good thing is we’re dating all the boxes to correspond with the video dates. I know exactly where to find it. Thank you for looking out for us. I love that song Sixteen Tons! Cheers! Steve

Hahaha. My name is Steve and I’m a RA. lol. I have that same disease, Greg. Thanks for checking us out. Steve

Thanks for noticing and letting us know. I was excited but then let down when I found the incorrect album inside. I was disappointed. Thanks for watching and you have a great eye. Take care. Steve

Thanks for subbing. We subbed you back. Unfortunately we’re not reopening the shop. We’re just sharing what we do and find. Ryan is however open to selling records that we find in our digs. We haven’t quite thought that far ahead yet lol. But feel free to reach out in the comments if something interests you. I’m going back to dig this Sunday. I hope to have the video posted by Tuesday. Take care. Steve & Ryan

@TheVinylRecordMission thanks for the sub. I'll keep an eye out.

You’re right about that brother Joey! Those are some beautiful Nat King Cole records! You have impeccable taste in music my friend. NKC is one of the best crooners of all time.

@@TheVinylRecordMission It is awesome you getting back into selling records. I would love to talk to you about that business. Thank you for your time and always many blessings

Boy, I would love to dig through those, Paul.

Hi Paul. You can bet I’ll be getting into those 45s very soon. I have a little experience with those little buggers. So many records to get through. Thanks for watching. I subbed your channel.

Hello. You mean like Sheffield Lab type of pressings?

Sorry 🫢 You’re absolutely right! Sammy is a great dude and a fabulous artist! I’m going to show more for him from now on as well as for every musical artist. Each and every one of those artists in this storage is loved by millions of fans. Who am I to judge that. Thank you for humbling me. It’s very cool of you to do it in a vey kind and respectful way. ✌🏽🫶🏽💪🏽😎 Steve

Kind of an old wives tale. I’m not saying records don’t warp in intense heat, however we’ve yet to experience that and we’ve been buying record collections out of Southern California storage units and desert garages for many years. There’s been very few instances where we came across some warped records in a collection but never has an entire collection been warped. There’s always a chance we’ll get a few warped records but if and when we do they are usually really thin flimsy vinyl. At the prices we pay, a few warped records out of thousands is not a deterrent. Great question, Steve

@@TheVinylRecordMission vinyl can take some heat, but direct sunshine is the killer. Kept in shade, vinyl will be ok up to 110 or so.

Hello there DSOTP. Ryan actually bought these large collections and put them in storage. The stacked records you saw were fine meaning no warps. We know not to stack salvageable records that way. Ryan does this full time and sells loads on eBay. I dig there once a week. It is very time consuming and labor intensive as you know but we love it. Thanks for watching and taking time to comment. Check out our other videos to see what cool records we’ve found in these massive acquisitions. Take care. Steve

Please message Ryan on our Instagram page The Record Mission. He can arrange a private listing for you on eBay so you can purchase whatever records you desire. Thank you, Steve

I understand what you mean, Randy. Ryan is very resourceful and well connected in the community. He sells all his bulk garbage to an Artist by name of George Monfils. George does some incredible work. Check out the link below to see where thousands of Ryan’s unsellable records end up. Ryan sell thousands of records to George for ten cents a piece. www.georgesmonfils.com/new-page-1

Hello Paul. Many of the records are I amazing condition. Appreciate you stopping by and taking the time to comment. Steve

Hi Randy. Thanks for sharing your thoughts with us. We’re very aware of the situation. One lesson we’ve learned over the course of many years of doing this is we’ve had to humble ourselves incredibly in order to learn a priceless lesson. That lesson is no matter how much we think we know, we’re always reminded of how much we don’t know when we dig through acquisitions such as these. We haven’t lost money buying a record collection in 20 years. We’re very savvy when it comes to pricing. There’s soooo much more to collecting records than Zeppelin, Floyd, Dead Heads etc. We’re not afraid to work hard and dig deep. I’ve learned so much about music, super rare uncommon artists and acquired some of my rarest records digging through heaping piles of what many would run away from. We appreciate your thoughts. Take care. Steve

And no single metal album.

Hello there Audio Nonsense. Thanks for watching. Here is a link to Ryan’s eBay page. www.ebay.com/str/recordscdscassettescalifornia?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=yJCw7LiLSXO&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=tvjr0he1rdu&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

We can totally appreciate your enthusiasm and desire to dig. However these collections we acquire are for our own personal use. In addition we just don’t have the time to open things up to the public. Ryan is open to selling anything we don’t keep for ourselves. We’re working on setting up our Instagram page so viewers can message us about records they see in the videos they may want to purchase. Stay tuned. Steve

@@TheVinylRecordMission no problem my friend, I’m honestly happy for you guys, may you’re treasure quests be prosperous!!

@@arzabael We appreciate your understanding brother. Thank you for your support. We are going to try and hook up our Instagram for selling records. So stay tuned.

Anyone who’s ever been successful in this business knows when to lowball which is actually not lowballing at all. When you know it’s not a mound of solid gold you don’t offer gold prices. Occasionally we take a gamble. I’ve bought entire collections and gave the seller thousands because I knew there were records in the collection to justify that value. I’ve never met anyone who paid full retail for collections as large as these. Kings! We’ll take it. 😁. Thanks for watching and commenting. Take care.

Hmm. Cherry picking the few not worth $1 by placing them aside. You do that so you know the minimum amount the whole collection is worth as the rest is junk. No secret there

@marklazarewicz1646 For guys like you I can see your point and more power to you, Mark. We’ve always lived (and have always thrived and prospered) by the old adage “One man’s junk is another man’s treasure.” 😂 Besides we’re having fun doing what we love. No crime in that. ✌🏽

@@TheVinylRecordMission I'm happy for you I've done it myself I'm also a real collector not a flipper only. I won't lie I like cheap finds myself and am envious of the those that get leads imo mostly record store owners first. I find the business to be similar to used car salesman 😉 ie dishonesty. Lots if blow hard record store owners claim they pay 25 to 50 percent retail but in reality it's pennies on the dollar. Why do I care? I put in my will under no circumstances should my 100k collection be picked through by a reseller like you🤣🤣🤔😉. Give it Goodwill first that way you have to pay at least $2 A record for crap records 😉

@marklazarewicz1646 Hahaha. I need to put that in my will. “Under no circumstances let anyone like me or Ryan pick through my collection” 🤣. It’s a tough racket. I’ve spent many years and a lot of lost dollars on my record knowledge education. I over paid for garbage in my early overzealous years. I learned more about what not to buy than what to buy. There is a certain margin we all have to work within and that includes a huge margin for error. We have much in common, Mark. I greatly appreciate your opinions and I’m glad we can civilly discuss the topic. Peace brother. Steve

Hello. Unfortunately we do not ship outside the USA. Thank you for inquiring and watching.

Thank you happy hippy. So far so good. I found a $1,000.00 grail 45 last Monday along with a bunch of other great 45s and some nice LP which included a few minty Beatles albums. Thanks for watching. Take care.

@TheVinylRecordMission Wow, that's incredible. Congratulations, brother. Someone just gave me 5 slayer picture disc albums, I don't care for them but it will bring some cash.

@@happyhippythevinylguy Congrats to you too. Five Slayer albums! That should bring a nice feast to the table. Right on!!

Hello Master! So far so good! We’ve had 7 digs and seen thousands of records and only 1 or 2 records have been warped. More than likely they were warped before we bought them. Thanks for checking us out! You should have a look at our other videos and see the great records we’re pulling out of there. Take care! Steve

lol Hi Jeanl. . . I wish we had the time. Ryan has an eBay where he eventually lists many of these records. Let me know if you’re interested I’ll send you a link. Thank you for watching. Take care. Steve

I’ll check with Ryan and get back to you. Thank you for subscribing and watching our video. I subbed you back. Take care, Steve.

He said $10.00 + $5.00 shipping. So $15.00 total.

@@TheVinylRecordMission ok. where, how to send payment?- JT

@@SoIMarriedARecordCollector Hi JT. Venmo or Zelle. I looked at the vinyl closer today. Boy are you going to be please. Is Venmo or Zelle good for you?

@@TheVinylRecordMission never used either of those and usually use PayPal. Would that work for you? Let me know :) Otherwise I'll open a Venmo- JT I can't imagine what else is in those boxes that I may want

www.ebay.com/str/recordscdscassettescalifornia?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=yJCw7LiLSXO&sssrc=3418065&ssuid=tvjr0he1rdu&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY

You won’t always see the records from our KZfaq videos on Ryan’s eBay right away. If you’re interested in something in the videos send us a message on Instagram. The link is below. instagram.com/therecordmission?igsh=OGQ5ZDc2ODk2ZA%3D%3D&

Thank you for stopping by and sharing your thoughts. Every word you said is 100% spot on correct 👍🏽. I understand from where you’re coming. We really enjoy what we do, we always have. Fortunately for Ryan and I we have the financial means, time, necessary mindset and passion for this kind of ‘fun’. Over the years we’ve both built what to us are amazing personal collections and we’ve done it many pearls at a time as well as a few pearls at a time. Take care. Steve and Ryan

@@TheVinylRecordMission Totally a mindset and I really dig what you guys do! Just for me, it is too much of a time wh*re and the constant disappointment of local music tastes. However, anytime I go somewhere and there's a bin/stack of records, I go through them all....lol. Maybe the definition of 'insanity'. I have found many pearls but weighed against the time involved..........🙄

@@TheReal1953 Lol. I’m guilty of that too. My wife rolls her eyes at me all the time.

@@TheVinylRecordMission You're keeping a lot more than I would have....lol. This is tough...I'm not really looking for anything in particular. I find things I like just by going through stacks like this. I realized a few years ago that owning thousands of records means you're never going to listen to them all. If you do the math and assume you listen to on average two albums a day, it takes yrs and yrs to work through a big collection. Most folks are not doing that; they listen to and rotate favorites. It's not really tenable, but I do it anyway.....madness.

Thereal: Religious garbage? Perhaps not much monetary value but valuable to those who believe.

Hi Mike. We been doing this for 20+ years. We never pay too much only too little 😂. Early on when I first started buying big collections I over paid a few times. I quickly learned my lesson and taught Ryan how to avoid the mistakes I made. We’re into these collections so cheaply they might as well have been given to us for free. Did you see the Thousand Dollar 45 I pulled out of there last Monday April 15th? I also pulled over $400.00 worth of other 45s in that same dig. We’ve got thousands more 45s to go through. I only went through 150 45s so far. See you on the next dig. Take care. Steve

@@TheVinylRecordMission Did not see the other video, but when you buy in bulk and pay 'peanuts' per vinyl you tend to make a profit most of the time.

@@miketomlin6040 That’s all we know how to do. It took years of self funded education (if you know what mean) but it paid off.

You’re absolutely right. Our apologies. Moving forward I’m going to slow it down for the viewers. Thank you so much for expressing your feelings to us. Take care. Steve and Ryan

Sounds like a whole lot of jealousy 😮