A lot of people think that if they got something old, it’s automatically valuable. I see this everywhere and with everything.

“It’s The Beatles so I KNOW its worth money” said the woman selling an unplayable Apple reissue single for $25

I was told by one vendor, "They don't make records anymore. "

I love how these "knowledgeable vinyl record experts" place the price sticker directly on the album cover. True professionals there in Memphis.

That Stevie Wonder record may have come from a radio station, who didn't want the DJs to play the first track on the air. They'd often cover up or scratch out tracks that contain obscenities or didn't fit the station's format, and also to reduce the chance of someone borrowing the record and never bringing it back. And also, the next year whose calendar will match up with 1974 is 2030.

Before the resurgence of “vinyl”, many record stores in Houston had everything for $1🤣

I love when sellers set a 20$ price tag on a record, and say its VG++ when the whole damn cover is a giant falling apart at the seams ringwear worn copy. And you're like "Are they kidding me?". Yeah, we got those here in Sweden as well.

"It's staying for 14 bucks!!" " You never see Barbara S. records!!" Hilarious quotes!!! to name a few! Thanks for making me smile today! People take records so seriously all of a sudden! They were always important to me..🎃 Firm!

Prices are nuts right now. The "vinyl revival" can't die soon enough for me. Also, I had the same KISS experience. Something happened to me between those 2 albums. Maybe it was the lack of a hit single. Great video.

Thanks Bob for such an entertaining video. I couldn't believe my eyes when I saw the price tags on some of those records in altrocious conditions.

Ha! This has to be one of the most amusing and funny segments I've seen is sometime. I'm laughing myself silly. Unbelievable pricing. I appreciate you sharing these.

Your videos never fail to cheer me up, and this was one of my favorites. One technique I've noticed is putting a crappy record in a protective sleeve. It easily doubles the price.

Great video man and nice perspective. I always enjoy the visuals

Generally I’ve found antique malls overprice everything as it’s already been picked and the sellers are paying rent, but this is really bad. The condition of some of these are non sellable in my opinion. Also: Kenny G: “$40 FIRM” lmao

So true about the trickle down effect. I started buying records because you could get decent old albums for under $5. Not anymore. It’s become a rich man’s hobby💰

It is amazing how prices in some of these booths are nuts. There are a few good ones around our area. Great video!

This video was hilarious! I can't believe those prices. You did get some great records for $5. Take care.

Thanks for the laughs, those prices are crazy. Glad you found some gems.

Great video!! This is insane those prices, some of them looked like they’ve been in a car accident 😳

I was in rural PA at an antique mall. ECM and Bluenotes were $2. At the mall next door, mostly OG European pressings Paul Desmond, Brubeck, Monk, Coleman, Gil Evan and a ton more all at $3 each. They were so clean I thought they were brand new. Guy who bought put his name and year bought on the back, he was stationed in Germany from 1961 to 64 and bought all these at the base store.

There is an infamous seller in an antique mall near me. The most ridiculous was $70 for literally just the cover of Pearl Jam vitalogy

There's a guy in limerick ireland who has a place where everything is like this price. He has a sign outside the door that basically says "buy something or get out" so everytime I'm down there I make a point to walk about and not buy a single thing lmao

really enjoyed this video, you really hit the mark, good luck on making more videos

You don't put masking tape all around the circumference of your vinyl records? I thought everyone did that? 😳

Thanks for this one, we don't see enough PSA's like this and yes, it has gotten wacky out there. A few years before lockdown I started seeing "priced" records at certain Goodwill stores, same thing...beat up, scratched to hell and often not even the correct disc. One could go to an actual record store and get those common records VG+ in a dollar bin (maybe $2 or $3 these days) and most of the "money records" you showed could be had at those prices or way less BUT they would be VG+/NM- and maybe with the correct record inside and mold free! Crazy that people don't even bother to look at the actual vinyl when pricing these.

Great video and yes these antique people have lost their minds! There must be and Antique Monthly that had an article about fleecing record buyers! I have a place where I go and I educated her and introduced her to Discogs! Of course she had to be re-educated because she always wanted to take the median or the high price! So what I do now as they go through the collections that she has and I pull what I want and then I sit down at the front desk and go through Discogs one by one! I gave her 40% of the medium and I’m happy with that! But it looks like the people that you’re talking about and showing I have a completely lost their minds😂

Quantum used to be in Bartlett where I live. It's an awesome antique store and glad to see you had a good experience. I been shopping Memphis records for almost a decade and the prices have gotten ridiculous. There used to be a few hole in the walls with better prices but they closed up during Covid.

Great video - I've been there with those over-priced "antique" malls!

Great video man, you are very knowledgeable and hilarious!

Respect man. You’re in it for the music, I’ve always been in it for the music too. Flipping to make money has never been a thing for me. I’d rather kick back & spin the 33’s man. Great video btw, a shame I’m in the UK coz that booth sounds worth a trip.

“ A fool and his money,are soon parted “ has become so true the past decade and especially during and after Covid .

Hi Robert - very entertaining in a tragic sort of way. Ever thought of interviewing people who are purchasing these? Love to know what they are thinking.

I live in Memphis and honestly this has been the case for decades. I don't understand why people would pay to have a space at an antique mall and then not lower prices if an inventory item hasn't sold for a couple months. Sheffield's (antique mall) is the only place I would even venture to go.

Discogs is causing some of this with their prices by last 10 sold. It basically means prices always goes up and never really level out.

Great video! Loved that you exposed those clowns!! It's everywhere!! I live in Ohio and recently talked this guy out of buying pink floyd the wall TRASHED COPY at a antique store FOR 96$ Poor guy was hell bent on getting for it .Thank God my record store I go to had a vg copy for 19.99 and he got it there .Again great video!

New watcher, enjoy your content. I'm from Memphis and this is a hilarious embarrassment. Thank goodness I never go to those antique malls because those are outrageous. I've found some nice things on a couple of those buy nothing/give-away groups on Facebook and at garage sales (only a few sadly) even though everyone hosting those thinks they're a vinyl record appraiser.

Hilarious video! We have a few great stores up here that sell VG+ vinyl for $5 ea. And even $1 bin VG+. I'm kind of shocked by some of my finds. My best to date is the original pressing of 2 lp Manassas with the poster and photo sleeves of Stills on heavy vinyl for $5 VG. Most just needs a cleaning. Here's a question for you Robert: What's up with the 1 and 3 side and the 2 and 4 side set up on the double lps? I'm still trying to figure that one out!

i used to work at a record store in south texas… a lot of those prices seemed in line with the boss’s pricing ethos 😅 every time someone who actually knew what they were talking about came in they would scoff at the prices and i would laugh with them and throw them a discount!

“Laughably” is right! I laughed my head off at your commentary. Thanks, budd.

Unbelievable. You called it, brother. Great Video.

Great video. Thanks for sharing. Used vinyl can also be very overpriced here on the east coast of Canada. I rarely pay more than $5 to $10 for used vinyl, unless it's something really rare.

"I'll give you $100 for the half a gatefold, the copiously molded one and the rare Herb Alpert". Lol. So glad you found that Goner stall so your trip was worth it!

The second I spotted Unmasked in your pile I got instantly jealous lol. Wow, awesome find for $5.00! One of my favorite KISS albums.

“Looks like a basement wall “ 😂 great vid

Robert, those prices are every where! Over priced for unplayable records or covers that are falling apart in your hand. I went to a record show and the grading and prices were outrageous. Watch out CD lovers the price increase is coming your way. Have a great day.

Great video! I am just astounded by these prices. I'm no economist, but it doesn't seem consistent with the law of supply and demand - am I missing something? At any rate, a number of months ago, you posted a video in which you found several amazing 45s for between 50 cents and $2.00 - I hope you have another experience like that soon! As for me, I'm going to keep looking for that first pressing of Love Forever Changes. Be well!

I so hope these booth dealers somehow get to see this video and you absolutely roasting them. Please do more of these and run this crackheads through the muck.

Nothing worse when your local newspaper or news station does a report on "collectibles"and than everyone with say that Carole King Tapestry calls your record shop to let you know they will sell it to you for a 100 bucks

Thanks for making this video. I've been looking for a good source of old vinyl in Memphis. The thrift stores out here aren't as well-stocked as they used to be.

Our antique shop booths have gone the very same route. The records often look like someone played Frisbee with them in a gravel parking lot and they want a fortune for them. As soon as they heard records were popular again...

Great video. It’s a weird. Moment for those of us that have been crate digging for years. Thrift stores and estate sales are gradually adopting similar pricing…

I agree with you Robert about the flipping. I was at a Mr K's a few years ago and found several Metallica albums but I already have them. Just left them for hopefully someone who didn't. While the high priced garbage was laughable , gotta say you made out well on what you did buy. Great video as always

Totally and completely insane!!! I laughed so hard when you called that Pink Floyd the "Basement" Wall LOL!!!

Good finds! I found a copy of "The Common People" and a Poppy label "the late great Townes van zandt" at an antique mall for like $10. A booth that was selling common Beatles stuff for ridicuous prices. Also Karen Dalton at another place for $3. ITs always in booths where the sellers are pricing common stuff at stupid prices. They always miss something

I live in Memphis and highly agree! I fell out laughing at most of your comments because I see this stuff every trip to the malls. And I agree with the $5 booth at Quantum. I can also tell from certain booth labels, that you went to A Moment in Time down the street. The biggest joke of raping prices is out east in Collierville at Sheffields. There is also a booth north in Millington that has some ridiculously priced albums, but there are a couple of booths that I have walked away with some gems. I really appreciate this and subscribing!

Hi robert. Loved the video . We have the same problem in scotland . Thrift charity shops charging more than a record store. Best regards from james.

i always say these things in my head, thanks for sharing. the basement wall comment made me laugh

It really makes you wonder Robert. Would they do this shit with baseball cards or comic books? I highly doubt it. All this overpricing does is turn people away from this awesome hobby, like I really wanna empty my bank on moldy, scratched, overpriced records that I can barely play. Excellent job on exposing these fraudsters!

I just recently found your page and have been watching numerous videos so I can't remember now which one I was watching when you made a comment about basically are there any good cover albums. I might recommend two that I think are pretty good: Molly Hatchet Regrinding the Axes and Vanilla Fudge Spirit of '67. The later coming out in 2015 I believe and really deserves a listen. Let me know what you think.

awesome video, when i see stores that do this i always think "hell if i go by their price guide my collections worth millions!!!"

i have most the records you showd but allot of them i bought 4 for a dallar including alice cooper schools out love your show now you cant find or afford what the thrift shops charge

Love the content and dialogue thank you sir

My hometown had an antique store and the ONLY reasonably priced record was Thick As A Brick ($5). The rest: $12 for a Cher record $45 for a Linda Ronstadt record $50 for Meet the Beatles $80 for the Hair soundtrack (I tried hard not to laugh out loud when I saw that)

I'm in Bucks County, Pa. where everything is way too expensive, and all the thrift stores within a 20 mile radius of me have those milk crates full of albums, in WAY better condition, and they run about a dollar a piece. I think the most I've ever seen a vinyl priced at was 15 bucks and it was an old sealed something or other. But that Village People record you showed? I've seen that for 50 cents more than once, same with Streisand albums. That place seems ridiculous, but it made for a great video, so not a total bust! lol Thanks for posting this, really fun watch

in my area record stores are full of very expensive reissues of classic albums and they will never understand that many people have given up on the idea of selling valuable vinyl in stores because the stores either cherry pick or offer next to nothing. I chatted with one seller who said a store offered him a nickel for a stack of vinyl and he was going to put the records in a dumpster instead.

Whenever I come across a place like this I make it very clear to them how ridiculous it is. Either the records mean nothing to their business or there are actually poor rubes out there that pay these prices every once in a while. That Christopher Cross for $22 is just an absolute crime. My local shop can't give that album away quick enough. There's about 8 in the dollar bin right now.

More than happy that I bought 90% of my library thirty years ago at average $5 a pop. Thanks for the info of "Tonight's the Night" ($5) , Goodbye Waterface side two dead wax, black and silver Reprise lable. Added bonus double fold , " Welcome on Miami Beach, Ladies and Gentlemen " insert. Also info of Aerosmith debut, knew it was an early press , just not how early👍

Fun video. Nice to see you found something at a reasonable price.

Yeah, I see this from time to time here in Finland as well. Luckily, flea markets where "normal" people sell their records are still somewhat of a gold mine from time to time, but usually even amongst common people they know what the records' are worth. Still, you're definitely able to do some nice finds here. Stores however, like antique shops and used books stores... They take a premium for what is essentially crap, regular records you couldn't even give away on any given record fair.

“C” is for Cookie is a master piece. It has his version of “If I Knew You Were Coming, I’dev Baked A Cake”. If you don’t have that album; can you call yourself a collector? 😜 It is instantly clear when someone who doesn’t collect vinyl, sells vinyl, but doesn’t know two shits about vinyl. In one way, it makes it easy. You just need to see one ridiculously priced record, and you can move on. Another great vid. 👍

That strangley doesn't happen too often in Los Angeles but is laughable when it does. Those prices are unbelievable! It is nice to think of someone else coming to find some good deals after your turn. Whenever I (rarely) come across The Records S/T album or Steve McQueen by Prefab Sprout I grab them and give them to friends who do not have them.

I love antique malls but not for vinyl records. We see this ridiculousness all the time. And I have wanted to ask em...do you really think your gonna sell this?? And yeah there's a particular dealer who does all the vinyl business because his stuff is correctly priced. Great video.

Yes, I’ve seen that. Old run of the mill LPs in charity shops and antique shops. This video made me laugh so much!!!! $35 for half a Doors gatefold album!😂🤣😅

to be honest most self respecting vinyl collectors wouldn't touch these with a barge pole !

We need to bring down the bs in the used record market. Just a little. LOL!

Lifelong Kiss fan here and UNMASKED is absolute power pop perfection. Followed them through every line up change, every genre and that album still holds up to this day. So many great songs!

This is so funny, I've watched it twice now. Can't find your video where you talk about overpriced "new" records. Can you provide a link? Thanks.

I've been wanting to make a similar video for a while now because I'm seeing this insanity here at many of the record stores in Brooklyn. Trashed KISS records for $15 to $20, records with mildew and water damage and parts of the cover torn off for $10 to $20. Recently I ran across a copy of Joni Mitchell's "Blue" that looked like it had been found under the wheel of a bus, faded and worn, heavy ring wear, pencil and pen marks all over her face. The price? $50!! AND the next time I was at that store it was gone, so evidently someone bought the damn thing.

Damn, I've been looking for that Tommy James version of the Doors debut for years! That was absolutely classic when you pulled that out of the sleeve. The madness has to stop. I just discovered your page a few days ago - great content man you say it how it is. I don't make videos anymore on the tube, but I just found you on IG. -Chris

This was a really great story. I just don’t understand people who want to sell records but don’t know what they have. I found a thrift store that had a “special “ box of records with a “special” price. They were five dollar records at best. But the prices were at times triple that. I found a record that was so badly warped that it looked like a ride at space mountain. They wanted 15 dollars. SMH. Enjoyed the video.

Great video ..made me laugh out loud. The same problem is at large here in the U.K. But thankfully you can still find reasonably and even under-priced good condition vinyl at antique malls/charity (thrift ) shops and car boot sales ( U.K equivalent of your yard sales). Hopefully thre problem is a passing phase until greedy selllers realise they have a load of crapdead stock on their hands ! 🙂

Last time I was in Memphis, the actual record stores were great. And I agree Goner is AWESOME. Antique stores and yard sales…Nuts! Everyone is trying to cash in on their “rare collectibles” (especially in tourist towns that hope to rake in some Yankee dollars)🤪

I wonder where these people get their prices? I’d love to know if they ever move any inventory…

Just got back into collecting, and I'm floored at the pricing at the shops. I somehow picked up "Bridge of Sighs" for $3, but everything else was an embarrassment.

Love the video. I’m a comic collector and it’s a very similar experience. Bad condition-high price. Even for issues no one would care about

Walked into a Antique store exactly like you described in Phoenix yesterday (my first time finding it). And yes, they had very non-mint records in glass cases popular titles for $75 and thought... really? Cool now finding your video. However, I did see a Beatles 45 for sale there for $6 after I just bought it on ebay for $25. Some booths were priced correctly.

Great show 🎉

Hello there I had one of those booths that you shared with albums being overly priced I actually got the price from online sells with a $5-$10 mark down. But you are correct with the appearance of the album cover.

That Michelle Shocked album in any format has always been a favorite, especially Anchorage. Many years ago when it first came out I heard it playing over the sound system at Tower Records on West 4th Street. And immediately bought it.

Same problem at my local antique market. Their prices are hopelessly out of touch for scratched LPs warping in the sun. I've never seen them actually sell anything when I walk past :)

A local video game store started selling used vinyl. All crap condition at top prices. A Johnny Cash album I picked up was in especially bad shape. The vinyl looked like it had been dragged across a warehouse floor and the jacket was held together with brittle making tape. Asking price: $25. Unfortunately, in the last few years or so Half Price Books has also fallen into this habit.

unbelievable crazy.... I will say though double check George Strait prices, you might be surprised, if that record was really clean and in the shrink, $35 is about right. I've sold a lot of his records on discogs and at record store i sell at, they always sell quick and most are in the $15-$30 range, he def has a following.

Hey guy 😃 maybe they're doing what ebay sellers do... I recently went on ebay to buy an pb copy of a book I always wanted to read... should sell for about 2 or 3 dollars. People selling the book must not have checked the completed listing to see what the book actually sells for, just what other sellers are asking so now every seller is asking $40.00 or more. Not a first edition, battered old paper back- $40.00. The sellers you encountered know nothing about records, and are probably looking on ebay to see what sellers are asking. Great vid!!!

Those sellers are insane for asking such prices, most of the records they try to sell you have to pays someone to take them!

Some guy at Beatlefest Chicago tried to sell a Don Henley 12” for $35 and he tried to tell me that he was giving me a deal because in New York he can get $50 for it. He told me that “i’m nice enough to give you a price on it I figured you’d buy it!” I told him $5 for it an he got real mad.

lol. "Antique" sellers are literally just going on discogs, seeing the highest possible price for an album, and then pricing theirs the same, not accounting for different pressings, cover variants, track variants, etc. They don't understand that records are a completely different market that they just aren't exposed to. Over in the antiques world i'm sure old=value, but that couldn't be further from the truth over in the record world.

There is a shop in Stoughton Massachusetts that is absolutely crammed from floor to ceiling with records, guitars, cds, and the shopkeeper tells me he has another warehouse space crammed with more merchandise than he can move. The problem is that he nitpicks and overprices every single item to the point where you can barely buy anything, so nothing in his store ever moves.

thanks for making a video about my town. if you hven't you must check out the goodwill and goodwill bookstores in the area. including tupelo and corinth. i work the donation centers and have seen what comes in.

Nice finds from goner! It’s sad to say but those albums are gunna still need to find homes way after the vendor passes away at those prices I see this here in Canada as well at the antique malls and what not