You know I’m drooling. Jeez man. Good on ya. 🤙

Buddy Holly is totally underrated nowadays !! that guy was a helluva songwriter !

These are my favourite videos on the internet... even more than movie trailers! Please keep these coming forever.

the beatles yesterday and today is actually my favorite us beatles album. great compilation.

Wow Mike, a tremendous haul, the Velvet Underground was sick! Your ability to pick up amazing collections and your knowledge of records and music is absolutely ridiculous, keep up the great work, it's truly appreciated.

Great stuff. Odyssey & Oracle is a grail I hope to find someday. Congrats on getting one in the shrink.

Mike, you are so personable and a great narrator.. love your stories !!

Mike, too bad you aren’t selling any of these online. Phoenix unfortunately a bit too far away.

Your knowledge is as impressive as always Mike.

magnificent collection. thanks for sharing it.

I think you're right about a lot of Butchers ending up in Denver. I lived in Colorado Springs the last half of the '70s and there was a used record store called Recycle Records. I went in there one time, saw a Butcher on the wall and commented, "Those are pretty rare." The guy that owned the place said, "Yeah, I get about one a month."

Fantastic finds! It is sad that it couldn’t have stayed in state. However, I enjoy your videos so I’m glad you were able to get them.

Noble records will be screaming for those 13th floor vinyls

Heading to Phoenix in September. Looking forward to visiting your store. Gonna have to set aside a whole chunk of time to do your store justice. Great video.

Oh my goodness! Just found your channel today. Super jealous of that Hot Rod High promo!

Very cool to see that stuff..scary to think in 20 years all the stuff we covet may be passe...

Dang makes me wish I went to phoenix much later. Still cool to watch you show these!

've been collecting records for over 50 years and enjoy talking to other collectors. Your videos are awesome. I love the new releases vids. What I find refreshing is your wide range of musical taste. Very similar to mine, from classical to Pearl Jam I love it all. Hope to hear back from you as I love to talk vinyl.

Wow wow wow...speechless...love that butcher 1st 2nd state. And i need that revolver too!!

"I've boughten" I say that all the time and my wife says "it must be a east coast thing...awesome collection!!

"line'em for them and then I get shot" ^^ that made my day^^

*CONGRATULATIONS!!!!!!!*

You win again!! Awesome. Well deserved, you work hard.

Those Sonic LPs 😍

My son acquired a promo-punched Beatles VI with a bunch of otherwise junk (like, for free from a friend's grandparents or something) - has the "See label for correct playing order" rear cover - I think it's mono and roughly VG or VG- ; I'm the dang Beatles collector in the family, but as yet have managed to resist pinching it from him :-D What an absolute treasure trove, and refreshing to see records that were basically taken care of! Great job and congrats on a great deal.

Awesome collection. I wish I lived close to your store.

The Sonics Boom with the purple label isn’t a second pressing; it’s a first pressing. It wasn’t released with the red label. The Here are the Sonics with the purple label is a second pressing. Nice collection!

I never saw that Mama & The Papas in years of working at Los Angeles used shops. Nice 🍌 Velvets album 👌

Oh my gosh, that Bowie!! And the Melvins, Zeppelin , I’d buy all those if I could online😜🤓

The Sonics Boom you are keeping actually looks to be a first pressing as it was never issued to my knowledge on the red label. If it’s a Monarch it’s easy to date by the matrix number. Bonus!!!

My best friend in high school called me excitedly one night. He had learned that they had pasted over some Beatles butcher cover LPs, and his was one of them. He later traded it for a Phil Ochs album. Then again, I bought his violin-style bass guitar and traded it to get an acoustic guitar. Ah, if only we knew what the future value would be.

Wow! Incredible stuff 😎

It's a shame about 50's artists being forgotten about by the current generation of record buyers, when record collecting took off in the 80's and 90's most dealers and collectors were people in their 40's and 50's, and now it's people in their late teens / early 20's who will mostly buy reissues, although mint or near mint copies of highly sought after LP's have been able to fetch astronomical prices over the last decade or so I get the feeling that as the years go by fewer and fewer people will be willing to dish out large sums of money, fortunately for me I became addicted to vinyl in the early 80's and for about 20yrs I hit every second hand store in Melbourne (AUS) every weekend and I would buy up big, original clean US pressings of Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, QSMS AND a near mint copy of Bull of The Woods all for about $10 a piece, I would spend my entire weeks wage on U.K. and U.S. psych, folk and prog. Over the last 30 or 40yrs I've seen fads come and go, once upon a time people went "ape shit" over Edwardian and Art Deco furniture and now that stuff is impossible to move, I hope I'm wrong about the future of record collecting but only time will tell.

Would love to see a photo of a record wall filled with only your Velvet Underground Warhol covers. That would be epic!!

I have to make the drive to your store some day soon, I live here in Pasadena Ca. It’s about 5 to 6 hrs, I’m sure it would be worth i…☮️✌️☮️

Nice collection, I have a 3rd state and 2nd state stereo butcher covers and a mono 2nd state.

I have a first 1967 misprint press of 13th Floor Elevators Easter Everywhere in Excellent condition, wish I had their first album in mono as well.

Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us all your vids are always great

Wow very cool records

He saw the writing on the wall.... Record prices are gonna plummet !

Ohhhhh that Dylan six-eye stereo! Gimme!

Awesome collection, man!

I want the Ritchie Valens for sure

Some 🔥 in there for sure.

23:15 that's fascinating that you think it's an undervalued record. I would agree with that as long as it's vg++ to near mint condition with most of the peel. It will definitely go up in value but I don't what the catalyst for that would be. I think the boomer and gen x value that record much more then gen Y and gen z. Like you said about the early 50's records not being as in demand now as they were 30 years ago I think it's possible that the newer generations of record collectors will not favor old music as much. I guess I'm just speculating because I see gen y and gen z collectors seeking out limited color variants of new music more often then vintage classics. I may be an exception as a 28 year old that is mostly interested in vintage 60's 70's psych, jazz, 80's 90's alt rock. I do know there's alot people my age that want old music too. I'm happy to own a few different original pressing of the Velvet Underground & Nico. I posted a video of them on my channel.

Lovely collection👍

I’m waiting for those Butcher covers . A smart man, he’s going to wait for the magnum opus of records until the finale’ . The Zombies is a dynamite album, and very expensive now thanks to the DJ in Seattle that pushed the album . Beatles 1960,s imports are the best in MONO !

That copy of The Beatles Yesterday & Today that's the record club edition is all true stereo. The store copies had fake stereo on 3 songs until sometime in the 70's.

The one thing I want to know is; If indeed the 1950's/Early 60's Pre-Beatles era Rock 'n Roll is "getting more & more difficult to move", WHY HAVEN'T THE PRICES FROM THE LAST 40 YEARS COME DOWN??

i'd love to have that pet sounds

That collection is nuts...

I had that Scared Mushroom, sold it for decent $, and bought a re-issue. I have a bunch of Beatles first US pressings but nothing sealed or with hype stickers. I found a 1968 Velvet Underground & Nico a couple of weeks go with a complete banana peel for $1 - and, like Mike, I'm not selling it. I also found a Sun Ra album today (I'm guessing $70-$120?) also for a $1. Tomorrow I'm unloading a bunch of duds (nothing over $6) to a guy for trade - I'm hoping to get one or two decent albums. Fun times for sure. rock on!

Amazing thanks

Let’s see the Buddy Holly’s, Ritchie Valens, etc.!

I tried to buy a Butcher off Discogs from someone that made the habit of constantly listing it then not responding to purchases thereby cancelling the deal. It was 1000.00 last year.

I may have to not pay my mortgage for the next two months, hop in the car and drive to Arizona. The records you showed are fantastic, many of which I need for my collection.

10:42 the best of all that....

I want that Melvins. 😁

Esta es mi droga. Gracias Mike, pelado divino por mostrar estas gemas!

i want to open my own store soon thats my dream

I see what you did there with the V.U./Nico. "Part of the "a peel"..

Heyy great episode and unreal records wow! One complaint and I know it’s out of your control, for some reason the damn Wonder Years ad pops up literally every minute! Hope they’re paying you haha ✌🏻

Don’t tell Mayo!

I have a mint copy of the 13th floor elevators bought around ten years ago. I don’t think I’ve ever played it or touched it. I had no idea they were valuable.

This is absolutly INSANE!

Sealed Division Bell dangggg.

Hey mike, what kind of sleeve do you keep your one step boxes in?

i have the original pressing of Pet Sounds but it's in a cardboard cut out.

at 19:57, don henley, had 2 45s from 1966-67, "felicty" , and the other i believe was the "sports" (?), killer 45s !!!!!!!

When you asked about Seattle, I immediately thought of Nirvana on Sub Pop. Oh, well... I did know a guy who sold his entire collection of 20,000 records. Ten years later, he had 30,000 records!

Boss collection.

Mike, listening to you makes me want to spend all my money for more and more albums… always a great fun , your videos! 👍

A lot of dairies went bankrupt because their milk crates were the same size as record albums.

I don't get why someone would have multiple copies of sealed rare records, archive them for fifty years and then just sell them in a batch to a local dealer, rather than sticking a few on ebay or something

Also, purple label on Sonics Boom is original. There was no red label of Boom.

Hey Mike thanks for that, I watch a lot of your videos but I don't think I've ever commented before. Reason I am this time is because I'm heading up to LA in a few weeks and as I live in Mexico in a city with no record store, for sure I'm going digging. Would you be able to recommend any LA stores? I'm looking at bringing back some 50s/60s doo wop, some 50s/60s rockabilly, and some 60's psyche. Thanks and I hope to see you in Phoenix some day!

Nice collection

Cracks me up that people will pay hundreds (or more) for a damn hype sticker. I guess I'll never be that kind of collector.

Great story. Amazing stuff. People that want too much for their vinyl don't know how much work it is to sell. But looking at what you are pulling out can only imagine what you paid, and how one butcher cover in process couldn't make the deal.

Vinyl and collectible cards (both sports and non-sport) are in a similar economic position. It would be helpful & appreciated to hear your take on buying/investing/selling vinyl in light of your experience with collectible cards especially if you have any insight into collectible card markets in past two year or so.

Hi , what do you think of Bluetooth record players as I was thinking of buying one , is the sound different to other players, would you recommended I buy one

I've collected a decent collection from older collections through the years. I even have a blacklight activated c.s.n.y. deja vu

Dude causally pulling out 3 butchers

every album cover is a piece of art !!! people like warhol have no patent on what art is and what's not !!!

Good point about records dropping out of interest and therefore value. Any thoughts what may go that way in the future but currently collectable?

Geniooo, desde Argentina esperamos un new relaases de Latinoamericano. 🤗

I’m always looking for the records from the fifties and sixties that aren’t as desirable and or valuable as they had been in the past like Mike explained and my go to record store owner always says “this used to be worth x”, always feels like a win.

The Sonics rule!

Why are those Pet Sounds so expensive? Didn’t they sell millions of copies?

Remember all your holy grails will always fit into one box. The one box you’ll have the longest. That will one day go to someone else. Remember that.

The price that he says that he gets in his shop for some of these records remains to be seen?

SO where can I get these 50's and 60's albums that no one wants to buy? Because I want Richie Valens and Buddy Holly!

You're a vinyl junkie if you can identify records on your shelf just by the spine. I see the led Zeppelins behind to your right. I spotted Houses and Physical Graffiti. I also see Hendrix, Axis Bold as Love to your upper left.

Yeah, my mono IA copy of the Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators does not look that shiny. Plays ok, but I am guessing a $75-100 copy. I paid $3.00 at a flea market.

You really need to start shipping to India

Where did you get those one step bags? lol need those

Not a cell but a landline Mike

I have a Billy Squier Emotions in motion Warhol available.

I am interested in the Buddy Holly and Ritchie Stuff do you still have it

Have you ever thought what it would feel like to collect a lifetime and the day you die you won't know where your most precious treasures will end up?