Rare Record Collecting in the UK - 1990

A 'Moneywise' (TVS) report from February 1990 on the UK Record Collecting scene pre-internet/Ebay. In one of his final presentation roles, Frank Bough introduces the segment hosted by Fiona Pethick which includes interviews with Phillips' expert Andrew Milton, Record Collector magazine's Mark Paytress and Vinyl Demand's Geoff Finch. How things have changed!

Category:

Music

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• TVS
• record
• collecting
• frank
• bough
• andrew
• milton
• mark
• paytress
• geoff
• finch
• vinyl
• demand
• 1990
• ebay

[agfagaevart]

Hardly a short life-span. And not correct.

[minutegongcoughs]

Wizzfoot. I agree. The archivist Harry Smith would of listed the priceless, scarcity of Blues 78's, forty years ago. There's a neurotric element in collecting and there is a banal and repetetive aspect when people waffle on about certain music artists.

[WillTube1990]

Although this was broadcast in the year I was born, this would of been ideal and interesting viewing to me because I am a music collector myself. This was the year that sales of CD was rising and the LP sales were dropping. Yet LP records were still being made and still on the market at this time they are now rarer and harder to come across than the CD format of an album/compilation. Still at that time you still had avid vinyl fans (as you do today). But today MP3 seems to have overshadowed CD.

[toocheaptobuyatripod]

As a representative of Thrift store record hunters everywhere, shut the hell up.

[fatshoolaces]

5.25 WTF ? !

[BoycottStabb]

What you cant see is Franks stocking and suspenders......... 'Gramophone records' YEAH!

[Islwynpaul]

Most of the expensive albums in my collection are the one hit wonders and the albums that did not sell too well initially. Because they are rare they are collectable.

[amebachaos]

Great video!

[Ponimaju]

I`d say with 78s most of the collectible ones would be found in America, not the UK, so that`s why they pretty much write them off in the story.

[FabFM]

Beatles 78s for India are also worth quite a price, as are early rock n roll ones by Elvis Presley (of course) and Roy Orbison. "Only the lonely" (the UK edition) on 78 sells for 300 quid on a regular basis.

[FabFM]

In "today's collecting" Elvis and The Beatles remain by far the most collectable artists and with each passing year more and more people collect their discs and prices skyrocket, even if other genres and artitsts values decrease and in 20 years time it will still be like that! The Beatles "First Four" promo recently sold for 7 grand (8 years ago it was worth 1,000). You can't get "more style" than that!

[woodrailking]

Neil Aspinall signed that cover, not the Beatles.