At a record swap in Portland last weekend a guy was selling a beat up copy of Dark Side for $80

I walked over to check it out and realized it was a first US pressing with the original posters still inside. The seller just shrugged and said he found it in a garage. Has anyone else stumbled into a score that felt way too good to be true?

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the_mason23d ago

Beat up copy of Dark Side for $80" - see, that part right there is where I gotta stop you. I don't care if it has the original posters or not, paying that much for a scratched up record from a garage sale find doesn't feel like a score to me. It feels like the seller knew exactly what he had and priced it accordingly. You can find clean used copies of Dark Side at any decent record store for way less than that if you're not obsessed with the pressing year and stickers. I've walked past stacks of overpriced "rare" vinyl at swaps for years and learned that just because something is old doesn't mean it's worth the hype.

alexlewis23d ago

@the_mason nailed it honestly. Ive been burned buying into the hype on old beat up records before you learn pretty quick that condition matters way more than the year it was pressed. I picked up a clean 80s repress of Dark Side for 15 bucks at a shop last year and it plays perfect theres no static or skips. The garage sale guys with the 80 dollar beaters are banking on people who dont know that theres a million copies of that album floating around. Save your cash and grab a nice copy instead.