Robert Baird

Crate Diggers?

Robert Baird Mar 31, 2017

Put the expression "crate-diggers" into any sentence and it will catch my eye. The Warner Music Group has launched Run Out Groove, a new fan-driven, vinyl-only label that is going to let the public, or more accurately the crate-diggers among us, choose which records from the WMG trove of labels this new label will release.

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Gil Evans and Ten

Robert Baird Mar 28, 2017

If arrangers and orchestrators are the secret weapons of jazz, Evans on this new LP from Analogue Productions is revealed to be the atomic bomb.

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The Imperfect Art of the Steal

Robert Baird Mar 27, 2017

Innocents waiting to be taken advantage of are few and far between on record collector sites like Discogs and eBay.

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A Record Price for Vinyl Love?

Robert Baird Mar 24, 2017

In 2016, the vinyl information and e-commerce site Discogs.com broke its own most-expensive LP-sale record twice. In March 2016, David Bowie's David Bowie went for $6826. That post-Bowie, death-related purchase was then topped when the next rock star fell. A month later, in April, a copy of Prince's Black Album, the grail of his catalog, went for $15,000. In recent days, however, the record was broken again when a test pressing of cult guitar hero Billy Yeager's 301 Jackson Street, one of just eight ever made, went for $18,000.

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