Vinyl that is impossible to find

I find myself in these situations sometimes, when there's a particular album I want on vinyl but finding a near mint / good+ rated copy on vinyl that isn't absurdly priced because it's out of print, I often look for the first issue CD copy.  For example, the first pressing of Seal's debut album on vinyl can run up to $90 if it's the UK pressing before it was remastered. But the CD version can be had for $10!  I have some albums on CD only because they were released only on CD and decades later are now being reissued on vinyl for $30+. I'm not sure if you entertain the CD listening side of things as far as your collecting goes but I've found them to be an affordable option. 

I had a hard time finding Johnny Adams: a room with the view of the blues, but finally located a clean copy at rare vinyl and received it from the Royal mail service today.

 

Some titles are available on LP, but at a price I don’t care to pay. $200 for Levon Helm’s Electric Dirt, for instance. I saw a copy in 2010, but wasn’t buying LP’s at that time. Time machine, please.

 

Others are much harder to find. Currently I'm on the hunt for clean copies (Mint - or better) of:

 

- Bobby Charles: s/t album on Bearsville Records

- Dire Straits: debut (Vertigo pressing)

- Bob Dylan: Desire (Mobile Fidelity pressing on Super Vinyl)

-    "         "    : World Gone Wrong

- Aretha Franklin: This Girl’s In Love

- The Kinks: mono boxset

- The Latin Playboys

- Aron Neville: Warm Your Heart

- Richard Lloyd: Alchemy

- Tift Merritt: Tambourine

- Boz Scaggs: My Time

- Dave Spillane: Atlantic Bridge

- Television: Adventure

- 20/20: s/t debut

- Tom Waits: Closing Time

- Warren Zevon: Life’ll Kill Ya

- The Care Bears Movie soundtrack (Kids Stuff 3901) in playable condition. It features recordings by Carole King and John Sebastian (with NRBQ providing musical accompaniment)

- The Beau Brummels: ’75

- The Everly Brothers: Roots

- Stained Glass (San Jose, CA Garage Band): Aurora

- The Ventures: In Space

- Chet Atkins: Down Home

- Guy Clark: Old No. 1

- Jim Dickenson: Dixie Fried

- Dillard & Clark: Through The Morning, Through The Night

- Joe Ely: Masquerade

- Bela Fleck: Drive

- Emmylou Harris: At The Ryman

          "               "     : All I Intend To Be

- George Jones & Tammy Wynette: Golden Ring

- The Kentucky Colonels: Appalachian Swing

- The Louvin Brothers: The Tragic Songs Of Life

- Judy Sills: s/t

- Ricky Skaggs and Tony Rice: Skaggs & Rice

- Billy & Terry Smith: Ease My Troubled Mind

- Gary Stewart: Out Of Hand

- Marty Stuart: Nashville Vol. 1

- v/a: The Bluegrass Album Volume 1

- Jesse Ed Davis: Keep Me Comin’

- John Hammond, Jr.: Southern Fried

- Albert King: Born Under A Bad Sign (Craft RSD mono pressing)

 

@kerrybh - That Johnny Adams LP is great!  Fortunately I got my copy from an LA used record store as a cut-out promo back when it first came out.

I have an LP wishlist but every purchase is a balance of how much I want the music vs. the format (CD, download, LP) and the cost.  I make many compromises.

When possible, I like to have music in the original format in which it was released.  I have many cherished jazz and rock LPs, but also pop 45’s and R&B 78s that I enjoy owning. 

The current top of my lust list would be the two original Herbie Nichols Blue Note 10” LPs.  For now I have to settle for the 70’s LP twofer reissue, which actually sounds quite good.

"Tambourine" is being reissued @bdp24 .