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Summary: An antiques expert gives you an excellent introduction to collecting vinyl records by The Beatles in this free record collector video.
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Collecting Vinyl Records: The BeatlesLet's focus on The Beatles just briefly. Really, if you have the choice between picking out a Beatles album or an Elvis album, in terms of value, Beatles are much more collectible now because people are wanting to listen to The Beatles (because everyone still loves The Beatles; young, old and in between). So this would be a Beatles album. This is called Rubber Soul. This is one of the many, many, many albums that there are. Take a look at this label, I mean....the cover. It's okay. Another thing that I haven't mentioned is the internal sleeve, which can either be a generic sleeve like this or it can be a pressed sleeve where it has some printing advertising on it. But this one looks really good. It looks like it's in great shape. So these Beatles albums, even though you think "Gee, I'm going to buy a Beatles album, I'm going to make a lot of money." It's really cool, but this one, in particular, isn't all that valuable. It's probably worth about three to five dollars. In the book, it will probably tell you about ten or more. But, you know on record albums, you get what the market will bare. The market will bare at about three to five on this. The first Beatles album was "Meet The Beatles" and that was one that is probably worth more or the most money. But you have to take a look at that and see which printing it is because there are numerous printings of that album. They vary in price. Remember I told you to look at the number and check it in the price guide. Okay. So The Beatles are good if they are the right albums. Forty-fives are not worth much.
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Some pointers... 1. The 'Rubber Soul' LP featured there is a 1976 -1978 'orange' label. $3-5 is about right. 2. The first Beatle's album in America wasn't 'Meet the Beatles'. The first Beatles album was 'Introducing... the Beatles' on VeeJay. Meet the Beatles was the first US Beatles LP to be released on Capitol. 3. Meet the Beatles is not the LP worth the most money unless it's in pristine condition, stereo and is the first of the four label variations. Probably the most valuable original LP is, again, 'Introducing... the Beatles' with original, *genuine* presses (there are a LOT of fakes out there, up to 60% of all copies are counterfeit) selling for up to $200 on a good day, and that's not considering the rare presses that can sell for anything up to $10,000! 4. Some 45's can be worth a lot of money, especially if they're in a top condition. Nearly all of the US Beatles singles came with picture sleeves and, if in good condition, can sell for many hundreds of dollars. The picture sleeve for 'Can't Buy Me Love' can sell for around $500-600 since it was only ever pressed on the East Coast and in very limited numbers. 5. It was upsetting as a vinyl lover / Beatles collector to see that Rubber Soul disc shoved roughly back into its sleeve like that. Also, you should never, ever hold a disc like that because the grease on your fingers get into the grooves and ruin it.