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Beatles: Help ?

I own (just found it in deep storage) a boxed set of Toshiba EMI Beatle albums. 12 to be exact. The box is entirely in Japanese. Each album has cellophane sleeves for the records. The box is blue 3/4 quarters of the way up in the front with a white flip cover at the top. All lettering on the top is in Japanese. EMI is printed on the individual albums, as well as Apple on many of them. The back of the box is entirely blue. I purchased this baby in 1978ish? 'twas expensive at the time, but I can't, for the life of me, remember where and how much I

paid for it. Was purchased at a Hi End audio store. Anybody have a clue what I have? All the albums have not been played. A stylus has never touched them. thanks in advance.
warren :-)
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warrenh OP
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too cool to sell. too bad I'm not a vinyl man anymore. It the old days (like last year...lol..) I'd look at this find as a sign from God, that I'm supposed to purchase a turntable and get cracking on developing a record collection. I wish, sometimes, that God were more powerful than my wife...Have a great Memorial Day Weekend.

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rwwear
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I bought the Japanese set on Audiogon a few years ago for 150.00. I thought it was a good deal at the time.
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That was a good deal if the records are in good shape, I suppose. It appears that a used set sold on Ebay for $250 just a few days ago. Since these are mint/perfect--unplayed, they should do a little better. Just looking at the covers, artwork, and the pristine black vinyl is worth the keep....:-)
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albertporter
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I agree Warren, $250.00 for your set (unplayed) would be a steal. That’s only about $20.00 an album.

I hope you do put your analog back into service and give those special albums a spin. If so, tell us how much were missing :^).
jdodmead
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I would really urge you to invest in an analog system, but even if you did, would you play them? I doubt it. So send them my way, I will play them for you. I will give you my Kiss collection as collateral(also unplayed). Just kidding.
You have a choice to make, get back into vinyl, sell them, or hang on to them forever.
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