Brag About Your Vinyl Collection


There are a couple of posts for listing your favorite albums, but what about those albums that you've collected simply for value or rarity? Here is your chance to tell about some of the rare and valuable records in your collection, where you found them, how you store/display them, etc.
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I'm in FL this week and I found a Prestige RVG/DG white label promo copy of Red Garland with John Coltrane - of course I already UPS'd the records back to Pittsburgh and I can't think of the title - as well as Cal Tdjader at the Blackhawk on Fantasy red vinyl and a few other things at a place I found in Ft. Lauderdale. A good trip so far!
A week ago at Goodwill I picked up Miles Davis' "Miles Ahead," which wouldn't be that special except for the fact that it's the version with a white woman and her child on the cover in a sailing boat. According to the Wikipedia entry about it:
'Miles was reportedly unhappy about the album's original cover, which featured a photo of a young white woman aboard a sailboat. He made his displeasure known to Columbia executive George Avakian, asking, "Why'd you put that white bitch on there?" Avakian later stated that the question was made in jest.'
The cover really does look totally out of place for a Miles Davis album, as it was a cheap attempt to market his music to the emerging jazz tastes of the white up-and-comings.
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