I agree I didnt see anything I would want. Weird how they would boast about how rare and collectible it is
There is a lot of collectable stuff in there. Just not the kind of stuff that we as audiophiles would consider valuable. This is a collection for the folks that buy records for the sake of owning them. We want to listen to them, collectors just want to find them.
Those guys got nuts over things with special stickers on them or promo copies of thing. We only care about how the record sounds.
I always just laugh listening to the collectors talk at the record shows. I heard two guys one day discussing how one of them paid hundreds of dollars some rare pressing of an LP and when the other guys asked him how did it sound he replied" I can't play that record, it;s too valuable. or the guys that will pay $75 for a seal copy of an LP that they could pick up a mint used copy of for $10 and the refuse to open is because it will drop in vales if the seal gets broken. Damn in my mind a record that can't be play is completely worthless to me. To me it's value is based on the music it contains, so if you can't access the music, why bother. But that's just me.
But to be fair, the collector crowd thinks that we are all crazy for spending the kind of money we spend on equipment (especially cables
). The bottom line is that people spend their money in ways that give them pleasure. For most of us we buy records because be enjoy listening to them. For the collectors, they buy records just to simply say they did. Neither is wrong, but they just put a different value system around the same set of items.
So this collection would be valuable to the right people, it's just that none of those people hang out here.