Collecting Vinyl Records: Beach Boys

"Beach Boys. Remember the Beach Boys? What a ton of hits. Pretty incredible. Well, here's a wonderful little Beach Boys album. This one was produced by Brian Wilson. This is another interesting album I'd like to show you because, aside from condition, let's take a look at something else first. This is the kind of album that has a mini little booklet inside. And a lot of these, like the Magical Mystery Tour with the Beatles, have little booklets. And if the booklets are still complete, and they aren't torn out, that increases the value of the album. So this one is in pretty darn good condition; it does look like it's complete. It's all the Beach Boys. Now, let's take a look at the record. Well, this one...oh I thought it didn't have a record. Some people just collect the album covers, but they aren't worth much. Here's a Beach Boys concert. And how does it look? It looks okay; it's not great. I can see a couple of scratches, so as soon as you start seeing some scratches, had this album been in mint condition, it would probably be worth fifteen dollars. But now, you'd be lucky to get three to five dollars for it. I have a fantastic story about the Beach Boys. I know someone who was a record producer and he lived on the same block as the Beach Boys. He told me that one day they invited him over to hear Brian's new song. And Brian, he walked into the living room, and the whole living room floor was covered with sand as if it was a beach. So their living room floor, seriously was covered in sand. But anyway, Brian was playing this song that was like a one-note song. He plays about ten notes and he says "what do you think?" And my friend looks at him and says "Oh, that's really cool." So, we don't know about what was going on in Brian's mind at that particular time, but that wasn't one of his hits. So, I'd just like to say that Beach Boys albums are very collectible and very popular right now. So are the forty-fives. I think we may be talking about forty-fives here soon, Expert Village. Well, here you go. Remember the Beach Boys."