Awful!!

beatles over the Stones, huh? you wrong for that.

Glenn, nice job with vinyl tag. Keith Moon was a beast behind the drum set then he was a beast in a hotel room also lol. Peter Tosh, good pick. Great you saw the White stripes in concert, pretty amazing. Nice job

Awesome video

Hey there. Great choices. Nice pick up with the OG Lauryn Hill! Very cool to have a concert you attended on wax. I wonder how many fatties got rolled over the years with that Cheech and Chong insert 😂. Gonna swing by Cesar’s channel now, cheers.

HAPPY NEW YEAR 🥳 Nice picks, gotta check out that live white stripes album in vegas.

Cool pickups Happy New Years

Awesome picks Glenn.. and thanks for the shout out brotha! Man, I need to find me an og of Lauryn Hill as well..missing that in the collection(how’s the sound/pressing?) ; also at the Drive in.. I need that as well.

Great tag my friend!

My fucking heart!!!!😢

Well, you sold me. After seeing this video, I'm just going to stick with my Legacy Records issued copy of Raw Power which came out about ten years ago (I think it was ten years...).

How many times have they "remastered" this album? 100? I still prefer the original Bowie mix. Thin, tinny and sharp. Not all distorted to sh--.

ha! I was thinking to myself "The box is worth getting for the patch alone" when you echoed the same thought! lol I agree with you - I don't need to choose a favorite between the two mixes. Thanks for the review!

Hey Glenn. Great video. Haven’t seen a post from u in a while. Happy Holidays 🎄😎

Listen Buster! 🎸🔊Love it😁

What a strange experience. I’ve been a BIG buyer on there and only been among other vinyl enthusiasts. Never ever ran into the investors. Maybe it’s a seller or time of day I just never happened upon.

Thanks for the video. The vinyl "slabbing" trend is really quite sad and I do hope it does not grow. I believe this type of grading and collecting will eventually hurt the vinyl industry. For your blood pressure level and well being I suggest not visiting any local antique shops as they seem to have the same mentality towards vinyl records like selling beat up thrift store Elvis records for $90.

Hell yeah, Glenn--you keep strummin' and livin' life to the fullest--that's what it's all about, always!

Don't quit your day job 🥱

Its comin

😆 🤣 😂 too many haters in the comment section. Let's see their bass playing 🤷🏻‍♂️

Take a lesson and try again 😮

Missed a note...

It's a hit!

Beautiful hell yes

Good stuff, Glenn--we want more!

Hello from Belgium Thanks for vidéo i love it

I didn’t catch what the issue with VMP is all about. It is interesting to see Rocket To Russia as a gatefold. I’m not good at shootouts unless there is a distinct difference.

At age 54 Rocket still stands as my second favorite album of all time sandwiched in between Brian Eno's Another Green World at #3 and Revolver in the top slot. My first copy of R2R was on a cheap German cassette my buddy gave me back in the mid eighties and I played it until the tape snapped! I picked up a vinyl reissue about ten years ago and it sounds fine, but I don't think that Joey and co. (rest their leather clad souls) could care less about an audiophile pressing, especially Johnny; he'd probably wanna go as far and beat up the engineer! Thanks for the video. I'm gonna put this one on for the millionth time, chew out those rhythms on my bubblegum and sing along to the oldies!

My review from my article on the top 15 punk albums Rocket to Russia: Released November 12, 1977. Reached #69 on the U.S. charts. Ramones formed in Forest Hills, Queens in 1974. There is a video on KZbin of them playing at CBGB's that year and an argument breaks out over which song to play next. They already had their signature style in 1974 for God's sake! So please let's not have any more fighting over who was the first punk band, Ramones or Sex Pistols. I saw them play in 1975 and years later I wrote. " Saw them at CBGB's and was blown away by their power. What a wall of sound! What a rush! Would have loved to talk to them after their set but their leather jackets gave me pause. The only other people who wore leather jackets at that time in the East Village were the Hell's Angels and I had already had an experience with one of them near their clubhouse on East 3rd Street. Not really a big deal, but after that I decided not to start up any conversations with them. So, my fear got the best of me and I missed an opportunity to talk to the greatest band in the world in the mid 70's. To this day I play their records and they remain one of my favorite bands." For most people who weren't around punk music and the Ramones at the outset, it is difficult to imagine the effect they had. Mary Harron interviewed them for the first issue of Punk magazine in January, 1976. This will give you some idea of what it was like. "When I first saw the Ramones I couldn't believe people were doing this. The dumb brattiness ‘Beat on the brat with a baseball bat.' There was this real cartoon element, and yet you're in a real place, you want to do something real, so you're in a situation where they could be real, they could be genuinely delinquent. It had an edge to it: they looked dumb-smart, smart-dumb." From the Ramones' press kit in June, 1975: " Their songs are brief, to the point, and every one a potential hit single...The Ramones all originate from Forest Hills and kids who grew up there become either musicians, degenerates or dentists. The Ramones are a little of each. Their sound is not unlike a fast drill on a rear molar." When their eponymous debut LP came out all my punk friends bought it and played it to death. Believe me, we had never heard anything like it. It was brutal and undeniable. Listening at stun levels we were in awe of its relentless buzzsaw power. In light of hardcore (the louder, faster, more aggressive music that came after punk and spawned slam dancing and stage diving) Ramones songs now seem almost mid-tempo. But I've read people at their live shows were literally holding onto their tables when they played--it was such a potent force coming at you. Choosing a best between the first three Ramones' albums has always been difficult for me. I must have heard them all fifty times and for this write-up I listened to all three twice again. And you know what? It’s still difficult. Their debut, Leave Home and Rocket To Russia all contain loads of great songs. How to pick just one? It would have been easy to pick their debut. That would have put everything neatly in chronological order, but this is not the 15 most important punk albums, it is the 15 best. There are two major differences that for me narrowed it down to just two. The mix on their first album is different from a more conventional one found on the others--Johnny's guitar is in the right channel and Dee Dee's bass is in the left. Some listeners might like this, others might not. It does have its perks. When I was giving punk lessons in my apartment, I could turn the knobs on my amp to isolate the two. The kids I was teaching loved hearing how skillful these two musicians were. Man, those guys could play! Let me tell you, hearing "I Don't Wanna Go Down To The Basement" like this was a joyful thing. Secondly, some of the best songs are faster and longer on the next two albums. So my two preferences narrowed it down to either Leave Home or Rocket To Russia. These are not 1 and 2 in my book; they are 1 and 1A. I would have chosen both of them, but decided in the end to pick only one album from each band. Actually, any of the first three LP's would make a fine choice on any best list. 
 I nearly choked at the prospect of leaving off an album that contains "Glad To See You Go," "Gimme Gimme Shock Treatment," "Carbona Not Glue," "Pinhead," "Commando" and "You Should Never have Opened That Door," but that's just what I did. Rocket To Russia has great songs too, leading off with "Cretin Hop" (what an attack they had!) Then there's the classic "Rockaway Beach" (which reached #66 on the U.S, charts), and "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" (which reached #81). Colin Abrahall, singer in the great British punk band G.B.H. has said that hearing "Sheena is a Punk Rocker" at age 15 on the radio was a huge influence in his life. But more on that when we come to G.B.H. "Locket Love" is a sweet little bubblegum song disguising a murder. "We're A Happy Family" has just about the wittiest, funniest, pop culture lyrics ever in a song and "Teenage Lobotomy" is not far behind. I think the album has just a smidge more power than Leave Home, there are fewer songs under two minutes and Johnny Ramone's signature lightning downstrokes unleashing pure punk power are better showcased. Rocket To Russia is my choice to start our quest for the top 15 punk LP's. Here are three songs for your listening pleasure:

Great vid! You can never go wrong with the Ramones. That blue splatter vinyl is gorgeous and love the gatefold.

This looks like a subliminal way to launder money. But I'm a cynic sometimes. My grail is a 1st press UK DSOTM that i got for $1500.00 complete and the vinyl is almost NM while the cover has a small amount of damage. Why would i put it behind plastic? Records are meant to be played. How would I 100% know the A2-B2 disc is still inside? You can buy frames for ten bucks. Just my 2 pennies. 😊

Thanks so much for the shoutout Glenn!!! Always great to have you.

That's a much better way of grading records , 90% of records these days are graded vg+ which could mean anything .

This is unbelievable Glenn. Ive run in to similar situations (though not $2500) at a few flea markets. Water damaged Beatles represses going for $100... absolutely nuts. As Mr. T used to say... I Pity the Fool that actually falls for this and purchases it... great video..

“Thriller” for $2000? What does he want for a completely destroyed “Rumours”? Don’t tell me, let me guess…$5000! Cuz it’s a CLASSIC!!!!!

I have heard people are trying to market slabbing.records. i think it is a joke lol

Yes, the prices are ridiculous. Just to be clear, you understand it was not "him" that did the grading? Just wasn't clear if you were aware it service you send off for just like cards?

Hey that’s the old Zona Rosa cafe! It’s cool another cool small business moved in.

Thanks for a few good laughs this morning, Glenn!

I think the record with the middle finger on it is an Eminem album.

lol even in the baseball card world this wouldn’t fly. What company graded this record? That’s not a PSA rating.

As a former baseball card collector, grading ruined the joy of collecting.

That’s what you get for collecting vinyl lol jk. Same shit happened with cassettes and now it’s going this way with cds

Great video. I don’t think that record slabbing will stand the test of time. A record is different than a baseball card. And these prices are insane, seller from slapped records at factor 10 to the value of a record. That is ridiculous.

Looks like those records are slabbed.

These are signs that this "vinyl revival" is coming to an end. Greed will destroy it as usual

Yea, this seller is definitely looking for some clueless person with more money than sense. I enjoyed the video and until 10:45 . TDS kicking in doesn't help an otherwise decent video.

silly question: where did you buy those plastic sleeves for the Michael Jackson thriller LP you have?? is there a specific name for this sleeve??

It’s bait, that guy is a master baiter.