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April 30, 2008 Vintage Vinyl
Sale Offers LPs, CDs, Stereo Equipment
The Vintage Vinyl sale, with thousands of used records,
tapes and CDs offered for sale, takes place Saturday, May
17, in Lincoln Square Village in Urbana.
An entrance fee of $5 will be charged from 8-11 a.m.
Admission is free from 11 a.m.-3 p.m. After the sale closes
for an hour of reorganizing, all items will be half price
from 4-6 p.m. Used stereo equipment including CD players,
turntables and speakers will also be offered at bargain
prices.
This year’s sale benefits WILL’s Illinois Radio Reader, a
service that provides news and information to blind and
print-handicapped audiences in east central Illinois.
Deane Geiken, director of the IRR, said that people who know
what they want will be able to pay an entrance fee and get a
jump on the crowds. “We started with all new stuff this
year. None of this was left from last year’s sale,” he said.
This year’s sale includes a DJ’s donated collection of
hundreds of 45s dating from the late ’50s to early ’70s; a
nice collection of Decca 45s including Louis Armstrong and
Count Basie; and a number of Decca 78s in the blues and jazz
genres, said Matt Kessler, a record collector who is pricing
special items for the sale.
Kessler said the sale includes the famous Leonard Nimoy
album titled “Outer Space/Inner Mind,” almost every Beatles
album, most of the Rolling Stones albums, and lots of Jimi
Hendrix albums. “And there’s a spoken word album autographed
by the punk singer Jello Biafra,” he said. “It was an
amazing thing to find. He’s one of the top three American
punk singers.”
John Frayne, who is sorting classical records for the sale,
said the classical selection is excellent this year.
“There’s a complete French LP pressing of the Patrice
Chereau-directed, Pierre Boulez-conducted Wagner Ring set
from Bayreuth,” he said. “Another gem is a 7 LP set of
Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau singing Hug Wolf Lieder. It’s in
mint condition on German Electrola pressings.”
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