Got lucky at the record fair

[Love Expresso]

Had some time to kill when changing trains in my neighbor town, wasn't aware that there was a record fair this afternoon next to the train station, had a look and found a near mint copy of Alchemy, the real one plus some other gems (Rumours very early German pressing among others.). Went home with eight great albums (long searched after/or from my watchlist). Listening to Tunnel Of Love right now and both records play very nice, I am very happy with the quality. My original Alchemy vinyl was in pretty bad condition after all those years and with a damaged sleeve,  got it already heavily used back in 1986. Feels good to have a clean copy in excellent condition from one of the greatest live albums ever. I will probably never listen to the Live Box version again. Sometimes less is more.

LE

[dustyvalentino]

Great stuff. I have original cds, original vinyl and cd live box set. Choice is good!

[Klaus74]

Alchemy is a live-masterpice. At the moment the prices are rising into the sky for that album, mostly are totally overpriced on the well known online-marketplaces. I own my two German editions, green and red UFOS-Vertigo-label, the US-Warner Bros-Variant, the UK-Vertigo, the Canadian-Vertigo, South-Africa, Zimbabwe, Yugoslavia, Taiwan and so on. Brilliant album in any case.

[dustyvalentino]

Median price on Discogs is £24 for an original uk LP, not bad.

https://www.discogs.com/release/382434-Dire-Straits-Alchemy-Dire-Straits-Live

[Klaus74]

Hy dustyvalentino. OK, that is more a reasonable price for that album, but there are some big traders on the electronic marketplaces, who gave them prices like 80 Euro. That is absoultely insane, but true. Just have a closer look there, because i cannot tell the names of the traders. There are many many other examples for irrational prices there. I saw an Alchemy 2-LP-Set, regular EU-release on a German record-fair for about 40 Euros and that is also not reasonable. I don´t know the accurate reason, why some traders, mostly the big professional traders, make such decisions in the case of price-findings. It makes no sense to me.