Mark 563 wrote:* drugs. There was a quite surprisingly high ammount of regular folks selling off their collections in order to pay for a pathetic drug addiction.
This is a pretty big one, and not hard to believe.
A good amount of people that are deep into music are also deep into drugs.
Nowadays, this is probably one of the few ways to get full dope collections
of old rap vinyl for cheap.
Or sometimes dudes still live with their parents, get kicked out or
incarcerated, and the collection goes.
Like I've said before, I lost a pretty gem laced collection I left in Arizona,
due to my former buddy's crack/heroin addiction.
Somewhere in a pawn shop in Tucson lays about 3-4 crates of gems from
the Centa Of The Web green EP to the Parallax Bleeding Hate vinyl to The
Kismet EP.
And in another, or the same pawn shop, lies my entire cassette collection,
from about 93 or 94 to early 98. Full Bobbito shows. Hank Love and Half
Pint shows, Awesome Two shows, WNYU shows. Mad demos, promos.
Plus any and all official cassettes like the Purple tape.
Anyone live out there finds them, please at least share some of the
goodies here.
And I had already previously lost my mostly cassette collection from the
late 80's to about 92 to my wack job former step mother's crack addiction.
Fuckin cunt. There was lots of Red Alert shows and official cassettes.
So, yeah, drugs can be a huge reason for lost collections.
