How To Identify a Vinyl LP and Determine Value | Talking About Records

It's easily the most common question we get asked. What is my record worth? Am I sitting on a gold mine? Is this copy of Thriller gonna put my kids through college? First things first — we tackle how to properly identify a specific record, and then show you the best way to determine the current market value.

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[carpo]

I go straight to discogs, and enter the record label never fails. Except a couple of obscure LPS that had that I can't find any info on.

The funny thing was I was looking through my Pink Floyd LPS and I found a reissue of Dark Side of the Moon I bought years back, turned out it was worth more than the original by far because of how many were printed. I had no idea😮

[donaldhumphreys]

Very helpful. Convinces me I don't have enough time left on the planet to value my 3 boxes of old vinyl records.
Don

[CCC]

Great Chanel 👍. Been a member of Discogs since 2007. Been buying records since 1978 (I’m 54 !! 😮). It was only in your other video about recommending to catalogue one’s collection on Discogs, that I thought, yeh, I definitely should. I’ve just started doing it. It’s very addictive! True detective work! I have a couple or so thousand, so nothing compared with some of your audience! But the Discogs thing puts a whole new interest on what one has, and secondarily, what they’re worth 👍.
Love the content mate 👍👍👍

[mckeemichael]

I'm not, at the moment, interested in those specifics or values, but have often wondered how to determine what you have, and this was a great video! Thanks for it!

[rayeckert]

Ultimately the value is what someone is willing to pay for it.

[spyBB]

Easily one of the best videos on youtube. Thanks for the concise information 👍

[bacarandii]

This is terrific. I learned most of this stuff the hard way, through trial and error, back in the early 2000s, with some help from printed Goldmine guides. I wish I'd had this tutorial back then. (I just looked it up and Discogs launched in November, 2000, so before that ebay was pretty much the only online game in town.) I love doing research anyway, though. Thanks for the very well put-together lesson. Love the split screen and iPad screen recording.

[JIMFROMANDROS]

Great video for grading Records. Allthough an European buyer I must testify that from my experience US sellers are by far the most honest about the condition/value ratio of the records. A record graded VG+ in US is graded Mint in Europe and costs more in Europe all the time.

Amazing work GI. This is a very good tutorial for someone who is looking to know the value of a certain record. I also use Popsike, it's other alternative.

[lawrence]

Thank you for the video. I've learned a few short cuts here for Discogs. It all boils down to one thing. It's only worth as much as what someone's going to give you for it. Just like anything you sell.

[shineonugrzydieman]

Very informative - thanks for pointing out Discogs app and handy barcode search
Nice share

[cohuna]

Excellent tuition, thank you. Pity you don't post to Australia, would love to visit your store one day

[johnvideozen]

Very informative video, learnt a lot, thank you

[donnalhesler]

3:00pm Thank you for making this video, so very much helpful, thanks for breaking everything down to understand.

[springercollectibles]

Thank you for posting such a practical and thorough video! Fantastic info!

[dollyhall]

Excellent Video! So informative and I now have a great understanding of how to reserach my LP's, thank you.

[ProjectilePro]

theres a couple discogs forum posts that also explain different pressing plant symbols that you can find in the deadwax. with really common labels like columbia for example, you can really narrow down your choices by knowing which pressing plant it was pressed at. its what really got me understanding how to catalogue my records more than any other info on the jacket or deadwax.

[ultraphobic]

Awesome video. Thank you so much from someone getting back into the vinyl game

[wyattfoley]

Thank you GI 👍 That was very informative for me. I knew a little bit, but now I have a broader understanding.

[cherylrippey]

Thank you so much! You are so patient and helpful in your explanation. My LP is still sealed so I can't read those numbers you were talking about. What do you do in this instance?