I bought an original copy of the Beatles White album and inside were notes of somebody describing their LSD acid trip and it was very detailed like 10 pages and slightly disturbing lol 😝
LOL THE ALMOST SAME THING HAPPENED TO ME. I bought a rubber soul album and it had a note describing the first time they had smoked weed and they said they enjoyed it enough. I still have that note because I thought it was funny.
My dad gave me a Metallica record that he hadn't played since the 80's, and it had a hair in it. That doesn't sound like a big deal, but it blows my mind to think that a piece of his metalhead hairstyle had been perfectly preserved from back when he was the same age as me, listening to the same record all those years ago XD
Nothing too crazy, but in a Queen record I bought I found the original owner's hand written set list of what Queen had played when they were on that tour.
I used to buy used records from a place called Moby Disc back in the late seventies. I bought Deep Purple Burn record and there was a perfectly rolled joint in the sleeve with the record.
I bought a Amy Grant record for $1 at my local store and when I looked at it at home it had a signed picture of her, a concert ticket to one of her older concerts and a bunch of news paper clippings from the time period about her.
Bought a large jazz vinyl lot and inside was a old concert programme from a ella Fitzgerald concert . Signed by Ella herself and a band member mentioned in the programme. Best find yet !
I’m a big fan of the punk band Screeching Weasel. Bought an original pressing of their late ‘80s self-released debut from an online seller here in Japan. Among the inserts, I found a handwritten note from the band’s lead singer to the original owner, apologizing for the record’s late arrival. Unexpected and cool to have!
I found a mono copy of the 13th Floor Elevators first album inside the sleeve of a Donovan album! Not in great shape but still playable. It was in a very large collection and I was doing the final sort on the stuff we were going to sell in bulk. I pulled that one out to check the condition and got a nice surprise!
I bought a box of records blindly for a couple of dollars and inside of a Soundtrack to Flower Drum Song sleeve I found an Elvis acetate for Hardheaded Woman.
I once found an envelope containing 675 euro's inside the sleeve 😱 I had it at home for about 14 days, and when i collected a few, and wanted to clean a batch, i came across the envelope 👍🏻 It was a thriftstore purchase for a buck (Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life). That will probably never happen again, but i enjoyed it when it happened 😉 Absolute truth, really not lying 👍🏻
In 1976-77 Stevie Wonder did an almost free concert, from that album, at my high school, in the auditorium. The school charged 1.00. My guess is that the school kept the money. I can't see how a couple hundred bucks would enrich Stevie Wonder. Every time I see 'Songs From the Key of Life', it reminds me of being young and dancing in that auditorium. The same auditorium that my children and grandchildren used when they went there. I now know what the title means.
i got a really sought after takarazuka (japanese all women's theatre) record, and inside it was a signed marker board drawing by my absolute FAVORITE takarazuka actress who didn't even enter the troupe until 10 years later. i was shaking
Nothing too out of ordinary here. Old receipts, business cards, notes, etc. I love that kind of stuff though and will usually keep it with the records.
My Dad was in the Canadian Air Force in the 60s-80s and he had that exact emergency strobe! I used to play with it all the time. It's waterproof and flashes a VERY intense bright light.
I have found a bunch of old photos and notes, I usually keep them with the albums. I found rolling papers and old crumpled up weed in a copy of Electric Ladyland. The best and most notable find was in a copy of Paul McCartneys russian album that I found at the thrift store. I pulled that record and a few others right off the cart before they were placed in the bins and didnt even look inside until I got home. I remember showing the record to my mom and pulling the disc out and seeing crisp 100 dollar bill fall to the floor. We were both shocked and I picked it up and saw that it was a much older bill. Still have it to this day, and hopefully I can get it framed. Paul blessed me with that find!
Seeds and stems, a dried worm, bugs, wedding photos, a marijuana “roach”, recipes, posters from other albums, newspaper clippings, a knife blade, glitter, and some autographs ( most famous was Kenny Rogers).
Not record related but... in the early 90s I managed a small local aquarium shop. Had an older couple come in wanting to get rid of an old Metaframe aquarium, with filters and supplies, that they had bought in the late 60s. Everything was still boxed up and looked like it just came off the shelf. I traded them some supplies for it and was going to use it as a throw back display. Going through cleaning it up I came across a stack of nude Polaroid pictures of them back in the day complete with love beads and tie dyed sheets. I always thought that one day they would probably wonder what ever happened to those old pics :0
I've got a 3 page hand-written letter that I found in an LP record sleeve. It was written by a woman, and she names the guy who'd be responsible if she's found dead, and explains why. The date on the letter indicated it was written some years before I found it. I checked the phone book and her name and address was there so I figured she was still alive.
Haha! You could see that mistress story coming a mile away! I found an obituary and a bunch of newspaper articles about John Belushi in a Blues Brothers album.
I had a quite nice collection of Judas Priest vinyl, about 120+ items, in one of them I found the most comprehensive Priest discography imaginable, with I think close to 700 items listed, including print and reprint dates, reissues, the smallest minutia you could think of, down to the shit scratched into the runout grooves. Another very cool piece I found inside Jeff Beck's 'Guitar Shop' was a very nice article about the album itself, but I forgot which magazine. Inside a Sabbath Bloody Sabbath reissue with plain white inner sleeve there was a patient's drawing and the psychologist's eval. I still have it, the same vinyl I originally bought as a teenager.
Wow! 20 years ago, in a record I'd found at Goodwill, tucked inside an album sleeve, I found a note which seemed like a suicide note. It read, "Katy, to say I can't live with you anymore isn't right. The truth is that I WON'T live with out you. By the time you find this, if you ever do, just wanted to say I wish you the best with Karl."
In my brother's copy of Simon and Garfunkel's greatest hits, he found a really cool punk cd mixtape, with a custom paper sleeve that was a collage of a bunch of horror movie poster type things.
I was in Montana and was going through a record cabinet with old 78 albums inside. I reached in and stuck my fingers into something which they went through. Upon pulling the album and my hand out, I found out I'd stuck my hand through the dead body of a small bird. Somehow it had become trapped in the cabinet shortly before I came along and died. Wasn't thrilled with that find.
Found a rather heavy 24k. gold bracelet in a Loverboy record about 4 months ago... contemplating whether to melt it down, or to wear it as a testament to my digging!
The coolest thing I found was in a Billy Cobham record. Turns out it was a promo offering. Inside was a well built folder with "GRP"of GRP Records in the lower corner. Inside was a black and white photo of Cobham drumming and a hand typed cover letter pitching the new release and a 3 page hand typed biography of Billy Cobham's career. The cover letter included the GRP executive's name(Nancy Goldstein)and her phone number. All typed on GRP letterhead paper.
When my aunt gave me her old records, I found a Steppenwolf The Second record inside a copy of Iron Butterfly's "Ball" (alongside the original record). Funnily enough, that was the one Steppenwolf record I've always wanted up until that point.
When I worked for a popular electronics retailer, I used to see a lot of personal.... photos... on phones. Some people save some of the most bizarre memories...
Oh my- I used to work in an underwear store, a mix of practical undies, PJ's, and some pretty things. At Christmas a guy came in and didn't know the girlfriend's size but had a photo on his phone... ugh. Like I'm supposed to figure out her size when she's on all fours? He probably did that all over town.
I just found a love letter from 1982. It was a marriage proposal letter replete with wedding ring ads from a place called Aldens. It had the return address on it, so I mailed it back not knowing if the person was even still alive
I haven't found anything inside of them but I have found some things outside. I was at goodwill and was flipping through and saw a Debby Boone record. I don't have any interest in her music. I took another glance and saw that it was signed by her, so I bought it. I also found a signed Gale Storm record. She was an actress. Also found a signed Charlie Daniels record. I got 3 boxes of cds from a yard sale for free and went through them. The lady said that you might find some sighed ones, and I thought she was joking. Sure enough, when searching through the bottom of the last bin I found a signed Bon Jovi cd. I haven't found anything inside the records.
I found a funeral card announcing a memorial service for the musician of the album. It was a jazz album, I filed it away and now can’t remember which one it was. Someday I’ll pull it out to play and rediscover it. That’s the craziest thing I’ve ever found. No money... yet.
I found someone's handwritten statement (assume prepared for the cops or court) about what happened after they stole a duffle bag including highway getaway. Then found a handwritten love letter from a teenage girl to the drummer of Def Leppard tucked inside a Pyromania album. We live in Canada and the album came in a lot from Pennsylvania on ebay. Within half an hr my wife used the girls maiden name to find her and had her on the phone asking if she wanted the letter back. Sad part was her son was into drugs and stole her records, sold them to the local record shop and they put on ebay.
I find lots of tiny things in the bottom of the boxes that come into the shop and I love it!! I keep a tray of "tiny things" and my customers love to see what's new in my tray.
I found someone's 1980's high school report card in a copy of "Abattoir - The Only Safe Place". The young metalhead was not doing so well in Social Studies and there were notes about a lot of absences! Also found $22.00 inside a classical box set that I paid $0.50 for! There was a piece of cardboard in the back and under it were a $20 and two $1's dated to 1981.
Where are you at in Charlotte? I'm from Newton and I haven't been in a record store since my Navy days. I'd love to come check it out next time I'm down that way.
I found two copies of Neil Young’s Tonight’s the Night in one jacket. It was a repress, but there was an original copy also included. My only guess is the previous owner had an OG trashed jacket but the vinyl was clean, bought a repress them stuck the original in with it.
I was browsing through a record shop and found a copy of a Blue Cheer album, Outside Inside, that I had sold 20 year earlier in a city 400 miles away. I was looking for that very album, so I bought it back, of course.
That's great. Hey Coaster, I still have mine that I must've bought back in the late 60's. I played the Vincebus Eruptom LP a thousand times, plus I saw them live twice. What was the cost of Outside Inside?
I found a newspaper cutting and a personally handwritten letter from a recordshop owner in Plymouth, England, to the presumed buyer of a 6 LP box set from 1972, telling them what a wise choice they made in their (presumed expensive) purchase. I guess all involved have passed away by now. Everything in mint condition. It's strange to find an unexpected communication from 1972. Such a different world back then and before my time.
I bought the first album by the Stray Cats used this past year & found a ticket stub to a Stray Cats concert in Delaware & a newspaper clipping of the concert review. Pretty cool I think.
I bought a Willie Nile record from Half Price Books in June 2020 or so. It's was a promo record for his debut from early 80s. Inside was a letter from the head of a FM rock radio station in Dallas to the station's staff announcing that the station was being sold to a different company, and that there would probably be new management of staff but no details yet at the time. Letter was dated in the early 80s.
I found what looked like a hand written love letter by Julie London inside one of her record sleeves. I think it might have been in every one as the album was "Love Letters"
I always put setlist/tickets from shows in their respective record. And when I used to work at a theater I'd find money in seats while cleaning. Sometimes it'd be a lot... so I'd stash them in a record until I could deposit the money.
Hi Dillion, another great video! What would you say was the weirdest item in a record that was actually meant to come with it? I recently bought an RSD release by the Fleshtones and it had a werewolf mask.
I've found several pressed pot leaves as well as a perfectly pressed Twinkie wrapper (why?). Pot seeds are common in 60s-70s gatefold jackets since they are perfect for rolling doobs. The funniest was a bunch of seeds in a Hawkwind album I found at a church sale in with a bunch of Oral Roberts, Jimmy Swaggart & other religious LPs. In a 70s Elvis album, I found several snapshots of Elvis performing on stage taken with a cheap Instamatic camera. It was definitely a 1970s-period Elvis performance as he was in the white jumpsuit. It looked like whoever took the photos had front row seats. No porn yet, but there's still time.
I bought a copy of Dylan's Blood On The Tracks for $5 and it had a cool newspaper clipping from the time as well as a mint Dylan poster. The famous one.
When i was 12 i was flipping through my dads copy of Quadrophenia and I remember finding the original picture flip book that came with it. One page had a collage of nude women. Mind blown.
There was a guy on facobook that found some autographed 8x10 pics of several actors from Star Trek. He had Shatner, Kelley and also had one of Nimoy. It was an unbelievable find! Pics looked great and the autos looked legit. He got a major score!
Not weird, but I have a few records with old mail-order forms for VHS tapes, t-shirts, etc. I had a Peter Frampton album with little booklet for all kinds of Frampton fan club merch.
I had a local record store for almost 2 years and once i found a 1990s porn mag in an Elvis record, a random picture of someone's boobs in a gospel record, and someone's high school diploma in another album
Oh yeah, I remember another kinda weird but interesting thing I’d find; obituaries for band members who were on the album clipped from the newspaper and stuck in the jacket. I remember one for Lowell George in a Little Feat album, one for Dennis Wilson in a Beach Boys album and one for John Lennon in a copy of Imagine. These all came from the same dudes collection, I think there were some others too.
I bought a copy of Brian Eno's Ambient 4 and was filled little pictures and the og insert scrawled with crazy writings and drawings. Later when I went back to that flea market and talked to the guy I got it from I told him about it and he said that the record was his back in day and that all those drawings and writings were stuff he would see and think while he'd trip on acid and shrooms while listening to the album.
Back in the 80s a friend and i bought several brand new post punk albums from a store in orlando in factory shrink wrap, he opened one of his and it had a mint condition apple records beatles album in it instead of the expected one!
I just bought Cycles by Doobie Brothers and there were a handful of clippings from billboard mag about the band and the release from 88 and 89. No signatures or identifying info.
Hey! I’m new to your channel! I found a “the ring” magazine from March of 1970 with Muhammad Ali on the cover. I was like wow!!! This is awesome! There was another one from the same year. I put them both in a sleeve. They are in good condition considering.
Found rolling paper, a few cheap 45's, ( one exception of a Police 45 shaped like a sheriff's star badge), grub notes of best tracks, some dimes and nickels, very old lottery ticket, newspaper clippings of band /artist, playboy centerfold of 1966, and the most disappointing of all the wrong record inside. Peace.
Found so much crazy stuff in records. I bought a record lot from an old DJ from Nashville and inside a Johnny Cash record was a 20 page booklet with photos of all the big Country stars all autographed, Johnny Cash, June Carter, little Jimmy Dickens I need to get this thing appraised! Love your channel bro
@@noblerecords I need to open a record store bro, I have way to many expensive albums to be sending in the mail. I want to make a patent for a high end record shipment box. Right now on expensive records I bubble wrap them put them in a standard shipping box- then put more bubble wrap inside a pizza box! You might have to buy my collection lol
I saw something on a video from What’s in my bag on amoebas channel. Sebastian Bach said something about using wood glue to restore old vinyl records. Have you ever seen this and have you tried it?
The in my eyes craziest and at the same time most interesting thing was a record by soft machine with some notes on the innersleeve about a crazy story very psychadelicish but at the same time it had some kind of radio station timing thing on it...hard to describe but i'm sure you had some similar experience with records from radio stations (mine was a record from a normal record shop)
The most unusual thing I ever found was a Roxy music record and inside there was a really good quality drawing of the cover picture, only they had made the girl naked!
Does anyone else come across a peace sign stamp that says cancel out war on their albums?? I come across quite a few of them and I'm wondering if it's just my area or a wide spread thing. I have a picture of the stamp due to coming across a couple more today!!
Definitely some wild things in the records over your years. I've mainly have found newspaper articles in records! Although once there was a time I found a fake fingernail that a gal must've lost when spinning this Doors album.
i got a copy of best seats in the house from goddo and inside i find a 45 record it was on attic records and the record number was GOD 2 and other then that it just had for more information call attic records i played it it was a copy of pretty bad boys on both sides i met the guys in goddo years later and it was something they had never seen before and i got them to sign it and the live album for me
I got lucky one day at a thrift store and scored 20 records. Only one of them had a different record inside the sleeve. It was the last one I found and I had bought it on impulse without checking. Instead of Cannonball Adderley, I ended up with a race car sound effects record.
Coolest thing I’ve ever found was the 1st Kiss tour book in a Kiss Alive, and another copy in an Alive II. Both at the Swapmeet. I’m not talking about the photo book those records came with but the actual 1st Kiss tour book. Strange that I found it in both.
I've never found anything but records. Only surprise I've ever had was in a copy of Frampton Comes Alive I found a picture disc added along with the regular records.
Found a drawing in a record once. At a record fair I was flipping through a box of records and there was a £5 note in the box so paid for a record I pulled out with it.
The flashlight is actually a Firefly. They were issued during the Vietnam War. They still make them today. And, as a bonus the weirdest (coolest) thing i ever found in a record was a playboy
Have not found anything too crazy... a couple of dollar bills, some pics (mostly Polaroids of kids or cars), I guess "best" find was a Flexi-disc "Billy and the Bonkers" (AKA Bill the Cat from "Bloom County" if anyone remembers that).
I found a CD single of "let it be" by the Beatles in the sleeve of a copy of Johnny Cash live at folsom prison but sadly it disappeared when I was moving and I've never been able to find it since
I found a couple barnyard oddities in stuff. One is for one I own. My promo copy of Berlin's Pleasure Victim has a sticker over part of the Geffen label where it says "Do not make any "sexual" references on the song Sex. Do it straight." The other is an album I saw at Half Price Books once. It was a copy of Touch by Eurythmics where the cover had writing that said "Property of Chicken Ranch Nevada." I was tempted to buy that one, but the record wasn't in very good condition. Why that was the case will be left to your own interpretation.
I found a note in a Rubber soul album describing their first time smoking weed. Lol. And then I had found a joint in the next one the same guy had sold me both of them. He was 77 at the time and I'm pretty sure he'd forgotten about the note and joint. I also bought a record that someone had left another note in. It literally said. "album is crap, don't play." On the sleeve.
Am I the only one who finds math problems written out on inner sleeves? Finances. Mortgage payments. etc. I also have a cool old Valentines Day card made out to some dude named Richie from 1978(?)
