I've been an avid record collector for many years and my collection is mostly,rock,blues,and folk from the 60's and 70's.The demise of vinyl started with the introduction of cd's.Although the unwanted cracks and pops were eliminated with the cd vinyl does have it's own qualities.A needle touching a record seems to have a certain breath that is lost with the compact disc.

The Beatles came out with a radical album cover for their Yesterday and Today album.The fab 4 were shown sitting down with baby dolls cuts of beef,which is known today as the very rare butcher cover.When the record was released to radio stations across the U.S.,the dj's couldn't believe their eyes and contacted Capitol records.They told Capitol that the cover was too bizarre and questioned if a mistake had been made.Capitol recalled the albums from the dj's and quickly pasted over an alternate cover which is the most common cover that exists today.This photo has The Beatles around a large foot locker or trunk.So the trunk cover became the norm.The exact numbers of paste over albums is not known and Capitol didn't receive all the original "first state" album covers that were suppose to be returned.An original first ste cover is worth thousands and a paste over copy is worth hundreds of dollars.

Usually mono pieces command higher prices than stereo.A lot of the original masters in the 60's were recorded and intended to be in mono.The Beatles Seargent Pepper and Magical Mystery Tour albums were originally released as mono.They are very collectible pieces and are worth 10 times more than the stereo versions of the same albums.Another example would be Moby Grape's first album.The mono cover has a rare picture of the drummer holding his middle finger over a washboard.The original picture was eliminated in the stereo release.