
Ella Fitzgerald Albums with Hot Stampers
Ella Fitzgerald Albums We’ve Reviewed
Recently I tried to win a copy of this album on ebay, since I rarely see them locally anymore. Most of them are too noisy and groove damaged to do much with, but that’s the cost of doing business if your business is selling Hot Stamper pressings in audiophile playing condition.
A week or two ago I was outbid at $200+, beyond what I thought I should have to pay. How wrong I was. Yesterday I was outbid at $320.
There is a reason that at least some of our records are getting a lot pricier than they used to be.
And some titles, like this very album, are so rare in clean condition that we go years between shootouts.
Really, nothing is cheap anymore. The record bins in our local stores are badly picked over no matter how often we stop in. Plenty of Heavy Vinyl reissues are sitting there if that’s your thing. It sure isn’t ours.