LethylSteel wrote:
many criminal collectors do know what it's worth nowadays and would buy the whole edition for nothing while re-selling it later at ebay or somewhere JUST IN ORDER TO MAKE PROFIT that seriously belongs to the band is criminal to me.
I respectfully disagree. The band could have put the records on ebay themselves rather than sell the entire stock to one person for a small amount. I understand why you think the buyer did something underhanded, but the band could have put them on ebay and made the money themselves, so it's their fault if they sold all their copies in bulk for a cheap price.
Apollo: Wanna buy a stamp collection? Will trade stamps for metal records
Chat: HAWT CHEEKZ was already tracked down and no copies have turned up in a long time- don't expect to see one anytime soon
There are much better singles to look for anyway. TRYKZY LYKKR's "bawlyn chayne b/w slykk chykkz' is twice as good IMO, though unfortunately it's just as rare
Ion- Your definition of 'metalhead' is different than mine, which is fine, and it explains your POV on this subject. Just to provide some context for my own POV: I grew up in a rural area of the US in the late 80s. Thus, there was no metal scene at all, and most of the bands I like now were already long gone by the time I got into metal seriously. Ive never lived in an area with good access to concerts, and even the colleges I attended never had any semblance of a metal scene around them, so I never got into the 'metal as a way of life' type of fandom; I was never exposed to it. Thus, while I'm a fan of many bands, I've never felt any close, personal attachment to bands on an individual basis.
In the poor, rural area of the US I grew up in, 'horse trading' was a common activity; I was trading coins and toys by the time I was 8 years old. I spent summers at flea markets selling comic books off the tailgate of a pickup truck. You learned early to watch your step or you'd get ripped off. When I was about 7 years old my parents had a yard sale and some old lady tried to rip me off by giving me a quarter for something that my parents wanted $5 for. My own grandma ripped a little kid off; his dad had a piece of antique glass for sale at a flea market. Granny didn't want to pay his price for it, so she waited until he went to the bathroom, then hurried over and talked his 10-year-old kid into selling it to her much cheaper, then she took it and ran before daddy got back to his booth. In that relatively impoverished environment, $5 was a lot to many people, so you know the seller was out to get as much $$ as possible, and the buyer was out to spend as little $$ as possible.
"I'm sorry Sam, we had real chemistry. But like a monkey on the sun, our love was too hot to live"
-Becky
You said it much better than I ever could!! My presence here is not necessary anymore!! I'll go out to have a nice cheesecake instead!! 
