Greatest hits so great?

[CitizenDan]

I know they were lightweights, but I listen to The Turtles a lot more than I listen to....well, any other L.A. band of the era, really, including the Byrds and the Beach Boys. The early folky-rocky stuff is hit-and-miss, but once they hooked up with Bonner and Gordon (and subsequently started taking drugs and writing their own flaky stuff), they were golden. "She's My Girl" b/w "Chicken Little Was Right" might be my favorite 45 of all time.

[Xenu]

I'm convinced that today, regardless of the artist, "out of print" (regardless of how long it was in print) means nothing but $$$.

Yeah...I don't exactly understand that phenomenon. Way back when, I made a good bit of money on eBay selling OOP CDs that were legitimately hard to get, i.e. the London discs, et cetera. Today, lots of those legitimately uncommon things go for absolutely nothing on eBay, while the Left Banke's "There's Gonna Be a Storm"--in print for at least ten years, during which point you'd think anybody who really wanted the thing would've bought it--now routinely trades for upwards of $40. Huh?

[CitizenDan]

It's the old collector phenomenon of "the more I can't have it, the more I want it."

[lukpac]

It's the old collector phenomenon of "the more I can't have it, the more I want it."

Unfortunately, I'm probably guilty of that. Or "I'd like that, but it's not high on my list" becomes "it's high on my list" once it's OOP.

[Xenu]

It's the old collector phenomenon of "the more I can't have it, the more I want it."

Still, though. Ten years! I thought a side-symptom of collector-dom was the "I'll buy it, just in case it goes out of print" phenomenon!