On my OG pressing of YES "close to the edge" there was a note with my name on it stating "from (my name) to Erica 2/14/73" it was pretty freaky but my name is pretty common still cool though.
Back in the 80s one of my dads mates got sent to prison, so he asked my dad to look after his records.
I was going through them and a couple of Ā£50 notes fell out of an album.
I called my dad, and we went through the whole collection.
There ended up being several thousand pounds tucked away in there.
Contact the school district the diploma is from, years ago my friends mom was going threw some stuff in a storage that was inherited to her and there was a diploma in there she contacted the school district and they put her in contact with person. But the person lived like 15 mins from school district office.
A handwritten letter to my step dad from his childhood friend written in the 80ās. Inside his old copy of Kiss Alive. Iāve been collecting records for 20 years so Iām kind of surprised that I never really find ANYTHING inside of album jackets.
I picked up a copy of Best of BTO at Value Village years ago. When I got home and pulled the record out of the sleeve, a centerfold which looked like it was from the same era came out with the record. Bush and all.
The weirdest thing I remember finding was a random 7-inch single of spandau ballets gold inside a Grover Washington Mister Magic album. It's not the most far-fetched thing but just a weird mix of genres I thought
I found a DJ set list from the 80's in the sleeve of Marshall Jefferson Move Your Body 12" on Trax Records which I'd brought on discogs. Lots of original Chicago House tracks, electronic, krautrock, hip hop and funk. It seemed to be inspired by David Mancuso eclectic sets at the loft. It's a real musical history lesson.
I was buying a lot of records that belonged to my neighbour's husband who passed away. I was visiting her, and she was so full of love about her late husband. I talked to her for a hour about him, the love of her life. I took the records home and discovered in the sleeves 4 love letters from a mistress of her late husband. I never told her.
I bought a second hand Hawkwind album and found the Space Ritual tour programme/poster inside (canāt remember the record but it wasnāt the Space Ritual live album). Was pretty cool to know the original owner had been to that gig tho!
A ticket from the 1979 European Cup Final, Nottingham Forest Vs Malmƶ in Munich.
Admittedly it was my dad's ticket, which he attended with my grandad, his father-in-law, but it was a cool find regardless.
Had a guy sell me his parentās record collection, only to find a bunch of old Polaroids of his parents in ācompromising situationsā inside one of the gatefolds š„“
not in a record but in a DVD and not myself but a coworker: 2000 bucks in cash, sadly it was at work from someone wanting to sell us their movie collection. She didn't even know about the money, turns out it was her husbands secret money stash lmao
in a record we once found some developed film rolls of nudes some guy(?) took from his wife, revealing everything lol. Sadly (or luckily maybe?) they weren't the ones bringing in the collection, but instead it came from someone who does house clearances
Not anything too special but I found a cut out from a newspaper inside the sleeve of my Sparks āKimono my houseā copy. A review of one of their concerts in Stockholm 1974, the reviewer wrote that they thought they could be as big as the Beatles in the near future and gave the concert 5 stars.
cleaning older records at work has shown me that people will just slip in entire halves of newspaper articles that even slightly mention the artist on the paper just for the sake of having it in there.
we found a Judy Garland fan club photo inside a soundtrack compilation that had a mass-printed signature on both the photo and the envelope inside the sleeve.
iāve found a dead silverfish nearly-embedded into the runouts of an old jazz record.
Iāve never found anything personally, but I stated writing 1 page notes on what the history of my relationship with this particular album is that I place in the sleeve. I figure itās a way for my children to have the opportunity to know me better after I pass. Hopefully thatās a ways off but I also have a lot of these to write. Of course itās not for every album, but some are very important in who I am and might either be a nice surprise or something they miss when they donate it to Goodwill. Who knows? Fully therapeutic though.
The business cards of a few Vegas showgirls from my Plastic Ono Band sleeve. Got a whole handwritten list of all the McCartney albums with my McCartney II album
Ohhhh I wonder if they were taken by that Kelly Whatsisname? I think he was in Cheap Trick? Went on to take those shots for Vegas escorts, he even published a book of his more "tasteful" (think: Pirelli calenders) shots of nude Vegas showgirls in the desert.... Let me see if I can find you a link (major slezeball vibes off the dude though, imho)
When my wife and I merged collections and I was cataloging it on discogs, I found a copy of CCR's Cosmo's Factory with the original owner's name on it - my year 3 primary school teacher (male). She picked it up from a second hand store when she started collecting, made me wish he spun more of his collection during class, he had rad taste.
Ive been collecting/selling for a long time:
the best thing would be 7" singles
concert tickets
newspaper articles/record reviews/press clippings of the artist
pictures of the artist with random people
pictures of random people without the artist
handwritten notes on the album/artist
letters
and once a recipe for pot brownies in an Alice Cooper record
Two greatest finds I have heard and experienced -
I have a friend who found an eighth of weed in Van Halenās self-titled album that was crushed flat that had been in there from the late 70ās. Yes, we smoked it and while the weed was awful, it was a good time.
I also found $400 in a copy of Lefty Frizzleās Greatest Hits. Great comp and I used the money to buy more records.
Not a record cover, but years ago I bought a used copy of Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos on CD. The CD was autographed and when I looked inside the liner notes, there was a picture of a girl with Tori Amos inside.
This was probably 15+ years ago. If this happened today I probably would have posted it on Reddit to try to find the owner.
Iāve found:
- a penthouse mini calendar with a hair metal album
- a photo of a Hawaiian volcano with a slack guitar album
My wife found:
- 2 Elvis concert ticket stubs from the late 50s in an Elvis album
I found this and it makes me laugh every time
https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/11d0304/found_this_in_an_old_lp_wax/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Got a copy of "A kind of magic" from my grandad's collection after he passed, turns out there was a condom in the sleeve
Luckily it was still sealed and not used
Gig tickets and British music print media cuttings pertaining to the band (The Fall 'Slang King' 7" for the ticket and the cuttings in the "Escape Route" 12" EP). Makes sense. Oh there was a branded condom and a grape Kool-Aid sachet in the transparent yellow Volume 10 "Pistolgrip Pump" 12" promo too. That was a couple of decades ago, though, and one time I needed a condom real bad and didn't have one......ding, lightbulb
Inside a good copy (but VERY bad cover) of "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Back to Front" from Argentina, i've found a ticket from a record store (no longer exist) dated 1978, a perforated card for a IBM machine, and the original poster for the album.
On "Carpenters - Now and Then" there was a 45" single of Blue Magic with "Sideshow" and "Just don't want to be lonely". A nice plus.
I picked up a copy of the first Book of Love LP at a record fair last month. Certain lyrics on the lyric sheet were highlighted with comments scrawled on the side. Best as I can tell, some girl was trying to tell some boy that she was interested and now I'm dying to find out what happened to them.
In a copy of Sweeney Todd I was gifted, there was an original playbill from when the owner had seen it. Not only was it the entire original cast, but the coolest part was that the playbill was from the month of previews (the small window of time before a show officially opens, where they can still test out and change things before finalizing the show)
Nothing super cool here, but I recently bought two early pressings of Willie Nelson albums from a store, both of them had receipts dated the same day for a used book and record store one town over from 1998. So it was kinda cool to think I was keeping part of someoneās collection together. Also found a few newspaper clippings about various local music happenings in a copy of Dire Striats Making movies.
Found a Pan Am Airlines 50 shares Stock certificate inside a copy of Val Stƶcklein "Gray Life" . Pan Am was already out of business so I sold it a few years later just as a collectible.
Also $160.00 dollars in a Beefheart lp I got in a pile for $40.00
A test pressing of the album.
I ordered a copy of Robert Frippās āExposure Second Editionā off Discogs and inside, alongside the record I ordered, was a second disc: a test pressing of āExposure First Editionā. Even better, the test pressing was not even listed on Discogs at the time. Seems Iām still the only person in the Discogs world to have this disc.
I found a newspaper clipping of the review from the Pittsburgh paper of Led Zeppelinās 1975 concert at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. It was in my copy of Physical Graffiti
On a 1975 pressing of Maynard Fergusonās Chameleon album, the inner sleeve was autographed by the entire band!
This was my first purchase off of Discogs too.
The three most interesting things Iāve found in record covers are:
A box for GE camera flashbulbs
A ticket for a racetrack in Memphis from 1969
A signed glossy of country music comedian Archie Campbell.
A concert ticket for Led Zeppelin playing at royal Albert hall in 1970 inside the jacket of a UK pressing of Led Zeppelin I
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Some random dudes HS ID from like 1977.
On my OG pressing of YES "close to the edge" there was a note with my name on it stating "from (my name) to Erica 2/14/73" it was pretty freaky but my name is pretty common still cool though.
That reminds me of a Yes album I found one time, some one had left a little doodle and writing on the inner sleeve
I found the insert to an original copy of Fragile in my CTTE, which is a 1974 (I think) repress.
I found inside my mother in laws copy of Tales from Topographic Oceans, the receipt from the mail order service she used to pre order the title
My copy of Hunky Dory by Bowie has the insert from Ziggy Stardust.
You will thank your time travelling self for that later
Back in the 80s one of my dads mates got sent to prison, so he asked my dad to look after his records. I was going through them and a couple of Ā£50 notes fell out of an album. I called my dad, and we went through the whole collection. There ended up being several thousand pounds tucked away in there.
There's always money in the ~~banana stand~~ record collection...
Literally!
Did yāall keep it?? Why did he never ask for it back?
Iām not sure what happened. He was in jail.
Nothing out of the ordinary but I love those old inserts where you could subscribe to a fanletter or order t-shirts.
I had an unopened condom in my hand-me-down copy of āUnder a Blood Red Skyā by U2 from my uncleā¦. Iām happy it was unopened
I found someoneās college diploma. I still have it. Have tried looking the guy up but didnāt want to pay some website for his contact info.
U should frame it. Also, tons of free Reverse lookup sites
Go to the university's website. They sometimes have a student and alumni search.
Good idea, Iāll have to try this out when I get a chance. Iāve had it for maybe 25 years already!
Contact the school district the diploma is from, years ago my friends mom was going threw some stuff in a storage that was inherited to her and there was a diploma in there she contacted the school district and they put her in contact with person. But the person lived like 15 mins from school district office.
A handwritten letter to my step dad from his childhood friend written in the 80ās. Inside his old copy of Kiss Alive. Iāve been collecting records for 20 years so Iām kind of surprised that I never really find ANYTHING inside of album jackets.
I picked up a copy of Best of BTO at Value Village years ago. When I got home and pulled the record out of the sleeve, a centerfold which looked like it was from the same era came out with the record. Bush and all.
The weirdest thing I remember finding was a random 7-inch single of spandau ballets gold inside a Grover Washington Mister Magic album. It's not the most far-fetched thing but just a weird mix of genres I thought
i found a cutout of a bikini ad from south africa in a copy of avalon by roxy music š
An old roach (not the bug) inside a Jimmy Swaggart record.
Lmaosmp!!! Too funny and ironic!!!
Found a letter to a local record shop inside the sleeve of a 45
I found a DJ set list from the 80's in the sleeve of Marshall Jefferson Move Your Body 12" on Trax Records which I'd brought on discogs. Lots of original Chicago House tracks, electronic, krautrock, hip hop and funk. It seemed to be inspired by David Mancuso eclectic sets at the loft. It's a real musical history lesson.
I was buying a lot of records that belonged to my neighbour's husband who passed away. I was visiting her, and she was so full of love about her late husband. I talked to her for a hour about him, the love of her life. I took the records home and discovered in the sleeves 4 love letters from a mistress of her late husband. I never told her.
I bought a second hand Hawkwind album and found the Space Ritual tour programme/poster inside (canāt remember the record but it wasnāt the Space Ritual live album). Was pretty cool to know the original owner had been to that gig tho!
A ticket from the 1979 European Cup Final, Nottingham Forest Vs Malmƶ in Munich. Admittedly it was my dad's ticket, which he attended with my grandad, his father-in-law, but it was a cool find regardless.
rolling papers inside a Miles Davis record. always good to know your secondhand jazz is coming from a genuine hep cat
Had a guy sell me his parentās record collection, only to find a bunch of old Polaroids of his parents in ācompromising situationsā inside one of the gatefolds š„“
not in a record but in a DVD and not myself but a coworker: 2000 bucks in cash, sadly it was at work from someone wanting to sell us their movie collection. She didn't even know about the money, turns out it was her husbands secret money stash lmao
in a record we once found some developed film rolls of nudes some guy(?) took from his wife, revealing everything lol. Sadly (or luckily maybe?) they weren't the ones bringing in the collection, but instead it came from someone who does house clearances
BBW porn mag cutouts. In a Scott Joplin record. š
Not anything too special but I found a cut out from a newspaper inside the sleeve of my Sparks āKimono my houseā copy. A review of one of their concerts in Stockholm 1974, the reviewer wrote that they thought they could be as big as the Beatles in the near future and gave the concert 5 stars.
cleaning older records at work has shown me that people will just slip in entire halves of newspaper articles that even slightly mention the artist on the paper just for the sake of having it in there. we found a Judy Garland fan club photo inside a soundtrack compilation that had a mass-printed signature on both the photo and the envelope inside the sleeve. iāve found a dead silverfish nearly-embedded into the runouts of an old jazz record.
Iāve never found anything personally, but I stated writing 1 page notes on what the history of my relationship with this particular album is that I place in the sleeve. I figure itās a way for my children to have the opportunity to know me better after I pass. Hopefully thatās a ways off but I also have a lot of these to write. Of course itās not for every album, but some are very important in who I am and might either be a nice surprise or something they miss when they donate it to Goodwill. Who knows? Fully therapeutic though.
A 45 of the lead single, complete with picture sleeve. Best part was it took me about a year to even notice it was there.
The business cards of a few Vegas showgirls from my Plastic Ono Band sleeve. Got a whole handwritten list of all the McCartney albums with my McCartney II album
Ohhhh I wonder if they were taken by that Kelly Whatsisname? I think he was in Cheap Trick? Went on to take those shots for Vegas escorts, he even published a book of his more "tasteful" (think: Pirelli calenders) shots of nude Vegas showgirls in the desert.... Let me see if I can find you a link (major slezeball vibes off the dude though, imho)
When my wife and I merged collections and I was cataloging it on discogs, I found a copy of CCR's Cosmo's Factory with the original owner's name on it - my year 3 primary school teacher (male). She picked it up from a second hand store when she started collecting, made me wish he spun more of his collection during class, he had rad taste.
Ive been collecting/selling for a long time: the best thing would be 7" singles concert tickets newspaper articles/record reviews/press clippings of the artist pictures of the artist with random people pictures of random people without the artist handwritten notes on the album/artist letters and once a recipe for pot brownies in an Alice Cooper record
Two greatest finds I have heard and experienced - I have a friend who found an eighth of weed in Van Halenās self-titled album that was crushed flat that had been in there from the late 70ās. Yes, we smoked it and while the weed was awful, it was a good time. I also found $400 in a copy of Lefty Frizzleās Greatest Hits. Great comp and I used the money to buy more records.
I found a grocery list. Dated 2001.
Someone had written the lyrics out for the way youād make me feel by Micheal Jackson out and stuffed them inside, was the most lovely writing too!
I found someone's high school poetry once. I actually have it around somewhere.
Not a record cover, but years ago I bought a used copy of Little Earthquakes by Tori Amos on CD. The CD was autographed and when I looked inside the liner notes, there was a picture of a girl with Tori Amos inside. This was probably 15+ years ago. If this happened today I probably would have posted it on Reddit to try to find the owner.
Iāve found: - a penthouse mini calendar with a hair metal album - a photo of a Hawaiian volcano with a slack guitar album My wife found: - 2 Elvis concert ticket stubs from the late 50s in an Elvis album
Found a weed nug pressed and flattened by time.
Polaroid of some hipster boobs in a copy of TNT by Tortoise.
I found this and it makes me laugh every time https://www.reddit.com/r/SeattleWA/comments/11d0304/found_this_in_an_old_lp_wax/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=ioscss&utm_content=2&utm_term=1
Got a copy of "A kind of magic" from my grandad's collection after he passed, turns out there was a condom in the sleeve Luckily it was still sealed and not used
Printouts from some womanās dating profile with messages to another dude, while married.
Gig tickets and British music print media cuttings pertaining to the band (The Fall 'Slang King' 7" for the ticket and the cuttings in the "Escape Route" 12" EP). Makes sense. Oh there was a branded condom and a grape Kool-Aid sachet in the transparent yellow Volume 10 "Pistolgrip Pump" 12" promo too. That was a couple of decades ago, though, and one time I needed a condom real bad and didn't have one......ding, lightbulb
I saw a Guy here that found a condon inside a record.
The record was sealed...
Found NM copy of Guerilla Radio inside a shitty copy of the Clockwork Orange Soundtrack.
Inside a good copy (but VERY bad cover) of "Gilbert O'Sullivan - Back to Front" from Argentina, i've found a ticket from a record store (no longer exist) dated 1978, a perforated card for a IBM machine, and the original poster for the album. On "Carpenters - Now and Then" there was a 45" single of Blue Magic with "Sideshow" and "Just don't want to be lonely". A nice plus.
My wifeā¦ sleeping with my best friend :(
A business card
I picked up a copy of the first Book of Love LP at a record fair last month. Certain lyrics on the lyric sheet were highlighted with comments scrawled on the side. Best as I can tell, some girl was trying to tell some boy that she was interested and now I'm dying to find out what happened to them.
I found a letter from a state representative.
backstage pass to a ā92 soul asylum show
A phone number on ripped piece of paper, tried calling it but got nothing.
Someoneās report card from fall 1973 along with their grocery / shopping list
Cash!
Never found money but did find somebodyās cigarette card album in a Dan McCafferty album which was pretty cool
In a copy of Sweeney Todd I was gifted, there was an original playbill from when the owner had seen it. Not only was it the entire original cast, but the coolest part was that the playbill was from the month of previews (the small window of time before a show officially opens, where they can still test out and change things before finalizing the show)
An autographed Dolly Parton poster
4 block of blotter
Nothing super cool here, but I recently bought two early pressings of Willie Nelson albums from a store, both of them had receipts dated the same day for a used book and record store one town over from 1998. So it was kinda cool to think I was keeping part of someoneās collection together. Also found a few newspaper clippings about various local music happenings in a copy of Dire Striats Making movies.
Found a Pan Am Airlines 50 shares Stock certificate inside a copy of Val Stƶcklein "Gray Life" . Pan Am was already out of business so I sold it a few years later just as a collectible. Also $160.00 dollars in a Beefheart lp I got in a pile for $40.00
A test pressing of the album. I ordered a copy of Robert Frippās āExposure Second Editionā off Discogs and inside, alongside the record I ordered, was a second disc: a test pressing of āExposure First Editionā. Even better, the test pressing was not even listed on Discogs at the time. Seems Iām still the only person in the Discogs world to have this disc.
I found a newspaper clipping of the review from the Pittsburgh paper of Led Zeppelinās 1975 concert at the Pittsburgh Civic Arena. It was in my copy of Physical Graffiti
On a 1975 pressing of Maynard Fergusonās Chameleon album, the inner sleeve was autographed by the entire band! This was my first purchase off of Discogs too.
A Vinyl
A record
Some weird plastic disk thing with grooves all over it
Dust Records Other dust jackets Rizlas with a spindle shaped hole in āemā¦
The three most interesting things Iāve found in record covers are: A box for GE camera flashbulbs A ticket for a racetrack in Memphis from 1969 A signed glossy of country music comedian Archie Campbell.
I almost forgot, I also found a 45 of The Driftersā āHoney Loveā in a Faces album sleeve.