Big Monkey' S Compact Disc Price Guide: A CD Collector's Handbook

A valuable tool for CD collectors, this price guide contains close to 3,000 artists, close to 27,000 entries, and over one thousand pictures of some of the rarest CDs on the planet. It has CDs from the following labels: BGO Records out of England, Line Records and Repertoire out of Germany, as well as most of the American labels, promotional CDs from most countries, Japanese issues, gold CDs, and anything that is a legitimate release. Includes Pop, Rock, Country, Soul, R&B, Progressive, Folk, Ambient, New Wave, New Age, Heavy Metal, Rockabilly, Motown, British Invasion, Punk, Alternative, Jazz, Blues, Soundtracks, and Various Artists. Each entry has the name of the artist, title of the CD, label, format, catalog number (you can use this to order the ones still in print), country of origin, and the value in US dollars. Original.

Richard A. Colon has been collecting and selling music since 1976. He sells worldwide under the moniker BigMonkeyCDsAndVideos on eBay for and has over 7,000 positive feedbacks. Also, he sells at record and guitar conventions around the United States. Throughout the years he has developed an expertiese on pricing and grading collectable CDs. Richard has received praise from the likes of Jerry Donahue (of Fotheringay, Fairport Convention, Hellecasters, and The Proclaimers), saying the book is incredible. Jeff "Skunk" Baxter (The Holy Modal Rounders, The Doobie Brothers, Steely Dan, Ultimate Spinach) called this book a labor of love. Michael Clare, who played with Daevid Allen of Gong on four University Of Errors CDs, said in a letter to the author, "There have been two price guides put out by Goldmine Magazine (the most recent at the end of the 90,s is well out of date by now), and Record Collector in England have been including a limited amount of rare titles in their mostly vinyl price guide. "Big Monkey's Cd Price Guide" is by far the best and most useful guide that I have seen to date. I wish it had been around when I was working in the business." Michael Clare owned the largest used CD store on the East Coast, which was featured in Billboard, and was in charge of the collectible cds for Amoeba Music in Berkeley, the largest second hand music dealer on the West Coast. Clare was also at one point a buyer for Caroline Records (a division of Virgin Records).