Yesterday & Today Butcher Cover

[aspinall_lover]

Any of you out there own a "Butcher Cover" album of the Beatles' 1966 US release, "Yesterday and Today"?  Either original or the "peeled" version?
The guy at the local used record store has a "peeled" one that is in awesome condition.  I think it's worth a couple grand.  Back in the late 1980's, I went one weekend to Austin, Texas to the huge record show they hold down there twice a year.  I saw an original, "still SEALED" butcher cover and the dealer was wanting 25 THOUSAND dollars for it.  Amazing...............let's hear your thoughts..........

[HeatherBoo]

25 big ones!  ??)

[Geoff]

There's one available on ebay right now with a starting bid of of $15,000. Let me know how it goes.  

http://cgi.ebay.com/Beatles-Yesterday-and-Today_W0QQitemZ140242059523QQihZ004QQcategoryZ306QQssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[aspinall_lover]

You think I'm gonna BID on that? I'll keep an eye on it on ebay.  I have more better things to do with my money..............I've spent a small fortune on the Beatles Monthlys magazines to have the complete set........

[HeatherBoo]

Yes as much as I love The Beatles, I just do not have that kind of money for something like that!  

[HeatherBoo]

As for that person selling that on ebay....If I had it, I would never sell it!  It said that her or his father had bought it from Sears in the 60's. I would keep it!!!

[aspinall_lover]

You got that right, Heather.  I would NEVER,EVER,EVER sell that album if I had it.  Even if I had an aunt back in "the day" who bought a couple of copies of it........NO FRICKIN' WAY I would sell it!!!!

[HeatherBoo]

Seriously. No matter how much I needed money either (unless someone's life depended on it).  Money isn't everything.  Something like that you keep and pass on.

[Bobber]

Somehow it is sad that Beatles memorabilia has become the subject of large investments and big businessrather than being the subject of collecting fans.

[blackmath]

maybe the person selling it isn't a beatles fan?
btw, i'd sell it.

[Geoff]

I've always been more interested in the music itself rather than memorabilia; it's when a bootleg of new material comes out that I show up. As for Yesterday...and Today, I make do with a Millenium Remasters transfer and a "butcher cover" insert.

[madman]

As for Yesterday...and Today, I make do with a Millenium Remasters transfer and a "butcher cover" insert.

I agree.  Though that being said, I've always secretly hoped that I'd go to a flea market/garage sale/used record store and get a butcher cover for five dollars!  Never hurts to dream!

[BlueMeanie]

As for that person selling that on ebay....If I had it, I would never sell it!  It said that her or his father had bought it from Sears in the 60's. I would keep it!!!

I'm not into the collecting thing either. If you had an album worth $15,000 you'd have to keep it locked away, secure, and under the right temperature conditions. So what's the point? As an investment, yes. For any other reason it's a waste of time.

[aspinall_lover]

You know, on another thought, I don't think I'd want something like that in my collection.  Too valuable and what would you do with it?  You couldn't display it for fear it would get stolen.  I'll just stick to my collection of Beatle Book Monthlys.

[Geoff]

I've always secretly hoped that I'd go to a flea market/garage sale/used record store and get a butcher cover for five dollars!  Never hurts to dream!

Absolutely; and in fact I found copies of things like Get Back, Sweet Apple Trax, and The Decca Tapes by rooting through the used LP sections of Toronto record stores. Of course I had to rummage past copy after copy of the red and blue albums and Abbey Road  to find them, though. I got a copy of The Decca Tapes for a dollar or so from a shop on Queen Street because the guy who ran it didn't know what it was and thought that his dozen or so used copies of the red and blue albums were all worth more!