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The Flipside of Record Store Day: In the U.K., Not Everyone Is a Fan
Since it’s inception in 2007, Record Store Day has become a holiday of sorts among the music buying public. Not only has it caught on with vinyl enthusiasts, it’s flourished, going from the few and […]
Top 10 Collectible Vinyl, CDs, Merchandise and Music Memorabilia added this week
More top notch goodies through the doors at Eil Towers this week – look out for a mega-rare copy of ex-Yes guitarist Peter Banks’s Flash LP, a Japanese only 17CD Bruce Springsteen boxset, a Bjork […]
VinylPress.com interview eil.com & talk about vinyl collecting & how we started back in 1986
Our friends at the VinylPress.com recently featured EIL as part of their blog….. I recently got the chance to talk with Robert Croydon, one of the founders of EIL-Esprit, a well known UK-based purveyor of […]
Extreme Vinyl Record Collecting…..
……and you thought you liked ‘digging in the crates’….! Have a look at the incredible Voodoo Funk website which shows you the lengths some collectors will go to to source rare music… Read more on […]
I would hide 4 U: what’s in Prince’s secret vault?
The stash in the basement of Paisley Park contains a legendary collection of unreleased songs – reputedly enough material for Prince to keep releasing albums long after his death We all know the Purple Rain, […]
Super rare, near Vintage, 1989 EMI promotional only CD box set from Cross
Mad Bad And Dangerous To Know Mega rare 1989 German promotional only box set featuring a video, an exclusive 4-track promotional CD album sampler with a custom picture sleeve, a cross-shaped ‘Mad Bad’ sticker, a […]
Top 10 Collectible Vinyl, CDs, Merchandise and Music Memorabilia added this week
……more top quality items through the doors this week, including personal Morrissey items, U2 promo suitcase, original mono Small Faces Ogden’s Nut Gone Flake, Beatles and more…see the full Top Ten here
Top Rare & Collectible Singles & Albums on Record & CD added in the past 7 Days
…another superb selection of rare and collectible goodies through the doors this week including Rolling Stones, U2 promotional items, signed Pink Floyd, Johnny Griffin Blue Note jazz vinyl with Andy Warhol designed sleeve, autographed Gentle Giant […]
Marillion Collection Just in; Hard-to-find-CDs, Limited Fan Club Only Releases..
….and more, with prices to suit all pockets. Here’s a few to whet the appetite, full list can be seen here
New Grateful Dead ‘Dicks Picks’ CDs In Stock….
……great new collection of Grateful Dead CDs through the doors this week, including lots of hard-to-find ‘Dicks Picks’ albums and the Rare Cuts & Oddities US comp…many of the releases are High Definition CDs too, meaning […]
Winter Sale Now On! Up To 75% Off Vinyl, CDs, Memorabilia, Merchandise….
We buy more rare records and CDs than anyone else in the world, and have done for twenty plus years, so each month, we clear some stock at great sale prices of up to 75% […]
The Smiths US CD Albums in now extinct longbox packaging
What’s a longbox you ask? A longbox is a form of exterior paper packaging for CDs in widespread use in the 1980s and early 1990s in North America. When compact discs first began to appear in […]
Collectable sets of studio CD albums – perfect collection fillers from Led Zeppelin, Massive Attack & Rolling Stones
We’ve had a huge collection of CD albums arrive at the eil.com offices this week and we are putting together these fabulous lots of studio albums. The perfect way to complete a collection, or introduce […]
Incredible Michael Jackson Collection, Rare Vinyl, Memorabilia, CDs, Picture Discs….
….hot-footing it (or should that be Moonwalking?) through the doors at Eil Towers late Friday came this incredible Michael Jackson collection, here’s a few ‘nosing in the back of the van’ shots to whet your […]
UK music industry wants to tax fans for copying or ripping their own music
UK music industry bodies criticised a bill that finally made it legal for music fans to make copies of music, including ripping their own CDs, for failing to give compensation to the owners of the […]
Music Fans Still Love Physical Formats
Thanks to the Huffington Post for this great article by Iain McNav Chairman of top UK indie Cherry Red Records. When I started Cherry Red Records back in 1978 it was the beginning of an […]
This months shipment of rare vinyl & CDS from Japan
We’ve had a cracker of a shipment delivered from our man in Japan. All the usual mixture of rare vinyl LPs complete with obi-strips and lyric inserts plus a bumper haul of promotional/sample copy CD […]
The Best Promos from 2014: Why Buy?
Promo versions are often more collectable than the standard release Tend to feature custom printed sleeves/discs Not available to general public Produced solely to promote release In some cases may feature an exclusive track/mix not […]
Arrived today at eil.com: Rare Vinyl LPs, 7″s and CDs from Japan
Our man in Japan has been super busy as always and several boxes have just landed in our lobby. We’ve a bumper crop of sample and promotional CD albums, with obi-strips and lyric inserts – […]