I've got over a thousand clasical lp's collected over 40 years. Many of them are pretty desirable. From a collectors standpoint, I scored a really sweet haul this summer when I went into a small little book and record store and was browsing the owner's rock lp selections. We got to talking and I mentioned that I also collected classical lps and he pointed to two boxes stuffed under a table in a corner. He said he'd just taken them in and didn't know what to do with them. Turns out they were full of mint or near mint RCA shaded dogs, early tulips D. Gramaphone, Mercury, and other classics that belonged to the retired one time first chair flautist in the N.Y. Philharmonic. The owner knew they were valuable but didn't want to go to the bother of trying to maxmize his return by selling on ebay. He let me cherry pick the best thirty or so of the lot and sold them to me for $75.00! I figure from the completed Ebay sales I've tracked that the lot must be worth at least a couple thousand dollars. I've got to say I think the fetish many people attach to the RCA shaded dogs is out of proportion to their sonic merits. Many of them do sound very fine, but I prefer the sonics of well recorded Decca, Columbia, and Phillips lps. One other great find I got last month was a near mint first pressing boxed set of Leonard Bernstein and the NY Philharmonic's complete Sibelius symphonies for $2.99. They sound incredible, phenomenal sonics.