Collecting

American Royal Arts Corp. - Offers framed entertainment art, primarily representative of rock artists and bands.
www.ara-animation.com

The Care and Handling of Recorded Sound Materials - Technical paper on the archival maintenance of music recordings. Expanded version of an article initially prepared for the National Library of Canada.
palimpsest.stanford.edu/byauth/st-laurent/care.html

Cylinder, Disc and Tape Care in a Nutshell - Care, handling and storage of musical recordings in a collections environment, from the US Library of Congress. Includes an bibliography.
www.loc.gov/preserv/care/record.html

Discogs - User built music database. Store and organise personal music collection listings for free. Includes cross-referenced discographies of artists and labels, marketplace, and forums for music and general discussion.
www.discogs.com/

Gigposters - Images of gig posters, flyers and handbills from around the world.
www.gigposters.com/

The Great Brazilian Virtual Guitar Picks Museum - Listing of a collection with pictures, and a picture dictionary of guitar plectrum terminology.
www.palhetas.com/

The History of Sound Recording Technology - Explores the history and impact of the inventions that changed the way we listen; includes business, cultural, and techological sections.
www.recording-history.org/

International Music Discographies - Online music price guide, available by paid subscription. USA values in dollars; accepts submissions from users.
recordmaster.com/

The Internet Museum of Flexi / Cardboard / Oddity Records - Devoted to odd promotional and novelty records, usually printed on paper. Images and RealAudio from a collection.
www.wfmu.org/MACrec/

Metro Detroit Record Show - Includes dates and location.
michiganrecords.com

More Music Collectors Resource Pages - British guide to music collecting, featuring many annotated links and a glossary.
www.moremusic.co.uk/links/default.htm

Nibble's Record Shop Guides - Guide to record and compact disc shops in San Diego, Los Angeles and Albuquerque.
www.studio-nibble.com/guides/index.html

PickNET - Global trading network and club for guitar pick collectors.
home.att.net/~StevieLeavitt/index.html

PNPrecords - Includes a history of Russian rock and information on Russian music labels.
www.pnprecords.spb.ru/

Rare Record Price Guide - Online guide to UK values for records (and a few CDs), mainly by 80's and 90's artists. Calculated from average prices charged by dealers in the UK magazine "Record Collector."
homepage.ntlworld.com/kennethdrury/price-guide.htm

Record Covers Drawn by Comic Artists - Listing of album covers (CD and vinyl) drawn by comic artists and illustrators. Includes many images. In French and English.
www.xs4all.nl/~ronaldk/index2.html

Record Song Book - Private collector presents information about and seeks copies of the UK music magazine published in the 1960s and 1970s.
www.radisol.com/rsb

Recordjunkie.com - Collectors' community and worldwide record store guide.
www.recordjunkie.com

Record-price-guide - German-based database of record and CD prices for independent releases.
www.record-price-guide.org/

Red Sister - Archive of Mark Arminiski handbills.
www.redsister.org/

RockPosterCollector.com - History of rock posters and information for collectors.
www.rockpostercollector.com/

Vinyl Bank Record and CD Fairs - UK Midlands based record and CD fair organiser. Find fair dates, venue information, public and dealer information.
www.vinylbank.co.uk/

Vinylville - Information about Usenet groups, dealers, resources and supplies, FAQs and discographies, cleaning and storage, and cataloging software; from a music collector.
members.tripod.com/~Vinylville/

Red Sister - Archive of Mark Arminiski handbills. [RSS]
www.redsister.org/rss.cfm?mode=full