[Misc] Which Books or Albums have you Lent Someone But Never Got Back?

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marlowe

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Dec 13, 2015

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• Dec 6, 2020

• #1

Naked Lunch: William Burroughs

Playboy Celebrity Special (circa 1978) (It may even have been Mayfair or Penthouse, I can't remember, but thank god the internet came along as I thought they were lost forever).

Super Session: Al Kooper, Mike Bloomfield, Steve Stills

 

Worried Man Blues

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Feb 28, 2009

6,614

Swansea

• Dec 6, 2020

• #2

Rather rich friends of ours sent a round robin to all their contacts asking for stuff back, you know who you are! So I send them a note asking for my Burnside on Burnside album back, which they sheepishly sent back, snigger.

 

Icy Gull

Back on the rollercoaster

Jul 5, 2003

72,015

• Dec 6, 2020

• #3

Yeah,

The Band album called the Band
Year of The Cat album by Al Stewart

The book Something Of Value by Robert Ruark

 

Goldstone1976

We Got Calde in!!

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Apr 30, 2013

13,783

Herts

• Dec 6, 2020

• #4

Goodbye yellow brick road on yellow vinyl.
First edition copy of 1984 - that individual and I are no longer on speaking terms
25 other books
A Victorian wardrobe
A Linn Sondek

I no longer lend things to friends

 

Madafwo

I'm probably being facetious.

Nov 11, 2013

1,591

• Dec 6, 2020

• #5

Lent someone a couple of N64 games and they moved back home to Wales without giving them back.

Gits.

 

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Neville's Breakfast

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May 1, 2016

13,423

Oxton, Birkenhead

• Dec 6, 2020

• #6

‘War and Peace.’
I lent it to a Mum of a friend 35 years ago and never saw it again.
It’s quite long though so she could still be reading it.

 

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Hampster Gull

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Dec 22, 2010

13,462

• Dec 6, 2020

• #7

Surfin’ Safari by the Beach Boys.

Forgive but don't forget

 

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zefarelly

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Sussex, by the sea

• Dec 6, 2020

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A record bag of 20 albums and a box of 40-50 singles. In the boot of the taxi, we all hopped out in Shoreham, paid, before I got them out of the boot he drove off.

C***. Sealed the fate of my opinion of taxi drivers.

 

Ken Livingstone Seagull

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Aug 29, 2003

505

Maui, Hawaii

• Dec 6, 2020

• #9

Ogdens Nut Gone Flake
Magical Mystery Tour EP
Woodstock
The Herd
Seagulls (Flying High)
And my Hornby Dublo train set

********.

 

Official Old Man

Uckfield Seagull

Aug 27, 2011

8,542

Brighton

• Dec 6, 2020

• #10

Ongoing saga between my mate and I.
He swears he lent me Dock of the Bay / Otis Redding single about 30 years ago. I'm pretty certain he didn't, well it's not in my collection anyway.
He's never forgotten and brings it up every time we meet.

 

Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...

Mar 18, 2010

29,788

Hove

• Dec 6, 2020

• #11

Umberto Eco - Island of the Day Before.

Lent it to a girl I fancied at a job in London which was only 3 months long. Never saw the book or the girl again.

 

Bold Seagull

strong and stable with me, or...

Mar 18, 2010

29,788

Hove

• Dec 6, 2020

• #12

I remember the good times said:

Ongoing saga between my mate and I.
He swears he lent me Dock of the Bay / Otis Redding single about 30 years ago. I'm pretty certain he didn't, well it's not in my collection anyway.
He's never forgotten and brings it up every time we meet.

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Could you not try to get a battered version of it, next time your round his house slide it behind a cupboard or down the back of his sofa. Don’t discover it immediately, get another mate or someone when they’re round there to discover it. That will be 30 years of wrongfully accusing you that he owes you!!

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/313331038537

 

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Bodian

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May 3, 2012

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Cumbria

• Dec 6, 2020

• #13

This Mortal Coil, It Will End in Tears. Lent it to a 'friend'. I did get it back, but 'Song to the Siren' had a big scratch in it.

He was an Albion fan - so if he's reading this, I haven't forgotten....

 

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Brownstuff

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Feb 21, 2009

1,502

Hove

• Dec 6, 2020

• #14

An old mate once lent me Karl Marx Capital probably over 25 years ago.
I mistakenly thought he said keep it but has since found out that was not the case.
I still have it and have never even got to page one.
I am sorry and have felt guilty ever since, it was probably his father's book too.
So Tom Edwards if per chance in the unlikely scenario that you have suddenly discovered football and a fondness for Brighton please make yourself known for me to return without any bodily hairs in it as like I said haven't turned a page.

 

wellquickwoody

Many More Voting Years

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Melbourne

• Dec 6, 2020

• #15

‘Scally’ by Andy Nicholls to a Toffees supporting in-law of mine.

I think I met the author in Fonthill Road. Count myself as lucky if correct.

 

Tom Hark Preston Park

Will Post For Cash

Jul 6, 2003

70,150

• Dec 6, 2020

• #16

Lent 'PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story' by Dr. Alexander Shulgin (aka 'The Godfather of Ecstacy') to a drug fiend of my acquaintance back in the early 90's. Never saw it or him again

 

Surf's Up

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Jul 17, 2011

10,167

Here

• Dec 6, 2020

• #17

The Real Beach Boy - Dennis Wilson by Jon Stennins
Hollywood Babylon by Kenneth Anger

Someone with taste obvs.

 

The Antikythera Mechanism

The oldest known computer

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• Dec 6, 2020

• #18

The Pentateuch of the Cosmogony by Dave Greenslade. The album cover was a hardback book illustrated by Patrick Woodroffe. Thanks for reminding me as I’ve just ordered the CD version which comes with an illustrated booklet.

 

studio150

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Jul 30, 2011

29,610

On the Border

• Dec 6, 2020

• #19

why lend albums out when you could agree to record it onto a cassette, and avoid the album coming back with finger prints all over it, or not coming coming back.

 

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clockend1983

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Apr 1, 2010

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• Dec 6, 2020

• #20

A Causal look