Kiss Records

Seeing Kiss live was an unbelievable spectacle. Their live shows were designed to shock and dazzle. And they succeeded. Their records are becoming hard-to-find collectibles.

When I first started collecting Kiss albums, in the mid 90's, their records were fairly easy to find. A garage sale or used record store would usually yield some good finds. But, with the advent of the Internet and the growth in collector websites, this is no longer true. Building a complete set of Kiss albums in fine condition is a near impossibility. So many of them have been played to the nub or fallen into disrepair.

Autographed versions of the albums have become even harder to locate. Early copies of the albums did circulate heavily at the live shows and many surfaced as signed copies but these have started to disappear over the years. Amassing an autographed, complete set of Kiss albums will challenge the most die-hard of collectors.

Rest-assured, as a collectible, Kiss albums will NOT be easy-to-find items for long. As time passes, these once-popular LPs will disappear into collector hands without any left for us to grab.

Band Background
Kiss is an American rock band formed in New York City in January 1973. Easily identified by its members' face paint and flamboyant stage outfits, the group rose to prominence in the mid to late 1970s on the basis of their elaborate live performances, which featured fire breathing, blood spitting, smoking guitars, shooting rockets, levitating drum kits and pyrotechnics. Kiss has been awarded 24 gold albums to date, the most of any American rock band. The band has sold more than 40 million albums in the United States, of which 20 million have been certified by the RIAA, and their worldwide sales exceeds 100 million albums.