Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

I find it fun to see what records appreciate in value and which ones make me feel silly about the price I paid. What are the priciest of yours? Do you have proof it sells for as much as you think?

Used or new? Box sets?

Oh yeah, anything. As far as what it is now worth. I guess ignore your largest list price, instead its resell value.

I'm not sure yet what my priciest record would be, but I just noticed as I pointed out in the Air France thread that my vinyl copy of No Way Down/Trade Winds sold for $132. I wasn't expecting that high, really.

Um not my copy, sorry.

That sold... Full sentences in the morning...

If you go by the guide, I think this one:

http://images.45cat.com/joe-turner-here-comes-your-iceman-atlantic.jpg

But my copy of End of the Century is signed by everyone (Marky, not Tommy), so more likely that.

i have a couple ambient CDs that i've seen go for $100 each on ebay, not sure that's that big of a deal

riptides debut 45

I have no idea. I doubt anything is that expensive. Most I paid was £36 for a single album for Zaireeka but that's cos it's a 4CD set, not because its rare.

unopened copy of Fucked Up Inside by Spiritualized on 12" vinyl

I mean, I found that in a bargain bin at a street fair in 1994 & paid next to nothing for it, but it is worth quite a bit.

I paid $300 for an FMP box set a couple of years ago. That was list price.

£80 for an original copy of 'Laughing Stock' by Talk Talk on vinyl. This was before the reissues unfortunately.

unopened copy of Fucked Up Inside by Spiritualized on 12" vinyl

― Broney, Pt. 1 (Pillbox), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 3:05 AM (6 hours ago)

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=fucked+up+inside&search-button=

Strangely bounces between $100 something and $40 back and forth

The Joe Turner is a little unpredictable as well:

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=big+joe+rides+again&search-button=

electricsound is in the lead

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=riptides+sunset&search-button=

The Joe Turner was part of a big jazz buy from the father of a guy I worked with who was switching over to CDs--this would have been late '80s. It's in excellent shape, and it's one of the two original issues; can't remember whether mine is the mono or stereo (I'm at work right now).

Nothing remarkable:
£45: Rufus Wainwright - "Tiergarten (Supermayer Remix)" (12" promo, Polydor)
€35: Neil Young's On the Beach (Reprise, turned out to be a '74 UK pressing that plays slightly faster than it should. Always thought that gave opener "Walk On" an extra kick), a year or two before it finally was reissued.

There are a couple of online listings for autographed copies of End of the Century. The more expensive:

http://www.ioffer.com/i/the-ramones-band-signed-end-of-the-century-album-511374796

The other's like $70. The only problem with my copy is that they all signed on the back--the signatures are fine, but the front would obviously be much better. (Lined up inside a Toronto record store for this, right when the album came out.)

John Martyn, "London Conversation" orig

The Flies "I'm not your stepping stone"

probably spme others also...

My most theoretically valuable CD is probably Tim Buckley - Starsailor.

As someone who came to CDs late--don't think I bought my first one till '89--and who didn't really start buying a lot of them until cheap ones flooded a local book chain in the late '90s, are there in fact really valuable CDs on the order of the Beatles butcher cover, or old doo-wop records?

For a while, mine was the Who's Two's Missing CD. Issued by MCA in 1987, but few were pressed, and until recently it was the only CD source for the live version of "Goin' Down." A Japanese reissue came out earlier this year, but I think it was limited/now out-of-print.

probably this?

Probably a signed/number single bundle of St. Etienne's "Method of Modern Love"

clemenza there are some out of print 80s hair metal cult albums, hip-o select label reissues, and silly cases like the very rare original Norah Jones blue note EP that all fetch sometimes $100s as CDs

nice clean copy of peter grudzien's 'the unicorn' probably followed by la monte young well-tuned piano box or oasis lp on cranbus.

Wow nerve I didn't know any Orange Juice sold that high.

As far as a CD for me I have this but I don't know what it has actually sold for. Has held a high price for awhile though.

Sea Urchins Pristine Christine 7"? thought it was worth about £50 but one sold for £442 recently

xpost I have one of those on "Infinite Zero" label

Massive Attack Vs Burial Split LP #539/1000 Inhale Gold Protection Mezzanine
Air France No Way Down/On Trade Winds 2x EP

Got two of each respectively to sell one and thus cover the expense of overseas shipping but didn't get around to it yet. Also didn't expect both of them to rise so high in price.

Plus this oddity, though i'm not quite sure one will be able to sell it for that much in reality. Got it for ~5€ on ebay once.

Mbv remasters, which I couldve attained for 30bucks less online but convinced myself the additional bills would fund and sp
eed up the new album. I also don't understand how retail works.

No idea, really.
Is my VG+ original Brain Records pressing of Neu! 75 valuable?

i guess'ask the ages'? on ebay right now for $54.

I paid $0.50 for this
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8449/8050913310_c06afc3668.jpg
or
I paid $190.00 for this
http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8039/7909070426_a8aaaf13ff.jpg

Current 93 8LP Vinyl-On-Demand box set, around $500

single LP is La Monte Young's "Black Album", maybe $300? it's gone up a lot in the last ten years.

Massive Attack Vs Burial Split LP #539/1000 Inhale Gold Protection Mezzanine
Air France No Way Down/On Trade Winds 2x EP

Got two of each respectively to sell one and thus cover the expense of overseas shipping but didn't get around to it yet. Also didn't expect both of them to rise so high in price.

Plus this oddity, though i'm not quite sure one will be able to sell it for that much in reality. Got it for ~5€ on ebay once.

― the europan nikon is here (grauschleier), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 12:47 PM (26 minutes ago)

Yes I have the Air France as well! Did not expect the price either, though I hadn't ever seen it second hand except for the linked sale.

i found this in portland a few years back for about $50. it goes for up to a crazy (theoretical) $2500

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=597528&ev=rb

According to discogs sorting by median sale price, my top five are:

Charley Patton CD box set
Emerald Web - Dragon Wings and Wizard Tales
Cornelius Cardew - Memorial Concert
TVPs - And Don't the Kids Just Love It
Scott Walker - The Drift

By max sale price, it is:
Charley Patton
White Noise - Electric Storm
Maher Shalal Hash Baz - From a Summer to Another Summer...
David Bowie - Aladdin Sane [this is nuts - max sale £95, min sale £0.79, and yes, it says it's for the same pressing]
Emerald Web

I suppose the Bowie disparity could be someone who listed theirs as the wrong pressing, and a collector who somehow knew this?

i tried to sell that maher shalal double LP a while back, cuz i needed some cash and i hadn't listened to it in ages, and i only for $15 :(

my first press on fondle 'em of operation doomsday by mf doom used to go for a lot but it's been reissued a few times now

You get a double boo: one for selling, as I love that album a hell of a lot, and one for it not making much for you. Lowest list price on discogs is almost £30, which would be, what, about $45?

xpost

Probably my 1st ed. King Crimson Great Deceiver box set. Most profitable item I actually ever sold was a Japanese Frank Zappa "Cucamonga Years" CD -- found it at Amoeba Berkeley for $9, sold for $100.

wow original Plaster Falling is impressive!

probably this :

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=609733&ev=rb

mint/sealed

also, there was a time that a lot of the FAX golden era cds ('94) were very collectable, but no idea now ..

i have a horrible feeling i chucked that twin freaks record out. it was a promo copy too.

some CDs that you think would be worthless are randomly worth a shitload on discogs

i'm guessing that the most expensive thing for me to replace would be Sun City Girls - Torch of the Mystics CD or maybe some of their vinyl stuff

stirmonster here's a more realistic appraisal! You still got a deal at $50

Oops: http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=John+Bender+Plaster+Falling&search-button=

some CDs that you think would be worthless are randomly worth a shitload on discogs

― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:22 PM (24 minutes ago)

Because of delusion vendor listings or because you've seen them actually go for a lot?

yup, only a crazy person would pay the $2500 being asked on discogs. xp

I sold one of these to this crazy scottish DJ for $2500
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=John+Bender+Plaster+Falling&search-button=

yup, only a crazy person would pay the $2500 being asked on discogs. xp

― stirmonster, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:49 PM (2 minutes ago)

The sad thing is that those crazy people don't exist. The real life crazies are the sellers that hope they do.

:-)

Hmm, either La Monte Young's "Well Tuned Piano" CD box set (I paid $15 for it unopened!), or the original pressing of Coil's "Scatology" with the glue-on pic of the butthole at the bottom of the spiral staircase.

Not sure if that Coil's that valuable, but it seems like one of those things...

those crazy people do exist though. a good friend of june is a northern soul collector / dealer who sold 10 7" singles and bought his house with the proceeds.

friend of MINE oops.

Oh there are crazy buyers, but generally don't pay 2k more than they have to I think.

good point, well made.

Most I've ever paid (though I traded other records for it so it wasn't cash) is £50 for the original one-sided promo of the first Chemical Brothers single, which is now worth - ha - less than £10.

Most dance music appears to be worthless now. An hour on Discogs suggests that my four crates of unwanted dance vinyl are now collectively worth less than my single White Stripes promo.

http://www.discogs.com/White-Stripes-Get-Behind-Me-Satan/release/1341781

Wow, it went 7 days ago for £293 but any jack white rarity is an unfair comparison- people are nuts for that stuff.

I could relate my highest price sale, but you'd cry.

Easy.

http://www.discogs.com/New-Blockaders-The-New-Blockaders/release/1048492

tindersticks claire denis box on vinyl
saint etienne boxette
the 3 electrelane LPs according to some ebay auctions
(possibly) sleep - dopesmoker, holographic paper green vinyl double lp reissue

i would sell all jack white vinyl NOW.

Is that a thing? Is buying and flipping Jack White vinyl a surefire 100% moneymaker?

i have a henchmen 7" jack white is on but i doubt its worth much.

I had nine copies of a rare Morrissey CD single, £180 a pop, still have a couple left.

As scott says, Jack White's 'stock value' is probably at its highest now, and will probably fall from this point onwards.

(buying/flipping, probably not now, unless you get a chance to buy one of the 'limited to 50' things)

I'd think Jack White stuff might hit a peak again some day when he becomes "classic"

what if I like listening to it? I don't need $45 for my copy of De Stijl that badly

dude, his stupid solo stuff is going for thousands of dollars. you definitely don't need that shit.

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=jack+white&so=p

The most expensive thing I presently own is probably the Kraftwerk "Catalogue" box that was reissued in a special edition (black outer sleeve instead of white) at the time of their MOMA shows in NYC - I got one for $175 plus shipping. Prior to that, my most expensive box was the Cecil Taylor 2 Ts for a Lovely T 10CD set, which was somewhere around $200.

i look at those jack white prices and i begin to think we might actually need mitt romney to take money away from people.

lol wow

I stopped buying after Get Behind Me Satan, don't have any of the Third Man stuff

Executive: "Hey, Jack, how do you get people to buy records again? How do we save the music industry?

Jack: looks both ways and motions him to lean in "Balloons"

Executive: "What?"

Jack: "Tie your records to balloons and they'll be worth like $4k"

Executive: "Thanks a lot, asshole"

> Sea Urchins Pristine Christine 7"? thought it was worth about £50 but one sold for £442 recently

then mine would also be this. wow. paid £25 or so for it, which i think is equal most i've paid for a 7" (along with wedding present's second single).

would've been Tigermilk for a while there (£8 mail order from stow college, still goes for $300).

and duophonic erroneously sent me two copies of the first stereolab ep when i'd only paid for one and i sent it back...

£442 would've probably bought you the entire sarah catalogue at original prices, thinking about it

I keep hearing people talk about Jack White, is the guy from The White Stripes?

yes

he runs his own label and makes a lot of weird limited edition stuff

He really tied 45's to balloons and people found them and pay thousands for them now? I thought that was a joke.

no that is a real thing

When it comes out in about a month and a half the most expensive CD i own will be the box set of the complete scores for the orig Star Trek series.

(not even a trekkie, those shows just had incredibly killer music)

i have a few things that are so limited/rare that i have never seen a copy for sale, so could be worth £1 or £1000. idle daydreaming favours the larger amounts, unsurprisingly.

some CDs that you think would be worthless are randomly worth a shitload on discogs

― farte blanche (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 2:22 PM (24 minutes ago)

Because of delusion vendor listings or because you've seen them actually go for a lot?

― Evan, Wednesday, October 3, 2012 1:49 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i guess i meant more a "shitload" like wow some used CD is going for $30 when most ppl almost throw them away now, not like $1000 or something....i have a friend that deals online and sells CDs and 8 tracks and cassettes for more than you'd think sometimes...

but it's random

it just takes one weird guy in germany you know?

motto for the twentieth century

I think the random-CDs-worth-millions! is in part due to audiophiles seeking out the best master of something that's been reissued a bunch of times. The Steve Hoffman forums are lousy with discussions of CD matrix numbers etc. and sometimes a particular mastering of, say, Who's Next will be this insanely rare and sought-after thingy.

Prior to that, my most expensive box was the Cecil Taylor 2 Ts for a Lovely T 10CD set, which was somewhere around $200.

I think that's still available, and goes for around $100-$150. Bizarrely (for 1990 recordings), the whole thing is in mono.

Sea Urchins Pristine Christine 7"? thought it was worth about £50 but one sold for £442 recently

wow, i sold way too early. i still have the orchids SARAH 2 45, i think i paid $5 for it so there's a potential decent profit there

i did get 250 pounds for a tunng lathe cut 45 once, that was nice

i would buy a sarah box set if i saw one. and if i could afford it.

is there a sarah box set? like a singles box?

i like when art lovers buy my records. they got deep pockets.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Cool-Gabriels-LP-Rare-Original-Mono-Deep-Groove-Pressing-Andy-Warhol-Cover-/230827294161

Original UK pressing of Tago Mago.

Usually going for around $100 or more: http://www.discogs.com/Can-Tago-Mago/release/884436

probably something i have forgotten about that is living in my basement preparing to get mildew charged

my parents knew fahey back in the day so i think they have all those early white cover records that at least for a while were going for insano $$$

is the jorge ben africa brasil cd really valued at $30-$40 or so or are amazon and discogs just full of mentalists? i bought it in around 2004 with no particular effort but for the last few years it seems that it's only been listed at such silly high prices.

I paid £20 or so and had to wait around for a while to get it so cheap.

True story about my copy of Pristine Christine, which I just paid normal price for in a record store. After an energetic drinking session it lay in a puddle of vomit for about 6 hours and it left a big stain over the cover, despite being in a plastic bag. The vomit in question was mostly regurgitated cider and blackcurrant so it's a rich, purple stain. However, in 1993 I still managed to sell it for fifteen quid!

"Special 'Vomit Edition'. Very Rare!"

I've still got some of those other early Sarah Records ones which I'd gladly sell if someone just showed up on the doorstep with a wad of money. I'm much too lazy/busy/undesperate to do ebay or anything like that. I mostly dislike having valuable records. It's too onerous to look after them unless you just hide them in a box somewhere. Cheapo records that I don't have to treat respectfully are where it's at for me now.

a Sarah singles boxset reissue is imminent right? Really want that

haha what? that strikes me as particularly unlikely

that seems exceedingly unlikely.

hahaha xpost

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/06/13/at-a-glimpse-sarah-records-reissue-a-cause-celebration.html

there's very little particularly good sarah records that haven't been reissued in some way anyway.

the world is not screaming out for a gentle respite retrospective

*despite

probably original Manuel Gottsching "Inventions for Electric Guitar"

not sure how much it's worth though.

I have an extra copy of the Field Mice Japanese 2CD retrospective 'Where'd You Learn to Kiss That Way' for sale or trade if anyone is interested.

i have that one. u.k. copy. love it. i would totally listen to a zillion CDs of sarah singles/albums. youtube isn't the same. i like a lot of it cuz i don't know it at all. they put out a ton of stuff!

The most expensive thing I have in my collection is a complete back catalog of all the early Deepchord material. Several years back the prices for that stuff went through the roof. The 12" singles were going for $100 plus, the first CD was rare and going for $150, and the first couple of Octal records were run in small numbers(like 300 copies) and Octal 01 was going for around $350.

Most of that stuff was given to me personally, so I felt like it would be really scummy to flip it online for top dollar at the height of hype. Those records still go for a pile of money, but nowhere near the stupid prices they were commanding in 08-09.

Sadly, due to 12" reissue mania over the last few years and the increasing saturation of discogs, the value of a lot of my high dollar finds have declined pretty sharply.

A Sarah records singles boxset is the kind of thing I can imagine Captured Tracks doing, there is more demand for that than another Half String or Should reissue I'm sure.

All Flowers you should look some up on collectorsfrenzy.com, doing that occasionally with my records I get curious about is what motivated me to ask the question.

i'm not sure the demand is either here or there, historically it's been the sarah founders themselves standing in the way of reissues..

having said that there's very little of the larger/better sarah acts that isn't in print, the christine's cat flexi and the a-side of the poppyheads 45 is not exactly going to shift hell of units

Oh I didn't realize the founders were the reason. But whether something is technically in print or not doesn't seem to phase a lot of reissues out there, and I always thought a lot of Sarah classics were pretty hard to find.

Probably Monolake's Hongkong (which I keep meaning to sell) or Muslimgauze's Vote Hezbollah.

yeah, that MOMA Kraftwerk box set, I got it on Amazon, £65

i did get 250 pounds for a tunng lathe cut 45 once, that was nice

― linalooool (electricsound), Wednesday, October 3, 2012 11:38 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

wtactualf who in the world could possibly care that much about Tunng o_0

I still don't know my own answer to this thread's question... ppl used to pay quite a bit for the Bong Load vinyl of XO by Elliott Smith but don't seem to now. I have some silly limited Gnaw Their Tongues CDRs, same deal. ditto the Bright Eyes LP boxset which I got as a present like nine years ago and has been fucked by the fucking condensation in my fucking room anyway as have most of my 12"s not that any of them are valuable in a financial sense. sold a Kylie CDR promo with a false name on it (for 'security' reasons) for like £120 earlier this year, that was p cool, wasn't in my collection as such tho

No idea what they sell for but I've got 2 12" copies of Radiohead's Drill EP. Both cost 99p each at the time.

wtactualf who in the world could possibly care that much about Tunng o_0

i think it was a combination of being hyper limited (80 or so?) plus them still being kind of buzzy plus static caravan collectros plus lathe collectros etc

I lost the cover of my copy of Dreciya's 'The Quest' CD which i imagine makes it worth about 10% of its real value

> I have an extra copy of the Field Mice Japanese 2CD retrospective

this apparently has my amateur attempt at deciphering the lyrics printed in the booklet, still full of ???s* but i've never seen one. i have one of the sarah / quattro japanese comps (2nd one, the one with the french title) but not the other. am also missing heavenly vs satan on cd...

(* see also pale saints lyrics on every lyrics site everywhere)

I don't think I own anything rare/expensive...I did once sell a Hot Chip 7" for a tenner to an impressionable fresher though once.

Same day that I sold a recent reissue of the first Velvet Underground for £25 and a Yeah Yeah Yeahs picture disc for £20. Felt good rippin' 'em off.

No idea what they sell for but I've got 2 12" copies of Radiohead's Drill EP. Both cost 99p each at the time.

Ooh, nice. Popsike suggests that they're going for around £150-170. Saw the Drill Cd single at a bootsale around 1993 for 50p and passed on it thinking it's that crappy one hit wonder band. Bad mistake. Would've been a nice little nest egg.

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?searchtext=radiohead+drill&x=0&y=0

Definitely my Beach Boys Smile vinyl + cd boxset.

> the christine's cat flexi ... is not exactly going to shift hell of units

£120 for Sarah 13 / 14 and i guess people won't have heard it otherwise.

http://collectorsfrenzy.com/details/320935728595/Sarah_Records_Fanzines_Sarah_14_With_Christines_Cat_5_Flexi_Sarah_13_Rare

have been looking through it and everything seems to be $15-20 but some odd things are a lot more. sugargliders ($96) aberdeen ($46) shelley ($79) being the oddest (to me, the last couple are both in the 90s)

The most I've paid for a record is €120 (about £100 at the time) for a vinyl LP featuring Stereolab, only 100 copies of which were sold commercially. The last one that came up on ebay a couple of years ago sold for four times that, albeit still sealed. Not that I'd ever sell mine.

I suppose it's possible some of the indie 12"s I bought in the 80s and early 90s are now highly sought after, but I plan to remain in ignorance.

Whenever I have CDs of some rarity and value, I sell them. I am not a collector.

I had the 80-CD Glenn Gould box set, but I sold it at a small profit. I see it's going for $650 on amazon now. I don't care.

Are the original Monolake / Porter Ricks / Maurizio tin boxes worth much these days? I have all those and managed to never crack the CDs as seemed to happen often. I also have all the original Gas records. Oh yeah, I also have Drexciya's The Quest on original 2xCD pressing. And I have two copies of this Charalambides record called Historic 4th Ward on CD and the artwork looks literally handmade; been wondering about this one for ages.

sugargliders ($96) aberdeen ($46) shelley ($79)

aberdeen is weird since those tracks are fully reissued, shelley makes some sense because those tracks aren't reissued and are also pretty good. sugargliders stuff was OOP for years but have just been reished so there will be a dive..

Oh yeah, I also have most of the early Melvins stuff on LP in really good condition, and I think those go for a nice pop?

I believe the Vainquier is the most collectable / expensive of the tin can releases xxpost

The prices on popsike vary wildly per auction. I have a near mint condition copy of Al Stewart's debut album. Copies have gone for anything between £50 and £250. The condition obviously varies from auction to auction but not that much. I think this shows that it's possible to find bargains on ebay.

Yeah, I've seen things sell internationally for much higher than domestic. I think it's just about how excited the people that happen to find your listing tend to be, and will bid more aggressively.

Hoping someday I'll walk into a thrift shop and find an original Propellor by GBV or something. It's like a nerdy version of the lottery fantasy.

Oh, bear in mind that popsike will register when an auction goes stupid.

Always check e-bay to see what things went for recently...

According to discogs it's one of the following lps: Dolly Mixture Demonstration Tapes, Broadcast Noise Made By People, Arab on Radar Queen Hygiene II, Maher Shalal Hash Baz 2xlp, The Fall Marshall suite, Swell Maps Collision Time (orig single lp)... but who knows. Who is paying that much for those things?

I did just find a depeche mode 7" at half price books that i'd sold in the past for $60. Don't know if it always sells for that much.

I have a copy of Led Zep IV which I got signed by Page, Plant and Jones for a friend the other week. I then checked how much Zep signed albums go for. My friend is about to own something valuable.

I have the first Panda Bear solo album on Soccer Star - pre-AC. Described in the Wire as "so rare it is only rumoured to exist". Problem is, it's so rare I've never seen it for sale so I have no idea as to its worth.

Broadcast Noise Made By People,

lol I have this. also have no idea why it goes for $200. record valuation is so random.

and boradcast woman died their stuff went up and stayed up.

"after"

"broadcast"

"Borat cast"

i mean it really was a case of fans of the band wanting everything after she died. their stuff was always collectable but prices went way up.

I have the first Panda Bear solo album on Soccer Star - pre-AC. Described in the Wire as "so rare it is only rumoured to exist". Problem is, it's so rare I've never seen it for sale so I have no idea as to its worth.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens)

I'm sure a whole lot actually. I bet if you listed it pitchfork would write something up on it and everything.

i bought records from this guy - nice guy who ilxed occasionally - and he had an album by a group that fennesz was in before he was fennesz? never heard of it. never seen it again. he didn't want to part with it. cool cover too. have no idea what it was called. i don't know why i'm thinking of it now. never saw it online anywhere.

Oh wait on that Panda Bear- is it a record or CD, because I just noticed the CD is listed on discogs- so not as mysterious as Wire suggests...

Never heard of this pre-Fennesz record either.

They were called Maische:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Maische

About € 10 ... not too expensive.

is that you nice sometime ilxor??? anyway, always been curious. i'll have to check youtube.

I don't have anything super-valuable that I know of. I do have Torch of the Mystics on CD, which was mentioned upthread, and I am kind of a jackass wrt that too because I dimly remember the poster and/or CD getting separated from the case and ending up in a CD wallet at the back of a wardrobe somewhere, which I guess might make collectors cry.

I've had a few things that were briefly worth in the £50 range but either they got reissued or the bands went out of fashion and I doubt any of them would get me more than a tenner now. I was going to put some of them on Amazon marketplace a while ago but I just felt scummy asking for big money for some crappy CD I got out of a bargain bin or whatever, so I agonised for a while and then didn't do it, sigh.

wait the guy i know is a yank and wouldn't give the price in euros. he had great stuff!

those really ARE cheap. maybe i should just buy both of them. first album isn't even on a label. they aren't on youtube either.

of course with shipping from austria they would be more like 25+...

well if anyone here is in austria they should buy those. good investment for the future. not too many people have heard them. probably out of print.

Hmm well I wish I could listen a little first.

i have a pre-fame newton faulkner demo cd, but suspect no f*cker gives a shit (like me .. never listened to it)

I misread that as promo CD, and it reminded me- if the album is already out, nobody gives a shit about a promo disc unless it's a huge deal right? I think some out of touch ebayers think that promo CDs and LPs are the same to a collector and will list for high prices.

huge deal = huge bargain

One of the more bizarre CDs I sold on Ebay recently (given that most of them don't get any bids) was a promo CD in a plain black sleeve of some Me First & The Gimme Gimmes album I got free from a record store a few years ago.

Exclusive material or what?

Nope, regular album.

So strange.

Are the original Monolake / Porter Ricks / Maurizio tin boxes worth much these days? I have all those and managed to never crack the CDs as seemed to happen often. I also have all the original Gas records.

Monolake and Porter Ricks don't sell for big bucks anymore, since they've both been reissued, but AFAIK the other, non-reissued Chain Reaction albums still sell for 40 Euros or more. The prices for the original Gas albums dropped too after the Nah und Fern reissue box came out. Which was nice, as I was finally able to buy a copy of the first, eponymous album (the version included with Nah und Fern is different from the original Mille Plateaux release, it replaces the original tracks 1 and 3 with new tracks).

Going by Discogs median prices, my most valuable items are:

Rolling Stones London Years 3CD Singles Collection on SACD
White - Stripes De Stijl vinyl reissue (the only Jack White release I own or even like)
Sleep - Dopesmoker on vinyl
Nuggets II boxed set
Miles Davis Jack Johnson boxed set (got this recently along with the Bitches Brew one - this was actually the cheaper of the two)

Ranging from £60 down to £38. I've maybe had other CDs which I've sold for more than that in the past but I can't remember exactly what or how much, just OOP stuff.

Which version of sleep - dopesmoker?

It's the 2003 issue on Tee Pee records, this is the one: http://www.discogs.com/Sleep-Dopesmoker/release/397723

ahh, i never bought that for some reason.

How do you get Discogs to list the median prices for your records?

I don't have much in the way of collectors' items or rare copies, so it must be this. Listed at $599 now at Amazon!
http://i26.fastpic.ru/big/2011/0728/1b/dcb3d289cf060d0ea7d1d4457e00da1b.jpg

Tuomas: On the My Collection page under 'View' at the top there's an option for 'Stats', the median prices are listed there.

Surprised that Interpol 12" on Chemikal Underground is still worth so much (median £126.63). Is it too late to cash in or will the TOTBL reissue kill demand?

That Al Stewart album I mentioned upthread isn't even for sale on discogs, that's how rare it is.

Huh. My most valuable item is Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite on double CD (median = £48.88), never would have thought of that. Then comes Originals Vol 2 compilation on Claremont 56 (median = £32.16), which isn't even a very good album.

My least valuable item is Wowee Zowee on CD.

Oh wait, it's a Japanese edition of Chappaqua Suite that's so expensive. The one I have isn't on Discogs.

i was thinking about selling my u.k. 1st pressing of one live badger but i think i'd miss the little guy too much...

https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-snc6/281013_10151849984247137_1261843637_o.jpg

had no idea D'Angelo's Voodoo was going for around $100 - I've got one of those

I have the 1991 CD pressing of Captain Beefheart's "Lick My Decals Off" which is currently going on Amazon Marketplace for $42. That's probably the highest for me.

every time I hear something I own is going for an absurd amount of money, I am reminded that I have absolutely no awareness of how the vinyl collectors' market really works

just sold phish's lawnboy LP for $700 -- after that, maybe OG mike hurley on folkways or la monte young's dreamhouse record, or descendents of mike and phoebe record?

get the feeling this would be a big ticket item if i ever sell it, but i probably will never: http://www.discogs.com/Francis-Bebey-Pygmy-Love-Song/release/1762405

Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack CD single. Cracked front case. Mysterious raspberry-colored goo on disc. $.39

Oh wait, LaMonte Young. That reminds me... My CD copy of "Second Dream of the High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer" is probably worth more than the Beefheart.

Of course, I don't have the jewel cases any more, since I downsized my collection to binders only, so they're probably not worth all that much as collectibles.

YES LA comp
Treble Kicker - Pavement
Gaydiohead - drill ep
Loadsa stuff like Lilys' first cd but I already e mailed you Evan

Loads more

I'm not a collector - was just ahead of the times ;) and now redundant- and want rid of this shit. Not on e bay yet . Keep asking wife if I can use her account but never get round to it

Not redundant (yet) job wise. Just in most other departments. I'm fairly comfortable with that these days.
A mate told me that my awful Cock Sparrer "Shock Troops" vinyl is revered in some strange circles

Try selling on Discogs first.

according to discogs, the top 5 median selling prices for my record collection are:

$116 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 3xLP
$99 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2xLP superdeluxe thing
$85 - Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk (2xLP on Vertigo that collected Kraftverk 1 and 2)
$81 - Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill LP
$80 - The Microphones - Little Bird Flies Into a Big Black Cloud

I once had an original LP of Bobb Trimble's Harvest of Dreams which I sold in the '90s for nowhere near what it's worth today; I didn't realize it was worth anything beyond face value when I sold it and had never heard of the artist at the time. Wasn't even mentioned in the price guides I checked at the time.

$99 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2xLP superdeluxe thing

There's my answer then.

Are any of those briefly-produced 3"/80mm CD singles that were supposed to be the digital successor of the 45 valuable? I own several of those.

On The Road with Kasey Chambers, maybe?

Or autographed Shellac LP?

I don't have much in the way of collectors' items or rare copies, so it must be this. Listed at $599 now at Amazon!
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WTF. I could swear that I've seen that at Amoeba within the last couple of years selling for around twenty bucks. Wanted to get it. Guess I won't now.

In other fluctuating-price news, I was thinking that my vinyl copy of Scott Walker's The Drift was one of the more expensive albums I owned, but now I see that it's back in print and very affordable.

So my most expensive album is a bunch of albums:
The Genius Of Miles Davis. For those who don't know, it's a box of the Complete "......." Sessions boxes.
I got it "cheap" with my employee discount at Amoeba, but it's going for $424 on amazon.

I also have the Tom Waits Orphans vinyl box (unavailable on amazon, minimum $116 on discogs), the Miles Montreux box ($130 on amazon), the
Miles Complete Columbia Album Collection ($243 amazon), and the Fela Kuti complete box ($110 amazon).

Yeah, my thing for box sets might be a problem. Thankfully I have a very tolerant wife.

I got it "cheap" with my employee discount at Amoeba, but it's going for $424 on amazon.

That *is* cheap, bizarrely enough. I think list price was around $2000 when it was first announced/released.

Oh, I bet my Tom Waits Live from Ebbets Field is worth something, or would be if it hadn't gotten scratched up in a rental car.

/I got it "cheap" with my employee discount at Amoeba, but it's going for $424 on amazon./

That *is* cheap, bizarrely enough. I think list price was around $2000 when it was first announced/released.

Yes, I know. I've been watching it ever since then. Couldn't believe it though when it popped up in real life though for $300 retail.

The Yardbirds - Live Yardbirds w/Jimmy Page (the original LP)
Spacemen 3 - Walking With Jesus 12" serial #0001 (priceless as far as I'm concerned)

Is that Yardbirds the one where they cover "Waiting for the Man"? Always wanted to hear that.

Mobbed I didn't get an email!

I have that original Yardbirds LP too, the one that was withdrawn a few days after its release. Didn't realize it was that valuable - I found mine in the '80s though when it's value hadn't yet climbed to where it no doubt must be now.

Jimmy Page recently said he'd be fine with a reissue of that Anderson Theatre performance as long as the added-on applause and cocktail-lounge sound effect overdubs were removed.

I do have "Stutter" by Elastica, limited edition original 7", numbered 0002

No idea of value, I think that's a 'used-to-be'..

Hang on, that dbl Kraftwerk mentioned back there that compiles the first two albums - is that with the swirl Vertigo label, or the standard 'spaceship' label, cos that's the one I've got. Didn't realise it was worth much.

swirl

spaceship is still worth a bit but

swirl is £200

spaceships is £10 to £20

Cheers all. Not exactly a nest egg, but nice to know. Paid £1.90 for it in 84 anyway.

just been adding a few of my records to discogs and i seem to have this pressing of please please me:

http://www.discogs.com/Beatles-Please-Please-Me/release/6262253

UNFUCK THE BEATLES ALL Y'ALL

this changes all the time has some £2 record on discogs goes to £100+ overnight and all remaining copies disappear

dont own this one, but how quick it happens

2015-04-29 Very Good Plus (VG+) Very Good Plus (VG+) £143.17
2015-04-27 Very Good Plus (VG+) Not Graded £107.92
2015-01-20 Good Plus (G+) Generic £17.50
Comments:Sticker On Label, Surface/Crackle Noise When Playing
2014-11-21 Very Good Plus (VG+) Generic £37.50
2014-03-27 Very Good Plus (VG+) Generic £4.00
2014-03-27 Very Good Plus (VG+) Generic £3.26

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=umg8-WcfH1A

According to discogs sorting by median sale price

Just did this, top 5 (although I don't have everything on discogs I can't think of anything that might be more expensive):

Twilight Zoners - Hospital E.P. (Zip Records (4) - ZERO ZERO ONE) £77.97
No Trend - Too Many Humans... (L'Invitation Au Suicide, L'Invitation Au Suicide - SUICIDE DIFFÉRÉ N° 6, S. D. 6) £70.90
The Carpettes - Small Wonder? (Small Wonder Records, Small Wonder Records - small 9, small nine) £49.90
The Cure - Killing An Arab (Small Wonder Records, Small Wonder Records - Small Eleven, SMALL 11) £42.33
The Seize - Everybody Dies EP (Why Not? Records - NOT 002) £40.42

Most expensive CD:

Various - Sixties Archives Vol. 6 Texas & Michigan Psychedelia (Eva Records (2) - EVA B8) £34.48

found this in a charity shop for £1 last year:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/SXL-6426-SCHUBERT-Arpeggione-BRIDGE-Sonata-ROSTROPOVICH-cello-BRITTEN-piano-/121756877031?hash=item1c594680e7

first pressings go for £800+, but later issues still regularly clear £100

Agalloch - Wooden Box (Viva Hate Records - VHR 45-28) 7xLP, Album + Box, Comp, Ltd, Num
min 215,89 $US median 284,93 $US max 420,00 $US

The one that I have that goes for a few bucks now is the Captain Beefheart "Grow Fins" box set. I wouldn't doubt there is something else in my collection that I don't know about that might be worth a few bucks as I got a few thousand CDs and more than a handful are getting to be kinda rare. I also have a few LPs that I got because they never came out on CD on LP, but I don't know if they are particularly worth a ton (Effigies 'Ink' - couple of Death of Samantha records).

i guess that death of samantha records might have crept up in value due to the gbv connection?

Eh...probably not, but they probably were not high print run and are LPs that never made it to CD and are not available as downloads as far as I know. I got a few other 80s punk/alt rock albums that were like that. There are deep collectors for such music around the world, but I don't quite think it is perhaps as high dollar or as active as say older rare heavy metal in second hand circles.

The LPs that seem to be crazy high right now are alot of late 80s or early 90s popular rock that barely made it into vinyl in the first place and/or haven't been yet reissued on LP. Those LPs going for big bucks has to be a part of the big vinyl 180 gram reissue push. Thinking about it, I do have Tender Prey by Nick Cave on LP and I saw on a Cave thread that those LPs were going for some bucks too, perhaps tempered with the expensive reissues on vinyl.

yeah, i have xtc's nonsuch on vinyl and that goes for about £80. should sell it really, cos i don't like that record at all

Speaking of that topic, the only Cure album I don't have on vinyl is Wish. Would really like to cross that one off my want list but it's just too expensive.

it's still this one:

http://www.discogs.com/La-Monte-Young-Marian-Zazeela-31-VII-69-1026-1049-PM-23-VIII-64-25045-311-AM-The-Volga-Delta-/release/381760

most expensive single CDs are Coil and Zoviet France

I have a VG+ copy of Spice Girl's Spice which seems to go for $100/£65+. No idea how I acquired it.

probably this one (9th Creation - Love Crime EP):
http://waxidermy.com/images/9th-Creation-Love-Crime-300x300.jpeg

though one of the Brazilian LPs I was fortunate to buy early enough may have passed it by now.

the record I've had the most requests (on discogs) to sell is Sass - Much Too Much 12".
the genre I get the most requests to sell individual records from (and only for 12"s) is UKG, all the way from 1996 up through to UK funky c.2010.

I've listened to lots of soundfiles of expensive records and thought "meh" and I'm quite happy to buy cheap represses of really expensive ones, for example Trace Of Smoke - Treasure Mind 7" for which an original is worth a fortune (like Love Crime above).

1 For Sale from £1,079.16

O_O

just been adding a few of my records to discogs and i seem to have this pressing of please please me:

http://www.discogs.com/Beatles-Please-Please-Me/release/6262253

UNFUCK THE BEATLES ALL Y'ALL

― Haino Corrida (NickB), Sunday, 25 October 2015 10:58 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It doesn't count if it hasn't sold for the offer price, and/or at all.

I guess the question "What's the most you ever paid for a record you wanted to own/keep" is classified.

Kraftwerk - The Catalogue (Kling Klang, Astralwerks - KLANGBOX 003, 5 0999 6 44970 2 0) Box, Comp, RM, RE, Ltd, Num, Bla + CD, Album + CD, 2012 £132.53

The Velvet Underground & Nico (3) - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve Records, Verve Records - V6-5008, V6/5008) LP, Album, Tor 1967 £114.27

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (Virgin - V 2086) LP, Album, Fir 1977 £113.62

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Verve Records, MGM Records - VLP 9201) LP, Album, Mono 1968 £100.88

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Get Happy! (Promo album) (F-Beat - XX Promo 1) 2xLP, Album, Promo 1980 £88.15

The Style Council - Modernism: A New Decade (Polydor, Polydor - TSCLP 6-1, TSCLP 6-2) 2xLP, Album 1998 £74.17

Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (Immediate - IMSP 012) LP, Album 1968 £73.38

It doesn't count if it hasn't sold for the offer price, and/or at all.

a somewhat shabbier one with the same 33 1/3 error on the labels sold on ebay for ~£215:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-BEATLES-PLEASE-PLEASE-ME-ORIGINAL-1963-UK-MONO-33-1-3-/311412209913

it's no black/gold stereo but hey

Hmm, I *think* I have that one too...

The Style Council - Modernism: A New Decade (Polydor, Polydor - TSCLP 6-1, TSCLP 6-2) 2xLP, Album 1998 £74.17

You can buy the box set —which includes that album— for half that.

I know, some of the tracks are minimally different. Also, that's not what I paid for it (or any of the rest)

I think all were £40 or less, apart from Modernism which was £60 or so.

Massive Attack vs Burial ‎– Four Walls / Paradise Circus

Last Sold: 25 Sep 15
Lowest: $110.17
Median: $191.98
Highest: $382.85

I had the modernism lp got it for like £7 from missing records just before the box came out (it was a promo) i got it for a mate and i swapped it with him for the eddie hazel lp

Just checked, the Kwerk box was £65

From what I've seen the vinyl version of Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa is the rarest and most expensive record I own.

stockhausen ‎– aus den sieben tagen box set
pip proud ‎– adreneline and richard lp though mine's a trashed nz pressing
pink floyd - see emily play nz single 35 to 161 in us $$$ according to popsike

i guess those early davy graham lps go for a bit too.

Pearl Jam - No Code (sealed 2x vinyl) -- one of the very few speculative purchases i've ever made - sold it a few years back for $130

GBV - LP Box -- still sealed, but i can't part with it even though i also have the CD version.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Complete Mercury Years -- most expensive item i bought new ($130) but it's a bit of a disappointment when it gets to the orchestrated Quincy Jones-era material -- Kirk was at his best in small groups.

Cool, I didn't know about this feature on Discogs, apparently these are the 5 priciest records I own:

Eero Koivistoinen - For Children (Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava - OTA LP 72), LP, Album, 1970, €177.72
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse (Atlantic - SD 8281), LP, Album, 1971, €90.38
Sad World - Sad World (Fax +49-69/450464 - PS 08/23), CD, Ltd, Album, 1993, €78.92
Tuomio & Kone - Tuomio & Kone (Not On Label (Tuomio & Kone Self-released) - none), CD, EP, 2003, €76.33
Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku (Fax +49-69/450464 - PS 08/43), CD, Album, Ltd, 1994, €71.14

The other 4 don't suprise me (rare Finnish records and FAX label limited releases), but I've no idea why that Eugene MacDaniels is so pricey, it's been reissued on both vinly and CD in the 00s. It's not even that good, maybe I should sell my copy?

I suspect this FAX album might be even pricier than the ones on the list, but the last time anyone sold it on Discogs was two years ago. I took me over a year to find a copy of it, no one was selling it either on Amazon or Ebay, so I assume it's become quite rare.

Most I ever paid for anything was $30 about 15 years ago for a Steinski compilation - No Rights Given or Implied. Just took a look at discogs and it still goes for around that.

I have the Germs "Forming" 7" on What Records? from 1977.

I think that's probably worth something.

near mint with the sleeve and insert you could probably get a hundred bucks for forming. i know without knowing that there are things in the tune was space stacks that are worth more than that. just a guess.

Tigermilk (EHR) - Lowest: £16.21 Median: £181.41 Highest: £521.04
Sarah 01 - Lowest: £113.98 Median: £238.97 Highest: £360.28
Sarah 02 - Lowest: £36.03 Median: £90.00 Highest: £150.00
Sarah 03 - Lowest: £49.43 Median: £118.88 Highest: £188.43 (a flexi and fanzine!)

my indiepop shame

I had a lot of the first few Sarah records and sold them in the mid-90s for $10-$15 each which seems like a goldmine at the time. Still have one or two, but I spilled cider and blackcurrant on them so not exactly mint.

Top 5:
Vlad Tepes / Belkètre - March To The Black Holocaust €14.46 €124.43 €180.49
Cenotaph - The Gloomy Reflection Of Our Hidden Sorrows €10.14 €101.43 €304.31
Naglfar - Vittra €71.56 €71.56 €71.56
Mütiilation - Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood €36.15 €66.91 €127.44
Torgeist / Vlad Tepes - Black Legions Metal €20.28 €66.85 €81.35

The Black Legions stuff I knew about but I had no idea the Cenotaph record (obscure Mexican death metal) was so sought after. Also, vintage trance is becoming collectable it seems:
DJ Tiësto - Magik: First Flight €41.25 €56.41 €81.49

Koogs, was that flexi "Anorak city"? (sha la laaah)

sarah 3, anorak city, yes. not sure whether that price includes the fanzine (sarah 4) as discogs doesn't list the fanzine.

the other flexi / fanzine - sarah 13 / 14A / 14AA similarly goes for o_O money. i have a spare of one of them, somewhere.

This has gotten me entering my vinyl into discogs. After 50 discs there are already five with median sales over $50. This could be good for my wallet.

Highest so far (and also most embarrassing):

Fun. - Aim & Ignite (Paper + Plastick - 067003084710)
$60.00 $100.00 $175.00

I spent a year entering my lp collection in, and been using sales of miscellaneous items from ot to fund my ongoing purchases of newer or 'cooler' whatever things.

I am in the middle of logging the cds now. It takes longer, the average prices are much lower, but I'll never know unless I try.

This is dredging up one of my few music regrets - not taking advantage of a DGC vinyl dump at Princeton Record Exchange a few years ago. It was pretty much everything they released from the early '90s in perfect mint for $20-30 each. I had never even seen most of those releases in vinyl before as I started buying music in 1994. I got a couple sonic youth albums but that was it. Someone who worked for the label must have sold their collection. By the next day when I had gotten the nerve to spend $200 or so it was all gone.

Colour Sound Oblivion, patron's advanced edition & certificate, red tag number 3 (of 200) (I'm still wondering how that happened, don't bands usually keep the lowest numbers for themselves/friends?). Worth: irrelevant, it's not for sale.

Sir Lord Baltimore CD with both albums on one disc.
I paid $50 for it a dozen or so years ago.
Best $50 I ever spent.

xpost, yeah I'vegot "Stutter" Elastica, number 0002

Jazz Butcher - Big Questions CD. Paid $100 for it.

It was the last item on my want list and had been there for 25 years.

I think this thread is about things in your collection that are worth lots of money, rather than things you paid a lot of money for?

both, i thought.

that second wedding present single i paid £25 for is now going for half that... 8(

bought this in a charity shop in Lewes for a couple of quid http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/38942?ev=rb

Last Sold: 17 Sep 15
Lowest: £17.93
Median: £29.13
Highest: £74.45

My top most expensive item I paid 20p for in Oxfam tbh.

Mind you that Jazz Butcher CD is median £58 on discogs which isn't that far off $100. I will stand down from thread policing.

I also have a copy of this, bought at a record fair in c. 2000 for a couple of quid http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/429836?ev=rb

Last Sold: 08 Sep 15
Lowest: £14.34
Median: £55.47
Highest: £71.70

Though weirdly I think the most valuable record in my collection is a vinyl copy of the Verve's first album http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1018240?ev=rb

Last Sold: 13 Aug 15
Lowest: £49.99
Median: £88.67
Highest: £125.49

probably my best charity shop find was a mint copy of Quadrophenia with the booklet still attached to the gatefold sleeve, that would probably go for at least £50 or so http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1065082

(looking back, everything i've said in the last few days i also said 3 years ago. sorry.)

probably my best charity shop find was a mint copy of Quadrophenia with the booklet still attached to the gatefold sleeve, that would probably go for at least £50 or so http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1065082

One reason that's a great find is that the negatives of the photos in the booklet have been lost. The latest (vastly overpriced) boxed set reissue includes a very blurry booklet.

i'm not sure, but i think it's the april showers - abandon ship 12" (though it's my wife's copy)

on a somewhat related note now that I've started entering them in... CDs aren't worth shit these days.

If you want something to really brag about on this thread, there are eight days left to put in a bid:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291602380034

Xpost, so far I have found my average vinyl is worth £6, and my average CD is £4

That's not bad but consider a box set is counted as one unit, and I'm only half way through logging the CDs

like tuomas, i have quite a lot of the FAX golden era (i.e. 93/94 releases on cd).
they are in a seperate box from the rest of the archive, so, after a recent chat, mk1 knows not to just hand them over to the local charity shop once the STOP button is pressed.
the rest, i suspect no-one will give 2 hoots about.
but that FAX box is different ..

absolutely insane couple of finds for me this week...

firstly i was going through a box of tatty classical stuff and right at the back i found a ginette neveu on hmv. discogs isn't really the place to look at pricing for classical stuff, but the last copy sold on ebay went for £278:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sop=3&_osacat=0&_odkw=ginette+neveu&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xginette+neveu+sibelius.TRS0&_nkw=ginette+neveu+sibelius&_sacat=0

then yesterday morning on my way back from a record fair i popped into a charity shop and this was sat there...

Kind of freaking out about this speculative charity shop buy pic.twitter.com/Uv48db5Scb

— fell into a green dream (@Mount_Analogue) May 13, 2018

cost me a pound

wow and wow! That latter one sounds great...

played the first side yesterday and it starts off with a couple of fairly jaunty trad folk numbers which had me raising my eyebrows a bit, but there were some weirder darker songs after that which were pretty good. not 500 quid good though imo so will probably end up selling it.

expensive records I has:

Aphrod<REDACTED>nuff Rock 12" (Stiff)

:zoviet*france: '7.10.12' box set thing, last sold on discogs for €250

One I didn't know about until recently was "Oh Bondage Up Yours" 7", in the pic sleeve.

I noticed it went for a big price on ebay recently, and discogs has it for a large amount, etc.

Apparently it was mostly used as a promo to radio stations. So how did I manage to get one when it came out? Oh yeah, as a freebie when I was on Radio London's "New Singles" review show, back in the day, hem.

Tall Dwarfs records seem to have gone up a lot, I did the Discogs order by median price thing, and The 3 EPs is £61, Weeville is £43, and Fork Songs is £34. I think I paid £3-5 for those about 10-12 years ago!

Another one that's gone up loads is Golden Dawn - My Secret World (Sarah 9), £53!

Really strange one is London Popfest 2009 CD-R which is just a free sampler of bands playing the popfest, has only one sale, for £72.58?!? I'd stick my copy on for £50 but it skips on some of the songs. It always had skipped, that's how it was when I got it at the time. So I wonder if the copy that went for £72.58 had the same problem.

xp o rly I have Oh Bondage Up Yours in PS!

i have a few of those tall dwarfs too, also bought for buttons

heck, kind of self-indulgent but this is what my top 50 looks like right now:

https://s9.postimg.cc/hue50txu7/recs.jpg

it's amazing that those Fall records that you could buy by the dozen in the 90s are so sought-after now, my copy of The Infotainment Scan goes for £60+ these days, I bought it for a couple of quid

yeah i sold off a lot of fall records at one point, hurts my heart to think about it now

this one's my most expensive, also bough for £2, at a Bristol record fair c. 1999

holy shit i want that!

IIRC I got this that same day, a pretty successful/lucky day's work!

whoever had a cbgbs clearout back then must be pissing a kidney right about now

I've also got that Frogs record! Is that Scratch Acid really going for $$ now?

Just checked. Indeed it is...

Oh and that Tall Dwarfs record! My copy is very mint.

The Sarah records stuff always seems to climb as well. For instance I have the Field Mice Emma's House 7" and it keeps going up.

scratch acid isn't silly expensive tbh, us version goes for about £50 (mine's the cheaper euro one) xp

I used to have "Marquee Moon", bought when I started to have some money, 2nd hand, bit duffed up but basically OK. Sold it when CDs, etc.

Anyway, decided to get one to fill the gap: https://www.discogs.com/Television-Marquee-Moon/release/6897002 can you see the suttle diff? Decent condition, not too pricey..

ha, i've never spotted that one before

so-called "Marquee Moon", if that is its real title

I've sold most of my pricey stuff over the last six months, but the priciest of the lot - which I have no intention of selling, because it's staggeringly good - is the 1973 UK promo 7" of Martha Reeves - No One There. Discogs median is GBP 222.50, but mine's NM so could fetch more. https://www.discogs.com/Martha-Reeves-No-One-There-/release/6796811

Top tip: some Morrissey LPs are £££ and they sell very quickly. On behalf of a friend, I've just sold You Are The Quarry for £99.95 and Southpaw Grammar for £169.95.

Just found out that this weird imported Birthday Party box set that I bought in Tower records in Glasgow 2 million years ago is for sale from around £114 on Discogs.

https://www.discogs.com/Birthday-Party-Definitive-Missing-Link-Recordings-1979-1982/release/1967048

I guess mine's maybe this now?

https://img.discogs.com/G9T5LUs1OYnT726_9C5DR87LTSc=/fit-in/597x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-41682-1325153626.jpeg.jpg

probably picked it up for $1-2 and now it sells for maybe $300ish.

I've got a bunch of death/black metal records from the early 90s that seem to go for (to me) silly money: Malevolent Creation, Suffocation, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse, Dark Throne. I can't bring myself to sell them, which is daft.

Most valuable looks to be Aenima, which has gone for as high as £570 on Discogs.

Miharu Koshi - Parallelisme LP

bought this from ebay for $120 at xmas

I've only added about 0.5% of my collection to discogs at the moment. Based on that it's David Sylvian's Blemish.

probably this
https://www.discogs.com/Andrew-And-Jim-Baxter-Forty-Drops-Georgia-Stomp/release/7075337

or maybe this, idk
https://www.discogs.com/Peg-Leg-Howell-Sadie-Lee-Blues-Papa-Stobb-Blues/release/3399794

how/where did you find those ian?

also that sharevari <3

I got forty drops in a trade for a rare country record ("Walk Right In Belmont" by Wilmer Watts) and the Sadie Lee I bought from a collector friend who was kind enough to let me pay in a couple installments. I've been pretty deep into 78s for the last 8-10 years now. xp

It could well be the (unopened) Spiritualized pill box for me.

those Tall Dwarfs prices have been bumming me out for a while, desperately in need of reissue

I have definitely DJed with that Sharevari 12" too... but not now that I know what it's worth, and uh, I don't DJ anymore.

It could well be the (unopened) Spiritualized pill box for me.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 14 May 2018 14:56 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I managed to get an Opened one of those - I'm sure that's much rarer.

Oh, and one of the discs has a 30 seconds longer version of one of the songs..

Forgot to say - it was £12.

One of the discs was missing, but I managed to "make" one to take it's place.

Per Discogs, my general top four would be the two Paramount Records boxes on Third Man/Revenant, the Pink Floyd Early Years box and the This Mortal Coil box from 2011. (If we're going strictly by highest minimum prices there, then it'd be Floyd followed by the Paramount sets.)

damn apparently it's this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/April-Showers-Abandon-Ship-SUPER-RARE-12-SINGLE-3-TKS-SHOULD-HAVE-BEEN-1/352323921056?hash=item52082464a0:g:g7cAAOSwlO1ax74s

Animal Crack Box - Animal Collective. 3 LP boxset of live / demo / vault material from 2000 to 2003. I was in high school when it came out in 2009 and didn't have any money so I listened to a rip for years. Finally found a new copy on eBay about a year a half ago, I think it was $150. most expensive record I own by a considerable margin.

According to my Discogs inventory and using the median price as a guide, the two most expensive CD releases I own are the Albert Ayler box on Revenant and the Satya Sai / Matreya Kali "Apache / Inca" 2xCD on Shadoks.

My OG CD copy of Game Theoy's Lolita Nation once sold for over $100, but has also sold for $12

my answers are the same as they were five years ago, which kind of surprises me

Most expensive single disc in my collection now is Automatic for the People - $100.00 low, $128.16 median, $169.84 high. Wow. Monster isn't far behind at $60.00-$90.00-$194.10.

There's no way I paid more than $5-6 for either of those records

there must be whole load of those out there though I suppose both albums came out during the height of CD buying

Forgot to say - it was £12.

One of the discs was missing, but I managed to "make" one to take it's place.

― Mark G, Monday, May 14, 2018 5:20 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

12 quid's a steal, glad you could complete the set!

Animal Crack Box - Animal Collective. 3 LP boxset of live / demo / vault material from 2000 to 2003. I was in high school when it came out in 2009 and didn't have any money so I listened to a rip for years. Finally found a new copy on eBay about a year a half ago, I think it was $150. most expensive record I own by a considerable margin.

― flappy bird, Monday, May 14, 2018 10:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll come out and say I was one of those bastards that ordered it just to sell it again thrice the value a week later. Peak AC/Hipster Runoff days, I couldn't resist. The very first ones went for nearly $ 1000 iirc.

The Dylan Live 1966 box set. 100.00 Which ain't bad for 32 discs.

albert ayler holy ghost box set and miles davis complete on the corner probably the only > $100 music i own

According to discogs it is this version of A Forest but from memory my copy is pretty beat up.

In terms of actual saleable items it's probably this Beasties LP.

I once had an Australian 7" of Anarchy in the UK on EMI which I sold for about $500, that's probably the most collectible item I've ever owned.

I have a few contenders, but just checking some that come to mind I'm a almost scared by how much the Mikami Kan 13xCD box set on PSF may theoretically go for https://www.discogs.com/三上寛-三上寛-Box/release/1451141

For perspective, I got it for around £120 (secondhand) back in 2009, which certainly felt like a rather wild purchase at the time.

Link didn't work well with those characters, so https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1451141 (one copy currently listed at $2000/£1500)

In terms of actual saleable items it's probably this Beasties LP.

I put mine up last year but didn't get a bite.

someone messaged me out of the blue and offered $300 plus postage for this though: https://www.discogs.com/Sourpuss-Solvent/release/8331421

I have two Miles Davis boxes - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 and The Complete On the Corner Sessions - that are over $100 on Discogs. My Plugged Nickel set isn't worth that, though, because the booklet is missing. (It was never in there when I bought it.) I also have a signed copy of the Ornette Coleman Beauty is a Rare Thing box that I could probably get some money for; the double-digipaks that hold the CDs are kinda scuffed up, but it's signed by Ornette!

I also have a copy of that Celebrate Ornette box that came out a year or two ago - that's going for almost $400 these days.

Decided to see what the highest priced individual disc I own is per Discogs. If we're talking maximum, it's this:

https://www.discogs.com/Rema-Rema-Wheel-In-The-Roses/release/337852

$274! Which...seems like an outlier.

Minimum would be this at $120:

https://www.discogs.com/Walkabouts-Mystery-Mountain-Chronicles/release/3287111

The Rema-Rema one is even more absurd in that the highest press the actual original pressing in 1980 has sold for on Discogs is $72. Who the hell paid $274 for the CD single, and why?

Highest price, rather, etc.

wau @ that Walkabouts disc

How does one determine if an LP with a pressing error is worth anything? I have a German pressing of David Bowie's "Low" that has "My Bloody Valentine - Loveless" misprinted on the spine.

That Rema Rema disc was a mail-only thing, I got one at the time and its going nowhere

Also, that Dylan 1966 live box - you don't want to see the amazon bargains thread...

My most expensive CD is the first Richard Dawson album from 2005 which has sold a couple of times for £60. It’s one of those weird ones where the CD is twice as valuable as the vinyl, but only 5 people on discogs own it so I guess there’s just not many of them around. Anyway I found it for 50p in a charity shop about 6 months ago - it’s a lot easier to find decent CDs in them than vinyl these days but fuck it’s tedious work reading those spines so I rarely put in the effort

$274! Which...seems like an outlier.

same exact highest price, down to the penny (274.16), for this one, which may be the priciest piece of vinyl on my shelves:

https://www.discogs.com/Guided-By-Voices-Forever-Since-Breakfast/release/905095

hmmm.

if you look at the sales history (you need a Discogs account) you can see that the high one there was signed by Robert Pollard

and sealed :0

i was standing about 30 feet away from robert pollard when i bought my copy but didn't ask him to sign it 'cause i had already asked him to sign a single i had found 20 minutes earlier and one autograph request per semi-famous indie-rocker per day seemed like a good rule at the time.

that is a good rule!

talking of signed things, i found a copy of the second big country album that had been signed by three of the band including stuart adamson - saw a similar one go for about £80 because dead. always worth checking inside the gatefolds!

Okay so looking at the Rema-Rema history, the $274 was for a sealed copy in 2015. Another sealed copy was sold in 2017...for $110. So much for investments.

And yeah that Walkabouts one was from the first time the band put out their own self-released tour CDs back in 1997, so I'm not surprised at that price.

CD wise, the Fall Peel sessions box set is a pretty good bet now: https://www.discogs.com/The-Fall-The-Complete-Peel-Sessions-1978-2004/release/530824 I got that as a birthday present!

And this was a £2 charity shop find about ten years ago: https://www.discogs.com/David-Mancuso-The-Loft/release/38942

Sold my set of Ash Ra Tempel’s Private Tapes for $800. Felt guilty doing so (jewel boxes and no fancy box or booklet even), but then the buyer left enthusiastic feedback about the great condition, so....

cor!

I bought the 1984 reissue of the Rema-Rema 12" for a whopping £4.80 including postage!

fuuuck I really wish I had bought those Private Tapes CDs back in the day

I also really regret selling not one, but two copies of the Coil Live Box (had one, sold one, bought another, sold it again)

Loveless is going for £100+ now which is crazy so maybe that

Looking at CDs, I did have the Mark Hollis promo but sold it on Discogs for £66

Re Mark G and Amazon Bargains for Bob 66 box. I'm not concerned about resale prices etc. It was actually 80.00 when I bought it and I adore that music and would never want to be rid of it. Just wanted to play along And contribute to thread. And when the music's this good, who cares what it costs.

Some limited edition dance edits 12" I was given - don't recall when or by who - that fetches upwards of $175 on Discogs.

I have the 8CD box -- Miles Davis - Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings, 1951-1956 -- paid $120 when it came out.

Headz II Parts A & B on vinyl for $100 each

Couple of Mosaic Boxes

Couple of Bear Boxes

signed Katy Hudson CD, a quick google shows one listed for $1500 but that's nuts, most unsigned are $150-230 or so

I found this in a dollar bin some years ago

https://www.discogs.com/Nina-Nastasia-Dogs/release/946106

i didn't realize my copy of dorothy ashby's Afro-Harping was worth so much! it's in really nice shape, with the original inner sleeve (an ad for other cadet recordings). got it for $15 or so

fabulous record! i only have the most recent reissue but even that is creeping up in value

i have three copies of this in mint/unplayed condition :

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1643404?ev=rb

other than that, the answer is still the same as what I posted 5 years ago re Twin Freaks - still mint/sealed.

I've been reading this thread and cursing myself for buying CDs in preference to vinyl as people list LPs of things I own on worthless CD, but now there's CD talk and I still don't have any of them

also have a few things which were at one point worth maybe £30 because they were OOP and have now been reissued so I don't dare see what they're worth now - prob not much, I doubt I have anything with much of a market for a particular pressing

(should also have sold the Strokes' first single back when people still liked the Strokes. damn, had that Fall Peel sessions CD set for £20 in my hands on my way to the checkout once and then thought "I have too much Fall stuff and shouldn't spend £20 on any more" and put it back)

I have two of the metal case Autechre Quaristice 2cds, I think they change hands for solid money these days. Can’t bring myself to part tho.

I still believe that the cd format will make a return on the second hand market, once people with their recently expanded vinyl collections have to move house, and/or, spotify et al start dropping label catalogues due to licencing problems.
so, despite the fact I have an insane cd collection hidden throughout the house, I aint filling my local charity shops just yet.

I agree with that (also as people who have a sentimental attachment to CDs hit the middle aged with cash to spend on collections phase (usual caveats about economic collapse notwithstanding).

Someone needs to build a transparent CD player so the mechanics (and the cool laser and iridescent disc) are on display the way they are on a turntable.

My clear-vinyl Blackstar is still fetching a couple hundred on ebay but I wonder how long that will last.

I found an unplayed copy of this for £1 in a charity shop a few years ago. Move D played it in a Boiler Room and a DJ Koze on a DJ mix hence the inflated price.

https://www.discogs.com/Mono-Easydance-EP/release/4118912

I've a few things on vinyl that discogs have on sale for £150-£200ish: the highest lowest-listed-price I have seen is the first Braintax EP at £199 I think the highest actually-sold-for is probably the first McCarthy single at £150.

CDs are more interesting, though - there are random things that hang about near the back of piles of CDs that seem to have unexpected value but without plugging the whole collection into discogs it's more or less impossible to guess what. For example, this no-account dub CD I will have picked up for pennies years ago, and which now seems to have sold for upwards of £30. Not riches by any means but way more than I'd have guessed: https://www.discogs.com/Skin-Flesh-Bones-Dub-In-Blood-Vol-2/release/2285877

Or this, currently available at £60: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Fast-Product-Rigour-Discipline-Disgust/release/1488211 (it's a comp of Fast Records stuff plus a bit of Pop: Aural IIRC and I assume it has been long unavailable while I haven't been paying attention).

I do OK selling my 90s techno/house cd's on Discogs. Just sold two Larry Heard albums for around $80. I'm more than ok parting with the stuff as soon as I digitize it. The older I'm getting the less physical media I want around me - though my love of books will prob never disappear.

I did have that Twin Freaks promo CD.

I won't say what it went for on ebay, you'll cry.

I did find another one about 6 months later, that went for £200 but.

This is worth quite a bit but then it was pretty expensive to begin with so I don't think it really counts:

https://www.discogs.com/Dead-Can-Dance-DCD-Europe-2005/release/4096348

Whoa - take that, Bob Dylan

holy moly

Animal Crack Box - Animal Collective. 3 LP boxset of live / demo / vault material from 2000 to 2003. I was in high school when it came out in 2009 and didn't have any money so I listened to a rip for years. Finally found a new copy on eBay about a year a half ago, I think it was $150. most expensive record I own by a considerable margin.

― flappy bird, Monday, May 14, 2018 10:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll come out and say I was one of those bastards that ordered it just to sell it again thrice the value a week later. Peak AC/Hipster Runoff days, I couldn't resist. The very first ones went for nearly $ 1000 iirc.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, May 14, 2018 5:29 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao honestly, respect. I might've done the same. $1,000???? so wild. yeah I feel good about getting a new copy for $150, not that bad for a 3xLP limited edition boxset.

At the time I thought it was funny that instead of a live album from the tour, they were like... nah, here's the entire tour.

xpost

speaking of AC, I had this original St Ives pressing once

http://www.discogs.com/Avey-Tare-Panda-Bear-Geologist-Hollinndagain/release/850651

Thought when I sold it for $60 I was getting one over on someone

Ditto this Upholsterers single, which I sold for like $50 when I thought White Stripes mania was at its peak. Now it's a rent payment.

http://www.discogs.com/The-Upholsterers-Makers-Of-High-Grade-Suites/master/375593

Things You Shouldn't Have Sold should be a thread

I gave my Sub Pop 200 box to a friend and that goes for £100+ these days

Also I surreptitiously “borrowed” my dad’s Vertigo swirl Gentle Giant s/t off him when I was a teenager and then sold that for a few pounds when I needed to pay for something or other. He never listened to and didn’t really care tbh, but shit, that’s worth a few quid now

xxp

records roommates have stolen and you can’t afford to replace.

I remember seeing a copy of that Upholsterers 7'' at some point years ago in the record shop I worked in, before we used the internet for selling, I think. I have a strong memory of having it in my hands and recognising its significance at least somewhat, but could never remember what we did with it afterwards. I strongly suspect it could well still be stuck in one of the toppling piles or boxes of records in the office/backroom/upstairs somewhere.

xxp I have a Vertigo copy of Master of Reality, the box is a bit squashed but it is now worth a fair bit. Another gift, all the best stuff I have has been given to me!

Kinda regret selling my white vinyl of Bleach (1000 only) for £40 a long time ago, looks like it's worth £400+ now

for a little while (like a day) I was very excited that the copy of Gary Walker and the Rain's album that I bought in London a few weeks ago was worth somewhere on the order of $1000 but then I realized it's a 90's era bootleg and not an original.

"My clear-vinyl Blackstar is still fetching a couple hundred on ebay but I wonder how long that will last." really? I've had mine on discogs for ages and no bites. I'd certainly sell it for anything over $250. I'm not attached to the novelty of that one bit.

How does one determine if an LP with a pressing error is worth anything? I have a German pressing of David Bowie's "Low" that has "My Bloody Valentine - Loveless" misprinted on the spine.

I'm sorry. . . you have WHAT?!

Guessing that is a pirate/counterfeit copy

Could be. I don’t have it handy but I picked it up in a used bin.

Hilariously I once sold the 2-track Cocteau Twins Christmas novelty CD single for over $100 - maybe $120? I think the tracks later ended up on the EPs collection.

I have a promo copy of that Cocteaus CD single somewhere, I used to work occasionally with a record company marketing guy who dealt with them during the Fontana records era, when I expressed an interest he rolled his eyes and said 'oh, you don't like all that backwards shite do you?'.

This is my other very pricey one: The Anteeeks - I Don't Want You, an excellent freakbeat 45 from 1966, now with a median of GBP 264.58. My parents had a party in 1966, and their guests brought them records. This was one of them. I've loved it pretty much all my life, and I'd only sell it if I was starving.

Oh, mine like that is The Flies "I'm not your stepping stone".

I got it at a jumble sale, 30p, I nearly passed on it thinking it would be a fairly lame version of the Monkees tune. Put it on and WHOA!!

"My clear-vinyl Blackstar is still fetching a couple hundred on ebay but I wonder how long that will last." really? I've had mine on discogs for ages and no bites. I'd certainly sell it for anything over $250. I'm not attached to the novelty of that one bit.

Yeah, that was just based on asking price; I don't actually know what people are paying for it in the real world.

Well, discogs does give you what they sell for..

Just looked - it's sold for around £200 consistently, monthly or so, but not since March.

Probably shangri las Lp or Johnny cash box

In terms of single CD, I have the limited "Koko" by Keiji Haino, that sells for $80 for one track

had an absolute dream find yesterday morning. found a first press johanna martzy / schubert sonatas on columbia. mine has a slightly battered cover but this is what it's gone for on ebay in the last couple of months..

https://image.ibb.co/fbVgho/Capture.jpg

I am guessing that sounds really really good?

it's pretty sweet! nice clean vinyl too

i paid 50p for it btw. it was right at the front of a stack of about 800 records at a carboot sale and then i spent the next half hour digging through the rest like a fucking madman, hoping that none of the local dealers showed up before i got through them all. there were a few other nice bits but that one - aiiieeeee....

how do you know what to look out for in terms of classical records Nick? I got a copy of this the other day which was pleasing but hardly in the same league!

it's pretty straightforward with classical once you've figured out the basics tbh. it's a lot like jazz but without all the quirky independent labels to worry about (obv not many indies could finance orchestral recordings) - it's primarily about specific collectible labels and then within that it's about specific instruments, but instead of blue note/verve/impulse/prestige, you have decca/hmv/emi/columbia, and instead of sax players you have violinists and to some extent cellists. after that you're looking primarily for early stereo pressings from the sixties - the labels for the early pressings are fairly distinctive, so once you know those you're golden. monos aren't worth shit if a stereo version was also available, but the martzy is a fifties record from before the stereo era and she's one of a handful of earlier violinists who are kind of fetishised by collectors (see also ida haendel, nathan milstein, ruggiero ricci, ginette neveu). do an ebay search of sold classical records and then sort by value and you'll see what i mean. good thing about classical record hunting is that there isn't as much competition and a lot of the most valuable things were made in the uk but highly in demand on the other side of the planet. this is all purely from a valuation POV though, and mostly i just buy classical records that i think i'll enjoy listening to or that have nice artwork (there are some really lovely looking old records out there!).

thanks Nick, that's really helpful advice, I will bear it in mind when I am next doing a charity shop run! And yes I agree about buying things because you're actually interested in the music being an important principle- I bought the Stravinsky record above mainly because it's a wonderful piece of music.

no problem!

Oh another thing that can have an effect on the value is appearing on something called the TAS list - some audiophile guy made a list of supposedly the best sounding records across all genres, but there’s a lot of classical on there and it seems to be a real marker of quality for some collectors