Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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I have that original Yardbirds LP too, the one that was withdrawn a few days after its release.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.