Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

(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?

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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.