Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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.

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