Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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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

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