Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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.