Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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

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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.

Whenever I have CDs of some rarity and value, I sell them. I am not a collector.

I had the 80-CD Glenn Gould box set, but I sold it at a small profit. I see it's going for $650 on amazon now. I don't care.

Are the original Monolake / Porter Ricks / Maurizio tin boxes worth much these days? I have all those and managed to never crack the CDs as seemed to happen often. I also have all the original Gas records. Oh yeah, I also have Drexciya's The Quest on original 2xCD pressing. And I have two copies of this Charalambides record called Historic 4th Ward on CD and the artwork looks literally handmade; been wondering about this one for ages.

sugargliders ($96) aberdeen ($46) shelley ($79)

aberdeen is weird since those tracks are fully reissued, shelley makes some sense because those tracks aren't reissued and are also pretty good. sugargliders stuff was OOP for years but have just been reished so there will be a dive..

Oh yeah, I also have most of the early Melvins stuff on LP in really good condition, and I think those go for a nice pop?

I believe the Vainquier is the most collectable / expensive of the tin can releases xxpost

The prices on popsike vary wildly per auction. I have a near mint condition copy of Al Stewart's debut album. Copies have gone for anything between £50 and £250. The condition obviously varies from auction to auction but not that much. I think this shows that it's possible to find bargains on ebay.

Yeah, I've seen things sell internationally for much higher than domestic. I think it's just about how excited the people that happen to find your listing tend to be, and will bid more aggressively.

Hoping someday I'll walk into a thrift shop and find an original Propellor by GBV or something. It's like a nerdy version of the lottery fantasy.

Oh, bear in mind that popsike will register when an auction goes stupid.

Always check e-bay to see what things went for recently...

According to discogs it's one of the following lps: Dolly Mixture Demonstration Tapes, Broadcast Noise Made By People, Arab on Radar Queen Hygiene II, Maher Shalal Hash Baz 2xlp, The Fall Marshall suite, Swell Maps Collision Time (orig single lp)... but who knows. Who is paying that much for those things?

I did just find a depeche mode 7" at half price books that i'd sold in the past for $60. Don't know if it always sells for that much.

I have a copy of Led Zep IV which I got signed by Page, Plant and Jones for a friend the other week. I then checked how much Zep signed albums go for. My friend is about to own something valuable.

I have the first Panda Bear solo album on Soccer Star - pre-AC. Described in the Wire as "so rare it is only rumoured to exist". Problem is, it's so rare I've never seen it for sale so I have no idea as to its worth.

Broadcast Noise Made By People,

lol I have this. also have no idea why it goes for $200. record valuation is so random.

and boradcast woman died their stuff went up and stayed up.

"after"

"broadcast"

"Borat cast"

i mean it really was a case of fans of the band wanting everything after she died. their stuff was always collectable but prices went way up.

I have the first Panda Bear solo album on Soccer Star - pre-AC. Described in the Wire as "so rare it is only rumoured to exist". Problem is, it's so rare I've never seen it for sale so I have no idea as to its worth.

― Manfred Mann meets Man Parrish (ithappens)

I'm sure a whole lot actually. I bet if you listed it pitchfork would write something up on it and everything.

i bought records from this guy - nice guy who ilxed occasionally - and he had an album by a group that fennesz was in before he was fennesz? never heard of it. never seen it again. he didn't want to part with it. cool cover too. have no idea what it was called. i don't know why i'm thinking of it now. never saw it online anywhere.

Oh wait on that Panda Bear- is it a record or CD, because I just noticed the CD is listed on discogs- so not as mysterious as Wire suggests...

Never heard of this pre-Fennesz record either.

They were called Maische:

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Maische

About € 10 ... not too expensive.

is that you nice sometime ilxor??? anyway, always been curious. i'll have to check youtube.

I don't have anything super-valuable that I know of. I do have Torch of the Mystics on CD, which was mentioned upthread, and I am kind of a jackass wrt that too because I dimly remember the poster and/or CD getting separated from the case and ending up in a CD wallet at the back of a wardrobe somewhere, which I guess might make collectors cry.

I've had a few things that were briefly worth in the £50 range but either they got reissued or the bands went out of fashion and I doubt any of them would get me more than a tenner now. I was going to put some of them on Amazon marketplace a while ago but I just felt scummy asking for big money for some crappy CD I got out of a bargain bin or whatever, so I agonised for a while and then didn't do it, sigh.

wait the guy i know is a yank and wouldn't give the price in euros. he had great stuff!