Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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.

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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!

those really ARE cheap. maybe i should just buy both of them. first album isn't even on a label. they aren't on youtube either.

of course with shipping from austria they would be more like 25+...

well if anyone here is in austria they should buy those. good investment for the future. not too many people have heard them. probably out of print.

Hmm well I wish I could listen a little first.

i have a pre-fame newton faulkner demo cd, but suspect no f*cker gives a shit (like me .. never listened to it)

I misread that as promo CD, and it reminded me- if the album is already out, nobody gives a shit about a promo disc unless it's a huge deal right? I think some out of touch ebayers think that promo CDs and LPs are the same to a collector and will list for high prices.

huge deal = huge bargain

One of the more bizarre CDs I sold on Ebay recently (given that most of them don't get any bids) was a promo CD in a plain black sleeve of some Me First & The Gimme Gimmes album I got free from a record store a few years ago.

Exclusive material or what?

Nope, regular album.

So strange.

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.

Monolake and Porter Ricks don't sell for big bucks anymore, since they've both been reissued, but AFAIK the other, non-reissued Chain Reaction albums still sell for 40 Euros or more. The prices for the original Gas albums dropped too after the Nah und Fern reissue box came out. Which was nice, as I was finally able to buy a copy of the first, eponymous album (the version included with Nah und Fern is different from the original Mille Plateaux release, it replaces the original tracks 1 and 3 with new tracks).

Going by Discogs median prices, my most valuable items are:

Rolling Stones London Years 3CD Singles Collection on SACD
White - Stripes De Stijl vinyl reissue (the only Jack White release I own or even like)
Sleep - Dopesmoker on vinyl
Nuggets II boxed set
Miles Davis Jack Johnson boxed set (got this recently along with the Bitches Brew one - this was actually the cheaper of the two)

Ranging from £60 down to £38. I've maybe had other CDs which I've sold for more than that in the past but I can't remember exactly what or how much, just OOP stuff.

Which version of sleep - dopesmoker?

It's the 2003 issue on Tee Pee records, this is the one: http://www.discogs.com/Sleep-Dopesmoker/release/397723

ahh, i never bought that for some reason.

How do you get Discogs to list the median prices for your records?

I don't have much in the way of collectors' items or rare copies, so it must be this. Listed at $599 now at Amazon!
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Tuomas: On the My Collection page under 'View' at the top there's an option for 'Stats', the median prices are listed there.

Surprised that Interpol 12" on Chemikal Underground is still worth so much (median £126.63). Is it too late to cash in or will the TOTBL reissue kill demand?

That Al Stewart album I mentioned upthread isn't even for sale on discogs, that's how rare it is.

Huh. My most valuable item is Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite on double CD (median = £48.88), never would have thought of that. Then comes Originals Vol 2 compilation on Claremont 56 (median = £32.16), which isn't even a very good album.

My least valuable item is Wowee Zowee on CD.

Oh wait, it's a Japanese edition of Chappaqua Suite that's so expensive. The one I have isn't on Discogs.

i was thinking about selling my u.k. 1st pressing of one live badger but i think i'd miss the little guy too much...

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had no idea D'Angelo's Voodoo was going for around $100 - I've got one of those

I have the 1991 CD pressing of Captain Beefheart's "Lick My Decals Off" which is currently going on Amazon Marketplace for $42. That's probably the highest for me.

every time I hear something I own is going for an absurd amount of money, I am reminded that I have absolutely no awareness of how the vinyl collectors' market really works

just sold phish's lawnboy LP for $700 -- after that, maybe OG mike hurley on folkways or la monte young's dreamhouse record, or descendents of mike and phoebe record?

get the feeling this would be a big ticket item if i ever sell it, but i probably will never: http://www.discogs.com/Francis-Bebey-Pygmy-Love-Song/release/1762405

Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack CD single. Cracked front case. Mysterious raspberry-colored goo on disc. $.39

Oh wait, LaMonte Young. That reminds me... My CD copy of "Second Dream of the High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer" is probably worth more than the Beefheart.

Of course, I don't have the jewel cases any more, since I downsized my collection to binders only, so they're probably not worth all that much as collectibles.

YES LA comp
Treble Kicker - Pavement
Gaydiohead - drill ep
Loadsa stuff like Lilys' first cd but I already e mailed you Evan

Loads more

I'm not a collector - was just ahead of the times ;) and now redundant- and want rid of this shit. Not on e bay yet . Keep asking wife if I can use her account but never get round to it

Not redundant (yet) job wise. Just in most other departments. I'm fairly comfortable with that these days.
A mate told me that my awful Cock Sparrer "Shock Troops" vinyl is revered in some strange circles

Try selling on Discogs first.

according to discogs, the top 5 median selling prices for my record collection are:

$116 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 3xLP
$99 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2xLP superdeluxe thing
$85 - Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk (2xLP on Vertigo that collected Kraftverk 1 and 2)
$81 - Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill LP
$80 - The Microphones - Little Bird Flies Into a Big Black Cloud

I once had an original LP of Bobb Trimble's Harvest of Dreams which I sold in the '90s for nowhere near what it's worth today; I didn't realize it was worth anything beyond face value when I sold it and had never heard of the artist at the time. Wasn't even mentioned in the price guides I checked at the time.

$99 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2xLP superdeluxe thing

There's my answer then.

Are any of those briefly-produced 3"/80mm CD singles that were supposed to be the digital successor of the 45 valuable? I own several of those.

On The Road with Kasey Chambers, maybe?