Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

1 For Sale from £1,079.16

O_O

just been adding a few of my records to discogs and i seem to have this pressing of please please me:

http://www.discogs.com/Beatles-Please-Please-Me/release/6262253

UNFUCK THE BEATLES ALL Y'ALL

― Haino Corrida (NickB), Sunday, 25 October 2015 10:58 (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It doesn't count if it hasn't sold for the offer price, and/or at all.

I guess the question "What's the most you ever paid for a record you wanted to own/keep" is classified.

Kraftwerk - The Catalogue (Kling Klang, Astralwerks - KLANGBOX 003, 5 0999 6 44970 2 0) Box, Comp, RM, RE, Ltd, Num, Bla + CD, Album + CD, 2012 £132.53

The Velvet Underground & Nico (3) - The Velvet Underground & Nico (Verve Records, Verve Records - V6-5008, V6/5008) LP, Album, Tor 1967 £114.27

Sex Pistols - Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (Virgin - V 2086) LP, Album, Fir 1977 £113.62

The Velvet Underground - White Light/White Heat (Verve Records, MGM Records - VLP 9201) LP, Album, Mono 1968 £100.88

Elvis Costello & The Attractions - Get Happy! (Promo album) (F-Beat - XX Promo 1) 2xLP, Album, Promo 1980 £88.15

The Style Council - Modernism: A New Decade (Polydor, Polydor - TSCLP 6-1, TSCLP 6-2) 2xLP, Album 1998 £74.17

Small Faces - Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake (Immediate - IMSP 012) LP, Album 1968 £73.38

It doesn't count if it hasn't sold for the offer price, and/or at all.

a somewhat shabbier one with the same 33 1/3 error on the labels sold on ebay for ~£215:

http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/THE-BEATLES-PLEASE-PLEASE-ME-ORIGINAL-1963-UK-MONO-33-1-3-/311412209913

it's no black/gold stereo but hey

Hmm, I *think* I have that one too...

The Style Council - Modernism: A New Decade (Polydor, Polydor - TSCLP 6-1, TSCLP 6-2) 2xLP, Album 1998 £74.17

You can buy the box set —which includes that album— for half that.

I know, some of the tracks are minimally different. Also, that's not what I paid for it (or any of the rest)

I think all were £40 or less, apart from Modernism which was £60 or so.

Massive Attack vs Burial ‎– Four Walls / Paradise Circus

Last Sold: 25 Sep 15
Lowest: $110.17
Median: $191.98
Highest: $382.85

I had the modernism lp got it for like £7 from missing records just before the box came out (it was a promo) i got it for a mate and i swapped it with him for the eddie hazel lp

Just checked, the Kwerk box was £65

From what I've seen the vinyl version of Ricardo Villalobos - Alcachofa is the rarest and most expensive record I own.

stockhausen ‎– aus den sieben tagen box set
pip proud ‎– adreneline and richard lp though mine's a trashed nz pressing
pink floyd - see emily play nz single 35 to 161 in us $$$ according to popsike

i guess those early davy graham lps go for a bit too.

Pearl Jam - No Code (sealed 2x vinyl) -- one of the very few speculative purchases i've ever made - sold it a few years back for $130

GBV - LP Box -- still sealed, but i can't part with it even though i also have the CD version.

Rahsaan Roland Kirk - Complete Mercury Years -- most expensive item i bought new ($130) but it's a bit of a disappointment when it gets to the orchestrated Quincy Jones-era material -- Kirk was at his best in small groups.

Cool, I didn't know about this feature on Discogs, apparently these are the 5 priciest records I own:

Eero Koivistoinen - For Children (Kustannusosakeyhtiö Otava - OTA LP 72), LP, Album, 1970, €177.72
Eugene McDaniels - Headless Heroes Of The Apocalypse (Atlantic - SD 8281), LP, Album, 1971, €90.38
Sad World - Sad World (Fax +49-69/450464 - PS 08/23), CD, Ltd, Album, 1993, €78.92
Tuomio & Kone - Tuomio & Kone (Not On Label (Tuomio & Kone Self-released) - none), CD, EP, 2003, €76.33
Tetsu Inoue - Ambiant Otaku (Fax +49-69/450464 - PS 08/43), CD, Album, Ltd, 1994, €71.14

The other 4 don't suprise me (rare Finnish records and FAX label limited releases), but I've no idea why that Eugene MacDaniels is so pricey, it's been reissued on both vinly and CD in the 00s. It's not even that good, maybe I should sell my copy?

I suspect this FAX album might be even pricier than the ones on the list, but the last time anyone sold it on Discogs was two years ago. I took me over a year to find a copy of it, no one was selling it either on Amazon or Ebay, so I assume it's become quite rare.

Most I ever paid for anything was $30 about 15 years ago for a Steinski compilation - No Rights Given or Implied. Just took a look at discogs and it still goes for around that.

I have the Germs "Forming" 7" on What Records? from 1977.

I think that's probably worth something.

near mint with the sleeve and insert you could probably get a hundred bucks for forming. i know without knowing that there are things in the tune was space stacks that are worth more than that. just a guess.

Tigermilk (EHR) - Lowest: £16.21 Median: £181.41 Highest: £521.04
Sarah 01 - Lowest: £113.98 Median: £238.97 Highest: £360.28
Sarah 02 - Lowest: £36.03 Median: £90.00 Highest: £150.00
Sarah 03 - Lowest: £49.43 Median: £118.88 Highest: £188.43 (a flexi and fanzine!)

my indiepop shame

I had a lot of the first few Sarah records and sold them in the mid-90s for $10-$15 each which seems like a goldmine at the time. Still have one or two, but I spilled cider and blackcurrant on them so not exactly mint.

Top 5:
Vlad Tepes / Belkètre - March To The Black Holocaust €14.46 €124.43 €180.49
Cenotaph - The Gloomy Reflection Of Our Hidden Sorrows €10.14 €101.43 €304.31
Naglfar - Vittra €71.56 €71.56 €71.56
Mütiilation - Vampires Of Black Imperial Blood €36.15 €66.91 €127.44
Torgeist / Vlad Tepes - Black Legions Metal €20.28 €66.85 €81.35

The Black Legions stuff I knew about but I had no idea the Cenotaph record (obscure Mexican death metal) was so sought after. Also, vintage trance is becoming collectable it seems:
DJ Tiësto - Magik: First Flight €41.25 €56.41 €81.49

Koogs, was that flexi "Anorak city"? (sha la laaah)

sarah 3, anorak city, yes. not sure whether that price includes the fanzine (sarah 4) as discogs doesn't list the fanzine.

the other flexi / fanzine - sarah 13 / 14A / 14AA similarly goes for o_O money. i have a spare of one of them, somewhere.

This has gotten me entering my vinyl into discogs. After 50 discs there are already five with median sales over $50. This could be good for my wallet.

Highest so far (and also most embarrassing):

Fun. - Aim & Ignite (Paper + Plastick - 067003084710)
$60.00 $100.00 $175.00

I spent a year entering my lp collection in, and been using sales of miscellaneous items from ot to fund my ongoing purchases of newer or 'cooler' whatever things.

I am in the middle of logging the cds now. It takes longer, the average prices are much lower, but I'll never know unless I try.

This is dredging up one of my few music regrets - not taking advantage of a DGC vinyl dump at Princeton Record Exchange a few years ago. It was pretty much everything they released from the early '90s in perfect mint for $20-30 each. I had never even seen most of those releases in vinyl before as I started buying music in 1994. I got a couple sonic youth albums but that was it. Someone who worked for the label must have sold their collection. By the next day when I had gotten the nerve to spend $200 or so it was all gone.

Colour Sound Oblivion, patron's advanced edition & certificate, red tag number 3 (of 200) (I'm still wondering how that happened, don't bands usually keep the lowest numbers for themselves/friends?). Worth: irrelevant, it's not for sale.

Sir Lord Baltimore CD with both albums on one disc.
I paid $50 for it a dozen or so years ago.
Best $50 I ever spent.

xpost, yeah I'vegot "Stutter" Elastica, number 0002

Jazz Butcher - Big Questions CD. Paid $100 for it.

It was the last item on my want list and had been there for 25 years.

I think this thread is about things in your collection that are worth lots of money, rather than things you paid a lot of money for?

both, i thought.

that second wedding present single i paid £25 for is now going for half that... 8(

bought this in a charity shop in Lewes for a couple of quid http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/38942?ev=rb

Last Sold: 17 Sep 15
Lowest: £17.93
Median: £29.13
Highest: £74.45

My top most expensive item I paid 20p for in Oxfam tbh.

Mind you that Jazz Butcher CD is median £58 on discogs which isn't that far off $100. I will stand down from thread policing.

I also have a copy of this, bought at a record fair in c. 2000 for a couple of quid http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/429836?ev=rb

Last Sold: 08 Sep 15
Lowest: £14.34
Median: £55.47
Highest: £71.70

Though weirdly I think the most valuable record in my collection is a vinyl copy of the Verve's first album http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1018240?ev=rb

Last Sold: 13 Aug 15
Lowest: £49.99
Median: £88.67
Highest: £125.49

probably my best charity shop find was a mint copy of Quadrophenia with the booklet still attached to the gatefold sleeve, that would probably go for at least £50 or so http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1065082

(looking back, everything i've said in the last few days i also said 3 years ago. sorry.)

probably my best charity shop find was a mint copy of Quadrophenia with the booklet still attached to the gatefold sleeve, that would probably go for at least £50 or so http://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1065082

One reason that's a great find is that the negatives of the photos in the booklet have been lost. The latest (vastly overpriced) boxed set reissue includes a very blurry booklet.

i'm not sure, but i think it's the april showers - abandon ship 12" (though it's my wife's copy)

on a somewhat related note now that I've started entering them in... CDs aren't worth shit these days.

If you want something to really brag about on this thread, there are eight days left to put in a bid:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/291602380034

Xpost, so far I have found my average vinyl is worth £6, and my average CD is £4

That's not bad but consider a box set is counted as one unit, and I'm only half way through logging the CDs

like tuomas, i have quite a lot of the FAX golden era (i.e. 93/94 releases on cd).
they are in a seperate box from the rest of the archive, so, after a recent chat, mk1 knows not to just hand them over to the local charity shop once the STOP button is pressed.
the rest, i suspect no-one will give 2 hoots about.
but that FAX box is different ..

absolutely insane couple of finds for me this week...

firstly i was going through a box of tatty classical stuff and right at the back i found a ginette neveu on hmv. discogs isn't really the place to look at pricing for classical stuff, but the last copy sold on ebay went for £278:

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_sop=3&_osacat=0&_odkw=ginette+neveu&LH_Complete=1&LH_Sold=1&_from=R40&_trksid=p2334524.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.H0.Xginette+neveu+sibelius.TRS0&_nkw=ginette+neveu+sibelius&_sacat=0

then yesterday morning on my way back from a record fair i popped into a charity shop and this was sat there...

Kind of freaking out about this speculative charity shop buy pic.twitter.com/Uv48db5Scb

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