Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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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cost me a pound

wow and wow! That latter one sounds great...

played the first side yesterday and it starts off with a couple of fairly jaunty trad folk numbers which had me raising my eyebrows a bit, but there were some weirder darker songs after that which were pretty good. not 500 quid good though imo so will probably end up selling it.

expensive records I has:

Aphrod<REDACTED>nuff Rock 12" (Stiff)

:zoviet*france: '7.10.12' box set thing, last sold on discogs for €250

One I didn't know about until recently was "Oh Bondage Up Yours" 7", in the pic sleeve.

I noticed it went for a big price on ebay recently, and discogs has it for a large amount, etc.

Apparently it was mostly used as a promo to radio stations. So how did I manage to get one when it came out? Oh yeah, as a freebie when I was on Radio London's "New Singles" review show, back in the day, hem.

Tall Dwarfs records seem to have gone up a lot, I did the Discogs order by median price thing, and The 3 EPs is £61, Weeville is £43, and Fork Songs is £34. I think I paid £3-5 for those about 10-12 years ago!

Another one that's gone up loads is Golden Dawn - My Secret World (Sarah 9), £53!

Really strange one is London Popfest 2009 CD-R which is just a free sampler of bands playing the popfest, has only one sale, for £72.58?!? I'd stick my copy on for £50 but it skips on some of the songs. It always had skipped, that's how it was when I got it at the time. So I wonder if the copy that went for £72.58 had the same problem.

xp o rly I have Oh Bondage Up Yours in PS!

i have a few of those tall dwarfs too, also bought for buttons

heck, kind of self-indulgent but this is what my top 50 looks like right now:

https://s9.postimg.cc/hue50txu7/recs.jpg

it's amazing that those Fall records that you could buy by the dozen in the 90s are so sought-after now, my copy of The Infotainment Scan goes for £60+ these days, I bought it for a couple of quid

yeah i sold off a lot of fall records at one point, hurts my heart to think about it now

this one's my most expensive, also bough for £2, at a Bristol record fair c. 1999

holy shit i want that!

IIRC I got this that same day, a pretty successful/lucky day's work!

whoever had a cbgbs clearout back then must be pissing a kidney right about now

I've also got that Frogs record! Is that Scratch Acid really going for $$ now?

Just checked. Indeed it is...

Oh and that Tall Dwarfs record! My copy is very mint.

The Sarah records stuff always seems to climb as well. For instance I have the Field Mice Emma's House 7" and it keeps going up.

scratch acid isn't silly expensive tbh, us version goes for about £50 (mine's the cheaper euro one) xp

I used to have "Marquee Moon", bought when I started to have some money, 2nd hand, bit duffed up but basically OK. Sold it when CDs, etc.

Anyway, decided to get one to fill the gap: https://www.discogs.com/Television-Marquee-Moon/release/6897002 can you see the suttle diff? Decent condition, not too pricey..