Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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..

ha, i've never spotted that one before

so-called "Marquee Moon", if that is its real title

I've sold most of my pricey stuff over the last six months, but the priciest of the lot - which I have no intention of selling, because it's staggeringly good - is the 1973 UK promo 7" of Martha Reeves - No One There. Discogs median is GBP 222.50, but mine's NM so could fetch more. https://www.discogs.com/Martha-Reeves-No-One-There-/release/6796811

Top tip: some Morrissey LPs are £££ and they sell very quickly. On behalf of a friend, I've just sold You Are The Quarry for £99.95 and Southpaw Grammar for £169.95.

Just found out that this weird imported Birthday Party box set that I bought in Tower records in Glasgow 2 million years ago is for sale from around £114 on Discogs.

https://www.discogs.com/Birthday-Party-Definitive-Missing-Link-Recordings-1979-1982/release/1967048

I guess mine's maybe this now?

https://img.discogs.com/G9T5LUs1OYnT726_9C5DR87LTSc=/fit-in/597x597/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-41682-1325153626.jpeg.jpg

probably picked it up for $1-2 and now it sells for maybe $300ish.

I've got a bunch of death/black metal records from the early 90s that seem to go for (to me) silly money: Malevolent Creation, Suffocation, Immolation, Cannibal Corpse, Dark Throne. I can't bring myself to sell them, which is daft.

Most valuable looks to be Aenima, which has gone for as high as £570 on Discogs.

Miharu Koshi - Parallelisme LP

bought this from ebay for $120 at xmas

I've only added about 0.5% of my collection to discogs at the moment. Based on that it's David Sylvian's Blemish.

probably this
https://www.discogs.com/Andrew-And-Jim-Baxter-Forty-Drops-Georgia-Stomp/release/7075337

or maybe this, idk
https://www.discogs.com/Peg-Leg-Howell-Sadie-Lee-Blues-Papa-Stobb-Blues/release/3399794

how/where did you find those ian?

also that sharevari <3

I got forty drops in a trade for a rare country record ("Walk Right In Belmont" by Wilmer Watts) and the Sadie Lee I bought from a collector friend who was kind enough to let me pay in a couple installments. I've been pretty deep into 78s for the last 8-10 years now. xp

It could well be the (unopened) Spiritualized pill box for me.

those Tall Dwarfs prices have been bumming me out for a while, desperately in need of reissue

I have definitely DJed with that Sharevari 12" too... but not now that I know what it's worth, and uh, I don't DJ anymore.

It could well be the (unopened) Spiritualized pill box for me.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 14 May 2018 14:56 (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Ha, I managed to get an Opened one of those - I'm sure that's much rarer.

Oh, and one of the discs has a 30 seconds longer version of one of the songs..

Forgot to say - it was £12.

One of the discs was missing, but I managed to "make" one to take it's place.

Per Discogs, my general top four would be the two Paramount Records boxes on Third Man/Revenant, the Pink Floyd Early Years box and the This Mortal Coil box from 2011. (If we're going strictly by highest minimum prices there, then it'd be Floyd followed by the Paramount sets.)

damn apparently it's this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/April-Showers-Abandon-Ship-SUPER-RARE-12-SINGLE-3-TKS-SHOULD-HAVE-BEEN-1/352323921056?hash=item52082464a0:g:g7cAAOSwlO1ax74s