Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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

Animal Crack Box - Animal Collective. 3 LP boxset of live / demo / vault material from 2000 to 2003. I was in high school when it came out in 2009 and didn't have any money so I listened to a rip for years. Finally found a new copy on eBay about a year a half ago, I think it was $150. most expensive record I own by a considerable margin.

According to my Discogs inventory and using the median price as a guide, the two most expensive CD releases I own are the Albert Ayler box on Revenant and the Satya Sai / Matreya Kali "Apache / Inca" 2xCD on Shadoks.

My OG CD copy of Game Theoy's Lolita Nation once sold for over $100, but has also sold for $12

my answers are the same as they were five years ago, which kind of surprises me

Most expensive single disc in my collection now is Automatic for the People - $100.00 low, $128.16 median, $169.84 high. Wow. Monster isn't far behind at $60.00-$90.00-$194.10.

There's no way I paid more than $5-6 for either of those records

there must be whole load of those out there though I suppose both albums came out during the height of CD buying

Forgot to say - it was £12.

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

― Mark G, Monday, May 14, 2018 5:20 PM (six hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

12 quid's a steal, glad you could complete the set!

Animal Crack Box - Animal Collective. 3 LP boxset of live / demo / vault material from 2000 to 2003. I was in high school when it came out in 2009 and didn't have any money so I listened to a rip for years. Finally found a new copy on eBay about a year a half ago, I think it was $150. most expensive record I own by a considerable margin.

― flappy bird, Monday, May 14, 2018 10:08 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I'll come out and say I was one of those bastards that ordered it just to sell it again thrice the value a week later. Peak AC/Hipster Runoff days, I couldn't resist. The very first ones went for nearly $ 1000 iirc.

The Dylan Live 1966 box set. 100.00 Which ain't bad for 32 discs.

albert ayler holy ghost box set and miles davis complete on the corner probably the only > $100 music i own

According to discogs it is this version of A Forest but from memory my copy is pretty beat up.

In terms of actual saleable items it's probably this Beasties LP.

I once had an Australian 7" of Anarchy in the UK on EMI which I sold for about $500, that's probably the most collectible item I've ever owned.

I have a few contenders, but just checking some that come to mind I'm a almost scared by how much the Mikami Kan 13xCD box set on PSF may theoretically go for https://www.discogs.com/三上寛-三上寛-Box/release/1451141

For perspective, I got it for around £120 (secondhand) back in 2009, which certainly felt like a rather wild purchase at the time.

Link didn't work well with those characters, so https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1451141 (one copy currently listed at $2000/£1500)

In terms of actual saleable items it's probably this Beasties LP.

I put mine up last year but didn't get a bite.

someone messaged me out of the blue and offered $300 plus postage for this though: https://www.discogs.com/Sourpuss-Solvent/release/8331421

I have two Miles Davis boxes - The Complete Live at the Plugged Nickel 1965 and The Complete On the Corner Sessions - that are over $100 on Discogs. My Plugged Nickel set isn't worth that, though, because the booklet is missing. (It was never in there when I bought it.) I also have a signed copy of the Ornette Coleman Beauty is a Rare Thing box that I could probably get some money for; the double-digipaks that hold the CDs are kinda scuffed up, but it's signed by Ornette!

I also have a copy of that Celebrate Ornette box that came out a year or two ago - that's going for almost $400 these days.

Decided to see what the highest priced individual disc I own is per Discogs. If we're talking maximum, it's this:

https://www.discogs.com/Rema-Rema-Wheel-In-The-Roses/release/337852

$274! Which...seems like an outlier.

Minimum would be this at $120:

https://www.discogs.com/Walkabouts-Mystery-Mountain-Chronicles/release/3287111

The Rema-Rema one is even more absurd in that the highest press the actual original pressing in 1980 has sold for on Discogs is $72. Who the hell paid $274 for the CD single, and why?

Highest price, rather, etc.

wau @ that Walkabouts disc

How does one determine if an LP with a pressing error is worth anything? I have a German pressing of David Bowie's "Low" that has "My Bloody Valentine - Loveless" misprinted on the spine.

That Rema Rema disc was a mail-only thing, I got one at the time and its going nowhere

Also, that Dylan 1966 live box - you don't want to see the amazon bargains thread...

My most expensive CD is the first Richard Dawson album from 2005 which has sold a couple of times for £60. It’s one of those weird ones where the CD is twice as valuable as the vinyl, but only 5 people on discogs own it so I guess there’s just not many of them around. Anyway I found it for 50p in a charity shop about 6 months ago - it’s a lot easier to find decent CDs in them than vinyl these days but fuck it’s tedious work reading those spines so I rarely put in the effort

$274! Which...seems like an outlier.

same exact highest price, down to the penny (274.16), for this one, which may be the priciest piece of vinyl on my shelves:

https://www.discogs.com/Guided-By-Voices-Forever-Since-Breakfast/release/905095

hmmm.

if you look at the sales history (you need a Discogs account) you can see that the high one there was signed by Robert Pollard

and sealed :0