Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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

i was standing about 30 feet away from robert pollard when i bought my copy but didn't ask him to sign it 'cause i had already asked him to sign a single i had found 20 minutes earlier and one autograph request per semi-famous indie-rocker per day seemed like a good rule at the time.

that is a good rule!

talking of signed things, i found a copy of the second big country album that had been signed by three of the band including stuart adamson - saw a similar one go for about £80 because dead. always worth checking inside the gatefolds!

Okay so looking at the Rema-Rema history, the $274 was for a sealed copy in 2015. Another sealed copy was sold in 2017...for $110. So much for investments.

And yeah that Walkabouts one was from the first time the band put out their own self-released tour CDs back in 1997, so I'm not surprised at that price.

CD wise, the Fall Peel sessions box set is a pretty good bet now: https://www.discogs.com/The-Fall-The-Complete-Peel-Sessions-1978-2004/release/530824 I got that as a birthday present!

And this was a £2 charity shop find about ten years ago: https://www.discogs.com/David-Mancuso-The-Loft/release/38942

Sold my set of Ash Ra Tempel’s Private Tapes for $800. Felt guilty doing so (jewel boxes and no fancy box or booklet even), but then the buyer left enthusiastic feedback about the great condition, so....

cor!

I bought the 1984 reissue of the Rema-Rema 12" for a whopping £4.80 including postage!

fuuuck I really wish I had bought those Private Tapes CDs back in the day

I also really regret selling not one, but two copies of the Coil Live Box (had one, sold one, bought another, sold it again)

Loveless is going for £100+ now which is crazy so maybe that

Looking at CDs, I did have the Mark Hollis promo but sold it on Discogs for £66

Re Mark G and Amazon Bargains for Bob 66 box. I'm not concerned about resale prices etc. It was actually 80.00 when I bought it and I adore that music and would never want to be rid of it. Just wanted to play along And contribute to thread. And when the music's this good, who cares what it costs.

Some limited edition dance edits 12" I was given - don't recall when or by who - that fetches upwards of $175 on Discogs.

I have the 8CD box -- Miles Davis - Chronicle: The Complete Prestige Recordings, 1951-1956 -- paid $120 when it came out.

Headz II Parts A & B on vinyl for $100 each

Couple of Mosaic Boxes

Couple of Bear Boxes

signed Katy Hudson CD, a quick google shows one listed for $1500 but that's nuts, most unsigned are $150-230 or so

I found this in a dollar bin some years ago

https://www.discogs.com/Nina-Nastasia-Dogs/release/946106

i didn't realize my copy of dorothy ashby's Afro-Harping was worth so much! it's in really nice shape, with the original inner sleeve (an ad for other cadet recordings). got it for $15 or so

fabulous record! i only have the most recent reissue but even that is creeping up in value

i have three copies of this in mint/unplayed condition :

https://www.discogs.com/sell/release/1643404?ev=rb

other than that, the answer is still the same as what I posted 5 years ago re Twin Freaks - still mint/sealed.

I've been reading this thread and cursing myself for buying CDs in preference to vinyl as people list LPs of things I own on worthless CD, but now there's CD talk and I still don't have any of them

also have a few things which were at one point worth maybe £30 because they were OOP and have now been reissued so I don't dare see what they're worth now - prob not much, I doubt I have anything with much of a market for a particular pressing

(should also have sold the Strokes' first single back when people still liked the Strokes. damn, had that Fall Peel sessions CD set for £20 in my hands on my way to the checkout once and then thought "I have too much Fall stuff and shouldn't spend £20 on any more" and put it back)

I have two of the metal case Autechre Quaristice 2cds, I think they change hands for solid money these days. Can’t bring myself to part tho.