Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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.

I still believe that the cd format will make a return on the second hand market, once people with their recently expanded vinyl collections have to move house, and/or, spotify et al start dropping label catalogues due to licencing problems.
so, despite the fact I have an insane cd collection hidden throughout the house, I aint filling my local charity shops just yet.

I agree with that (also as people who have a sentimental attachment to CDs hit the middle aged with cash to spend on collections phase (usual caveats about economic collapse notwithstanding).

Someone needs to build a transparent CD player so the mechanics (and the cool laser and iridescent disc) are on display the way they are on a turntable.

My clear-vinyl Blackstar is still fetching a couple hundred on ebay but I wonder how long that will last.

I found an unplayed copy of this for £1 in a charity shop a few years ago. Move D played it in a Boiler Room and a DJ Koze on a DJ mix hence the inflated price.

https://www.discogs.com/Mono-Easydance-EP/release/4118912

I've a few things on vinyl that discogs have on sale for £150-£200ish: the highest lowest-listed-price I have seen is the first Braintax EP at £199 I think the highest actually-sold-for is probably the first McCarthy single at £150.

CDs are more interesting, though - there are random things that hang about near the back of piles of CDs that seem to have unexpected value but without plugging the whole collection into discogs it's more or less impossible to guess what. For example, this no-account dub CD I will have picked up for pennies years ago, and which now seems to have sold for upwards of £30. Not riches by any means but way more than I'd have guessed: https://www.discogs.com/Skin-Flesh-Bones-Dub-In-Blood-Vol-2/release/2285877

Or this, currently available at £60: https://www.discogs.com/Various-Fast-Product-Rigour-Discipline-Disgust/release/1488211 (it's a comp of Fast Records stuff plus a bit of Pop: Aural IIRC and I assume it has been long unavailable while I haven't been paying attention).

I do OK selling my 90s techno/house cd's on Discogs. Just sold two Larry Heard albums for around $80. I'm more than ok parting with the stuff as soon as I digitize it. The older I'm getting the less physical media I want around me - though my love of books will prob never disappear.

I did have that Twin Freaks promo CD.

I won't say what it went for on ebay, you'll cry.

I did find another one about 6 months later, that went for £200 but.

This is worth quite a bit but then it was pretty expensive to begin with so I don't think it really counts:

https://www.discogs.com/Dead-Can-Dance-DCD-Europe-2005/release/4096348

Whoa - take that, Bob Dylan

holy moly

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.

― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, May 14, 2018 5:29 PM (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lmao honestly, respect. I might've done the same. $1,000???? so wild. yeah I feel good about getting a new copy for $150, not that bad for a 3xLP limited edition boxset.

At the time I thought it was funny that instead of a live album from the tour, they were like... nah, here's the entire tour.

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speaking of AC, I had this original St Ives pressing once

http://www.discogs.com/Avey-Tare-Panda-Bear-Geologist-Hollinndagain/release/850651

Thought when I sold it for $60 I was getting one over on someone

Ditto this Upholsterers single, which I sold for like $50 when I thought White Stripes mania was at its peak. Now it's a rent payment.

http://www.discogs.com/The-Upholsterers-Makers-Of-High-Grade-Suites/master/375593