Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

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

Things You Shouldn't Have Sold should be a thread

I gave my Sub Pop 200 box to a friend and that goes for £100+ these days

Also I surreptitiously “borrowed” my dad’s Vertigo swirl Gentle Giant s/t off him when I was a teenager and then sold that for a few pounds when I needed to pay for something or other. He never listened to and didn’t really care tbh, but shit, that’s worth a few quid now

xxp

records roommates have stolen and you can’t afford to replace.

I remember seeing a copy of that Upholsterers 7'' at some point years ago in the record shop I worked in, before we used the internet for selling, I think. I have a strong memory of having it in my hands and recognising its significance at least somewhat, but could never remember what we did with it afterwards. I strongly suspect it could well still be stuck in one of the toppling piles or boxes of records in the office/backroom/upstairs somewhere.

xxp I have a Vertigo copy of Master of Reality, the box is a bit squashed but it is now worth a fair bit. Another gift, all the best stuff I have has been given to me!

Kinda regret selling my white vinyl of Bleach (1000 only) for £40 a long time ago, looks like it's worth £400+ now

for a little while (like a day) I was very excited that the copy of Gary Walker and the Rain's album that I bought in London a few weeks ago was worth somewhere on the order of $1000 but then I realized it's a 90's era bootleg and not an original.

"My clear-vinyl Blackstar is still fetching a couple hundred on ebay but I wonder how long that will last." really? I've had mine on discogs for ages and no bites. I'd certainly sell it for anything over $250. I'm not attached to the novelty of that one bit.

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.

I'm sorry. . . you have WHAT?!

Guessing that is a pirate/counterfeit copy

Could be. I don’t have it handy but I picked it up in a used bin.

Hilariously I once sold the 2-track Cocteau Twins Christmas novelty CD single for over $100 - maybe $120? I think the tracks later ended up on the EPs collection.

I have a promo copy of that Cocteaus CD single somewhere, I used to work occasionally with a record company marketing guy who dealt with them during the Fontana records era, when I expressed an interest he rolled his eyes and said 'oh, you don't like all that backwards shite do you?'.

This is my other very pricey one: The Anteeeks - I Don't Want You, an excellent freakbeat 45 from 1966, now with a median of GBP 264.58. My parents had a party in 1966, and their guests brought them records. This was one of them. I've loved it pretty much all my life, and I'd only sell it if I was starving.

Oh, mine like that is The Flies "I'm not your stepping stone".

I got it at a jumble sale, 30p, I nearly passed on it thinking it would be a fairly lame version of the Monkees tune. Put it on and WHOA!!

"My clear-vinyl Blackstar is still fetching a couple hundred on ebay but I wonder how long that will last." really? I've had mine on discogs for ages and no bites. I'd certainly sell it for anything over $250. I'm not attached to the novelty of that one bit.

Yeah, that was just based on asking price; I don't actually know what people are paying for it in the real world.

Well, discogs does give you what they sell for..

Just looked - it's sold for around £200 consistently, monthly or so, but not since March.

Probably shangri las Lp or Johnny cash box

In terms of single CD, I have the limited "Koko" by Keiji Haino, that sells for $80 for one track

had an absolute dream find yesterday morning. found a first press johanna martzy / schubert sonatas on columbia. mine has a slightly battered cover but this is what it's gone for on ebay in the last couple of months..

https://image.ibb.co/fbVgho/Capture.jpg

I am guessing that sounds really really good?

it's pretty sweet! nice clean vinyl too

i paid 50p for it btw. it was right at the front of a stack of about 800 records at a carboot sale and then i spent the next half hour digging through the rest like a fucking madman, hoping that none of the local dealers showed up before i got through them all. there were a few other nice bits but that one - aiiieeeee....

how do you know what to look out for in terms of classical records Nick? I got a copy of this the other day which was pleasing but hardly in the same league!

it's pretty straightforward with classical once you've figured out the basics tbh. it's a lot like jazz but without all the quirky independent labels to worry about (obv not many indies could finance orchestral recordings) - it's primarily about specific collectible labels and then within that it's about specific instruments, but instead of blue note/verve/impulse/prestige, you have decca/hmv/emi/columbia, and instead of sax players you have violinists and to some extent cellists. after that you're looking primarily for early stereo pressings from the sixties - the labels for the early pressings are fairly distinctive, so once you know those you're golden. monos aren't worth shit if a stereo version was also available, but the martzy is a fifties record from before the stereo era and she's one of a handful of earlier violinists who are kind of fetishised by collectors (see also ida haendel, nathan milstein, ruggiero ricci, ginette neveu). do an ebay search of sold classical records and then sort by value and you'll see what i mean. good thing about classical record hunting is that there isn't as much competition and a lot of the most valuable things were made in the uk but highly in demand on the other side of the planet. this is all purely from a valuation POV though, and mostly i just buy classical records that i think i'll enjoy listening to or that have nice artwork (there are some really lovely looking old records out there!).

thanks Nick, that's really helpful advice, I will bear it in mind when I am next doing a charity shop run! And yes I agree about buying things because you're actually interested in the music being an important principle- I bought the Stravinsky record above mainly because it's a wonderful piece of music.

no problem!