what is the most you've paid for a record

Ouch. It's still good, though. I'm sure I've gotten that much enjoyment from it, if I could possibly quantify that.

Paid $8 for No New York about 5 years ago.

I paid $39 for a copy of Loveless on eBay last summer. It was the catalyst for many jokes at my expense. But now someone else will be ripe for picking on, because I re-sold it for $60.

I have to say, I don't really understand these transactions. Since when has Loveless been a rare or pricey item? Or are we talking about the LP?

We're talking about LP. I thought that was the thread topic. The cd's not rare at all. I know of several places locally it can be purchased for approx. $6 or less.

How does Loveless sound on vinyl? Seems like that would be a tough mastering job.

It must have been tough, because the sound is shite.

I am officially pathetic.

For a box set, I believe it was the American Pop: An Audio History From Minstrel To Mojo on Record, 1893-1946 back when it was still selling for about $110. Now for some reason a new edition of it is selling for slightly over seventy.

That I'm ashamed of: UNKLE, "Psyence Fiction", UK Import, $28.99+tax. Not that I don't like it (except for that ass Mike D track- what a disappointment), but I HAD to buy it a month or so before it hit the States since I was/still am a huge DJ Shadow geek. Now I see it in used bins for $8. Blargh.

Then, three weeks later, my friend Keven wrote to me about this wonderful George Harrasment album, _Masai Sleepwalking_, that he'd found in a dollar bin and picked up 'cause it looked interesting...

Other expensive stuff that I bought, but were multi-disc sets (prices are Canadian). These ones were new:

Plaid Trainer 3LP- $36
Miles Davis Complete Bitches Brew 4 CD BOX- $100
John Coltrane Complete Classic Quartet Studio Recordings 8 CDs- $80
V/A- Jazzactuel 6LPs, 180 gm vinyl- $63

Were they worth it? Yes. The Miles box and Plaid comp are kinda weak, but they have great stuff buried among the dross.

I paid $5 for my copy of No New York (using $10 in promo trade in credit).

How does Loveless sound on vinyl? Seems like that would be a tough mastering job.

Everyone I've read on the 'net is down on it, but it doesn't sound any different (no better/no worse) than the Sire CD (the vinyl is on Creation). Isn't Anything, however, is one of the best sounding LPs I own. It's FUCKING LOUD.

vinyl copies of just about every creation album ever, can usually be found after a week or two in manchester's vinyl exchange, and never ever ever for more than about 15/20 quid. oh except felt ones which are a bit more.

all you creation lovers do yourselves a favour in future.

Loveless a bugger to master? Well, there's not much dynamic range or any real sub-bass, so I don't think it would be that much of a challenge. Shields did say something at the time about not really wanting it to come out on LP at all, and having to over-see the mastering of the cassette version himself. I would guess because he wasn't confident people would hear it as intended on either format - not necessarily because of any inherent limitations, but because folks tend to have crappy record players and in-car tape machines. Hmmm. Mastered quietly (or with a contrast between the tracks) on the CD too - only 'Soon' gets to full-scale.

I have it on both LP and CD. Not a lot of difference.

actually if anybody *has* that on 12 inch, or better still on that creation dance compilation 'keeping the faith' consider yourself 20 quid to the good.

can't get it anywhere.

Having had a bit of a close listen, I reckon they've done a stellar job on the Loveless LP as, tonally, it's just like the CD. Bit of a higher noisefloor; the looped fuzzy guitar fade at the end of "Sometimes" is accompanied by a strange periodic tapping sound on CD (timestretched in a sampler at low-res?), but it's inaudible on LP.

I get the distinct impression the re-issue of E&W is at least partially unauthorised - the printing quality on the sleeve is fucking terrible, for a start.. very suss.

Most suss of all, and on topic, was a 5-CD set of the early Valentines EPs (Geek thru to Strawberry Wine) on eBay - allegedly set for "re-release" on "Reaction Red" records out of Japan - they SCREAM bootleg (albeit high quality) and always go for upwards of US$250.

The main things on eBay now I'm particularly interested in are Dolly Mixture and East Village.. which always go for fucking heaps. That whole 80s girl pop group / early 90s janglepop is becoming the new Northern Soul, collector-price-wise.

I'd pay as much for a copy of This Heat's first LP, except those eBay bastards keep on overbidding.

are you looking for a copy of East Village - Hotrod Hotel? me too...

Most expensive record I've bought? Probably those semi-official Harmonia CDs for £18 a throw. Not much, admittedly, but bloody worth it.

I got pretty close to buying the Shadow Ring's City Lights for $90+ last night, but thought better of it.

Hey I got a question: why the frig do so many Weezer records go for so much money on Ebay? I mean, what is it about that Weezer band that would make someone want to pay $255 for the Blue album on vinyl? I just don't understand it. Coldplay's "Safety" EP for $300, sure, but the Blue Album? WHY?!?!

most i ever paid for a "rare" record - maybe $25 for the pop group "y" (which was too much); $20 for camper van beethoven's "telephone free landslide victory" on independent project (first pressing)....$25 for "escalator over the hill" (but it's a triple-LP box set, and worth it) .....

Update for my now most expensive record: Charlemagne Palestine, Strumming Music. We'll just say I paid more for it than the Doyle upthread, and leave it at that.

I can't believe how much people pay for "No New York". I'm gonna guess that at least 20,000 copies were pressed. That's gotta be enough for everyone who wants one. I got it for $1.99.

I do have some other MBV rarities including the original 'Ecstasy' LP (never opened! - since I already had 'Ecstasy & Wine' to listen to) - I'm assuming it's worth quite a bit. Also, the Weatherall remix of "Soon" is on an American Warner Bros. sampler that's not impossible to find. I can upload a .wav file to ftp if anybody really wants it (or the other tracks) - email me.

No New York is quite overrated, i think, but worth owning.

I guess I should confess that I paid $40 for Live at The Witch Trials (about a week before the reissue - tho the vinyl sounds WAY better) and $40 for Black Woman (ditto - tho the reissue sounds pretty good) and sepnt $75 (!!!) on Simon Finn's "Pass The Distance"

Also spent lots of money the past few months on Confuse singles. But no big deal, I've sold and traded more records than I've actually bought with cash.

Paypal basically feeds my habit proper

As for single titles:
$22US for Zappa's 2 LP Sheik Yerbouti
$27US for Nirvana's CD All Acoustically on Italian import (some 6 months before it was released domestically as Unpludgged in New York

but what i wonder is how much the DInosaur 24-24 LP is worth original (not the reissue)? ANyone knows? What does it go for on ebay for an example

I buy most of my CDs on sale or second hand. I can't say my average is 50c but it'd be close to AU$10 which isn't too shabby. helps offset the $40 i just spent on a Chicks on Speed single, for instance.

40$ on a CoS single. Mind your own business? i can get that for half the price.....

Ugh. Sick feeling starting in stomach...

However, previous purchases that in retrospect were totally worth it:

$25 for both Time Fades Away and On the Beach on LP (before the CD reissue of the latter).

$30 for Herbie Hancock's Flood a few years ago.

I'll post when I've thought. I can reel off loads of stuff I paid nowhere near its true value for, but things I spent loads on? Hmmmm.

$100 for the 3-CD T-Bone Walker set from Capitol's early 90s blues reissue series, now OOP.

And about $90 for the Nils CD on Profile/Tommy Boy.

On t'web, Probably the "Banana" lp Velvets, banana mostly intact, £45

It would be rude to say which...

i sold a Beatles fan-club LP of all their christmas singles for 200 bucks. i think that's the most i ever got for something.

i recently sold a picture disc with a recording of the jim jones jonestown mass suicide for $110. as i paid about $10, that kind of evens out the dinosaur l rip off.

Revive! Since this thread is 6 years old, was wondering what people had emptied their pockets for?
Mine was Irma 'Thomas Wish Someone Would Care' for 80 dollars, it's a flawless copy.

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Numbered original, $50, a year or two after it was released in '79. They don't seem to go for much more than that now.

recently paid $65 for the Cambridge LP..
paid $200 for the Peter Grudzien LP, though that was largely in trade.
La Monte Young's "Well Tuned Piano" for about $150 though that was mostly in trade too.

i think i paid slightly more (maybe a touch over A$300) for my numbers/riptides 7" on able than the MSP single i mention upthread.

one day i'd like my own copy of lee remick (which will cost quite a bit more)

Think it was 50-odd quid for :zoviet*france: Popular Soviet Songs & Youth Music 3CD on Staalplaat with the felt and Soviet badge.

Or the same amount for the Copper Family's Songs for Every Season box set.

tie @ $40: talk talk - spirit of eden && manuel göttsching - e2-e4

Nuggets box sets aside the most I've paid is £25 for the Carpettes - Small Wonder 7". Justified that because my wife like the song too so it's for both of us. And I sort of collect Small Wonder records.

think I paid $200 for a beatles blue box on vinyl. good deal.

for box sets maybe $150-175?

single LP - $85 for La Monte Young's Black Album

I paid $80 or so for the ALRN album (pre-Game Theory) some years ago, and didn't regret it as it's pretty great. Can't imagine doing anything like that these days. Most expensive thing I ever sold was the Liliput 2xCD, before it got reissued by Kill Rock Stars. Even though I told people it was going to be reissued, still got $130 or so for it.

$30 for the Cluster/Eno record

paid $60ish for an original Small Wonder pressing of The Cure's Killing An Arab once, with the intent to trade with a dude who had a website chock full of Cure demos and live stuff but who then disappeared. have prob paid more for a CD box set or two.

In the late 90's early 00's I paid an unforgivable amount of money on italo and disco singles, that I sold a few years ago. I doubled my money, but still I feel silly when I think of how I lived back then because of how much of my money went to disco records. Eating beans and rice, pasta pasta and pasta.

"Alternate thread: what's the most you've ever sold a record for? My answer is higher than the highest price I paid."

i sold an andre williams 7" once for $155 on ebay, which i think is the most i've ever received. i think the second most was somewhere around $130 for 'mclusky do dallas.'

sold a '00s Oasis CD single promo to some German nutbag for $80+.

i think i got 205 pounds for a tunng lathe cut 7"

$40 for Patty Pravo "Tanto" LP ( Vangelis arranged/produced) - bargain

$35 for import cd of Sebastien Tellier's first one - ripoff.

I sold Jay Reatard's 6th Matador single for $100 - I had bought it new at my local store for $4. I went back in and bought the Ayler box set to thank them.

I sold a Hank Mobley Mosaic box for $150 or so, and a Lee Morgan Mosaic box for about the same amount. Sold that 20CD Complete Miles Davis At Montreux box for about $150, and that was sent to me for free, so that was pretty awesome. Most expensive single CDs I've ever sold? Schoolly D's Smoke Some Kill and the Screaming Blue Messiahs' Gun-Shy - got about $75 for each.

The most expensive box I've ever bought was probably Cecil Taylor's 2 Ts For A Lovely T, which was something like £120, plus shipping to the US.

I believe that Cecil box is still in print (and goes for around US$100 now). Inexplicably, the whole thing is in mono.

I paid $150 on the new Calexico boxset after tracking it down at a record store in Seattle. It is numbered and limited so it sold out online everywhere very quickly and the only copies on ebay and amazon were $300 and up (people were and still are paying $400 or higher). Since it had only been out for a little less than a month it had the chance of being at list price somewhere in the world, so I used an article of "the top 30 record stores in the country" in hopes that 1) they'd have an online catalog and 2) that catalog is not uploaded to discogs or ebay etc.

I was so lucky!

^ Sentence structure issues...

Sold a sealed pearl jam benaroya 4lp set for $575. paid somewhere around $30 for it.

I got the 4LP Pinkerton box for $40.

Most I've paid: About $110 on a Japanese Final Fantasy IX soundtrack

Most I've sold: Bought about six copies of The Rakes' "22 Grand Job" debut single for three dollars apiece, sold 'em all on eBay about four months later for $80 apiece. Score.

at age 15, I dropped $50 of lawn-mowing gains on the Sunny Sundae Smile ep by MBV, which I'd found via an issue of Goldmine. At the time, I was on a quest to obtain their supposedly unobtainable early EPs. That was as far as I got, too, b/c I would have def plunked down the change for Geek or The New Record if I'd ever run across them.

i have all of those, though my copy of SSS has big distortion (the unpleasant non-guitar kind you sometimes get with badly pressed vinyl) during "sylvie's head" :(

i think the second most was somewhere around $130 for 'mclusky do dallas.'

wtf when was this???

I never pay collector prices for records (am slowly coming to terms with the fact that it's no longer crazy to pay £15 for an LP) but I sold a Kylie promo CD for over £100 last night

$100 USD for the original 1976 limited edition of MX-80 Sound's Big Hits: Hard Pop From The Hoosiers 7", on the BRBQ label, with the enclosed lyric booklet and the little paper envelope containing it all.

paid $60ish for an original Small Wonder pressing of The Cure's Killing An Arab once,

This was my 2nd most expensive record ever. Paid quite a bit less than that but I guess it's easier to find them here.

Somebody gave me $125 for the Nick Drake "Fruit Tree" box, bless'im.

― Curious George (1/6 Scale Model) (Rock Hardy), Tuesday, April 12, 2005 1:58 PM (6 years ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I think I got this for about $50 in the mid '00s.

For non-box sets, I think I paid $30 or so for the Grays' self-titled CD and a similar price for some other Japan-only power pop CDs. Summer in Paradise was similar.

planning on selling that silly burial/massive attack single for a ridiculous price soon