What album would you pay *Megabucks* for?

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Don't worry, this isn't some ebay sharkie, it's more theoretical.

And it's for you! Not as an investment, but for your pleasure, sole or otherwise.

What CD or record would you pay bigtime for, and be money well spent? (It doesn't have to actually exist)

One time way way back in the day, the four lads as were went into a local secondhand record shop, and found about five Osmonds albums that I'd never seen before. One of us was a 'massive' osmond fan at the time, and we virtually forced him into getting all of them (they weren't massively expensive), even though he wasn't that fussed. I admit to feeling jealous at the time, as there isn't one band that I was ever into that had a back catalogue that I never knew about. Until the Beatles' 'Ultra rare trax' series, this wouldn't happen.

I guess if they issued a series of "every session" in weekly parts, I'd probably subscribe. But that's my problem.

What would yours be?

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 09:53 (nineteen years ago)

before i found a copy of galaxie 500's "today" (and long before it was reissued) i was prepared to pay a few hundred dollars to track down a copy. it would have been worth it, but i was considerably happier paying $30

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:24 (nineteen years ago)

The most that I ever paid for a CD was around $50 for the Sir Lord Baltimore disc and it was worth every penny.

― Brian O'Neill (NYCNative), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:39 (nineteen years ago)

I paid £15 for a walker brothers album back in 1993. I got Earcom 1 on ebay for $20 inc postage which still seems quite cheap as the going rate on froogle is about £30.

― leigh (leigh), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:54 (nineteen years ago)

There aren't any nutters wanting an Electric Honey Tigermilk then?

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller 68), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 11:59 (nineteen years ago)

fuck no

― electric sound of jim (and why not) (electricsound), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 12:53 (nineteen years ago)

Well, I don't know. I sold a "Jeepster" LP and got tons of "Oh is it the Electric Honey" questions. So,, assuming the majority of people can read, there seems to be a whole bunch of nutters wanting an Electric Honey Tigermilk.

― mark grout (mark grout), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:07 (nineteen years ago)

Sorry Leigh but they saw you coming when you bought Earcom 1, I got it for £5.50 inc shipping on Ebay!

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 13:08 (nineteen years ago)

i'd pay usa $100 for cd/lp/tape of
pookah makes three "mind maps" with "take it back".
candy flips "madstock" with "strawberry fields".
thompson twins "a product of".

― retrogurl, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:06 (nineteen years ago)

request it

http://eil.com/fulltext/search.asp?newsearch=1

― retrogurl, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:07 (nineteen years ago)

Miharu Koshi's first two albums

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:14 (nineteen years ago)

if I had the money I'd buy a first state butcher cover of yesterday and today. I've wanted one all my life.

― kyle (akmonday), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 14:55 (nineteen years ago)

I paid about $80 for La Monte Young's "Black Album". I can't think of another single album I would pay that much for.

Except the one he did with Marian Zazeela on Shandar.

― sleeve (sleeve), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:44 (nineteen years ago)

the most i paid for a single record might've been the feelies -crazy rhythms. i paid 30 or 35 for it but if i had known how amazing it was i would've been willing to pay more.

i'm not counting the cds i bought in japan when i lived there when i had to pay ridiculous prices for every cd....

― buyabiznatch (buyabiznatch), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 15:50 (nineteen years ago)

LaMonte Young - The Well Tuned Piano
At nearly 6 hours long it's as much an objet d'art as an "album."

The Misfits - 12 Hits From Hell
About 2000 promo copies got out before the band had the release scrapped and the remaining copies destroyed. Shame is, it's arguably their best album.

Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers - L.A.M.F. cassette version
See here: L.A.M.F. - Take the Taste Test

Marissa Merchant - Greatest Hits of
Requires no explanation.

― Edward III (edward iii), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:00 (nineteen years ago)

Almost nothing. I woulda answered differently a year ago. But since that time, the sheer bulk of the long-sought-after stuff I've found online has been truly impressive - impressive enough, in fact, for me to be confident that inevitably EVERYTHING will become available. (Whether "illegally" or via Rhino or whatever.) And it's the MUSIC that matters, not the object itself. A theoretical $20 CD reissue of Bob Seger's Back In '72 is clearly a better purchase than a $50 vinyl original. (Exception: MX-80 Sound - I'll buy anything with their name on it. Anybody got an original Dutch pressing of Hard Attack?)

― Myonga Von Bontee (Myonga Von Bontee), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 16:28 (nineteen years ago)

I would pay 200 dollars for the last copy of Separation Sunday.

― WillS, Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:21 (nineteen years ago)

The most I've ever paid for a single album is about $40 for a vinyl copy of Loveless before it got reissued a couple years ago. The most I've ever sold and album for was about $90, and it was a copy of one of Gregg Alexander's solo cds before the New Radicals hype/fame completely evaporated.

― Johnny Fever (johnny fever), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:36 (nineteen years ago)

the most i paid for a single record might've been the feelies -crazy rhythms. i paid 30 or 35 for it but if i had known how amazing it was i would've been willing to pay more.
i'm not counting the cds i bought in japan when i lived there when i had to pay ridiculous prices for every cd....

-- buyabiznatch (buyabiznatc...), March 1st, 2006.

i want this on vinyl pretty badly. i love that album.

― Harpal (harpal), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:42 (nineteen years ago)

i might be buying the first opal record for $15, but that's not too much i don't think.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:43 (nineteen years ago)

i almost paid $25 for a copy of this wierd Middle Eastern hard rock record called The Devil's Anvil (produced by Moutain's Felix P.!)...i'm sort of regretting it now.

― M@tt He1geson (Matt Helgeson), Wednesday, 1 March 2006 22:48 (nineteen years ago)

i might be buying the first opal record for $15, but that's not too much i don't think.

You mean "Early Recordings" or "Happy Nightmare"? Worth it either way, WAY worth it for "Early". I'm still looking for that... FYI the CD has an extra track from a 12".

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:17 (nineteen years ago)

most i've ever paid for an LP was $65 for the second Almendra LP, but i didn't actually pay for it I just worked overtime. Similar story with Michael Hurley "Armchair Boogie" ($50) and Cosmic Jokers s/t (also $50.)

I actually paid of out of pocket for Robbie Basho's "Falconer's Arm Part I" because it was sealed. That only came to like $35 or something after discount.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 2 March 2006 01:55 (nineteen years ago)

I would probably pay a reasonable amount of money ($40-$60) for a clean copy of Les Rallizes Denudes "Live 77" 2LP from a few years back. I slept and now I am angry.

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:03 (nineteen years ago)

ha, I burned & sold mine. trade ya for a clean CDR of the Hurley album!

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:09 (nineteen years ago)

i found both crazy rhythms by the feelies and playing with a different sex by au pairs on the same day at aron's records in L.A. for 3 bucks apiece, on LP.

― gear (gear), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:13 (nineteen years ago)

i can YSI the hurley to you, sleeve! i will zip it and post it tonight (probably on noize YSI thread, but i will also send to you directly.)

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:14 (nineteen years ago)

awesome. i have shitty mp3s.

― sleeve (sleeve), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

the mp3s i have aren't from my personal copy; i got em on slsk a while ago.. they don't sound TOO bad, though. a few minor crackles

― Special Agent Gene Krupa (orion), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:16 (nineteen years ago)

The most I've payed was $40 for Masami Tsuchiya - 'Tokyo Ballet' CD

― Patrick South (Patrick South), Thursday, 2 March 2006 02:45 (nineteen years ago)

I want the Hanatarash 2 LP really, really badly and would pay handsomely for it.

I have paid high sums for:

Nurse With Wound "Insect and Individual Silenced" LP

Swell Maps "let's build a car" 7" on rough trade

The Misfits "Earth A.D." (german edition with full color cover)

― Drew Daniel (Drew Daniel), Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

Anything Bo Diddley or Link Wray.

― Okeigh, Thursday, 2 March 2006 04:48 (nineteen years ago)

i got Junkyard Band's "Sardines/ Word" for $25 on Ebay after watching it go for $60-$90 for a few weeks.

― grady (grady), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:24 (nineteen years ago)

Slowdive - "Souvlaki"
Hum - "You'd Prefer an Astronaut"

― Cameron Octigan (Cameron Octigan), Thursday, 2 March 2006 05:30 (nineteen years ago)

I would love to have an original of the I Love to Paint fanclub disc by Saint Etienne, however I have yet to convince myself to pay the upwards o 1000 + dollars they go for on Ebay. I might break some day though.

― ehbenoit, Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:25 (nineteen years ago)

i paid 45 for boredoms' super roots 7, i think. i sold a copy of main source's breaking atoms for 51 after buying it for 5.

theres a ton of albums that id love to have on LP; id pay 40 or 50 for a nice original copy of scott 4, but that aint gonna cut it currently.

― pssst - badass revolutionary art! (plsmith), Thursday, 2 March 2006 14:37 (nineteen years ago)

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