[antimax]

Just wanted to start a fun (?) thread where we can post links, stories etc, regarding people paying up the wazoo for a piece of vinyl. As a collector, I understand to a point, but I often still find myself shocked at the value people will place on a record. Here, I'll start…

A sealed copy of THE SHAGGS sold for $5,000 on ebay the other day! Wow!

http://tinyurl.com/kf842jo



Also… this Mondo Blue Sunshine package seller must be nuts! Or just wants money. This probably won't sell, but… http://tinyurl.com/kh2j4ge

[StrangeVices]

@antimax great thread! That guy selling blue sunshine just makes me shake my head furiously. Oh well...

I'm trying to think, the most I've ever spent on a record would be probably be between the 350 to 400 USD range. But I don't think that's too crazy.

[lazyben]

The LP isn't even the screening version from what he's saying about checking the color of the record so the line about 200 only is horsecrap.

How about we all submit bids? I'm offering him $3.54 for the lot.

[monsterworship]

I have been a casual misfits / danzig /samhain vinyl collector for 20 years so i am used to sticker shock.

But i think 700 - 800 would be my limit now a days.

[hncreature]

So am...SV...lb...mw...what were your biggest ticket and for what?

[lazyben]

Hmmm...there have been a few expensive box sets over the years...Neil Young archives vol 1 on bluray, the Basinski Disintegration Loops one on temporary residence, I think they were both somewhere between 2 and 3 hundred bucks each. I bought the captain trips ya ho wa god and hair cd boxset first issue when I still lived in the UK for several hundred pounds at the time. Cheaper than one original LP though,

I do seem to have bought an inordinate amount of wants on cd, 7" and LP for between 1 and 2 hundred bucks each over the years but generally don't consider it worthwhile straying beyond that amount for a single item as I could buy a bunch of quality records for the same amount. I'm prepared to wait out the nonsense on RSD and other flipper attracting stuff like mondo if I don't think the values will stay high. I can also happily live with a nice reissue instead of a high dollar original pressing. But if it's rare and staying rare and I'm jonesing for it...

My wife knows how much music I have but she really has no idea what it all cost. I hardly ever sell things on either so I'm still sitting on most of it. I'm going to run out of space in the next couple of years though so that may have to change.

I really, really try to stay on top of new releases these days so as not to pay aftermarket prices. This forum is great for that but it has also caused me to buy a ton of stuff I wouldn't have known about otherwise. I'm wondering if I should send the bill to Spencer...

[NathanLurker]

That Blue Sunshine package lister wrote that the VHS is already sold out, which it isn't, at the moment.
For a package in which only the poster isn't available anymore, 500$ is crazy.


The most I've paid for a used record was 150$, and that was for the 2007 limited to 500 on silver grey vinyl edition of ELECTRIC WIZARD's ''Witchcult Today''.

For a brand new record, well I bought the Ulver 'Glamour Box'.

[NathanLurker]

Ben, I think the same. If I can get a re-issue, no way am I gonna pay big bucks for an earlier release.


I'll add that I wouldn't pay big bucks for a brand new release if the price is insane. like the Walter Mitty sountrack. and the Anchorman2 soundtrack.

[Re-animated Cat]

I, like lazyben, am very patient and more than happy to wait a year or two until the crazy flipper/after market prices go down (which they almost always do).

The most expensive things I've bought have been new - The Disintegration Loops 9xLP set from Temp Res (again like lazyben), also the Eluvium 7xLP set. The most I've paid for a non-boxset item was Stephan Mathieu's 'A Static Place' 2LP, which was limited to 150 copies. It was £40.00 but well worth it!

[raedarius23@hotmail.com]

Buying Vinyl-On-Demand boxsets was instrumental in coming to terms with paying £100 plus on vinyl. Once the mindset is sorted, it becomes less painful:

http://www.vinyl-on-demand.com/Programm_2011-1-316.htm

[ghostfires]

I am extremely patient in waiting for the right price on any classic vinyl that I want. I figure it'll either come to me at a cheap price some how one day, or it'll be reissued.

I spent $100 for my 7xlp Eluvium box set, and I think that's the highest I've ever paid. I have some fairly rare records that I've paid very little for...just because of extreme patience!

[monsterworship]

Rocket From The Crypt - rocket pack 7" is the most expensive record i bought. a duel win for me, RFtc and pushead. I think i paid $500?
There are 75 of this version but only 6 have been for sale since 2003.

Other than that i think the most i have spent is 150. I am also pretty patient, collecting for the long haul.

[Whip Wilson]

For any and all of you that shelled out for the Disintegration Loops box: How is it? I love the work, but I'm weirded out by the notion of breaking up so many of the tracks. Does it disrupt the flow for you or do you get used to it?

[lazyben]

Mateo, I think it's fine but I wouldn't claim to have known the recordings terribly well beforehand. It's not as if there aren't breaks and bits of silence in there anyhow. Plus you get the live stuff and the cds if you really want them unbroken.

[Re-animated Cat]

@Mateo, I've been listening to the CDs since they were released in 2002-2003, so I can confidently say that they've translated well to vinyl. In fact, I think I prefer them in 20 minute bursts, it makes it all seem more 'episodic'. Each loop fades in and out - there's no abrupt ending on each side. And as lazyben said, you also get the full set as remastered CDs and files.

[freshoj]

My rough 'personal max' is about $50 - give or take. I don't think I've ever really gone more than $10 over that, and I think I have only gone that high a dozen or so times.

Like a few other folks, this is mainly due to extreme patience (I have a lot of records that are worth a lot more than $50, I just didn't spend a lot more).

this doesn't really count for large/expensive box sets, but I was thinking those weren't really what antimax was talking about anyway.

I also echo lazyben's sentiment that when I stop and think about how one $100 record equals five $20 records, the choice becomes easy. on the flip side, one thing I learned over the years is that one $30 record that I really want is worth way more than five $6 records that I only kind of want.

it definitely annoys me to spend so much on new vinyl, thinking an OG Coltrane should always be worth more than an LP made last week, but c'est la vie.

[unpopular_poet]

There are so many absurd prices for records these days. I remember once I was going to spend $350 on an Agitation Free 2nd lp...then I saw that it was being repressed..phew! The most I have spent on a box set was for a copy of the Fall of Efrafa box..which is so much more than just a vinyl box...it is pure perfection. I think I probably paid about $350 for that after shipping and euro to dollar conversion. The most I have ever paid for a single record (I am getting ready for stuff to be thrown at me) was $200 for an original euro pressing of Counting Crows first record. Thankfully they reissued it, and I was able to sell the original and make enough to pay for the old one and buy the repress.

[DISCOSUCKS...]

A couple of years back I paid $250 in a fit of xmas credit card madness for the Inception OST - it's a stunner to be sure, but the bloom soon went off the rose: the vinyl pressing sounded pretty bad so I felt no great loss when I needed cash and had to sell it on.

I'd pay decent money for the Vinyl Films edition of the Harold and Maude OST, but no way I'd go to $600+. Could kick myself in the ass for not hearing about that one at the time....gggrrrrr......

Hey, anyone got a spare??

[chandler75]

I don't have a lot of really pricey items in my collections, but I do have:

- TV Mania - Limited Edition Box Set from The Vinyl Factory (limited to 100 copies). Cost £250.

I'm a big Duran Duran fan, so this was a must, and I was lucky to get it, it sold out in a day or two. I haven't seen it re-sold yet, but some guy on Discogs is asking €1,699 for it...

- YokoKimThurston Box (Yoko Ono with Kim Gordon & Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth - limited to 600 copies, not sold out yet). Cost $200, but closer to $300 with shipping and VAT.

I got this because I like Sonic Youth and I thought it would be cool to have Yoko Ono's autograph

[bitewerks]

The only VOD release I own is the Broken Flag boxset. I wish I had bought the SPK box as I was offered a discounted copy that had a mild corner ding but I passed on it.

The most I have spent on a 7" is around $40-45 & the most on a LP is $90. The 7" was Ramleh "Hand of Glory" on Broken Flag and the LP was "Fur Ilse Koch" comp LP on Come Org. I think I won both on eBay.

[lazyben]

It was very interesting to go digging for prices paid...discogs has a list of all your purchases and there was hardly anything over $100...for ebay I had to wade through my email archives and there was a lot more...let's call it overspending. Damn auctions...thankfully I use ebay a lot less these days.

[monsterworship]

I think with the exchange and shipping, I might have paid near 300 for the Jesus & mary chain boxset

[DISCOSUCKS...]

Not an LP, but I dropped £200 on a 16mm film print on The Bay tonight......coulda been much worse! I passed on a print of this 10 years ago and it's haunted me ever since! Amazing music score by Radiophonic fella (amongst, of course, all the other things that are amazing about it...) :

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IuhgBvOWb_k

My cine-karma is finally restored. I'm a poorer (but spiritually richer) happy man tonight

[lazyben]

Woah! That's mighty trippy!

[antimax]

Phase IV... Awesome film. Well you guys are a league above me! I haven't gone over $50. YET...