Rarest Target CDs?

That's why it took me all these years to find one!

 

Are these still rare? I actually have one. Made in Germany.

 

I never said people overseas are waiting to rip me off. Why would I think something like that ? That makes no sense.

It's just I take all the risk cause buyers don't want to pay for tracking, it's very expensive to go overseas for tracking and insurance.

PayPal didn't cover me at all, not unless it was tracked and it wasn't. If something happens it's on the seller.

I had a bad experience so I put an end to it, cause something was lost. Not a risk I want to worry about on an over priced $1000 CD.

I use to sell overseas all the time. But once you get burned on an expensive CD, well it makes you not want to do it again.

In the USA, register is not tracked. PayPal requires tracking, not registered. It has to show it got to the buyer and registered is not the same as tracking in USA.

 

The Japan and US targets are still pretty tough to find, whereas the WG one is less so.

Even then, they're much less pricey than they were five years ago. I don't own 'em but I've seen them for reasonable-ish prices...

 

I rarely see the Neil Young targets up for sale in the UK.

 

Any classic Cd's at a shopping mall, or outlet store is near impossible to find......

 

Not sure how often "Harvest" appears in US bins - I've seen it a handful of times - but it's easily available on eBay.

"Everybody's Rockin'", on the other hand? Rare!

 

Not the subject of this thread...

 

I thought I found one....back inlay 'printed in West Germany'....but alas, the disc was a silver to center pressed in West Germany, but not a target. I could get one off Ebay, but I like the hunt.

 

Yeah, me too, but the thrill of the kill on eBay is fun, too!

In reality, I have such poor CD stores near me that I'd miss out on plenty of CDs I want if I skipped Internet buying.

Also, eventually you get all the "common" stuff and if you rely on "in the wild" purchases, you'll never find the rarer stuff.

Most of us have some super-rare stuff we've found in the wild, but even the obsessives here who seem to be at stores 7 days a week still need the Internet for some of their acquisitions!

 

In the past year, I've found the A Clockwork Orange soundtrack and CSN Allies on separate visits to the same small store.

 

Lucky you!

I did however run into the Allies target at my local record store earlier this year. It was the second least expensive CSN CD on their somewhat expensive shelves.

 

I found a silver to center non target copy of Moondance with WG inserts. I picked it up as it was very cheap and the inserts were decent. I figure I might run into someone with the target disc and no, or badly damaged inserts.

 

Wow - that's amazing! I've never seen either in the wild - I have both but had to get them through Internet sources...

 

Since we're sharing pictures, here's a bunch of mine. The more uncommon ones are at the end. I also have a bunch of really common ones I didn't photograph.

The Cars - "Candy-O" - W.Germany
The Cars - "Shake It Up" - W.Germany
The Cars - "Heartbeat City" - W.Germany


Dire Straits - (self titled) - Japan
Dire Straits - "Communique" - Japan
Dire Straits - "Love Over Gold" - Japan


The Doobie Brothers - "Best of the Doobies" - USA (the rare early DIDX pressing, with a matrix I haven't seen mentioned anywhere: DIDX 727 21)
The Doobie Brothers - "Minute By Minute" - W.Germany
Michael McDonald - "If That's What It Takes" - W.Germany


The Doors - (self titled) - unmarked (presumed USA)
The Doors - (self titled) - W.Germany
The Doors - (self titled) - Japan
The Doors - "L.A. Woman" - W.Germany
The Doors - "Alive, She Cried" - W.Germany


John Fogerty - "Centerfield" - W.Germany (1st issue, with "Zanz Kant Danz")
John Fogerty - "Centerfield" - Japan
John Fogerty - "Centerfield" - Japan

 

Emmylou Harris - "Profile - The Best Of Emmylou Harris" - W.Germany
Emmylou Harris - "Profile II - The Best Of Emmylou Harris" - W.Germany


The Pretenders - (self titled) - W.Germany
The Pretenders - (self titled) - Japan
The Pretenders - "Learning To Crawl" - W.Germany


Queen - "News Of The World" - W.Germany
Queen - "The Game" - W.Germany


Talking Heads - "Fear Of Music" - W.Germany
Talking Heads - "Remain In Light" - W.Germany
Talking Heads - "Speaking In Tongues" - Japan
Talking Heads - "Stop Making Sense" - W.Germany
Talking Heads - "Stop Making Sense" - Japan
Talking Heads - "Little Creatures" - Japan


Neil Young - "Harvest" - W.Germany
Neil Young - "Everybody's Rocking" - W.Germany

 

ZZ Top - "The Best Of ZZ Top" - W.Germany
ZZ Top - "The Best Of ZZ Top" - Japan
ZZ Top - "Deguello" - W.Germany
ZZ Top - "Eliminator" - Japan


Brahms - "Liebeslieder Walzer, Op. 52 & 65" - W.Germany
Dvorak - "Violin Concerto, Romance in F Minor, Mazurek in E Minor" - W.Germany
Dvorak - "Legends, Op. 59" - W.Germany


ABBA - "Greatest Hits, Vol.2" - W.Germany
Eric Clapton - "Money And Cigarettes" - W.Germany
Devo - "Freedom Of Choice" - W.Germany
The Time - "Ice Cream Castle" - W.Germany


Hank Williams, Jr. - "Greatest Hits" - W.Germany
Randy Newman - "Trouble In Paradise" - Japan
Crosby, Stills & Nash - "Allies" - W.Germany

 

Another example of utter madness.

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I found two targets this week
Rickie Lee Jones and
Hotel California where the target is off center, very strange looking

 

That Newman target on black background looks very cool. I think there's an Asia target with the same colors..Any others, aside from classical titles?

 

Quarterflash self titled.
targetcd.net Target CD Details

 

Not sure what the rarest ones are, but I'm sure whichever ones they are, you can bet dollars to donuts that the SHTV forum consensus will tell you that it's absolutely the best sounding version of those albums that money can buy. I've been around long enough to know that as well as anyone. The rarer it is, the better it sounds!

 

Wouldn't mind seeing a pic of that Hotel California target.

 

I don't think there are any classical titles with the black background. However, there is the jazz title Reunion at Budokan.

It's a Japan for Japan target, so may be hard to find (although I find it easier to locate Japan for Japan targets than WG or Japan for US ones; I've even found ones from UK sellers with obis attached).