Well-Known 90s vinyl that goes for a fortune (for example, Love and Theft)*

Concrete Blonde...another one who got hit by the CD boom...pretty hard to find copies of Walking In London and Mexican Moon.

 

I have two copies of Full Moon Fever. One I bought for $1 and the other $8. I don't think it's that rare. I missed the chance to buy Wildflowers when it was still selling for about 15 bucks just about half a year back. Into the Great Wide Open goes for a lot I know.

 

If you've never heard it I uploaded a rip to YouTube a while back. Crummy sounding vinyl though.

 

It might be one of the bootlegs that you picked up. This is widely bootlegged these days.

 

Found it, thanks. Their cover of the Moles' "What's the New Mary Jane?", which was on a later Soil Samples 7", is a lot better. That 7" was backed with a live cover of "What a Wonderful World", with Nick Cave.

Ronald Jones' guitar part on the Moles cover is especially crazy. Amazing guitarist.

 

Pleased to say I have this - it's a two disc set with the music spread over three sides...the fourth 'side' is an etched picture of the band...

 

...and I've got this, too

 

Great album as well.

 

I guess I really lucked out when I worked for a major dotcom music site back in the late '90's...returned vinyl (usually an accidental purchase) couldn't go back to the distributor (sealed or not), so they just went into a storage room. Nobody wanted them. I bought the following for 50 cents each, all sealed:

Tool - every album released up to that point

Pearl Jam - Binaural and one or two others (I think I sold some of these a few years later when I was strapped for cash...got decent money from what I can recall)

Alice In Chains - S/T

Metallica - S&M and maybe Load...not sure I still have those

Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Dream (got several copies, gave a few away to friends...no Mellon Collie, alas)

Muse - Showbiz (clear vinyl I think? I got several copies of this as well, for free...nobody wanted them. Gave a bunch away to friends.)

And a few other odds and ends...No Doubt maybe? Hard to recall. Looking at the prices some of these are getting I wish I kept them all! But I have more than enough vinyl to play with so its ok.

 

I was in college from 1991-95. On a campus with about 1200 students, I was one of three people with a turntable that I knew of. It made for a great conversation piece with my friends, some of whom had never bought a record.* This was in a very small town with only two stores where you could buy CDs: Wal-Mart and the local music store, which had a CD rack in back. The latter had a tiny selection of vinyl, but you could special order it there. My parents lived in a somewhat larger town with one great used record shop and one CD store that also had a decent (for the mid-90s) selection of vinyl. I bought quite a few of the titles mentioned in this thread at that store.

*One such friend coined my screen name one night, while she was calling to me from across a crowded dorm lounge while a bit drunk.

 

Pearl Jam - Ten: I've seen sealed original copies sell in the $100.00 range. That's big money to me!

 

a friend gave me a beautiful copy of this on clear splatter vinyl in a clear pvc sleeve just tonight. I only see it on ebay on blue vinyl in a regular jacket.

I'd like to see so many pressed again (or for first time) as well.

So many amazing albums in the 90's.

Seal- all
M. Etheridge- Your Little Secret especially
Chris Isaak- all
Mellencamp
+Live+
Cake

 

One disadvantage (or not, depending on your point of view) of "Full Moon Fever" on vinyl is that you lose the "Hello CD listeners..." skit halfway through. The friend who swapped my CD for a new LP he found for cheap thought I was mad to upgrade for this reason.

 

The only '90's Metallica that goes for big bucks (or at least they did, before the recent reissues) was Load and Reload. S&M and Garage Inc. are/were still available just about anywhere new for around $15-20. I got both from bestbuy.com within the last year. Haven't checked lately, but I can't see either flying off the inventory lists any time soon.

the CRANBERRIES- first 4 releases go for big bucks, with the 4th, Bury The Hatchet, selling for $100+ when you can find a copy. I don't think their 5th studio or greatest hits were ever issue on wax.

The CURE-Mixed Up, Wish, Paris, Show, Wild Mood swings and Galore. I just sold sealed copies of WMS ($60) and Galore ($76). I paid in the $90 range for Show and Paris, and $40 for Wish.

KISS Revenge & Alive III both fetch $40+ each. I've seen sealed copies of both go over $60. You Wanted The Best... and Kiss My *** command less, normally in the $25 range.

Morrissey - someone mentioned Vauxhall, and I'd like to add Southpaw Grammar, Maladjusted, and the rare My Early Burglary Years.

Rush - Roll The Bones and Counterparts ( I agree with the person who stated this! I'd love to have both)

David Bowie Sound & Vision 6 LP set.

Alice In Chains - Facelift

 

I have a NM copy of Pink Floyd's The Divsion Bell (UK pressing, black vinyl). Is that rare? I bump into coloured vinyls sometimes, or Columbia copies, but I've never seen an EMI UK black vinyl version again.

 

I think there are certain posts on this thread which highlight the fact that just because something fetches a lot of money on ebay doesn't mean it is worth that. Some of the stuff mentioned I have seen in local second hand shops very cheap.

 

Like?

 

Similarly, while I've seen some of these items with very high prices on eBay, I wonder how often do they actually sell at those prices. I've bought at least two albums for less than $50 each that I've seen listed for up to $500 at other times (but not actually selling at those prices).

 

Great scoop there!

I've been looking out for that title, locally in shops, for a while now after I sold my only copy at a record convention years back thinking I could just reorder another.

By the time I got around to it a few months later, it was already OOP.

 

You need the Sub Pop Single as well. Just helping you spend money...

 

Apparently Aerosmith's "Nine Lives" is quite rare on vinyl and copies on eBay fetch $100+ -- I've never seen one in the flesh. I did see "Get a Grip" for $30 though, and I almost bought it. I collect Aerosmith on vinyl.

 

The Downward Spiral-Nine Inch Nails (Initially released in the US only as a promo 2LP set in a gatefold sleeve. Beautifully packaged with custom labels and inner sleeves. Probably limited to only a few thousand copies. Sells for big money these days in spite of the vinyl reissues that have been released in the last few years. )

i remember my music marketing instructor bringing in his friend who gave us this as a prize. i hope the girl in my class who won still has it.


Pisces Iscariot-Smashing Pumpkins (Released as a limited edition LP by Virgin Records independent arm Caroline Records. Pressed on clear gold colored vinyl. The first 2,000 copies came with a 7" with extra tracks. Those copies of the album were hand numbered on the back of the jacket.)


i got this too. i cant check right now, but i think in the 1600 mark.

I've been wondering if some of my collection has gain some sort of value, other than seeing what ebay has. i've been collecting the early 90's maybe late 80's.
i know some of these are out of print, but wanted to ask if how these are in the "very rare find" category?

sebadoh - bubble and scrape (sub pop yellow label), III ( trading co rec?), the sebadoh (late 90's "last" album)
NIN - Fragile
Oasis - Whats the story... (Creation rec)
Primus - Frizle Fry, Suck on this, Brown album, Tales from the punchbowl
Soundgarden - Superunknown (clear vinyl), jesus christ pose (etching on side b 12"), pretty noose 7" UK red vinyl
Screaming Trees - Even if and especially when, buzz factory, invisible lantern, anthology (all SST rec),
MarkLanegan solo - winding sheet, whiskey..., scraps at midnight,
Pearl jam - vs, vitology (released a week b4 tapes and cds)
nirvana - unplugged (white vinyl) released a week b4 the tapes and cds
Alice in chains - jar of flies with Sap 2-12" with etch on side 4, ST
Tori AMos - boys for Pele
Outkast - Aquemini
Wu Tang - Enter the 36 chambers (very flimsy vinyl)
Portishead - live in nyc
Eric Matthews - its getting heavy in here (?)

 

These still have yet to reissued on vinyl. Most have never been released on vinyl at all.
Dave Matthews Band-Crash
Dave Matthews Band-Before These Crowded Streets
The Gin Blossoms-New Miserable Experience
Blind Melon-Soup
Oysterhead-The Grand Pecking Order (2001)
U2-Atchung Baby
U2-Zooropa

 

I wasn't aware Resigned had been issued on vinyl and am now determined to find a copy. That is a seriously great and under appreciated album.

 

Hole's Live Through This and Veruca Salt's Eight Arms to Hold You both go for big bucks these days. There was a recent counterfeit pressing of the former; hopefully Universal will realize there's a demand for it and reissue it. I'm also hoping for a reissue of that Veruca Salt album; if it happens, I hope it will be done as a 2-LP set. The album itself is over 50 minutes, but the original pressing also added a bonus track; that's a lot of music to squeeze onto a single LP.

Also, PJ Harvey's Dry, Rid of Me and Is This Desire? go for a lot of money. Universal should consider issuing a box set of all of her albums.