What's the most you've spent on a 45 single ?

3$.

 

Payl Gayten - $67 - NM Original Promo 195?


SAmmy Salvo - $58 - NM Original


Ray Charles - $67 EX ( I soon found a better copy from Sweden for $3. Im going to sell this one)


The Heptones - $50 EX


I listen to mostly 45s so it only makes sense for me to spend a little more money once in a while for that rare gem that I will listen to incessantly.

 

KING CRIMSON ~ "The Night Watch" Atlantic 7" Promotional 45
w Atlantic sleeve.. Mono / Stereo.

 

KING CRIMSON ~ "Cat Food"/ "Groon" U.K. Island 7" 45 w picture sleeve.

 

Can't remember now, I did sell it in the end. A friends brother bought the entire WH Smith's stock when it was banned, they took them all off the shelves and sold them for pence, we all got given a copy.

 

KING CRIMSON ~ "The Court Of The Crimson King"
U.S. Atlantic 7" Promotional 45 .. Part 1 Long / Short version.
Corrected title: TCOTCK (no "In" printed in title) w original Atlantic sleeve.
Paid $5.00 for second copy... much more for the first. The commercial stock
copy on page one was also quite a bit, all NM.

 

The Nite-Owls "It's a Hassle" on Rembrandt Records. A very rare 45 from a label that kind of based themselves in the area I live in now (Carbondale, IL). They're also known to have based themselves out of the Chicago area. This 45 was their first release, so I'm lead to believe. It was 20 bucks or so from my local record supplier, Plaza Records. I don't think I've gone over that.

 

Poster fold out 7".

£2

 

Kate Bush Night Of The Swallow
Irish pressing p/s

Put out on 7" there due to presence on track of Irish musicians including Riverdance co-creator Bill Whelan and Planxty members Liam O'Flynn and Donal Lunny who later appeared on Hounds Of Love.

Think I paid stg £100

Colour photocopies of the sleeve flooded the market in the early 1990s. They'd be put on the standard die cut EMI sleeves to up the price. Cheeky!

 

I can't believe I bought a 45 but recently I saw a promo copy of the Bee Gees Alone and didn't even know it was released on vinyl on amy format. Couldn't resist as who knows if we will ever see that album issued on vinyl. Was only $5.oo plus shipping though. And though I love vinyl, in this case I don't think it sounded different at all from the cd.

 

KING CRIMSON ~ "The Night Watch" U.S. Atlantic 7" promotional 45 .. Stereo

 

Very cool stuff guys! I dismissed 45's years ago as just being too inconvenient. However, i still have my entire 45 collection from growing up in the 70's, so a few hundred. I'm curious, as this is an audiophile forum, is there a chance that some of them could be mastered better than the parent albums? That just occured to me and that would be a fun reason to get them out again. I doubt it myself, but I'm betting some hard core collectors would know.

 

£200, in 1989, for a legit demonstration sample of "Liza Jane" by Davie Jones with The King Bees.

I sold the record privately to a fellow Bowie collector, in 1996, for £600.

These days, it's a £1,500+ item.

 

UK test pressing What's the new Mary Jane / You know my name

 

i paid about $150 for a '301' in Near Mint condition:

 

went into a London record store intending to sell, not buy. saw this on the wall. asking price was £350, and i was able to trade for it.

 

About 150 Euros for a Swiss Export pressing of Yesterday/Act Naturally on Yellow Odeon Label.

 

£16 For Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane RSD single.

 

Schlong - Tumours ($45)

And I would do it again.

 

$100 for a rare Katch-22 single.

 

Which equates to around £6.20 in today's value. An album costing 32s/6p back in 1963 equates to around £32 today.

 

That collection was sold LONG ago. I collected Genesis between 1983-1989. One new collector pretty much bought my entire collection over the course of one year. I focused mostly on picture sleeve 45s and bootlegs. One fond memory was meeting the guy who made the rarest Genesis bootleg "Living in a Twilight Alehouse" and getting his only spare copy in exchange for a VDGG boot. We met at a Peter Hammill show.

 

Never paid more than the recommended retail price.

 

I sold my copy of That Thing You Do for $75. It was a free give away for buying either the DVD or the CD when it was released. ( I don't remember which one)

 

One of the big appeals of collecting 45's for me is that they are relatively cheap. I try not to go upwards of 20 bucks at the high end, but I splurged a full $25 for this - an original Mothra soundtrack single from Japan. One of my coveted titles.



I'm not really sure how 45 pricing is supposed to work or who sets the standard. Most of the price guides I can find are at least several years old and there is a lot of new stuff created since the recent vinyl boom that is not really priced anywhere. The pricing on Discogs seems to be 'what the market will bear', in that, if someone tries to sell a single for $75, then everyone else tries to do the same. This artificially inflates the price of many singles and you have to wait until the seller gives up on their dreams of top dollar and then the prices seem to level set again. Patience seems to be the key.