Your most expensive record.

I think my original Comus First Utterance on Dawn. I believe I paid $160 for it.

 

Yea, the reason I wanted it is because there has been no other source for that taper. The only way to get that recording is from the vinyl. Also the recording is very nice. i'd say Ex- or vg++.

 

Do you collect Japanese jazz LPs? I'm mostly a rock guy but on a recent Tokyo trip I did peruse the jazz bins; there are some amazing pressings in that country.

 

On the top right corner of your photo is the criminally overlooked Ian Hunter Live, a 1980 LA show with Mick Ronson that's incendiary.

 

I just replaced my US original Harvest with a cleaner pressing from Japan. It lacked the obi so was only about $12. Equally good sounding to the US.

 

Nick Drake - Pink Moon, UK pink rim pressing.
$400 I think.

 

$100...for The Beatles “White” album...1982 mono pressing.

 

I have quite a lot of Japanese pressings of US Jazz, Blue Notes etc, I also have some Japanese only LPs of American artists such as Herbie Hancock's "The Piano", I do have some Japanese Fusion from the seventies and eighties, but very few Jazz albums by Japanese artists from the fifties and sixties, a gap in my knowledge. I love the look of Japanese pressed LPs with their obis, back in the eighties and early nineties one of the highlights of a trip to London was seeing the Japanese imports, Tower in London used to be particularly good as they imported them themselves and the prices were great, I suspect that if I ever make it to Tokyo I'll end up bankrupt.

 

Did your US original have the Lee Hulko mastering?

 

Most valuable albums, considering their condition:
Tool - Aenima original pressing (not a bootleg)
Coltrane - Giant Steps OG mono
Syl Johnson - Is It Because I'm Black original
Syl Johnson - Dresses Too Short original
Damn Sam the Miracle Man and the Soul Congregation (mega rare funk/soul album)

Most valuable if it was in better shape:
Velvet Underground & Nico - Original mono pressing with Torso cover - The inside gatefold unfortunately has water damage, banana is 30% peeled. Vinyl isn't bad, maybe VG? Only paid $25 for it though, ha!

Beatles Yesterday & Today - Stereo 2nd State Butcher cover - Some bottom water damage keep this from making my top 5. Otherwise it's really nice and totally a keeper.

 

Shake It On Down/Pine Bluff Arkansas - Bukka White on 78

Worth upwards of $700-$800.

Got it for free with a batch of other unwanted 78s

 

I paid $500 for a mint Ash Ra Tempel s/t a few years back,unfortunately I had to sell it since then.

 

$150 - Prince, Gett Off One-sided promo



I have a feeling though that I could sell my Rainbow Children vinyl copy for a lot more than what I paid for Gett Off.

 

I just remembered-- I paid $100 for that Pink Floyd Pompeii 2lp set yrs ago to help a friend pay rent still have it (image from Discogs)

 

these :
Sonny Rollins ‎– Saxophone Colossus sold recently on discogs around $300
Label: Analogue Productions ‎– AJAZ 7079, Prestige ‎– Prestige 7079
Series: Fantasy 45 Series –

Bill Evans Trio* With Scott LaFaro, Paul Motian ‎– Waltz For Debby
Label: Analogue Productions ‎– AJAZ 9399, Riverside Records ‎– RLP 9399
Series: Fantasy 45 Series –

Steven Wilson ‎– Insurgentes ( over $400)
Label: Tonefloat ‎– TF 50
Format: 4 × Vinyl, Album, 10", 33 ⅓ RPM
Box Set, Limited Edition

Steven Wilson ‎– The Raven That Refused To Sing (And Other Stories)
Label: Kscope ‎– KSCOPE240
Format: CD, Album
CD, Limited Edition
DVD, DVD-Video, Album, Stereo, Multichannel, 5.1
Blu-ray, Album, Stereo, Multichannel, 5.1
Box Set, Deluxe Edition

The Use Of Ashes / Steven Wilson ‎– Tonefloating
this last one is "worth" $370 on discogs ... ( !!!!! )

and ....

Santana ‎– Abraxas
Label:
Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab ‎– UD1S 2-001
Series:
Original Master Recording – , UltraDisc One-Step –
Format:
2 × Vinyl, LP, 45 RPM, Album, Limited Edition, Numbered, Reissue, Remastered, Box

unsanely over $500 on discogs ...

 

The most I've spent on single LPs was $40 each on two Resonance Records RSD releases, Bill Evans and Wynton Kelly Trio/Wes Montgomery (only time I've taken part in a record store day). Evidently the price on both has gone up since, as it has on many of the new and used albums I bought in the 80s, mostly jazz.

Edit: Suppose I should include a photo.

 

It's a German pressing with nothing interesting in the dead wax, just the catalog number. And even that is very hard to read, very small and printed right next to the label. The cover has the number 830343 embossed but not in grey like my numbered U.S. or U.K. copies. It has a sticker that says "Deutscher Schall Platten Preis". The interior cover says "ELECTROLA GESELLSCHAFT M.B.H.,Koln-Braunsfeld. Printed and made in Germany by Heinrich Nicolaus G.m.b.H."

A quick search of Discogs looks like it might be a 1973 pressing.

 

$200 for a sealed UHQR of Supertramp- Crime Of The Century.

 

Thank you for the info sir....

 

Not counting box sets...that is, just normal single or double-packaged LPs or CDs---I don't think I've ever paid more than 25 bucks, and I think the number of times I paid more than 20 bucks could be counted on digits of my own body. I'm a vulgarly cheap accumulator, not a condition hound and if the object is very expensive I find other ways to hear it, or don't hear it....also I obtained 95 percent of my collection in the days of yore and what I considered sane pricing, the 80s and 90s. I'm guessing that tied at around the 25 would be european cd pressings bought in USA of Prefab Sprout's THE GUNMAN and AshRa Tempel's SEVEN UP.

However just the other day I experienced what I think is the largest gap between "what I paid" and "what seems to be cheapest sold on discogs" when I bought a (battered, scratchy, poppy, no inner sleeve and top and bottom of cover split) 99 cent copy of Lamont Dozier's BLACK BACH which I'm glad to have and will keep until some future loved one or landlord has to have it shipped to Goodwill or landfill I'm sure. (Given its condition, I doubt any sane person would pay even five percent of its alleged discogs value of 185....tho not for sale at all just because I don't bother selling my records as long as I have less painful ways of making that much money than getting rid of a record.

 

according to Discogs:
Nirvana - Nevermind MFSL Vinyl
Pink Floyd - Dark Side Of The Moon Japanese Pro UseVinyl
Roisin Murphey - Overpowered 2Lp coloured Vinyl
Pearl Jam - No Code (original epic pressing)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (original creation pressing)
Sigur Ros - Takk (original pressing from Iceland)
Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain (LP)
Radiohead - Ok Computer (original parlaphone pressing)

 

I have the same feeling seeing as the Japanese bought up most of the vintage reggae that was left in Jamaica

 

Lots of impressive items in this thread!

 

Abbey Road pressed in Egypt, superb condition.

 

About 80 for this one:

Ryan Adams - Love Is Hell

And about 60 for this one:

Crispin Hellion Glover - The Big Problem ≠ The Solution. The Solution = Let It Be.