Whats your most expensive/rarest/collectible record?

[Fictionist]

It took me ages to finally identify the track from an old C90 tape - and then I realised how much I would have to pay for a decent copy.

 

[N_igma]

I've got Greenday-Basketcase on Vinyl, is that rare?

 

[chico enrico]

I've got all of them in my loft, Because they were a bit crap as compilations, I guess you could call their condition mint.

If you have the box-set that goes for big buckaroos! approx £150 if it's complete and in good nick - maybe more now.

I never bought a copy as I bought a lot of the individual LPs as they came out.

Still have my 'House Sound of Chicago' & 'Salsoul Classics' Box-sets though. Expect they're worth a pretty penny now

 

[sus]

just found Suspect Device on Rigid Digits listed on popsike for $270
definitely not selling it tho' ... got a london acid city too that used to be worth a few quid...

 

[chico enrico]

just found Suspect Device on Rigid Digits listed on popsike for $270

eh? i've got that. got it when it came out and peel used to play it every night. did it even come out on any other label?

NB: you don't wanna put too much faith in those sites by the way.

 

[ringo]

If you have the box-set that goes for big buckaroos! approx £150 if it's complete and in good nick - maybe more now.

I never bought a copy as I bought a lot of the individual LPs as they came out.

Still have my 'House Sound of Chicago' & 'Salsoul Classics' Box-sets though. Expect they're worth a pretty penny now

I bought my other half the 12LP box set of The History Of The House Sound Of Chicago for Xmas last year, cost me about £100 in mint condition. Reckon that's the going rate.

 

[felixthecat]

I have inherited my Dad's copy of the Stones 19th Nervous Breakdown/As Tears Go By with a picture cover.

Is that worth anything??

eta - in fact I've got a bunch of old 60's stones and who picture cover 45's. ...cheers dad.

 

[zenie]

Hmmm either

SPLHCB complete with all the paper glasses and other inserts
or
Elvis the Moody Blue picture disc and the Pink album can't remember the name

Doubt they're worth that much mind

 

[sus]

eh? i've got that. got it when it came out and peel used to play it every night. did it even come out on any other label?

NB: you don't wanna put too much faith in those sites by the way.

Aye the main release was on Rough Trade after John Peeled did the biz with it..the first release on Rigid Digits was pressed by SLF in a run of 500.. what colour is the label on yours?

Isn't this the price that they actually sold for? $270 was the most recent sale.

 

[chico enrico]

Aye the main release was on Rough Trade after John Peeled did the biz with it..the first release on Rigid Digits was pressed by SLF in a run of 500.. what colour is the label on yours?

Isn't this the price that they actually sold for? $270 was the most recent sale.

jesus , i probably haven't taken it out of its sleeve for 25 years but if my memory serves me correctly it is just a generic off white label colour with the details printed in either black or red. i really would have to check though to be honest if the original pressing was only 500 it would be most likely instead that i have the later RT pressing and am mistaken.

 

[killer b]

any idea what the first lack of knowledge single might be worth (before they released stuff on crass)? can't seem to find a price anywhere... it's called 'the uninvited'...

 

[MysteryGuest]

Probably the 'Heaven Street' - Death in June original 12"

I bought that for £1 in a second hand record shop in Guildford in 1987. Sold it a few years later, though. Oh well.

I suppose the maddest 2nd-hand price for something I own has to go to the Robert Haigh 'Waltz in Plain C' CD. A seller on ebay had this listed for for £430 or so for a few months. Mr Haigh went on to become Omni Trio, but the CD's actually quite nice vaguely jazzy, vaguely Satie-ey solo piano music. I was going to post a link to the listing on ebay but sometime in the last couple of days it's disappeared (it was a 'buy it now' listing, not an auction). Whether that means somebody's actually paid that for it or not, I don't know. Part of me hopes so. It is indeed extremely rare, but I think I may have seen it for more like £50-100 in the past, though not recently.

 

[tendril]

I bought that for £1 in a second hand record shop in Guildford in 1987. Sold it a few years later, though. Oh well.

I suppose the maddest 2nd-hand price for something I own has to go to the Robert Haigh 'Waltz in Plain C' CD. A seller on ebay had this listed for for £430 or so for a few months. Mr Haigh went on to become Omni Trio, but the CD's actually quite nice vaguely jazzy, vaguely Satie-ey solo piano music. I was going to post a link to the listing on ebay but sometime in the last couple of days it's disappeared (it was a 'buy it now' listing, not an auction). Whether that means somebody's actually paid that for it or not, I don't know. Part of me hopes so. It is indeed extremely rare, but I think I may have seen it for more like £50-100 in the past, though not recently.

What about your Michael Nyman tune?

 

[chico enrico]

any idea what the first lack of knowledge single might be worth (before they released stuff on crass)? can't seem to find a price anywhere... it's called 'the uninvited'...

i've got that*. great single. no idea really. imagine it was on that southern records LOK retrospective cd release tht came out a couple of years ago. tho suppose the worth of all those releases would have gone up after the publication of the 'day the country died' book.

(*and, yes, i could add something but shan't )

It's the Part1 'in the shadow of the cross' single that goes for the most out of all those bands. i sold a copy for over £70 as i had a spare but ive seen it go for over £100 since.

 

[MysteryGuest]

What about your Michael Nyman tune?

well yes, there is that as well! (tendril's referring to m nyman's first album he recorded with his band btw.) best album he ever made by miles, yet apart from a pressing in japan in 1981 on parlophone, and a (presumably self-financed) pressing on 'sheet' records (subdivision of david cunningham's piano label) in 82, never ever re-released, ever. i'm not really into this guy's music, tbh, except for this lp, which is of complete, jawdropping brilliance and originality, kind of like a new wave mozart on ecstasy. very funny in places too. never shows up on discogs, gemm, musicstack or ebay, either. it's not on popsike. i do hope it turns up at some point, though, coz i've got a worry with it jumping at the start of side 2 - must get to sister ray's and get it cleaned before too long...

 

[killer b]

i've got that*. great single. no idea really. imagine it was on that southern records LOK retrospective cd release tht came out a couple of years ago. tho suppose the worth of all those releases would have gone up after the publication of the 'day the country died' book. [/i] the only stuff i can find of their's on the web is much later (like 85/86) and seems to be going for upwards of 40 quid.

i agree, it's a cracking single - just downloaded a load more of their stuff from the southern website, and it's all pretty solid mind...

(*and, yes, i could add something but shan't )

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

any idea what the first lack of knowledge single might be worth (before they released stuff on crass)? can't seem to find a price anywhere... it's called 'the uninvited'...

heh, you've just reminded me that i have the first crass single reality asylum/shaved women in the paper sleeve which i believe is quite rare. ironic, really, to think of crass-related singles gaining value due to their scarcity, don't you think?

 

[killer b]

it's 'cause punks get pissed and scratch the fuck out of all their records, so any that are left end up being worth cash...

 

[chico enrico]

heh, you've just reminded me that i have the first crass single reality asylum/shaved women in the paper sleeve which i believe is quite rare. ironic, really, to think of crass-related singles gaining value due to their scarcity, don't you think?

alas, if you're talking abouit the FOLD OUT PAPER SLEEVE that's worth only a couple of quid. thing is you have to remember in their time crass records sold about as many copies as most chart records over the past ten years.

BUT if you're talking about the first pressing or reality asylum which ws donme on a two sided BROWN CARDBOARD COVER (or even the CASSETTE they sent you after feeding first came out on small wonder) then , yes, you are looking at MUCHOS PESOS

 

[Paulie Tandoori]

it's got a brown cardboard cover and a fold-out paper sleeve

searching to confirm that, i came across my copy of the first on-u sounds single, by New Age Steppers & London Underground - Fade Away / Learn A Language which seems pretty elusive to obtain, no copies available on discogs. Also got a copy of the NAS album which is going for ~$60

 

[ska invita]

kind of like a new wave mozart on ecstasy. very funny in places too..

Whats this actually called? Soiunds really interesting

 

[hermitical]

 

[corporate whore]

Popsike's interesting. Are people still prepared to pay top dollar for KLF/JAMMS stuff? Seems so.

 

[fannypad]

Got loads of 1991-93 old skool hardcore one-offs and white labels that routinely go for £100+ nowadays, but this one's probably the rarest and most dear:

Crimewatch Project on SDI: http://www.discogs.com/release/393117

Last couple of times it popped up for sale both copies went for over £200.


Almost shot a load right down my trouserleg when I came across it in a batch of tunes from Jumpin Jack Frost's stash.

 

[top_biller]

Same here - got lots of old hardcore that seems to change hands for loony money on ebay - but rarest/most expensive I've bought is the Heaven EP by Skanna for about £45.

Bought it when it came out no doubt for under a fiver. Lost it. Bought it back 15 years later at ten times the price.

I've got quite a few three star records from Freddy Fresh's "The Rap Records" book. Anyone got any 4 or 5 stars from there?

 

[pinkychukkles]

Thing is with hardcore, as perhaps with jungle, is that it's difficult to find copies in good condition 'cos the majority of them were bought by spotty herbert djs when they came out who either had decks or knew someone that had decks so consequently they were cained! I bet only a small number of people who bought them new, were collectors or just played them infrequently.

 

[The_Reverend_M]

Got loads of 1991-93 old skool hardcore one-offs and white labels that routinely go for £100+ nowadays, but this one's probably the rarest and most dear:

Crimewatch Project on SDI: http://www.discogs.com/release/393117

Last couple of times it popped up for sale both copies went for over £200.


Almost shot a load right down my trouserleg when I came across it in a batch of tunes from Jumpin Jack Frost's stash.

Had a listen on youtube - doesn't stand out as anything special though as far as Hardcore goes...

 

[Pingu]

got a white label (no print) of floodland by Sisters of mercy with an autographed sleve


no idea waht it might be worth and no idea really how to find out

 

[Boris Sprinkler]

I have some rare bad religion and rancid stuff. But mostly would go for bout 20 - 50 quid. I have a smashing pumpkins 7 inch that I have just found on ebay for about 250 quid.

 

[Mrs Magpie]

Original master copy 78 record Pete Seeger Talkin' Union Blues.