Most expensive record/CD in your collection?

of course with shipping from austria they would be more like 25+...

well if anyone here is in austria they should buy those. good investment for the future. not too many people have heard them. probably out of print.

Hmm well I wish I could listen a little first.

i have a pre-fame newton faulkner demo cd, but suspect no f*cker gives a shit (like me .. never listened to it)

I misread that as promo CD, and it reminded me- if the album is already out, nobody gives a shit about a promo disc unless it's a huge deal right? I think some out of touch ebayers think that promo CDs and LPs are the same to a collector and will list for high prices.

huge deal = huge bargain

One of the more bizarre CDs I sold on Ebay recently (given that most of them don't get any bids) was a promo CD in a plain black sleeve of some Me First & The Gimme Gimmes album I got free from a record store a few years ago.

Exclusive material or what?

Nope, regular album.

So strange.

Are the original Monolake / Porter Ricks / Maurizio tin boxes worth much these days? I have all those and managed to never crack the CDs as seemed to happen often. I also have all the original Gas records.

Monolake and Porter Ricks don't sell for big bucks anymore, since they've both been reissued, but AFAIK the other, non-reissued Chain Reaction albums still sell for 40 Euros or more. The prices for the original Gas albums dropped too after the Nah und Fern reissue box came out. Which was nice, as I was finally able to buy a copy of the first, eponymous album (the version included with Nah und Fern is different from the original Mille Plateaux release, it replaces the original tracks 1 and 3 with new tracks).

Going by Discogs median prices, my most valuable items are:

Rolling Stones London Years 3CD Singles Collection on SACD
White - Stripes De Stijl vinyl reissue (the only Jack White release I own or even like)
Sleep - Dopesmoker on vinyl
Nuggets II boxed set
Miles Davis Jack Johnson boxed set (got this recently along with the Bitches Brew one - this was actually the cheaper of the two)

Ranging from £60 down to £38. I've maybe had other CDs which I've sold for more than that in the past but I can't remember exactly what or how much, just OOP stuff.

Which version of sleep - dopesmoker?

It's the 2003 issue on Tee Pee records, this is the one: http://www.discogs.com/Sleep-Dopesmoker/release/397723

ahh, i never bought that for some reason.

How do you get Discogs to list the median prices for your records?

I don't have much in the way of collectors' items or rare copies, so it must be this. Listed at $599 now at Amazon!
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Tuomas: On the My Collection page under 'View' at the top there's an option for 'Stats', the median prices are listed there.

Surprised that Interpol 12" on Chemikal Underground is still worth so much (median £126.63). Is it too late to cash in or will the TOTBL reissue kill demand?

That Al Stewart album I mentioned upthread isn't even for sale on discogs, that's how rare it is.

Huh. My most valuable item is Ornette Coleman - Chappaqua Suite on double CD (median = £48.88), never would have thought of that. Then comes Originals Vol 2 compilation on Claremont 56 (median = £32.16), which isn't even a very good album.

My least valuable item is Wowee Zowee on CD.

Oh wait, it's a Japanese edition of Chappaqua Suite that's so expensive. The one I have isn't on Discogs.

i was thinking about selling my u.k. 1st pressing of one live badger but i think i'd miss the little guy too much...

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had no idea D'Angelo's Voodoo was going for around $100 - I've got one of those

I have the 1991 CD pressing of Captain Beefheart's "Lick My Decals Off" which is currently going on Amazon Marketplace for $42. That's probably the highest for me.

every time I hear something I own is going for an absurd amount of money, I am reminded that I have absolutely no awareness of how the vinyl collectors' market really works

just sold phish's lawnboy LP for $700 -- after that, maybe OG mike hurley on folkways or la monte young's dreamhouse record, or descendents of mike and phoebe record?

get the feeling this would be a big ticket item if i ever sell it, but i probably will never: http://www.discogs.com/Francis-Bebey-Pygmy-Love-Song/release/1762405

Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack CD single. Cracked front case. Mysterious raspberry-colored goo on disc. $.39

Oh wait, LaMonte Young. That reminds me... My CD copy of "Second Dream of the High Tension Line Stepdown Transformer" is probably worth more than the Beefheart.

Of course, I don't have the jewel cases any more, since I downsized my collection to binders only, so they're probably not worth all that much as collectibles.

YES LA comp
Treble Kicker - Pavement
Gaydiohead - drill ep
Loadsa stuff like Lilys' first cd but I already e mailed you Evan

Loads more

I'm not a collector - was just ahead of the times ;) and now redundant- and want rid of this shit. Not on e bay yet . Keep asking wife if I can use her account but never get round to it

Not redundant (yet) job wise. Just in most other departments. I'm fairly comfortable with that these days.
A mate told me that my awful Cock Sparrer "Shock Troops" vinyl is revered in some strange circles

Try selling on Discogs first.

according to discogs, the top 5 median selling prices for my record collection are:

$116 - Boards of Canada - Geogaddi 3xLP
$99 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2xLP superdeluxe thing
$85 - Kraftwerk - Kraftwerk (2xLP on Vertigo that collected Kraftverk 1 and 2)
$81 - Grouper - Dragging a Dead Deer up a Hill LP
$80 - The Microphones - Little Bird Flies Into a Big Black Cloud

I once had an original LP of Bobb Trimble's Harvest of Dreams which I sold in the '90s for nowhere near what it's worth today; I didn't realize it was worth anything beyond face value when I sold it and had never heard of the artist at the time. Wasn't even mentioned in the price guides I checked at the time.

$99 - Radiohead - In Rainbows 2xLP superdeluxe thing

There's my answer then.

Are any of those briefly-produced 3"/80mm CD singles that were supposed to be the digital successor of the 45 valuable? I own several of those.

On The Road with Kasey Chambers, maybe?

Or autographed Shellac LP?

I don't have much in the way of collectors' items or rare copies, so it must be this. Listed at $599 now at Amazon!
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WTF. I could swear that I've seen that at Amoeba within the last couple of years selling for around twenty bucks. Wanted to get it. Guess I won't now.

In other fluctuating-price news, I was thinking that my vinyl copy of Scott Walker's The Drift was one of the more expensive albums I owned, but now I see that it's back in print and very affordable.

So my most expensive album is a bunch of albums:
The Genius Of Miles Davis. For those who don't know, it's a box of the Complete "......." Sessions boxes.
I got it "cheap" with my employee discount at Amoeba, but it's going for $424 on amazon.

I also have the Tom Waits Orphans vinyl box (unavailable on amazon, minimum $116 on discogs), the Miles Montreux box ($130 on amazon), the
Miles Complete Columbia Album Collection ($243 amazon), and the Fela Kuti complete box ($110 amazon).

Yeah, my thing for box sets might be a problem. Thankfully I have a very tolerant wife.

I got it "cheap" with my employee discount at Amoeba, but it's going for $424 on amazon.

That *is* cheap, bizarrely enough. I think list price was around $2000 when it was first announced/released.

Oh, I bet my Tom Waits Live from Ebbets Field is worth something, or would be if it hadn't gotten scratched up in a rental car.

/I got it "cheap" with my employee discount at Amoeba, but it's going for $424 on amazon./

That *is* cheap, bizarrely enough. I think list price was around $2000 when it was first announced/released.

Yes, I know. I've been watching it ever since then. Couldn't believe it though when it popped up in real life though for $300 retail.

The Yardbirds - Live Yardbirds w/Jimmy Page (the original LP)
Spacemen 3 - Walking With Jesus 12" serial #0001 (priceless as far as I'm concerned)

Is that Yardbirds the one where they cover "Waiting for the Man"? Always wanted to hear that.

Mobbed I didn't get an email!

I have that original Yardbirds LP too, the one that was withdrawn a few days after its release. Didn't realize it was that valuable - I found mine in the '80s though when it's value hadn't yet climbed to where it no doubt must be now.

Jimmy Page recently said he'd be fine with a reissue of that Anderson Theatre performance as long as the added-on applause and cocktail-lounge sound effect overdubs were removed.