What's the most you have spent for a vinyl record?

Golucid

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Recently, I have been on a David Bowie binge. Seems that most discussion are always about equipment, I have yet to see anyone discuss the point of it all, music. I rather blow money on tunes than a cable. My recent purchases this past week:

1. Black Star Clear Vinyl with 3 Lithographs $640
2. Station to Station Box: Lps, CDs + other extras $1200
3. Other LPs: Young Americans, Low, Heroes, Lodger, Scary Monsters, Lets Dance, Earthling, Hours, Heathen, Reality, The Next Day average prices $80-300

If your really love music, talk about it! Make a point of sharing the passion. How much do you spend on the real point of it all...tunes?
 
400 bucks in 1976 for a live Eddie Cochran lp. Can't remember the exact title but I sold it for a modest profit a couple years afterwards in order to buy tires. Stupid I was says Yoda.
 
$120.00 for a new Cowboy Junkies Trinity Sessions LP. I almost paid $200.00 for a new Mark Knopfler Shangri-La album at a booth at a Capital Records parking lot event a couple of months ago, but there was another booth a couple of spaces over that had the same thing for $20.00.
 
$500 - Eagles - Hell Freezes Over - Simply Vinyl Edition (new/unopened).

$500 - CSNY - Live - 1974 box set

$500 - was a gift from friends - Allison Krauss and Union Station Live.

There are many many more in the $100-300 range.


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1500 for an org ansermet ballet box, 800 for 1s press of gounod/faust. 75-300 ea for HP list RCA's/Mercs and this was in '90s. I wont do that again. Present day my pain threshold is about a 100 bucks but it keeps getting lower as I acquire most of what I want or can listen to.
 
puroagave said:
1500 for an org ansermet ballet box, 800 for 1s press of gounod/faust. 75-300 ea for HP list RCA's/Mercs and this was in '90s. I wont do that again. Present day my pain threshold is about a 100 bucks but it keeps getting lower as I acquire most of what I want or can listen to.
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Rob, I feel just slightly better, after hearing what you spent. My numbers aren't quite that high for my early, rare RCA and Mercs. The only really rare Decca and EMI's now on my want list are up in the stratosphere - like the early Kogan SAX's. Even the Electric Recording Co's reissues are over $400 a pop (with the very favorable British Pound).

Think of it a different way. If you don't spend it, then after your gone, your kids will be posting in similar places how much they spent (of your money) on this or that collectable!

Larry
 
astrotoy said:
Rob, I feel just slightly better, after hearing what you spent. My numbers aren't quite that high for my early, rare RCA and Mercs. The only really rare Decca and EMI's now on my want list are up in the stratosphere - like the early Kogan SAX's. Even the Electric Recording Co's reissues are over $400 a pop (with the very favorable British Pound).

Think of it a different way. If you don't spend it, then after your gone, your kids will be posting in similar places how much they spent (of your money) on this or that collectable!

Larry
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Larry if i had your collection id burn mine:lol:

its all about timing isnt it? had i started in the early '80s when golden age classical vinyl was cheap i would've been a genius. The only genius move i made was parting with them before Classic Records was formed and I recouped .80-.90 cents on the dollar.
 
Blackstar clear vinyl LE sealed M/M USD$410.

Changes Bowie 2-LP Ryko clear coloured vinyl M-/M- USD$310
 
Not really a big spender on expensive vinyl - I try not to feed the bottom feeders that on sell at high margins.
That said I have spend around $120 on Sticky Fingers and Excile original UK pressings.
I was able to pick up last year Bowie Alladin Sane and Scary Monster's original UK pressings for less than $40 - they sound amazing and kick the oh so boring 5 years box pressings to the curb.

My passion is exploring and buying new music and its never been better to buy new releases on vinyl these days. The last month I have bought around 40 new release albums for less than the price some have spent on one rare lp.
Now that's where music is at for me:cool:
 
@Steve. I just now located a 1st edition of David Bowie Low + Leaflet + Fan Club booklet MINT. Cost $391.60. Comes from the UK.
 
Golucid said:
@Steve. I just now located a 1st edition of David Bowie Low + Leaflet + Fan Club booklet MINT. Cost $391.60. Comes from the UK.
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David sounds reasonable. Bowie 1stEd have definitely gone up on price.


Black Tie White Night has been selling for over USD$700.


Picture disc sets, huge money.
 
Steve said:
David sounds reasonable. Bowie 1stEd have definitely gone up on price.


Black Tie White Night has been selling for over USD$700.


Picture disc sets, huge money.
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Crazy - Sounds like I should sell my original pressing while the Bowie market is up.:D

And the album is not that good.:cool:
 
Another gem in the post as I returned to my California home. Yippee. It's a first edition pressing - mint with original fan club program, etc. This one set me back around $400 bucks. Playing it now. Superb.

A few photos of what I have inventoried lately.

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Man, I'm positively cheap compared to you boys. I think the most that I ever spent was around $60 for a single CD. The horrible part is that I can't remember which CD that was... sigh.
 
Golucid said:
Which LPs do you have? :)
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I have every Bowie album on LP.

I have original pressings of everything from Scary Monsters, as that is approx when I started buying new albums. before that a bit of everything bought in the 80's and 90's.. - UK originals for all would be the bomb.

especially excellent sounding prior to Scary Monsters are

Space Oddity - Ryko US analog- sounds better than my US pressing and the recent Bowie reissues
Man who sold the - Ryko US analog - a lot better than recent Bowie reissues
Alladin Sane - UK original and EMI millenium - EMI sounds excellent, UK original is the bomb.
Hunky Dory - EMI 100 - sounds sublime and again craps all over the recent Bowie reissue box. The box is a real fail to me.
 
I spend quite a bit on music purchases, based on volume of vinyl purchases.

Most I have spent on individual slab of vinyl is around $200-250. Several Pearl Jam albums and a hot stamper Led Zep II cost that much. Paid $125 for hot stamper David Bowie Lets Dance few years back. The "hot stampers" came from Tom Port at betterrecords.

Here is a pic of my Pearl Jam original pressings. Only thing I'm missing is the PJ holy grail, Benaroya Hall 4LP limited box set, 2000 copies. That one album will cost between $1-2k sealed and $800-1.2k used. Even though PJ is my favorite band, seen them live all across the country, I can't let myself pay for the vinyl box when the CD sounds just fine.


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