The most you ever spent on one record

[craner]

Also remember being nearly seduced by a £50 copy of Tim Buckley's Starsailor at Reckless. I wanted it so bad! But I just couldn't do that. I mean, two weeks without eating, just for an LP, you have to draw the line somewhere...right?

 

[DannyL]

Danny, I saw a Yeti re-press (2x vinyl gatefold) for £12 today. Finding a CD version was hard enough 10 years ago. I like that every now and again this sort of stuff pops up, 'though it must surely fuck off collectors.

i spent £12 on a 7" recently. Generally I'd rather come across stuff on the off chance, as percieved monetary value is fleeting (how much do MASK 12"s go for now, after the frenzy of a few years ago?)

Doesn't really fuck me off, if I'm understanding you correctly. I like having original presses (if not first presses, then something contemporary) - that's part of what I want to pay for, having "old objects". If you're going to be enough of a wally to collect records in the first place, you may as well *collect*, if uknowadimean? This is what I was trying to get at in my post above, comparing the original objects to rare books/art whatever.

BBR: Good work on that Gospelfolk thing! You seem to have an eye for a bargain!

 

[DannyL]

Also remember being nearly seduced by a £50 copy of Tim Buckley's Starsailor at Reckless. I wanted it so bad! But I just couldn't do that. I mean, two weeks without eating, just for an LP, you have to draw the line somewhere...right?

Hmmm.

 

[DannyL]

I think the bargains thread would be an excellent idea!

That Rufigue Cru one should go straight in there.

I think one of my best finds would be HMS Donovan for a quid in a charity shop a month or two ago. Not lucked out with anything super rare yet. Did find a copy of the Trojan Red Red Wine comp on Monday in Oxfam though, which I was chuffed about as I gave my copy away to one of my mates.

 

[craner]

It was a great shop for a while. This too, for roughly the same price. And a mint original of Todd Rundgren's A Wizard, A True Star for a fiver! You only had to be slightly wised up to reap amazing rewards in Swansea. When I got to London, I was disgusted by the prices.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

BBR: Good work on that Gospelfolk thing! You seem to have an eye for a bargain!

My general policy is pre-1980 + religious content + independent label + affordable = BUY ON SIGHT.

 

[philblackpool]

Ha! If only I was so enterprising!

I've ticked the £40 mark, but only cos I bought the James Brown "Star Time" 4CD box with my paper round Xmas money for £36 in about 1991! Bar that, never over £20, & I think that only once, for a white label bootleg EP thing, & that was a sorta record shop etiquette misunderstanding that I didn't feel I could back out of!! I'm with the rarely over a tenner guys...

Despite this, I've got about 6000 records/CDs/etc, most of which I am very fond of, & a pretty damn diminished wants list...unless yr after that particular pressing, most things turn up cheap in the end...

 

[bassbeyondreason]

Looks like I'm gonna be spending a considerable but still below-average sum for an original of Comus - First Utterance soon, which will probably be a new personal best.

 

[powerpill]

£60 for this slab of history a year or so ago

http://www.discogs.com/Foul-Play-Finest-Illusion-Screwface/release/605847

It's mint. I love it. I think I love it even more because its the most expensive bit of vinyl I've bought.

bargain!

 

[massrock]

Looks like I'm gonna be spending a considerable but still below-average sum for an original of Comus - First Utterance soon, which will probably be a new personal best.

There's a new reissue due very soon isn't there? I have the one on Get Back from a few years ago and you get the EP as well which is pretty good.

I would say I understand wanting the original but I don't really any more, unless it's to impress dark mysterious folk chicks or equivalent.

 

[nochexxx]

There's a new reissue due very soon isn't there? I have the one on Get Back from a few years ago and you get the EP as well which is pretty good.

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i hope thats true i've been hunting for that record at a reasonable price for sometime now.

i've just spent £40 (my personal best) on a john bender record, but to me it's compleley worth it.

 

[massrock]

There's a couple on discogs for about £20...

I think one of the guys (Roger Wootton?) from Comus said something about new issues on the The Wire radio show when he was on it, but don't quote me on that.

http://www.thewire.co.uk/articles/2599/

 

[IdleRich]

"There's a new reissue due very soon isn't there? I have the one on Get Back from a few years ago and you get the EP as well which is pretty good."

I thought that the reissue suffered from a mispressing or poor mastering or something on one of the tracks though...? Or am I getting confused?

I inherited some money recently and I treated myself to the two most expensive records of my life which both cost in the region of a hundred pounds. Well worth the money although I wouldn't do it under normal circumstances. Probably.

"i've just spent £40 (my personal best) on a john bender record, but to me it's compleley worth it."

Is that kind of avant-garde synth stuff? What's it like?

 

[nochexxx]

I inherited some money recently and I treated myself to the two most expensive records of my life which both cost in the region of a hundred pounds. Well worth the money although I wouldn't do it under normal circumstances. Probably.

spit it out man! what are these records?

Is that kind of avant-garde synth stuff? What's it like?

sorta minimal wave, uniquely ameturish, i imagine some freak holed up in his bedroom with nothing but a space echo and an ms20 for company. i'll find a link, so you can hear yourself.

 

[IdleRich]

"sorta minimal wave, uniquely ameturish, i imagine some freak holed up in his bedroom with nothing but a space echo and an ms20 for company. i'll find a link, so you can hear yourself."

Nice one, I'd like to hear that.

"spit it out man! what are these records?"

One was a fairly well known library record by Cecil Leuter (who is actually Roger Roger under a different name) called Pop Electroniques - I probably paid slightly over the odds for it but I've been after it for ever and it came up on ebay just the exact same week I was feeling flush.
The other one was a bizarre record that came free with some Volkswagen vans in Holland in the seventies. One absolutely killer psych jazz jam - the rest total bobbins. No idea on earth why they were giving that away with a van.

 

[bassbeyondreason]

I would say I understand wanting the original but I don't really any more, unless it's to impress dark mysterious folk chicks or equivalent.

It means that when I inevitably have to sell my record collection, I can turn a profit.

I want some dark mysterious folk chicks now...