tuk: My Top 3 Most Expensive Vinyl Purchases

DanielNightLewis 03.06.13	Vinyl is such an over-inflated market. That said, that Frodus album is bodacious.
Titan 03.06.13	When I started buying records, they cost about $8
DanielNightLewis 03.06.13	I recently sold Wooden Heart by Listener on ebay for £50/57 euro/$75. It just made me think of all the music I could buy with that amount of money. Just the 1 record funded my music buying for the next few weeks after it. Madness.
tuk 03.06.13	You won't believe your eyes when you see ebay auctions for Deja Entendu (Brand New) or In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth 3 (Coheed & Cambria) then.
omnipanzer 03.06.13	"40-45 Euros each" I'd have gotten some classics for that amount.
omnipanzer 03.06.13	Better yet buy the CD retail so the band gets some money and then download the FLAC Vinyl rip for free. I don't think I'd ever spend that much on an album.
DanielNightLewis 03.06.13	I wonder how many people paying this sort of money will ever listen to the record they have purchased.
omnipanzer 03.06.13	Eventually vinyl will get to expensive for the casual listener and the bubble will burst making all your vinyl worthless so if you get it you'd better love it for what it is.
tuk 03.06.13	Don't think you're right about this one omnipanzer since vinyl sales are increasing for several years now. Also, these records are OOP so these prices are of course higher than the former retail price.
SmersH 03.06.13	Yeah, i think the most i've paid in the last couple of years is around fifty pounds... single album, first pressing, sealed with all the extra junk (Nick Cave, i believe). It can get pricey for sure, sadly... some of the auctions online are just bullshit, though... @Daniel - those people who buy and then nail 'em to the wall fuckin' piss me off - what a waste.
omnipanzer 03.06.13	Vinyl has been going up in price due to user interest for years. The labels have taken notice and every band is now putting out over priced pressings with every release. I'd be willing to bet the market for vinyl will collapse in the next 15 years as it is edging out the people that revived the medium. Time will tell if I'm wrong or not but I'd still go with the retail/FLAC model and buy my girl something nice with what is left over.
zxlkho 03.06.13	Most expensive vinyl purchase: The Dear Hunter - The Color Spectrum complete It was like $95 including shipping
omnipanzer 03.06.13	*spits coffee across room.
SmersH 03.06.13	omni's got it right, i think... that and i wouldn't mind being less broke once in awhile. $95 is too much - for a set of EPs... nah, as pretty as they might be... nah.
tuk 03.06.13	na not really, there are still enough labels who don't jack up prices for special limited represses. just buy what you can afford and stay away from vinyl flippers and you're good to go
omnipanzer 03.06.13	It's your money... I have kids so I'm probably just in the wrong room. I just can't remember ever being willing to spend more than $20 on an album of any kind. You want to spend a Thousand bucks on the The Butcher Cover as an investment I get it but roughly $53 - $60 on an album that's not even 15 y/o, I'll just say I don't get it but I'm glad it makes you happy. At least you're not spending all your dough on crack or meth or whatever the kids are doing these days.
SmersH 03.06.13	hehe - bright side! s'spose vinyl might not rot the teeth and kill you. ...yet.
omnipanzer 03.06.13	I was pretty happy when I got The Areoplane Flies High and I think I spent $30-$40 on it... or was it a present. I still love seeing it on the shelf and occasionally pulling it down to go through it.
MoosechriS 03.06.13	Off the top of my head my most expensive were Wolves in the throne room - two hunters (first press) 110 pounds Gorguts - obscura 90 pounds Other than those two most ive paid between 10 and 30 pounds for.
omnipanzer 03.06.13	Or my M.A.S.H. complete collection http://www.ecrater.com/p/17330719/mash-martinis-and-medicine-seasons-1-11-complete?gps=1
SmersH 03.06.13	omni - Nice! Now that was worth it!
omnipanzer 03.06.13	Yah, comes with the original movie too which is a great flick.
tuk 03.06.13	don't know why you think that only old stuff is worth spending more money on but I can see your point. still, it's a hobby and like every other hobby it involves money, sometimes more, sometimes less.
omnipanzer 03.06.13	I have learned the hard way to respect my money. If I spend it it needs to equal out in either entertainment or I have to be able to recoup my losses. While it's true that something not very old can retain it's value generally the older something is the more rare it is thus more valuable.
DanielNightLewis 03.06.13	I think it is to do with the fact that vinyl hype drives prices up transiently. It may be a few weeks, months or even a couple of years but it is pretty much certain that 99% of what people pay through the teeth for will come down to much much lower prices eventually. Case in point: The Glassjaw 7" singles each command way less than half of what they were originally being sold for. I sold a copy of Junkies for over £100 despite paying less than £10 for it including shipping, I think I'd be lucky to make half of that now even though it is the most sought after of the set. Hell I even got the City of Caterpillar 12" for less than £20 and that used to go for loads. It's too fickle a market to be laying down silly money.
AngelofDeath 03.06.13	Most valuable one I own, I believe, is the Paysage d'Hiver and Lunar Aurora split, black with blue splatter.
clercqie 03.06.13	If it's more than 20euros, I'm not buying it. I love getting a physical product, whether it's a vinyl record or a CD, but the hype around the vinyl has to stop. Too many limited editions and such that drive the prices way up. Ridiculous.
clercqie 03.06.13	Aside from two exceptions, being Exai and the Amon Tobin box. Those were pretty expensive...
ILJ 03.06.13	I don't usually pay more than $25 for a record. I was going to get CTTS' new album until I saw how much it was.
tuk 03.06.13	at ILJAJLM - yeah same for me, 30 bucks as regular retail price was just too much for me
ILJ 03.06.13	Yeah I don't get why it always has to be so expensive. If Laura Stevenson can sell a Sit Resist LP for like $9 bucks on Insound I imagine CTTS' can sell an LP for $20
ExcentrifugalForz 03.06.13	50$ is prob the most i've ever spent. It was for TDAGARIM. I would be tempted to dish out some coin for that Frodus record though.
zxlkho 03.06.13	damn I really want Devil and God on vinyl
ExcentrifugalForz 03.07.13	lol 200$ its yours
heyadam 03.14.13	"I recently sold Wooden Heart by Listener on ebay for £50/57 euro/$75. It just made me think of all the music I could buy with that amount of money. " I've been trying to find a copy of Wooden Heart for a while. Which pressing was it?
DamnVanne 03.14.13	for $55 i bought the vinyl of Panopticon previously owned by the guitarist of Rosetta
DrGonzo1937 03.14.13	tuk is right. Vinyl is as serious now as it was in the day. I thin more so even. A lot of bands these days--especially smaller bands--only print a few 100-1000 and that's it. Depending on the demand for the band in later years you could be sitting on a gold mine. haha
DrGonzo1937 03.14.13	Having said that, I don't buy vinyl because it's rare, i buy it because I like the band. Don't think I'd ever sell any of my stuff.