What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ?


Not how much you paid, though we could post this too.

My most expensive record is Japanese pro first pressing of Bitches Brew by Miles Davis. It sounds better than any other pressing, though I don't have US test pressing, which might sound better still. I paid, I think, $170 for it including shipping from Japan.

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Original high-grade VeeJay copy of "Introducing the Beatles".  Don't remember what I paid, bc I eventually got a full refund.  The idiot who sold it to me mailed it 3000 miles packaged between two pieces of corrugated cardboard.  Worse, he'd cut those pieces from a cardboard box and positioned the box's crease right in the middle of the cover (LP inside the cover, of course).  As you've probably guessed, the pkg bent in the middle during shipping and the album arrived in two pieces.  And the guy didn't buy insurance. 

The worst part, though, is that the seller guy refused to give me a refund, and it took weeks of haggling with eBay to force the guy to give me my dough back.  eBay is not Amazon when it comes to buyer protection.

Echoing another poster, the two albums I SOLD for the most were a Second State Butcher Block and an original mono UK Trak copy of "Are You Experienced" (bought when I was a kid in 1967 off the shelf from a record store in Bermuda -- and played only a few times b/c, frankly the sound was awful to the point of being nearly unlistenable).  Both went for $5-600, which most people would find jaw-dropping, but here, makes me a piker.

 

earlier I wrote about the most expensive " Record " that I purchased 

but since the MFSL Beatles box set was just mentioned I have to say 

I Bid $201 dollars on e-Bay for a 1979 Japanese release of the Beatles Collection never thinking I would win but I did so $200 is the most I've spent on a " box set "

These pressing were better that the individual earlier Japanese pressing I have .  

Do CD’S count? I have one that is very rare and is 24k gold release by the Jazz band "Wounderful Sound of Three Blind Mice" I saw one on eBay for $300