What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ?

I somewhat arbitrarily set myself a limit of $100 for any and all LP’s, breaking that rule for only one title: the MoFi 1-Step of Tapestry. I care enough about the album to pay for the first really good (in relative terms: Lou Adler was not a record producer who made audiophile quality recordings. The recording itself has always suffered from mediocre SQ, particularly of the piano and voice) version of the album.

I recently found a stone-Mint copy of Church Street Blues by Tony Rice, for which I paid $80. This great Bluegrass album on Sugar Hill Records features excellent SQ.

The best LP investment I ever made was getting the Beatles In Mono boxset while it was still in print. I paid whatever it was going for then ($250-$300), and it now changes hands for many multiples of that amount. I then sold all my MoFi stereo Beatles LP’s, keeping the original stereo Parlophone pressings I bought back in the late-60’s.

Esoteric album I have four of them.$99 each

Oh, and in contrast I bought a bunch of LP’s for 2 bucks apiece at the recent sidewalk sale Millennium Records in Portland Oregon has once or twice a year. I even found a few titles on my wants list, all in NM condition. It took me about 4 hours to look through all the cartons of LP’s; I washed down some muscle relaxers with Bourbon when I got home. 😉

When I go a record huntin’ I bring along my little 6-ring notebook (with 3-1/2" x 6" lined filler paper) which contains pages of titles, too many to remember. I've bought more LP's in the past five years or so than I did in the preceding twenty-five.

I posted my most expensive purchased record above. I’m adding in my most valuable as probably an original UK Harvest NM/NM Syd Barrett The Madcap Laughs. Bought it for $2 in 1984 and listed comparables are on sale for c. $600.

Unless I missed it, no one seems to have bought expensive jazz records, and there are some.