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.

inna

 

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.

 

Yeah @inna, everyone's on the lookout for original Blue Note's. I've never seen one "in the wild". I've found some original Prestige LP's at cheap prices, many of which Rudy Van Gelder also recorded.