What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ?

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.

A friend of mine gave someone who is a rabid Beatles fan a Butcher "Yesterday and Today" (used condition).  He gave me the Mobile Fidelity Beatles Box and the Mobile Fidelity Rolling Stones Box.  He also gave me a Marvin Gaye One Step.  i think the two big box sets are worth something.  I also have the Classic Records reissues of Led Zeppelin, but they are in open and used (by me) condition.

But, some of the records I particularly prize include stuff found in the $1 bin at a used record store.  I found a copy of the first ever recording of Ramirez's "Missa Criolla" on Argentine Philips.  Ramirez is Argentinian and the "Missa Criolla" is the first approved Catholic mass music in the vernacular, so it is historically significant.  The version by Los Frontieros that I have is a terrific version of this mass.