x1yyz Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Inspired by the Duckman's "What's the most money you've paid for a single CD?" thread, what is the most you have paid for a record? Back in my teens and 20s I collected a bit of stuff. Those were the fun days when you'd browse through rack and racks at the local record shop. Those were also the frustrating pre-Internet days when you'd try to mail order something from a catalog only to find it had been sold before your order had arrived! I know there were many times I've spent in the $20-30 range for stuff. It was particularly painful to spend in excess of $20 for the import version of an album to get the extra song or two that wasn't on the $12.99 domestic copy! The most I ever spent was technically on four-7" singles, a rare authorized release called 4 U2 Play which I paid $200 for in the mid-80s. I still have it :) http://www.recordrunnerusa.com/product_images/i/017/u2_7_paciicol__55477_zoom.jpg 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 £5.99 from Woolworths in 1979. Everything else I got for £4.99, £5.25 etc. The last vinyl records I bought were in 1992. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1yyz Posted July 30, 2016 Author Share Posted July 30, 2016 £5.99 from Woolworths in 1979. Everything else I got for £4.99, £5.25 etc. The last vinyl records I bought were in 1992. The last vinyl I bought was in the mid-90s, and was probably from the $1 used bin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 £5.99 from Woolworths in 1979. Everything else I got for £4.99, £5.25 etc. The last vinyl records I bought were in 1992. The last vinyl I bought was in the mid-90s, and was probably from the $1 used bin.When are you going to get back into vinyl?? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Super25Smasher Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 $8 used. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1yyz Posted July 30, 2016 Author Share Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) £5.99 from Woolworths in 1979. Everything else I got for £4.99, £5.25 etc. The last vinyl records I bought were in 1992. The last vinyl I bought was in the mid-90s, and was probably from the $1 used bin.When are you going to get back into vinyl?? After the apocalypse when we can no longer play digital media :D But seriously, although I adore the 12" artwork format and all that comes with it, the inconvenience and delicateness of vinyl was enough to push me to abandon it. With vinyl I couldn't listen to more than 20-25 minutes of music without attending to it, dust/pops/scratches negatively affected the sound quality, and I can't put all or part of my 1500 album library on shuffle in a matter of seconds. After hundreds of concerts and more hundreds of nights spent in clubs I doubt my ears would be able to discern the difference between vinyl and digital recordings anyhow, so I'm pretty much done with records. I do have a box of collectables in the basement I'm keeping, though :) Edited July 30, 2016 by x1yyz 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 £5.99 from Woolworths in 1979. Everything else I got for £4.99, £5.25 etc. The last vinyl records I bought were in 1992. The last vinyl I bought was in the mid-90s, and was probably from the $1 used bin.When are you going to get back into vinyl?? After the apocalypse when we can no longer play digital media :D But seriously, although I adore the 12" artwork format and all that comes with it, the inconvenience and delicateness of vinyl was enough to push me to abandon it. With vinyl I couldn't listen to more than 20-25 minutes of music without attending to it, dust/pops/scratches negatively affected the sound quality, and I can't put all or part of my 1500 album library on shuffle in a matter of seconds. After hundreds of concerts and more hundreds of nights spent in clubs I doubt my ears would be able to discern the difference between vinyl and digital recordings anyhow, so I'm pretty much done with records. I do have a box of collectables in the basement I'm keeping, though :)I've got a big pile of vinyl! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Permanent-Rush Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 20 something dollars for Permanent Waves Remastered. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HemiBeers Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 (edited) I can't remember the last vinyl I purchased, but I remember stressing out whether to buy ATWAS back in the 70s. It was probably $12 at the time, which was 2 whole lawn mowing jobs. I never heard Rush before then. Big leap of faith, but the stage set picture on the front finally sold me. I still have all my vinyl despite not touching it in 20+ years. While I dislike the flatness or the overblown production noise of digital, vinyl was just too damn fussy. I remember buying Aerosmith's Greatest Hits and having a skip at the beginning of Back in the Saddle. I went back to the record store and replaced it 3-4 times and every damn time I got an album with the identical skip. I finally gave up and just lived with it. Edited July 30, 2016 by HemiBeers 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LakesideShark Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I recently paid a little over $50 for the Noise Records Death Metal split album from 1984 (used price and it's in really good condition) - the uncensored cover, too. :] 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lucas Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 Back in 1982, I bought Quiet Riot II from this creepy guy who ran a head shop . . A friend of mine told me this guy had some rare albums, so I rode my bike there, approached this guy at the counter and asked if he had any Quiet Riot with Randy Rhoads ( this album was like the Loch Ness Monster back then - mythic - esp to a 14 year old ) So the guy leads me into this back room and takes out this album .. I paid $25 for it, which back then was a LOT http://www.noremorse.gr/images/790_790QUIETRIOTII.jpg 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blueschica Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 I can't remember the last vinyl I purchased, but I remember stressing out whether to buy ATWAS back in the 70s. It was probably $12 at the time, which was 2 whole lawn mowing jobs. I never heard Rush before then. Big leap of faith, but the stage set picture on the front finally sold me. I still have all my vinyl despite not touching it in 20+ years. While I dislike the flatness or the overblown production noise of digital, vinyl was just too damn fussy. I remember buying Aerosmith's Greatest Hits and having a skip at the beginning of Back in the Saddle. I went back to the record store and replaced it 3-4 times and every damn time I got an album with the identical skip. I finally gave up and just lived with it. That happened to me with a Billy Joel vinyl! I was so pissed! And the same thing! I went back to National Record Mart 3 times and each one had it, it was in the pressing. I finally got them to give me another album I wanted. I don't think I ever paid more than whatever a standard double album cost; I only babysat for years at $ 1.00 an hour! For people that had a sizable vinyl collection- remember how heavy it was to move? You had to line up a friend who worked out and didn't mind carrying the crates of albums . . . . we lost ours in 1997ish when we rented a ranch house and the water heater burst and flooded everything. I guess we could have saved just the vinyl but CD's were around by then. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LittleRushmonkey Posted July 30, 2016 Share Posted July 30, 2016 It must've been about £30 for Agent Fresco's "Destrier" album. Although it did come with a t-shirt :) 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
goose Posted July 31, 2016 Share Posted July 31, 2016 I always managed to find good deals on records. I played the record club game several times...12 for a penny, buy the minimum and quit. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
x1yyz Posted August 1, 2016 Author Share Posted August 1, 2016 With all the collectors here I'm surprised no one else has yet admitted paying a buttload for a record. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Permanent-Rush Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 With all the collectors here I'm surprised no one else has yet admitted paying a buttload for a record. Same Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
treeduck Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 Back in 1982, I bought Quiet Riot II from this creepy guy who ran a head shop . . A friend of mine told me this guy had some rare albums, so I rode my bike there, approached this guy at the counter and asked if he had any Quiet Riot with Randy Rhoads ( this album was like the Loch Ness Monster back then - mythic - esp to a 14 year old ) So the guy leads me into this back room and takes out this album .. I paid $25 for it, which back then was a LOT http://www.noremorse.gr/images/790_790QUIETRIOTII.jpgYou know something I've only just discovered that Rudy Sarzo is Cuban. For the last 35 years I just thought he was an American from Los Angeles. But no he's got the accent and everything. Rudy's a good bass player but not only can he not write songs he can't even write his own basslines! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ytserush Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 For a single LP probably around $80 for The Hemispheres Radio Special (Could have been the Grace Under Pressure Radio Special or Neil's last Innerview LP from 1986. Those were all about the same I think.) 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EagleMoon Posted August 1, 2016 Share Posted August 1, 2016 $25 or so for an import. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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