Brag About Your Vinyl Collection


There are a couple of posts for listing your favorite albums, but what about those albums that you've collected simply for value or rarity? Here is your chance to tell about some of the rare and valuable records in your collection, where you found them, how you store/display them, etc.
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I used to have a Banana Splits "floppy" vinyl 45 that you had to punch out of the back of a ceriel box, you had to put pennies on it to get it to play.
John Klemmer - "Straight from the Heart" limited Direct to Disk, bought it when it first came out, fairly rare, fairly expensive now.
Many MOFI disks, some somewhat rare: (Steely Dan - Katy Lied, Earl Klugh - Late Night Guitar, Stefan Grappeli/Barney Kessel - I remember Django, Crusaders - Chain Reaction, Yes - Close to the Edge, CSNY Deja Vu and a few others)
How about these:
Jethro Tull - Stand up - original 1st UK Island label pressing with "stand up" paper cutout inside.
Jethro Tull - Benefit - original 1st pressing from Germany, rare Gatefold
Yes - Fragile - MINT UK 1st "plum" label pressing with booklet
Yes - The Yes Album - same as above
Genesis - Selling England by the Pound - very limited edition Virgin Vinyl Japanese pressing, from 1981.
Gentle Giant - some rare UK pressings: 1st album, Octopus, Three Friends, Glass House with special packaging.
King Crimson - Islands - original 1st UK pressing on Island label.
Traffic - John Barleycorn - original 1st pressing UK Island label, gatefold cover.
Steely Dan - Can't Buy a Thrill, Countdown to Ecstacy, Pretzel Logic - all on 1st pressing ABC black label
Also Can't Buy a Thrill on yellow vinyl CAN pressing.
Beatles - White album, German DMM on white vinyl
Gong - Expresso - UK pressing with different cover - pretty rare.
UK (the band UK) - Night after Night (live) - rare Japanese gatefold with embossed cover.
Santana - Lotus - Holland pressing - this used to be really rare but now I see 'em on ebay all the time now.
Happy the Man - 3rd album very short run, immediately OOP
Tomita - The Bermuda Triangle - on Coral colored vinyl
I used to have the Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues on clear vinyl with the Robert Rauschinberg special package.. wish I hadn't got rid of it!
Lastly, bought an original early mono pressing of John Coltrane's Africa Brass on the street in Greenwich Village back in 1983. Memorable experience. Noisy vinyl.
Have I bored you all?