What is the most $ you have spent on vinyl?

A little bit over a $100 for MOFI 80s releasses of Yes Close to the Edge and KC ITCOTCK. These were bought of eBay in 03-04.

I am up to $95 right now.
Next hurdle is $150 and I am choking on it!

Assuming you are speaking of an out-of-print collectable/rare LP, $30 for a Mint UK copy of an early 70’s album, the price I have set as my ceiling. I’ve learned that if you can muster a little patience, and just pass on an over-priced copy of an album you want, another reasonably-priced copy will eventually come along. Same with an over-priced component!

$100 for a UK first pressing un-played copy of Pink Floyd Wish you were here, and $100 for a similar (as above) SupperTramp Crime of the Century from the same collector.  that day was expensive day, I also got 4 other records similarly priced all from the same collector.  

Shoot!
Of late I have bought a number of extremely rare( well to me anyway) albums at prices between $50 and $85.

The one I am eying now appears to have the same going price no matter whether eBay or Discogs and has not changed more than a few cents in months. There are a few sellers but all within couple $ of each other

So around $100 is in same ballpark, not sure I am game to step up to $150.

I doubt I’ve spent more than 5 or 6 hundred US on a single record. Those have typically been records that claim a market value of over 1k US dollars for a mint example. I’ve largely quit buying such expensive records since I’m not really buying them to collect but to play, as the best sonic examples of a particular release.
I don’t even like handling such expensive records anymore--
I have tons of audiophile banalities that are probably worth money, but I’m too lazy to sell them-- you can only get an approximation of so-called market by putting them up for retail sale; sales or trades to dealers or collectors are usually at a considerable discount (unless the party seeking the copy really has to have it for some reason).
I have, on the other hand, scored on occasion-- a never played copy of a rare Italian prog album landed in my lap for the cost of a cheap, used reissue.
I only have one record that is on my list right now that I’d even consider spending that kind of money on-- and when I was approached by a dealer who had one last year, I declined to buy it- partly b/c it was priced at very high market and the seller was unwilling to consider any trades.
I think you’d be shocked by the prices collectors sometimes pay-- and these are often for records that aren’t necessarily for playing-- simply rare. Private label pressings where the tapes are gone; obscurities where few were pressed initially. Unfortunately, some of the records I’ve chased overlap with the collector’s market.
The biggest challenge in that market, for me, is condition since I do play them, I’m after so-called ’M-’ graded records. And given the state of record grading --even played graded-- being all over the place, some of these records are virtually impossible to find in that condition. (The "condition" problem exists even in less rarified circles-- in some cases, I have purchased many copies of the same pressing to get one that is truly a clean, unmolested player. And sometimes, those wind up being far from the most expensive copies. Let’s say you buy a 30 dollar record from the UK that is supposedly in M- condition. Shipping is another 15 bucks US, maybe more. And it isn’t mint- or anything close to it. Is it worth spending 15 bucks to ship it back? Do that 4 times for a particular record and you’ve got well over a hundred dollars into something that should cost far less. That’s a grading/condition problem and something that is hard to come to grips with in the market place.
Some of the old obscurities or hard to find records do get reissued, but it is rarely from the tape even if that still exists (in many cases, it doesn’t). The audiophile reissue houses usually don’t take risks on records that aren’t sure sellers. So, you are relegated to buying original pressings, perhaps ex-country of origin to get in more cheaply, or reissues which are not necessarily the best representations of the album.
I’ve become more agnostic about reissues of old analog records sourced from digital masters. Some are good. And they are far cheaper.
None of these things are investments at today’s prices. Buy ’em if you really care about the music, not because of their purported market value.

I’ve hit the 150-200 range, per single record, at least a few times now. Stuff like clean original pressings of Alice in Chains, Megadeth, the original press of "Into the Wild" soundtrack, etc. And several times I’ve hit the 80-115 range - e.g. very limited-pressing OOP Euro metal like Avantasia. Biggest single purchase was the Beatles mono box (recently), at 450 - worth every penny. The results and sheer enjoyment rendered usually make it well worthwhile - when the music content and sound quality both hit 9+ out of 10 for me, it's hard to back down. 

Two notable dogs I’ve gotten in the upper price ranges were the 2006 MoFi Megadeth "Countdown to Extinction" reissue (sounds like crap compared to an original UK pressing), and that caramel colored Record Store Day reissue of The Sundays "Blind" (just impossible to listen to, as it doesn’t sound good). I wouldn’t pay $5 for those, knowing what I know now. But most of the rest has been justifiable.

Damn whart (and you others), your bank account must be mighty healthy! Luckily, my taste in music is not that of most people’s, so anything I’m looking for is not that high in demand. I still need an original UK Sire (9103-251) pressing of the Flamin’ Groovies masterpiece Shake Some Action (produced by the great Dave Edmunds). Mint or Mint- only!

I like to see people have more invested in their music libraries than their hi-fi systems.

$350.00 for a copy of The Moving Sidewalks Flash on Tantara. was in late 80's.

@bdp24 - I bought many of those more expensive copies when I was still working as a lawyer in NYC. Now that I’m retired, I have even less incentive to spend that kind of money on a single album. I wouldn’t mind a trip to the Utrecht show, though. A lot of great music on old pressings (and some new) doesn’t cost crazy money. And, i’ve become much more sanguine about digital masters as a source for vinyl. I’ve also been buying CDs lately-- just got bit by the digital bug for the first time! Some of the older, desirable CD pressings are now pricier than LPs! But, as you probably know, most CDs are in the same price range (or less) than shipping cost.

I have bought a lot of really nice older cd pressings at less cost than the shipping for them as you say Whart. 
A lot of my nicer sounding cds probably cost way less than $5 each shipped.

Vinyl definitely not...lol

$100 for a collection of fifty ECM Nordic jazz albums at the Princeton Record Exchange. What a deal!

A whopping $2 each, you spendthrift you!
😅😅😅😅

So a few have regularly paid more than $100 for a really desirable album it seems.
I guess it all boils down to how badly you want it if the price IS the normal going rate for that album then.

The Beatles Butcher Block album sold for more than $6,000 on eBay last year. Somebody’s paying something. Sealed Beck Sea Change on Mo Fi, pink vinyl, currently listed for $500. Mo Fi Woodstock, $810.

Hope I am not going to set a record here? I paid $650 for sealed copies of MFSL ultra disc one-step (UD1S) recording of Santana Abraxas and Donald Fagen Nightfly, purchased as a package on eBay. If fact I have all 4 MFSL UD1S disc (above plus Bill Evan Sunday at the Village Vanguard Live and Simon & Garfunkel Bridge Over Troubled Water). As far as vinyl pressings go they all sound about as good as it is going to get IMHO. For example; listening to the Bill Evans recording I honestly thought I was  listening to live music. I could not believe this recording is 56 years old. Background noise was non existent. Dynamic range, frequency response etc. was as good as anything I have ever heard.

I got back into vinyl (after a 34 year absence) at the beginning of last year, see my previous post on the subject:

https://forum.audiogon.com/discussions/second-system-that-sounds-and-looks-spectacular-i-am-there

Having fun with HiFi all over again!

For every buyer there is a seller -- I sold a HiFi Today "Sgt Pepper" to a buyer in Japan for $1200 a few years back
https://www.discogs.com/The-Beatles-Sgt-Peppers-Lonely-Hearts-Club-Band/release/7154298

I owned this from new (along with a bunch of other of the Nimbus SuperCuts I still have) but could not turn down that price

Personally most I've paid is $300-400 for original 1st pressing Heron discs, but someone bought me an Island "Pink Moon" for $750 as a work leaving gift!

I bought a first state Butcher in 1982 for $225. 

It does look I am not the only slightly crazy one here after all....lol

💵💵💵💵💰💰💰💰

@inna 
I can't compare to original UK pressing of Wish You Were Here, but I had a Japanese obi issue that sounded phenomenal. Came with posters and stickers, too, if you're into that stuff.

Just going to wait until eBay has another 15 or 20% off anything night again before I bite the bullet on that $150 album.

Call me cheap, I don't care....lol

@inna Yep. Wish is my favorite Floyd album, followed by Meddle and Dark Side. Never got into Atom Heart Mother or Final Cut. I don't have that Japanese issue anymore, otherwise I'd look at the issue. Ex wife made me sell my vinyl collection: shaded dogs, Japanese pressings, and all. I'm slowly starting to acquire more.

inna
you are trying to make my head implode.....