What was the most expensive record that you ever bought ?

Individual records I might’ve paid as much as $100 for a London FFR or a Mercury Living sound. I bought the whole inventory of a record store in 1996 for $300. Something like 10,000 Records I started working in a record store at the age of 11 until I was 27 during that time all my records were free.  

I just ordered my most expensive ever!  Electric Recording Company - The Stooges/Fun House

I have been curious about their records and said what the heck.  

@macg19 ”…Latest tally that decision ended up costing us around $100K.”

Great story, you are a certified audiophile. 😂

Referencing my collection via Discogs, I think the Classic Records 180g issue of The Who's "Tommy" was my most expensive single purchase, around $700.  I have box sets that would now go for much more, starting with "The Beatles In Mono," Gentle Giant's "Unburied Treasure," and CCR's "Absolute Originals."  

I have a lot of Classics, more Who, LZ, Genesis, etc.  Ditto tons of Music Matters jazz reissues (which I particularly love).  And for better or worse, about a dozen MoFi One-Steps (Bill Evans's "Sunday at the Village Vanguard" is worth a fortune; holy smoke!).

Fortunately, it's all covered by my homeowner's policy.  You better believe I made sure of that years ago.

@ghdprentice Certified? More like certifiable. And my wife would agree 😁

Have an awesome and musical weekend.

Yes - Fragile....mofi 185g 45rpm numbered $250

The Moving Sidewalks - Flash First Press $1,500.

@inna What's analog?

All Things Must Pass , triple LP, by George Harrison. Used ,near mint on Discogs for $100. I just can't bring myself to spend more than that for any LP. I have 3000+ LP's, many bought during my early days of spinning records, around the late 1960's.

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A bit more obscure, but the original 1992 release of Guided by Voices - Propeller was limited to +/-500, all hand-made covers, all different. At one point I owned four of them. I believe $750 was the most I paid for any one of them. Sold one a couple of years ago for $3200. Pretty sound investment. ;-)

Box set:  Life House box set by the Who.  If you like this album, indulge! 

Single title:  I think it was Kruder & Dorfmeister's 4-disc K&D Sessions. Also up there would be Mike Ness's 2 country albums.  

The Doors Record Store Day Live  at Konserthuset Live 3 lp Set.i bought it after RSD for $103 bucks that's with shipping and tax.I couldn't wait and bought the first one I saw on ebay...I'm a Doors nut job and have at least 80 different copies of all of there albums and bootlegs  lps.I have all of there cd box sets,cds live and bootlegs.Also about 20 cassettes.....

I made a bid of $1700 on a King Solomon Hill 78-didn't win it though.  Most I actually paid was $800 for a Skip James Paramount 78.  Don't think I ever paid much more than $150 for anything on vinyl.

Beatles MOFI collection brand new when it came out 40 or so years ago for about $250. Would never sell it....Probably worth $1500-$2000 in the NM condition it is in.  My Dark Side or Set Pepper UHQRs may be worth in that range and only paid $35-40 for them when they came out. Would never sell them....

Paying for rarity is different than paying for audiophile quality. I would not pay for rarity as almost always, any excellent music is either available as a reissue or is in the works. I am sure the availability of the new Aja UHQR (which is the best sounding record I own) will make the Cisco version take a hit on the resale market for audiophiles (probably not collectors).

If you're collecting records and not playing them, you might as well collect stamps or coins... Records are made to be played and enjoyed. Just like cars.

Since someone asked, this is the original british Electric Ladyland cover: Got this image from the web and the red stripes were added for modesty, not on the original image

I somewhat arbitrarily set myself a limit of $100 for any and all LP’s, breaking that rule for only one title: the MoFi 1-Step of Tapestry. I care enough about the album to pay for the first really good (in relative terms: Lou Adler was not a record producer who made audiophile quality recordings. The recording itself has always suffered from mediocre SQ, particularly of the piano and voice) version of the album.

I recently found a stone-Mint copy of Church Street Blues by Tony Rice, for which I paid $80. This great Bluegrass album on Sugar Hill Records features excellent SQ.

The best LP investment I ever made was getting the Beatles In Mono boxset while it was still in print. I paid whatever it was going for then ($250-$300), and it now changes hands for many multiples of that amount. I then sold all my MoFi stereo Beatles LP’s, keeping the original stereo Parlophone pressings I bought back in the late-60’s.

Esoteric album I have four of them.$99 each

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.