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Blue Note reissues as an investment?



What are your thoughts about the investment potential of the Music Matters' numbered limited edition releases versus the unnumbered limited edition copies? How about the Analogue Productions limited edition numbered Blue Notes?

(Some will be outraged, no doubt, about people buying these with the intent to sell on ebay in the future but that's a different issue. Frankly, I have no problem with it; People buy art, real estate, etc as investments and this is no different.)

I just ordered the Music Matters' subscription but plan to listen to all of them and sell only what I don't like. That said, I hope I love them all. If I had the money (I don't) perhaps I would buy two sets and keep one as an investment.

BTW, Elusive Disc just announced they have more subscriptions available in case you thought you missed out.
kublakhan
opalchip
355 posts
 
A few years ago I spent about $90 for the reissue of Rossini's Sonate A Quatro (Accardo on violin) on Philips which was advertised as limited to 1000 numbered copies. Well, about a nine months later, numbers 1001 to 2000 started popping up for sale. Now they're up to 4000. These jerks are just issuing as many as they can sell and putting nice little brass numbers on every box. In this cases I don't care all that much because I bought it for the music, but I'd never spend $50 per disc (or any where near that) for a supposed "limited edition" as an investment.
duonri
11 posts
 
Only a few record reissues will be a good future investment.
The original 1st pressing Blue Note records ( also most Prestige and some others ) are and will stay top recommendation for records investment !
hevac1
812 posts
 
Kublakhan,

I agree with some of the feedbacks you are getting. If you like the music, get it for that reason. If you make some money selling it later, good. If it is music you think you will like later then again you should get it now. Then if you do not end up liking it you can also sell it. But if you wait, you will have to pay 2 to 3 times what it will cost you now.
Because others are also buying them as an investment.

Some here say it is not a good investment but I disagree,
6 years ago I purchased all 8 of the UHQR's sealed as an investment. I paid $1000.00 for all of them and I could recoup all my money just selling Darkside.
I also purchased an extra Led Zep 45 box set as an investment and have had offers in the $3000.00 range. ThatÂ’s a profit of $2400.00 in a year.
It is risky though. I do love most of what I collect and some I hope to love in the future. As long as vinyl stays popular you are okay and for the near future I do not see it loosing its popularity.
hevac1
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