Vinyl Me Please Essentials

bdrummond said:
For a single album, non boxed set about a hundo max unless it's like white whale territory. Maybe a bit more. Got the VMP ready to die for about 90 which is about as much as I was comfortable to spend. I do have a bunch of albums people would likely be WILLING to spend hundreds on, but doesn't mean I paid that much.
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avecigrec said:
I topped out at $100 + shipping for one of the wife's white whales last year when I was making better money.
For myself, I'm pretty sure the ceiling's been about $80 after shipping and exchange.
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That's about my limit too, taxes & shipping included. Looking back, most I've spent was $130 in 2007. Until the last couple of years, that was by far the most expensive. I've bought 4 other records over $100 all within the last couple of years where I've had extra spending money during the pandemic. I kinda regret 2 of those. I can't imagine spending $500!
 
Bohnjaggs said:
I don't even think I'd play a $500 album. I'd just encase it in glass like it was a museum exhibit and cry watching it's value drop over the years. Also, it's fucking Usher! That dude treated it like some rare Beatles pressing or some shit.
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avecigrec said:
...i can't even justify $500 on copies of original non-repressed Sun Ra records that had print runs in the low hundreds, or less.
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bdrummond said:
For a single album, non boxed set about a hundo max unless it's like white whale territory. Maybe a bit more. Got the VMP ready to die for about 90 which is about as much as I was comfortable to spend. I do have a bunch of albums people would likely be WILLING to spend hundreds on, but doesn't mean I paid that much.
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avecigrec said:
I topped out at $100 + shipping for one of the wife's white whales last year when I was making better money.
For myself, I'm pretty sure the ceiling's been about $80 after shipping and exchange.
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debar22 said:
That's about my limit too, taxes & shipping included. Looking back, most I've spent was $130 in 2007. Until the last couple of years, that was by far the most expensive. I've bought 4 other records over $100 all within the last couple of years where I've had extra spending money during the pandemic. I kinda regret 2 of those. I can't imagine spending $500!
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Years before the recent reissue, I stumbled across a promotional use copy of Wildflowers.
I negotiated the store owner down to $395 before leaving the store and pulled the trigger.
Because it’s a desert island disc for me and because of how good it sounds- I probably spin it more than any other album in the collection.

It’s the only album I paid three-figures for.
But there’s probably 1 or 2 more I’d splurge on under similar circumstances.
 
I dropped 225 once. That one is a combination of one of my favorite albums ever, with barely any copies pressed, that never really pops up for sale and is very unlikely to be repressed (about 70 owned on Discogs with wants in the 400s). I'm still scared to open it, next was 140 in a very similar situation for the same artist, and I don't think I've gone over 100 for any individual item since (I did spend $120 on a Norah Jones record but that was part of a package with two other records discounted pretty decently to even out) .I love Confessions but 500 for that is a lot and I don't think I'm dropping 100+ on anything else anytime soon.
 
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Viking Dan said:
Years before the recent reissue, I stumbled across a promotional use copy of Wildflowers.
I negotiated the store owner down to $395 before leaving the store and pulled the trigger.
Because it’s a desert island disc for me and because of how good it sounds- I probably spin it more than any other album in the collection.

It’s the only album I paid three-figures for.
But there’s probably 1 or 2 more I’d splurge on under similar circumstances.
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I spent $298 CAD ($240 USD) on a Mint/Mint sealed copy of the 1981 Mobile Fidelity pressing of David Bowie "The Rise And Fall Of Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars" and as far as I'm concerned it was worth every penny.

EDIT- I should add that I opened that fucker immediately and played it. And it sounds SPLENDIFEROUS.
 
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