Vinyl collectors.......whats is your rarest record?

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  • DAC21
    DAC21 Posts: 6
    Three Way tie

    1. The Who, (High Numbers) 7" I'm the Face, Fontana 1964
    2. U2, 12" Out Of Control, CBS, #102 of 1,000

    and

    LP Pearl Jam, VS, Columbia, Blue Vinyl
  • flywallyfly
    flywallyfly Posts: 1,453
    Avril Lavigne -- entire collection.
  • GetALife
    GetALife Posts: 563
    For me it's probably this one:

    http://www.collecting-tull.com/Bootlegs/Original/NothingIsEasy.html


    HOW rare? I don't know...are there websites who rank the state of rarity, I mean how many did get pressed and how many are supposed to be available...?

    ...does anyone have a record from the first pressing of "We're only in it for the money?" from The Mothers of Invention?
    2000: Hamburg
    2006: Berlin
    2007: Munich * Düsseldorf
    2009: Berlin * Manchester * London
    2010: Dublin * Belfast * Berlin
    2012: Amsterdam I & II * Berlin I & II * Stockholm * Oslo * Copenhagen
    EV 2012: Amsterdam I & II
    2014: Amsterdam I & II * Milan * Trieste * Vienna * Berlin
    EV 2017: Berlin
    2018: Amsterdam I & II * Prague * Krakow * Berlin
    2022: Berlin- Vienna - Prague - Amsterdam I - Amsterdam II #
    2024: Berlin I & II

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  • TrixieCat
    TrixieCat Posts: 5,756
    I have the first Beatles album. I saw it in a shop last month for around 130 dollars. I also have Sgt Peppers with the paper dolls uncut.
    Some old Johnny Cash that I love.
    Not too much.
    Cause I'm broken when I'm lonesome
    And I don't feel right when you're gone away
  • keyser_soze
    keyser_soze London, England Posts: 205
    i've only just started collecting so my rarest isn't that rare at all.
    rarest is probably the basketball version of ten

    or jesu sunrise/sundown - think only a few hundred were pressed... anyone with exact details is welcome to correct me!

    that's about it really....
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  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    Julien wrote:
    I'd say the rarest I have are the PJ rare (benaroya, LO2L, yield, binaural) and the beastie boys's best of (sound of science - 4LPs box)

    consider me extremely jealous
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  • Julien
    Julien Posts: 2,457
    glasshouse wrote:
    consider me extremely jealous
    why ? :D
    2006: Antwerp, Paris
    2007: Copenhagen, Werchter
    2009: Rotterdam, London
    2010: MSG, Arras, Werchter
    2012: Amsterdam, Prague, Berlin
    2014: Amsterdam, Stockholm
  • glasshouse
    glasshouse Posts: 1,762
    Julien wrote:
    why ? :D

    'duh! ;)
    Athens, Greece: 2006/09/30

    "Call me Ishmael. Some years ago- never mind how long precisely- having little or no money in my purse, and nothing particular to interest me on shore, I thought I would sail about a little and see the watery part of the world." Herman Melville : Moby Dick
  • lalalalaaaaaaaa
    lalalalaaaaaaaa Posts: 2,445
    Ledbetterman10 wrote:
    first pressings of every Zep album. including Coda and The Song Remains the Same
    Cool man....got me Zep 3 handed down from mom. Good stuff.
  • Yellow Ledbelly
    Yellow Ledbelly Posts: 3,749
    I've got Beatie Boys Licensed to Ill, Run DMC Raising Hell and Van Halen 1984....not a collector, just bought those when I was a lad and still have them
    All I have to do is revel in the everyday....then do it again tomorrow

    They say every sin is deadly but I believe they may be wrong...I'm guilty of all seven and I don't feel too bad at all
  • stargirl69
    stargirl69 Posts: 6,387
    Two I am proud of:

    First press of Pink Floyds The Wall,signed.I won it on a kids t.v show when I was 9.My brother was a huge fan and the question was name all the original members of the band.I knew the answer because heard my brother talk about them so much.
    It has never been out the sleeve or played.Now framed on my wall.

    Original first press of Black Sabbaths Sabbath Bloody Sabbath.Gorgeous gatefold sleeve.
    “There should be a place where only the things you want to happen, happen”
  • godpt3
    godpt3 Posts: 1,020
    I've got a 78 RPM set of opera lessons dating to about 1927 which were given to my father by his neighbor when he was a kid. I've also got a couple of 45s from the band that my uncle was in (probably from the '50s or early '60s). I've also got a Partridge Family Fan Club record (also from my dad's collection) and a bunch of other vinyl from the 70s.


    Oh, and I've got a Benaroya vinyl, too.
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  • AiCPearlJamWeen
    AiCPearlJamWeen Posts: 785
    I only have 3 records and the PJ Xmas singles. The rarest I have though is:

    Alice in Chains We Die Young EP
  • Get_Right
    Get_Right Posts: 14,120
    original woodstock vinyl-first pressing
  • DriftingByTheStorm
    DriftingByTheStorm Posts: 8,684
    Hmm.
    Nothing realy crazy.
    Some mid 90s stuff that probably is pretty low volume.

    1. Nine Inch Nails - Fixed, and Downward Spiral (a promo only, never available for sale)

    2. Alice In Chains - Sap \ Jar of Flies double gate fold, 4th side etched

    3. Two 7" singles from Ballhog or Tugboat. (one sent to me hand addressed by Watt himself! such a gentleman!)

    4. Benaroya

    5. Dubtribe Sound System - the '93 Organico "Mother Earth" 12" and also the 94 Organico "Sound System" 2xLP

    6. Primus - Suck on This

    7. Smashing Pumpkins - Siamese Singles 7" box

    Thats about the rarest stuff i got.

    Got some other really COOL stuff,
    but not sure how rare it really is.
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  • ScotInAmsterdam
    ScotInAmsterdam Posts: 1,004
    I pretty much only buy vinyl to play it, and I'm not very up to date on what is rare or worth money. Stuff that was hard to get was:

    -mellon collie vinyl
    -Banaroya vinyl
    -Downward Spiral and Fragile vinyls
    -My girlfriend bought me the Led Zep BBC sessions box set for xmas which is pretty special, not particularly rare though.
    -Loads of subpop 7", including Smashing Pumpkins, Change has come by screaming trees, various other bits and pieces.
  • AiCPearlJamWeen
    AiCPearlJamWeen Posts: 785
    DriftingByTheStorm wrote:
    2. Alice In Chains - Sap \ Jar of Flies double gate fold, 4th side etched


    I have that one too. Bought it for $20.
  • Jeremy1012
    Jeremy1012 Posts: 7,170
    Original (or at least very early reissue, I need to check) vinyl of Dust Bowl Ballads by Woody Guthrie. Still plays as well.
    "I remember one night at Muzdalifa with nothing but the sky overhead, I lay awake amid sleeping Muslim brothers and I learned that pilgrims from every land — every colour, and class, and rank; high officials and the beggar alike — all snored in the same language"
  • a5pj
    a5pj Hershey PA Posts: 3,975
    Benny here
    Wouldn't it be funny if the world ended in 2010, with lots of fire?



  • Rock Fossil
    Rock Fossil Posts: 47
    Have heaps of vinyl including all the Led Zep and Neil Young from the 70's and 80's including Eldorado and Where the Buffalo Roam. Rarest probably the bootleg of NY live in Bakersfield, California in 1973.

    Also have all the Beatles and lots of other stuff, in fact have more vinyl than CD's which probably says something about my age and stages in musical taste.
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