What is your most prized vinyl record in your collection?

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  • Posts: 11,722
    record has a silly warp but plays, had it since I was a kid, got doyle to sign it not too long ago. Usually bust it out during the halloween season. I had a metallic sharpie, but he used his and I love it.
  • Posts: 11,722
    picked this up in nyc as a kid. Read the typed sleeve and wanted to hear it. Sure it was cheap too. Maybe 10 bucks? Wouldn't have the cash if it was more. Test pressing didn't mean anything to me.
  • Posts: 11,722
    got this 'well loved' happy record from salvation army. I feel this should be in a museum. There are all love notes written all over it and scratched out. I interpret it as a fan who maybe got a broken heart when he died. Glad I have it for now and it didn't get tossed in the trash.
  • Posts: 11,722
    rgambs said:
    No value because they are played to death and we're stored wrong so they have some warp but I have my parents' vinyl collection that has some real gems.  Despite the condition they were almost all bought right at release so I assume that means they were first presses.  They also have all the original artwork and materials included...
    Beatles: White Album, Let it Be, Sgt Peppers, Rubber Soul
    Pink Floyd: Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here---Bonus treat, there are 4 rectangles cut from the DSM inner sleeve, because they were snowed in at the Redfeather Lakes in Colorado and couldn't get out to buy some rolling papers 🤣
    Lynyrd Skynyrd: Street Survivors with the original album cover
    AC/DC: Highway to Hell
    Led Zeppelin: IV, Physical Graffiti, CODA, Houses of the Holy
    Black Sabbath: Self-Titled, Paranoid, Sabbath Bloody Sabbath
    Neil Young: Harvest
    Elton John: Goodbye Yellow Brick Road


    Some honorable mentions that I remember getting a ton of spins and that show the depth of the collection...Styx: Pieces of Eight, Paradise Theatre
    Uriah Heep is in there, Yes, a few Doobie Bros albums, Deep Purple S-T, Graham Nash: Songs for Beginners, John Mayall's Blues breakers, Aerosmith: Toys in the Attic and S-T, a couple Kansas records that I really loved, Paul McCartney: Ram, Journey and Boston debuts, Meatloaf: Bat out of Hell and Back into Hell...fuck I really loved those two.  Paraphrasing from childhood memory "Wait a minute, boy, stop it.  What do you think you're doing?
    And I said God Damn It Daddy, you know I love you, but you've got a hell of a lot to learn about rock and roll!"
    🤣🤣. Gotta get that in my ears now.
    Zeppelin IV and the White Album were the two most frequent spins, Elton John, Styx Paradise Theatre and Meatloaf were my personal favorites as a child under the age of 10.
    Priceless stuff with great stories attached...thanks for sharing them.
  • Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    Burl Ives. Lollipop Tree.  My first album circa 1978, still own it, still spin it.  
  • Posts: 1,716
    A couple of my signed albums. 
    Virginia Beach 2000
    DC 2003
    DC 2004 (VFC)
    DC 2006
    Pittsburgh 2006
    Bonnaroo 2008
    Virginia Beach 2008
    DC 2008
    Philly (Spectrum) 10/31/2009
    DC 2010 (Jiffy Lube Live)
    PJ 20 night 1
    PJ 20 night 2
    Phoenix 2013
    LA 1 2013
    Memphis 2014
    Jacksonville 2016
    Greenville 2016
    Hampton 2016
    Columbia 2016
    Fenway 1 2016
    Fenway 2 2016
    Wrigley 1 2018
    Wrigley 2 2018
    Fenway 1 2018
    Fenway 2 2018
    Sea Hear Now 2021
    Nashville 2022
    Louisville 2022
    Ohana 2024 (Night 1)
    Ohana 2024 (Night 2)
  • Posts: 1,480
     One  of my grails arrived yesterday. 35 years after my first opportunity to buy one and 25 years after buying one out of Goldmine that got  lost in the mail along with two others that can never be replaced. Sex Pistols- Bad Boys, Live in Sweden.  1978 Swedish pressed bootleg with Beatles inspired deluxe cover. 1000 pressed.  Cover is VG but the record is EX. Looks like it was played once with only one visible spindle mark on side A. $80 bucks and I'm thrilled to finally  add one to my collection!



  • Posts: 8,702
    pjpjpaul said:
    A couple of my signed albums. 
     I bought a signed copy from Pete’s site.  And that signed Better than Ezra is awesome!
  • Posts: 20,841
     I bought a signed copy from Pete’s site.  And that signed Better than Ezra is awesome!
    And “awesome” is better than “Good.” :glasses:
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924

    My first record, I still own it 43 years later. 
  • Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    Loujoe said:
    Priceless stuff with great stories attached...thanks for sharing them.
    Oh loved Styx
    domo arigato Mr. Roboto

  • Posts: 8,702
    Just scored a Benny.   I must add it to this list 
  • Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    First play the shit out of it until the grooves flatten
  • Southwest Burbs of Chicago Posts: 4,924
    edited March 2021
    First post vinyl cds sound so good vinyl, and first of a certain band(did not have a functioning record player, still bought it as it was out earlier than the cd)
    Post edited by hrd2imgn on
  • Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,662
    hrd2imgn said:

    My first record, I still own it 43 years later. 

    Sweet (in every sense of the word!)
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Posts: 41,372
    hrd2imgn said:
    First post vinyl cds sound so good vinyl, and first of a certain band(did not have a functioning record player, still bought it as it was out earlier than the cd)
    I still have mine too.  50,000 advanced copies before the CD came out.
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    I think all the originals are black and are double LP's.  Am I wrong?
  • Posts: 5,379

  • Posts: 5,379
    I think all the originals are black and are double LP's.  Am I wrong?
    See above post. I bought this at the show in 1999. Only 198 copies pressed. I believe it was only sold at shows on that tour. 

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