Most expensive items sold on Discogs...

Scubadevils

Browsing discogs tonight and see they've compiled lists of various months with the more expensive records sold each month in their marketplace - amazing to see what some tracks go for, soul/funk seems to crop up a lot fetching big money.

http://www.discogs.com/lists/byuser/discogs

The most recent entry is Feb 2012 where The Dark Side of the Moon went for over $1100!

The most expensive item sold in February 2012 was The Dark Side Of The Moon by Pink Floyd, released on Vinyl by Harvest, which sold for $1129.33. The previous high for this release was $1117.84. As of 4/24/12 this release has sold for $241.69 on average with a median selling price of $48.54. The lowest this release has sold for was $12.90. View current sales history. Watch music videos for this release here.

This month's top artist is De-De-Mo appearing in 7% of the releases on this list. Queen's Club Disco is the top label this month. 7% of the releases this month came from Queen's Club Disco. Vinyl dominates this month's list at 83% of formats. More than a quarter of the release countries this month are US representing 43%. The most common years are 1982 and 1984 appearing on 10% of the releases. More than a quarter of the genres this month are Electronic representing 33%. Disco is the most common style this month. 20% of the releases this month came from Disco. The top buyers were from Japan at 27%. Most sellers were from Italy at 23%.
http://www.discogs.com/lists/Most-expensive-items-sold-in-Discogs-Marketplace-for-February-2012/140123

Scubadevils

This one seems to be a regular feature fetching around $500 each time... nice bit of disco...

The Disco Fox - The Fox

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJxzz9rXl7E

Scubadevils

Not a whole lot of techno, house etc to be found but here is one that averages 214 but went for as much as 299... limited to 150 copies.

http://www.discogs.com/Theo-Parrish-Sketches/release/2334735

Theo Parrish - Kites on Pluto

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aa6f7Qb2j0c

Scubadevils

Seriously curious as to what these UR releases sound like, none seem to be on youtube so I'm not likely to get to hear them given they've sold for up over $1,500!

http://www.discogs.com/lists/Most-expensive-items-sold-in-Discogs-Marketplace-for-July-2010/140115

ianuss

It's hard to get your head around some of the prices alright. In saying that, I can probably see myself buying a record or two for around €100 at some point in time. But I reckon that would be my limit. I'd find it too hard to justify paying any more unless I was sure I could sell it straight away at a profit.

There was a thread on mnml.nl a while back where a few lads were discussing some of their most expensive records

http://www.mnml.nl/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=14&t=77451

francois

Not a dance record but I have a copy of this, 250 only were ever pressed, can go for around STG£300

http://www.discogs.com/Oasis-I-Am-The-Walrus/release/2645470

joker77

As someone says in that mnml thread - some of the prices on discogs are just where there are no copies for sale and some joker has it up there for hundreds or thousands. Ridiculous stuff.

In my collection that would be the Sound Crowd stuff. Consistently people asking silly money for stuff - take this for example

ianuss

It's going to be interesting to see what today's records will go for in a few years time. Limited runs are all the rage today. I understand labels are trying to generate an interest but it feels like it's being done just for the sake of it now.

dubsbhoy

Scubadevils wrote: »

Browsing discogs tonight and see they've compiled lists of various months with the more expensive records sold each month in their marketplace - amazing to see what some tracks go for, soul/funk seems to crop up a lot fetching big money.

http://www.discogs.com/lists/byuser/discogs

The most recent entry is Feb 2012 where The Dark Side of the Moon went for over $1100!

there is copies for dark side for 6 quid, am i missing something ? it's been a long day

francois

ianuss wrote: »

It's going to be interesting to see what today's records will go for in a few years time. Limited runs are all the rage today. I understand labels are trying to generate an interest but it feels like it's being done just for the sake of it now.

Most vinyls don't hold their value. I've been collecting for years, but you'd be lucky to get the face value back-some stuff never loses value-Beatles obviously,or northern soul (so much so that even bootlegs can sometimes cost in the 100's).
I'm lucky that a few of the bands I am into are starting to become very collectible, for example I picked up a couple of 13th floor elevators Lp's on their original label in London in the 80's for 15 each,now they are worth hundreds

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=13TH+FLOOR+ELEVATORS&incldescr=&sortord=dprice&thumbs=&currsel=

However with the internet it is much rarer to find gems like these as anyone can check prices at any time

Though it is not just old stuff-The white Stripes go for fairly mad prices, as does any Billy childish stuff

ianuss

francois wrote: »

Most vinyls don't hold their value. I've been collecting for years, but you'd be lucky to get the face value back-some stuff never loses value-Beatles obviously,or northern soul (so much so that even bootlegs can sometimes cost in the 100's).
I'm lucky that a few of the bands I am into are starting to become very collectible, for example I picked up a couple of 13th floor elevators Lp's on their original label in London in the 80's for 15 each,now they are worth hundreds

http://www.popsike.com/php/quicksearch.php?pagenum=1&searchtext=13TH+FLOOR+ELEVATORS&incldescr=&sortord=dprice&thumbs=&currsel=

However with the internet it is much rarer to find gems like these as anyone can check prices at any time

Though it is not just old stuff-The white Stripes go for fairly mad prices, as does any Billy childish stuff

Feck me, that's mental monies for the 13th Floor stuff.........I've never even heard of them

As for the vinyls holding their value, I know that quality-wise they wouldn't be worth any sort of mad prices. But with the runs being in such low numbers these days - a lot of stuff I see is around the 100/200/300 mark. With such small numbers, if any of them become collectable they'd stand a good chance of appreciating in value, no?

francois

ianuss wrote: »

Feck me, that's mental monies for the 13th Floor stuff.........I've never even heard of them

As for the vinyls holding their value, I know that quality-wise they wouldn't be worth any sort of mad prices. But with the runs being in such low numbers these days - a lot of stuff I see is around the 100/200/300 mark. With such small numbers, if any of them become collectable they'd stand a good chance of appreciating in value, no?

You'd think so, but it really depends on the artist -I've plenty of numbered promos from even fairly well established bands which may only get you in the 30 to 40 euro mark, and if you think that many of the more obscure dance whites may have a run of 50 to 100, with a full release of perhaps 1000 initial pressings only fetching a couple of quid-Most of the high prices are from chancers-I have a copy of this, which is not worth €24-this will no way sell for that price

http://www.discogs.com/Dntel-This-Is-The-Dream-Of-Evan-And-Chan/release/85966

That been said, I'm guilty of taking a punt sometimes on limited vinyl issues, and I've been pretty lucky-these lot haven't been around a long time but prices are rising rapidly, but I got a lot of stuff from their website or at gigs

http://www.discogs.com/artist/Wooden+Shjips

Then again i've tons of crap I forked out for which is worth feck all!

Scubadevils

Yeah I've spent a lot more than any of my vinyl is probably ever going to be worth... that said, I never intend to sell it so it's pretty irrelevant in my case! I do love the buzz of collecting though and I'm a total sucker for the limited runs on vinyl that are popping up lately... The Cure 'Faith' & 'Pornography' bought over the last week as they were reissued on limited runs for record store day... on coloured vinyl which drags me in even more!

ianuss

Discogs have a feature that values your collection. I wouldn't say it's too accurate now but it's interesting enough all the same.

http://www.discogs.com/mycollection?layout=stats

Executive Steve

Most expensive Irish DnB tune I've found so far:

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=245404

Only pressed up a 100 of these if I recall correctly. Wicked remix from Calibre.

Executive Steve

ooh found a pricier one:

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=1935566

^ i passed on the chance of buying a second copy of that for three euro because i wanted to keep the change in me pocket for a slice of pizza from ray's.

milltown

I took a box of records out of the attic months ago and started checking values on Discogs out of curiosity. I was disappointed to find that a lot of my favourites were in the 99p to £1.50 sort of bracket with the occasional foray into £10-15 territory.

Then I came across this:
http://www.discogs.com/Gemini-IV-Jump/release/734088
And I laughed.

There was only one for sale so I presumed somebody thought it must be rare and stuck a fantasy price on it. Now there's two for sale and if I'm not mistaken the price has gone up! Maybe I'll undercut them by a couple of quid so mine sells first.

Not even a decent tune, but these misty eyed oldskoolers must have money to burn.

joker77

What is it about Dublin and the price of some records? There's certain records that were big here (like Gemini 4), that are up for silly money like that on discogs.

Clanket

Do they ever sell though?

ianuss

Looks like it, yeah. Here's the sales history for the record milltown posted above.

http://www.discogs.com/sell/history/734088

This last sold on Jun 04, 2011.
Highest:€150.00
Lowest:€15.00
Average:€78.22
Median:€79.78

joker77

Would love to know from what country they are being bought, pity it doesn't include that in the stats.

kunst nugget

I'd imagine they are going to Knackeragua.

stomprockin

Came across this one recently.

http://www.discogs.com/sell/list?release_id=678048&ev=rb

BaZmO*

For some reason Irish Oldskoolers tend to value their record collections a lot higher than anybody else. There's a huge difference between what you think your collection is worth, compared to what other people are willing to pay, and just because there are no copies up for sale doesn't mean that it's rare, and more importantly worth a fortune.

I could understand records going for a lot of money bitd between DJs as there was no real way of getting a copy to play out. Sure Abbey Discs used to make a fortune on dodgy bootlegs. But in the digital age you can get a top quality easily enough without much hassle.

joker77 wrote: »

In my collection that would be the Sound Crowd stuff. Consistently people asking silly money for stuff - take this for example

I have a copy of that too. Even has an A4 page telling their tales of woe with an English record company. Must dig it out and scan the page.

joker77

BaZmO* wrote: »

For some reason Irish Oldskoolers tend to value their record collections a lot higher than anybody else. There's a huge difference between what you think your collection is worth, compared to what other people are willing to pay, and just because there are no copies up for sale doesn't mean that it's rare, and more importantly worth a fortune.

I could understand records going for a lot of money bitd between DJs as there was no real way of getting a copy to play out. Sure Abbey Discs used to make a fortune on dodgy bootlegs. But in the digital age you can get a top quality easily enough without much hassle.


I have a copy of that too. Even has an A4 page telling their tales of woe with an English record company. Must dig it out and scan the page.

Do you have this one as well Baz? http://www.discogs.com/Sound-Crowd-Dreamlover-Sound-Crowd-Mix/release/1414116 - the green one? I wonder if I stuck this up there for 250 Euro or something silly would I get any offers. I seriously doubt it.

Yea the tales of woe on that sheet, getting the plates back from the UK Tax man - this is the last last last last time ever you'll be able to get your hands on Dream Lover, then less than a year later they go and press the green one? P*ssed me off at the time.

I've nearly all the Sound Crowd stuff (vinyl that is, didn't bother with tapes / CDs), wonder how much it'd go for. Would be half tempted as well.

Clanket

What was it all about? Why was the tax man supposedly involved?

BaZmO*

joker77 wrote: »

Do you have this one as well Baz? http://www.discogs.com/Sound-Crowd-Dreamlover-Sound-Crowd-Mix/release/1414116 - the green one? I wonder if I stuck this up there for 250 Euro or something silly would I get any offers. I seriously doubt it.

I think so, not sure tbh. But I do have Ringsend on vinyl so maybe that's the one.

joker77 wrote: »

Yea the tales of woe on that sheet, getting the plates back from the UK Tax man - this is the last last last last time ever you'll be able to get your hands on Dream Lover, then less than a year later they go and press the green one? P*ssed me off at the time.

That'd be the one alright.

Clanket wrote: »

What was it all about? Why was the tax man supposedly involved?

Ah they got shafted by a UK record company and the Taxman was blamed or something. As I've said, I'll try and dig it and out and upload a scan of it.

BaZmO*

joker77 wrote: »

Do you have this one as well Baz? http://www.discogs.com/Sound-Crowd-Dreamlover-Sound-Crowd-Mix/release/1414116 - the green one?

Actually no I don't have it. I should've read your post properly. I would've noticed if I had it on green vinyl.
This is the one I have with Ringsend on it. http://www.discogs.com/Sound-Crowd-Olympic-States-EP/master/161254

Great names on all the tracks. It's like an Aslan record for the Rave generation.

joker77

Well (with my Sound Crowd nerd hat on) - yea Ringsend was released originally on the Olympic States ep. It was then sped-up remixed as Ringsend '94 - and put out here and later the green one

joker77

Clanket wrote: »

What was it all about? Why was the tax man supposedly involved?

As Baz said - record company in the UK had the plates, they couldn't get them back, said record company went bust, UK Tax man took all their sh*t or something, and somehow Red Records got them back. Something about a dawn raid. To save you the trouble Baz - go onto Facebook and look for the sound crowd group - there's a pic posted in there of that sheet. I'm too lazy to go scanning it myself... can't access facebook in work

BaZmO*

joker77 wrote: »

As Baz said - record company in the UK had the plates, they couldn't get them back, said record company went bust, UK Tax man took all their sh*t or something, and somehow Red Records got them back. Something about a dawn raid. To save you the trouble Baz - go onto Facebook and look for the sound crowd group - there's a pic posted in there of that sheet. I'm too lazy to go scanning it myself... can't access facebook in work

Can't find it on their FB page. Oh well.

joker77

BaZmO* wrote: »

Can't find it on their FB page. Oh well.

Wasn't their page where I saw it - the soundcrowd appreciation society group

Clanket

kunst nugget

The poor dears, they caught the consumtion…

djgarvey123

kunst nugget wrote: »

The poor dears, they caught the consumtion…

Fact.

joker77

Can't help still being annoyed, all these years later, by that line "This is to certify that this record is one of the last 100 to ever be pressed".