What's the most you have paid for a CD &/or album?

[tenfifteen]

$60 for a mint, unplayed "Telephono" (Spoon).

[Chip Chanko]

I think i paid around $6.99 for this, too. I didn't know it was rare or out of print.
 
 I have the first printings of all the tortoise CDs if those are worth anything (they changed the packaging on the first two after they got popular and Rhythms, Resolutions and Clusters was a limited run).
 
 

Originally posted by Sir HC:
  On the other hand, what about CDs/LPs/7 inchers you got for dirt that are getting crazy prices.  For instance, The Lilys "In the Presence of Nothing" is $82 at Amazon and e-bay:
 
  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=307&item=4714814787&rd=1&ssPageName=WDVW
 
 I think I got mine $6.99.

[Justin Tonation]

Originally posted by Charlie Nakatestes, Japanese Golfer:
  Sure, if you can find someone who will actually pay that money for it. Is there a big market of buyers looking for it?
 
   

Originally posted by beetsnotbeats:
   I got Lamonte Young's "Well-tuned Piano" 5-CD for $40 or $50, I don't remember the exact amount. It's worth at least $500.

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Well, someone was selling the cassette version through Amazon for $200 and apparently got it. Amazon currently has 6 people waiting to buy a copy.
 
 I worked in record stores for over 15 years and my copy is the only one I have ever seen. Even Kyle Gann, the scholar most familiar with the work, says  "Please don't ask me how to get a copy, because I can't tell you."
 
 Only 44 (OCLC) libraries worldwide have the CD. On the other hand, 429 have "Yankee Hotel Foxtrot." (source: Worldcat).
 
  The International Piano Archives at Maryland (IPAM, University of Maryland, College Park) claims to have "96% of all commercial piano recordings ever issued, with taped copies of most of the remainder. Formats include: 8,500 78 rpm shellac records; 26,000 vinyl long-play records; 11,000 compact discs." They do not have "The Well-tuned Piano."
 
 (BTW, the IPAM website is the work of Q And Not U's John Davis.)
 
 To most people the CD isn't worth 500 cents. Nevertheless, it is among the most coveted CDs in the world.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by tenfifteen:
  $60 for a mint, unplayed "Telephono" (Spoon).

vinyl or cd?  that actually reminded me that I paid $20 for my Telephono cd, and I think it was worth it

[tenfifteen]

Originally posted by pollardteam2:
 vinyl or cd?  that actually reminded me that I paid $20 for my Telephono cd, and I think it was worth it

CD... But it was very recent. I've had it in MP3 for years but only at 192CBR, and I just wanted to have a 'hard' copy of it. Seems $50+ is going rate for that one now, and I wanted to get it before Gimme Fiction blows up and Telephono costs $100.

[ratioci nation]

Originally posted by tenfifteen:
  CD... But it was very recent. I've had it in MP3 for years but only at 192CBR, and I just wanted to have a 'hard' copy of it. Seems $50+ is going rate for that one now, and I wanted to get it before Gimme Fiction blows up and Telephono costs $100.

isnt it more likely that if Gimme Fiction blows up, that Matador will just reissue Telephono, and the value will go down