I think it was a two-record bootleg of Green on Red live in Bochum, West Germany, one LP green and the other red. Bought at the same time as an unlistenable Joy Division bootleg, both purchased at Second Coming Records in Greenwich Village.

I did not buy this, but one record store near me bought some guy's entire Metallica collection--imports, rarities, oddball stuff, etc. One item was <i>Ride The Lightning</i> on vinyl--the cover art was green instead of blue. I think they were selling it for $300.

The first record I paid too much for was probably some Sonic Youth thing. God knows I've spent a lot on that band. My other great passions are GodCo and Medicine, but I haven't had to pay more than $10 for anything of theirs.

The most I have ever paid for a single record is $66 for the Billiardspielerleid 7". Yes, I felt like a turd, but it's a good record, and I had the money back then.

Most recently, I paid $30 for the two Stretchheads full-length lps. I had to get them from the UK, so it's not too bad a price.

burun wrote:Carlin, what record did you pay 1 large for? I must know.

Hey Jodester - since you have called me out, I guess I have to divulge:

Feel free to ridicule me, but please take a few things into account:

- bidding war fever (actually via telephone to RalphAmerica, and not eBay)
- hitting what was probably the absolute peak of my Residents fetish
- completist fever
- single and living with parents at the time, attending college on Uncle Sugar's dime (Illinois Veterans Grant)
- new credit card
- a little thing I like to call "bidding war fever"
- knowing that only 200 (or less) exist
- knowing that there are no plans to re-release these tracks on CD, etc.
- thinking "I will probably never see one of these again"
- did I mention "bidding war fever"?

...so yeah, I'm totally lame.

...and believe me, when I saw one of the original "Third Reich 'N' Roll" boxsets* go up on eBay not so long ago... and it eventually got up to like $2500... sure, I felt that old familiar twinge, and thought about what I could sell off to raise the cash... but I fought valiantly, this urge (although I do weep into my pillow occasionally thinking of how I let it get away)

* Note: In 1980 a Third Reich 'N' Roll Collectors Box was produced in a limited edition of 30 copies of which 25 were released. These came with a hand pressed red marbled vinyl edition of the record with silk screened sleeve and labels, in a velvet-lined black wooden box with a sliding panel featuring hand-screened version of the cover art. Also enclosed are two signed and numbered lithographs by Irene Dogmatic. The entire box was enclosed in a drawstring bag made from a piece of Christo's work "Running Fence".

I completely understand the Residents collector fetish, having succumbed to it a few times whilst employed at Disney during the dot com boom.

Arson Smith wrote:* Note: In 1980 a Third Reich 'N' Roll Collectors Box was produced in a limited edition of 30 copies of which 25 were released. These came with a hand pressed red marbled vinyl edition of the record with silk screened sleeve and labels, in a velvet-lined black wooden box with a sliding panel featuring hand-screened version of the cover art. Also enclosed are two signed and numbered lithographs by Irene Dogmatic. The entire box was enclosed in a drawstring bag made from a piece of Christo's work "Running Fence".

Holy shit!

Does the Jennifer Hartman version of Tweez count as a "collectable"?

I paid stupid money for X-Ray Spex "Germ Free Adolescents" before they released it in the US in 1992. Three figures stupid.

But I've probably listened to this record more than anything else for the past sixteen years, so wtf.

The Incredibly Corporate Whorish Big Black Interview Album
LP Touch & Go Records T&GINT.#1 (1987)
aka Talk About Fucking (Blast First! UK)
Interview album
T&G edition promo-only
Blast First! editions come with a script with which one can ask the band questions, even though the answers don't match up. Also the band is in the left channel and the "German Interviewer" is in the right, so with a little tweaking it sounds like the band is interviewing itself.


Wcur "gave" me their copy a while ago.

I don't have a ton of records and I'm too cheap to spend a lot of them. A friend of mine did get me a copy of Busted At Oz for my birthday last year. She won't tell me how much she spent, but I'm pretty sure it was over $50...

With my own money, my most expensive record was my last purchase - a new copy of Decade of Fun by The Cunts. $8.99