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Enormous wrote:My first "collectible" purchase is probably Long Hair In Three Stages.

I would like my next to be the Dead Man soundtrack, anybody have a copy?

The guy whose election campaign I'm working on does. He loves it.

Enormous wrote:My first "collectible" purchase is probably Long Hair In Three Stages.

I would like my next to be the Dead Man soundtrack, anybody have a copy?

That's collectable? You can still get it on Amazon.

Wow.

burun wrote:

Enormous wrote:My first "collectible" purchase is probably Long Hair In Three Stages.

I would like my next to be the Dead Man soundtrack, anybody have a copy?

That's collectable? You can still get it on Amazon.

Wow.

On vinyl?

My dad has the Fall's Live at the Witch Trials with the original red live photo cover.

Does that count?

rush - hemispheres picture disc.

My first was Scratch Acid's "Just Keep Eating" with the prismatic cover... Only knew of them from some passing mention in a zine but I had to have that special cover... This was probably 1987/8, maybe a year after the thing came out. Regular price. Yow!

A year after that (or so) Chicago was sold out of Big Black's bodybag "Headache" so a friend and I went up to Milwaukee and scored a couple there (Atomic, I think), for maybe $30 each. Way hap!

Highest dollar amount purchase? Around $500 but it was for all four 6-lp box-sets (that's 24 lps, so not much per record) of Deutsche Grammophon's Avant Garde series... I later sold the four sets seperately for over $1600 total. Celebrate me!

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ErukthePink wrote:My dad has the Fall's Live at the Witch Trials with the original red live photo cover.

Does that count?

Yes and no... That was the American IRS pressing which came out a year after the more highly coveted UK Step Forward issue, which had the original artwork and the better track listing (imo):



Um yeah, I had the nerd/collector's bug REAL bad.

Though I was "Collecting" before this, I bought the first 6 Clash singles for 4 pound (1997 Money) each at a little record store in the village my mom used to live in in England. Got a TON of money for them when I sold them down the road.

I bought this at Dynamite Records in Northampton, Mass. I paid 25 bucks, a fortune for a married graduate student in 1988 or 1989. It was easier to rationalize since I'd gotten Back in the U.S.A. for four bucks, while Kick Out the Jams had been given to me years earlier by a Cincinnati record store clerk who was appalled that a self-described Stooges fanatic had never heard the Five.

At around the same time, and at the same store, I paid 35 bucks for Eddie Hazel's Games, Dames, and Guitar Thangs, such was my obsession with P-Funk at the time. It was supposedly the rarest Clinton-related record, and I had fantasies of an entire album's worth of Maggot Brain-style soloing.

35 bucks would be the most I'd spend on a record for many, many years until I finally broke the fifty-dollar barrier with Michigan Brand Nuggets and Elvis Presley's debut LP.

Recently I dropped 75 for this beauty (though the guy threw in some other stuff I wanted for free):

Brett Eugene Ralph wrote:At around the same time, and at the same store, I paid 35 bucks for Eddie Hazel's Games, Dames, and Guitar Thangs, such was my obsession with P-Funk at the time. It was supposedly the rarest Clinton-related record, and I had fantasies of an entire album's worth of Maggot Brain-style soloing.

You mean it isn't?