Your Most Expensive Record, In All Incarnations
Posted: Sat Jun 09, 2007 8:00 amMine has got to be "Argybargy" by Squeeze. Here's what I mean:
I think I paid $5 for it when it was new on vinyl.
Then I decided to get it on CD (when it was out of print), and got the U.S. pressing of it on eBay for $15.
Then the Japanese pressing came out, with the 2 bonus tracks from the British version, which was similarly out of print. I had to have it, so that ran me another $25.
Now, there's a new Japanese pressing, and because of one b-side that never made it onto CD before ("Pretty One", though it says "Pretty Thing" on the track listings), I shelled out another $25!
$5 + $15 + $25 + $25 = $70
Damn! That's one expensive record!
What's yours?
I think I paid $5 for it when it was new on vinyl.
Then I decided to get it on CD (when it was out of print), and got the U.S. pressing of it on eBay for $15.
Then the Japanese pressing came out, with the 2 bonus tracks from the British version, which was similarly out of print. I had to have it, so that ran me another $25.
Now, there's a new Japanese pressing, and because of one b-side that never made it onto CD before ("Pretty One", though it says "Pretty Thing" on the track listings), I shelled out another $25!
$5 + $15 + $25 + $25 = $70
Damn! That's one expensive record!
What's yours?