Brag About Your Vinyl Collection


There are a couple of posts for listing your favorite albums, but what about those albums that you've collected simply for value or rarity? Here is your chance to tell about some of the rare and valuable records in your collection, where you found them, how you store/display them, etc.
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My sealed copy of MFSL's Ella and Louis again,managed to buy it from the factory just before they sold out. The rep at the time told me he wasn't sure if they any left but I got lucky.
Also my shaded dog scheherazade in a 10s/10s pressing and my four mint copies of shaded dog 'Gaite' in 1s/1s pressings. Three mint copies of LSC 2436 in 1s/1s pressings and my Stereo copy of 'Introducing the Beatles'- Vee Jay SR-1062.
Having collected LP's for over 25 years i also have my share of expensive mistakes..

@dogberry  tell us more about the Faust tapes. I have heard it was ultra rare, but seems to pop up from time to time.

Funny, when I bought my copy new in ’73, then as a young lad, the hype was that this album was going to be ultra rare as they were only pressing a very small number. I bought the album, played it a couple of times, thought the music was pretty sub-par and let it go into my collection ( I still own it today). My copy is Mint (as it was played maybe five times over the years!). Now we see Virgin essentially lied about the release numbers ( appx 60K!) and pushed the album onto young unexpecting folk. One funny instance though, several years back i took this record to a show- wherein they were looking for the worst music on record...and it WON!

Oddly enough, I don’t remember paying 49p for it...although I do remember paying the large sum of Two pounds fifty for the OG Black Sabbath albums I bought back then....seemed like a king’s ransom at the time!