Most youve spent on a record?

[Wooderson]

Currently bidding £70.00 on eBay for a double vinyl of a record I already own on cd.

I have a "danger bid" in for £91.00 for the craic. With delivery it could cost me nearly 120 euros.

Edited September 21, 2010 by Wooderson

[ampersand]

nutter!

most i've ever spent was about 25 on have one on me by joanna newsom. triple vinyl and never listened to it in that format.

[eFestivals]

I recently spent £30 on a CD single, that was released about 22 years ago. It was much more shit than I remembered it as being.

And in the early days of CD burners on computers when they cost £800 or so (15-ish years ago I guess), I paid a guy £100 to put a double album onto CD for me

[MrZigster]

We need artist and album titles I think. Or how can we judge who has squandered their cash

[eFestivals]

We need artist and album titles I think. Or how can we judge who has squandered their cash

the double album was The Name Of This Band Is Talking Heads. No embarrassment there, only maximum kudos for the best album in the world ever.

The CD single is more worrying. It was "Garden of Eden" by ... erm ... "Garden of Eden". And seeing as you don't know it, I'll tell you that's cool and fab too, and hope that you believe me.

More seriously, it's an early-ish acid toon, by a band that featured Adamski's brother Tinley (the real talent in the family, produced loads of stuff for loads of acts), and Steve Jackson who was a DJ on KISS when it first went legal (1990?). And possibly some other people too, I forget. It was an alright-ish tune in its day, but my god it sounds dated now.

Edited September 21, 2010 by eFestivals

[pehaw]

Paid £28 for Stiff Little Fingers - Suspect Device 7"

mint Rigid Digits original release so it was well worth it!

[MrZigster]

And seeing as you don't know it...

[eFestivals]

And people post that you come across as arrogant

I happened to spend a lot of my time in clubs around that period.

You're right though, never 'eard of it

I never heard it in a club either, or on radio.

I only know of it because my ex's sister used to date Tinley back around that time. I remembered about it one day when messing on my decks, and thought "it'd be good to have that to play around with". Just not as good as I'd thought.

Edited September 21, 2010 by eFestivals

[brighteyes]

Drunkenly bought Sigur Ros - von brigði (Recycle Bin) on CD from ebay, that cost me about £120 after import taxes and all that shit.

Also, bought a couple of ATD-I split 7 inches (w/Burning Airlines and w/The Aasee Lake I think) for about £150 in total, that was a fair few years ago and I wasn't drunk

More recently, about £30 each for Mumford & Sons - The cave & the open sea 10", and Love Your Ground 10". They've probably gone up in value though as it was before they made it big.

[Wooderson]

This thread reminds me of spending £35 on a VHS recording of Bowie's Glass Spider Tour from Wembley Stadium sometime mid eighties. Grainy as sand, sound about as good and mostly shot from behind a pillar about a mile away from the stage. Praise be to YouTube for ending those kinds of rip off.

[doe]

£120 for the complete set of 6 inch records on Kalevala by Bill Drummond (ex KLF) and mates.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IAGxI-6oAI

[MrZigster]

I have the dvd of that tour. Absolutely SHOCKING stuff.

[Wooderson]

Everyone in the crowd at the actual gig was like "WTF is this?".

I thought the official release made the whole thing look better than it seemed at the time.

[jump]

Spent £25 on 1000 Dreams cd by Mouthwash as it's discon now.

But I got some Micheal Jackson vinyles I been meaning to sell since he died.

[gratedenini]

How relevent that I paid 10/-s (50p) for Two Little Boys circa `69

I just couldnt bring myself to pay anything like the amount spoken of here for CDs etc.

I look now at £16.99 and I can feel a train of brown bullets heading for the station door!

I used to buy CDs every week, up until about 3-4yrs ago--but now the outlets for my main genre (blues) has all but disappeared in the Newcastle area, and i get very little chance to thumb through a rack of decent blues/rock cds.

The alternative of course is listening on My Space etc and then ordering online--but the experience is hollow for me.

My era was standing in proper record shops, with joss sticks burning and posters on the walls---thumbing through 100s of LPs.

In that respect, I dont think "progress" has been the best way forward.

(sad) den

[Wooderson]

How relevent that I paid 10/-s (50p) for Two Little Boys circa `69

I just couldnt bring myself to pay anything like the amount spoken of here for CDs etc.

I look now at £16.99 and I can feel a train of brown bullets heading for the station door!

I used to buy CDs every week, up until about 3-4yrs ago--but now the outlets for my main genre (blues) has all but disappeared in the Newcastle area, and i get very little chance to thumb through a rack of decent blues/rock cds.

The alternative of course is listening on My Space etc and then ordering online--but the experience is hollow for me.

My era was standing in proper record shops, with joss sticks burning and posters on the walls---thumbing through 100s of LPs.

In that respect, I dont think "progress" has been the best way forward.

(sad) den

[dakyras]

So now I'm on eBay spending a fortune - im an addict but as I read somewhere "music is the only addiction that won't kill you". So its fine by me.

[Halcyon]

I have a complete set of Lemon Jelly vinyl covering their 3 albums (.ky, Lost Horizons and 64-95). Spent nearly £175 on them over the years.

They currently hang on my living room wall, all framed in their black vinyl slickness and psychedelic artwork lovelyness.

Edited September 22, 2010 by Halcyon

[Wooderson]

I have a complete set of Lemon Jelly vinyl covering their 3 albums (.ky, Lost Horizons and 64-95). Spent nearly £175 on them over the years.

They currently hang on my living room wall, all framed in their black vinyl slickness and psychedelic artwork lovelyness.

[gratedenini]

I think the first format that I ever "called my own" was the cassette tape. All I ever did was record off the radio until I had money to buy my own records after I got my first job at 15. Parents never really had the cash to buy records so it was making and swapping tapes with buddies that got me through my early teens.

Then it was CDs I guess. Well over 1200 albums at this stage. Have to say I am totally blown away when I go into the record stores I frequented for years to see what they have turned into. Apart from Tower Records in the city centre all of the shops seem to have gone under or moved to games and mp3 players. Heartbreaking! I know theres no comparison to the heady days of jossticks and hippie posters on the wall Den, but even the early 90's were a feast in comparison to today's record store famine. One pretty interesting thing is the way prices have come down over here. New records on CD were regularly 21 euros and now they are 12 or in some cases (new arcade fire for example) 9.99!

Read an article that Mono in Glasgow is bucking the trend of shops withering away though - any locals have any feedback on the place?

I know that Amoeba records on Haight Ashbury in SF is the best Ive ever been in and that was only last year. It was a spiritual experience. Couldnt recommended it more to any visitor to the city.

- - -

Always had stuff on vinyl but only really as a treat to myself - never had a turntable in the house. Nal hooked me up with a decent system last year though which ive taken absolute delight in recently. Got "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath at the weekend - blown AWAY by the experience of listening to that first side on vinyl. How amazing it must have been in 1970!!?!?!

CDs are souless but are better than nothing and I wouldnt be able to live with my self if I had to get rid of them all. They form an soothing route back in time for me. I can trace my steps not only in terms of genres or things I was listening to but where the records were bought etc.

So now I'm on eBay spending a fortune - im an addict but as I read somewhere "music is the only addiction that won't kill you". So its fine by me.

[Halcyon]

Highly ironic post this.

[spwan-of-the-devil]

Not on Ebay - When Mojo came out with Lady Here me tonight.. I got the Double limited edition from HMV for £22

[The Nal]

how so?

[Wooderson]

how so?

[Wooderson]

Because Wooderson has just burgled your house and they're now hanging on his wall.