Plenty of people own this album, but if you own a special version of it, you could have a whole lot of money in your hands. This version featured quite a simple picture of a speaker on an orange background. Did you know: n , Marlow, Gore and friend Paul Redmond created a music band named the French Look, with Marlow on vocals and keyboards, Gore on guitar and Redmond on keyboards. Some limited edition albums only get produced in quantities of or , and some rarer ones might only be made in batches of Well, this one is even rarer!
Did you know: The band actually got their name from an infamous film. The Misfits got their signature name from the final movie that Marilyn Monroe had made right before her unfortunate death back in Elvis appears again on our list with his release: Speedway.
Did you know: This is quite a strange story. However, I do wish we could have been able to see this one. George Harrison did some work on it, and the Fab Four decided to print it themselves. Demento radio show. The very first record of legendary singer and songwriter, Elton John, can fetch a whole lot of cash at auction. You do need a very specific version of it, however, if you want to get the big bucks. He was nicknamed and called Reggie or Reg.
However, once he legitimately changed his name back in , he no longer wanted to be associated with his previous name. Early promotional copies can sell for a few hundred dollars, but you can get even more for a rarer version. One was me, and the other was my guitar. Most of the entries on our list so far have been limited to the genres of pop and rock and roll music, but even classical music has its super rare records that can be worth thousands of dollars.
Warhol was an unknown at the time, doing a bit of work for his own exposure. Did you know: Johann was born in , in Austria. Unfortunately, Johann was beaten by his dad when the truth finally came out. At age 19, he started his own orchestra to compete with his dads but unfortunately, because his dad was so famous, it was hard for him to find gigs. A soundtrack, featuring a mixture of music and dialogue, was made but never sold.
Did you know: Austrian-born film composer Max Steiner was the grandson of the musical impresario who discovered Strauss and brought Offenbach to Vienna. Growing up with a rich heritage of opera and symphony all about him, Steiner developed into a musical prodigy; at the age of 13 he graduated from the Imperial Academy of Music, completing the course in one year and winning the Gold Medal of the Emperor.
One of the greatest works of punk rock ever made, God Save the Queen is simply iconic and forever associated with the Sex Pistols. The label destroyed the rest after falling out with the band for their crazy antics and unruly behavior. Did you know: Having been raised in poverty, John Lydon used to make paper boats and float them down streams of water. He would touch the water and of course, like any child, he would put his fingers in his mouth.
Little to his knowledge, he was sharing his yard with diseased rats which gave him meningitis as a result. He suffered with a few negative side effects but grew up to be the famous John Lydon! A special Australian copy of Pride In the name of love was made, with just 50 copies of the inch single said to exist. Did you know: A small band that began with poor musical talent and an inadequate ability to do covers went on to become a worldwide sensation by the mids.
They managed to sell twelve studio albums — all of which are included in the all-time best-selling music musicians, having sold over million records internationally.
Xanadu is regarded as one of the worst films of all time, but the soundtrack, strangely enough, is immensely valuable! Rumors say that Olivia Newton-John hated the photo of her used on the cover, so she asked the company to stop making the discs. Allegedly, the label, Blue Note, making the album ran out of actual labels to use. Did you know: If you are familiar with his work, you will notice that his s recordings were identified by light, smooth tone, and rhythmic complexity.
Sometimes the intricacy of his rhythmic conceptions collided with his precise timing and high-level technique. An old legend said that the singer, Robert Johnson, actually did meet the devil and sold his soul to become a famous musician. Did you know: Habe you heard of the tale of the troubled man making a pact with the devil?
As legend has it, he returned with a formidable technique and a mastery of the blues. Many of the records on our list date back to the 70s, 80s, or even further, but this one is quite modern, so what makes it so valuable?
Well, for starters, only 15 copies were made! Not only that, but each and every one of those 15 copies were hand-painted by Italy Records founder, Dave Buick. Well, the White Stripes announced that they were breaking up on their website. They claimed that the reason was not due to artistic differences or lack of wanting to continue, nor any well-being issues as both Meg and Jack are feeling fine and in good health. The band never actually got signed to any label but did still get a record produced, without the band even knowing about it, through a shady scam with the mob.
The scam involved lots of records being pressed and then written off as unsold to free the parent company of heavy taxes. Did you know: Stonewall riots, also known as the Stonewall uprising, known for their series of violent encounters that started on June 28, Check your collection.
If you have the artwork described, you're barking up the right tree. Nirvana — Bleach Sub Pop. Other reissues are also valuable, but this is the pick of the bunch. However, certain records are worth a pretty penny. Have a look out for mono copies of his debut album titled Rock and Roll in the UK. The first major group to eschew singles, Led Zeppelin insisted that fans buy whole albums if they wanted to listen to them. The BBC Sessions, released in , includes many previously unreleased recordings.
One of the most popular albums of all time, it was an immediate success upon release and has possibly the most iconic album artwork of all time. Copies with a solid blue triangle on the LP are the ones you want to look out for and are particularly valuable. What, you thought the biggest band of all time only had one entry on this list? You're looking for a gram blue vinyl copy not hard to spot with a 6-eye label. Columbia switched to a 2-eye label in , making the former versions more valuable today.
Mono original copies of this LP with a red inner sleeve and poster are worth keeping an eye out for. One to hold on to. Stereo vs. Click here to visit our rare records store.
A good example of this would be the recordings of Elvis Presley. While his first five records for the Memphis-based Sun label sold reasonably well for their day, their sales figures were minuscule compared to those of his later releases on RCA, making the Sun versions fairly valuable. On the other hand, records by artists that are not of interest to collectors will have little value, regardless of age.
There are many records in the easy listening genre from the s, such as those by Ray Conniff or Percy Faith, that are now some 60 years old, but they still sell for only a couple of dollars in most used records stores, provided they bother to offer them for sale at all.
This should be obvious, but the artist in question will be a big factor in determining the value of a record. While tens of thousands of artists have released records since the invention of the medium, not all of them interest the public in equal measure. Some artists are simply more popular as well as more collectible than others. Artists in the rock, blues, jazz, classical and soul categories tend to be more collectible than those in the easy listening, country, spoken word or comedy categories.
Some artists tend to have a longtime following, while others are popular only while they are actively recording.
With the former, such as Elvis Presley, Pink Floyd, blues singer Robert Johnson, or the Beatles, many of their records remain both valuable and highly collectible long after they stopped recording or even after their deaths.
Other artists may have had records with high values only during the time they were recording, with prices in the collector market dropping considerably after they finished their careers or when they passed away. On the other hand, records by the Beatles are selling for the highest prices ever and prices remain steady more than 50 years after they released their last album.
Exceptions to that exist; that can come in the form of artists who were never particularly popular, but who were influential in the industry. None of these artists were very successful and their records sold poorly when new.
All three were enormous influences on other musicians, however, and as a result, their records sell for surprisingly high prices today. This factor is pretty straightforward when it comes to vinyl records value ; records that sold well and are quite common are going to be less valuable than records that sold poorly or are hard to find.
On the other hand, even records that sold well when new can become scarce in time, especially when one takes the condition of the record into account. Albums by Elvis Presley and the Beatles sold millions of copies when they were first released, but finding nice original copies of those records now can be difficult, as many have been thrown away or damaged through heavy play or abuse.
In the s, it was rare for even a popular album to sell much more than a million copies. By the s, albums selling more than 5 million copies were relatively common. A good example of this would be Music from the Elder by Kiss, released in Released after a string of best-selling albums, Music from the Elder had a different sound from their previous releases and offered no hit songs and no songs that regularly received airplay.
As a result, the album sold poorly and soon went out of print. Because the condition of a record is held to be important by collectors, the ideal example of a record to own, in the eyes of many collectors, would be one that has never been played at all. Because of this, collectors will often pay a huge premium for sealed, unopened examples of records they are seeking. When record albums were first offered in the late s, they were sold without any external wrapping on the cover. Customers in record stores could remove the records from the cover and many stores would even allow them to play the records to help them make a buying decision.
This led to problems with both theft and damage, and by the early s, a number of large retailers started sealing their albums in plastic bags. Eventually, this practice was picked up by the major record companies, who began protecting their covers with shrink wrap. In general, a copy of an album that is still in original, unopened shrink wrap will sell for a lot more money than one that is in opened condition, even if the opened copy has not been played.
The difference in price can range from modest to quite significant, depending on the artist and title. Sealed copies of older albums by the Beatles might sell for as much as ten times the price of an opened example, for instance. This is a case where age can affect vinyl records value , as the older an album is, the harder it is to find a copy that has never been opened or played.
One factor that can influence vinyl records value is having the autograph of the artist on it. When it comes to musical groups and autographs, albums that are autographed by the entire group will sell for substantially higher prices than those with the signatures of some, but not all, members. Autographed records with provenance, such as a photograph of the artist signing the record, tend to bring the highest prices of all.
They are also pressed in relatively small quantities compared to stock copies of the same records. Sometimes, promotional copies of a particular record may be different from the stock counterpart. On other occasions, a record may be issued only as a promotional item.
Such albums may be live recordings, made for radio broadcast, or perhaps compilation albums, again intended to stimulate airplay. A promo-only Rolling Stones record, for example, will attract far more interest from collectors than one by Andy Williams.
Some records have sold so poorly in stores that the promotional copies are actually more common than the stock counterparts. Promotional copies with a pink label, while relatively rare, are probably ten times more common than the stock copies with black labels, of which fewer than 20 copies are known to exist. We have written an extensive article about white label promo records; you can read it here.
This issue of scarcity comes into play when one looks at whether a particular record was released by a small, regional label or a large national one. Larger labels have national distribution and multiple pressing plants, and popular records might be pressed in the millions.
Smaller labels might press only a few hundred or several thousand copies of a particular record. There are examples of records being initially released on small labels and then later released on larger labels when the small record company negotiated a distribution deal with the larger label in order to sell more records. An example of this would be the surf album Pipeline by the Chantays, which was originally released on the California-based Downey label. When the song became a hit, Downey struck a deal with the nationally distributed Dot records to have them release the album instead.
Today, copies of the album on the Downey label are far harder to find than their Dot counterparts, and sell for higher prices. Sometimes an artist will release records on a small label and then move to a larger one.
In these cases, their earlier releases tend to be more collectible than their later ones. As the records by the group issued by RCA sold quite well, they tend to sell for modest prices. Another example, also in the country genre, is the first album by Jim Reeves.
His first album, Jim Reeves Sings , was issued in on the small Abbott label. When that album began to sell well, Reeves moved to major label RCA. A given album or single might have been released with several different labels on the disc itself, even among releases by the same record company. Record companies often change the appearance of the labels used on their records. While it has happened less often in recent decades, changes in label art an appearance were quite common among the major labels during the s and s.
Records by the Beatles, for instance, were released by Capitol Records on a black label with a rainbow colored perimeter, a green label, a red label, a custom Apple label, an orange label, a purple label, and a new version of the original black label, all over a period of about 20 years. As a rule, collectors tend to favor original pressings, so for a given title, the most desirable label variation would be whichever one was in use on the day the record was originally released for sale to the public.
There are exceptions to this, however. The red Capitol label mentioned above was commonly used in the early s for a number of titles, but was never intended to be used for records by the Beatles. Sometimes, minor differences on labels can make a difference, as well.
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