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Moogtron III 
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Joined: April 26 2005 Location: Belgium Status: Offline Points: 10616 |
 Posted: March 19 2007 at 08:31 |
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I'm not a big spender. I think the most expensive cd I ever bought was The Buggles' Adventures In Modern Recording, and that was only €36,50. |
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kazansky
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Joined: December 24 2006 Location: Indonesia Status: Offline Points: 5085 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 08:42 |
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most expensive...probably Dream Theater - Live at Budokan(about 35 US$), followed by Kamelot's One Cold Winter's Night(aboout 30US$+)
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The devil we blame our atrocities on is really just each one of us.
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Snow Dog
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 09:13 |
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I'm usually more proud of how cheap I managed to buy something.....
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MikeEnRegalia
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 21193 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 09:16 |
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^ me too. Yesterday for example I won an Ebay auction: Maxophone - Maxophone (1975), Mini-LP (CD) for €8.72
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Snow Dog
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 09:23 |
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^^I bought 5 Years In A Livetime Cd at £7 in a sale at Virgin
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darkmatter
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Joined: November 23 2006 Location: New Jersey Status: Offline Points: 2760 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 10:05 |
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WOW, there is a copy of PT's Recordings on eBay selling for £6.... That seems too suspicious to me considering how much is usually is. And I'm not just saying that just because I paid more!
 Oh wait, nevermind, I thought it was on the buy it now list.... That price will shoot up. Edited by darkmatter - March 19 2007 at 10:07 |
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The Miracle
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Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 17:55 |
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I agree it's his best, pure masterliness!  But I got it for $18 |
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The Miracle
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Joined: May 29 2005 Location: hell Status: Offline Points: 28427 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 18:00 |
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Just odered Naked City complete studio recordings, for 80 bucks.
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mcxwell
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Joined: January 02 2007 Location: Indonesia Status: Offline Points: 36 |
Posted: March 19 2007 at 23:21 |
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yeah, me too..
but it's very difficult to find cheap prog CDs here.. 
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There is no Best, just DIfferent..
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BroSpence
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Joined: March 05 2007 Status: Offline Points: 2614 |
Posted: March 20 2007 at 01:28 |
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Between 25-30 bucks for various things I think. One of which was T. Rex's Futuristic Dragon (on cd).
Almost 33 bucks for Eddie Hazel's only full length, but that bid went up to 66 after a minute so I didn't bid after my initial 33. |
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mystic fred
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 13 2006 Location: Londinium Status: Offline Points: 4252 |
Posted: March 21 2007 at 09:19 |
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i got a bargain last week - PG's "US" album on double vinyl in mint condition from my local used record store for £1.99 !!
 there seems to be a 500% premium on Prog records there - Peter Gabriel is prog-related so that may explain the price drop
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: March 21 2007 at 09:32 |
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Not at all - you can get loads of prog really cheaply on vinyl in second hand stores;
All the Yes, ELP and Genesis albums nearly always appear in the bargain bins, and I snapped up some Steve Hackett, Klaus Schulze, Kansas, Triumvirat and Tangerine Dream recently for about £2 per album.
Gentle Giant, Ozric Tentacles, Peter Gabriel, Marillion, Supertramp, BJH, Hawkwind, Rush, Gong, Steve Hillage and Pink Floyd often turn up at bargain prices too - All the foundations of a good prog rock collection
 If you're lucky, you'll find a first press that the store owner overlooked. I recently found a first press of DSOTM priced at £5 - I felt like I was stealing the thing, as it regularly goes for £150 on eBay, even without the posters and stickers;
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 21193 |
Posted: March 21 2007 at 09:57 |
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^ I also love to go "bargain hunting" in second hand record/CD stores ... I once picked up Ron Thal's "Hermit" for €6, for example (Ebay).
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Snow Dog
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2005 Location: Caerdydd Status: Offline Points: 32995 |
Posted: March 21 2007 at 10:19 |
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We can talk about our bargains here....
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Politician
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Joined: July 02 2005 Status: Offline Points: 521 |
Posted: March 21 2007 at 13:25 |
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Courtyard Music Group's "Chan Eíl Ann Seo Ach Cuíd Dha'r Du Rachd Dhuít" (1974) for £1000. It's a classic psychedelic folk album, and extremely rare.
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: March 22 2007 at 04:07 |
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^ In the world of psych-folk, Comus "First Utterance" and Tudor Lodge's self-titled albums go for similar amounts.
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The important thing is not to stop questioning.
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MikeEnRegalia
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 22 2005 Location: Sweden Status: Offline Points: 21193 |
Posted: March 22 2007 at 04:21 |
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^ what's the deal with these "first pressings" ... do they sound better, or is it just a collectors thing?
BTW: First Utterance was recently re-released on vinyl ... I might even buy it! |
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Certif1ed
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 08 2004 Location: England Status: Offline Points: 7559 |
Posted: March 26 2007 at 13:14 |
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"First Utterance" has been re-released on vinyl before - beware, the first re-issue is awful!
The deal with First pressings is that they are the very closest you can get to the original sound, as they came from the original mix on the original master tape - the trick with an audiophile collector like me is to find an early pressing with the earliest stamper numbers on;
If you understand the vinyl LP manufacturing process, then you'll realise that the first stampers are going to sound better than later stampers, due to wear on the mothers.
That rather fine-detail aside, later runs (2nd pressings and so on) are invariably packaged more cheaply and made with cheaper materials - the vinyl is typically thinner, and thinner vinyl means less up and down movement of the stylus, which equates to a thinner, less detailed sound.
Late 1970s/oil crisis pressings are worst of all.
Recently there has been a trend for 180g pressings and so on. This is all laudable, but other details need to be taken into consideration, such as the quality of the vinyl itself, and the original source of the music.
The very best re-issues are re-mastered at half speed from the original master tapes - some of these can actually be better than first pressings (but only if the first presing was on inferior vinyl).
So it depends, really...
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Alucard
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Honorary Collaborator Joined: September 10 2004 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 3888 |
Posted: March 26 2007 at 13:37 |
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being not a real audiophile (I've never had a great stereo outfit) I rarely listen anymore to vynyl, but this summer I found by chance a record shop in Berlin with a decent vynyl (mint) section and I bought quite cheaply Lancaster/Perry 'Marscapes' which to my knowledge was never released on CD (not such a wild record either, unless you a are a big Brand-X fan) and a Franco Battiato record which I 've neversaw before.
So I am looking more and more into vynyl bargain bins again and it's more fun then I thought. While the average CD bargain bin is 95% garbage, you can find some interesting stuff (see Cert's recent discovery) in vynyl bins. Some weeks ago I found some nice Soft Prog 'Golden Avatar' I bought it mainly for the cover and a 1976 CBS compilation 'Progressive Rock' '(mainly Jazz Rock)just for the title. As I bought most vynyls when they came out, I payed them the regular price. Maybe the most expensive was a Stan Getz/ Joao Gilberto Japanese pressing which sounds very good and hasn't altered as these cheapo rereleases and a Deep Purple 'Made In Japan' which I bought in a real small record shop when it came out.
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Tadpoles keep screaming in my ear
"Hey there! Rotter's Club! Explain the meaning of this song and share it" |
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Zoot Allures
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Joined: July 20 2006 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 127 |
Posted: March 26 2007 at 20:33 |
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All on vinyl.
Metallica - Metal Up Your Ass (Bootleg) $40
Original (Italian) pressing Pink Floyd - Ummagumma $40
Original (British) pressing Jimi Hendrix - Electric Ladyland $40
Jimi Hendrix - Radio 1 Sessions (Limited German press 5000 copies) $35
Original pressing Lynyrd Skynyrd - Street Survivor (Flaming album cover) $35
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The music business is a cruel and shallow money trench, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free, and good men die like dogs. There's also a negative side. - Hunter S. Thompson
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