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    Posted: July 08 2005 at 23:18
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 08 2005 at 23:55

Some expensive ones:

Triumvirat....Illusions on a Double Dimple: US$ 36.00 (Plain CD)

Rick Wakeman.......Criminal Record and No Earthly Connection: US$ 45.00 each one (Japanese Edition)

But my record is Yes Relayer  US$ 1,200.00 (Yes One thousand two hundreed bucks, the whole credit line that was left in that card).........I bought it by Internet when I was a newbie with the web stores, bought it in a wrong place and found somebody  charged this amount to my credit card, thanks God I had an insurance and the company had more accusations, so the money was cancelled by the insurance company who sued the web store (but this was not my problem).

The web store said that a hacker got my credit card number but later I was informed that the web store was responsible.

Since that day I don't buy with credit cards on Internet.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 00:06
Paid about a hundred bucks for both Genesis Archives 1968-1975 and Phish - Hampton Comes Alive
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 03:22
Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Some expensive ones:

Triumvirat....Illusions on a Double Dimple: US$ 36.00 (Plain CD)

Rick Wakeman.......Criminal Record and No Earthly Connection: US$ 45.00 each one (Japanese Edition)

But my record is Yes Relayer  US$ 1,200.00 (Yes One thousand two hundreed bucks, the whole credit line that was left in that card).........I bought it by Internet when I was a newbie with the web stores, bought it in a wrong place and found somebody  charged this amount to my credit card, thanks God I had an insurance and the company had more accusations, so the money was cancelled by the insurance company who sued the web store (but this was not my problem).

The web store said that a hacker got my credit card number but later I was informed that the web store was responsible.

Since that day I don't buy with credit cards on Internet.

Iván

That's a lot of money for a CD, but I think Relayer is worth it

In general I have the principal I won't pay more than 15€ for a CD, mostly even lower, only on occasion I pay a little more, but it has to be something I desperatly want.

The most I payed was for a combination purchase.
90,- € for the triple live box, and the DVD from Led Zeppelin (don't remember the individual prizes) worth every stuiver, but still a lot of money. 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 07:03

For me, the most expensive single cd was  a Japanese version of Adventures In Medern Recording by The Buggles. 80 Dutch guilders, which is about 36 euro, which is about 43 American dollars.

It was well worth it! I still love both Buggles albums.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 07:08
 I paid 50 bucks on Ebay for Animal Notes a CD by a local art rock group called Crack the Sky.  It was out of print at the time.  Now you can get it for twenty bucks.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 07:34
€40 for Ron Thal's The Adventures Of Bumblefoot.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 08:38
Back in the golden days when people still bought vinyls, somewhere in the mid 80s, I must have been 16 or 17, I bought Robert Calvert's "Lucky Leif and the Longships", an album I knew my brother had been hunting for for years, in a 2nd-hand shop as a birthday present for him. It was a pretty rare item at that time and set me back 105 DM, about 7 or 8 times the price for new LPs back then. He was extraordinary pleased. It came into my possession again when he decided to only listen to classical and jazz from now on and gave his whole collection to me.


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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 08:44
£1000 ($1700), for COURTYARD MUSIC GROUP's "Chan Eíl Ann Seo Ach
Cuíd Dha'r Du Rachd Dhuít" (1974). This was a privately pressed
psychedelic folk album, issued in a run of 100 copies, cut by pupils at a
Scottish public school. The headmaster was friends with Robin
Williamson, and encouraged his pupils to cut an acid-folk album in the
INCREDIBLE STRING BAND vein. The album is much more electric,
however, often resembling PAUL GIOVANNI & MAGNET (who cut the
superb soundtrack to the incredible cult film "The Wicker Man").

£1000 albums are relatively rare, but many psychedelic, progressive and
folk/rock classics from the seventies (both private pressings and obscure
major label releases) regularly sell for around the £300 to £500 mark.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 09:43
Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Some expensive ones:

Triumvirat....Illusions on a Double Dimple: US$ 36.00 (Plain CD)

Rick Wakeman.......Criminal Record and No Earthly Connection: US$ 45.00 each one (Japanese Edition)

But my record is Yes Relayer  US$ 1,200.00 (Yes One thousand two hundreed bucks, the whole credit line that was left in that card).........I bought it by Internet when I was a newbie with the web stores, bought it in a wrong place and found somebody  charged this amount to my credit card, thanks God I had an insurance and the company had more accusations, so the money was cancelled by the insurance company who sued the web store (but this was not my problem).

The web store said that a hacker got my credit card number but later I was informed that the web store was responsible.

Since that day I don't buy with credit cards on Internet.

Iván

Wow. I won't spend more than $17 for a single CD album or $24-$25 for a double album. That's why I was so pysched when a thread a while ago introduced me to Syn-Phonic, because I could get Camel (and all this other music) for less than $25.... So I'm a miser, tightwad, whatever...

But the most I've ever paid for a single CD is probably $17, double $23.

 

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 10:34

I saw a Porcupine Tree rarity going for £149.99 on ebay this week... and also recently, there have been a spate of old DT fanclub releases, which have exceeded £100.

Personally, I don't understand it.  On the basis that I spend about £5 per CD, that would be 20 or 30 CDs for me to explore.  Surely, no music can be worth that kind of money... can it?

My List of albums recently purchased for £3 (just under $5 each):

Cairo: Conflicts & Dreams; Time Of Legends

Magellan: Impending Ascention

Eloy: Performance (Remastered)

Everon: Paradoxes, Flood, Venus

Evergrey: Solitude + Dominance + Tragedy; The Dark Discovery

Marillion: Marbles

Neal Morse: Testimony

Spock's Beard: The Light

Tiles: Tiles

That's a whole lot of listens for considerably less than the price of 1 DT fan club CD!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 10:43
Originally posted by fandango fandango wrote:

I saw a Porcupine Tree rarity going for £149.99 on ebay this week... and also recently, there have been a spate of old DT fanclub releases, which have exceeded £100.

Personally, I don't understand it.  On the basis that I spend about £5 per CD, that would be 20 or 30 CDs for me to explore.  Surely, no music can be worth that kind of money... can it?

Most people who pay those amounts for albums are collectors, and the music only plays a minor role. Most of these albums are never played, because it would endanger their condition.

My Ron Thal CD for €40 was the only expensive CD that I ever bought. Appart from a few CDs for a little more than €20 (double albums, limited edition digibooks), my CDs average at €10.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 13:12
I think maybe about $24 or so for Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 14:29
The most expensive album I've ever seen that's neither very long nor at all rare is The Wall. Standard price in either Virgin on HMV (I forget which) is £30.99. And that's for 81 minutes of CD audio in a stupidly big case . Needless to say I got it on sale, for a tenner. The most I've paid is probably 15, 16 pounds but I wouldn't know what for.
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 15:03
I bought my Atheist CD-collection last year on ebay.
Piece Of Time - 30 eur
Unquestionable Presence - 55 usd
Elements - 18 gbp
so I paid 125 usd approx for 3 used(!) CDs.   One will able to buy them for less than 40 usd from September.  
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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 15:31
Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Some expensive ones:

Triumvirat....Illusions on a Double Dimple: US$ 36.00 (Plain CD)

Rick Wakeman.......Criminal Record and No Earthly Connection: US$ 45.00 each one (Japanese Edition)

But my record is Yes Relayer  US$ 1,200.00 (Yes One thousand two hundreed bucks, the whole credit line that was left in that card).........I bought it by Internet when I was a newbie with the web stores, bought it in a wrong place and found somebody  charged this amount to my credit card, thanks God I had an insurance and the company had more accusations, so the money was cancelled by the insurance company who sued the web store (but this was not my problem).

The web store said that a hacker got my credit card number but later I was informed that the web store was responsible.

Since that day I don't buy with credit cards on Internet.

Iván

Wow. I won't spend more than $17 for a single CD album or $24-$25 for a double album. That's why I was so pysched when a thread a while ago introduced me to Syn-Phonic, because I could get Camel (and all this other music) for less than $25.... So I'm a miser, tightwad, whatever...

But the most I've ever paid for a single CD is probably $17, double $23.

You must understand the circumstances Arsillus.

Due to my experience with Web Shops I refuse to use my credit cards to buy things on the net, it may be secure today, but it took me a lot of time to recover my US$ 1,200.00 and clean my credit history, so I won't take the risk again.

I used to buy with special cards that you can get at some banks in which you deposit just the amount for the item you want to buy and then throw it away, but Peruvian customs places 32% + 18% tax (based in Peruvian Price) for items that exceed US$ 100, so it is expensive also.

In Perú the record stores buy the CD's from US stores (often with the sticker that says Best Buy or Sale), but this arseholes sell them in US$ 26.00 if it's simple and US$ 40.00 if it's double.

I love Triumvirat but only one store had IOADD because no store sell CD's from Europe and this guy wanted 36 bucks, so I had to pay (two other guys were waiting to buy it if I left it).

The Wakeman (Criminal Record and No Earthly Connection) albums have never been released on CD outside Japan, and my girlfriend bought them in Kyoto, but we know their prices are very high, so I had to pay her the 90 bucks that the two albums costed.

This thing of living in the third world is a crap.

Iván



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Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Originally posted by Arsillus Arsillus wrote:

Originally posted by ivan_2068 ivan_2068 wrote:

Some expensive ones:

Triumvirat....Illusions on a Double Dimple: US$ 36.00 (Plain CD)

Rick Wakeman.......Criminal Record and No Earthly Connection: US$ 45.00 each one (Japanese Edition)

But my record is Yes Relayer  US$ 1,200.00 (Yes One thousand two hundreed bucks, the whole credit line that was left in that card).........I bought it by Internet when I was a newbie with the web stores, bought it in a wrong place and found somebody  charged this amount to my credit card, thanks God I had an insurance and the company had more accusations, so the money was cancelled by the insurance company who sued the web store (but this was not my problem).

The web store said that a hacker got my credit card number but later I was informed that the web store was responsible.

Since that day I don't buy with credit cards on Internet.

Iván

Wow. I won't spend more than $17 for a single CD album or $24-$25 for a double album. That's why I was so pysched when a thread a while ago introduced me to Syn-Phonic, because I could get Camel (and all this other music) for less than $25.... So I'm a miser, tightwad, whatever...

But the most I've ever paid for a single CD is probably $17, double $23.

You must understand the circumstances Arsillus.

Due to my experience with Web Shops I refuse to use my credit cards to buy things on the net, it may be secure today, but it took me a lot of time to recover my US$ 1,200.00 and clean my credit history, so I won't take the risk again.

I used to buy with special cards that you can get at some banks in which you deposit just the amount for the item you want to buy and then throw it away, but Peruvian customs places 32% + 18% tax (based in Peruvian Price) for items that exceed US$ 100, so it is expensive also.

In Perú the record stores buy the CD's from US stores (often with the sticker that says Best Buy or Sale), but this arseholes sell them in US$ 26.00 if it's simple and US$ 40.00 if it's double.

I love Triumvirat but only one store had IOADD because no store sell CD's from Europe and this guy wanted 36 bucks, so I had to pay (two other guys were waiting to buy it if I left it).

The Wakeman (Criminal Record and No Earthly Connection) albums have never been released on CD outside Japan, and my girlfriend bought them in Kyoto, but we know their prices are very high, so I had to pay her the 90 bucks that the two albums costed.

This thing of living in the third world is a crap.

Iván

Oh, I do understand the circumstances. It's not your fault. I was just commenting on how much money those were.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 16:00
I paid £65 for an original copy of Cottonwood Hill by Brainticket on the Bellaphon label.Fantastic record and not a bad price I'd say.

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 17:53

i believe it was a GENTLE GIANT album, maybe three friends or any other, that cost me 50 reais, that should be like 21 dollars... Here in brasil imported records are impressively expensive... an uncle of mine bought tales from topographic oceans (perhaps yes's best recording) for 120 reais, that should be like 52 dollars  

Oh, i don't get you guys, paying 36 dollars for Triumvirat's Illusions... i bought it here in brasil for 20 reais (8 dollars). being a brasilian prog fan is great sometimes!

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Direct Link To This Post Posted: July 09 2005 at 20:11
Pay for music? How quaint.

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