$2,200 for a disco 12" on Ebay????
djtopcat
Seattle WA The 206 312 Posts
I know there's some expensive records, I collect rare 60's 70's psych rock but I think this price for something from the disco era is pure insanity! My friend alerted me to this, I could go live in Thailand for that price. lol
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARTIN-DUMAS-Attitude-Belief-Determination-12-Rare-Disco-Boogie-Funk-SEALED-/191537852242?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c988baf52
http://www.ebay.com/itm/MARTIN-DUMAS-Attitude-Belief-Determination-12-Rare-Disco-Boogie-Funk-SEALED-/191537852242?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&hash=item2c988baf52
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Disco Time Machine
It's aiight.... Not burning dance floors like Tony Aiken for a 1/20th of the price:
There's already a bootleg of that record, and more to come.
That's a ridiculous inflated price for any piece of wax. Sorry just my 2 cents. I paid $1 for an original Lou Ragland-Hot Chocolate lp.
No I'm just not a fool who would pay that much for a damn record lol
I think the most I've ever paid was $500 for a mega rare psych record with about 3 sickening drum breaks, fuzz guitar, moog synths. I had to have it. I used my tax return and treated myself, but that was a rare exception.
For the record I have collected all genres, I made the example of psychedelic rock because it blows away any other genres price max in general. An un played copy of the XIAN psych rock monster Search Party sold for 11k! There's some foreign psych rock records that go upwards 2k minimum. There's also John's Children, Tinkerbell's Fairydust..early Beatles (The Quarrymen) promos big $$$
Not psych rock but Sex Pistols God save the queen promo 45 with notes etc is now 7 to 8k My uncle has it.
To each his own I guess
Someone who is worth a few million or more, for them dropping a couple of grand on a record is the equivalent of most folks dropping $1 on a record.
The main difference is they don't need to dig and pray they come across a track in a dollar bin one day. They just buy it. If I had money, I won't be searching in dusty barns wishing I came across some rare car. I'd just buy what I want.
And hating on disco records going for coin? Stick in your lane.
That's right, you tell the man in the big yellow hat how it is.
No.
Not psych.
Not promo.
Classical records, soul 45s and blues 78s seem to be stronger markets for 4 figure records than psych.
Not that there are not a lot of money psych records.
Modern soul and disco are 2 of the strongest collecting fields right now, I would expect prices to continue to climb.
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=disco&so=p
http://collectorsfrenzy.com/search?q=modern+soul&so=p
There are plenty of djs who play the rarest of the rare out.
More power to you if you can find the records you want in the dollar bin.
Records are magnified in sonic value by their rarity n price tag.
Johnny Bristol on Handshake is fantastic at 5 bucks; it would be a stellar sound if it was rare and 500.
Comiskey Park was actually instigated to make Bee Gees deadstock more collectible. These dudes were all record dealers.
great, great song & if it's rare enough it's absolutely worth $2k. lmao at topcat's "disco sucks" stance.
I've been buying and selling rare records of all genres since I was in high school, I'm 44 now. I pretty much lived on Popsike like some people do on Facebook now.
True there's some mega rare blues 78's that fetch huge $$$ Tommy Johnson,Robert Johnson etc. Some early jazz stuff is the same deal. Rare early Blue Note promos etc. Everyone knows about the Hank Mobley which is impossible to find.
However it is 100% indisputable fact that the rock genre has the highest average top record prices of all time. Sorry despite the modern soul/disco surge none are ever going to sell for what that John Lennon assassination evidence lp sold for. I think it was $150,000 or something? There's several rock genre albums I can name that are not even in this list, many are psych or 70's prog monster rarities too. Some of that obscure South American psych stuff sells starting at 1k and goes up from there. Prog is going nuts too. Even I'm dumbfounded at what people are willing to pay sometimes.
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/yerblues/vinyl_fetish__a_list_of_some_of_the_most_valuable_vinyl_records/1/
I'd say as the list above indicates Northern Soul records would be second most valuable based on a whole. In fact at one point you could slap the "Northern Soul" tag on some obscure doo wop/soul 45 and it would fetch a higher price than it normally would without that tag. That's a fact because I did that as a seller on Ebay for years. I still do not know what a true "Northern Soul" record criteria is? Check out the final auction price for that Darrell Banks 1966 45 on London auction. The hardcore NS collectors are willing to shell out serious loot for 45's that I wouldn't pay 25 cents for. To each his own.
As far as playing an extremely rare and expensive record at a club gig (value of 1k + ) I would probably play it safe and press up a duplicate copy if possible and keep the original in a nice safe,secure place. If something happens to the copy no big.
Seriously what are you going to do if the record gets damaged at the gig and oops there are no more copies even if you had Floyd Mayweather type disposable income to go buy another? Just write it off and say it was still worth it? When in reality not a single drunk person in the club/bar etc is going to remember or for that matter care that you dropped a really rare expensive record in a set the night before.
So I guess when you're left holding that scratched,warped or cracked remains of your now $2,000 frisbee you can ponder that fateful decision and decide for yourself if it was really worth it? Lol
It's all relative to your personal situation on what the right price is. The might be an inconsequential amount of money to the person who bought it. Just remember each and every one of us is a unique snowflake.
The question is do you collect "psych funk" with breaks?
I could dispute it.
Hahaha!!
This is great.
Staying on topic, I bought the Dumas reish. $300 is my limit on any single piece, but it's all relative and I'd spend $2K on it if I had millions.
For me, time is more important that money--you can always make more money, but you can only borrow time, so I will sometimes overpay to get shit online rather than scour the city in search of the next "hit".
I've been spending a lot of time watching Curious George with my toddler lately, and MWTYH lives in a 4 bedroom high rise apartment in the city - with a doorman - has a two story house in the country, and never ever seems to do work. George ends up doing it all anyways. Dude is rich and probably spends this kind of loot on disco 12s anyways.
Disco
Punk
Disco
Grunge
Northern
Beatles
Blue Note
Disco
Soul
Psych
Afro
Prog
Soul
Lol well this dubious list just proves my original statement. 5 of the 11 (disco and soul listed twice ;)) in the list are from the rock music genre. That's almost half of the top sellers (punk,grunge,Beatles,prog,psych) I would probably list red hot selling black metal too. Mayhem's Deathcrush lp has sold for as high as 3k. The average is $200. A much smaller genre but still rock.
No doubt soul/disco is a hot seller now which makes me very happy because I'm about to sell 1,000 disco promos I bought from a former disco dj's estate! :P I do like soulful disco tunes,and some Italo Disco but the rest is just not my thing so I'd rather sell them all off.
Anyway I think we can all agree that a record is only worth what someone is willing to pay for it at the time. Some records are just automatic a certain minimum price, some go up and some go down. The fact that the Dumas 12" sold to one person for 2k+ a month ago and just recently for $800 proves that point. :D
They did a pretty good job with it, too.
http://www.discogs.com/Martin-Dumas-Jr-Attitude-Belief-Determination/release/7012435
Yes we know. you've now told us half a dozen times. congrats...