I’ve been looking at a The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud CD on e-bay that’s going for £60. I really want it but I just can’t bring myself to pay that much. Truth is I’ve paid that in the past but times change and I think it’s too much. Actually it’s probably a fair price considering it’s rarity but I have a limit I’ll pay and I think that’s probably about £30. I’ve come to realise that records I’ve been chasing for a collection for a long time are usually a great disappointment and if I’m honest not very good, so the maximum amount I’ll pay has come down lately.
What do you think should be the limit for a collectible record?

Most I've paid for a single album is about £12.

If it makes you happy and its in mint ?
Go for it.
I would not pay that for a cd though.
There are a few on Amazon alot cheaper than £60

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The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud

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The Moon Lay Hidden Beneath a Cloud were a musical duo from Austria comprised of Albin Julius and Alzbeth. They worked from 1993 until 1998.

The duo’s music was inspired by myriad aspects of European medievalism, including ritual clerical chants and the daily experience of the peasantry. They combined modern industrial electronics, tape loops and samplers with medieval instruments such as the shawm, hurdy gurdy, and Hexenscheit. Alzbeth was the primary vocalist for the group and often sang traditional songs in numerous archaic languages including Middle High German, Latin and Old French. Julius provided distorted and backup vocals.

Interesting music.

There is more on MySpace

However £60 seems a bit steep ( IMHO - please click)

I've paid £30 a few times for New and S/H records I'd pay more if I could afford it, but would not do it for an unkown album or artist that was said to be good, I like to know what I am buying before hand.



Dean..

I wouldn't pay any more than £3.99 at 'Our Price'.

Mark

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Originally posted by munch:
If it makes you happy and its in mint ?
Go for it.
I would not pay that for a cd though.
Its only £35.00 on amazon.
If its this one.


Munch

That one cost me £8 on e-bay.
It's the original of the smell of blood but victory. It's one of their less rare limited editions (2000 copies instead of 33 like some of the singles.)

For limited editions, especially with beautiful artwork I would pay a lot.

I do like owning CDs, not just listening to them, so I place value on them as I would an artwork, sculpture, etc, if they are made as something more than a disposable product.

I bought NIN Ghosts deluxe edition for $75, but not the super deluxe ($300 I think)


For just a disk of music I draw the line at around £50, but if I feel I am being ripped off I would consider getting it as a CDR or download.

I suspect that if I ever see an original silver CD of Orbital's 1992 EP Omen it will cost around that. I have been outbid on Ebay several times for that.

For an artwork related to a CD, I did pay £500 for a one off Tomato print, plus £100 for transport, which comproised of part of the source artworks for the Underworld album 'Second Toughest in the Infants'. It is 11 x 3 foot in size, hence the transport costs.

I wonder what the copy of Jean Michel Jarre's 'Music for Supermarkets' is worth now? A one off copy on vinyl (1983) as far as I remember.

I should add that I am single, with only a cat to support, and no mortgage and so have a reasonable disposable income. That could all change, and I can see that spending three figures on a CD would be something hard to justify to a partner.

Hi Jamie,
Is music for supermarkets worth a lot?

I have a phsycological barrier of £25, for albums and I don't remember spending more than that.

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Originally posted by munch:
Hi Jamie,
Is music for supermarkets worth a lot?

The one off original vinyl copy I am sure would be worth an awful lot as it was a single copy made for auction and the master plates destroyed.

There are bootlegs from the radio broadcast.

See - wikipedia - JMJ Music for Supermarkets

Thinking back on this subject, I bought two King Crimson box sets, 'Frame by Frame' and 'The Great Deceiver' shortly after I graduated, each were around £40 in the early 90s, and it was quite a lot for me then with a very limited income, so I have always been happy to spend on such things.

I am happy I did so as they both have great covers designed by Bill Smith as well as some of King Crimson's best music. The current editions I have seen have very disappointing packaging, even if the music is the same.

I once paid £55 for a Bruce Springsteen picture disc edition of 'Darkness' on vinyl when I was about 20 y.o. The bugger is still festering in the attic somewhere. At the time it was an awful lot of money but i was mildly obsessed.

Nearly paid £30 + for The national album Alligator with additional rarities and videos but decided not to go over £20.

£105 for a New Order record company in-house only CD.

Munch & ROTF are right; usually you can buy a rare record cheaper from Amazon Marketplace than eBay (don't forget to look at .co.uk & .com), & it's much safer too!

Fatfingers is also worth a try.
This searches eBay for auctions with misspellings.
As most buyers search eBay using correct spellings,
this often means no-one sees & bids on poorly listed items!

No limit as far as I am concerned.

I don't get people who spend a small fortune on expensive kit then refuse to buy the better (most of the time) more exotic pressings available. Like MFSL and DCC etc.

P

My biggest spend was £60 on a mint copy of Pink Floyd "Pulse" in the vinyl box set. I see Amazon has a set at the moment for £130 so maybe it was a relative bargain.

Normally I will not go over £10 for a CD or £20 for vinyl. Of late I have been buying a lot of CDs from Amazon and I guess the average price per CD has been around £5.

For an individual CD my max so far was $110 for a mint OOP Nat King Cole DCC.

I bought "In Rainbows" vinyl/CD/book set TWICE at $80 per set. One was a gift, and one for myself. One of the reasons (somewhat strange) I did this was because I thought it was so cool that Radiohead released the MP3 for "whatever feels right". For me $80 felt right for the set. No regrets, even though I don't actually have a TT. (Sandy - I should bring this over - it's 45 rpm - does your LP12 do 45? )

Paid 40 quid for a copy of 'It's too late to stop now' by Van Morrison only for the bugger to re issue it a year later

My sweet spot for a new CDs is £3 delivered (and it is surprising if you are patient and prepared to shop about the variety and quality of CDs you can buy for £3).

However I am happy to stretch to £5 as a norm.

New releases, sometimes I to have to go up to £8 :-(

I have been known to go to £13 but only for truly exceptional disks (usually double).

I have never bought anything recognised by me as rare or valuable. However, for popular (i.e. expensive) disks I would always be worried that a re-issue was around the corner if prices hit £30.

Cheers

worm (tight-ass)