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Old school, love it! What are your more rarer/valuable(?) CDs?
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I like the P-Vine records Japanese imports. A lot of good music on that label.
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I always looks over the CD selections at thrift stores/flea markets, etc. Prices are usially $1 or sometimes $2. Tough to find the bands I am looking for. ebay is good for buying lots. Record stores seem to price about 3X as high what you migh find online (no shipping costs, of course).
Someday, I hope to own complete CD runs of Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Megadeth, Scorpions, Red Hot Chili Peppers, AC/DC, and ZZ Top. Last edited by sthoemke; 09-09-2023 at 11:14 PM. |
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My Best One
My best CD is a 3 year at 5.85 %. non callable.
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The Japanese imports seem to bring the most money. I have some Japanese box sets for Thin Lizzy for example, and Aerosmith that contain every album in their catalog. These are very rare and expensive (around $1K).
Of course you aren't likely to find these at thrift stores. I bought the ones I have at a music auction of someone's estate that had collected hundreds of CD sets from Japan. The most desirable CDs you're likely to find "in the wild" are early pressings made in Japan or West Germany. This is where the first CD pressing plants were located. The first US pressings weren't until around 1984. Last edited by GasHouseGang; 09-12-2023 at 11:35 AM. |
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I don't "collect" cds or vinyl, although I have a lot of both (around 2,550 12" vinyl, 550 7" vinyl, and 1,000 cds). My wife says I have too much of both and I should get with the times, get rid of them and listen to stuff online. However, my vinyl is mostly from the 60s to mid-80s and I have no intention of getting rid of them. Also, like you, I like being able to hold the record/cd and pop it on whenever I want.
A site I love is Discogs. https://www.discogs.com/ You can catalogue what you have, find values of vinyl/cds/dvds, buy/sell items, etc. The values are based on items that have been sold (on their site I believe). They give a low, median, and high value. But you really need to look at the individual items sold to get a sense of their condition. That will help determine the value of your items and the value of items you want.
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I hate to break it to you Mike, but you do collect both records and CDs if you have 2500 records and 1000 CDs.
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As I mentioned before, typically the most valuable CD's are the first pressings made in Japan or West Germany (where the first CD plants were located). All of the early CD's sold in the US were from one of these plants. The first album to be released on CD was Billy Joel's 52nd Street, that reached the market alongside Sony's CD player CDP-101 on October 1, 1982 in Japan. Early the following year on March 2, 1983 CD players and discs (16 titles from CBS Records) were released in the United States and other markets.
The very earliest discs were either "black face" or "red face" disks. As the names imply, the entire front of the disc was either black or red and the words were where the color wasn't printed. Shortly after that many of the first "target" discs began to hit the market. Target discs get their name from the cross hairs painted on the rim every 90 degrees. I've attached a picture of some examples of the target discs. These were made from around 1982-1985. There are often different colors of the same disc available, so some people try to collect as many varieties as possible of their favorite groups. Early on the record companies weren't sure what to do with CDs. For vinyl records they use the RIAA curve. It is an equalization filter applied to vinyl records and then corrected in record player amplifiers in such a way that the listener is never aware that any change has occurred. On the record itself, songs are engraved so that low frequencies are cut in volume while high frequencies are boosted. Should they use the equalization they used for records on CDs? It was decided by most companies that since the CD was supposed to be nearly perfect from 20Hz-20KHz, that they would just go straight from the master tapes and put that onto the CD without any changes. That has made the early CDs the most desirable version to many collectors because you're getting a copy of the master tape (the way the band wanted the record to sound). |
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Collect what you enjoy, if it's CDs - that's ok.
I recently transferred all my VHS tapes to digital. I'm glad I did, because I can now share videos easily that were made back in the 80s - 90s. I canned the tapes after I made sure I had captured all the movies. Good move, it cleared very valuable storage space! I personally have only a couple of records, most belonged to my mother so I just keep them as a memory. Attached are a couple of photos, the Hank Williams was hers. |
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Great seeing that original Sun record, and I'm a fan of Chet Atkins. I don't collect them, but would certainly keep them if they came from my family.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoO6XVCKDc8 I have a lot of old vinyl. I need to go through them sometime. I have no clue what is there..... .
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