Hullo 313ers, On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Aidan O'Doherty wrote:
> just trying to get a feel for the market price of sought-after > techno/house records. just who are willing to shell out the big bucks, > especially in such a niche market? > The most I've ever spent on just one record was in 1997, I went to London to pick up a copy of Caustic Window's Joyrex J9i 10" picture disc with a 606 on one side, a 303 on the other. Limited pressing, under 300 copies. I bought it for £100, after that I've been fortunate enough to get RDJ to sign the sleeve. Besides, I've been a RePHLeX fanatic since around 1990 and I own about every release on the label this far, so to have such an important release was quite paramount to my obsession. What's it worth now, I don't know. I'm not selling. Other than the above, I've shelled out between 20-50e on some rarities I've just had to have. Money well spent, I'd say. Recently I obtained a second copy of Autechre's Garbage EP for 45e. There are quite a bit of IDM records that fetch substantial amounts on eBay, eg. any early Skam releases, especially Lego Feet 12", pre-Skam/Warp Boards of Canada vinyls, obscure/rare labels eg. Likemind, A.R.T., B12, and historically significant releases like early Black Dog/Plaid/Autechre/AFX vinyls etc. Some of the most rare items go for 100-300e. It's insane to bid for a slab of vinyl that goes for 100e++, and then actually pay exorbitant amounts to get a worn-out, almost unplayable copy of something that might sound like surface noise, clicks, hiss, pops and crackles. Go figure, but that's IDM for you. Let's see what happens when Warp's Bleep starts selling all Skam back catalogue as high-quality MP3s, even Lego Feet. And yes, there are plenty of us deranged fools willing to pay an arm and a leg for somthing that one could've got for £5 when they were released and no-one paid any attention. Oh, not exactly 313 content, but I thought I'd share anyway. More on target, a friend of mine has been searching for Neil Landstrumm's Inhabit the Machines 12" on Peacefrog. Last time he checked, it went on eBay for something like $150+. He even ruminated on actually bidding +20% over the last bid to be sure to get the record. Totally loopy, I have to say. Cheers, -- nuutti-iivari meriläinen gordon at diversion dot org http colon slash slash www dot diversion dot org slash
