What is your collecting holy grail?

[Clarkey_71]

What is the one record that you just cannot track down or is only available at a horrendous price?

For me it is the classic records 200g Led Zep "Houses of the holy".

I just cannot find this anywhere under £150. That is way too much for an LP for me!!!!

If anyone knows of one at a decent price, please let me know!

 

[The_Lhc]

What is the one record that you just cannot track down or is only available at a horrendous price?

For me it is the classic records 200g Led Zep "Houses of the holy".

I just cannot find this anywhere under £150. That is way too much for an LP for me!!!!

If anyone knows of one at a decent price, please let me know!

Is that a later re-issue? I think I've got that (I can never remember which album is which) but I don't recall it being a particularly heavyweight disc.

I got my Holy Grail a couple of years back, only cost me three quid! Nothing much that I'm desperate for now really. There's a 7" from last year's RSD that I never managed to get hold of that's going for 30 or 40 quid on eBay now but I'm not sufficiently bothered enough to spend that sort of money on it. It was more of an amusing curiosity rather than any real fanaticism on my part.

 

[MajorFubar]

Any mint original 60s mono pressing by the Beatles. Problem is I want to buy it to actually play it, which apparently is sacrilegious.

 

[MajorFubar]

8) Very nice!

 

[Fred_Barker]

8) Very nice!

Whilst on the subject of Beatles vinyl singles....

In the 60's, if I bought a vinyl single, it cost 6s 8d or 16.3% of my then weekly wage, or 18.7% of a current pension (not quite there yet!!) so not such a great increase in price over time.

However, now that a used copy of the Beatles Album '1' can be purchased in CD format on Amazon for £2.54, that's 27 tracks for only 9.4p each - the songs sound just as good as it did then and I don't have to keep winding the gramophone up! haha!!

 

[Fred_Barker]

Any mint original 60s mono pressing by the Beatles. Problem is I want to buy it to actually play it, which apparently is sacrilegious.

You should have told me before I gave all of my Beatles singles to the Salvation Army Jumble sale when I discovered CD's - haha!! (me? mug??)

The nearest I could get to that would be my Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band limited edition vinyl Picture Disk, never been played, still shrink wraped and in a heavy duty PVC cover - someone told me, when I bought it in 1978 it would be worth big money one day - As I have nothing to play it on I would give it to you if my ex would give it up - Just seen it for sale on Amazon for $50

 

[stevebrock]

not so much a Holy Grail but the entire Joy Division & The Smith catalouge of vinyl!

 

[MajorFubar]

Whilst on the subject of Beatles vinyl singles....

In the 60's, if I bought a vinyl single, it cost 6s 8d or 16.3% of my then weekly wage, or 18.7% of a current pension (not quite there yet!!) so not such a great increase in price over time.

However, now that a used copy of the Beatles Album '1' can be purchased in CD format on Amazon for £2.54, that's 27 tracks for only 9.4p each - the songs sound just as good as it did then and I don't have to keep winding the gramophone up! haha!!

Very true Fred! Music has definitely got cheaper over the years. It makes me laugh when people complain about buying HD audio downloads at £20 or heavyweight specialist-pressing records at £25. If you take inflation into account, the price of the Beatles' Please Please Me album would be over £30 in today's money. You don't even have to go back very far to remember paying £12-£16 for an average newly-released CD, either. Some classics and specialist titles were even more. We've never had it so good.

 

[hammill]

Whilst on the subject of Beatles vinyl singles....

In the 60's, if I bought a vinyl single, it cost 6s 8d or 16.3% of my then weekly wage, or 18.7% of a current pension (not quite there yet!!) so not such a great increase in price over time.

However, now that a used copy of the Beatles Album '1' can be purchased in CD format on Amazon for £2.54, that's 27 tracks for only 9.4p each - the songs sound just as good as it did then and I don't have to keep winding the gramophone up! haha!!

Very true Fred! Music has definitely got cheaper over the years. It makes me laugh when people complain about buying HD audio downloads at £20 or heavyweight specialist-pressing records at £25. If you take inflation into account, the price of the Beatles' Please Please Me album would be over £30 in today's money. You don't even have to go back very far to remember paying £12-£16 for an average newly-released CD, either. Some classics and specialist titles were even more. We've never had it so good.

Indeed so. Most non chart material is just a few pounds, even the latest boy band (yuck) is not much more. I paid £12 for my first CD in the early eighties which is double that now allowing for inflation.

 

[jjbomber]

Diamond Head on the Raw Fruit record label, Live at Reading 1980 as I was there! I later got it signed by Brian Tatler. Raw Fruit went bust and the original CDs are hard to come buy.

 

[Anonymous]

My Holy Grail would be an original Beatles 'Butchers Cover'

Very silly money

 

[duaplex]

Right now, it has to Thriller SACD version, asking price is £250 brand new, and second hand its £75.

I refuse to pay it!

 

[Fred_Barker]

If you take inflation into account, the price of the Beatles' Please Please Me album would be over £30 in today's money.

Could be just my age, but Please Please Me was and still is such a great collection of songs. The chords and harmonies still have a haunting haunting sound, even today.

I'm quite surprised that the reproduction is still pretty good, concidering the age of the equipment used to make the recording, the mixers, the master tapes, the number of times it's been re-mastered and digitized...

I may just play a couple of tracks right now!!

 

[woodster]

Any mint original 60s mono pressing by the Beatles. Problem is I want to buy it to actually play it, which apparently is sacrilegious.

I have six of those, none for sale either, Ironically, I really do not like the Beatles at all, I inherited them from my mother.

 

[stacyd83]

What is the one record that you just cannot track down or is only available at a horrendous price?

For me it is the classic records 200g Led Zep "Houses of the holy".

I just cannot find this anywhere under £150. That is way too much for an LP for me!!!!

If anyone knows of one at a decent price, please let me know!

My 'holy grail' is anything Peter Gabriel/Genesis/King Crimson but i have owned all the Zep records at one time or another. I got my Classic Records Peter Gabriel 2 set from a US website called acousticsounds.com but had to pay a hefty import charge to the UPS man when he delivered it! They're beautiful records, quality is obviously second to none and most of the series are now deleted so I think get what you can while you can! Good luck!