Unexplainably Valuable Records?

Posted by tom.dennehy (M) on June 25, 2012 at 03:30:33

I visited an estate sale last Saturday. In addition to the requisite box of LPs in the basement selling for $1 each, there was a plastic tub by the checkout containing 3 LPs

1. Prince "Parade"
2. Police "Synchronicity"
3. Men At Work

They were marked $25 each. They weren't autographed and didn't appear to be special editions of any kind. I asked one of the estate wranglers why they were so expensive, and she replied that the homeowners claimed they had seen these titles sell on eBay for that price or more.

I laughed, but when I returned Sunday to claim a Adcom GFA-535 multiroom amp, Parade and Synchronicity were gone.

Any ideas as to why these particular titles would be fetching such a premium? (My wife has a copy of "Parade." It's actually music from the movie Under the Cherry Moon, a turkey which pretty much stopped Prince's film career dead in its tracks.)

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Topic - Unexplainably Valuable Records? - tom.dennehy 03:30:33 06/25/12 (8)

All three of those are available on Amazon and eBay for $6 or less. NT - J.R. 09:48:11 06/26/12 (0)

i priced my 6,000 Lps taht way and come up with a $23,000,000. price tag for my collection... - Elizabeth 06:52:15 06/25/12 (2)

What a steal these days...I'll take em all nt - KLechterO78s 08:54:15 06/25/12 (0)

Is that your Buy it Now price? :-) /nt - Biff 07:40:44 06/25/12 (0)

RE: Unexplainably Valuable Records? - cactuscowboy@bresnan.net 06:21:53 06/25/12 (2)

There are a few collectible versions of "Synchronicity"... - musetap 10:59:23 06/25/12 (0)

RE: Unexplainably Valuable Records? - tom.dennehy 06:49:37 06/25/12 (0)

RE: Unexplainably Valuable Records? - Frank_Locke 06:12:41 06/25/12 (0)

Unexplainably Valuable Records?

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