What it's worth: Up to $2,500 The older version of this word, however, had a much deeper meaning. A bona fide collector's item, the extra special LP is worth up to $400 in mint condition. But when the Bard used this word, he wasn’t talking about someone with a mohawk hairdo or a particular type of music. 18 OASIS LP Box Set 2009 Big Brother RKIDBOX 58 £300. Other grades include: Excellent, Very Good, Good, Fair and Poor. Original copies of Tubby Hayes' Voodoo Session 7" - limited to 666 copies! 30 METALLICA Creeping Death/Am I Evil?/Blitzkreig 12" 1983 Music For Nations GV 12 KUT 112 mispressing £70. Despite a reissue, demand for this LP is not going to peter out for at least a decade - if ever. The single was pressed on 7” vinyl but for some reason was never released. The standard address for the record label is 47 West 63rd NYC, but some of the records have labels that say 47 West 63rd New York 23 on one side. Mint copies are worth up to $10,250, and possibly more with the label error. Our. A partridge is an unremarkable game bird or a living gift that sits in a pear tree, right? Our RRPG price is £3,500 and Mint copies have sold for two or three times that on eBay. Below are the singles and albums, which experts from Record Collector magazine believe represent good value for money or are the best examples of a collectable genre. The very first copy, which Clifford J. Yamasaki of Let It Be Records purchased from an executive at Capitol Records in the 1970s, sold in 2013 for $35,000, a year after the copy with serial number A0000023 sold at auction for $13,750. “That’ll Be The Day/In Spite Of All The Danger” by The Quarrymen - £100,000. But Sigur Rós, like The Libertines, have acquired collectable status and still look a sound investment. Find one of these in Mint condition, stick it on eBay and the bidding will be "vicious". There was also a 2009 UK Record Day mixtape CD given away with copies of second album Dos. Despite having a guide price of £8,000, this is a sound investment. Price:$278.53Why are people spending this kind of money on the original vinyl copies? By the 18th century, punk’s meaning had shifted to mean a younger man whom an older man kept around for sexual purposes. These numbers will allow you to work out which pressing you have. Although ska, reggae and dub records from the 60s and 70s are well-known to collectors, with many fetching fantastic prices on eBay if rare and anywhere near Mint, one area that is shooting up in price is digi-dub reggae 12" singles from the 80s and 90s. The hessian-sleeved retrospective, Still (£70), is also going up, as are even the standard non-hessian versions. Her new album, The Last Living Rose, confirms her status as a serious artist whose longevity and investment potential is secure. Price:$167.45Metalheads are willing to shell out a lot of cash for original copies of this LP. This guarantees an increase in price over time. A record with almost legendary status among Northern Soul vinyl collectors, Your Love is Getting Stronger by Four Voices is as valuable as it is revered. Very few were ever pressed and mint condition copies are worth up to $3,400. An unpeeled example sold for $4,500 in 2016. 17 GLORIA SCOTT (A Case of) Too Much Lovemaking/What Am I Gonna Do? Mint condition copies sell for thousands of dollars, but the most valuable feature a misprinted upside-side '207' on the B-side. These sell for up to $15,000. Led Zeppelin’s 1969 first album - £3,000. Shakespeare used punk or an alternate spelling in several of his works, but one of the most notable mentions appears in All’s Well That Ends Well, when he used the colorful term “taffety punk” to describe a well-dressed prostitute. Although Mumford & Sons are collectable at present, we do not know how they'll be regarded in five years' time. 33 JOY DIVISION Unknown Pleasures 1979 Factory FACT 10 £50. Click on the price links to get the full specs of each album, including a visual of the cover to keep an eye out for. Want more of the world's best Tech delivered straight to your inbox? It goes without saying that a Mint stereo copy of their debut LP with the rare Black and Gold label (whatever the publishing credits) has steadily appreciated in value over the years. This American hardcore punk band formed in 1979 and released a clutch of albums and singles that never quite achieved mainstream success but were influential and resonate today for both an older and younger generation. John Coltrane will never go out of fashion and the questing saxophonist's original albums issued in America remain sought-after by collectors all over the world. Any extras? 8 THE OPEN MIND The Open Mind 1969 Philips SBL 7893 £750. It was originally pressed in Australia on clear vinyl, coloured vinyl is extremely collectible especially when only 5 copies were made, like with this U2 album. When Bleach was initially released in 1989, the first printing was limited to 1000 copies, which were sold to music fans at Lamefest in Seattle. The debut album of rockabilly band the Rock 'n Roll Trio, this 1956 LP had a big influence on the development of the genre. dropped from the label only six days later, sold to music fans at Lamefest in Seattle. Their debut LP, Von, was only issued in Iceland in 1997 in a limited CD run of 3,000 copies and - in the age of CDs being worth less and less - it is valued at £40. It was pulled from those stores that had allowed it to be sold after a day and replaced with a much more anodyne photo of the band. “Erotica” by Madonna - £2,000. Copies in VG and Excellent turn over briskly in record shops and at fairs, so hunting down a Mint original copy of this, as well as their second LP, Closer, is advised. Original stereo copies are worth up to an incredible $35,000, and mono copies sell for up to $15,000 in mint condition. Next time you go crate diggin’, keep a keen eye out for any of these records. The first pressing of Kill 'Em All (1983, with beige labels) looks good value at £35. The first pressing though, featuring a fully blue (rather than black) prism on the cover, a gatefold sleeve, and numerous other defining attributes, is way more expensive than the substances people use to "fully appreciate it, man.". Once unearthed and compiled, everyone wanted one. According to BPI, "interest in vinyl remains buoyant" and there's been a staggering 128 per cent rise in vinyl sales since 2015. This classic soul album from 1967 is highly sought out by collectors. SHARE. There is also a culture of collecting that comes with switching to vinyl that could pay off big time, if you know what you have or what to look for. But what do masto- and -don mean, exactly? ‘White Album’ by The Beatles originally owned by Ringo Starr - £730,876. New amber weather warnings have been issued in the Midlands, southern England, and areas of Fife and Moray in Scotland as temperatures fall across the country - but when should you turn the thermostat up? SHARE. There is a wide selection of suspects to pogo into, including The Ramones, The Damned, The Adverts, Television, 999, Generation X, The Clash, X-Ray Spex, Vibrators, Eater, Alternative TV, Richard Hell & The Voidoids and Wire's debut of course, which crammed 21 tracks on to two sides. One cheaper option is this album, which was, in effect, the second Julian's Treatment LP. Price:$256.01It's a Springsteen album that's not old enough for a reissue yet, which means two things: vinyl copies are valuable, and fans still try to convince themselves they loved it. Collectors pay crazy sums of money for the most sought-after records, which include this 1965 dancefloor-filler by Washington DC's The Cashmeres. They can expect to shell out up to $2,800. This scarcity, allied to beautifully arranged and sung pastoral rock by Malone - just listen to Catherine Wheel - that was hardly distributed and totally neglected upon release back in 1970, makes this album one that will continue to appreciate in value. There were multiple pressings of the album in the first year, but collectors pay attention to the labels to tell which is the rarest of them all. There is currently a huge demand for albums issued in the 90s due to the limited number pressed. By the 1970s, music reviewer Dave Marsh discussed a band called ? First pressings by big acts like The Beatles or Bruce Springsteen, and finds like misprints and pressings with alternate covers, can greatly increase the value of vinyl if the copies are kept in pristine condition. Very few copies from the original 1962 pressing are known to still exist, and those that do come up for sale achieve prices up to $5,000. Pending home sales rose 8.8% in August, reaching a record high pace, according to the National Association of Realtors survey, which dates to January 2001. If you've an acetate copy of David Bowie's Station to Station record, you may want to get it valued. If they ever get around to rereleasing it on vinyl you can expect the value to plummet more quickly than Petty's post-'90s talent. No one is sure who invented the word punk or what its etymology is, but its first recorded use was during Shakespeare’s time. The Velvet Underground inspired a lot of krautrock and Mint original copies of their work should also be hunted down, as they never going to go down in price.