Grease: The Original Soundtrack from the Motion Picture

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Because the value of a particular record is tied to so many factors, it’s difficult to give a general answer as to its value without knowing all of the particulars about that particular pressing. Musicians do not get more famous than the point Madonna reached in the early 1990s. Not only was she a best-selling recording artist but she also found herself as the lead in about a dozen movies from the mid-1980s through the early 2000s.

Schulman, Leif (20 January 1979). "Sweden Pushes Local Product" (PDF). Billboard. p.106 . Retrieved 31 July 2019. In this post, we’ll go over a number of factors that may determine the value of a particular record. Keep in mind that there are many factors that need to be taken into consideration, and it’s quite rare for a record to be valuable based on one factor alone. It’s usually a combination of things that add to a vinyl record’s value, and other factors can sometimes turn a valuable record into one that isn’t worth all that much seemingly overnight. The only thing cooler than having Zep's thunderous debut album in your crate of old vinyl is discovering it's a first U.K. pressing of the record. AUTOGRAPHS: Collectors will pay extra for albums signed by the singer or band but a certificate of authenticity is usually needed.We don't have a lot of information on the lives of the members of The Down Home Boys — Long Cleve Reed, Little Harvey Hull and Sunny Wilson. Eighties and '90s club music — there's a lot of rubbish around but some 12" dance mixes go for quite a bit. What goes around comes around, and we don’t just mean records on a turntable. Audiophiles swear by the sound quality of vinyl over CDs, MP3s, and other files, and now younger generations are starting to see the light. Vinyl sales continue to increase each year, which means that more and more young people are borrowing albums from their parents or buying their own, while those who grew up with them are perhaps dusting off their cherished collections. In the late 1970s, for example, Todd Rundgren and the Cars were highly collectible, but these days, there’s little interest in their recordings. On the other hand, records by the Beatles are selling for the highest prices ever and prices remain steady more than 50 years after they released their last album.

Salaverrie, Fernando (September 2005). Sólo éxitos: año a año, 1959–2002 (PDF) (in Spanish) (1sted.). Madrid: Fundación Autor/SGAE. p.930. ISBN 84-8048-639-2 . Retrieved 13 September 2019.

End of Year Charts – Top 50 Albums 1991". Australian Recording Industry Association . Retrieved 25 January 2022. That being the case, such records aren’t likely to sell for very much money in the collectors market. Even best-selling records can get scarce over time Old-timey jazz and blues aficionados are perhaps the record-collecting world's most fanatical, and none more so than Maryland's legendary 78 rpm junkie Joe Bussard. Searching for a mega-rare Charlie Patton record that Steve Buscemi's character in the movie "Ghost World" would sever his right arm for? Bussard's got it. Reissues can often affect a vinyl record’s value dramatically, and sometimes, the price of original pressings can drop as much as 90% when a formerly rare album again becomes available as a newly-released record. Depeche Mode's true legacy as an electronic band can be seen in the groups it influenced. The Killers, Muse, Arcade Fire, Nine Inch Nails, Coldplay, No Doubt and Linkin Park are among the groups who have cited Depeche Mode as one of their main influences. 27. Misfits, "Legacy of Brutality"

Keyboards – Bhen Lanzarone*, George Bitzer, Greg Mathieson, Lincoln Majorca*, Louis St. Louis, Mike Land*, Thomas Garvin* In the early '90s, Grammy Award-winning EDM pioneer Richard James (aka Aphex Twin) abandoned his in-the-works album "Caustic Window" — leaving behind only four test pressings on vinyl.

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While some collectors are willing to accept “filler” copies of a rare record in poor to average condition until they find a better copy, most buyers prefer to buy only once, and will hold out for the best possible copy they can find. In the case of some albums, which may have only been originally for sale from small record companies, these reissues might actually sell more copies than the original album. When an album is reissued, the original vinyl record’s value usually falls in the marketplace. While some collectors remain interested in owning an early or an original pressing of a recently reissued album, there are others who are only interested in hearing the music, and will be happy to own a reissued version of the album instead. Glenn Danzig not only created his own bands and wrote his own music. He also did so for other artists, including Johnny Cash and Roy Orbison. 26. Century Symphony Orchestra, "Waltzes by Johann Strauss, Jr."

In August 2018, Polydor reissued the vinyl album to celebrate its original release in 1978. Released on 180g vinyl and mastered in half speed, it was the first time since its original release that it had used the original RSO record label in the artwork. No information was provided on who or where the record was half speed mastered. Whenever there’s a commodity that is worth money to people, there are unscrupulous people who try to take advantage of them by forging that commodity. Paintings have been forged, currency has been counterfeited, and unfortunately, so have many rare records.

34. Led Zeppelin, "Led Zeppelin" (Tie)

While there are many factors that go into determining vinyl records value, perhaps none is more important than the need for the record to be an original pressing and not a counterfeit pressing created at a later date to resemble the original issue.