Those Rykodisc Bowie reissues were sweet. I have all the ones from Station To Station through Lodger, but I'm missing Scary Monsters (my favorite Bowie album).

My favorite OOP CD has to be Jimi Hendrix's Live at Winterland. Another Rycodisc from the early '90s. Even with all the proliferation and re-re-re-releases of Hendrix material, Winterland has only had this one release.

Hendrix was best live, and out of all his live material (there's A LOT - I swear, there were more people following Hendrix around with tape recorders than any other musician ever - and I've heard it ALL) I feel that it Winterland was, by far, his best live performance and it's the go-to CD when I need to hear some raw Hendrix.

It's been out of print for a while - but it can be easily found used for around $15 or less. Worth every penny.

So True. Try looking at Half.com and/or Gemm.com to better guage prices.

Yeah, it's spendy but this place has Rural for $70 - http://www.wabisabibooks.com/si/mu123.html (a little better than Ebay). I suspect, like me and others here, you are looking to score it cheap and I don't blame you.

I'm afraid I agree with this assessment. Still, there are some gems out there to be had.

Then I guess I will! Seriously, I've got a lot of CDs that I like but don't love or just didn't do it for me. I guess I had better get selling or I'm gonna get stuck with a bunch of pretty "coasters"

-Gunshy

Did you know that this release originally had a very limited Gold edition? I think it may have actually been 24k gold and not just a pretty gold color. I bought a copy in the cardboard longbox a million years ago (I can still remember the store and where), and sold it for what I thought was a good price, which at the time probably was, something like $40. I think I've seen one copy of the gold for sale since then.

True, it is a great disc.

-Gunshy

I'll go you one better - the first printings of Winterland actually had a 2nd CD with 3 more songs from Winterland on it (Vodoo Chile, Like A Rolling Stone and Are You Experienced) jury-rigged to the side of the case. This 2nd CD is VERY rare.

But I'm sure when they reissue the Winterland concert it'll be a 2-disc set with all those songs and more.

definitely. they are the preferred releases, that is, until all releases get the "30th anniversary edition" treatment that ziggy, aladdin, and diamond dogs have all gotten.

it took me a while to get scary monsters, but i eventually got it on eBay for about $15. not a bad deal. if there's one ryko release i wouldn't do with out, it'd be that album!

I've got most of the Bowie Rykodisc recordings. I never paid any attention to the Virgin reissues so I have no clue what the difference is or what kind of money any of them are worth. I remember purchasing "Ziggy Stardust" back around '88 and the next year Ryko allowed people to mail in their RCA copies for a brand new Ryko version.
I sat and stared at that RCA disc wondering if it would ever be worth anything, but went ahead and sent it away and did get the free remaster. I'm afraid to go look and see what the RCA copy might be worth (even though it sounded worse and had no extra tracks).

It's funny how some of the higher price OOP discs on Ebay are horrible recordings. Guess there's a reason they went OOP.

I'm just guessing, but I imagine that if the album is in print on another label, the old one won't be worth a lot unless it has more content. I imagine you made the right decision.

I don't really have many cds that are out of print but the majority of my cassette collection is.

Really? I hadn't thought to check on Gold disc's recently. I've got than one, as well as their "War" and "Unforgettable Fire", and at least a dozen other MFSL and DCC Gold discs. Don't think I'll part with any of them, but it'd be nice to see what they're fetching these days.

As far as the Bowies go, it's not so much a matter of content, it's a matter of sound quality. The new Virgin remasters sound terrible; bass and treble exaggerated and the whole sound field maximized. The Rykos have been tinkered with a little (EQ-wise), though much less on the Au20 series than the aluminum issues, but at least they're from the original master tapes. The RCA issues were made from copies of copies of copies of copies, all transferred by minimum wage workers (though some prefer them because they're not futzed with AT ALL).

The Rykos are in demand, not so much for their bonus tracks, but because they're the nearest thing, aurally, to the original vinyl. The RCAs are in demand by those who prefer flat transfers.

Most of my most valuable CDs that I sold through half.com were the Mobile Fidelity Gold CDs like U2's Joshua Tree (sold around $100), Guns N Roses Appetite for Destruction ($90) & Use Your Illusion 2 ($80), Heart's Dreamboat Annie ($95), Blondie Parallel Lines ($80). There were some regular CDs that I sold from my hair metal 80's days like Badlands ($25), Voivod Nothingface ($30), Bango Tango Psycho Cafe ($16), and a slew of them around the $6 to $10 range.

Yeah, I've got a lot of 80's "Hair Metal" type stuff worth big $$. Even stuff I've had for over 20 years is in near mint condition - and looks like I just opened it, so it's easier to get better money for it. Last one I sold off was an original US pressing of Y&T's "In Rock We Trust" for $75 last year - as it's still out of print in the US - and I had picked up a newly re-mastered/re-released Japanese pressing for $20.

Okay, who has sold the highest price disc on Ebay (or anywhere else)? I sold a Joan Armatrading disc to a guy in Australia for $120. I was shocked because I only paid $6.00 for it used. I've sold a few others for around $100.

I have 3 MFgold cds: The Who's Tommy and Quadrophenia and The Jam's All Mod Cons/Sound Affects 2in1.
I got them used, for around $10 each over 5 years ago, and they're in perfect condition.
Did I get a good deal?

I just went through a few of the CDs that I thought would be OOP and have a decent price, here's the ones over $10:

Ed Haynes Sings Ed Haynes ($39) (I’ve got two of these, I keep meaning to put one of them up on ebay, sort of a comedy singer)
Manfred Mann – Chance ($11) (has the song “For You” on it)
Joan Baez – Diamonds and Rust in the Bullring ($10) (has a nice cover of Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman, No Cry’)

At the low end: Grammy Nominadas 2000: Latino ($1.28)

There were a few that weren’t even listed, like the Freedom Rock collection (those of you who remember the mid-80s will remember the commercials – “Is that Freedom Rock man? Well, turn it up!”

I thought it was a really nice release, and I'm a diehard nin fan, but I'm not much of a collector. I purchased 'still' from merch.com for $10, and I have no qualms about having a ripped version of the live cd when I already purchased the dvd and rarely listen to the cd anyway.

MF Doom - Operation Doomsday is one of my all-time favorite albums. But to have the choice between holding a cd in my hand, versus holding $120, isn't even a choice I have to make. If and when it's rereleased (and it desperately needs to be remastered anyway) I will gladly purchase it. But owning rare things isn't all that appealing to me.

I totally understand the viewpoints of some of you guys and think have a unique, extensive collection of something is very cool. It's just not a big thing for me personally.

Yeah, I've been hitting that place for 16 years. As you say, I love the cheap pricing on their new releases, as well as their catalog titles. I typically go in there to fill up back catalog titles for bands like RUSH, AC/DC, etc.... I usually find something to buy in the listening stations too. I used to frequent Rock Records when I was going to Columbia in the early 90's. They were affiliated at one time with RS, but broke off a while ago. Awesome place. I have not been there in quite a few years. The Tower on Wabash has been good for finding some oddballs, I work down the street from there. 50% off!!!! It may be better that I DIDN'T know about that. :-)

For whatever reason, I've never been in that store, though I've know of it for a long time. I'll have to remedy that. I wish WaxTrax was still around on Damen.

LOL. I worked at that Jewel for 11 years! I've been in there a few times, and that Best Buy more than I care to say.

I have a ton of old cd's, but wouldn't be able to tell you for sure what's out of print and what's not.

I had no idea this was out of print. I bought this when it was issued, mainly from a recommendation from Rolling Stone who called owning it (Paraphrasing) a reason to buy a CD player. I have not spun it in a while, but I remember Red House w/ "Her big fat butt sister will. Hold on, let me say it right." I had the insert poster hanging in my room for some time. Thanks for the reminder!

I tend to agree with that, unless it's artists I collect, in which case I rarely sell. My best eBay score wasn't even out of print; I was in charge of a Borders music section years ago, and had gotten the soundtrack to The Young Girls of Rochefort, which had been released in France. We had gotten two copies by mistake, so I bought both and put one up on eBay, where it sold for $115 or so, to someone who obviously didn't know it was in print anywhere.

I've never been on the selling end of one of these OOP eBay transactions. Usually it's the other way around. A couple months ago, I dropped about $60 for a copy of Spoon's debut "Telephono" after months and months and months of being sniped at the last minute.

Ok. Totally off-topic, but I gotta ask.

What is the story of that check-out, um, "lady," with the bleach-blonde hair piled on her head about 12" high in Ivanna Trump style, who has like 2 teeth?

I don't sell my own beloved discs. But there was a three month period in early 2000 where I drove around to a bunch of pawn shops and purchased a ton of OOP discs. I felt really silly buying Toni Tennille and The Cover Girls CDs, but they fetched me some bucks. I sort of stopped all of this when Napster hit big and I ran out of stocked pawn shops. I would look at auctions nearing their end and see what was selling for over $25.00 on Ebay. It was a lot of fun. I would see some long lost disc and felt like it was San Fran 1849!

Well, it was years ago so it probably doesn't count as much but, I sold a Japanese import edition of Rick Wakeman's "Rhapsodies" double disc set mint for $300. It's been bootlegged heavily since then so I don't think it would fetch over $50 now.

I've still got some pretty rare CDs around that I'm gettin' ready to sell, just want to hear them all one last time. I agree with others, much rather have $25-$100 in hand then hang on to CDs forever, especially if they may get re-released.

-Gunshy