They mention "KInd of Blue" by Miles as a $1000 lp. I've never seen one go anywhere near that high... because he sold too many. The highest sale price noted at Discogs was $325. VG+ copies go for $150 and up.
That article was talking about the prices for some very specific rare pressings.
In my experience, prices of really specific collectable pressings done usually show up on discogs as they are usually sold at actions or specific collectors shows or stores. and of course in those cases there are often deep pocket collectors around with more money than patience that have to have something right now and run the price up to a stupid level way outside of the normal range. So it would not surprise me if A copy of KoB sold for that much even though they usually go for much less.
My apologies for adding to a more than likely dead thread...but I recall reading this article/list when it first came out and it seemed like a pipe dream / end of the rainbow scenario.
I recently completed cataloging some 20k singles from my father's 45 collection, which I wound up rolling into my own collection...predominantly Jazz LPs. Some of the sold prices I was finding on discogs / valueyourmusic / musicstack / ebay certainly did not match up to each other or say a goldmine catalog price. I completely agree that timing is everything and having an anxious buyer with deep pockets is very beneficial. I would love to see some of those numbers with selections from my collection, but we can't all be that lucky
According to discogs median prices, these are a few moderately expensive vinyls in my collection
Jerome Richardson "Roamin' With Richardson" on New Jazz
Dale Hawkins "Oh! Suzy Q" on Chess
The Penguins "The Cool Cool Penguins" on DooTo
Aquamen "Line and Track" promo HiBack 45
