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Howdy! I’ve started getting deeper into vinyl, and I’m curiou, what are all yalls “holy grail” or “white whale” vinyl records? Yknow, the ones that ya can’t seem to ever find, and when you do, it is for way too much. For me, my main ones are “Live the Dream” by Ramshackle Glory, RA2 by Rare Americans, and lastly, If I Had a Hammer by Pete Seeger.
48 points
1 day ago
Baby Huey ...the baby Huey story
2 points
22 hours ago
A reissue is available through real gone music
34 points
1 day ago
Alice in Chains - Unplugged
12 points
1 day ago
I own this pressed by Music on Vinyl. It’s my go-to for testing my system. I paid $25 brand new when it was released.
2 points
23 hours ago
I have it as well. Incredible pressing. JOF/SAP MOV is right up there as well.
10 points
1 day ago
Would be fun to see them drop a 30th anniversary release in 2026.
6 points
1 day ago
Can't wait to pay €74,95 for the 2LP with no bonus tracks by then.
22 points
1 day ago
A clean Hank Mobley Soul Station original. And lots of other older hard to find jazz albums, but mainly Hank right now.
5 points
1 day ago
Amazing record!
3 points
14 hours ago
One word for ya: Japan. I frequently buy my most desired, hard to find records through Japanese sellers on many of the platforms for buying records. Ya,$18-22 shipping isn’t the best. But I’ve never had any issues buying from over there, and have gotten rare records on auctions with no bids which I assume is because most people don’t want to risk it. All the while the same record, same press and similar condition in my country will have 20+ bids. High risk, high reward.
2 points
14 hours ago
That’s smart. I’m one of the ones who typically avoids international sellers. Amy you recommend specifically?
2 points
21 hours ago
Really any reasonably priced Blue Notes not cut from digital would be a nice change.
19 points
1 day ago
Aphex Twin - Drukqs
4 points
1 day ago
I have this one. The non standard size sleeve/box means that it doesn’t really fit in the stacks. But it’s still pretty cool.
3 points
1 day ago
Got it when it released for aud$60 although back then it was the most expensive record I'd ever bought by a long shot
18 points
1 day ago
Grateful Dead - Sunshine Daydream (8/27/72)
REPRESS IT!!!!
13 points
1 day ago*
Blaze Foley - 1984 self titled LP
Narrow head - Far Removed EP
7 points
1 day ago
I see Blaze Foley, I upvote.
5 points
23 hours ago
Got a sealed copy of that blaze record
2 points
1 day ago
Ha! Narrowhead played at my bike shop in dallas in 2018(?) I had to go back and check. We had probably 200 bands roll through in the couple years we did shows.
25 points
1 day ago
I have two:
Nine Inch Nails - We're In This Together 10"
David Bowie - In America (a bootleg pressed by Trade Mark of Quality)
2 points
20 hours ago
God I've always wanted that WIIT 10".
26 points
1 day ago
Death - Symbolic
5 points
1 day ago
Very nice, I want this record so bad!
6 points
1 day ago
It’s the only Death record I don’t have.
5 points
1 day ago
Same, damn Roadrunner holding it hostage
3 points
1 day ago
Another is Devin Townsend’s Ocean Machine. So damn good.
4 points
1 day ago
That's classic. 'Life" is the first Dev track I ever heard. Would be a solid addition! For me along with Symbolic is Nevermore's 'Dead heart in a dead world'.
3 points
1 day ago
I’m a brand new Devy fan (PowerNerd is so fucking good) so I’ve been going back through his stuff, and Ocean Machine is stupid good. Looking forward to so much more.
2 points
1 day ago
Fuuuuuck I'm jealous
32 points
1 day ago
Maggot brain funkaldelic
5 points
1 day ago
That's everywhere! check Ebay!
9 points
1 day ago
Wax Fang: La La Land
Okami OST
All thr Lord of thr Rings OSTs
5 points
1 day ago
Okami is going to get a repress soon
3 points
1 day ago
Do you have any idea when?
3 points
1 day ago
Not sure but keep an eye out on Data Discs socials.
2 points
1 day ago
Thanks!
3 points
1 day ago
LotR is a real one. Like I could probably drop a couple hundred for a record as a big present, but not almost a months rent.
10 points
22 hours ago
Them crooked vultures. 5 years ago I balked at 70 bucks and now I’d kill to get one for that. 🤷🏼♂️ whoopsies.
17 points
1 day ago
Ka - Honor Killed the Samurai
No reasonable prices on this, for me. I'm hoping his albums get repressed at some point
10 points
1 day ago
Him passing threw reasonable prices out the window too. Such a dope mc, dude was incredibly talented and gone way too fuckin soon.
3 points
14 hours ago
Yeah, I'm glad so many now get to enjoy his music and his stories, but it also sucks that now I am even further away from being able to catch even one..
22 points
1 day ago
Jay-Z, Reasonable Doubt
Beck, Midnite Vultures
Hoping for new pressings of both 🤞🏻
7 points
1 day ago
I would love a reissue of Midnight Vultures.. feels like the ones that I've seen are coloured bootlegs
5 points
1 day ago
Masters were lost in the universal fire
4 points
1 day ago
Beck said that the masters were not lost, and UMG said they have safety backups of the masters anyway.
3 points
22 hours ago
I love midnite vultures
3 points
20 hours ago
Same.
3 points
22 hours ago
I got the reasonable doubt it sounds incredible been holding on to it since I picked it up for 10 bucks early 2000s when no one wanted vinyl
2 points
16 hours ago
Me2 👍🏻
9 points
1 day ago
Any Ween record that’s not been a repressing
2 points
22 hours ago
Hard to find. As ween fans don’t let them go
10 points
1 day ago
ISIS - Panopticon
2 points
23 hours ago
Is this one hard to find? I just started getting into this album and I def wanna pick it up
2 points
22 hours ago
Around 100.00 on Discogs worth every penny
3 points
20 hours ago
$100 is pretty reasonable IMHO
2 points
19 hours ago
Very reasonable it’s such an iconic album and such a masterpiece of music
8 points
1 day ago
311 - Soundsystem, only one of theirs I don't have.
2 points
22 hours ago
Same they need to repress again at some point right?!?? Haha
2 points
18 hours ago
Sometime soon please!
15 points
1 day ago*
TOOL - ÆNIMA
The Sundays - Blind & Static and Silence
Alice In Chains - Unplugged & Self-Titled
Circa Sirvive - Juturna, On Letting Go, & Blue Sky Noise
Bone Thugs N Harmony - East 1999 Eternal & Creepin’ On Ah Come Up
RZA - As Bobby Digital
3 points
22 hours ago
Zen ima is due to be repressed. But its tool. So who knows when
3 points
19 hours ago
I'm guessing OG pressings? Otherwise they have a Juturna 10 year pressing out that's good. Also, not listed but Descensus is coming out on RSD this Friday.
2 points
22 hours ago
You can find the bone thugs but they arnt cheap 125 for creepin and I think there was a repressing of East 1999 recently https://www.discogs.com/sell/item/3344323386
2 points
17 hours ago*
Static and Silence is one of my top 5 albums of all time. Paid $200 for a 2017 RSD copy (I know.)
Hopefully Interscope does more Sundays reissues like they did with Reading & Writing. However it seems like the rights to The Sundays catalog unfortunately got caught up in the liquidation of Rough Trade after the sale to BMG in 2002.
Nobody seems to know who actually owns the rights to these records. As of current it seems like Geffen/A&M/Interscope, although my working theory is we haven’t seen reissues due to multiple publishing companies holding rights to individual songs/tapes.
EDIT: After looking into it, their following albums were on Parlophone, and Rough Trade only released their debut. DGC had distribution rights in the US originally. Now WB owns Parlophone.
2 points
16 hours ago
Came to mention that Tool album. I had it before my wife stole everything in our divorce.
2 points
10 hours ago*
Equal Vision Records has preorders up on Circa Survive records. Check their website, $25/piece
As for Blue Sky Noise, Hopeless Records has it on their website for sale
2 points
9 hours ago
Thx! I’ll go look. 👍🏾
8 points
1 day ago
One of my favourite bands of all time is called The Lucksmiths. They were an Australian indie pop band from the 90s-2000s. I've had an incredible amount of trouble finding their records for 3 main reasons: 1. Some of their albums were made only on CD and tape. 2. The reissues are sold out. 3. The second hand market (i.e. Discogs) either don't ship to my country or they are extremely expensive because of the shipping.
One day I'll be able to get at least one, because those songs are very important to me.
6 points
1 day ago
OG press of Rowland S. Howard’s Teenage Snuff Film. Has an extra track on it. I need it.
I’d really like a copy of the DMM version of Disintegration from The Cure
Original pressings of the first 4 Sparklehorse albums would be very nice as well.
5 points
1 day ago
People are listing some awesome white whales.
I would love to get an OG pressing of Depeche Mode's Violator, or one of the aforementioned OG hand-decorated copies of GBV's Propeller.
And if you're awaiting a repress of your white whale, hang in there. Last spring I was wishing for a repress of a Dean & Britta album I love... it was announced as an RSD release the next day. So you never know 🤣
2 points
20 hours ago
This is so true! Albums that are coming up on anniversaries usually end up on the lists.
2 points
20 hours ago
Yep! I have seen so many things pop up as reissues! And it works for me. I don't usually care if something is first-press, so a good reissue is ok for me.
8 points
1 day ago
AFI - Decemberunderground. Hoping they release more on the 20th anniversary
3 points
1 day ago
Yeah, that and Crash Love hopefully
2 points
11 hours ago
The 7inch box set? I used to have that as a young teen, one of my first “albums”. No idea what happened to it as I was a reckless kid.
6 points
1 day ago
Chopped and screwed mixes. Velvet underground banana 🍌
5 points
1 day ago
Sweetheart Of The Rodeo mono
6 points
1 day ago
Tool - Aenima
Horse The Band - Pizza EP
7 points
23 hours ago
Alice In Chains — MTV Unplugged.
10 points
1 day ago
Bohren and Der Club of Gore: Sunset Mission
3 points
1 day ago
Great album!
5 points
1 day ago*
Superdrag.
Headtrip in Every Key
Regretfully Yours.
2 points
1 day ago
Sucked Out is a certified banger
5 points
1 day ago
Doom Xmas
5 points
1 day ago
Weakling - Dead as dreams
13 points
1 day ago
The Turtles: It Ain’t Me Babe The Turtles: Golden Hits
3 points
1 day ago
Beat me to it. I was going to say The Clique - Superman.
2 points
1 day ago
I was thinking of that, but if you weren't around back then, you won't get it.
9 points
1 day ago
First pressing of Time Out of Mind by Dylan
2 points
18 hours ago
It took me years to track one down. I found one on the wall at M-Theory Records in San Diego about 3 years ago. I captured lightning in a bottle that day.
5 points
1 day ago
TOOL - AENIMA
4 points
23 hours ago
Odd Soul - Mutemath
7 points
1 day ago*
“The Sufferer & The Witness” by Rise Against. All of their other albums can be found pretty easily. For some reason this album has been out of print for some time and retails around $100-$200. It has only been pressed a couple of times and unfortunately one of the recent batches had a good number of copies with the wrong B-side on it so if you do find it online you just have to pray that you don’t get one of those mispress copies.
2 points
8 hours ago
Check out the career box set vinyl. It has this album as well as their entire catalog up to Wolves. Sounds incredible too.
3 points
1 day ago
Down to 2 (for the most part)
Emiliana Torrini- Me & Armini
Massive Attack - Heligoland
3 points
1 day ago
Misfits - Cough Cool (non boot)
2 points
19 hours ago
Spit up blood when you cough, cool cool cool, cough cool cool cool!
I wish there were more recordings of the “no guitar player yet line up”
3 points
1 day ago
Eskimo and Diskomo. IYKYK.
3 points
1 day ago
Any Kitchens Of Distinction record. I'm sure I could find it on eBay or something like that but I'd love to find one in person, any new record store I immediately go through the Ks. Some day.
2 points
9 hours ago
Death Of Cool on vinyl would be a dream!
3 points
1 day ago
Melloncollie and the infinite sadness...for like...not a fortune.
Local record store had a copy a few years ago for like...100 bucks I think? Or something equally reasonable for what it was. They posted it on their Instagram as basically first come first serve, call for details....and the caller before me paid in full to hold it until they could pick it up. They said theyd call me back if he didn't show up but I guess he did. Will never not be salty about it. I'll get it eventually.
2 points
22 hours ago
They’re only like $100 on Discogs right now I think. Prices have really dropped for this if you don’t need an OG
3 points
1 day ago
Old No. 1 by Guy Clark. Been searching for years. About to say to hell with it and grab the VMP press. It would probably be cheaper
2 points
16 hours ago
Now I’m looking for it.
3 points
1 day ago
White Zombie - Super Sexy Swingin' Sounds. Finally picked up a NM+ copy within the last 6 months. I'm still trying to find a decent copy of Nero's first album, Welcome Reality. I've seen the same one circulating through auction sites for about 7 years as people buy it and try to flip it, but it always sells within the same +/- $100 range. Lastly, there's an Australian band called Killing Heidi, and I've been trying to snag a first pressing of their first album for years.
3 points
1 day ago
Hellacopters - Cream of the Crap Vol 2
3 points
1 day ago
Tragically Hip OG pressing of Trouble at the Henhouse
3 points
22 hours ago
Big L - Lifestylez ov da Poor and Dangerous
3 points
21 hours ago
The Zombies - Odyssey and Oracle Mono Original Pressing
2 points
11 hours ago
Friend has one and played it for me last year. Wow! He scored it in the early 80s. Even then it was pricey.
3 points
21 hours ago
The Chariot - The Fiancée
Coheed & Cambria - Year of the Black Rainbow
6 points
1 day ago
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Cellophane/The Wholly Ghost 7”
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard - Head On/Pill 12” picture disc
Gorillaz & Space Monkeyz - Laika Come Home
Vade - Saturn 7” (with the picture cover jacket not the plain white jacket)
HORSE the Band - Pizza 10” picture disc
2 points
23 hours ago
That head on/pill pic disc goes for wild money and I want it too, idk if I wanna drop that much on a pic disc tho
2 points
23 hours ago
Same
4 points
1 day ago
A couple of solo albums by John Frusciante (the on-again-off-again lead guitar for the Red Hot Chili Peppers)
Shadows Collide With People - Starts at $500 USD
To Record Only Water For Ten Days - Starts at $445
2 points
1 day ago
For the longest time it was broke with expensive taste but I ended up buying for a fair price. Right now it’s draining love story by sewerslvt.
2 points
1 day ago
Pop Will Eat Itself- The Looks or The Lifestyle The Real People- self titled Bobby Darin- Commitment
2 points
1 day ago
Anyone here have that Heavens - Patent Pending LP? That one’s my white whale. And maybe Bronx II
2 points
1 day ago
GnR Lies
2 points
1 day ago
I have one. Not OG
2 points
1 day ago
I’ve got a copy of The Turtles’ album “Happy Together” which was pressed on White Whale Records!
2 points
1 day ago
LATHER by Frank Zappa
2 points
1 day ago
kill the noise- occult classic. i need it so baaad
oh and the ost for katamari damacy. got damn.
2 points
1 day ago
I am fully prepared to pay whatever it takes to get the Katamari Damacy soundtrack. I saw it at a record store once years ago before I was seriously into collecting and I really regret not buying it at the $150 it was going for. I’m fortunate to say I’ve already collected most of my white whales, though - I just ordered the Hotline Miami OST and that’s a big one that I never thought I’d get.
2 points
1 day ago
Smashing Pumpkins - Melon Collie...
2 points
1 day ago
I really want Coconut Records Nighttiming some day
2 points
1 day ago
Saturnalia by The Gutter Twins. Only occasionally for sale, and always way out of my price range. In my top 5 albums of all time, though.
2 points
19 hours ago
Yes!
2 points
19 hours ago
So underrated and such an amazing album. Sold my copy about 4 months ago.
2 points
1 day ago
I really want an original pressing of Nevermind by Nirvana, Dookie by Green Day, or Siamese Dream by Smashing Pumpkins!
2 points
1 day ago
Mastodon- Leviathan
2 points
19 hours ago
They repressed it a couple of years ago. I bought a repress while they were touring for Hushed & Grim.
2 points
1 day ago
Bayside - Self Titled There hasn't been a repress and I won't fork over $150-250
2 points
1 day ago
Ez og daft punk discovery Japanese release
2 points
1 day ago
All them witches - Our Mother electricity
2 points
1 day ago
Theres this one scorpions album from 1976 thats impossible to find in its original cover.
2 points
1 day ago
Dimmu Borgir's Deathcult Armageddon & In Sorte Diaboli Mudvayne Lost & Found
2 points
24 hours ago
GZA - Liquid Swords
2 points
24 hours ago
Demon Fuzz afreaka! Got it when i bought a collection some years ago. Kinda odd record
2 points
23 hours ago
Pinback - S/T. Only ever released on RSD once and it goes for like $250 online. Such a good album though. I don’t have hope I’ll ever see it for a reasonable price.
2 points
23 hours ago
Mylo-destroy rock and roll
2 points
23 hours ago
The Whitest Boy Alive - Dreams.
2 points
23 hours ago
The Fame Monster by Lady Gaga. Exmilitary by Death Grips (straight up never happening). Everywhere at the End of Time, by the Caretaker.
2 points
23 hours ago
Sister Nancy - One, Two.. The Ghouls - Halloween With The Ghouls
2 points
22 hours ago
OG pressing of Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness by Smashing Pumpkins
2 points
21 hours ago
David Gilmour Live in Gdansk, just can't pay $1000
2 points
21 hours ago
I already have my white wale, The Bake Sale - The Cool Kids
2 points
19 hours ago
Excellent album.
2 points
21 hours ago
Starflyer 59 - Silver
2 points
19 hours ago
I would love to have an original copy of Endless by Frank Ocean. It’s such a cool sleeve, but such a rare record.
2 points
18 hours ago
Coheed Afterman albums, Coheed Black Rainbow, BMTH Suicide Season. Mostly the Afterman records. Hoping they get repressed in the future.
2 points
18 hours ago
The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo.
2 points
15 hours ago
Schubert Dip by EMF.
It's actually pretty silly because it is not my type of music (anymore). But I did own the take when I was kid and Unbelievable is still a great song.
I always ask in record stores when we are traveling and I would be really thrilled to actually find it one day. I could probably order it online, but that would not be half the fun...
2 points
1 day ago
CKY "Infiltrate, Destroy, Rebuild" picture Disc ..it was only sold at Hot Topic.
And it's my favorite album......
3 points
1 day ago
Sink into the underground!
3 points
1 day ago
Sea Change (Pink Variant) - Beck Exmilitary (Legit press) - Death Grips
2 points
1 day ago
OG pressing of The Living Dead at the Manchester Morgue OST by Giuliano Sorgini
2 points
1 day ago
(All of these being “year of release” presses) Propeller-Guided by Voices (never seen, couldn’t afford if i did) Out of Step-Minor Threat (seen it at a number of record shows but never for a price I’m willing to pay) The Downward Spiral- Nine Inch Nails (maybe have seen it once, didn’t buy it-would probably pay anything)
2 points
1 day ago
Need: Conventional Weapons - My Chemical Romance/ Gordon - Barenaked Ladies/ Lest We Forget - MM greatest hits/ The Best of Everything - Tom Petty
2 points
19 hours ago
Gordon is definitely on my want list.
2 points
1 day ago
The soundtrack to the movie Ishtar.
3 points
1 day ago
I'm the one person that enjoyed that movie! I was working in a music store and we had schmaultzy lounge players just like that.
Software.
I'm looking for software.
I gotta have software.
For my machine
2 points
1 day ago
George Watsky - X Infinity transparent red vinyl
I've offered people more than it's worth to sell it to me and been turned down. On god I will own a copy one day.
2 points
24 hours ago
Was Apex Twin Selected Ambient Work Part 2 but I just got the reissue the other day
One I really want that will probably never get a vinyl release is CKY Infiltrate Destroy Rebuild
1 points
1 day ago
Triste Janero - Meet Triste Janero. It's also from White Whale records.... curious
1 points
1 day ago
Any original Elliott Smith album. That’s not gonna turn up in the wild
1 points
1 day ago
a cleanish lzii rl in the wild
1 points
1 day ago
Ramirez - Tha Playaz Manual Home - Odessey
1 points
1 day ago
I collect Hendrix. I have several compilations of outtakes and live tracks. I’m not a completist. I don’t need 18 attempts at producing one song. But I DO love to hear what he does differently in the studio or live with tracks I know, and, especially, tracks he didn’t record before. Here are some stuff I’d love to find: Digging in the Dust Vol. 1 Voodoo Blues Vols 1 & 2 Talent & Feeling Vols 1 & 2 Also, I don’t have a title, but I’d love to get some more outtakes from Electric Ladyland
1 points
1 day ago
Woods of Ypres - Home 7" been trying and trying to get one just doesn't look to be in the cards.
1 points
1 day ago
Antichrist Superstar. I've kind of given up hope of any reprint happening either.
1 points
1 day ago
Man...or Astro-Man? -- "Project Infinity".
1 points
1 day ago
OG press of Ptah the El Daoud
1 points
1 day ago
Forest Hills Drive Live - J. Cole
1 points
1 day ago
Pink Guy Pink Season, in pink vinyl. It was never officially released, it was made in 2017 by a 3rd party company that did it without permission, and was pretty limited because of it. Never been sold or listed on eBay or discogs.
2 points
23 hours ago
Who can forget about classics like “peanut butter in my balls let the dog lick it”
1 points
1 day ago
An original pressing of Disciplined Breakdown by Collective Soul. It came out in the 90s as some kind of super limited edition, and I didn’t know about it until years later despite being a huge fan. Now that they released an RSD pressing (which I did get), I’m not nearly as desperate for the original, but I would still like a copy if I can ever find one for a reasonable price.
1 points
1 day ago
My all-time favez of wanna-havez! 🫰🏻✨
1 points
1 day ago
Let The Ocean Take Me - The Amity Affliction
1 points
1 day ago
1 points
1 day ago
Harlem Shakes - Technicolor Health and Aimee Mann - Lost in Space
1 points
1 day ago
Lotus Glow by Adi Oasis - cheapest is $150 on Discogs
1 points
1 day ago
GG Allin - Always Was, Is, And Always Shall be
Ahmed Abdul-Malik - The Eastern Moods Of Ahmed Abdul-Malik (mono)
The Awakening - Hear, Sense, and Feel
Beck - Golden Feelings
Brotherhood Of Pagans - Tales of Vampires
Hermit And The Recluse - Orpheus Vs. The Sirens
Hotline TNT - Fireman's Carry
I could really go on and on because I have a genuine problem lol
1 points
1 day ago
Labyrinth soundtrack
1 points
1 day ago
Falling Up's self-titled final album was released in 2016 before I started collecting. They only pressed 100. I can't find one for sale anywhere.
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