What's the most you've ever spent on a CD?

ICBM

If we're counting presents we didn't buy ourselves, I have the Chris Rea 'Blue Guitars' 11-CD/DVD/book box set… but I genuinely don't know how expensive it was, although I imagine it was more expensive than Songs Of Freedom.

Since I have a rather relevant birthday coming up I might have mentioned the 50th Anniversary Sgt. Pepper reissue in passing too, but I said I'd be happy with the standard double CD. We will see .

Grumpyrocker

£35 on an All About Eve CD from Japan. I wasn't some kind of completist collector. I just wanted the regular album I'd had on tape on CD, but couldn't find a UK copy anywhere. So ended up buying one from Japan on Ebay.

bingefeller

Grumpyrocker said:

£35 on an All About Eve CD from Japan. I wasn't some kind of completist collector. I just wanted the regular album I'd had on tape on CD, but couldn't find a UK copy anywhere. So ended up buying one from Japan on Ebay.

Did you have to pay customs?  

Grumpyrocker

No I think it slipped through marked as a gift.

stickyfiddle

I got the full Beatles remaster box set when that came out (2008-ish?), though that was a gift.

Can't think of anything else I've spent signficant money on for me, though I did get the Goodbye Babylon set for MrsF a few years ago. Lovely wooden box and authentic cotton from the fields the songs developed in.

mudslide73

Zeppelin Box set 1 & 2. Although I paid 16.49 for Amorica by the Black Crowes from Virgin because I had to have it on release day. Robbery!

bingefeller

Grumpyrocker said:

No I think it slipped through marked as a gift.

that wasn't so bad.  

stickyfiddle said:

I got the full Beatles remaster box set when that came out (2008-ish?), though that was a gift.

Can't think of anything else I've spent signficant money on for me, though I did get the Goodbye Babylon set for MrsF a few years ago. Lovely wooden box and authentic cotton from the fields the songs developed in.

That looks amazing!  I've never seen a boxed CD so well presented.

CHRISB50

Not a CD but when I used to DJ I paid just under 100 quid for a single sided acetate that wasn't going to be released. Good tune though!

Reverend

I've paid £5 for album that are now £200 but never spent huge sums on any.

Reverend

My vinyl copy of live loud alive still has a price sticker on it. 75 krona. 

bingefeller

Reverend said:

My vinyl copy of live loud alive still has a price sticker on it. 75 krona. 

Mine is out for delivery today!  Can't wait to get it!

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Octahedron

CDs here in Australia are generally very expensive no matter what you're buying!!

I think the most expensive I've bought was probably $30. 

I don't think I would really pay any more than that for a CD to be honest! I think the most expensive I've ever seen include the first Budgie album, there was a new sealed copy I saw of that the other day in JB Hi Fi (which for the British among us is a cross between HMV, PC World and Comet/similar) for $48

And I've also seen an Eric Sardinas album for $52 in the same store...

Crazy!

Sesh

I think I paid about £18 for Zaireeka by The Flaming Lips. It was their 4cd album where the discs are to be played concurrently. Waited for ages for the price to drop below silly money. 

DLM

About €80, I think, for Princess' self-titled debut on behalf of a mate who's bonkers about Stock Aitken Waterman.

Shaun Baxter got his big start as her guitarist promoting this record, including a Top of the Pops appearance.

For my own use and with my own money, probably something like £25 per CD including shipping on fusion/shred nerd stuff like the Garsed/Helmerich albums or Blues Saraceno's debut.

duotone

£16.99 from virgin near Liverpool St. Station.  It was Dream Theaters album Train Of Thought.

bingefeller

Same Loudness CD is £46 on Amazon.... 

I just bought their 1992 album Loudness for £23, but I have to wait for it to come in stock.  

DLM said:

About €80, I think, for Princess' self-titled debut on behalf of a mate who's bonkers about Stock Aitken Waterman.

Shaun Baxter got his big start as her guitarist promoting this record, including a Top of the Pops appearance.

For my own use and with my own money, probably something like £25 per CD including shipping on fusion/shred nerd stuff like the Garsed/Helmerich albums or Blues Saraceno's debut.

that Garsed Helmerich album Quid Pro Quo is amazing.  

DLM

^^^Wis'd!