My favourite album but I’ve only owned 4(?) copies in 33 years – only 796 to go! Who has the most copies of a single album then?
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My favourite album but I’ve only owned 4(?) copies in 33 years – only 796 to go! Who has the most copies of a single album then?
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Beany says
I have no idea how many copies of Ziggy Stardust I have on LP or CD. I would guess at least 6. It includes a Rykodisc LP on clear vinyl and various special edition CD reissues.
I do know I have 9 copies of the Don Estelle/Windsor Davies LP Sing Lofty on the MFP Label as I counted them recently for my Twitter chums. 2 are signed by Don Estelle. I also have 5 copies of the original pressing on EMI. Why? It’s the law.
Honestly I cannot resist them and pick them up for pennies these days. The last one was a birthday present. It must be a collecting obsession as I have not played a single one. I listen to the music from them online instead. I need help.
Another Will Smith says
I guess a copy signed by Don Estelle and Windsor Davies would be the equivalent of an original copy of VU and Nico with an unpeeled banana? (don’t!)
Beany says
It is often said that finding an unsigned copy of a solo Don Estelle LP is harder than finding a signed one. I do not own one signed by Windsor Davies sadly.
Oooh! I have just counted my collection of Stewpot’s Pop Party LPs. 6! They are great fun to play. Anything by Ed Stewart is cringeworthy and brings back happy memories. @minibreakfast will appreciate this song…
https://youtu.be/o1weFMxhEmk
Paul Wad says
Wow, fancy you bringing the Stewpot Pop Party album up, because I was thinking of that the other day when someone asked which compilations shaped your musical identity. I wouldn’t go far as to say it set me on my way to becoming a record collecting obsessive, but I do remember playing bits of it over and over when I was 6 or 7 year olds, basically the T Rex tracks. Trying to think which ones were on it. Certainly remember Hot Love and Ride a White Swan, but there may have been another couple on it, cos I’m pretty sure that’s where I first heard Get It On and Jeepster.
minibreakfast says
I saw TWO copies signed by both Don and Windsor in the pound box in Out Of Time, Ipswich at half term. No doubt some canny collector has since snapped them up. (Sorry @Beany!)
minibreakfast says
The evidence:
http://i1350.photobucket.com/albums/p773/minibreakfast/sing%20lofty_zps0awtiqpb.jpg
Beany says
I don’t know you…
minibreakfast says
Next time I’m that way I’ll take a look. You never know….
Moose the Mooche says
Oooh, me white trousers!
minibreakfast says
I don’t have enough room for the records I’ve got, let alone multiples!
Rigid Digit says
10 copies of Never Mind The Bollocks
11 track + one sided single
12 track
12 track (re-issue)
Picture Disc
CD
CD + Spunk Demos
35th Anniversary Box
35th Anniversary 2 CD (incl Live In Sweden)
Record Store Day Picture Disc
Pink Vinyl (from Sainsburys)
Missed the 7″ single box set release for Record Store Day in 2014 – prices have never been condusive when I remember to look.
Leicester Bangs says
I have dozens of threesomes, but that’s because I bought them on vinly, updated to CD and then bought the remaster — so stuff like Floyd, The Smiths, PiL, Mondays, Screamadelica,
Twang says
I have 5 copies of Deep Purple’s “Come taste the band” – 70s cassette, 70s vinyl (second hand, bit scratched ), 70s vinyl (VGC), CD first generation, recent remaster / remix. I like it.
LesterTheNightfly says
I’ve got 7 copies of Led Zeppelins “In Through The Out Door”
6 original vinyls with the different sleeves and the cd version
Probably get the deluxe double vinyl remaster if the price is right
IanP says
I have at least half a dozen copies of the first Clash LP, whenever I see it at a school jumble sale or charity shop I feel obliged to give it a loving home.
Mind you, can’t remember the last time I played one of them.
Moose the Mooche says
Play records? Ha ha ha!
Dude thinks you PLAY records!
Tiggerlion says
Young Americans CDs:
1984 RCA edition
1991 Rykodisc/EMI with three bonus tracks
1999 EMI remaster with no bonus tracks
2007 Special Edition with a bonus DVD of videos and surround sound but, most importantly, It’s Gonna Be Me with strings
The Who Can I Be Now? box set with yet another remaster and an earlier version, The Ghouster
That’s six different CDs altogether. My vinyl has long gone.
fishface says
the great rock ‘n’ roll swindle…
vinyl double,
vinyl single,
cd,
vhs video,
dvd video….
the single lp was bought purely for the cover art in the analogue doldum days about 2002. it cost a whole pound.
the dvd also cost a quid from a carboot…..just had to have it…..
FISH.
Rigid Digit says
Snap – I’ve got that lot too.
I’ve also got two copies of the double – one with Whatcha Gonna Do About It, and the one without
fishface says
speaking to a hardcore pistols fan a couple of years back and he told me the early copies of the double are the ones to watch out for.
these feature the catwoman muppet from the Bromley contingent in the inner montage…….
I strongly advise you not to check your pressing……….it could put you right off yer cornflakes!!!!
FISH.
Paul Wad says
I was in the Word magazine when they did an article on this. I have around 7 or 8 different versions of The Lilac Time’s debut album and even have a t-shirt of it. It’s a ruddy good album too.
Harold Holt says
I knew it sounded familiar. Good stuff though.
Moose the Mooche says
You do at least have the excuse of there being two distinct versions.
And now I know which AWer I’d most like to burgle.*
(*hurrrr)
John Walters says
I have 5 copies of Aqualung.
Twang says
Good point, so have I. Original vinyl, reissued vinyl, CD, 40th anniversary CD, Steven Wilson remix CD.
NigelT says
Pet Sounds.
LP
CD (mono/stereo)
DVD-A
CD Box Set
50th Anniversary box CD/Blu Ray/Book thingy
Plus the Brian Wilson live version
attackdog says
Aja, The Dan – 9
3 vinlys
3 Cd,s
3 T Shirts – I get some very odd looks from civilians.
paulwright says
Low by David Bowie. LP, Cassette, CD and expanded digital download thingy which I shouldn’t have bothered with because the original is perfect.
Oh, and the Low Symphony by Philip Glass
NigelT says
Schoolboy collecting error today….spotted the Beatles Abbey Road vinyl plus mag issue 1 in Tesco’s and picked one up, feigned surprise and was just about to drop it in the trolley when I got a firm ‘No – you have that too may times already’. Should have bought it on my own and smuggled it in like I used to…..
Moose the Mooche says
Ohhh, the secret shame of the record smuggler…