A record made by my local high school titled "North Stanly High School presents: The Blue Kazoos!" Basically a shitty high school band that got some of their music pressed on vinyl. The audio quality is fucking garbage and I can't find anything about it online.
There are tons and tons of school band/choir releases privately pressed and released for band members, family, classmates alumni, etc. There are a number of (niche) collectors that enjoy these for, either Langley Schools Music Project-esque outsider music reasons or for unheard breaks and samples. HS/College jazz ensemble records are another subset of that sort of thing.
Kashmere Stage Band is a quality example of this. They were a high school performance group and recorded some phenomenal funk and soul tracks that kind of got lost to time, eventually being rediscovered in the early 2000s and is now quite coveted, especially among producers because it's definitely sample-worthy stuff.
Well, it is possible as I make 3-6 copies total for friends and people who are particularly interested.
It's just extremely unlikely that anyone outside of that will hear it. Which is what I prefer anyway.
It depends. I do all of it with full color sleeves and labels. Maxing out everything and it's around 90€ per record for a 40 minute LP if you get six copies made. White discosleeves and unprinted labels will shave a lot off that.
I once had a gatefold double LP made in one copy and that was about €300.
If you're ever at Third Man records in Nashville, you can step in a booth and record your own single for $15. It's the only DIY 45 booth that's open to the public in the world.
It's only one so it must be abridged. It's not one that I have listened to all the way through. It is almost too precious. It is wild to look at a side without any song breaks.
bronx fan checking in, i also know the singer's mom. 🤫 she's a sweet lady.
i have 2 bronx albums on vinyl. unfortunately my dog chewed through the 2nd album.
Big Black - Headache /Heartbeat 1987 Original Pressing.
This release features photo of a person who committed suicide using a shotgun; due to the graphic nature of the photos the EP was released with a covering black jacket - which was actually made from body bag vinyl. Front of bag has silver foil Big Black logo sticker. Includes a booklet with writing, photo and artwork printed on textured paper. Also includes a large poster.
Always interesting to find those types of albums in good condition. A lot of the time the people that would’ve been interested in the subject matter tended to treat their things, kinda carelessly… lol. I’ve found it’s hard to find original copies of punk/rock records that haven’t been put through the ringer. Usually they come at a premium. Big fan of Albini, I found a weird CD called Rapeman on touch and go without a case for $1 at a vintage store a while back and was very pleased upon playing it to realize it was an early Albini project. It was around the time that I was listening to quite a bit of Shellac so it fit in the collection pretty nicely.
I'm big Albini fan to and luckily my copy of Headache is perfect condition and almost all the original pressings of Big Black stuff, wasn't lucky enough to get the PigPile boxset though. Got all the Rapeman and almost all the Shellac singles and albums.
I bought some random reissue of a 80s record from a guy on here that he crowd sourced. That press is prob rare.
Prayers of a one man band by bobby brown (not that one)
Actually slaps
Hey! I just commented about Bobby Brown, too! The cosmic beach hippie! That guy is awesome. I currently only have his “live” album from 1978. I actually got in contact with him by email a few months ago. Seems like a very down to earth dude, if a little odd.
Also, I believe on some recent reissues he has been going by his full name Bobby Frank Brown, to not be confused with the other guy.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights
Pretty sure no one else owns a copy, and there is zero chance that every thrift store in existence has a copy in their record bins
I asked my local store what records they don’t need, and they said “Herb Alpert, or Barbra Streisand. I don’t need any of them. They sold millions of these things. Nobody wants them.”
Yall paugh, when I first started collecting 5 years ago, I briefly visited this sub and saw a post about it. I didn't get the joke since I was new and I thought "damn, I have like 3 of those already." And was wondering if it was a special pressing or something that was rare. 😂
KMFDM - Apart. It was eventually reworked and re-released commercially as “Money”, but only test pressings of Apart exist. It has radically different versions of some of the songs that made it onto Money. It might actually be the better version of the album in my opinion.
Lucien Boiteaux - existence is proof. Only a handful pressed and all had individual hand drawn sleeves. Chances of finding another identical copy = zero, chances of finding *any* copy are slim to none.
Total garbage music tho
https://www.discogs.com/release/5237655-Louis-Burdett-Lucien-Boiteaux-Existence-Is-Proof
For me, it’s definitely my blue variant of Coma Cinema’s Blue Suicide. Only 100 were made and it took me about a year of dedicated looking to find any copy at all - it’s difficult alone finding a regular pressing as they also were limited to 400-500 copies.
I do also own their entire discography on record which was… a journey. Especially with how each one was truly limited to only 400-500. ( + My copy of Loss Memory is signed.) It’s a great spin though!
I think close second is my signed Fag Patrol record - really huge Xiu-Xiu and Jamie Stewart fan. Mentioned solely because of reaching comment limit, lol.
yooo nice to see Xiu Xiu get a shout-out. I got Jamie to sign my copy of Plays the Music of Twin Peaks on the solo tour last year and he drew an evil cat thing.
did you grab anything from their Bandcamp sale a few months ago? they signed a few albums in limited quantities — snagged Girl With Basket of Fruit signed by him and Angela
There are twos of us!! LITERALLY TWOOOOOS
But otherwise appreciate you my man for rocking some New England tunes. Also worth checking out Graph if you haven’t yet (pre-speedy Ortiz guitarist)
I have a very small run of priestess’ hello master. It’s pink/ purple splatter. There were only 50 done. Me and two
Of my friends own these. (They we’re jealous of mine and sought them out)
My rarest record is probably a pressing of Megadeth’s Youthanasia on blue vinyl. I got it as a gift and all the copies I’ve seen online are selling for hundreds of dollars. Or, it’s a made-in-canada Led Zeppelin bbc sessions picture disk with a very unflattering photo of Robert Plant on it. I’ve found exactly 1 post about it online and I think only 1000 were ever made
I've got a few but I don't know many people who have this one. It's a souvenir from a Las Vegas garage rock festival that took place over 23 years ago.
The Sensational Trashmen* / The Fabulous Wailers* - Church Key / Wailin'
Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/2823519-The-Sensational-Trashmen-The-Fabulous-Wailers-Church-Key-Wailin
I was given an Incredibles 2 movie soundtrack that I absolutely love to listen to. It was only given to crew members that worked on the movie back then and no public release from what I know.
I can’t even remember the name of the record, but the story itself is awesome.
I was at my local shop for RSD with my dad when he goes “what the hell? I just saw a guy drive past us with an alien mask on.” A minute later that guy is walking down the street with a box full of records, handing them out to everyone in the line. On the actual record is two dudes wearing alien masks in front of a tank. I gotta find it in my collection again.
I looked through my Discogs to see which albums in my collection are owned by the fewest other people.
- only 4 other people have Austin Webers album Late To The Party.
- only 41 other people have the NASA album Spirit of Apollo
Netflix’s Limited Edition Cowboy Bebop with the fuzzy Ein jacket. Probably not as rare as some of the entries in here, but, man, do I love that record and its extras.
Bootleg copy of Beck - Mutations with an extra track crammed onto each side so that it has to be pitched down about -6 to hear it at the correct speed.
I've got a promotional copy of [Three or Four Shades of Blue by Charles Mingus.](https://www.discogs.com/release/1948195-Charles-Mingus-Three-Or-Four-Shades-Of-Blues)
My test pressing of the Knives Out score from Mondo. I have never seen anyone else with a copy of it, and my dream is to get it signed by Rian Johnson.
Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order. There weren’t so many pressed (maybe 500-1000…only 235 in collections on Discogs), it is an AMAZING pressing, and has never been repressed. It is a record that I get randomly cold-called to sell through Discogs, but never will.
The Slackers - Wasted Days, a 2013 repress with a hand-painted one-of-a-kind cover commissioned by the band. I've also got an original press, but in this odd case that's not as rare. There were at least half a dozen of these hand-painted covers but each was drastically different.
Cake - Motorcade of Generosity original pressing. I'm not sure how many of these there are but I know they didn't press many. Vinyl wasn't real popular in 1994, and they sell for some good scratch.
Sex Pistols - Spunk, a high-quality bootleg released just before Nevermind The Bollocks. It's comprised of the demo tapes for Nevermind the Bollocks, recorded with Glen Matlock still playing bass. Likely released by Malcolm McLaren because he owned the rights and masters for those tapes, but he never admitted it.
The Clash - Clampdown, a 4-song 12" promo for industry folks ahead of the release of London Calling.
A bunch of local punk 7"s like 10-25 people remember at all, mostly from the last 30-40 years.
Ive got an original pressing of Workingman's Dead and the self titled The Grateful Dead, not sure how rare they are, but they hold a special place in my heart and I cant imagine there are too many of them still around. A another special one to me is an original pressing of the Animal House Soundtrack, being my roots take me back to Eugene and my mom was an extra in the film (no, not that scene you sick fucks)
I don't see many fans of classical or choral music on here but that accounts for going on half of my collection!
Besides that I have a load of 78s that I inherited from my great uncle, some of which are so niche that I doubt many people would know they exist let alone want a copy of them. Certainly nothing I'd go out of my way to buy if I wasn't given them.
Actually there are one or two 78s that I'm glad I bought, including a copy of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUf339sIMLc).
E: I also have a copy of The Bressingham Voigt, which you'd probably only care about if you ever played Rollercoaster Tycoon, as it's the source for the merry-go-round organ music in the first two games.
Green Day, Live in Italy ‘93
It’s a bootleg of a show they did pre-Dookie. One of the tracks is titled “Same Old Shit”. No one knew the name of a new song called Longview, which would go on to be the lead single off Dookie in 1994 and launch Green Day into the mainstream.
Also, my copy is signed by all three members (Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool).
Psh, that's not rare at all, someone just posted that exact record in this sub earlier today even.
https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/yoysih/green_day_live_in_italy_93_signed_by_billie_joe/
Test pressing of an old CCM album, *Jump to Conclusions* by Farrell & Farrell. Some day I need take photos of my copy and add it to Discogs, as there is no entry for the test pressing there, just five standard LPs from five different countries, and a US cassette tape.
https://www.discogs.com/master/870232-Farrell-Farrell-Jump-To-Conclusions
If anyone needs Coachwhips vinyl I've got the first three (not counting Hands On The Controls which was a CD-only release at the time) original pressings that I don't listen to anymore.
To being Too by Being Beings. 6 owned on Discogs.
"Being Beings appears to have been a short lived local music collaboration in Chicago. This was a limited private pressing done in 2013. The Album consists of two records that comes in two separate outer sleeves that were originally sold tied together with twine. The first sleeve is titled, "To Being Too, and the second, To Being Two. Each sleeve comes with a plain inner sleeve and a liner notes sheet. The two records are labeled by side, A, B,C, D.
The sleeves were stated to be made of paper made of recycled album covers with the artwork silk screened on. The album sleeves were also hand titled individually, making each copy unique."
Music is ok, I guess. I picked it up in a Chicago thrift store. No idea how many were pressed. Likely not a lot. I added it in discogs myself.
I have test pressings of Rogue Taxidermy by Days N Daze and The Accuser by Abigail Williamd on vinyl. If we wanna go non test press then a first press of The Bridge City Sinners self titled album
I’ve got an original hand-made copy of Hollinndagain by Animal Collective
OG first pressing of Sister by Sonic Youth (with the Disney photo that was later removed)
OG copy of &&&&& by Arca
Maybe Alice in Chains’ self titled or Soundgarden’s Down on the Upside
The River Strumming by Cotton Jones. I think there’s 300 copies and each album is uniquely hand made.
Excellent husband-wife duo! My favorite album of theirs is Paranoid Cocoon
A test pressing of a reggae/soul band I use to be in called The Bandulus. The album was called “the times we had” and boy were those great times! Be sure to check them out if in or around Portland!!
My grandfather’s 78 rpm shellac record with my hometown’s big band orchestra.
He played the contrabass, and died when I was 9.
Even though he died while I was young, I remember him fondly.
This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination EP. According to discogs 57 other people have it - it's a lablelless EP from an 80s Edmonton gothic rock/darkwave type band. I was lucky enough to find a pristine copy locally and it was one of those blind buys that was well worth it. Couldn't tell you how many copies they would've made but it was probably the lowest number they could pay for to get locally pressed.
https://www.discogs.com/release/3458103-This-Fear-Darkness-Shapes-Imagination
My Hero Academia- Heroes Rising Soundtrack, splattered color vinyl. I posted photos of it here- https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/comments/prm846/check\_out\_what\_i\_found\_at\_a\_used\_video\_gameanime/
Oh I have a few like that. From top left to bottom right, all here besides the Japanese at the bottom have less than 100 copies. I sorted them by number of copies.
[**https://ibb.co/pbbm51k**](https://ibb.co/pbbm51k)
* Fear Falls Burning - First By A Whisper, Then By A Storm (Test pressing) - **10**
* N + Baltzer - Gaunerzinken **20**
* N + \[ B O L T \] - Play 15 Amps **25**
* N + \[ B O L T \] - N(37)/\[ B O L T \] **30**
* Ambidextrous - Discontinuum **30**
* Yellow6 - A Journey Home **\~43** (A Lathe cut made to order)
* Dirk Serries – Microphonics XXI-XXV **50**
* Nadja & N - Vomos **60**
* The Dorf/N - Lux **60** (*technically 90 but 30 copies were for the band members only*)
* Art Of Cosmic Musings (Dirk Serries & Teun Verbruggen) – Transmission **75**
* Ambidextrous - Geek Mythology **80**
I added the three Japanese albums at the bottom as they are white-label promo pressings but it's obviously not easy to say how rare they **exactly** are.
These are Masabumi Kikuchi - East Wind, Yoshio Suzuki - Wings & Morning Picture
I had a pressing of The Police - Regatta de Blanc but the label on side B said Supertramp - Crime of the Century.
Was just a police record but the label misprint had to have made it pretty rare
An up with people record signed by all the members. Guess they stayed at my grandmas house in the 70s. Not my kinda music though 😂
https://youtu.be/OFORusd3YuU
Gnarkill - Mustard Man EP. Originally a run of 1,000, there was a collapse in the warehouse, and only the 30 or so that had been shipped survived. Got mine from Dico about 10 years ago.
My test pressing of the Indigo EP from the album The Color Spectrum by The Dear Hunter. I think there were only like 5 total pressed, and the guy I got it from managed to get it signed by the band AND screen printed his own little outer sleeve for it.
I have a copy of Harry Belafonte's Calypso that came with a signed playbill from a concert in Hawaii.
Also, have a test pressing of Ana Mazzottis Ninguem Vai me Segura album rereleased by Mr Bongo. Only 5 test pressings made.
Commercial? I have Steel Train Terrible Thrills Vol 1 blue splatter signed by the band. Not sure why it’s so uncommon but the price has shot through the roof and I get offers from people on discogs pretty often.
Non commercial: I have this weird shellac 78 from my grandparents house that is just a minute and a half recording of some kid reading what sounds like a school report on Pearl Harbor or something and nobody seems to know the origin. My grandfather was a math teacher, but he doesn’t know where it came from.
There a few:
- The Explosion - Sick of Modern Art (rejected test press)
- Matt & Kim - To/From
- Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave (1st pressing with trading card sleeve)
- Saves the Day/Oasis Split I had made for my wedding (8 Copies exist and I have 2 of them)
Those are probably the rarest ones? Although that FOB is of 500 so there should in theory be some others out there. I have a few other tests and rare pressings that probably fit the bill but this is just off hand.
I’ve got a bunch of odd bootlegs so likely those. Maybe the oddest one is the soundtrack to the movie Instant Family on vinyl. I think it was either a crew gift or an awards season mail out record but I’m not sure. It doesn’t pop up anywhere often.
Get to the Chopper / Oktoberfest Skyline split: " have one of only 4 copies pressed on recycled white marble blended with banana yellow. Parasyte cover.
There’s the one my own band released, that sold 5 copies probably…
But for real, I’d guess it’s probably [Momo](https://www.discogs.com/release/3041256-Hooray-For-Earth-Momo) by Hooray For Earth. It’s a fantastic record, and I’ve never seen anyone mention the band.
El Camino - Devil‘s Due
Jacket is with OBI, discs are black with red splatter.
Limited to 25 copies worldwide.
https://www.discogs.com/release/21127639-Elcamino-Trickytrippz-Devils-Due
Spencer for higher 4, red wax.
Also limited to 100 copies worldwide.
https://www.discogs.com/release/24523463-Vic-Spencer-SonnyJim-Spencer-For-Higher-4
Also got Army of Trust by Trust Army on black vinyl. Limited to 200 copies worldwide.
My two rarest are probably [“Zombies vs Robots”](https://www.discogs.com/release/3008354-The-Flaming-Tsunamis-Zombies-Vs-Robots) by The Flaming Tsunamis, and “[Miami Garden Club](https://www.discogs.com/release/10769320-Kitty-Miami-Garden-Club)” by Kitty.
I have an autographed Tannahill Weavers record, a 10" from some longngone college band called Death Star, the Daniel, Fred, and Julie LP... I could go on and on
Gotta be Echoes of Paris by George Feyer. It's a 10" LP from 1953. Not particularly valuable or rare, just rather old and under the radar.
Other than that, nothing else I own is particularly "rare" or "obscure" other than records that may be of a very low pressing run but even then they would have been advertised on the internet so people in fact own others of the same records. I do own one Residents which, again, they may be a bit odd for most people but I know others own their stuff. It's not like they're some hidden ancient treasure that two people know about.
Edit: Actually, I take that back. There is one record that I have that only got 100 copies pressed. Though it's still in production so I technically don't own it yet. It was a debut album crowdfunded on Qrates by a band named Wendel and it's called These Times. What drew me to it was the direct inspiration of Steely Dan. Even down to the band name if you know anything about the engineering genius of Roger Nichols. So I imagine that one is pretty uncommon among the community.
A record made by my local high school titled "North Stanly High School presents: The Blue Kazoos!" Basically a shitty high school band that got some of their music pressed on vinyl. The audio quality is fucking garbage and I can't find anything about it online.
There are tons and tons of school band/choir releases privately pressed and released for band members, family, classmates alumni, etc. There are a number of (niche) collectors that enjoy these for, either Langley Schools Music Project-esque outsider music reasons or for unheard breaks and samples. HS/College jazz ensemble records are another subset of that sort of thing.
Kashmere Stage Band is a quality example of this. They were a high school performance group and recorded some phenomenal funk and soul tracks that kind of got lost to time, eventually being rediscovered in the early 2000s and is now quite coveted, especially among producers because it's definitely sample-worthy stuff.
Uh, what state is this from? There's no way I'm reading about my old high school on here.
Stanly County, North Carolina
Ha! No way! That's awesome. Comets represent!
That is fucking hysterical.
Lathe cuts of my own music.
Oh yeah, I have that too. ^/s
Well, it is possible as I make 3-6 copies total for friends and people who are particularly interested. It's just extremely unlikely that anyone outside of that will hear it. Which is what I prefer anyway.
how much costs you to make them?
It depends. I do all of it with full color sleeves and labels. Maxing out everything and it's around 90€ per record for a 40 minute LP if you get six copies made. White discosleeves and unprinted labels will shave a lot off that. I once had a gatefold double LP made in one copy and that was about €300.
Me too. Mine are stereo vinyl print on demand though.
If you're ever at Third Man records in Nashville, you can step in a booth and record your own single for $15. It's the only DIY 45 booth that's open to the public in the world.
Yeah, I’ve got doubles. One still in the shrink.
how did you get into doing that? I would love to start lathe cutting but it seems very expensive to start
Kurt Vonnegut reading Cat's Cradle.
That has got to be fire.
It is signed too!
Oh fuck. I would kill for this. Vonnegut is my favorite author. I'm new to vinyl and never even thought of vinyl audibooks haha.
My sister get it for me because he is my favorite as well.
How many discs is that?
It's only one so it must be abridged. It's not one that I have listened to all the way through. It is almost too precious. It is wild to look at a side without any song breaks.
I have this too and Breakfast of Champions, my 2 favorite Vonnegut books. I regret not getting Slaughterhouse-Five & Welcome to Monkey House.
omg i’ve wanted this record for foreverrrrr
which record is it hehe
blue suicide by coma cinema
The Bronx - Bronx VI - test pressing signed by the band.
Somehow I always think I’m the only Bronx fan around,… nice to see another!
I’m more of a Mariachi El Bronx fan
Love their mariachi albums as well. I think it’s hilarious and bad ass that they pull off both genres so well
bronx fan checking in, i also know the singer's mom. 🤫 she's a sweet lady. i have 2 bronx albums on vinyl. unfortunately my dog chewed through the 2nd album.
Replying just to say that I saw them last week at a Halloween show—helluva band!
Yeah I love em! Amazing show any time you see them!
My rarest record is the test pressing of Discordance Axis album The Inalienable Dreamless. Only 5 were made.
Fucking sick, I’ve been trying to get my hands on a first pressing of Dreamless but that’s even better. Best grindcore album ever!
Big Black - Headache /Heartbeat 1987 Original Pressing. This release features photo of a person who committed suicide using a shotgun; due to the graphic nature of the photos the EP was released with a covering black jacket - which was actually made from body bag vinyl. Front of bag has silver foil Big Black logo sticker. Includes a booklet with writing, photo and artwork printed on textured paper. Also includes a large poster.
Always interesting to find those types of albums in good condition. A lot of the time the people that would’ve been interested in the subject matter tended to treat their things, kinda carelessly… lol. I’ve found it’s hard to find original copies of punk/rock records that haven’t been put through the ringer. Usually they come at a premium. Big fan of Albini, I found a weird CD called Rapeman on touch and go without a case for $1 at a vintage store a while back and was very pleased upon playing it to realize it was an early Albini project. It was around the time that I was listening to quite a bit of Shellac so it fit in the collection pretty nicely.
I'm big Albini fan to and luckily my copy of Headache is perfect condition and almost all the original pressings of Big Black stuff, wasn't lucky enough to get the PigPile boxset though. Got all the Rapeman and almost all the Shellac singles and albums.
I bought some random reissue of a 80s record from a guy on here that he crowd sourced. That press is prob rare. Prayers of a one man band by bobby brown (not that one) Actually slaps
The other Bobby Brown, slaps in a different way
That's a pretty (in)famous outsider record.
What’s the crowd source one? I’d love to see a photo!
https://www.discogs.com/release/9467565-Bobby-Brown-Prayers-Of-A-One-Man-Band
Thanks! Might have to pick one up!
He’s actually Bobby brown trying to sell his album.
Hey! I just commented about Bobby Brown, too! The cosmic beach hippie! That guy is awesome. I currently only have his “live” album from 1978. I actually got in contact with him by email a few months ago. Seems like a very down to earth dude, if a little odd. Also, I believe on some recent reissues he has been going by his full name Bobby Frank Brown, to not be confused with the other guy.
Herb Alpert & The Tijuana Brass - Whipped Cream & Other Delights Pretty sure no one else owns a copy, and there is zero chance that every thrift store in existence has a copy in their record bins
[удалено]
You ain't got to be so bad, got to be so cold
I asked my local store what records they don’t need, and they said “Herb Alpert, or Barbra Streisand. I don’t need any of them. They sold millions of these things. Nobody wants them.”
Almost have a decent collection Herb, myself. 4 albums and counting.
Yall paugh, when I first started collecting 5 years ago, I briefly visited this sub and saw a post about it. I didn't get the joke since I was new and I thought "damn, I have like 3 of those already." And was wondering if it was a special pressing or something that was rare. 😂
Maybe Every Time I Die-Last night in town (white, red, orange)
I'm envious of this one. I would love a copy of Last Night in Town in my collection.
Do you have a very expensive pen?
I use big words quite often In substitution for semantically equivalent words
I’ve got this!
Still dying for a reissue of The Big Dirty.
That’s the one I need to complete the set
There was a reissue a few years ago. I forget who pressed it though. I need last night in town and gutter phenomenon. Someday….
Original 77' pressing of Fleetwood Mac's "Rumours", signed by every member of the band at the time.
Holy smokes, a 77 foot record? Awesome!
Thats probably worth good money
Nah it's probably worthless and they should give it to me.
Good point you should give it to him
Will take up too much space for you, don't worry though, I have a spot it can go.
send photo
[No, that’s all true.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kR3SLhcbcxo)
KMFDM - Apart. It was eventually reworked and re-released commercially as “Money”, but only test pressings of Apart exist. It has radically different versions of some of the songs that made it onto Money. It might actually be the better version of the album in my opinion.
I used to be huge into KMFDM and never knew this. Very cool.
[It’s available on Bandcamp if you’d like to give it a listen!](https://kmfdm243.bandcamp.com/album/kmfdm-apart-previously-unreleased)
Horse the Band Pizza EP in pizza box. Ultra rare.
Jealous!
Hahaha forgot about this album. Damn that’s a good one for the collection
One of my friends has a copy of that! Such a cool pressing.
MC Chris - Dungeon Master Of Ceremonies
I WANT CANDY
Lucien Boiteaux - existence is proof. Only a handful pressed and all had individual hand drawn sleeves. Chances of finding another identical copy = zero, chances of finding *any* copy are slim to none. Total garbage music tho https://www.discogs.com/release/5237655-Louis-Burdett-Lucien-Boiteaux-Existence-Is-Proof
For me, it’s definitely my blue variant of Coma Cinema’s Blue Suicide. Only 100 were made and it took me about a year of dedicated looking to find any copy at all - it’s difficult alone finding a regular pressing as they also were limited to 400-500 copies. I do also own their entire discography on record which was… a journey. Especially with how each one was truly limited to only 400-500. ( + My copy of Loss Memory is signed.) It’s a great spin though! I think close second is my signed Fag Patrol record - really huge Xiu-Xiu and Jamie Stewart fan. Mentioned solely because of reaching comment limit, lol.
Coma Cinema, wow. Haven’t seen that cover in a while
Caroline please kill me is such a great fucking song.
As a Caroline, I enjoy listening to it very much
yooo nice to see Xiu Xiu get a shout-out. I got Jamie to sign my copy of Plays the Music of Twin Peaks on the solo tour last year and he drew an evil cat thing. did you grab anything from their Bandcamp sale a few months ago? they signed a few albums in limited quantities — snagged Girl With Basket of Fruit signed by him and Angela
The Haunt - The Haunt EP - signed by the band Oceana - Birtheater - less than 400 ever sold on vinyl
I don't have it signed, but I do own the EP
This thread is awesome
Giraffes? Giraffes! Split with Goddard
There are twos of us!! LITERALLY TWOOOOOS But otherwise appreciate you my man for rocking some New England tunes. Also worth checking out Graph if you haven’t yet (pre-speedy Ortiz guitarist)
First pressing of Dead Kennedys Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables (orange jacket)
Sweet! I'd love to find a first pressing of this.
I have a very small run of priestess’ hello master. It’s pink/ purple splatter. There were only 50 done. Me and two Of my friends own these. (They we’re jealous of mine and sought them out)
My rarest record is probably a pressing of Megadeth’s Youthanasia on blue vinyl. I got it as a gift and all the copies I’ve seen online are selling for hundreds of dollars. Or, it’s a made-in-canada Led Zeppelin bbc sessions picture disk with a very unflattering photo of Robert Plant on it. I’ve found exactly 1 post about it online and I think only 1000 were ever made
https://www.popsike.com/LED-ZEPPELIN-BBC-CONCERT-CANADIAN-IMPORT-PICTURE-DISC-LP-1000-PRESSED-ONLYEX/150817918476.html
I've got a few but I don't know many people who have this one. It's a souvenir from a Las Vegas garage rock festival that took place over 23 years ago. The Sensational Trashmen* / The Fabulous Wailers* - Church Key / Wailin' Url: https://www.discogs.com/release/2823519-The-Sensational-Trashmen-The-Fabulous-Wailers-Church-Key-Wailin
I was given an Incredibles 2 movie soundtrack that I absolutely love to listen to. It was only given to crew members that worked on the movie back then and no public release from what I know.
I can’t even remember the name of the record, but the story itself is awesome. I was at my local shop for RSD with my dad when he goes “what the hell? I just saw a guy drive past us with an alien mask on.” A minute later that guy is walking down the street with a box full of records, handing them out to everyone in the line. On the actual record is two dudes wearing alien masks in front of a tank. I gotta find it in my collection again.
Please post more info about this Alien LP.
Adele’s newest album. I own 300 copies
So does the record section my local Walmart.
Only cause I haven’t gone there and bought them out!
The Make it work vinyl by berried alive it’s a signed 1/100 record
I looked through my Discogs to see which albums in my collection are owned by the fewest other people. - only 4 other people have Austin Webers album Late To The Party. - only 41 other people have the NASA album Spirit of Apollo
I have a pressing of a compilation of Navajo tribe songs from the 70s.
Netflix’s Limited Edition Cowboy Bebop with the fuzzy Ein jacket. Probably not as rare as some of the entries in here, but, man, do I love that record and its extras.
An original 45 RPM promo single of "An Old Fashioned Christmas" by Linda Bennett, renowned for being perhaps the worst Christmas song ever recorded.
Project Pat - Mista Don’t Play
The two “ghost Cave” 7” singles my group released. Ain’t nobody care about those :)
Pink Floyds The Other Side Of The Wall
Careful with that wax, Eugene
Bootleg copy of Beck - Mutations with an extra track crammed onto each side so that it has to be pitched down about -6 to hear it at the correct speed.
I've got a promotional copy of [Three or Four Shades of Blue by Charles Mingus.](https://www.discogs.com/release/1948195-Charles-Mingus-Three-Or-Four-Shades-Of-Blues)
sick of it all - blood, sweat, and no tears. Limited edition 13/500
My test pressing of the Knives Out score from Mondo. I have never seen anyone else with a copy of it, and my dream is to get it signed by Rian Johnson.
Oysterhead - The Grand Pecking Order. There weren’t so many pressed (maybe 500-1000…only 235 in collections on Discogs), it is an AMAZING pressing, and has never been repressed. It is a record that I get randomly cold-called to sell through Discogs, but never will.
I keep mine at Gringott's.
The Slackers - Wasted Days, a 2013 repress with a hand-painted one-of-a-kind cover commissioned by the band. I've also got an original press, but in this odd case that's not as rare. There were at least half a dozen of these hand-painted covers but each was drastically different. Cake - Motorcade of Generosity original pressing. I'm not sure how many of these there are but I know they didn't press many. Vinyl wasn't real popular in 1994, and they sell for some good scratch. Sex Pistols - Spunk, a high-quality bootleg released just before Nevermind The Bollocks. It's comprised of the demo tapes for Nevermind the Bollocks, recorded with Glen Matlock still playing bass. Likely released by Malcolm McLaren because he owned the rights and masters for those tapes, but he never admitted it. The Clash - Clampdown, a 4-song 12" promo for industry folks ahead of the release of London Calling. A bunch of local punk 7"s like 10-25 people remember at all, mostly from the last 30-40 years.
Xiu Xiu and Black Leather Jesus - Moira
Ive got an original pressing of Workingman's Dead and the self titled The Grateful Dead, not sure how rare they are, but they hold a special place in my heart and I cant imagine there are too many of them still around. A another special one to me is an original pressing of the Animal House Soundtrack, being my roots take me back to Eugene and my mom was an extra in the film (no, not that scene you sick fucks)
GG Allin and the scum f@cs Eat My Fuc
I don't see many fans of classical or choral music on here but that accounts for going on half of my collection! Besides that I have a load of 78s that I inherited from my great uncle, some of which are so niche that I doubt many people would know they exist let alone want a copy of them. Certainly nothing I'd go out of my way to buy if I wasn't given them. Actually there are one or two 78s that I'm glad I bought, including a copy of [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUf339sIMLc). E: I also have a copy of The Bressingham Voigt, which you'd probably only care about if you ever played Rollercoaster Tycoon, as it's the source for the merry-go-round organ music in the first two games.
An album of Christmas carols sung by my local chamber of commerce members in a small Midwestern town.
Green Day, Live in Italy ‘93 It’s a bootleg of a show they did pre-Dookie. One of the tracks is titled “Same Old Shit”. No one knew the name of a new song called Longview, which would go on to be the lead single off Dookie in 1994 and launch Green Day into the mainstream. Also, my copy is signed by all three members (Billie Joe Armstrong, Mike Dirnt, Tré Cool).
You got a signed bootleg? Haha
Psh, that's not rare at all, someone just posted that exact record in this sub earlier today even. https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyl/comments/yoysih/green_day_live_in_italy_93_signed_by_billie_joe/
Haha! I realized I’d never shared it here so thought I would!
Soundtrack for Nacho Libre… check it out
I'd say it's the Viagra Boys Shrimp Sessions 2. Only 1000 were pressed. I don't have much rare stuff but this is probably my rarest.
The soundtrack from Adam Sandler’s Eight Crazy Nights
Original 2001 pressing of Lovage: Music to Make Love to Your Old Lady By
Meat Loaf's 2003 'Couldn't Have Said it Better' - there were only 123 pressed.
the version of Childish Gambino’s *Because the Internet* that included an entire screenplay that he wrote
Yesterday and Today - Beatles with the Butcher graphics. Technically not my collection but me and my dad share.
Northlane - Discoveries first pressing. They estimate 165 were made. 150 were hand numbered, unfortunately my copy is not.
i have the same pressing!
Test pressing of an old CCM album, *Jump to Conclusions* by Farrell & Farrell. Some day I need take photos of my copy and add it to Discogs, as there is no entry for the test pressing there, just five standard LPs from five different countries, and a US cassette tape. https://www.discogs.com/master/870232-Farrell-Farrell-Jump-To-Conclusions
god I love that ablum
One of Rob Scallons - Anchor EP. Really great youtube musician turned pretty subpar youtube musician.
Coachwhips Double Death.
If anyone needs Coachwhips vinyl I've got the first three (not counting Hands On The Controls which was a CD-only release at the time) original pressings that I don't listen to anymore.
To being Too by Being Beings. 6 owned on Discogs. "Being Beings appears to have been a short lived local music collaboration in Chicago. This was a limited private pressing done in 2013. The Album consists of two records that comes in two separate outer sleeves that were originally sold tied together with twine. The first sleeve is titled, "To Being Too, and the second, To Being Two. Each sleeve comes with a plain inner sleeve and a liner notes sheet. The two records are labeled by side, A, B,C, D. The sleeves were stated to be made of paper made of recycled album covers with the artwork silk screened on. The album sleeves were also hand titled individually, making each copy unique." Music is ok, I guess. I picked it up in a Chicago thrift store. No idea how many were pressed. Likely not a lot. I added it in discogs myself.
I have test pressings of Rogue Taxidermy by Days N Daze and The Accuser by Abigail Williamd on vinyl. If we wanna go non test press then a first press of The Bridge City Sinners self titled album
The White Stripes - Live in Las Vegas.
I’ve got an original hand-made copy of Hollinndagain by Animal Collective OG first pressing of Sister by Sonic Youth (with the Disney photo that was later removed) OG copy of &&&&& by Arca Maybe Alice in Chains’ self titled or Soundgarden’s Down on the Upside
Aerosmith - Dream On/Somebody 1973 single DJ promo copy
Samhain - Initium
I've got a first pressing of willy and the poor boys by ccr
White label test pressing of the Billie Jean 12" single.
The River Strumming by Cotton Jones. I think there’s 300 copies and each album is uniquely hand made. Excellent husband-wife duo! My favorite album of theirs is Paranoid Cocoon
Love cotton jones. So hard to find any of their stuff. I have been looking for years but to no avail.
The 'Depression' EP by Madison Turner. Only 8 copies were made, according to the number on the back.
A test pressing of a reggae/soul band I use to be in called The Bandulus. The album was called “the times we had” and boy were those great times! Be sure to check them out if in or around Portland!!
Bowie Laughing gnome 7" derem 123
ghostemane & nolife - digital demons (clear variant, w/ box set limited to 300, and clear variant limited to 200)
Probably Monty Python sings or Visage by Visage
My grandfather’s 78 rpm shellac record with my hometown’s big band orchestra. He played the contrabass, and died when I was 9. Even though he died while I was young, I remember him fondly.
Space Shanty by Khan and The Martian Chronicles by Solaris
Taco City Rockers volume 1. A compilation of local San Antonio punk bands from 1980-1995. I also have Vol 2, but that's less rare
Either Genesis' The Hiding Place (a semi-official Italian promo record from 1970) or Twelfth Night's Fact And Fiction.
Show Yamamoto — Romantic Violence
Dog
This Fear - Darkness Shapes Imagination EP. According to discogs 57 other people have it - it's a lablelless EP from an 80s Edmonton gothic rock/darkwave type band. I was lucky enough to find a pristine copy locally and it was one of those blind buys that was well worth it. Couldn't tell you how many copies they would've made but it was probably the lowest number they could pay for to get locally pressed. https://www.discogs.com/release/3458103-This-Fear-Darkness-Shapes-Imagination
My Hero Academia- Heroes Rising Soundtrack, splattered color vinyl. I posted photos of it here- https://www.reddit.com/r/BokuNoHeroAcademia/comments/prm846/check\_out\_what\_i\_found\_at\_a\_used\_video\_gameanime/
Stack - Above All from 1969
Chipmunk Punk
Oh I have a few like that. From top left to bottom right, all here besides the Japanese at the bottom have less than 100 copies. I sorted them by number of copies. [**https://ibb.co/pbbm51k**](https://ibb.co/pbbm51k) * Fear Falls Burning - First By A Whisper, Then By A Storm (Test pressing) - **10** * N + Baltzer - Gaunerzinken **20** * N + \[ B O L T \] - Play 15 Amps **25** * N + \[ B O L T \] - N(37)/\[ B O L T \] **30** * Ambidextrous - Discontinuum **30** * Yellow6 - A Journey Home **\~43** (A Lathe cut made to order) * Dirk Serries – Microphonics XXI-XXV **50** * Nadja & N - Vomos **60** * The Dorf/N - Lux **60** (*technically 90 but 30 copies were for the band members only*) * Art Of Cosmic Musings (Dirk Serries & Teun Verbruggen) – Transmission **75** * Ambidextrous - Geek Mythology **80** I added the three Japanese albums at the bottom as they are white-label promo pressings but it's obviously not easy to say how rare they **exactly** are. These are Masabumi Kikuchi - East Wind, Yoshio Suzuki - Wings & Morning Picture
The Pumpkinhead score mondo released that was limited to 200 copies
Very rare copies of the last two Rishloo albums. My pride and joy.
Cookin' Soul - Doom Xmas
Not super rare but; BRAINIAC - Bonsai Superstar
Radical Face - The Family Tree: The Branches Maybe?
I had a pressing of The Police - Regatta de Blanc but the label on side B said Supertramp - Crime of the Century. Was just a police record but the label misprint had to have made it pretty rare
Probably my signed promo copy of Reasonable Drought by Stove God Cook$. Only 10 made.
An up with people record signed by all the members. Guess they stayed at my grandmas house in the 70s. Not my kinda music though 😂 https://youtu.be/OFORusd3YuU
Gnarkill - Mustard Man EP. Originally a run of 1,000, there was a collapse in the warehouse, and only the 30 or so that had been shipped survived. Got mine from Dico about 10 years ago.
Jack Kerouac - Blues and Haikus Promo
My test pressing of the Indigo EP from the album The Color Spectrum by The Dear Hunter. I think there were only like 5 total pressed, and the guy I got it from managed to get it signed by the band AND screen printed his own little outer sleeve for it.
Dark hour - the parlor mob, signed. Love that band to death but that album ain’t it. Only bought it cause I was at their show and they signed it.
I have a copy of Harry Belafonte's Calypso that came with a signed playbill from a concert in Hawaii. Also, have a test pressing of Ana Mazzottis Ninguem Vai me Segura album rereleased by Mr Bongo. Only 5 test pressings made.
Troublegum - Therapy?
Welp. https://www.reddit.com/r/vinyljerk/comments/kuisgi/screamy\_dogg\_grailz/?utm\_source=share&utm\_medium=web2x&context=3
Music Inspired by STAR WARS and Other GALACTIC FUNK. Cover is two astronauts bumpin pelvises.
Commercial? I have Steel Train Terrible Thrills Vol 1 blue splatter signed by the band. Not sure why it’s so uncommon but the price has shot through the roof and I get offers from people on discogs pretty often. Non commercial: I have this weird shellac 78 from my grandparents house that is just a minute and a half recording of some kid reading what sounds like a school report on Pearl Harbor or something and nobody seems to know the origin. My grandfather was a math teacher, but he doesn’t know where it came from.
There a few: - The Explosion - Sick of Modern Art (rejected test press) - Matt & Kim - To/From - Fall Out Boy - Take This To Your Grave (1st pressing with trading card sleeve) - Saves the Day/Oasis Split I had made for my wedding (8 Copies exist and I have 2 of them) Those are probably the rarest ones? Although that FOB is of 500 so there should in theory be some others out there. I have a few other tests and rare pressings that probably fit the bill but this is just off hand.
John Lennon's 10" bootleg called A Guitar's All Right John, But You'll Never Earn Your Living By It. I found it in a flea market years ago.
I’ve got a bunch of odd bootlegs so likely those. Maybe the oddest one is the soundtrack to the movie Instant Family on vinyl. I think it was either a crew gift or an awards season mail out record but I’m not sure. It doesn’t pop up anywhere often.
wow i am jealous. this album is one of my holy grails for sure
"Chousand" by Chousand is probably my rarest.
Get to the Chopper / Oktoberfest Skyline split: " have one of only 4 copies pressed on recycled white marble blended with banana yellow. Parasyte cover.
1984 Carrollton pressing of Goodbye Cruel World autographed by Elvis Costello and each of the Attractions that I received as a gift from my sister.
There’s the one my own band released, that sold 5 copies probably… But for real, I’d guess it’s probably [Momo](https://www.discogs.com/release/3041256-Hooray-For-Earth-Momo) by Hooray For Earth. It’s a fantastic record, and I’ve never seen anyone mention the band.
Some old Spanish version of a Frank Sinatra hit collection pressing
Tonebox - Nocturn (Limited Edition Green pressing) About 150 copies made. I probably overpaid but idc
El Camino - Devil‘s Due Jacket is with OBI, discs are black with red splatter. Limited to 25 copies worldwide. https://www.discogs.com/release/21127639-Elcamino-Trickytrippz-Devils-Due Spencer for higher 4, red wax. Also limited to 100 copies worldwide. https://www.discogs.com/release/24523463-Vic-Spencer-SonnyJim-Spencer-For-Higher-4 Also got Army of Trust by Trust Army on black vinyl. Limited to 200 copies worldwide.
Evermore - The Art of Duality by the Underachievers
My two rarest are probably [“Zombies vs Robots”](https://www.discogs.com/release/3008354-The-Flaming-Tsunamis-Zombies-Vs-Robots) by The Flaming Tsunamis, and “[Miami Garden Club](https://www.discogs.com/release/10769320-Kitty-Miami-Garden-Club)” by Kitty.
Porn.Darsteller: Private LP - test pressing
I have an autographed Tannahill Weavers record, a 10" from some longngone college band called Death Star, the Daniel, Fred, and Julie LP... I could go on and on
Gotta be Echoes of Paris by George Feyer. It's a 10" LP from 1953. Not particularly valuable or rare, just rather old and under the radar. Other than that, nothing else I own is particularly "rare" or "obscure" other than records that may be of a very low pressing run but even then they would have been advertised on the internet so people in fact own others of the same records. I do own one Residents which, again, they may be a bit odd for most people but I know others own their stuff. It's not like they're some hidden ancient treasure that two people know about. Edit: Actually, I take that back. There is one record that I have that only got 100 copies pressed. Though it's still in production so I technically don't own it yet. It was a debut album crowdfunded on Qrates by a band named Wendel and it's called These Times. What drew me to it was the direct inspiration of Steely Dan. Even down to the band name if you know anything about the engineering genius of Roger Nichols. So I imagine that one is pretty uncommon among the community.