Rare musics you own

Got any rare/limited edition/out of print/autographed/otherwise exceptional CD/tape/vinyl? Brag about it in this thread! Like so:

(example)

• Artist Name - Album Name (Format) - any other pertinent info

Here's my list:

• Acephalix - Interminable Night (CD) - limited to 2000 copies
• Agalloch - Ashes Against the Grain (CD) - wooden box edition including postcards, sticker, and animal bone, limited to 500 copies
• Agalloch - Of Stone, Wind, and Pillor (CD) - limited to 500 copies (found used at the CD shop for cheap when it goes for hundreds online - feelin' lucky!)
• All Pigs Must Die - God is War (CD) - 2-disc version including the otherwise vinyl-only All Pigs Must Die EP, limited to 1000 copies
• Alpinist - Lichtlærm/Minus.Mensch (CD) - limited to 2000 copies
• Consummatum Est - Funeral Procession (CD) - second pressing, includes bonus track, limited to 250 copies
• Consummatum Est - Hypnagogia (CD) - limited to 1000 copies
• Demilich - Nespithe (CD) - first pressing, long out of print
• Devil Doll - Dies Irae (CD) - leather box edition including exclusive booklet and double-sided poster with lyrics in three languages, limited to 1500 copies
• Disembowelment - Disembowelment (CD) - 3-disc edition, limited to 1000 copies
• Drainland - And So Our Troubles Began (CD) - limited to 1000 copies
• Empyrium - A Retrospective... (CD) - 6-disc box set, limited to 500 copies
• Hjarnidaudi - Pain:Noise:March (CD) - limited to 750 copies
• Hordes of the Morning Star - Throne (CD) - out of print
• Hordes of the Morning Star - Torture (CD) - out of print
• Jesu - Conqueror (CD) - 2-disc Japanese import version including Sun Down/Sun Rise EP
• Jesu - Pale Sketches (CD) - limited to 2000 copies
• Katatonia - Live Consternation (CD/DVD) - autographed
• Mortiis - Perfectly Defect (CD) - autographed tour edition, limited to 100 copies
• Nile - Annihilation of the Wicked (CD) - Japanese import with bonus track
• Summon the Crows - One More for the Gallows (CD) - limited to 1000 copies
• Tartar Lamb - Sixty Metonymies (CD) - limited to 1000 copies
• Tartar Lamb II - Polyimage of Known Exits (CD) - CD version only available to Kickstarter donors
• The Angelic Process - ...and Your Blood is Full of Honey (CD) - reissue, out of print
• The Angelic Process - Coma Waering (CD) - reissue, limited to 750 copies
• The Angelic Process - Sigh (CD) - out of print
• The Angelic Process - We All Die Laughing (CD) - box set including autographed CD in a hand-made wooden box with numerous hand-made extras, #315 of 333 hand-numbered copies
• The Axis of Perdition - Physical Illlucinations in the Sewer of Xuchilbara (The Red God) (CD) - limited to 666 copies
• The Axis of Perdition - The Ichneumon Method (And Less Welcome Techniques (CD) - out of print
• Therion - Bells of Doom (CD) - out of print
• Therion - Beyond Sanctorum (CD) - autographed
• Tool - Salival (CD/DVD) - first pressing, out of print (randomly found at FYE for $80! Take that, ebay)
• Wolves in the Throne Room - Two Hunters (CD) - Japanese import with band's 2005 demo on bonus disc
• Woods of Ypres - Woods 4: The Green Album (CD) - two-disc version with Necramyth's Slaughter of the Seoul album on second disc, limited to 1000 copies

• Agalloch - Marrow of the Spirit (CD) - signed by Don Anderson and Aesop Dekker (fucking bouncers kicked us out before we could talk to John Haughm)

Other than that I only own slightly more than ten CDs and the rest of them are CD store normal (though The Demonstration Archive has a chance of becoming out of print someday because it's printed by Agalloch independently, and the Neurosis re-releases with redesigned slipcases are ostensibly limited), so I've got nothing else to add.

edited 28th Jan '12 11:01:35 AM by Litis

Limited editions:

• Havalina - A Bullfighter's Guide to Space and Love (CD) - Limited to 500 copies, I think.
• Starflyer 59 - Ghosts of the Future (box set of ten 7" vinyls) - Got the colored vinyl edition, which was limited to 1000 copies, I think.

Pre-release promotional copies:

• Bon Voyage - Bon Voyage (CD)
• Richard Swift - The Atlantic Ocean (CD) - I actually found this one in the used music section of my local music shop a week before it officially released.
• Andy Hunter - Exodus (CD)

Autographed stuff:

• Joy Electric - Robot Rock (CD)
• Woven Hand - Ten Stones (vinyl)
• Project 86 - ...And the Rest Will Follow (CD)

• Art of Dying's indie debut.
• Barenaked Ladies' Shoe Box E.P.
• Black Sabbath compilation simply called "Children Of The Grave [Bonus Track]." It has a bunch of previously released material and a low-quality live recording of the title-track.
• Guns N' Roses Sympathy For The Devil Single
• Ozzfest 2001 Live
• Ozzfest: Second Stage Live
• Metal Hammer Presents... A Tribute to British Steel
• Mötley Crüe's Quaternary and Decade of Decadence compilation (out of print)
• Pearl Jam Last Kiss single
• WWF Forceable Entry. It's a compilation of Wrestling tunes (mostly themes).

edited 28th Jan '12 8:04:23 PM by Alucard

That I can immediately recall:

• Current 93, I Have A Special Plan For This World—Clear vinyl edition. 940 copies.
• Current 93, In A Foreign Town, In A Foreign Land—Original card sleeve edition packaged with the book of the same name. 1000 copies.
• Nurse With Wound, Zero Mix—CD with art book. 1100 copies.
• Psychic TV, Dreams Less Sweet—Original pressing with bonus 12". Limited edition, number of copies not known.

I'm not sure if the copies of Michael Gira's Solo Recordings At Home and I Am Singing To You From My Room count, as they are second pressings, but they are both numbered and signed.

edited 28th Jan '12 10:03:20 PM by JHM

Emperor - In the Nightside Eclipse—first US pressing, out of print
Crimson Glory - s/t—Metal Mind Productions release, limited to 2000 copies.
Crimson Glory - Transcendence —Metal Mind Productions release, limited to 2000 copies.
Manilla Road - Crystal Logic—"crystal" green vinyl, limited to 300 copies.
Hammers of Misfortune - The August Engine—Vinyl LP, at least I think it's rare.

I can't think of anymore.

Vinyl:

• Airlord: Clockwork Revenge
• Artcane: Odyssée
• Bella Band
• Between: Einstieg
• Gracious: “Once on a Windy Day” b/w “Fugue in D Minor” (7" single, Australian release)
• The Korgis: “Burning Questions” b/w “Waiting for Godot” (12" single)
• Annette Peacock: I’m the One*
  apparently a lot of the unsold copies of this and other low-sellers were melted down by RCA to press more John Denver (et al) L Ps
• Polyphony: Without Introduction
• Ragnarök: Fjärilar i magen and Fata Morgana
• Sepsis: Liturgia Bezumia
• Sheshet
• To Be

Wait a minute, thought of a few more:

• Michael Gira, Benefit CD - Jarboe Emergency Medical Fund—Basically the first Angels Of Light disc.
• Swans, Children Of God/World Of Skin—Original digipak issue. Reasonably rare.
• Swans, Omniscience—Never reissued.
• Swans, Time Is Money 12"—Long out-of-print.

Ladytron - Gravity the Seducer Vinyl. Limited to 2000 copies.

Tool - Salival (CD/DVD) - out of print. Managed to get it for $30 at some record shop nearby. Little do they know the real value of this thing...

Do film scores count?

Primordial - To The Nameless Dead [First Pressing Double LP (Not the later Picture Disc, which is expensive enough in itself)]

Sure, film scores are fine. You mean the actual sheet music? Those can go in this topic too.

Well, I don't actually own it, but my local geeky interests store (technically a record store, but they sell niche stuff too, and loads of comics) had vintage sheet music for The Beatles' "Michelle" that I considered getting, passed on, and ended up regretting ever since.

Oh, and I don't know if it's rare, but a Japanese CD edition of John Lennon's Shaved Fish compilation. It's in a mini-LP sleeve.

EDIT: Well, apparently, I really scored on this:

Limited Edition Japanese pressing of this album comes housed in a miniature LP sleeve. 2007.

I got it in pristine condition, protected by a plastic slipcase no less, for only about $20. In a FYE.

Oh, and now that I think of it, I managed to find in the same record store as above two Beatles-related bootlegs, Artifacts I (Beatles) and Out of the Blue (solo Lennon). I'm not sure how rare those are these days, though.

edited 2nd Feb '12 8:46:05 PM by 0dd1

I got a CD of "Rebore, vol. 0" by the Boredoms online for much more money than justifiable. When I was 13. Yeeeee boi.

The limited edition version of Sound Horizon's Märchen album, which is worth it for the crazy-ass elaborate CD case alone. The lyrics book is a goddamn hardcover.

Got all of Death Cab for Cutie's albums and E Ps, including their album We Have the Facts and We're Voting Yes signed.

Anyone want to share rare musics?

edited 3rd Feb '12 11:08:25 PM by Rockonman

Probably not rare in Japan, but I have physical copies of two of Nujabes' albums, Metaphorical Music and Modal Soul.

I have the Stick Men With Ray Guns discography CD, long OOP and costs quite expensive on auction sites. I only paid like five bucks for it too, which just makes it better.

I also own a record from the first pressing of Germs' GI LP.

edited 13th Feb '12 12:35:31 AM by BalrogKick

Dunno if a lot of this stuff is ultimately really "rare", but it's hard to find around here, so I'll give it a shot.

Iced Earth: a copy of their 2001 reissue of Burnt Offerings, the Days of Purgatory 2-disc compilation, The Dark Saga, an original copy of Something Wicked This Way Comes that I got on my birthday last year, and the Overture of the Wicked EP. There's more, but I'm only listing the stuff that's hard to find.

Megadeth: the original pressings of Rust in Peace and Countdown to Extinction

Overkill: Taking Over. Apparently the CD's worth $40 used since it's been out of print for a number of years, but I snagged a brand-new copy for just $11 at CD Warehouse one day (great place, shame they went under).

Anthrax: original pressings of State of Euphoria, Persistence of Time, and Sound of White Noise. Related: the "Platinum Edition" of Stormtroopers of Death's album Speak English or Die.

Slayer: original CD pressings of Live Undead and Hell Awaits.

Ozzy Osbourne: original 2-CD version of The Ozzman Cometh (the version out now replaces "Shot in the Dark" with "Miracle Man" and replaces the Blizzard and Diary-era work with the horrible 2002 reversionings), and the original CBS Records CD pressing of Just Say Ozzy (been out of print for a long time).

...and I think that's it for now.

EDIT: Forgot one... make that two.

Venom: Combat Records' CD release of Welcome to Hell. $18 well spent.

GWAR: Carnival of Chaos. Not their best work, but rare is rare.

edited 13th Feb '12 11:17:48 PM by DemonSharkKisame