Most Valuable Vinyl Record Covers

By amanda gersten september 10 2019.

Most valuable vinyl record covers.

It s valuable rare only. Most valuable vinyl records. Oddly enough the iconic record was met with mixed reviews rolling stone called. As one of the most popular rock bands of all time the group s self titled album led zeppelin released in 1969 easily reached platinum status but if you run across the rare first issue variation of the cover art it will be worth many times what later releases bring.

Pepper s lonely hearts club band boxed set reissue 1982 price 500 00 a limited edition super high quality reissue of the original concept album. Once the bastion of hard core record hounds nostalgic coots and too cool hipsters vinyl record culture has come back from near extinction to a nielsen estimated 14 3 million vinyl record sales in 2018. The beatles the beatles white album 1968. Sure the sounds are certainly the most essential element but you can t ignore the role of cover art in making a brilliant album from the fold out gatefolds of the vinyl era to pull out liner.

Vinyl records have become collectible and rare first pressings can go for several hundred to thousands of dollars. No scratches and have pristine covers. Several of the records on the list were quickly pulled because of controversial cover art making. Here are the 50 most valuable vinyl records on earth.

Click here to browse some of the rarest records we have in our store. The beatles sgt. We didn t of course and that s because nearly all of the top 100 of the world s most valuable vinyl records are individually cut acetates test pressings pre production not commercially released items that were never formally released or other items that likely would only have been available to record company. Led zeppelin led zeppelin 1969 led zeppelin s eponymous debut featured a mix of original material and covers of blues songs including a re recording of the track dazed and confused originally written and recorded by jake holmes which was also covered by jimmy page s old band the yardbirds.