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Nope. Typos, misprints, and other pressing plant screw-ups are actually quite common, and do not increase value. There are only two exceptions to this:
- Artists who have very large fanatical followings of people who will buy every label variation, minor revision, etc. Like The Beatles, or the Rolling Stones.
- Pressing plant foul-ups that result in the record containing music not intended to be released, like the Bob Dylan album which had four songs dropped from it at the last minute (only a dozen or so mono copies are known to exist, and one stereo copy which is worth thousands). Or alternately like the handful of UK David Bowie albums that were inexplicably on coloured vinyl, as the record company insisted that they were never pressed on anything but the usual black wax. It turned out to be that years ago, an employee at the pressing plant was a big Bowie fan, and made up a dozen or so copies on coloured vinyl for himself and a few friends.
Any record is only worth what people are willing to pay for it. I was at one shop a few weeks ago, where a fellow asked the store owner if she priced the records by the "Goldmine Standard". He seemed astonished when she told him that no, she sold them for whatever she thought she could get for them.
That aside, rare does not equal valuable. I have plenty of records, CDs, and 8-track tapes whos total remaining number is in the low dozens, but they're worth nothing because... nobody wants them. Don't be mislead by delusional online shops that want obscene prices for something just because it's "a promo" or "long out-of-print". My recent fave example: a shop on GEMM that wants $275 US for Esther Phillips "Magic's In The Air/Boy I Really Tied One On" promo 12". I recently picked this up for $8 Cnd, and from a shop that knows the value of what they sell, I might add... as proof, this is the same place that charges $100 - $400 Cnd for certain Brazilian jazz/funk LPs, so if it was worth more than $8, you can bet they would've charged it.
So basically, when asking if something is valuable or not, you really just need to consider "how many people would really want this?" Given that there are probably only a few hundred people who'd even want an obscure 80s dance record to begin, the answer is probably not.
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<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: Graham Start on 2002-05-28 12:30 ]</font>
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