Whoa calm down people! I wasn't putting down disco records. I own and play plenty. I should have rephrased it though as I'm just surprised any 70's disco era 12" single sold for that much that's all. Sure if you're Bill Gates dropping that type of coin is like buying a record in the bargain bin. I understand not many copies were pressed and it's a very nice sounding record. I think it's too much for any 12" single we can agree to disagree on that.
I've been buying and selling rare records of all genres since I was in high school, I'm 44 now. I pretty much lived on Popsike like some people do on Facebook now.
True there's some mega rare blues 78's that fetch huge $$$ Tommy Johnson,Robert Johnson etc. Some early jazz stuff is the same deal. Rare early Blue Note promos etc. Everyone knows about the Hank Mobley which is impossible to find.
However it is 100% indisputable fact that the rock genre has the highest average top record prices of all time. Sorry despite the modern soul/disco surge none are ever going to sell for what that John Lennon assassination evidence lp sold for. I think it was $150,000 or something? There's several rock genre albums I can name that are not even in this list, many are psych or 70's prog monster rarities too. Some of that obscure South American psych stuff sells starting at 1k and goes up from there. Prog is going nuts too. Even I'm dumbfounded at what people are willing to pay sometimes.
http://rateyourmusic.com/list/yerblues/vinyl_fetish__a_list_of_some_of_the_most_valuable_vinyl_records/1/
I'd say as the list above indicates Northern Soul records would be second most valuable based on a whole. In fact at one point you could slap the "Northern Soul" tag on some obscure doo wop/soul 45 and it would fetch a higher price than it normally would without that tag. That's a fact because I did that as a seller on Ebay for years. I still do not know what a true "Northern Soul" record criteria is? Check out the final auction price for that Darrell Banks 1966 45 on London auction. The hardcore NS collectors are willing to shell out serious loot for 45's that I wouldn't pay 25 cents for. To each his own.
As far as playing an extremely rare and expensive record at a club gig (value of 1k + ) I would probably play it safe and press up a duplicate copy if possible and keep the original in a nice safe,secure place. If something happens to the copy no big.
Seriously what are you going to do if the record gets damaged at the gig and oops there are no more copies even if you had Floyd Mayweather type disposable income to go buy another? Just write it off and say it was still worth it? When in reality not a single drunk person in the club/bar etc is going to remember or for that matter care that you dropped a really rare expensive record in a set the night before.
So I guess when you're left holding that scratched,warped or cracked remains of your now $2,000 frisbee you can ponder that fateful decision and decide for yourself if it was really worth it? Lol
