What’s the most expensive film music item you ever bought?
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I’m not quite sure what mine is, but could potentially be the Irwin Allen box set. Somehow I remember paying about $60 for that around 1998, all included, which would translate to about $122 today.
I think I have items now that are worth more than that, but that’s a different topic.
Not sure… probably one of the box sets I bought. I bought or traded some of them second hand, and never paid more than their original release price.
Uncharacteristically, I bought the Goldsmith at Fox Box. However, I sold it at a decent profit, which was nice.
Since I have few boxes only it might be the original 4CD Star Wars box. But by nowadays prices that was not that expensive. The original Varese Club edition of Goldsmith’s THE BURBS was long the most expensive single CD I ever bought. It was huge 69 DM back then in 1988 and according to online converters taking inflation values into account would be around 71 Euros today. Still expensive by today’s prices…
Since I few boxes only it might be the original 4CD Star Wars box.
Yes, that WAS expensive. I first saw it in a FNAC record store in Paris while on a school trip there in 1995; I was shocked by its mere existence. But couldn’t afford it. A few months later, I bought it via mail order instead, for – I think – about 450 NOK. About $50. So about $10 cheaper than the Irwin Allen box, but still about $102 in today’s money.
Very tough for someone who was still in high school and had to save up allowance money. Heck, $50 would have been tough today as well, to say nothing of twice that.
Hard to say. I paid a lot to Brad Taylor for a photocopied CDR of Music For Film by Jonathan Elias. And quite much to Karsten Missbach for the two Zimmer/Mancina bootlegs Follow Your Dreams.
Very tough for someone who was still in high school and had to save up allowance money. Heck, $50 would have been tough today as well, to say nothing of twice that.
Yeah, it was and literally nothing change with price since then 😉 I think I paid 79 DM (German Mark) back then. I bought via the Soundtrack Club mailorder. I was not in school anymore but doing alternative service at the time. I remember I used the fax machine on my office to be able to quicky order it before it was gone and due to a malfunction ordered it twice accidentally (had to pay only one though and cound re-send the 2nd).
Uncharacteristically, I bought the Goldsmith at Fox Box. However, I sold it at a decent profit, which was nice.
Interestingly enough, that’s one box set I don’t have, though I’ve got other composer box sets.
I remember I paid €149.- for the FSM Superman Blue Box, but I might have paid more for another composer box, not sure right now.
Probably the multi-disc STAR TREK TV release when it came out. Can’t remember the actual cost but there was also the additional tax/handling costs on top.
Most expensive single CD? Not sure – forgotten (probably for the best) to the mists of time…
The single most expensive CD I ever bought was probably Harold Faltermeyer’s RUNNING MAN… which must have cost me somewhere between 70 and 80 Euros just for that one CD, as there were complications with the order.
I have by far most of the scores in that collection, so I never picked it up the Elfman box, but it looks nice.
Same here. I think my name is mentioned somewhere in the acknowledgements there, but I still never had the dough to pick it up. I’ve since been able to acquire some of the exclusive, previously unreleased elements in digital file format (like the MoMa stuff), and I think that will suffice, even if the giant box looks like a beauty. I’ve heard the wooden box itself is coming apart for many people who bought it, though…is that the case for you as well, Eirik?
Probably that Harry Potter set, back when I was all in on expansions. I wouldn’t buy it now on principle, but even less as I’ve returned to OSTs.
Probably that Harry Potter set,
Yes, for me it might be the HP 1-3 box as well or the Ecoutez Le Cinema box set of John Williams. Both might have been around 130€.
Sure is! It may sound silly but I even put it in my emergency go-box during wildfire season. Thankfully I haven’t had to flee in an emergency, but if I do, Wyatt Earp will be coming with me! One of my favorite scores of all time.
$75 for the Varese Club The Burbs, back in the late ’90s, when the idea of anything on CD coming back in print was unheard of. Music unavailable for life? That’s how it seemed. I’m happy to’ve been proven wrong (many times over, Inchon and The Blue Max), and yes, some box sets represented a bigger single output, but $120 for six discs or $200 for eight isn’t my answer.
$75 (plus shipping) for a 30 minute, only okay sounding, The Burbs is mine.
Wow, was THE BURBS $75.-?
I remember indeed buying many film score CDs (it seemed to effect only film scores) back in their day simply because it felt like it could be the only time in history a score might be released. But I missed out on the original release of THE BURBS, though I got the Varese Deluxe and even later the La-La Land.But that’s about what I came out to pay for RUNNING MAN.
I also bought BURBS back then – for huge 69 DM or so if I recall right – thinking it would never re-appear. And it did in even more complete form (and cheaper as download which I so far haven’t bought…)
$75 (plus shipping) for a 30 minute, only okay sounding, The Burbs is mine.
I had never an issue with the sound. What’s only okay with it?
My most expensive was a sealed copy of the Miklós Rózsa Treasury, which I purchased for a total of $598.30 USD back in 2024.
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