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very likely not. i think one should be cautious with estimation and probability assumptions without enough data (auctions, amazon marketplace etc - preferrably more than one reference) in a thread like this - i mean, how can you go from one 40$ ebay listing to a 300$ estimation. because you've never seen it besides that ebay one? only because something isn't regularly found, doesn't mean it would sell high. rarity has not always something to do with how high it would sell. does it even have high demand? that in conjunction with rarity can pump up prices. Watch Ganbare Goemon albums on Yahoo Auctions, with start price not too high. In very short time it will sky rocket in price. Because demand is coupled with low availability.
to give an example about why 300$ is, in my eyes, not too probable, here: http://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/161661672 sealed cd with the artbook it came with. all for 3800yen. bids: one. Last edited by Zethe; May 15, 2013 at 01:47 AM. |
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On the other hand $300 price tags are hardly unheard of and that itself defies logic.
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Star Fox Original Soundtrack? I got mine for like $100 several years ago. And I haven't seen it listed since. Anyone have any info?
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I think he means the SNES game soundtrack. Currently sells for ~18000y at amazon.
And Suruga-ya has it listed for 9000y buy price (you sell to them, the price in that yellow box), which is an indicator for it being a relatively expensive album still. I found the coefficient to estimate street prices out of Suruga-ya's "sell-to-them" prices is often roughly 2 so: 2 × Suruga-ya ≈ Street Price. You shouldn't depend on this, but as a first orientation, a first clue what to expect, it's not bad. |
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Shouldn't Sweet Home easily qualify for this list? Rare-as-shit 1989 CD that very seldom seems to pop up at Yahoo Japan, and when it does it's for completely ridiculous prices. There's one up on Amazon Japan for a ludicrous 30,000 yen. I'd like to get a hold of Sweet Home, but I feel hopelessness at my prospects of doing so.
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Was "Ganbare Goemon: Neo Momoyama Bakufu no Odori" already mentioned?
the few times I've seen it in Japan or on Yahoo Auction they wanted up to 800$ for it, which is rahter crazy. mind you I am still looking for it though |
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Add Racing Lagoon to the mental list. Starts at 89,000 yen used. Imagine what a new copy would fetch... if one were being sold.
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^ currently being sold sealed @ 120,000 jpy (buy-now price) on YHJ:
http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g123779542 EDIT: (and another sealed on AJP @ 148,000) Last edited by Nisto; Aug 6, 2013 at 12:20 PM. |
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OP is being slowly updated. Nice list, Zethe.
I have to mull over a few of those cds you listed before I put them in the OP though. Sound of Tower sells around 7,00 yen: http://www.amazon.co.jp/gp/offer-lis...condition=used On the Shutokou Battle cds -- I have read that it's only one album that commands high prices.
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well yeah that list was several months ago. while you can't usually bet on it (that albums become considerably cheaper so soon), in some cases the situation has changed a bit since then yeah.
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Why do the prices on certain albums (i.e. Panzer Dragoon Orta) drop so much, esp. on non-repressed albums?
Also, Fuujin Ryouiki Eretzvaju Original Soundtrack is going back on the list as those unearthed cheap copies on Amazon Japan were all snagged up: http://www.amazon.co.jp/封神領域-エルツヴァーユ...rds=AZCA-10018 Breath of Fire Original Soundtrack Special Box should be included in the list.
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Don't really have an explanation either, it just seems to happen sometimes. Maybe all it needs sometimes is one guy starting with a decent price for others to follow. Like dominoes. Then, as in Eretzvaju's example, when all dominoes have fallen down we are back to how it was before.
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Hmm, was Orta ever worth that much? I remember it got a US release and I had many chances to pick it for up for $10 or less.
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The Japanese release is worth a lot (7,800 yen). The Tokyopop version I felt lucky getting two copies for super cheap ($10 or less) at a retail store and eBay because at one point the soundtrack listing was practically non-existant and going for $80 and higher when listed (I think in 2010-2011). At one point Amazon put up cheap copies (which are all gone now) and I felt that rarity/value was imaginary (like Gungage's ost). The lowest price right now for the Tokyopop version is $40.
VGM really needs to create a marketplace/sales history for soundtracks. Wonder if putting up a section that debunks the value of inflated album prices would cause album prices to drop.
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2Racing Lagoon copies for sale on YHJ
- very good condition, complete with obi and card, 55,000 yen (buy it now) http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g127050860 - new, sealed, 83,800 yen start price (84,700 yen, buy it now price) http://page7.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/g123779542 |
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Fire Emblem Awakening OST
Those OTS's (Fire Emblem Awakening) are going up from $100+!!
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WING Game Music Complete Works (WINGゲーム音楽大全集)
I've wanted to find this for ages, but it hasn't appeared even once. It was originally released by the publisher Studio WING through their website, which doesn't exist anymore. Needless to say, It's very rare. http://www.suruga-ya.jp/product/detail/186104765001 |
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I need more price information before officially adding it to the op.
I've been thinking it over and maybe this thread is going to cause problems for collectors by bringing attention to re-sellers albums to buy. Have vgm prices inflated recently? There are barely any albums coming out now that catch my fancy, and that means I can catch up on buying older albums. Right now I am thinking of buying Eternal Arcadia before shit really hits the fan.
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Another expensive album not mentioned here is Galaxy Odyssey. suruga-ya's buy price, i.e. what they'll pay you for the album, is 40,000 yen as of today. Though 4 people on vgmdb own the album, which suggests it's not ridiculously rare, further highlighting the disconnect between "expensive" and "rare."
In fact, a decent way to identify the most expensive albums is to sort suruga-ya's buy list by price. Here is a link, which shows Donkey Kong Country 2 to be the most expensive soundtrack by far: http://www.suruga-ya.jp/search_buy?c...83%BC%E3%83%A0 As an example of a rare soundtrack which isn't expensive: there is a pressing of Final Fantasy Symphonic Suite (PSCR-5184) of which I'm the only owner on vgmdb: http://vgmdb.net/album/39107 So the album is probably rare. But because it's a reprint - meaning the music itself isn't rare at all - the album likely wouldn't sell for very much. Last edited by Rrolack; Nov 21, 2016 at 08:14 PM. |
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In a few years of search for lots of VGM albums, I've come to find that only a handful of albums are really ridiculously rare. By ridiculously rare, I mean that you could search for a whole year and not expect to see the album on YJA or AMZ.
The ones I've found that to be true for are a haldful of Nippon Columbia albums (Dragon Tail, Famicle Parodic 2), Tokuma Japan albums (Chachamaru Game Music, Music from Itoi Shigesato no Bass Tsuri No.1: Going to LAKE!, Teketeke! Asmik-kun World), and Telenet Japan albums (Death Bringer, XZR II). At least from the pre-Playstation era, everything else seems reasonably-findable. Last edited by Rrolack; Dec 7, 2017 at 07:30 PM. |
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I think we have a winner ^^
https://page.auctions.yahoo.co.jp/jp/auction/p576060863 This is so stupid. I mean, come on. $1500 for one record? Meanwhile you can get the CD version for a fracture of that price |
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Hi, I'm somewhat new to this site,
These are some scarce and expensive albums I've come across: Mystic Ark (comes up for sale every once in awhile, I've never seen more than one for sale at any given time and usually around 30,000 yen) Game sound legend Chaos Seed (doesn't come up for sale often but isn't that expensive) Bomberman hero (I've only ever seen a few for sale) Baku Bomberman (comes up every once in awhile and is high priced) Lennus (both the arranged and promo albums, I've never even seen the promo/sample version) Silhouette Mirage (First print) Diddy Kong Racing (Japanese version) Yuke Yuke Trouble makers Xardion Most of this is speculation based on what I've seen. Last edited by 112B2018; Jul 13, 2021 at 05:41 PM. |
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Seventh Rebirth ~Mini Soundtrack~ (Yasunori Mitsuda)
https://vgmdb.net/album/73374 There are only 200 copies out there. They were given away in a raffle during the game's promotion on Twitter to people who retweeted a particular Tweet from GungHo. By retweeting you were automatically entered into the drawing. 200 people were chosen and sent the album, as well as a letter from GungHo indicating that they had been chosen in the raffle. You can find information about the raffle (in Japanese) on this page. https://www.4gamer.net/games/360/G036016/20161027066/ As far as I can find, only one copy sold on Mercari for ¥3,500 at some point. https://item.mercari.com/jp/m7233659...2yhsh3M1qI3O0R But I can't find any record of it appearing on Yahoo Japan Auctions or anywhere else online. As of this post, VGMDB shows one person has the album in their collection, but it's marked "private" so we can't see who has it. Last edited by Chris Porter; May 6, 2019 at 06:10 AM. Reason: Added composer's name |
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The composer only pressed 25 copies of the CD version of Heaven's Vault Official Soundtrack. They were sold from his Bandcamp page.
https://vgmdb.net/album/86016 Last edited by Chris Porter; May 6, 2019 at 06:17 AM. |
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Enthusia professional racing, is another one tha hardly comes up.
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Of all the albums in my collection, Evergrace was far and away the one that took me the longest to find a single copy of. I ended up buying it from someone here because I never saw it even once after several years of searching YJA and Amazon JP. The thing just doesn't seem to exist anywhere. Contrast with albums like DKC, SMRPG, or Goemon, which while crazy expensive are actually pretty easy to find.
I recently came to know about this album which seems like it would be one of the rarest out there (if it even is out there). I haven't been on the lookout for it for long, but from what I read on RPGFan, it seems it was only given to employees at Origin. Dunno if it was already brought up here. The album title also makes it a real bitch to search for. Last edited by Aifread; Jun 26, 2019 at 10:25 PM. |
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that origin album looks cool!
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