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you are correct Mr watt
Between 1979 and 85 from both dean street, thats entertainment and private collectors I regularly paid £40 for top items like original 5 Man Army LP, 40 for Stone Killer, 40 for Guns for San Sebastian, even 45 for an original stereo Wild Bunch, a much sought after item. Were they worth it? Back then if you didnt pay that money, you just never got beyond owning your own poorly-recorded tape from the film's one screening off the telly!!
pro rata I think my take home pay was only about 65 pound a week then!!
crazy money now but back then, had to have them.
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Cheez, the $35.00 I spent on INSIDE DAISY CLOVER back in the 80's sounds like small potatoes compared to the purchases above.
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Not counting the sets already mentioned, I did spend a crazy amount of money a few times for items, some of which were subsequently much cheaper in re-release.
The expanded Intrada Poltergeist in the early 90s was my first - paid about $50 and thought I was crazy.
Then got involved in a few eBay transactions in the mid 00's - $60 for Baxter's Dunwich Horror lp, about the same price for Ten Commandments and The Spirit of St. Louis. And then the most was a cool $100 for Christophe Beck's third-season Buffy the Vampire Slayer promo.
A cautionary tale - already three of these came out for $20 or less. So never again.
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Like many other collectors in here the Elfman-Burton 25th anniversary music box.
I had almost all the Burton/Elfman collaborations when the $500 box came out. And I didn't think there was enough extra stuff there to rebuy what I already had. But it looks like it would be a wonderful addition to someone's collection!
What is the best thing in the box that you cannot get elsewhere?
It's hard to pick a best part - There are scores that now have great expansions and may not have individual releases (LLL had done Batman, Batman Returns, Mars Attacks, and Planet of the Apes, but MV mentioned that they have no interest now that the discs are expanded in the box). There are expansions of the two Disney scores which were not likely to see expansions (Nightmare and Alice). There are weird rarities that would never have seen the light of day otherwise (demos and instrumental versions from the musicals, Edward Scissorhand ballet demos).
If I had to pick one item, it's the book, which is very thorough and informative, with information supplied by the composer, the director, coworkers, and contemporaries. It's not worth the $500 alone (and you can find the box for a much lower price on the used market these days), but it's probably the most worthwhile single piece.
The DVD is less exciting, especially if you read the book first - almost all the material in the DVD interview is quoted verbatim in the book, and without musical examples, significant movie clips, etc, it's a bit dry.
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$225 for the TOS box set, and it was worth every cent.
It's very rare that a set like that comes along, and it closed the book on the original series spectacularly.
LLLR, if you guys read this, thanks again for this and ST:TMP.
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Star Trek TOS. Nothing else has come close. I can't imagine anything will again.
Once I would have paid for a complete Bond set but probably not anymore. (I don't listen to all of what I have.)
If there is ever an "archive quality" Star Wars trilogy I might buy that again, but I can't see that being > $200.
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This OST set and the Herrmann set.
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