Which rare/hard to find/out of print CDs would you most like to have?

A lot of the Mobile Fidelity Sound Labs and Audio Fidelity audiophile releases I missed.

People are buying up Tattoo You before it's gone.

Anything and everything is available by torrent OP.

Start Me Up is a great song on Tattoo You but the rest is just ok. Sticky Fingers is the Stones masterpiece in my opinion.

"Into the Hot" by Floy Joy.

The "She's Gotta Have It" soundtrack

The lovely ones who used to post in the personals at the back of our local gay newspapers.

I have the cast album on CD to The Royal National Theater's version of 'A Little Night Music" with Judy Dench and Sian Phillips from 1995. I paid $100 for it on eBay years ago. It's some of most beautiful music and orchestrations I've ever heard in my life. It went out of print almost immediately.

Great choices

There are rare/hard to find/out of print CDs today?!?

Yep, R10.

I got rid of my CDs a few years ago under the mistaken belief that everything was available on a streaming platform.

Crazy but Yoko Ono’s most best-selling album “Season of Glass” is out of print. I had it once, wish I still had it. It’s also not on any streaming services.

There are a lot of rare mixes or specific masterings that are not available on streaming platforms. Additionally, streaming platforms are not as high quality as a CD.

R10 Surprisingly there are. Aaliyah’s self-titled album was out of print and not available for streaming until about a year ago.

De La Soul’s 3 Feet High and Rising was out of print for years.

I listen to my old cd's in my old car. I don't know what's out of print, Amazon still has a vast library.

All of Madonna's first 3 studio albums are hard to find on CD in still sealed mint condition.

I'm not talking about the remasters, but the original masters...

Janet Jackson's first 2 albums before Control.

60 months at 6%.

Not even the record companies kept those R18. I did see somewhere that Janet recently sold a lot of junk in several online auction yard sales. Maybe someone purchased the masters?

Prince - For You

R18, I had those two Janet Jackson CDs — part of the collection I donated without really thinking it through.

Craig Doerge's

Concrete Blonde - Bloodletting original master, not the remaster.

All Prince protege albums should be remastered and reissued. Those that appear on the Paisley Park label and are distributed by Warner Bros. I have most of the originals on CD. Vanity Wild Animal was released on Motown/Universal. It should be out there but it isn’t.

CCM music pioneer - Sheila Walsh should have her early new wave albums made available to stream but they aren’t available. This includes Future Eyes, War of Love, Triumph In The Air, Don’t Hide Your Heart (all on Sparrow Records) and Shadowlands on Myrrh Records.

R13 they are now on Apple Music. You can stream at a high bit rate -ALAC which is better than FLAC

R25, I didn't know Vanity's 2 solo albums were on CD.

Vanity 6 album

Apollonia 6 album

Spotify will have random cuts or tracks that are greyed out / or not playable. I assume the rights were not available / keeping the CD from ever being ressued

On Spotify, After Burt Bachrach died, the Butch Cassidy /Sundance Kid album was ...and still is missing the BJ Thomas vocal of Raindrops Falling Head...

Also most various artist / genre compilations ...like found on Rhino from 30 years ago will not be reissued. I believe they would have to renegotiate the rights with all the indiviual artists or labels, right??

A lot of the old CD box sets are not available used...or are fetching high prices.

R4 Little TnA is underrated

R26 You say that but some early Madonna albums changed masterings and mixes. I bought the original mix of Crazy For You and it changed to the remix.

This one

R27 I own Vanity 6 on CD

Wild Animals is unavailable on CD and not available to stream (as of a few months ago)

Skin on Skin is unavailable on CD. It is available to stream on all major streaming platforms

I don't care how rare it is so long as the CD is for at least a hundred grand.

I still have all my cassette tapes.

you get your self a song walkman for xmas R36 and show the neighborhood just how hip you are!

sony^^

This...

What r1 said. And all the albums Tim Curry released in the late '70s, early '80s. I'd pay good moolah for new old stock vinyl.

Anna Nicole Smith - My Heart Belongs To Daddy CD single

Jill Jones debut CD