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What's your pressing actually worth?
Not the album — your copy. The same title can be worth many times more depending on the pressing. Find what yours is worth.
Artist and title works best. Then pick the pressing that matches the one in your hands.
Why the pressing is the whole question
Most price lookups average every edition of an album together, which produces a number that is right for nothing you own. VinylSonar prices the specific release — year, country, label, catalogue number — and grades media and sleeve separately, because a near-mint record in a beaten sleeve is not the same sale.
Common questions
How much is my vinyl record worth?
It depends far more on which pressing you own than on which album it is. Search the album above, then pick the release that matches the record in your hands — year, country, label and catalogue number — and you will see what the cheapest copy of that exact pressing is currently listed for, in Canadian dollars.
Why do two copies of the same album sell for wildly different prices?
Because they are almost always different pressings. A 1973 UK first press and a 2015 reissue share a title and very little else that a buyer cares about. Price guides that average every edition of an album together produce a single number that is accurate for nothing anyone owns.
How do I work out which pressing I have?
Look at the record rather than the cover art. The catalogue number and label are printed on the disc labels and usually on the back of the sleeve, the country of manufacture is in the small print, and the runout matrix — the letters and numbers etched into the blank groove between the last track and the label — identifies the exact stamper. The VinylSonar app can read a runout from a photograph.
Does the sleeve matter, or only the record?
Both, and separately. A near-mint disc in a beaten sleeve is not the same sale as a near-mint pair, so VinylSonar grades media and sleeve independently rather than asking for one overall condition.
Where do the prices come from?
From current marketplace listings for that specific release. It is an estimate of what a copy is going for today, not a formal appraisal — in the end a record is worth what somebody actually pays for it.
Is this really free?
Yes. Looking up a record here is free, needs no account, and will stay that way. The app is where the paid features live — keeping a whole collection, wishlist price alerts, scanning sleeves with the camera.
Keep it
Looking one record up is free and always will be. If you want to keep a collection, get told when something on your wishlist drops in price, or scan a sleeve with your camera instead of typing, that lives in the app.
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