I got my copy in 2019 for half that amount!
In fact, if you peruse Discogs for colored vinyl copies of any of Madge's albums, you'll see the prices are astronomical now. Are the bookies expecting her to shuffle off her mortal coil sometime soon? It's crazy!
And don't even get me started on this one…
Keep in mind the prices noted are the average of all the identical items listed for sale on Discogs at that moment in time. Bedtime Stories (the two-disk reissue on pink vinyl) has been one of my holy grails for as long as I can remember, but to pick up a mint or near mint copy, it's gonna cost you signficantly more than $155—like two to three times that.
And I'm sorry…even if I had the funds on my salary, short of winning the Lottery I'm not dropping $350-400 on a single piece (well, in this case 2 pieces, but you get my drift) of vinyl.
And while we're on the subject of the financially unobtainium…
I don't know where that $249 price is coming from, because if you actually go on the Discogs site, there are currently only two copies for sale and they're nowhere near that amount:
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Why so much for an incredibly popular recording that had millions of pressings worldwide? Because this one is autographed and pressed on brown vinyl. Brown dirt cowboy, get it?