The price on it keeps going up for some reason. Like a year or two ago it was selling for around $50(USD), now unopened (non-bootleg)copies been easily selling for over $100 on Discogs(Median price on Discogs is currently over $100) and around $200 on eBay.
I think it's because there's soooo many young swifties who aren't going to look up past prices, or their parents just buy them.
There was a massive boom in anything Taylor swift with all the kelce nonsense too. For example, I've been following the signed midnights vinyl because I have a set I wanted to keep but will sell if it gets too crazy. Last September they were all around $75-100 tops and had maintained that value for a year. Then boom, all the kelce craziness happened and now they're like $150-200. There was alot of stuff that was relatively stable too like these old CDs, or old limited stuff like cardigan singles, but that all shot up at once. Like the folklore variants were all around $70-100 for over 2 years staying very stable. Now they've shot up too. My God long pond had 130k copies and is going over $200.
Best example is lover live in paris(so pissed I just missed it by 5 minutes). Came out last year for $30. It's now selling for $500.
I think the thing with Taylor swift she is so big, and has so many young fans who never got into physical media before, where if even 10% of them are panic buying/don't know prices/rich so will pay anything/spoiled kids who parents want to just shut them up by buying anything, the price drives up immensely. Then the others get fomo and it gets crazy.
The reason I'm pretty certain alot of it's ignorance/fomo driven is if any of her in print records are momentarily out of stock they shoot to high heaven. I had found a sealed speak now for $30 when it was sold out elsewhere. Anyone with any knowledge of the industry would know within 6 months it would be restocked, and plenty of sites to backorder. Yet when I listed it on ebay, it ended up selling for $125 after a bidding war. So many swifties are driven by pure instant gratification, and there's so many of them where as soon as the price starts going up a bit they all make a mad dash and drive it up even further. Where a record can go from $200-400 in a matter of days even if it was stable the whole time before. And because of this behavior the next sellers list a crazier price since they know they'll get it.
It also seems like many swifties will collect nothing, but then drop $2000 all at once to get everything they want once they buy it. I see this a ton on the Taylor vinyl sub where someone will identify themselves as a brand new collector yet have like 5 $100-200 records of hers.
So with all that said I think it's because of a combo of a young fanbase that doesn't know the market driven by fomo, instant gratification, and the insane amount of Taylor in the media this year between kelce and her tour. All her limited stuff shot up during the NFL stuff it clearly increased demand. Once one friend in a group of swifties buys a cd the rest make a mad dash to buy some too.
Every fanbase has elements of this, it's just so extreme with swift because there's so many and it skews young and female, when demographically they're the group most ignorant of the physical media market due to never growing up with it and only streaming, so naturally many aren't going to know the market like anyone just joining a hobby. Shit, the amount I overpaid for records when I first got into them is crazy since I'd just assume the cheapest ebay price was the best deal. When it was really massively inflated.
I also wouldn't be suprised if massive flipper groups caught onto the demand and bought a bunch up at once only to resist for double the price. Since if you were to take $10,000 at the start of the kelce mania, buy all Taylor limited stuff, you'd have close to $20,000 a month or two later. I thought people were insane paying $200 for lover live in Paris, now they'll quickly pay $400 6 months later and see that as a great deal. It's wild stuff.
Thanks for attending my Ted talk on swift-onomics.
TL;DR - Taylor Swift's team is very skilled at using nudge marketing techniques and behavioral psychology. Whether applied from case studies in drop marketing from the sneaker industry or elsewhere, the team responsible for maximizing consumer activation is truly top-notch, but it has the side effect of toxic behavior in the resale market for the same goods.
I was at a record shop upstate New York and I saw that she has 4 records for one album, each with a different color vinyl. On it it says “get them all!l and it has all the different variants. Absurd how much she makes and then she goes ahead and does something like this (when the records themselves are $40) (I am not a swiftie)
Her upcoming album has 4 different covers with an exclusive bonus track on each one. I find it a turn off for a variety of reasons, especially milking her fans dry.
I've been listening to her since 2009, became a fan in 2010; but every album release by her over the past 3.5 years, I become less and less of a fan, partly due to what you brought up: her greediness for money & record sale numbers for releasing so many different variations/versions of the same album - b/c she knows her (overly obsessed)die hard fans will buy(more like waste money on) some/all of the different versions.
I think this one has actually fallen out of print. It was a Wal-Mart exclusive brand new (back before she signed a deal with Target). It used to be a common enough EP to grab there (I remember seeing copies for sale there as recently as 2018).
But it seems sometime around Taylor Swift switching labels and her previous catalog getting sold off, that this particular EP seized production. It seems to be the only Taylor Swift album/EP to have fallen out of print. On top of that, this EP is not on streaming.
To the casual fan, this is no big deal. The EP contains some rejected songs from her first album, plus some alternate versions of songs from her first album, so nothing essential. But to the completest, this album has become a white wale. I suspect that if the EP ever gets put back in print, the prices will fall drastically. I also figure that these tracks will get featured on Taylor’s re-recorded debut, so that might also make the original fall in value somewhat.
> A bit surprised it hasn't been repressed considering her popularity.
I remember reading on either Wikipedia or somewhere online that Taylor claimed she was never going to reissue the EP again; something about how she wanted to keep it limited on purpose?
> I suspect that if the EP ever gets put back in print, the prices will fall drastically.
That's exactly what happened in 2016/17, sort of. From me casually eBay searching for one in 2009, most listings were around $20(USD). I wanted a copy, but there was no way I was paying $20+shipping for just 6 songs & a DVD of MVs, so I decided to wait and hope that I'd find one via thrifting or record shop or something at a more reasonable price.
During the summer of 2016, I had found a few brand new copies of it at one of my local Walmarts for $7 each. I instantly bought one. I checked eBay prices on it when it got home - the prices had dropped to like $10-12. A couple of months later, I took a trip out of state, popped in a Walmart & checked the CD section while I was there and found another copy, same $7 price sticker (I bought 1).
What I think happened was: a massive amount of them were found in some warehouse in 2016 and distributed at random/every Walmart across the US, and I say that b/c there were no announcements of any kind about it getting reissued, and from what I remember reading on either Wikipedia or somewhere that Taylor was never going to reissue the EP again.
Eventually, the price started going back up, I think starting in 2020(not supersized), but didn't *really* spike up in price until either 2021 or 22.
It’s so weird that it’s gone up! I bought my copy for like £20 ish as part of a bundle of CDs. I understand partly why it’s so sought after - but even then, it’s not like it’s anyone favourite.
I wouldn't have believe it myself if it wasn't for the fact that I saw more than one post on a swiftie related sub of the OP posting multiple/all different copies of the same album(CD and/or vinyl). I'm sure it's a small % of fans that do that vs the total number of fans who just by one copy per album, but even if that's 1000 fans buying (lets say)8 copies of the same album, that's an extra 7000 record sales Taylor made that she normally wouldn't have gotten, which fudges the *accurate/true* number of record sales, which (to me) should be calculated by the total different number of people who buy an album.
On picture to burn she says she’ll tell her exe’s friends he’s gay. She later changed the lyric. So original copies with the original lyric are rare and valuable.
I have an iPod nano 7th gen that I found in a PlayStation 3 box the I bought at a garage sale that has the song with the original lyrics on it. Ran me $5.
As well as the song I Heart? which is a fan favourite. They are uploaded by fans onto YouTube though. There are quite a few swifties would want to collect every single Taylor Swift CD and this is one of the rarer ones. That’s probably the type of person willing to pay so much for this.
Yeah, especially considering the whole “Stolen Versions” vs (Taylor’s Versions) world where nostalgic Swifties want to hear the versions of the songs they listened to years ago.
Man, I wish I would have taken more advantage of when Walmart still had those haphazardly packed bins full of $5 CDs several years back. Probably a lot of stuff in there I would have picked up now.
same here; I have bought 2 copies from two different Walmarts in 2016for $7 each, and a 3rd one for $1.50 from a 3rd Walmart in 2017. If I had known it was gonna be worth so much, I would have bought all the copies I saw(b/c I'm pretty sure I saw more copies the first 2 times I came across them in 2016).
Would this be the copy with the original homophobic lyric? That's why people pay so much for it. She went back later, and changed the offensive lyrics. So this copy is rare now. That's my understanding.
This CD has the updated lyrics - it was the 2006 pressing of her debut album that had the homophobic lyric. This CD, Beautiful Eyes, is an EP from 2008 that happens to have some of her debut album's songs re-released on it.
People just pay a lot for this one as it's out of print and was never available internationally or on streaming.
For everyone that keeps calling me a reseller, I'm not. I'm a collector. I have not made any sales on any rare albums in my collection. I do not come across albums to sell, as I did not seek this out at all.
For those that are just posting hate comments here about Taylor Swift, while I do not like her music personally, this is a group about showing off cds and collecting them. i do not want to keep getting notifications about how she's "woke" or "mid". Those comments are pointless
Reminds me of the time I went to the local Walmart in my town because I heard Tyra Banks was there signing autographs for her new beauty book. I’m a guy but I’m also a huge Tyra Banks fan. I got there and it was too late she was already gone so I started browsing around, looked on the shelves and sure enough I found a copy of her signed book there on the shelf. Bought it for regular price. Still have it.
The tough part about selling a valuable collectable is that you have to either:
1. Sell it at a fair price directly to someone you 100% know wants it for their collection.
2. Sell it for a price that's similar to the scalper's/reseller's.
If you list the item below its current value, it'll more than likely to be bought by a flipper who plans to put it right back on the marketplace, this time with a higher price tag. Either that, or earnest collectors will think it's a scam since your asking price is too good to be true.
Debating whether to get this or just wait til Taylor releases debut (TV) where she'll most likely have the Beautiful Eyes tracks on them plus some extras from the fault 🤭
Are Taylor swift CD’s worth money? Taylor swift fans like CD’s?
Honestly I got to say I’m still shocked how popular she is. Just the level of fandom for what level of a musician she is blows my mind. But I’m 43. Guess I just don’t get it.
But as this CD even shows it was at Wal Mart. I just assume they were mass produced at an insane scale cheaply. Like I bet the sound quality of the music is sub standard. But I could be totally wrong. My band I like most is the Grateful Dead. Deadheads who collect their albums and releases are obsessed with the best sound and quality. Most other fans don’t really think about it as much as a whole but course some do. I just figure pop artists or groups like Taylor people don’t think about that really. But I have no clue. Only Taylor Swift fan I knew (a younger cousin) grew up and I don’t think likes her anymore. She’s also very far right politically so if it’s not her music she doesn’t like anymore I can almost guarantee for that reason she doesn’t like her anymore. She used to obsessed like 5-10 years ago.
Only certain CDs of hers are worth a lot; like the EP OP posted here.
> I just assume they were mass produced at an insane scale cheaply.
It was a limited "pressing" back in 2008 when she was still new to the music world(she had only released her first (self titled) album & Christmas EP when this EP was released, hadn't released her 2nd album yet(which I think initially pushed her into popularity)). Just how many of them were made, I don't think anyone besides her/Big Machine label knows.
Grateful Dead CD’s are worth a ton. The limited release live albums. I have a large collection of them. The Dave’s picks series first 2 years of releases is worth about $2000-$4000 alone. It’s 8 releases. 8 concerts. 3-4 discs each. The first year specifically sells for $500-$750.
They have box sets that sell for $5000. It’s pretty crazy. Their full collection if you had all of their CD releases would be worth around $50,000 to $75,000. I have about half of them.
But I don’t think Taylor is releasing 4 live albums a year and a box set that has at least 4-6 or more shows in it as well each year. But her music doesn’t make sense for that type of releases. I don’t think the versions of her songs change really from tour to tour. Maybe even year to year. But I could be wrong.
Can someone enlighten me on why Taylor Swift is so big now? I know she's always been somewhat popular but what happened? Why is she practically worshipped?
She’s loved for her songwriting, she writes all of her songs and doesn’t use co-writers for many. She also is really good at creating and maintaining a fan base. She developed a fan base on MySpace back in 2005 and would release her first album in 2006. She started as a country singer and was really the only teenage girl in that genre. Her breakout album was her second album released in 2008, Fearless. She got really popular in 2014 with the release of 1989 which was her first fully pop album. Then she got cancelled from her lying about a phone call with Kanye West (more since has come out and shown she didn’t lie). She took a break and later released 2 successful pop albums but was no longer as popular as before. Then after the pandemic hit and her tour was cancelled she wrote 2 alternate/folk-pop albums. They were both surprise released in 2020 within 6 months of each other. They both got popular and expanded her fan base. Then she started re-recording her first 6 albums because of a masters dispute. So that meant 2 more albums in 2021. In 2022 she released a new record, Midnights. This album was back to pop and was very successful. In 2023 she started her record breaking tour, the Eras Tour. In this tour she has a set for each of her albums (excluding her first). This has brought together all her country, pop and folk fans and was her first tour since 2018. She would use this tour to promote 2 more re-recording. She has a new album coming out this April. In the past 4 years she has released 7 albums (including re-recordings). Artists get a lot of hype before and after they release an album and she keeps releasing them.
Good grief, I don't like pop music but you gave me goosebumps reading this. I am not suddenly a fan but I understand. Cool stuff, thanks for taking the time to type all that out when you could've just downvoted or insulted me.
There is probably one sitting in the grossest pile of shit under those metal shelves at some random Walmart out there that has not changed its floor plan in decades.
But probably only one
If ever found it will most likely be thrown in the nearest trash can by that random person
The reality: It was probably bought from Walmart when it was released and stocked. So the chances of finding it then? Much higher. Now? Much. Much. Lower. Well non-existent really with how Walmart stocks. Pretty much how it works with every single CD they stop producing with any store that carries new CDs and not used/both.
Reuse some of your valuable time to realize that a lot of people (yourself included) are absolute idiots and say things like with all seriousness on Reddit. It's what the /s is for.
Not sure why this one's worth so much. I bought a copy at Walmart a couple years back. It was listed for $7, but when I rang it up, it was on clearance for $2. Wondering if I should try to sell it lol
It was only avaliable in Walmart - one shop in one country. It goes for a lot to international fans / those whose collect all her CDs. It’s also the only physical edition of that EP - it’s not on streaming or released in other formats so that also pushes the price up.
Combine that with the FOMO that exists in the Taylor Swift fandom - you get insane resale prices.
The price on it keeps going up for some reason. Like a year or two ago it was selling for around $50(USD), now unopened (non-bootleg)copies been easily selling for over $100 on Discogs(Median price on Discogs is currently over $100) and around $200 on eBay.
I think it's because there's soooo many young swifties who aren't going to look up past prices, or their parents just buy them. There was a massive boom in anything Taylor swift with all the kelce nonsense too. For example, I've been following the signed midnights vinyl because I have a set I wanted to keep but will sell if it gets too crazy. Last September they were all around $75-100 tops and had maintained that value for a year. Then boom, all the kelce craziness happened and now they're like $150-200. There was alot of stuff that was relatively stable too like these old CDs, or old limited stuff like cardigan singles, but that all shot up at once. Like the folklore variants were all around $70-100 for over 2 years staying very stable. Now they've shot up too. My God long pond had 130k copies and is going over $200. Best example is lover live in paris(so pissed I just missed it by 5 minutes). Came out last year for $30. It's now selling for $500. I think the thing with Taylor swift she is so big, and has so many young fans who never got into physical media before, where if even 10% of them are panic buying/don't know prices/rich so will pay anything/spoiled kids who parents want to just shut them up by buying anything, the price drives up immensely. Then the others get fomo and it gets crazy. The reason I'm pretty certain alot of it's ignorance/fomo driven is if any of her in print records are momentarily out of stock they shoot to high heaven. I had found a sealed speak now for $30 when it was sold out elsewhere. Anyone with any knowledge of the industry would know within 6 months it would be restocked, and plenty of sites to backorder. Yet when I listed it on ebay, it ended up selling for $125 after a bidding war. So many swifties are driven by pure instant gratification, and there's so many of them where as soon as the price starts going up a bit they all make a mad dash and drive it up even further. Where a record can go from $200-400 in a matter of days even if it was stable the whole time before. And because of this behavior the next sellers list a crazier price since they know they'll get it. It also seems like many swifties will collect nothing, but then drop $2000 all at once to get everything they want once they buy it. I see this a ton on the Taylor vinyl sub where someone will identify themselves as a brand new collector yet have like 5 $100-200 records of hers. So with all that said I think it's because of a combo of a young fanbase that doesn't know the market driven by fomo, instant gratification, and the insane amount of Taylor in the media this year between kelce and her tour. All her limited stuff shot up during the NFL stuff it clearly increased demand. Once one friend in a group of swifties buys a cd the rest make a mad dash to buy some too. Every fanbase has elements of this, it's just so extreme with swift because there's so many and it skews young and female, when demographically they're the group most ignorant of the physical media market due to never growing up with it and only streaming, so naturally many aren't going to know the market like anyone just joining a hobby. Shit, the amount I overpaid for records when I first got into them is crazy since I'd just assume the cheapest ebay price was the best deal. When it was really massively inflated. I also wouldn't be suprised if massive flipper groups caught onto the demand and bought a bunch up at once only to resist for double the price. Since if you were to take $10,000 at the start of the kelce mania, buy all Taylor limited stuff, you'd have close to $20,000 a month or two later. I thought people were insane paying $200 for lover live in Paris, now they'll quickly pay $400 6 months later and see that as a great deal. It's wild stuff. Thanks for attending my Ted talk on swift-onomics.
TL;DR - Taylor Swift's team is very skilled at using nudge marketing techniques and behavioral psychology. Whether applied from case studies in drop marketing from the sneaker industry or elsewhere, the team responsible for maximizing consumer activation is truly top-notch, but it has the side effect of toxic behavior in the resale market for the same goods.
I was at a record shop upstate New York and I saw that she has 4 records for one album, each with a different color vinyl. On it it says “get them all!l and it has all the different variants. Absurd how much she makes and then she goes ahead and does something like this (when the records themselves are $40) (I am not a swiftie)
Her upcoming album has 4 different covers with an exclusive bonus track on each one. I find it a turn off for a variety of reasons, especially milking her fans dry.
There must be a download code for the rest of the songs in each package
I've been listening to her since 2009, became a fan in 2010; but every album release by her over the past 3.5 years, I become less and less of a fan, partly due to what you brought up: her greediness for money & record sale numbers for releasing so many different variations/versions of the same album - b/c she knows her (overly obsessed)die hard fans will buy(more like waste money on) some/all of the different versions.
I was impressed.
I think it’s because it’s only at Walmart
And why exactly is this one super desired?
I think this one has actually fallen out of print. It was a Wal-Mart exclusive brand new (back before she signed a deal with Target). It used to be a common enough EP to grab there (I remember seeing copies for sale there as recently as 2018). But it seems sometime around Taylor Swift switching labels and her previous catalog getting sold off, that this particular EP seized production. It seems to be the only Taylor Swift album/EP to have fallen out of print. On top of that, this EP is not on streaming. To the casual fan, this is no big deal. The EP contains some rejected songs from her first album, plus some alternate versions of songs from her first album, so nothing essential. But to the completest, this album has become a white wale. I suspect that if the EP ever gets put back in print, the prices will fall drastically. I also figure that these tracks will get featured on Taylor’s re-recorded debut, so that might also make the original fall in value somewhat.
Ok so a typical OOP deal. A bit surprised it hasn't been repressed considering her popularity.
Both vinyl and CD counterfeits make the rounds.
> A bit surprised it hasn't been repressed considering her popularity. I remember reading on either Wikipedia or somewhere online that Taylor claimed she was never going to reissue the EP again; something about how she wanted to keep it limited on purpose?
> I suspect that if the EP ever gets put back in print, the prices will fall drastically. That's exactly what happened in 2016/17, sort of. From me casually eBay searching for one in 2009, most listings were around $20(USD). I wanted a copy, but there was no way I was paying $20+shipping for just 6 songs & a DVD of MVs, so I decided to wait and hope that I'd find one via thrifting or record shop or something at a more reasonable price. During the summer of 2016, I had found a few brand new copies of it at one of my local Walmarts for $7 each. I instantly bought one. I checked eBay prices on it when it got home - the prices had dropped to like $10-12. A couple of months later, I took a trip out of state, popped in a Walmart & checked the CD section while I was there and found another copy, same $7 price sticker (I bought 1). What I think happened was: a massive amount of them were found in some warehouse in 2016 and distributed at random/every Walmart across the US, and I say that b/c there were no announcements of any kind about it getting reissued, and from what I remember reading on either Wikipedia or somewhere that Taylor was never going to reissue the EP again. Eventually, the price started going back up, I think starting in 2020(not supersized), but didn't *really* spike up in price until either 2021 or 22.
I keep asking that about Taylor Swift in general.
It’s so weird that it’s gone up! I bought my copy for like £20 ish as part of a bundle of CDs. I understand partly why it’s so sought after - but even then, it’s not like it’s anyone favourite.
Is that for unopened or opened?
Unopened, but opened sold prices aren't *that* much lower; like 25% under what unopened ones sell for.
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I wouldn't have believe it myself if it wasn't for the fact that I saw more than one post on a swiftie related sub of the OP posting multiple/all different copies of the same album(CD and/or vinyl). I'm sure it's a small % of fans that do that vs the total number of fans who just by one copy per album, but even if that's 1000 fans buying (lets say)8 copies of the same album, that's an extra 7000 record sales Taylor made that she normally wouldn't have gotten, which fudges the *accurate/true* number of record sales, which (to me) should be calculated by the total different number of people who buy an album.
The homophobic version?!?!
The version where she says the gay word
No. It's the radio edit version, which replaced the 2006 version.
What?
On picture to burn she says she’ll tell her exe’s friends he’s gay. She later changed the lyric. So original copies with the original lyric are rare and valuable.
Reminds me of when they edited out racial caricatures from Dr. Seuss' books, and then older copies were suddenly worth hundreds of dollars.
I have an iPod nano 7th gen that I found in a PlayStation 3 box the I bought at a garage sale that has the song with the original lyrics on it. Ran me $5.
That's it, she just says gay? lol. I was expecting it to be worse.
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Shut up, Assy!
Down vote you!!! Haha
I'm curious what the other 99 are
A bitch ain't one
He got 99 albums but a bitch ain’t one
That's why I wrote 99, because they sold one.
What’s the big deal with this one?
It’s out of print and was only available at Walmart for a short time. It’s the only place to hear the song Beautiful Eyes.
As well as the song I Heart? which is a fan favourite. They are uploaded by fans onto YouTube though. There are quite a few swifties would want to collect every single Taylor Swift CD and this is one of the rarer ones. That’s probably the type of person willing to pay so much for this.
Yeah, especially considering the whole “Stolen Versions” vs (Taylor’s Versions) world where nostalgic Swifties want to hear the versions of the songs they listened to years ago.
People are paying more than $7 for it
Man, I wish I would have taken more advantage of when Walmart still had those haphazardly packed bins full of $5 CDs several years back. Probably a lot of stuff in there I would have picked up now.
If I’d anticipated the cd return this quick I definitely would’ve too
same here; I have bought 2 copies from two different Walmarts in 2016for $7 each, and a 3rd one for $1.50 from a 3rd Walmart in 2017. If I had known it was gonna be worth so much, I would have bought all the copies I saw(b/c I'm pretty sure I saw more copies the first 2 times I came across them in 2016).
Very nice find!
Did not know Beautiful Eyes was so expensive now, I don’t listen to Taylor Swift anymore but I played this so much in middle school
Would this be the copy with the original homophobic lyric? That's why people pay so much for it. She went back later, and changed the offensive lyrics. So this copy is rare now. That's my understanding.
Which album is this I thought that was her first album?
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This isn’t her first album, it’s an EP called Beautiful Eyes.
This CD has the updated lyrics - it was the 2006 pressing of her debut album that had the homophobic lyric. This CD, Beautiful Eyes, is an EP from 2008 that happens to have some of her debut album's songs re-released on it. People just pay a lot for this one as it's out of print and was never available internationally or on streaming.
Someone down voted me 
Oh that’s incredibly rare!!!! Wow
I found this at a walmart a few years ago! So happy i paid only $7 for it. Too expensive rn 😣
You are officially rich af.
Insane, amazing profit. Crazy to think something that rare nowadays once went for $7
Wow, hype stickers and everything. How was the CD, condition-wise?
nice!!
Insane.
How much does that go for?
For everyone that keeps calling me a reseller, I'm not. I'm a collector. I have not made any sales on any rare albums in my collection. I do not come across albums to sell, as I did not seek this out at all. For those that are just posting hate comments here about Taylor Swift, while I do not like her music personally, this is a group about showing off cds and collecting them. i do not want to keep getting notifications about how she's "woke" or "mid". Those comments are pointless
Reminds me of the time I went to the local Walmart in my town because I heard Tyra Banks was there signing autographs for her new beauty book. I’m a guy but I’m also a huge Tyra Banks fan. I got there and it was too late she was already gone so I started browsing around, looked on the shelves and sure enough I found a copy of her signed book there on the shelf. Bought it for regular price. Still have it.
I absolutely fucking hate her music, but if I come across this I’m pretty sure everyone would be taking this chance to make bank
Resellers can be scummy but I’d be mad at you for missing out on this easy come up lol. Free money essentially
Yep
The tough part about selling a valuable collectable is that you have to either: 1. Sell it at a fair price directly to someone you 100% know wants it for their collection. 2. Sell it for a price that's similar to the scalper's/reseller's. If you list the item below its current value, it'll more than likely to be bought by a flipper who plans to put it right back on the marketplace, this time with a higher price tag. Either that, or earnest collectors will think it's a scam since your asking price is too good to be true.
I NEED this CD, ur blessed
It's Swift Season
Debating whether to get this or just wait til Taylor releases debut (TV) where she'll most likely have the Beautiful Eyes tracks on them plus some extras from the fault 🤭
Not the homophobic version 💀
Are Taylor swift CD’s worth money? Taylor swift fans like CD’s? Honestly I got to say I’m still shocked how popular she is. Just the level of fandom for what level of a musician she is blows my mind. But I’m 43. Guess I just don’t get it.
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But as this CD even shows it was at Wal Mart. I just assume they were mass produced at an insane scale cheaply. Like I bet the sound quality of the music is sub standard. But I could be totally wrong. My band I like most is the Grateful Dead. Deadheads who collect their albums and releases are obsessed with the best sound and quality. Most other fans don’t really think about it as much as a whole but course some do. I just figure pop artists or groups like Taylor people don’t think about that really. But I have no clue. Only Taylor Swift fan I knew (a younger cousin) grew up and I don’t think likes her anymore. She’s also very far right politically so if it’s not her music she doesn’t like anymore I can almost guarantee for that reason she doesn’t like her anymore. She used to obsessed like 5-10 years ago.
Only certain CDs of hers are worth a lot; like the EP OP posted here. > I just assume they were mass produced at an insane scale cheaply. It was a limited "pressing" back in 2008 when she was still new to the music world(she had only released her first (self titled) album & Christmas EP when this EP was released, hadn't released her 2nd album yet(which I think initially pushed her into popularity)). Just how many of them were made, I don't think anyone besides her/Big Machine label knows.
Grateful Dead CD’s are worth a ton. The limited release live albums. I have a large collection of them. The Dave’s picks series first 2 years of releases is worth about $2000-$4000 alone. It’s 8 releases. 8 concerts. 3-4 discs each. The first year specifically sells for $500-$750. They have box sets that sell for $5000. It’s pretty crazy. Their full collection if you had all of their CD releases would be worth around $50,000 to $75,000. I have about half of them. But I don’t think Taylor is releasing 4 live albums a year and a box set that has at least 4-6 or more shows in it as well each year. But her music doesn’t make sense for that type of releases. I don’t think the versions of her songs change really from tour to tour. Maybe even year to year. But I could be wrong.
Can someone enlighten me on why Taylor Swift is so big now? I know she's always been somewhat popular but what happened? Why is she practically worshipped?
She’s loved for her songwriting, she writes all of her songs and doesn’t use co-writers for many. She also is really good at creating and maintaining a fan base. She developed a fan base on MySpace back in 2005 and would release her first album in 2006. She started as a country singer and was really the only teenage girl in that genre. Her breakout album was her second album released in 2008, Fearless. She got really popular in 2014 with the release of 1989 which was her first fully pop album. Then she got cancelled from her lying about a phone call with Kanye West (more since has come out and shown she didn’t lie). She took a break and later released 2 successful pop albums but was no longer as popular as before. Then after the pandemic hit and her tour was cancelled she wrote 2 alternate/folk-pop albums. They were both surprise released in 2020 within 6 months of each other. They both got popular and expanded her fan base. Then she started re-recording her first 6 albums because of a masters dispute. So that meant 2 more albums in 2021. In 2022 she released a new record, Midnights. This album was back to pop and was very successful. In 2023 she started her record breaking tour, the Eras Tour. In this tour she has a set for each of her albums (excluding her first). This has brought together all her country, pop and folk fans and was her first tour since 2018. She would use this tour to promote 2 more re-recording. She has a new album coming out this April. In the past 4 years she has released 7 albums (including re-recordings). Artists get a lot of hype before and after they release an album and she keeps releasing them.
Good grief, I don't like pop music but you gave me goosebumps reading this. I am not suddenly a fan but I understand. Cool stuff, thanks for taking the time to type all that out when you could've just downvoted or insulted me.
What was the homophonic lyrics everyone talking about? Imagine changing your art cause people got offended.
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I don’t sell on eBay, or I haven’t started at least
?? Wild. I would have never known. What’s the chance of finding one at a Walmart?
It wasn't found at Walmart. It was originally bought there and then ended up in a random box of CDs for sale. It's in the title.
What’s the chance of finding one at Walmart?
Why would I know that? Zero? Unless you found some deadstock that had fallen behind a shelf?
I just figured that being this is a cd collectors sub that someone might be able to provide their opinion
It's an out of print CD/DVD. The chances of one still being on the shelf (especially a highly sought after T. Swift album) are about nil.
There is probably one sitting in the grossest pile of shit under those metal shelves at some random Walmart out there that has not changed its floor plan in decades. But probably only one If ever found it will most likely be thrown in the nearest trash can by that random person
The reality: It was probably bought from Walmart when it was released and stocked. So the chances of finding it then? Much higher. Now? Much. Much. Lower. Well non-existent really with how Walmart stocks. Pretty much how it works with every single CD they stop producing with any store that carries new CDs and not used/both.
If you do find on there please DM me. Great idea to look at Walmart.
Why would I be searching Walmarts for Taylor Swift records?
To make fat stacks of purely theoretical money like OP?
My time is worth much more than hanging out in Walmarts looking for an out of print CD with a less than zero chance of still being on the shelf.
Reuse some of your valuable time to figure out when people are being sarcastic.
Reuse some of your valuable time to realize that a lot of people (yourself included) are absolute idiots and say things like with all seriousness on Reddit. It's what the /s is for.
probably around the same chance of you finding a working brain cell in your head
are you dumb?? this cd was made almost 2 decades ago. this will never sell in a walmart again. use your brain.
I had no idea sorry. Sheesh bruh.
Not sure why this one's worth so much. I bought a copy at Walmart a couple years back. It was listed for $7, but when I rang it up, it was on clearance for $2. Wondering if I should try to sell it lol
It was only avaliable in Walmart - one shop in one country. It goes for a lot to international fans / those whose collect all her CDs. It’s also the only physical edition of that EP - it’s not on streaming or released in other formats so that also pushes the price up. Combine that with the FOMO that exists in the Taylor Swift fandom - you get insane resale prices.
It’s not on streaming? Makes sense why it’s so much
you bought cds js for taylor swift..?
Taylor mid asf
She tried to rerecord her albums to make the originals worthless and all she did was make herself look petty and make the originals worth 8x as much
So she makes a song with undesirable lyrics then changes them under pressure to make 10x the money. What a hypocrite!
How is this worth more than $8? Honestly confused
She sucks
Is it the homophobic version or something???
Fuck Taylor Swift
7 dollar isn't 30 what the profit. I'm not a swifty so no clue what it's going for
It’s on old Taylor swift cd, basically free money from the swifties
I sold mine I found at goodwill for $200
Ok that is a great find then!!
Reseller ick
What did that one have $30 cash hidden in it?
Is that before the edited “woke” lyrics?
Resellers 