These Are The Most Valuable Vinyl Records To Date

A fun-loving group of a cowboy, a cop, a biker, a construction worker, and a Native American sold 12 million copies of “yMCA” and carved out an unexpected but permanent foothold in American pop culture.

XTC, Science Friction (1977)

British new wave band XTC put out “Science Friction” and “She’s So Square” as a 45 RPM single. There were allegedly only 50 copies printed before the band decided to release it as a 12-inch instead. However, if you own the 7″, then you also own a small fortune of $2,000.

Advertisement

Next Page →

The More You Know

  • A U.S. park ranger named Roy C. Sullivan held the record for being struck by lightning the most times, having been struck — and surviving — seven times between 1942 and 1977.
  • Male seahorses bear their young.
  • The magnetic North Pole is moving.
  • The smallest unit of measurement in the universe is the Planck length.
Next Page →