A record has been broken, wait, smashed for the most expensive vinyl ever sold on the wax-lovers online marketplace, Discogs, and nope – it’s not some ultra rare pressing of The Beatles.
Believe it or not, Chung King Can Suck It by US straight-edge hardcore outfit Judge has now become the highest priced record to fly off the proverbial shelf, as Fact point out.
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The album sold for a staggering $6,048.00, which at first seems rather baffling, however once the story behind the limited press becomes apparent, one can understand why any hardcore fan would be fighting to get their hands on the piece of wax.
Released in 1989, Chung King Can Suck It was originally meant to be the band’s album debut LP, Bringin’ It Down, however due to a slew of problems that riddled the band’s recording process at Chung King Studios that included being bumped to the worst recording room and their studio engineer not showing up to one of the sessions, causing the band to use an inexperienced worker to finalise the album – the group were very unhappy with the end result, thus giving it the title Chung King Can Suck It.
Judge were still forced to release one hundred copies of the album to satisfy fans who’d made preorders, with the more focused version of Bringin’ It Down hitting shelves later that year.
The album has said to sell for similar amounts when it appears in other auctions including eBay, the lead vocalist Mike Judge having told Westword he couldn’t believe it could go for such an amount, “I don’t know why that record is worth anything to anybody when it’s not worth anything to the people who created it.”
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