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AllBecauseOfU2
Wild Honey
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Location: Massachusetts, USA // SOTW: Slow Dancing
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After seeing u2retrobuff open up 800+ topics about rare stuff, I'm curious to know: what is the rarest official U2 release--single, DJ promo, deluxe edition, etc.--that exists--i.e. most difficult to find?
Clearly there's U23, and I know there's the JT pizza box. I think there's one mix of Numb that supposed to be nearly impossible to get, but I can't remember which one it is.
Just curious to know. 
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germcevoy
God Part II
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Location: Ireland - Song of The Week : Heartland
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According to Record Collector the rarest of all U2 items is an Australian green 12 inch Vinyl of All I Want Is You. There are rumored to be only 5 of these vinyls in existence pressed for certain record company executives. Apparently worth over $10,000 US Dollars
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yeah
Wild Honey
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Top 5 of the rarest official items:
All I want is you (Australian 12'' light green vinyl, mispressing, Island/Festival X14678, 3 copies; 1989)
Pride ( Australian 12'' clear vinyl, Island/Festival X14105, 5 copies; 1984)
Under a blood red sky (Australian LP green and black vinyl, mispressing, Island/Festival L20033; 1984)
Boy ( Swedish LP blue vinyl, Island ILPS 9646; 1981)
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AllBecauseOfU2
Wild Honey
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Location: Massachusetts, USA // SOTW: Slow Dancing
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Holy shit. So I'm guessing these vinyls are tucked away by their owners and will never be in any sort of circulation or trade.
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germcevoy
God Part II
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Originally posted by AllBecauseOfU2:
Holy shit. So I'm guessing these vinyls are tucked away by their owners and will never be in any sort of circulation or trade.
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a fake of the All I Want Is You vinyl sold on ebay for over 3 grand. I doubt any of those mentioned will ever ever surface
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AllBecauseOfU2
Wild Honey
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Location: Massachusetts, USA // SOTW: Slow Dancing
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Originally posted by germcevoy:
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a fake of the All I Want Is You vinyl sold on ebay for over 3 grand. I doubt any of those mentioned will ever ever surface
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Wow. Poor sucker. That reminds me to be a bit more careful on Ebay now.
Thanks for all the info. Interesting stuff to know.
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germcevoy
God Part II
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Originally posted by AllBecauseOfU2:
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Wow. Poor sucker. That reminds me to be a bit mroe careful on Ebay now.
Thanks for all the info. Interesting stuff.
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those listed are unlikely to ever surface anyway so no worries. The only common fakes on ebay are the Fruitlegs. Bootleggers package them up nicely and stupid people pay too much for them
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AllBecauseOfU2
Wild Honey
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Location: Massachusetts, USA // SOTW: Slow Dancing
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Originally posted by germcevoy:
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those listed are unlikely to ever surface anyway so no worries. The only common fakes on ebay are the Fruitlegs. Bootleggers package them up nicely and stupid people pay too much for them
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Good to know. 
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anstratdubh1979
Wild Honey
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Location: Los Angeles, California, in the US, on the earth.
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Originally posted by germcevoy:
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those listed are unlikely to ever surface anyway so no worries. The only common fakes on ebay are the Fruitlegs. Bootleggers package them up nicely and stupid people pay too much for them
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they are not always packages so nicely. a friend of mine got order two of them... the cover art was on regular printer paper.... the CD's were Maxell's silver cds... basicall paid about 12.00 each for something she could have burned for 12 cents each
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djrlewis
Mr. MacPhisto
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Originally posted by yeah:
Top 5 of the rarest official items:
All I want is you (Australian 12'' light green vinyl, mispressing, Island/Festival X14678, 3 copies; 1989)
Pride ( Australian 12'' clear vinyl, Island/Festival X14105, 5 copies; 1984)
Under a blood red sky (Australian LP green and black vinyl, mispressing, Island/Festival L20033; 1984)
Boy ( Swedish LP blue vinyl, Island ILPS 9646; 1981)
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What's up with all the rare stuff being in Oz?? 
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WojBhoy
Mr. MacPhisto
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Location: England /// SotM - A Sort Of Homecoming
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Originally posted by djrlewis:
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What's up with all the rare stuff being in Oz??
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Takes a while to reach the rest of the world 
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easports43
God Part II
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Location: Indiana
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Too bad retrobuff's not around for this thread....lol
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