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An original pressing of David Bowie’s Space Oddity album has broken the record for most expensive album in Discogs history.
The record collectors’ website revealed in a blog post that copy of the 1969 LP has been sold for £4,722 to an anonymous buyer. As NME reports, that beats the previous record, which was held by Judge’s Chung King Can Suck It 12”, which was sold for £4,183 last year.
"I’m not sure where this expensive record is going,” read the site’s blog post. "I don’t know who is looking after it now. But I hope, wherever it is, it’s being treasured in whatever way the buyer finds appropriate.
"I hope that future generations will be able to grab it off the shelf and give it a listen, and I hope the first time they start side one they get completely swept away in the story of a man who was looking back at his home planet at a time when that still seemed like a tenuous proposition.”
It continued, “Above all else, I hope that David Bowie’s art continues to matter, because he certainly put a lot of himself in all of those songs. I want to see that part of him echo forward.”
The record - Bowie’s second - was originally self-titled, before being re-named Space Oddity. The original pressing bought by the fan for nearly £5,000 was the original, self-titled incarnation.
