What album have you owned the most copies of?

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Just idle question while i was looking at my cds last night.

With 8 track, casette, LP, CD and the 'gaining steam every day' DVD Audio and SACD formats, and online music, what album(s) have you bought 'the most'? Bonus tracks/Remasters count as same album etc etc.
I'm pretty sure I've had several ledzep around three (casette,lp and cd) but i'm thinking a couple yes albums may be four (Drama, 90125) as i have them also as a box set with extra tracks.

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Blinkyjoh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 10 2015 Location: Toronto Status: Offline Points: 125	Topic: What album have you owned the most copies of? Posted: December 14 2016 at 14:19
	Just idle question while i was looking at my cds last night. With 8 track, casette, LP, CD and the 'gaining steam every day' DVD Audio and SACD formats, and online music, what album(s) have you bought 'the most'? Bonus tracks/Remasters count as same album etc etc. I'm pretty sure I've had several ledzep around three (casette,lp and cd) but i'm thinking a couple yes albums may be four (Drama, 90125) as i have them also as a box set with extra tracks.

Magnum Vaeltaja Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 01 2015 Location: Out East Status: Offline Points: 6777	Posted: December 14 2016 at 14:23
	I've got three copies of all of the classic Yes albums from The Yes Album to Relayer. One of each on vinyl, one of each on CD at home, and one of each CD for the car.
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Quinino Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: June 26 2011 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 3654	Posted: December 14 2016 at 14:33
	Quadropheeeeeeenia double LP badly over abused, Polydor 1984 CD & finally 1996 remastered & remixed (Bob Ludwig)

doompaul Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 02 2015 Location: boise id Status: Offline Points: 414	Posted: December 14 2016 at 15:27
	Thick as a Brick on Vinyl. I must have gone through five of them.

Dean Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Retired Admin and Amateur Layabout Joined: May 13 2007 Location: Europe Status: Offline Points: 37575	Posted: December 14 2016 at 15:46
	Dark side of the moon: Three vinyl and several remastered CD editions.
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ClemofNazareth Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Prog Folk Researcher Joined: August 17 2005 Location: United States Status: Offline Points: 4659	Posted: December 14 2016 at 17:50
	Yup, DSOTM. Can't recall but I'm sure I had it on 8-track, still have the first vinyl copy I bought and at least two CDs, also bought CDs for all three of my sons and a vinyl for one of them as well. Second is probably Rumours or Boston's first, 8-tracks and vinyl and CD plus Boston's on cassette from one of those mail-order music clubs in the 80s. Have also bought four copies of Val Stoecklin's Grey Life, two vinyl plus two CDs for friends or family. And the 1989 Kansas Valentine Day concert in Philadelphia but only because it's been released at least four times under different labels and titles.
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zravkapt Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: October 12 2010 Location: Canada Status: Offline Points: 6446	Posted: December 14 2016 at 17:57
	^I'm glad you posted before me because your screenname is the perfect set-up to my post. Not me, but my parents had Nazareth's Greatest Hits on vinyl, 8-track and CD. (Hell, my mother probably even has an illegally downloaded copy as well). Oh, I forgot cassette too. Edited by zravkapt - December 15 2016 at 07:40
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EddieRUKiddingVarese Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: February 04 2016 Location: Aust Status: Offline Points: 1802	Posted: December 14 2016 at 18:19
	Lumpy Gravy 3 versions, have original vinyl LP release, the original CD release and the reworked (drum and bass) twofa CD with WOITFTM. JABFLA 3 copies, 1 cassette and 2 vinyl copies I have also got 3 vinyl copies of Weezles Ripped my flesh
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TeleStrat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 27 2014 Location: Norwalk, CA Status: Offline Points: 9319	Posted: December 14 2016 at 18:41
	These are a few off the top of my head... Truth by The Jeff Beck Group on vinyl, 4 track, cassette, CD. Beck-Ola and Are You Experienced in the same four versions. Sgt. Pepper and the white album on vinyl, 4 track, CD.

Barbu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30845	Posted: December 14 2016 at 19:02
	Dark Side (4). I wonder why I have 3 copies of Irrlicht?

BarryGlibb Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: August 28 2010 Location: Melbourne, Oz Status: Offline Points: 1781	Posted: December 15 2016 at 03:42
	I have 7 Thick As A Brick albums/CDs and 6 versions each of A Passion Play and Wishbone Ash (first album). Very sad indeed I am.

chopper Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: July 13 2005 Location: Essex, UK Status: Offline Points: 19943	Posted: December 15 2016 at 06:01
	I can think of a few I've bought 3 copies of - Close To the Edge, Physical Graffiti, The Beatles, Led Zep II, Relayer. Can't think of any 4's yet.

Blinkyjoh Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 10 2015 Location: Toronto Status: Offline Points: 125	Posted: December 15 2016 at 06:06
	I think seven thick as a bricks may be the winner.:) 4 track is a thing? I have vague recollection of 8 tracks but not 4 track

TeleStrat Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: December 27 2014 Location: Norwalk, CA Status: Offline Points: 9319	Posted: December 15 2016 at 06:44
	^ 4 track tape decks for cars were very popular in the sixties and I think they were better than the 8 track.

emigre80 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: January 25 2015 Location: kentucky Status: Offline Points: 2223	Posted: December 15 2016 at 06:50
	Probably on my fourth copy of Close to the Edge and Fragile. Not the same thing, but I was running through my iTunes list recently and I have 19 different versions of Roundabout (including live, bootleg live, and a live version by Asia). That seems kind of weird.

Kingsnake Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: November 03 2006 Location: Rockpommelland Status: Offline Points: 1578	Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:26
	I think Behaviour of Saga; LP, CD and Musicassette (three versions), although I got rid of any and all cds/lps etc., I still have some musicassettes and lp's (20 or 30) left, to my surprise I still have Saga - Behaviour twice.

Terrapin Station Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: July 23 2016 Location: NYC Status: Offline Points: 383	Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:33
	Probably some Led Zeppelin albums for me as well. I've owned all of them on vinyl, many on 8-track, many on cassette, and I've bought them three different times now on CD as different versions have been released. So that's at least five different copies I've bought of all of the Zeppelin studio albums. The Song Remains the Same I actually owned twice on vinyl because I wore out my first copy. I've also bought the Song Remains the Same movie three times, as I've owned it on VHS, then DVD and now BluRay (plus I saw it in the theater about fifteen times--three or four times on its initial theatrical run, then the rest as "midnight movies" when I was in high school and at university). There are other albums where I've bought at least four different versions, but I'd not be sure about five or more Edited by Terrapin Station - December 15 2016 at 07:37

Jeffro Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: March 29 2014 Location: USA Status: Offline Points: 2037	Posted: December 15 2016 at 07:52
	Let's see. I would say various Rush, Iron Maiden, Triumph, and Queensryche albums. I've owned them on vinyl and CD. Well, and cassette too but I dubbed those from the vinyl back in the day. As for most copies, I would say Rush is the winner. I owned the vinyl, then the CD, then the remastered CD.

Barbu Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Joined: October 09 2005 Location: infinity Status: Offline Points: 30845	Posted: December 15 2016 at 09:23
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Catcher10 Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member VIP Member Joined: December 23 2009 Location: Emerald City Status: Offline Points: 17498	Posted: December 15 2016 at 10:40
	I have 8-track, cassette, rekkids, CD versions of many albums, a couple I also have R2R versions. Scorpions: I have US/Japanese/German pressings of most albums on rekkids. Blackout = 4 versions, Virgin Killer = 3 versions Rush: Multiple copies of all their albums. CoS = 3 versions, 2112 = 4 versions, MP = 5 versions, Signals = 4 versions, Hemis = 5 versions. Earth Wind & Fire: All n All = 4 versions, Gratitude = 3 versions Miles Davis: Kind Of Blue = 3 versions Cassette versions don't get played anymore, don't have a deck anymore. The CD versions rarely if ever get played anymore because rekkids sound better.