Well, it looks like it is a seller's market for records. As you may recall, recently Wu-Tang's one-of-a-kind copy of Once Upon a Time in Shaolin sold for "millions" of presumably American dollars. That sale usurped the previous highest ever sale of a record, which was Jack White's purchase of the Elvis Presley's "My Happiness" acetate for $300,000 in January 2015.

Well, if the Wu-Tang sale was legit, then there is a new #2 for highest selling record ever. That #2 is the Beatles White Album (actually titled Beatles) #0000001. The sale took place on Saturday at Julien's auction house and was taken from Ringo Starr's own personal collection. The record sold to a buyer for $790,000, despite the fact that the pre-auction estimates for the sale were targeted at $40,000-$60,000.

Original pressings of the "White Album" were famously numbered in the sequence of their production. Ringo's copy was the very first copy produced. Of course, as you know, numbering records would become a time honored practice for record producers, particularity in punk circles.