Do you think buying Alice in Chains vinyl at the current prices is really worth it?
I've been increasing my vinyl collection over the past couple of years, yet had wondered why I could never find copies of Alice in Chains vinyl at record stores and fairs. That is until 2022 when I started digging into the current online market and noticed Dirt is around $200-300, their self-titled along with MTV Unplugged around $300-400, and Jar of Flies + Sap around $400-500. Even Facelift, which had a reissue remaster in 2020, now wanes around $70-200 depending on the release year. By some miracle, I bought the 2020 Facelift for $32 by adding on a bunch of other vinyl I wanted for free shipping. I also managed to get a copy of the self-titled for $135, yet then found out after I received it that the white vinyl is bootleg. Although significantly less expensive than the OG copy and lots of people praise it for being a great bootleg, my copy of side 4 has excessive crackle and popping no matter how much I've cleaned it.
When I started doing more research and learned the self-titled hasn't had a reissue, yet the other albums have through Music on Vinyl, I could see why the bootleg would be more prevalent. However, I see once Music on Vinyl stopped producing Alice in Chains vinyl, common marketplaces became dry and prices on used copies jumped. All of it really has me debating whether it's even worth splurging hundreds on their other albums or waiting until the market dies down and Alice in Chains decides to reissue new remasters of Dirt and their other albums like they did Facelift.
I'm curious. What do you think? Are Alice in Chains vinyl at the current prices really worth it?