10 Rarest Albums In Existence

6. The Beatles – Yesterday And Today - $125,000

George Harrison once called this “the definitive Beatles collectible.”

Another Beatles rare record that scored a huge price tag at auction was the vintage ‘Butcher Album’. If you’re wondering why it’s nicknamed the Butcher Album, just look at the artwork. It’s a bizarre sight. The album, which came out in 1966, immediately created huge notoriety and backlash for the band, due to its cover with Paul, John, George and Ringo covered in bloody raw-meat and baby-doll parts. You have to factor in at the time The Beatles were still considered sweethearts amongst the public and not the psychedelic free spirits they’d later evolve into.

“My original idea for the cover was better – decapitate Paul,” John Lennon once joked when discussing Yesterday and Today. The adverse public reaction prevented the original pressing from ever reaching the shelves in most stores, with it being recalled shortly after going on sale. American department store Sears sold the album for just one day before removing it completely (before it was replaced with artwork of the four band members posed around an open trunk).

A seller, who bought it from Sears the one day they had it on their shelves, sold it for a staggering $125,000 in 2016. Another copy of it, this one though signed and doodled on by John Lennon, went for the same price of $1250,00 at auction in 2017. That this one didn’t beat the 2016 one in price gives you a hint of how valuable this record actually is.