The Bruce Springsteen Vinyl Record That Is Worth More Than $5,000 In 2025
Bruce Springsteen -– also known as The Boss -– has been coming back into the cultural zeitgeist, complete with an upcoming biopic movie, where he will be portrayed by the actor Jeremy Allen White, and a 50th anniversary celebration of the artist's "Born to Run" album at The Bruce Springsteen Archives & Center for American Music in September 2025.
The "Born To Run" album has become a staple of rock and roll music, with the title track helping to cement Springsteen's legacy as one of the greatest American singer-songwriters. According to The Groove Grounds, the album is one of the top 100 most valuable vinyl records out there, with some specific pressings worth $5,000 or more. If you are a fan of collecting records, you'll want to make sure that "Born To Run" is on your shelf next to other older vinyl records that are worth a ton of money.
How do you know if you have a valuable copy of Born To Run?
"Born To Run" is Springsteen's third studio album, originally released in the U.S. in 1975, and making it to No. 3 on the Billboard Top LPs & Tape chart. There is a misprint tag on a handful of first-state covers that credit "John Landau" when it should have read "Jon Landau," which in some cases, can raise the price of the vinyl, depending on condition. However, The Groove Grounds notes that anyone searching for a top-notch copy of "Born To Run" should be on the lookout for the highly sought after advance promotional version, with one copy selling for $5,617.97.
Within the top 100 rankings, "Born To Run" falls squarely in the middle, placing No. 47 for priciest records. The No. 1 record on the list goes to a 2008 12″ limited edition vinyl of "Choose Your Weapon" by Scaramanga Silk with a top selling price of $37,974, followed by Prince's hard to find "Black Album" at No. 2, worth $25,000.
Making money from old vinyl records
At first, it seemed like a joke that vinyl records were making a comeback starting in 2007, but in 2025 they are nothing to scoff at when it comes to value. Some albums, including rarities from The Rolling Stones and The Beatles that can now go for tens of thousands of dollars on the resale market. If you are a collector who is not sentimental about parting ways with the music you love, you might consider buying and selling highly in-demand records — or selling your own personal collection — for a profit to vinyl junkies who will pay top dollar on sites like ebay or CDandLP.com, as well as used book and record stores.
You'll want to research to know what you are buying and selling, including the difference between mono and stereo, along with rarity and conditions grading. WellKeptWallet points out that a sealed stereo version of the "The Beatles: Yesterday and Today" album sold for $125,000 in 2016 due to the fact that there were probably less than 10 sealed copies of a stereo version of the album to ever exist.