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You Don't Mess Around With Jim vinyl value

You Don't Mess Around With Jim — Jim Croce album cover
Prices for this album are still being collected: our eBay tracker quotes a pressing only after at least three live listings match it. The pressings and identification below are complete.

Jim Croce — You Don't Mess Around With Jim: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
1985 IntercordINT 130.101GermanyReissue
2012 Friday MusicFRM 756USRemastered, Gatefold
2020 BMG538630631USA & CanadaReissue, Gatefold, 180g
2022 BMG538792011USA & CanadaGold, 50th Anniversary Edition
2024 BMG964011231USReissue

5 pressings tracked · catalog of 974,753 releases, August 2026

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 1985First released 1972; our table starts at 1985 (Intercord, Germany). A copy older than 1985 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants2022 USA & Canada: Gold, 50th Anniversary Edition . Scarce on purpose; collectors pay for that.
Reissues, 2020+2 pressings. Easy to find, priced as listening copies.

How to identify your copy

Three checks, in the order worth doing them.

  1. 1

    Match the catalog number. It is printed on the spine and the record label. Check it together with the country against the pressings table above: the same number can appear in more than one country.

  2. 2

    Read the runout. The code etched in the dead wax near the label names the exact pressing. Trust the etching over the jacket: covers get traded around, dead wax stays put.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. A clean copy and a worn one of the same pressing sit several grades, and several multiples, apart. Grade record and sleeve separately; see our grading guide.

Do not price the cover. A later disc in a 1972 jacket is a reissue, whatever the sleeve says: the pressing lives in the runout etching and on the label.

Questions

Which pressing of You Don't Mess Around With Jim is worth the most?

Original 1972 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 1985 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 2022 “Gold, 50th Anniversary Edition ”) can beat an ordinary early copy. After that it is all condition: the gap between near mint and VG is usually larger than the gap between pressings.

How do I tell which pressing I have?

Match the catalog number on the spine and label against the table above, check the country, then read the etched code in the runout groove. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is You Don't Mess Around With Jim worth today?

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