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The Cry Of Love vinyl value

The Cry Of Love — Jimi Hendrix 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.

Jimi Hendrix — The Cry Of Love: pressings we track

PressingCatalogCountryNotes
2014 Legacy88843091781EuropeReissue, Gatefold
2014 Experience Hendrix88843091781USNumbered, Reissue, 200 Gram, Gatefold
2014 Legacy88843091781USReissue, 200 Gram, Gatefold
2018 Legacy88843091781FranceLimited Edition, Reissue, Gatefold, Light Blue
2019 Experience Hendrix—ItalyReissue, 180 gram
Undated RepriseMS 2034USReissue

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

What separates the pressings

Oldest we track, 2014First released 1971; our table starts at 2014 (Experience Hendrix, US). A copy older than 2014 predates everything here. Treat it as the find.
Collector variants2014 US: Numbered, Reissue, 200 Gram, Gatefold; 2018 France: Limited Edition, Reissue, Gatefold, Light Blue. Short runs like these often bring more than a standard early copy.
Reissues, 2014+3 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. On the 2014 US pressing it reads “88843091781A” on side one and “88843091781B” on side two. Jackets get swapped over the decades; the runout does not.

  3. 3

    Grade the condition. The same pressing can be worth several times more in near mint than in VG. Grade the vinyl and the sleeve separately — our grading guide shows the standard scale.

A 1971 jacket with a later disc inside is a reissue in an original sleeve. Judge the pressing by the runout etching and the label, never by the cover.

Questions

Which pressing of The Cry Of Love is worth the most?

Original 1971 pressings lead; they predate everything in our table, and that scarcity is the point. Among tracked copies, the 2014 pressings come first. Scarcer variants (the 2014 “Numbered, Reissue, 200 Gram, Gatefold” and the 2018 “Limited Edition, Reissue, Gatefold, Light Blue”) 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. On the 2014 US pressing the runout reads “88843091781A”. A period jacket with a later disc inside is still a reissue.

How much is The Cry Of Love worth today?

Market prices move, so a static number goes stale fast. Scan the record in the RecordScout app: it identifies your exact pressing from the label and shows a current value range for its condition.

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