Lil Peep's Castles Anniversary Vinyl Flips for Up to $250

Castles is a three-track EP Lil Peep and Lil Tracy recorded together in Los Angeles in late June 2016, just weeks after the two met and started living together. It came out July 4, 2016, and Castles II followed that February with five more tracks, including fan favorites like “Witchblades” and “White Wine.” Those two projects have become deep cuts that longtime fans hold up over the bigger commercial releases.

To mark ten years since the original drop, the Estate of Gustav Ahr put out a proper collector’s edition instead of just repressing the same record. The 10 Year Anniversary 2LP Pop Up Edition is cut at 45rpm across a triple pocket gatefold jacket, with two 3D castle pop-ups built into the packaging and custom UV printed, castle themed discs.

With the retail run gone, resellers are seeing this one move for $200 to $250 depending on the numbering and condition, more than double what it cost at retail. That’s a strong return for a vinyl flip, especially one that most people weren’t watching closely before it dropped.

Buy in at $75 and sell at the middle of that range, say $225, and after standard eBay fees of 13.6 percent you’re still clearing roughly $195 in profit per copy, assuming you can source it near retail on the resale market itself.

A print run of 3,500 individually numbered copies is small for an artist with Peep’s collector base, and the packaging gives this one a tactile, gift-worthy quality that plain repress vinyl doesn’t have. Anniversary editions tied to Peep’s catalog tend to carry extra weight with fans, and a numbered, limited object like this reads more like a keepsake than a standard record store pickup. Combine that with a release that a lot of collectors and resellers simply weren’t tracking, and you get a sellout that outpaced expectations before the market caught up.