The Afghan Whigs' first major label release. There are all kinds of versions of this one. Sub Pop had the rights to release the original U.S. vinyl. The German one was on Elektra and the UK one was on Blast First. There was, however, a version of the UK release that came with a bonus 4-track 12" single. The German one is the toughest these to find, but all of the original pressings come up for sale with some regularity.
In 2011, Hi-Speed Soul re-released Gentlemen on 180g vinyl. This version is pretty easy to find, but the label went under, so these started getting rarer.
Then came Gentlemen at 21. In 2014, they released a remastered anniversary edition of Gentlemen...both a single disc 180g version and a three-disc deluxe version came out in each of three markets: the U.S., the UK, and the rest of Europe. The deluxe edition came with demos for the whole album and a whole bunch of other extras. I assumed that there would be roughly equivalent quantities of these produced in each market, but the quantities of each that have shown up for sale in the years since made it clear that was not the case. There are far more U.S. copies (both single disc and deluxe version) than either the European or UK ones. And it seems there were more Europe ones than UK ones. You don't see the Blast First UK ones sold very often anymore.
2025 brought us yet another reissue. This was the "Elektra 75" celebratory edition, released on canary yellow vinyl. I just discovered while writing this that there was a very slightly different version released for the European market. The dead wax etchings are reportedly the same (indicating that multiple sets of stampers were made from the same lacquer cut), but there was a minor variation in the labels: the U.S. release has "Made in the USA" text on the labels and the European one says "Made in the Czech Republic".
OK, then, let's unpack the values. TL/DR: All of these are expensive except for the yellow 2025 version. All of the original versions have been selling for fairly high prices for a long time. They came way down for a time when the 2011 re-press came out, which makes logical sense, as there had been no new vinyl version available since 1993 at that point. The prices for the UK ones really dipped. It did not last, though. They all bounced back and blew past where they had been. The original Sub Pop version is the most expensive. That one is getting a little out of control. The 2011 version was affordable for a few years. I thought that one would stay low after the wave of 2014 pressings hit, but it did not. Now, the 2011 one is almost as expensive as all of the others.
The 2014 edition prices are quite surprising to me. These had the feel of releases that would be pressed in quantities larger than the demand dictated - especially the deluxe versions. It seems like the most common path for those multi-record sets is that they drop with large retail price tags and only ever sell for less than those prices in the long run, as the big retailers cut their losses and start moving stock at discounts. That was not how this went. The prices jumped on all of these - all single-disc versions and deluxe versions - and now sit in the $100 range across the board.
It is unclear how the prices will settle for the 2025 yellow versions. The U.S. one still sells for retail price. The European one seems rarer and the prices have already shown signs of rising for those.
| Version | Value ($) | Scarcity | Price Trending |
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| Sub Pop SP238 | 100-150 | 5 | Up/Volatile |
| Elektra 7559-61501-1 (Germany) | 70-120 | 5 | Up/Volatile |
| Blast First BFFP90S w/ bonus 12" (UK) | 90-120 | 4 | Up |
| Blast First BFFP90 (UK - no bonus 12") | 70-120 | 3 | Up/Volatile |
| Hi-Speed Soul HSS-1037-1 (U.S.) | 60-90 | 2 | Up |
| Rhino R161501 (U.S.) | 70-90 | 1 | Stable |
| Elektra/Rhino R1 545514 3xLP (U.S.) | 90-120 | 2 | Stable |
| Blast First LBFFP90 (UK) | 40-60 | 5 | Stable |
| Blast First XLBFFP90 3xLP (UK) | 90-140 | 5 | Up/Volatile |
| Elektra 8122795664 (Europe) | 70-100 | 4 | Stable |
| Elektra 8122795665 3xLP (Europe) | 90-120 | 4 | Stable |
| Elektra RCV1 61501 Yellow LP (U.S.) | 25-30 | 1 | Stable |
| Elektra RCV1 61501 Yellow LP (Europe) | 45-50 | 4 | Up |
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| Test Pressing: | Sub Pop - Black vinyl, RTI test pressing labels with typed information Blast First - Black vinyl, plain white labels |
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This page was last updated on April 10, 2026.
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