BBC to Auction Off Rare Metal Merch

If you have some extra funds on your hands—unlikely given this economy, but I digress—the BBC is auctioning off some seriously cool old metal records.

The auction, which will run through 2024, will feature more traditional classic offerings like The Beatles, David Bowie, and Pink Floyd, but also some serious metal deep cuts like Black Sabbath and Bathory. And a lot of the albums on offer have incredibly rare quirks.

Classic Rock explains a little bit more about where the copies come from. They are not master copies from the BBC, but duplicate pressings from their vinyl archive. Reportedly, there are over 285,000 records in the collection.

The first 400 records will go up for sale January 30 via Omega Auctions, and it includes originals of Space Oddity and The Man Who Sold The World, both first-run U.K. pressings with unique thins like a gatefold sleeve or the misspelling of producer “Tonny” Visconti. You can also grab The Beatles’ Please Please Me.

Bowie is great, but don’t worry, there’s some heavy music up for grabs as well. Black Sabbath’s swirl-embellished pressings of their first three albums are for sale, as well as Bathory’s first four studio albums. Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and A Saucerful of Secrets are also up for grabs, including the misspelled song title “Let There Me More Light.”

So if you have around the equivalent of £150, you should get ready for the end of this month and see what’s in store. It sounds like it could definitely be worth it. For metal fans, Christmas is coming a month late, and we’re already counting down.