Albums that shouldn't be out of print...

Punishment Of Luxury s/t

lovebuzz was a top 20 album here (in aus) and yet is quite hard to find in shops. they have a 'best of' which is in print but i don't imagine there would be much demand for a proper reissue (could be wrong tho, if there was demos or unreleased h'birds stuff i'd be all over it)

Giant Sand - The Love Songs (standard answer)

The Zombies - Odessey and Oracle

Been looking for that one in vinyl version for a while now.

http://www.bompstore.com/servlet/Detail?no=7993 not trying to be an advertiser here, it's just coincidence that the same mailorder has two of the recent things mentioned here available (they claim what is on the site is available) It's on AmazonUk too.

whoa, if its true that they have in stock everything they sell over there then this has made my week. I just found two other lps I've been looking for everywhere over there.

Thank you james.

You wouldnt happen to know of some store in North America that has 'scary world theory' by Lali Puna in stock, would you?

tonevendor does

http://tonevendor.com/item/4492

No, I meant in LP form, it's been out of print for a while. But thank you anyways.

No idea on Lali Puna, but it has been interesting reading about them and finding out who they are. The samples on the label site sound interesting.

John Cale - Fragments of a Rainy Season

I can't believe new copies of this are selling for $130 on Amazon. I doubt it's anywhere near as rare as the overinflated prices suggest, but I still feel lucky for picking it up for $12 a few months ago.

the Robert Crumb That's What I Call Sweet Music: American Dance Orchestras of the 1920s compilation

Well, hell, I've got that Cale and like it, but never play it.

I've got one or two of those SOS Band titles on vinyl, too.

i can't find a copy of starshipz and rocketz by g-side anywhere on the net :(

Sasha and John Dogweed - Northern Exposure

30 For Sale from $26.00

17 used & new from $29.95

Lol, I’m sure I see that all the time in charity shops.

"i can't find a copy of starshipz and rocketz by g-side anywhere on the net :("

Literally registered on here cause of this post. Have been looking for starshipz & rocketz for the longest, and was able to find it in 192 recently, so I can help you out with that.

Ended up finding the album on UK Amazon, 1 final copy in Germany. Came out to around $30 shipped, and it has yet to arrive... Turns out the CD was lost by the Deutsche Post...

Dory Previn's stuff; almost everything is OOP in the States, I think.

That's a shame. I happened to hear one of her songs last week -- one about a woman who jumps off the Hollywood sign -- and I was reminded of how good a writer she was.

hollindagain by animal collective

I thought someone like Bgo still had that Dory stuff out. Remember looking through a label site some months back & finding a couple of 2fer cds. Think it was Bgo anyway.
But yeah she does sound like a prime candidate for somebody like Water or Light in The Attic to cover.

I still haven't found that Lali Puna LP I asked for in this thread 5 years ago.

Other ones that I haven't found and need to be reissued in vinyl already:

Massive Atrack - Mezzanine
Stereolab - Dots and Loops (supposedly will get reissued soon)
My Bloody Valentine - Loveless (haven't they promised it for years now?)
Can - Ege Bamyasi (and their whole discography, really)

Also all the Kraftwerk and Stone Roses vinyls I've found are crazy expensive / imported.
Why!?

Oh and all Kompakt Total compilations should never be put of print.

Oh and Pink Floyd's Meddle and Piper too! It's weird that such a popular rock band hasn't reissued all of their discography already.

The new Kraftwerk CDs are already oop too.

Entered tonevendor out of curiosity and right now they're selling PF's piper and the stone roses vinyl at a good price. So you can scratch those.

Also kraftwerk vinyl at $11 which is awesome. Still no luck on finding Computer world at a reasonable price though.

I've never understood the idea of buying albums that originally came out in the CD era (the 1990s or later) on vinyl. They won't sound better than on CD, but the vinyl will cost you at twice as much. Is the bigger cover art really worth the hassle?

They won't sound better than on CD

This is arguable

Can - Ege Bamyasi (and their whole discography, really)

All the albums were reissued in a vinyl box set last year and are in the process of being released individually. I'm seeing plenty of new copies of Ege Bamyasi in every record shop lately.

I don't think it is? I know that some CDs released in the 80s sound worse than vinyls, but that's because CD mastering was in its infancy back then, and vinyls were still the primary market, sotechnicians were still making some mistakes and dodgy choices. But in the 90s CDs became the primary format, so the sound engineering and mastering was geared towards that format, and the dodgy mastering jobs gradually disappeared. So unless an album was deliberately mastered to sound worse on CD than vinyl, any album released after CDs became the dominant format won't sound better on vinyl.

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I have a couple of those Dory Previn 2fers on BGO... it may have been about 3 years ago I bought em though. Hearing just a little of her solo stuff made me want to hear everything immediately. She's definitely under appreciated.

the vinyl will cost you at twice as much

I shouldn't even bother to reply to this, but:

ISLAJA S U U CD MONIKA MONIKA 081CD $15.50

ISLAJA S U U LP MONIKA MONIKA 081LP $17.50

that's a brand new 2014 release, gtfo with this "twice as much" bullshit

Well, I was talking specifically about the OOP albums mentioned above, most of which I presume are easily and cheaply available on CD.

New albums are a different case (though even with them the vinyl versions still tend to cost more), but this thread isn't about new albums.

Yeah, gtfo with this "twice as much" bullshit

Psychedelic Pill by Neil Young with Crazy Horse (2012): $55.90 Vinyl

Psychedelic Pill by Neil Young with Crazy Horse (2012): $13.88 Audio CD

Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 by Bob Dylan (2013): $60.38 Vinyl

Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 by Bob Dylan (2013): $18.88 Audio CD

It's actually "thrice as much"

Sorry to be facetious, but the extortionate price of many new vinyl releases puts me off big time.

fwiw, original list price of Psychedelic Pill on its release date was around $90.

I've found that CD's and LP's cost around the same, maybe a couple of dollars more unless it some sort of weird special version which I personally don't like. Just a week ago I bought Linda Perhacs - Parallelograms and it costed me around $30 dollars because it's some sort of reissue with demos and unreleased tracks which I personally don't care for.

I always hated cd's so I don't have many around my house. I only buy vinyl for albums that I love and mp3s for singles or standalone tracks. This isn't really an opinion regarding quality of vinyl vs cds but I really like how my turntable and my vinyl shelf look in my house, they look much better than any stereosystem I had before.

It's perfectly valid to buy things because you think they look cooler than the other options.

Speaking of vinyl prices vs CD, from an observation I made just now at my local record store:

new Jenny Lewis CD: $12.99
new Jenny Lewis LP: $25.99

Neil young is a super extreme gouger, not a relevant example

^^ otm

bob too. All those boomers.

fair enough. but I regularly encounter vinyl releases that are significantly more expensive than the CD - which annoys be as I prefer vinyl. Anyway, i just thought the "bullshit" accusation up-thread was unfair.

annoys *me*

It's totally dependent of label and artist. Pink Floyd vinyl reissues are a joke per example, I think I saw a week ago that they're trying to push a $200 division bell vinyl reissue. It's ridiculous. Here's some examples of my latest purchases and their cd prices comparison:

John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman LP $13.99
John Coltrane and Johnny Hartman CD $18.99

Glass Candy - Beatbox LP+7" $13.98
Glass Candy - Beatbox CD $10.98

Chromatics - Night Drive Deluxe Edition 2xLP $19.98
Chromatics - Night Drive Deluxe Edition CD $11.98

Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender LP $14.98
Joanna Newsom - The Milk-Eyed Mender LP $15.98

Madvillain - Madvillainy LP $18.99
Madvillain - Madvillainy CD $16.99

M.I.A. - Arular LP $13.98
M.I.A. - Arular CD $11.98

It also depends where you buy, of course. I dislike Amazon, but they have your Coltrane / Hartmann CD for $11.88.

Yeah and the vinyl like in $40!? Weird.