Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

oh i thought you could stream it to your stereo. to be honest i still can't picture it actually moving, in operation. i wouldn't be surprised if it were completely fake, in the end.

but cheap bluetooth compatible tts already exist http://www.audio-technica.com/cms/turntables/d41892c53111caf9/index.html and anyway you could probably hook up any old tt to a bluetooth speaker with a bluetooth transmitter/receiver

if you already have a stereo I don't really see why you'd place your tt far from the stereo

none of this makes sense to me - you might as well just connect a turntable to a power outlet and nothing else, place your favorite Andy Gibb thrift shop score on the platter, and spin it around while you stream it on Youtube

aaarghgh

100% chance this will be sold at urban outfitters

I had the Optonica version of the Sharp turntable pictured above which had next track & previous track buttons both on the turntable and on the remote. A turntable with a remote! There were direct-access buttons too so you could punch in track 7 or such. It actually worked quite well as long as the record was clean and had reasonably wide gaps between tracks. But on albums where the delineations between tracks are really narrow, it couldn't find them at all.

Even if it turns out to work really well, I won't be buying LOVE because, well, it's called LOVE. I dunno, just getting irked at all the companies trying to sell me some sort of LOVE these days, like every other new item in the grocery store freezer case. That or a heart in the logo. Just, stop.

I remember seeing a bunch of those front-loading turntables in the '80s. And linear tracking was a huge selling point -- all your records are being ruined by tonearms that don't move in a straight line!

Hey You Guys! The LOVE is now almost half-off!

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/493608538/love-the-worlds-first-intelligent-turntable?ref=61fr6y

https://ksr-ugc.imgix.net/assets/015/358/361/93803d477f2596ed4922992cb8c8fc5e_original.gif?w=680&fit=max&v=1485947091&auto=format&gif-q=50&q=92&s=9e82f63fd3c1f91c3fe7b26c13d8a821

Damn, 599 dollars. I was so close.

https://ask.audio/articles/when-you-die-your-ashes-can-be-pressed-into-vinyl-records

Be funny if you pressed someones ashes into one of those comedy dog barking beatles songsvalbums

This could be cool if the fee includes the shipping costs (and, of course, they pursue more interesting than "famous" people to choose from). Or if someone attempted something like it w/ new reissues and had serious "diggers" choosing the albums each month.

http://thequietus.com/articles/21768-vinyl-subscription-service-famous-curators

The Beatles now getting the De Agostini partwork treatment:

https://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/beatles-vinyl-collection/

... twenty-three original albums?!

23 issues...

"How many issues are there in The Beatles Vinyl Collection?

23 issues are currently planned for this series."

in the cost per issue it mentions triple lps, so i'm guessing the three anthology releases are part of this...

and two volumes of Live at the BBC

huh. ok. i guess that's fine as far as it goes? still, calling each platter of a double/triple LP an "album" is kinda weird imho.

idk assuming the quality's not shit, this is one scam that seems kiiiiiiiind of legit. beatles vinyl is hardly rare, but it's often very very overpriced as everybody here knows. so if you love the band but are just now getting into the hobby and didn't want to deal with beat-up filthy copies in worn out sleeves marked up to $30 a pop, then i guess you could do worse than this series. i personally have never been at all interested in having the anthology on vinyl - just too much bulk - and getting stuck buying that to get the rest does seem, not scammish, but on the lame side. feels like it'd be better to just cherry-pick the mono remasters or whatever other decent version of recent decades?

the jazz series pressings were fine. I got a few but didnt subscribe but a couple of friends did and they had no problems with it. you can however buy all back issues on their own from the website if you only wantto pick and choose.
I was going to do that with the jazz ones...but didnt.

I might get Abbey Road tho for a tenner if i see it in smiths. cant argue at that price

> still, calling each platter of a double/triple LP an "album" is kinda weird imho.

i don't think they are. they list a different price for 2xlp / 3xlp and single lps. those 5 i mention on top of the sixteen 2009 reissues brings it to 19. "1" and "love" might be another two. "red" and "blue" too?

(fourteen 2009 reissues)

Gotta say it WOULD be a scam if you end up paying for every studio album plus Past Masters AND all of 1, Red, and Blue also! "You get not only Yellow Submarine but also Yellow Submarine Songtrack!"

I guess Let It Be... Naked could be in there. Um.... My Bonnie?

That's on anthology one.

I dunno, I got all but the BBC/Anthols/Soundtrack/Love albums, clean ones, scruffed ones, ones on the lovely German Odeon label (we lived out there at the time), would I be tempted by a fresh "Abbey Road"? I've only got two LPs and a cassette of that one but not exactly dashing to play it..

Then again, you kids, go for it its all yours.

I might have if that first one was a fiver...

Here's a pretty straightforward one. Just scoop up all the manufactured rarity limited edition stuff that comes out and flip for insane prices!

https://rarelimiteds.com/

fucking hell

lol it's like Stubhub for ltd ed preorders!

i bet that is JC who used to post on the old southern lord board and VLV

i just just sell all my vinyl

lmao that is so fucked up

This is amazing.

earlytwothousands.com

every record costs $2000 to keep the theme going

When people say "You know, 'record store day' should be every day" this isn't exactly what they mean.

The guy i mentioned had 20 people to buy pre-orders and limited edition things. They were based all over the world. Sometimes he paid people to queue overnight at shops for RSD and sent people to gigs to buy up all the rare tour merch then and hold on to them then sell for massively inflated prices. Labels used to work out who he was but he then just got other people to do it. He boasted he made $100,000 a year from it and it was putting him through college.

$179 FOR A FUCKING BEN FOLDS RECORD

The Strokes - First Impressions Of Earth Red Vinyl LP Newbury Exclusive

Regular price $67.90

dad said "son, you're fuckin' high"

$179 FOR A FUCKING BEN FOLDS RECORD

Now imagine the fan who would pay even more for a record of Ben Folds fucking.

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Rare Limiteds was started in early 2016 to provide vinyl record collectors with a source for some of the most difficult to find vinyl pressings. We have since grown to also offer rare and limited edition audio cassettes, posters and other artwork at competitive and often unmatched prices. Our goal is to provide our customers with highest level of satisfaction by offering quality and hard-to-find physical media, shipped quickly and safely.

lmao

Clever ambiguous wording!

admit it Evan, you found this while looking for a copy of that Lilys record ;)

Hell no I have an original pressing of that one!

Plus, of course they're charging about $30 over the going rate of the edition they're selling...

great way to find a lot of rare RSD releases is to go to the cutout bins of the actual record store who feel obligated to buy all that shit then have it sit around in the bins forever

Record flippers are like the people that think Trump is a genius because he gamed tax law

Well that's the problem- only a few titles are highly sought after (and get bought up immediately by flippers), but more than half of the releases sit in bins for 2 years.

xp

Some things were out of print for a reason.

i would say if you are out on RSD and see Phish stuff just buy it

Not sure how shady, but weird: Murfie

Send us your records, and we'll digitize them for you. Plus keep them maybe?

That's not gonna be around long

''often unmatched prices'' is beauuuuutiful.

and often unmatched prices.

true, true. most prices will be much, much lower.