Vinyl records make a return

sleeve - overpriced???? hardly....i mean i wouldn't take a penny less for this "rare disco" SPINACH POWER record

http://www.ebay.com/itm/SPINACH-POWER-popeye-sailorman-LP-VG-SKS-S-48-Japan-Hard-Boogie-Disco-Funk-MP3-/310782738430?pt=Music_on_Vinyl&hash=item485c183ffe

the good thing is a lot of those people will price any recognizable (and therefore probably not rare) record at crazy prices and sell their weird stuff for nothing

Also whenever you see "WOW" in the description on ebay you know it'll be a really stupid listing.

xpost - ha obv not referring to that SPINACH POWER seller

You're all suckers to market forces. Fuck vinyl.

You're funny

i mention this on every vinyl thread but vinyl is getting to be a fucking ripoff, especially new vinyl, don't know why all these people are getting duped into spending $25, $30, $45 on a single album, fuck that shit. and tapes are a complete joke

― marcos, Friday, March 28, 2014 10:16 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^ this, not least because pressing/cutting can be kind of a crapshoot with new stuff.

But if the point of listening to vinyl is to get closer to the analog source, wouldn't something like this make more sense?

http://www.tapeproject.com/

(speaking of overpriced)

it all depends...some stuff like Light in the Attic? woah...shit sounds amazing, fuck the original pressings

also lol to listen to music on pure organic ipods, computers, ipads, and iphones...so far from the icky market forces of capitalism

i don't have any cds or vinyl, but i like books so i guess it's not too weird to me that someone might still want physical media <-- insight

LitA is pretty much my favorite label right now

i actually think there is something interesting going on with regard to value/markets/commodification etc with regard to rare albums

Like many other aged record jerks, I DJ at my local from time to time and sometimes I have to laugh at myself - playing all (relatively) rare vinyl 45's that I spent time and money acquiring for people who would, for the most part, actually be happier listening to current hits on an ipod

There's actually a direct inverse relationship to how much you paid for a record to how much most people will enjoy it. The rare expensive stuff goes over like a lead balloon or gets a "hey, that's neat!". The cheap sixties hits go over great. Free downloaded MP3's would go over even better.

Unless you've really worked to get like-minded folks out, that's how it's going to be in a typical bar room. I know there are the Keb Darges and Jonathan Toubins and Liam Larges of the world who have built up big followings and do amazing stuff discovering rare records - but that's all in a very specialized world...

It would be cool and insanely trendy to start doing tape stuff on VHS tapes. Has anyone done that yet? You can buy VHS tapes for SUPER cheap and get a VCR with stereo inputs on it and be golden.

Like many other aged record jerks, I DJ at my local from time to time and sometimes I have to laugh at myself - playing all (relatively) rare vinyl 45's that I spent time and money acquiring for people who would, for the most part, actually be happier listening to current hits on an ipod

Yup I know that feeling

my friend used to like super long hours long mixtapes on a good VCR hooked into his stereo

also lol to listen to music on pure organic ipods, computers, ipads, and iphones...so far from the icky market forces of capitalism

― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, March 28, 2014 12:05 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

not quite sure what you're talking about here but at least for me my knock against exorbitant vinyl pricing is not necessarily a knock against capitalism, i just think it's a ripoff. i can't afford it. for me it's a waste of money. i love music but i don't have cash to spend $25 or more on an new lp.

fwiw i don't have an iphone also because of the extra money i'd have to pay on my phone bill. i've got a son and my wife works very part time to take care of him so we're mostly a single-income household

there's a death of cd thing going on right now, lots of good stuff available for ~$5 or less.

fucking loving it ..

never bought so many cds in local charity shops as in the last few months

cds = cheaper than a legal download.

xp I think that was directed at our resident vinyl hater Mr. Mouthy

Yep

ah ok sorry, lol

i was a little eager there wasn't i

Loads of great cheap records on discogs for pennies. Even records that get overpriced often come back down to regularish prices once people have forgotten about them again

i don't have any cds or vinyl, but i like books so i guess it's not too weird to me that someone might still want physical media <-- insight

― markers, Friday, March 28, 2014 11:05 AM (10 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

are you under 20 years old?

Literally saw a copy of Saturday Night Fever with one record missing priced $20 because it was an "Import" last weekend.

― brio, Friday, March 28, 2014 11:14 AM (2 minutes ago)

I do a lot of loling in stores when I see stuff like this and then fantasize about lecturing delusional shop owners

― Evan, Friday, March 28, 2014 10:19 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha me too

― sleeve, Friday, March 28, 2014 10:19 AM (11 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

me too, except around here it's the "half-price books" etc. outlets that do this, and i don't feel like lecturing some wage slave who couldn't give half a shit.

but yeah, every elvis or beatles album, with seams split, vinyl that looks like a dog ate it then shat it out for $25+... a whole bunch of beat-up dadrock... and one LP of cage's piano sonatas for $4.99. well, it happened once. in general i no longer go into stores like this because life is too short and it's depressing.

on a similar note...

a beloved (but a bit distant) elderly relative of mine passed away recently. i always enjoyed listening to music w/ her, and wondered what had become of her LP collection and if they were just going to toss it or give it to goodwill (as they were many of her things), maybe they could send it to me instead because it would mean a lot to me?

her middle-aged daughter was convinced that her mom's small LP collection (about 150 classical LPs) would be worth a fortune. was going to pay to have them appraised. my mom convinced her to send me a list of some titles, and i broke the news that monetarily anyway, they weren't even worth the cost of getting them appraised. she was really hard to convince. "but they don't make records anymore? aren't all these things rare? i've heard that you can sell records for $1,000s!" i think at one point she thought i was pulling a scam. anyway, after a few weeks she finally agreed to send them to me (but only if another relative would carry them out and pay to ship them).

so yeah people think their records are worth a lot of money when they are not.

also people are greedy.

Might be right, could be a bit too late. Sorry if this is going to bug you! It'll have "ART" on the inner cover if it ws mine

― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine)

It was indeed your copy of Last Exit I bought. Got my brother to check it out and it says Art right there on the sleeve. Small world!

haven't had a chance, don't get over to st.paul that much...my usual spot is Roadrunner Records in South Mpls, small but nice stock and I feel the most fair pricing in town. Hymie's is really nice since they moved out of the original gross building to this new place....

Electric Fetus can actually have some really good priced stuff and they get a lot of new stuff they end up clearancing

― Little Nicky Pizza loved that rascal Rust (upper mississippi sh@kedown)

Going to check out Roadrunner tomorrow, looking forward to it.

I like Hymies a lot as they price things very reasonably and they have a greats soul/disco collection but I find they don't seem to get a lot of new stuff in. Either that or the stuff they do get is so good it doesn't last long in the shop. The people that work there always seem really cool.

I keep hearing that Electric Fetus is one of the best places to get vinyl but I've never had much luck there. They don't seem to get a lot of second hand stuff in there. Probably haven't been there in a couple of years though, will have to give it another try.

Fetus is hit or miss but they don't always know what stuff is worth

Kitchen Person that's great! I didn't actually WANT to sell it, just needed to, glad it went to a good home etc.

Those're my initials btw, I wasn't judging its merit or anything

Yeah I was really chuffed to find a copy there. It was probably my best find in all the times I went there. I'm now wondering if I ended up buying anything else you sold (if you did?) no need to make a list or anything. I'd struggle to remember all the records I bought in New Zealand/Australia now. All I know is I had bought way too many when it came to packing my suitcase to go back to the UK.

I was selling quite a bit of stuff, so maybe. They'll all be marked like that.

When I see those records again I will keep an eye out for those same marks.

"for art's sake"

the "death of vinyl" era was really a golden age

I lived in Brazil for three years in the late 90s and every market in every town had at least one stall selling huge quantities of records at next-to-nothing prices. Not to mention the record shops themselves - they just wanted to get rid of their space-filling stock. I had a cheap turntable when I was there but decided it'd be impractical to build up a large collection, especially when there were handy compact discs around. If I'd known then what I know now...

hehe

www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_LasOjYP_M

hey it didn't thing

http://www.recordstoreday.es/images/tienda/tshirt-rsds2014.jpg

Noooooooooooo!

http://img2-2.timeinc.net/toh/i/steps/laying-vinyl-x.jpg

vinyls in the record store? I'd like to lay some of that!

the plural of vinyl is vinyl
xps

i'm pretty sure i remember people pricing records too high before the internet. but, yeah, the 90's were a fine time for those of us still digging. and i try not to think about the dollar bins in chain stores filled with copies of paul's boutique.

when the hmv store in philly opened they had tons of boxes of old caroline distro and they were a buck a piece. they couldn't get rid of it fast enough. unsold 80's metal and indie and all kinds of crazy stuff. nobody wanted it at the time. i kept going back for more. (tower on south street had something similar around then where they all of a sudden had every folkways 10 inch ever made for a buck a piece. new (old) copies. endless amounts of them.)

rekkerds and flooring. mostly rekkerds. but some flooring too.

12" either way

Would have loved to pick through the Caroline records bin...

what the hey?

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i kinda like urban outfitters getting so into it, inevitable sweet deals on expensive reissues in clearance bins when the bubble finally bursts

Argh I keep venturing into these places strictly because I hear about these clearance bins ALL the time but none of them have any!