Vinyl records make a return

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?

1 For Sale from £312.58

Statistics
Have: 187
Want: 1218
Avg Rating: 4.68 / 5
Ratings: 109
Last Sold: 17 Sep 13
Lowest: £27.59
Median: £117.22
Highest: £156.29

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!

I know friends have gotten good deals before

On the other hand though I went to a second hand shop that I guess arranges to buy old lines directly from certain stores like UO and Free People etc. Anyway apparently they'd gotten a batch of vinyl from UO for whatever reason that they were selling for $4 an LP. Ended up getting Ride - Nowhere, PJ Harvey - Let England Shake, Bill Callahan - Apocalypse and few others I can't recall at the moment.
So I have actually lucked out with vinyl as an almost direct result of UO and shouldn't complain.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/26/business/media/music-sales-drop-5-as-habits-shift-online.html?_r=0

Wrong thread?

Oh this:. Sales of albums on CD fell 19 percent by revenue to $716 million, while LP sales grew 43 percent to $146 million

those numbers are shocking. LP $ is a full quarter of CD money.

or a fifth rather. Still a huge proportion.

I also have never seen a reasonably-priced record in an Urban Outfitters, though I always get suckered into checking. Amazing to realize people are actually paying those prices for that stuff and that it's not just a loss-leader piece of the decor, intended to suggest to shoppers that they've arrived at a place frequented by the in-crowd, etc.

i got TRUE ROMANCE for $9.99 there earlier this year

but vinyl is pretty astonishingly expensive to me - i mostly buy used/sale stuff with special exceptions

I got Gish and Siamese Dream for $5 each at UO

For awhile, they'd put decent things in the $10 And under bin in the back. I'd go in on an "additional 50% off sale items" day and get some good stuff. But those days are over.

bought a Heavy Metal Kids LP for £6 at my local branch, which is slightly over the odds but a bargain compared to every other used record in there - they price them uniformly at £6 and it's mostly 50p charity shop fodder

also not really interested in spending £20 on most LPs esp ones that can be had on CD for a quarter of that

Sales of albums on CD fell 19 percent by revenue to $716 million, while LP sales grew 43 percent to $146 million

Which stull means a combined drop of about 21m right?

yeah but but vinyl has a better chance of survival having already survived an extinction level event and rebounded

http://www.dustygroove.com/images/products/b/bustarhymes_extinctio_102b.jpg