OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

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people not buying records

http://www.buzzfeed.com/mjs538/40-sad-portraits-of-closed-record-stores

jaxon, Friday, 29 April 2011 18:25 (thirteen years ago) link

i've spent plenty of time in at least 4 or 5 of those stores

jaxon, Friday, 29 April 2011 18:31 (thirteen years ago) link

i posted that on here two weeks ago but i still love you.

scott seward, Friday, 29 April 2011 18:59 (thirteen years ago) link

ha. that's cool. i posted the same link about the ipad app that makes your mp3s sound like vinyl that sonofstan posted a day before him. no biggie. i've only got enough room in my brain to remember records and nothing else

jaxon, Saturday, 30 April 2011 00:35 (thirteen years ago) link

what is your wife's birthday???!

one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 30 April 2011 01:20 (thirteen years ago) link

i posted the same link about the ipad app that makes your mp3s sound like vinyl that sonofstan posted a day before him. no biggie.

So you did. oops. Can I plead the same excuse?

I'm Street but I Know my Roots (sonofstan), Saturday, 30 April 2011 09:06 (thirteen years ago) link

all is forgiven

jaxon, Saturday, 30 April 2011 16:16 (thirteen years ago) link

http://i775.photobucket.com/albums/yy38/harveycanal/JudyBlume.jpg

scott seward, Saturday, 30 April 2011 18:32 (thirteen years ago) link

wld read

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Tuesday, 3 May 2011 00:01 (thirteen years ago) link

Judy blume is on the second raincoats record right?

69, Tuesday, 3 May 2011 15:59 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

my pal mike!

http://mvgazette.com/article.php?30490

http://mvgazette.com/zoom.php?10624

scott seward, Friday, 17 June 2011 15:13 (thirteen years ago) link

aw! cuetest!

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:46 (thirteen years ago) link

i spent so much time in that store. i had nowhere else to go on that island! good thing me and him hit it off so well. other than beth parker and her lovely husband and some of maria's family upisland, mike is one of the only people i miss on that rock.

scott seward, Friday, 17 June 2011 20:55 (thirteen years ago) link

he just seems to have that good-guy vibe to him!
and that sign is rulin

obliquity of the ecliptic (rrrobyn), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:57 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

http://whoknew.news.yahoo.com/?nc&vid=26245521

bamcquern, Friday, 12 August 2011 01:07 (thirteen years ago) link

http://blogfiles.wfmu.org/KF/2011/08/10/vinylprojection-525x373.jpg

via fmu twitter
presumably re: the above

sexual union prayerbook slam (schlump), Sunday, 21 August 2011 22:53 (thirteen years ago) link

that yahoo link is possibly the most shrill and grating way to receive facts about something, holy shit

Lil Boosie's on the Up (Whiney G. Weingarten), Monday, 22 August 2011 00:45 (thirteen years ago) link

i really hate the thing where the text zooming in is accompanied by a zooming in sound; the only thing worse is when the text does that flapping back and forth thing.

sarahel, Monday, 22 August 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link

one month passes...

gotta put this here too, jesus this one really does have all the cliches possible

http://blogs.sfweekly.com/shookdown/2011/10/bjorks_biophilia_pushes_bounda.php

sarahel put this on another thread

sleeve, Monday, 10 October 2011 21:51 (thirteen years ago) link

I am acutely aware that everything I have just said is horrifying and aggravating to a great many people.

Art Arfons (La Lechera), Monday, 10 October 2011 22:19 (thirteen years ago) link

http://mvgazette.com/zoom.php?10624

Scott, i remember your MV store posts.. i always thought it was a crusty old timey collector store you frequented. i've only been to the island once in 1993 (a few years before he open his spot) but i distinctly remember as a teenager perusing a store with a wall of records in the ground floor and basement. edgartown too. is it still around or did this guy buy it and rebrand it? it was pretty close to the gingerbread illuminations houses.

sanskrit, Thursday, 13 October 2011 03:05 (thirteen years ago) link

there were some other stores that have since closed. one guy had lots of records. forget the name of it. i barely even remember going there years ago. but i think that was in vineyard haven. there were two cd stores - in oak buffs and vineyard haven - that closed when i was living there and i never went to them because they were so terrible. between mike's store and the two thrift stores and the dump store and estate sales, i did okay.

scott seward, Thursday, 13 October 2011 16:03 (thirteen years ago) link

Soundscan May Only Be Counting 15% of Vinyl Sales...

Bill E, Tuesday, 25 October 2011 01:00 (thirteen years ago) link

two weeks pass...
one month passes...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6tmydCn_59g&feature=player_embedded

scott seward, Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:22 (twelve years ago) link

waxidermy is sending scouts LOLOL

69, Saturday, 7 January 2012 02:48 (twelve years ago) link

OMG people not only buy records, some of them are worth money!!$$$!!

http://www.odt.co.nz/news/dunedin/194247/dunedin-sound-vinyl-still-groove

Bill E, Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:19 (twelve years ago) link

bird dog is now worth money on vinyl?!

back in gloom (electricsound), Thursday, 12 January 2012 22:26 (twelve years ago) link

Oh yes! Pretty much all that Verlaines 'early' stuff goes for some quite crazy money

Bill E, Friday, 13 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

ching ching

back in gloom (electricsound), Friday, 13 January 2012 03:07 (twelve years ago) link

I got a sealed Juvenilia for like eight bucks?

Trip Maker, Friday, 13 January 2012 22:48 (twelve years ago) link

good score! The 30 year anniversary celebrations have really ramped up the interest in Flying Nun vinyl down here

Bill E, Sunday, 15 January 2012 19:44 (twelve years ago) link

http://newsok.com/article/3641185

Vinyl records, declared dead a quarter century ago, are making a comeback.

In an age when it's assumed compact discs will join the list of dead media, one-time vinyl record owners like J.D. M3rryweather are rebuilding collections. And the surge in interest is prompting music enthusiasts to recast themselves as record producers.

Snop Snitchin, Thursday, 19 January 2012 19:46 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.npr.org/2012/01/26/145918912/its-a-buyers-market-crate-digging-on-100-a-day?sc=fb&cc=fmp

tbh, i find this 'record collector as archaeologist' thing a bit tiring.
also, 5 records for $100 is not a bargain.

one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 00:43 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, well, if you live in nyc i guess that is a bargain! what do i know.

sheesh, that was dumb. give me a hundred bucks around here and i will find you a nice haul of goodies.

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:02 (twelve years ago) link

"No, I'd be forced to revisit those mid-'90s days when, as a broke college student, I'd spend the two hours between leaving my summer internship and catching the 9:07 train to New Haven trying to find a $20 bargain."

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link

"bargain"

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:06 (twelve years ago) link

"The recession has wreaked havoc on serious record collectors and the dealers who service them, from those who invested a precious fortune in major-label, early-'90s rap 12"s to those who thought there would always be a market for European sound library albums."

this isn't really true and where was i when people were paying a precious fortune for major label early 90's rap????

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:09 (twelve years ago) link

maybe he means the days when people were paying a precious fortune for out of print rap CDs.

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:11 (twelve years ago) link

i guess we just aren't "serious record collectors" like this guy is what do we know

one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link

also kinda lolling at his boxes of deep soul & funk 45s that he can't make his money back on--yo son, you overpaid!

one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:12 (twelve years ago) link

yeah, that stuff is trash. throw it away.

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:24 (twelve years ago) link

i'm guessing he paid too much in general in the early 2000s or something.

i actually think its a good time to buy AND sell these days. physical storefronts are bumming, a lot of them anyway, but people are still buying a lot of records. hence, this thread.

and you know what kinds of records you can still make good money on? ALL KINDS OF RECORDS. 90's indie, punk and hardcore, psych, folk, classical, almost everything! doo wop and 50's and 60's teenpop continue their downward spiral.

promising development of the next 20 years? tons of dead baby boomers!

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:28 (twelve years ago) link

early 90's "random" rap - made famous by his "host" johan - prices up, up, and UP.

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:29 (twelve years ago) link

going to look at supposedly 50,000 records tomorrow..

one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:35 (twelve years ago) link

that's a bunch.

scott seward, Saturday, 28 January 2012 01:37 (twelve years ago) link

50,000 records!!!

JacobSanders, Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:03 (twelve years ago) link

the guy used to work for CBS, i guess?

one dis leads to another (ian), Saturday, 28 January 2012 02:05 (twelve years ago) link


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