OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

people not buying records

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

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

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

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

what is your wife's birthday???!

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?

all is forgiven

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

wld read

Judy blume is on the second raincoats record right?

my pal mike!

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

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

aw! cuetest!

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.

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

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

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

via fmu twitter
presumably re: the above

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

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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

http://a2.ec-images.myspacecdn.com/images02/142/350cc97f75d84b28a0dac936092771a1/l.jpg

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

waxidermy is sending scouts LOLOL

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

bird dog is now worth money on vinyl?!

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

ching ching

I got a sealed Juvenilia for like eight bucks?

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

http://www.npr.org/blogs/allsongs/2012/01/15/145119799/need-help-finding-a-local-record-store

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.

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.

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.

"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."

"bargain"

"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????

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

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

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

yeah, that stuff is trash. throw it away.

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!

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

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

that's a bunch.

http://waxidermy.com/bbs/images/smilies/10K.gif

50,000 records!!!

the guy used to work for CBS, i guess?