OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

did we miss this one?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578611910431238662.html

the dude who took pictures of the warehouse has more pictures on his website and you can get a look at some covers. papillon soundtracks. diana ross and wallace collection 45s. etc.

http://www.lesmainsnoires.blogspot.com.br/

(i don't think that's behind their paywall, works for me anyway) (my WSJ reading father actually cut it out of the paper and mailed it to me, very quaint)

"While annual sales of rare U.S. records are relatively small—about $10 million"

i like that this is an actual quote in the wsj. maybe people won't horn in on my action if they think that's the extent of things.

i mean i have no idea how much money "rare" record sales adds up to, but i know its more than that.

i actually like some of the stuff that dude in the story put out on Big Beat. some good freestyle/house singles. some crap too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkEof9VtHk

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/diary/low-fidelity-the-reality-of-the-record-business-circa-2013/

i know someone who by himself spent 50k on vinyl in a single year

oh yeah totally. that's a drop in the bucket for someone with a stereo system worth $500,000.

its really easy to do. i just know that i actually make a living selling old records and provide for, like, my children and i am just one dude. out of many dudes.

I wonder what NJ record stores Neill works at.

you'd imagine that the people who can afford to spend that much money on records are the people with the least amount of idle time on their hands to listen to them

Hey, he mentioned "any_book" amazon seller! I've always been mystified by that seller myself; what is the scam behind it exactly...

how much did Dante end up with from that one free jazz auction? 20 grand? more?

how much does craig moerer make in a year? a bunch. that euclid dude brought 20,000 records from st.louis to the wilco festival in western mass this summer for a 2 day pop-up store! dude has cash.

What a risk. I'd be worried about making the money back, unless I didn't have to.

what is the freight cost of moving 20k lps halfway across the country?

what kind of people go to wilcofest anyhow? are they record buyers?? figured they'd be the ipod type

I'm sure you've got some dadrockers with a turntable and disposable income going to wilcofest

maybe not enough to buy 20,000 records though

more crackle talk...

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/09/the-broken-record-vinyl-matter-memory-and-meaning/

SO BAD.

wait, this is from last year. maybe i already got mad at this guy on here. i'm not gonna check...

The broken record: vinyl, matter, memory and meaning

...and then, sometimes, I'm glad I didn't go to college.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N5XW5GW8Vo&feature=youtu.be

my mom just sent me one of these articles from the tulsa world. it was written by this guy
http://www.tulsaworld.com//articleimages/2013/stancavage-john.jpg
he starts out by defending the monkees

"stanky"

Jean Taylor - Tulsa posted 4 days ago
I've been collecting classical vinyl records the last three years. Have now a huge collection, and still no turntable! LOL I'm holding out for one where I can put a stack of records on, so the music will play a long, long time. All the new turntables I've seen for sale in the stores today only play one record at a time. That's no good! LOL 
I've had good luck finding vinyls at estate sales. They usually cost about $2 a piece, but sometimes I get lucky, and find some left when the prices are dropped 75%! But the vinyls themselves are priceless. The sound quality, to me, is superior to any digital recording I have ever heard. I say that, but maybe I haven't had the best digital players.... :) 

http://i39.tinypic.com/ifd5li.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151766780324214&set=a.78155749213.74698.70867474213&type=1

Things just got real: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/08/whole_foods_record_store.php

yeah, noted in the post right before your post.

Duh. Whoops...

to be fair you would have no idea if you didn't click that facebook link. it makes sense though. cheese, quinoa, yogurt, black keys record. its stylish, man.

ilxor quotes ilxor in tape comeback shocker!

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/06/opinion/coleman-cassette-day/?hpt=hp_bn7

:D

I didn't know where else to put this so I put it here

http://www.cnn.com/2013/09/27/tech/innovation/death-stereo-system/index.html?c=tech

(CNN) - For many years, it was a rite of fall.

You moved into your dorm room or new apartment. You started unpacking the car. And the first thing you set up in your new place was the stereo system: receiver, turntable or CD player, tape deck and speakers.

The wires could get tangled, and sometimes you had to make shelving out of a stack of milk crates. But only when the music was playing on those handpicked CDs, mix tapes or (geezer alert!) vinyl records did you move in the rest of your stuff.

geezer alert!
lolol

http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2014/01/06/vinyl_lp_sales_hit_22_year_record_in_2013_digital_music_sales_down_chart.html

better than the usual article, some interesting stats in there

http://oakpark.suntimes.com/news/rsd-FPH-04192014:article

A line of people stood waiting at the register of Val’s halla Records in Oak Park the morning of April 19, most with records in their hands.

That’s right, records; those black, round objects about the size of a dinner plate. First supplanted by the 8-tracks, cassette tapes, then smaller compact disks and later by the invisible digital downloads.

and soon by ponos.

Val's halla Records in Oak Park

in Oak Park

Oak Park

https://pulseradio.net/articles/2014/05/north-america-s-biggest-vinyl-manufacturer-plans-expansion

that's pretty interesting - I wonder if those are really "new" presses, or just refurbished ones cobbled together from old ones?

http://westerndigs.org/vinyl-records-excavated-at-famous-60s-commune-challenge-hippie-stereotype-study-says/

lol of course the only contemporary records were Super Session and a Vanilla Fudge LP

better than usual article:

http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9467-wax-and-wane-the-tough-realities-behind-vinyls-comeback/