Buying Vinyl?

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Hello fellows.

The web-store for Academy Records NYC is now up & working. The catalog is limited to about 300 items right now, but we're adding things every day. You can check it out & browse by genre (also searchable!) at www.academyannex.com

The catalog is all vinyl. Sorry for the self-promotion, but I've spent the last few weeks getting this shit together and am pretty psyched that it's operational.

xoxo
IJ

King Tubby : African Love Dub
Clocktower reissue

Price: $110.00

Wau! I will sell my copy for $100

hey ian nice job on that!

cool ian i will check that out.

btw. i have had a falling out with a certain local record store.

i will be pretty covered on most stuff, jazz, classic rock, folk, more mainstream indie stuff...however, is there any good place online to order new LPs...um...like say something like Blank Dogs or bands in that general realm?

any advice would be appreciated. thanks

M@tt, this is bad news because now that my record player is back up and running, i was going to ask you where you were buying stuff.

oops lol that's a typo. (re: king tubby)

matt we carry lots of blank dogs & related marchandise, though none of it is on the website yet. e-mail yer wants to academymailor✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧ and me or arturo will take care of you.

errr. academy mail order at gmail dot come no spaces.

when I click on store, I get directions.

is it a wordpress blog? there's a great plugin you could use for audio samples that I use on the Acute site.

M@tt, this is bad news because now that my record player is back up and running, i was going to ask you where you were buying stuff.

― Burt_ in the disco! Hongro blessed DJ! (jjjusten), Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:05 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i totally endorse roadrunner, eclipse, hymies, even electric fetus and cheap have a lot of stuff.

i am pretty much done w/tr33h0use so there's just a small niche of more obscure indie/punk stuff that sort of isn't covered by those places...

but most of the stuff you need you can get at the places i mentioned.

and honestly i shouldn't discourage you from shopping at a local business even though i just happen to personally hate the owner, tr33house is a good store.

yeah it's a wordpress blog.

click on genres to get to the store--i dunno what's fucked up with the image map.

thank u guyss for helping me fix errors.

actually, clicking on "Store" on firefox here seems to take me to the store's display of recently added items...

the two things up on your site look real intriguing ian : )

;_;

like, i know the "local labels" page currently sends you to the directions, but do you all really have trouble accessing the store? cuz if it's just me that it is working for then i will be needingk to fixing it.

also dan if you ever want to come show me how to use sound sample plug-in i will trade you records or food for your time.

hey ian the Mark Fry - Dreaming with Alice record is labeled Dreaming with Acid

lololol thanks, i'll fix gthat.

;_;

― ian, Wednesday, March 11, 2009 8:38 PM (16 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude i wasn't being a dick! i swear...i meant the abner jay and obfesa (sp?) LPs looked cool!

btw ian the site works fine for me (firefox PC)

yeah looked fine here too, firefox on mac

thanks dudes.

no prob. ian, when I get a moment I can just email you the link. It's really easy, just a plug-in you install to wordpress, then when you're making a blog post, you just type a simple code and it does it all automatically.

check out the samples on this blog post:

http://acuterecords.com/blog/?p=50

it's definitely a popular plug-in because I see it used elsewhere. You can use some basic coding to adjust it's look, for instance I made mine black and red to match the site. The "control-click to download" is just additional code from me, not part of the plug-in, and probably not something you'd need.

But to be able to have a record and a simple way to play an mp3 sample, this is the best.

http://www.1pixelout.net/code/audio-player-wordpress-plugin/

awesome. thanks dan.

http://wayneandwax.com/?p=4229

Buying vinyl in Morocco (and links to ethical issues re which vinyl gets reissued)

does listening to music on the net count as vinyl

Hilarious

no you

ethically-licensed high quality vinyl reissues of obscure Amazonian cumbia.

tracks on that blog are sweet

http://www.youtube.com/watch?t=34&v=GuCdsyCWmt8

I am imagining that narrator is Jared from Silicon Valley

About 41 million vinyl albums were sold in 2022, compared with about 33 million CDs, RIAA said in its year-end report released Thursday.

The figures contributed to another banner year for the music industry. Sales of recorded music rose 6% to a record $15.9 billion last year...

Revenue from vinyl records rose 17% to over $1.2 billion last year, the 16th straight year of growth for the format and nearly double what it was two years ago. Vinyl albums accounted for 71% of physical format revenue

Wild development

yeah but

https://public.tableau.com/static/images/U_/U_S_RecordedMusicSalesVolumesbyFormat_0/SalesVolumebyFormat/1_rss.png

I read that vinyl sales were actually down if you correct for sales of mdnights

I'd believe that

So if I'm interpreting this correctly, the # of units went down but the revenue went up, so (and sorry if I'm being obvious) the conclusion is that vinyl prices went up significantly...? I'd believe that. I rarely see new vinyl under $20 nowadays. Mostly $23 to $33 (which seems crazy to me) for a single disc.

yes it actually averages out to $30 per LP, I read elsewhere, which is just staggering to me

CDs in the nineties were regularly 15-18, which adjusted for inflation is in the $35+ zone. Do it’s not crazy but the issue is that nobody’s income has kept up with inflation. This post inspired by the bodega charging $10 for a 12 pack of lacroix.

I think Universal (?) raised their vinyl pricing across the board, so naturally everyone else followed suit. 2LP releases routinely hang around the $40 mark now, if we're talking major label stuff (indies seem to have agreed on $30 as the mark to hit there).

I'm sure the costs actually have risen in some areas of the manufacturing process, but A LOT of that is bloat.

Wow, dang. Yeah, good point about inflation. I feel like it's even hard to find used vinyl under $15 except for: classical (which has always been generally inexpensive), jazz (except for Miles, Coltrane, etc.), and avant-garde that's off people's radar (e.g. not NWW list stuff). The best luck I've had lately is finding some great but lesser known $5-$8 jazz records (someone got rid of their Altschul collection! Score!).

I don’t think I ever paid $18 for a (non-import) CD though, even if that was the theoretical upper-limit retail price.

FWIW, I was talking to a friend's parents about CD's, and he said he used to get them for about $3 or $4 per title by buying them in bulk through CD music clubs. I think this had to be the '90s?

I remember this. If you did the absolute minimum for the BMG club (buy one CD at normal price), and maximize all the "free" CDs you get (you had to pay for shipping), yes, the average cost per CD was around $4. Sign up, do the minimum, cancel, repeat. They had some amazing deals on boxed sets, like the Miles Davis ones. They were counting on lots of people not bothering to cancel their subscriptions in a timely manner or not accepting their monthly selection (which you could refuse and return to sender, for free, but many people probably didn't know that), which apparently worked out for them.

That's such a half-assed business model - we're banking on subscribers forgetting or being too lazy - but I feel like that's the business model for a lot of things (i.e. it does actually play out that way). Look at TV ratings - they always talk about "lead-in" as if viewers were too lazy to turn off the TV or to even change the channel.

How much were those Columbia Records “The Nice Price” CDs? Like 8 bucks?

I did the BMG and/or Columbia House thing a couple of times — this was 1994-95. After I got my 8 CDs for a penny (or 12 for the price of one), I sent back the postcard saying, “Please send all future deliveries to [address in Europe].” They’d write back saying, “Sorry, we don’t ship there, but enjoy your CDs!” I got the Ray Charles 3CD Atlantic set, the Count Basie Decca set, and many other things I don’t recall offhand but still have.

As for its business model, record clubs were a notorious way for major labels to hide or otherwise just flat-out lie to artists about sales. There’s a reason the barcodes on LPs, cassettes, and CDs sold by record clubs were replaced by “mfd for BMG direct marketing in ____” or whatever.