OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

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?

we'll see.

nice.

someone brought in a great stack of things yesterday! clean columbia late sixties promos.. joe byrd & the field hippes, jacob's creek, sagittarius, man, illinois speed press, a buncah weird things. i am getting into the solo record by BLAND SIMPSON, later of the Red Clay Ramblers. has that rural rock sound i go wild for.

got a nice clean copy of "my gryphon is gone"

wowee, those are nice things. i love that one illinois speed press album. forget which one. don't know jacob's creek. mmm, i love minty 60's columbia vinyl.

also, psych-wise, i see stuff i sold 5 or 10 years ago for 100+ going for 300 and 400 and i'm all like HUH!!?? druids of stonehenge going for 3oo or more? get out of town.

then there is the sealed phenomena. if we all only knew to buy pearl jam records in bulk in the 90's and never open them. they were in chain store bargain bins by the score.

and the u.k./u.s. collector price gap has never been greater. in my experience. just saw 1st press mcdonald and giles go for 300 bucks. granted, pink island pressings have gone thru the roof in recent times - jethro tull 1st pressings going for $$$$$$$$! - but still, 300 versus, what, 10 bucks for a u.s. copy? you never would have seen that 10 or 15 years ago.

i curse those pearl jam records, i remember seeing like 15 copies of binaural sitting there for 8 bucks a pop and thinking 'haha no one buys pearl jam vinyl anymore, do they?' well they sure do now, for $150+.

even that eddie vedder soundtrack to 'into the wild' from a couple years back was going for $200-300 on ebay (it's been reissued.) i guess the lesson is "buy pearl jam vinyl!"

"and never open it!"

not opening them is always a good idea. i did actually buy some dollar bin pearl jam in the 90's and sold them later unplayed for a tidy profit. that one with the crazy art postcards was everywhere unsold. it was actually a really cool package. don't know what it sounded like though.

all those neil young dead man soundtracks that nobody wanted i saw in philly stores back then...

my number one example is always paul's boutique. strawberries store in philly had dozens of them for a dollar apiece! i bought one...

Kate Bush's Aerial now sells for 150!! Waterloo had copies for 20.00 and I kept thinking I'll get eventually.

by not opening, are you talking about leaving the shrinkwrap on as well, because in my experience it eventually shrinks and warps the cover