OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

"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

a sealed record will be fine if its stored properly. its when they are in less than ideal conditions - moisture, extreme heat or cold, stacked in a box the wrong way for decades - that you have problems.

but, yeah, sealed is sealed. unopened.

its a risky thing to buy a 40+ year old sealed record. you have no idea where its been. could be completely warped. stuff from the 80s and 90's and beyond is usually fine.

ah, yeah was prob the fluxuating temperatures of my California apartments over the years

"Thus, you're still going to shell out $700+ for a first-press mono issue of The Beatle's iconic Revolver on Parlophone (you know, the one with the alternate mix of "Tomorrow Never Knows"?). But the next time you stumble upon a copy of Edgar Broughton Band's amazing yet cultish Wasa Wasa with a slightly stained cover, you'll probably find it offered for a price not seen since 1995."

recent price for a nice 1st press u.k. revolver - $110

recent price for a nice 1st press u.k. wasa wasa - $108

amazing yet cultish

that article is p corny but the guy who wrote it has put out a lotta good compilations over the years so I give him a pass

does kind of encapsulate a certain style of writing that made me stop buying Wax Poetics though

just saw 1st press mcdonald and giles go for 300 bucks

GTFO are you serious?

but still, 300 versus, what, 10 bucks for a u.s. copy?

think I paid 15 but ... yeah

Record store closing: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10784767

Record store opening: http://www.factmag.com/2012/02/06/how-to-open-an-independent-record-store/

CBS News video with interviews with Neil Young, the Civil Wars, others:

''For more than a half century, it's how we listened to music. Now it's back!''

forgot to post this here. talked about it on the ile craftsmanship thread. or wait the nyt quiddity thread...one of them.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/19/technology/personaltech/how-to-enjoy-turntables-without-obsessing-over-them.html?_r=3&ref=music

He’s a new devotee of jazz and David Bowie, thanks to LPs. (For the youngsters, that stands for long playing, as in long-playing record; there were also small records called 45s).

The irony being that one of the ultimate markers of the lol old is that they don't understand that pretty much all the youngsters know basic vinyl terminology, if for no other reason than from song lyrics.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/technology/personaltech/the-secrets-of-a-high-quality-vinyl-record.html

“The swirly colored stuff is also not going to sound good, but the transparent color vinyl can,” he said. “They released Nirvana on 180-gram blue and it’s unbelievable.”

sigh

that mr. fremer guy's not always completely insufferable. as audiophiles go. at least he's into it.

...Mr. Fremer recommends Recordsbymail.com...

http://www.salon.com/2012/06/13/down_with_fascist_ipods/singleton/

Different tone to this but the comments are the usual ones.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v212/etienne_saint/ScreenShot2012-08-14at124237PM.png

Mom, Dad!!!

Weird Uncle Davey!!!

That looks almost exactly like the GE portable record player I had in my late childhood, and was handed down to me when my dad got a hi-fi. I had an earlier phonograph, an ancient one, but this one was STEREO! Only thing missing is the stack of pennies my dad taped to the back of the tonearm over the pivot point so there'd be less tracking force on the needle so the records would last longer.

Then click "like"!

back in the groove

Renton, who is 49, says the issue of sound quality is almost incidental. “I don’t even have a record player. But I am buying more and more vinyl. Go figure.”

they just try to drive me insane with the crackle part. fuck a crackle.

i also don't understand the "slow-moving virtues of vinyl". can you listen to songs faster on the internet? are there sped-up versions on the web? i understand people can have 5 million songs on their ipods, but they still have to take the time to listen to them.

sux to take 20 seconds to get off the couch and flip a record tho, u know it

if you have a big box of 45s and you are sitting in a chair by the turntable you can listen to a ton of music in a short amount of time. nothing slow about it!

my friend bruno told me a funny story about a period where he was only listening to his 45s cuz all of his LPs were still in the UK, and after that for a while whenever he would put an LP on he would reflexively stand up after each song.

xD

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443696604577647870908169992.html

vinyl's back...again!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2013/01/22/vinyl-appreciation-at-a-new-high/1821601/

interesting nugget in there....the new jack white album sold 34,000 copies on vinyl! o_O

St Louis got in on this hot new trend earlier this month

http://www.stltoday.com/business/local/a-new-generation-discovers-vinyl/article_e04fdbc1-a9e9-5b7c-a3ac-733eb394763e.html

Sam Wolter, a freshman in college, returned home to Kirkwood for the holidays, determined to go back to school for his second semester with something he had left behind.

A record player.

“I missed it too much,” Wolter said, while sifting through albums at Vintage Vinyl in University City on a recent Sunday. “All my friends are bringing theirs, too.”

A record player? That plays vinyl records? A college student?

My god, that last one has so many misconceptions I don’t even know where to begin.

"vinyl is coming back -- even becoming popular with people who weren't alive when records were being made."

So people who died before 1890 are even on board! Very interesting.

the funny thing is, I saw that article because one of St Louis' better record stores posted it on Facebook with no irony

Which one?

Vintage Vinyl

(now I'll probably get zinged for calling them one of STL's better record stores, I haven't been there in years)

I guess they posted it cause they were quoted

Man, I have such good memories of being a dorky little teenager and going into Vintage Vinyl. I think they're still pretty alright, haven't gone in a while.

yeah I liked it too. nowadays if I'm ever in Missouri I usually only have time to hit one store and it's usually Euclid. or Record Exchange.

Subject: Vinyl Records
Date: Jan 24, 2013 3:29 PM
We saved article from yesterdays USA TODAY regarding Vinyl record sales- Vinyl up over last five years 5000%- CDs down 13%.FYI DAD

is that really true? I would love to see a Billboard weekly chart of vinyl sales.

LP/Vinyl Albums Sales(LP/Vinyl Records)

Title / Artist

Units Sold

1.

BLUNDERBUSSJACK WHITE

18,000

2.

EL CAMINOBLACK KEYS

17,600

3.

ABBEY ROADBEATLES

15,700

4.

BLOOM
BEACH HOUSE

14,100

5.

21ADELE

10,300

6.

PORT OF MORROWSHINS

9,600

7.

SIGH NO MOREMUMFORD & SONS

9,600

8.

BOYS & GIRLSALABAMA SHAKES

9,400

9.

FOR EMMA FOREVER AGOBON IVER

9,200

10.

BON IVERBON IVER

8,900

http://www.scoopmarketing.com/2012/07/the-nielsen-company-billboard-2012-mid-year-u-s-music-industry-report/

my dad doesn't actually know what he's talking about. but vinyl sales rise a little bit every year. a whopping two percent of sales last year.