Vinyl records make a return

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like, does o-zone the don know he's magically on youtube? and does he get anything out of it? i doubt he ever will.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=urYjh4MMDRw

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:15 (seven years ago) link

anyway, this is a fairly recent thing. it didn't used to work that way.

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:16 (seven years ago) link

they must mention it on sites like cdbaby if you use their services: "if you put your stuff here and someone types your name on youtube it will appear there. just so you know."

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:18 (seven years ago) link

if they provide the videos and the correct iswc / isrc / whatever then they will be paid for plays of those videos.

koogs, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:20 (seven years ago) link

just seems weird. they probably need more views than they will ever get to make any money and the 20 people interested in their music will listen to it on youtube and never buy their cdbaby cd.

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 16:26 (seven years ago) link

they must mention it on sites like cdbaby if you use their services: "if you put your stuff here and someone types your name on youtube it will appear there. just so you know."

― scott seward, Friday, May 20, 2016 12:18 PM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Not in so many words, but apparently enough to cover themselves legally. I used CDBaby for a couple of things years ago, before youtube existed, and whaddyaknow, there's my shit on youtube!

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link

went into my least favorite record store yesterday. things have actually gotten worse. two of my favorite pricings were a used copy of Trans for $35 (justified by a sticker saying it is a 1st edition with a typo) and a used copy of Katy Lied for $25. I hope every track is misspelled on that one!

bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:23 (seven years ago) link

another $100 record had a sticker that said "listed at $150 on amazon!"

bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:24 (seven years ago) link

"and a used copy of Katy Lied for $25. I hope every track is misspelled on that one!"

there is actually a copy of Gaucho inside it. very rare.

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link

basically stuff that isn't on youtube will magically be on youtube if you search for it on youtube sometimes

http://www.statista.com/statistics/259477/hours-of-video-uploaded-to-youtube-every-minute/

it seems like youtube has upwards of 500 hours of video uploaded to it every minute. chance are if you are searching for something it is going to turn up eventually, if only temporarily.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:27 (seven years ago) link

you think 15 bucks is too much for a really clean copy of the first nitzer ebb album? u.s. copy on geffen. 1987 pressing. i could be nice and just put 10 on it...

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:28 (seven years ago) link

there isn't a single person in the u.s. selling a copy of the nitzer ebb album on discogs. kinda hard to believe. okay, 15 bucks in the store and 20 on discogs. win/win!

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:29 (seven years ago) link

went into my least favorite record store yesterday. things have actually gotten worse. two of my favorite pricings were a used copy of Trans for $35 (justified by a sticker saying it is a 1st edition with a typo) and a used copy of Katy Lied for $25. I hope every track is misspelled on that one!

― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, May 20, 2016 1:23 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

another $100 record had a sticker that said "listed at $150 on amazon!"

― bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, May 20, 2016 1:24 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I don't why these situations / types of stores are so common around the country, but it's fascinating to see so many of them alive at this point. You'd think they'd be the first to die.

Evan, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:32 (seven years ago) link

Eh, Scott I'd have done $10 for it.

Evan, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:36 (seven years ago) link

i never see their records on vinyl anymore actually...

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:37 (seven years ago) link

it's like front 242. used to see their records everywhere not that long ago. or maybe it was long ago...

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:38 (seven years ago) link

i'm actually charging extra five bucks for the near mint vinyl + original inner sleeve. if it had been VG+ i would have done 10.

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link

it's like front 242. used to see their records everywhere not that long ago. or maybe it was long ago...

― scott seward, Friday, May 20, 2016 1:38 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've never seen anyone buying them, though I'm sure someone does.

Evan, Friday, 20 May 2016 17:44 (seven years ago) link

Front 242 rule.

xp 15 is fair IMO

the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:45 (seven years ago) link

scott should start a thread where we can price a small selection of his bargain bin. maybe he could slap a "priced by strangers!" sticker on each.

bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:51 (seven years ago) link

though I would love to see people look at a $100 copy of Tango in the Night with the sticker "Alfred told me to!", it is probably not the best way to run a business

bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 May 2016 17:59 (seven years ago) link

front 242 wax trax reissues used to be everywhere for cheap. i can sell the hell out of geography.

scott seward, Friday, 20 May 2016 18:01 (seven years ago) link

xp LOL

the 'major tom guy' (sleeve), Friday, 20 May 2016 18:13 (seven years ago) link

I bought Tango on vinyl BITD, disk is so thin you could pick your teeth with it

it's getting ott in here / so take off all your clothes (stevie), Friday, 20 May 2016 19:26 (seven years ago) link

My Tango has a bad place on track two on both sides (probably the same bad place).

Now I Know How Joan of Arcadia Felt (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 20 May 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link

slap a "has two side As!" sticker on it and sell for $650

bonita pooleymoon (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 20 May 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link

On behalf of Chuck Eddy, I'd like to price all your moderately-credible hard rock at $5. ANGEL CITY MOTHERFUCKERS

hardcore dilettante, Saturday, 21 May 2016 05:40 (seven years ago) link

ANGEL CITY MOTHERFUCKERS

words to live by

da vinci beaver testicles (contenderizer), Saturday, 21 May 2016 05:48 (seven years ago) link

my friend mike came in during the noise nomads matinee today and i sold him the nitzer ebb for ten bucks. #friendsandfamilydiscount

scott seward, Sunday, 22 May 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link

I paid $1 for the first one and $2.99 for the second, but I definitely got more than $10 worth of entertainment from each over the years so I'd say your friend did ok.

I don't remember much Front 242 vinyl being around in Cleveland in the late '80s/early '90s. I think Back Catalogue was the first import CD I ever bought, or maybe it was the first Throwing Muses album. Seemed very exotic buying a disc without a longbox.

http://scoot.net/gallery/bbs/IMG_4482.JPG

early rejecter, Tuesday, 24 May 2016 13:03 (seven years ago) link

one year passes...

Returning to the crazily-overpriced records point: at the Strand, everything is $25. This is already a price point where I almost certainly will not buy a record, but my favorite was that it even applied each of the two Use Your Illusions. Fifty dollars for the whole thing! Holy shit! You could get used copies of the original LPs for substantially less, and the whole thing on CD for what, a dollar fifty?

Doctor Casino, Sunday, 15 October 2017 13:25 (six years ago) link

It's laughable. I mentioned on the Neil Young thread seeing a reissue of Decade for $80. I'd estimate that $80 got me every Neil Young album from the first through to Re·ac·tor (14 albums) first time around--Rust Never Sleeps or Hawks & Doves at a minimum.

clemenza, Sunday, 15 October 2017 14:27 (six years ago) link

two years pass...

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