what were some other early '90s LPs that sell for megacash now? I quickly thought of Nevermind, but unlike Paul's Boutique it was a huge seller from almost the start so it didn't build up in bargain bins.
― Lee626, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
there was that time period where the market was split between cd/cassette/vinyl with vinyl quickly diminishing and vinyl got the shortest numbers
― alvin noto (mh), Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:13 (six years ago) link
Robbie Fulks' recent blog is a really good analog vs. digital piece that's balanced (and written by someone with real experience with both)
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:20 (six years ago) link
http://www.robbiefulks.com/blog/
"what were some other early '90s LPs that sell for megacash now?"
so many. thousands. it's a scarcity thing. i dug out a copy of the first widespread panic album from a box in the store basement last week and its an easy 100 to 200.
but really any band with any kind of following now that put out vinyl in the 80s and 90s probably has some $$$ vinyl out there. nobody bought it. or, you know, a thousand people bought it. and everyone else bought the CD.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:44 (six years ago) link
you would also have the situation where the vinyl would only come out in one place for whatever reason. i had a dream theater album that ONLY came out in germany in 1994. stuff like that. $$$.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
i remember that grand royal sale. but by the time i was even browsing it it was down to pizzicato 5 singles, and ummm.... a sean lennon album maybe? the bran van 3000 lp that didn't have "drinkin' in LA" ? you had to be real on the ball.
― explosion from DOOM courtesy of id software (Doctor Casino), Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
that most reviled of used CDs, REM's Monster, sells for a little chunk of dough iirc. Lots of stuff from that time.
― ian, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
this is an interview along the same lines as ums's link, although more geared toward mastering for vinyl:http://www.roberthenke.com/interviews/mastering.html
for a lot of the european/techno/electronic releases I like, anything mastered at dubplates&mastering is pretty much guaranteed to be excellent
― alvin noto (mh), Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:48 (six years ago) link
SO many dollar CDs that sell for a ton on vinyl. sucks to be a fan of things.
x-post
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:56 (six years ago) link
a lot of the stuff that sells for a ton on CD now is music you would never think of in a million years. some aor rock album from the 70s reissued for five seconds in japan in 1996 and never reissued again. hundreds of dollars. again, some dollar bin record on vinyl.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 14:59 (six years ago) link
Beta Band, Mogwai, Cake, Eels, Pearl Jam, Pumpkins, Yo La Tengo, National, Nick Cave, Tortoise, GbV... All that stuff that wasn't even that rare at the time was selling like crazy 5-10 years ago. It went down a bit but it always surprised me pretty regular stuff like the above went for 40, 50, 60 a pop and higher.
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:01 (six years ago) link
(first IDM wave records too)
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
oh and Mo'Wax/UNKLE etc. That was madness for a while
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
Stuff I've sold on Discogs in the past 18 months for GBP 100 or more, in descending order - 7" unless flagged otherwise:
dib cochran & the earwigs - oh babylarry lurex - I can hear musicroy castle - record breakerblitzkrieg bop - let's goshina williams & his african percussionists - agboju logun (12")the klf - chill out (LP)dolly mixture - demonstration tapes (LP)jonathan jr - hangin' on to you (12")angelo & eighteen - midnight flightsmoke - dreams of dreamsqueen - keep yourself alive (promo)donna gaines (donna summer) - sally go round the rosesmillionaires - never for megeorgie fame - somebody stole my thunder
and from GBP 75-99, all 7":
jungle brothers 40 below troopersandie jones - music of loveya ho wha 13 - the last chant / awakengarland green - ain't that good enough / love now pay latergladys knight & the pips - take me in your arms and love me (promo)nolan porter - if I could only be sure / work it out in the morninglevi jackson - this beautiful daypaul st. john - flying saucers have landedslade - merry xmas everybody (promo sleeve)creations - footsteps / a dreamjoubert singers - stand on the word
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
ah man I assume this must've been the Mortonsound version if it went for that much -
blitzkrieg bop - let's go
but I love that record. Not enough to pay £200+ for it though.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
40 below trooper on 7-inch is dope. i only have the 12-inch.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
I got a Duster (90s band) album for cheap off Amazon or something in 2010... now it goes for $250. Found a Duster 7" in a bin at Gimme Gimme in NYC (now closed/moved) for $8 now goes for $60. Sometimes forgotten bands just explode with a sudden cult following.
― Evan, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the Blitzkrieg Bop is indeed on Mortonsound, and the Jungle Brothers is the rare German 7".
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
Britpop/ Britrock stuff does well too: £80 if you have a vinyl copy of the Verve's first album, £35 for Pulp 12" singles etc.
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Off the top of my head, '90s LPs that we sold secondhand for big money (i.e £50-£100 and upwards) over recent years at the record shop I worked at included...
Take That - Take That & PartySpice Girls - can't remember which, but Spiceworld seems to be the bigger collectible on vinylAlanis Morissette - Jagged Little PillRadiohead - OK Computer
Proving that even multi-million selling status does not preclude LP scarcity from that era. I also recall a copy of Reef's Replenish on LP selling for very good money very quickly, which surprised me as I didn't think their status warranted such value.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
someone explain this service to me. i'm dumb:
https://www.diggersfactory.com/
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
I recall it being very hard to find vinyl in the last year or two before being completely wound down (don't remember exactly which year it was). By then the labels wouldn't accept returns of vinyl, so most stores didn't want to stock it. The labels still pressed a very small batch of 45s and LPs to coincide with a record's hoped-for chart run, and that was it. Most record stores in my area had already dropped vinyl completely by then; I had to go to indie shops to find it, and their stocks were limited. I think Tower still had a small vinyl section too, but their stores were a half hour drive away from home. I did buy quite a few now-valuable records during the waning days of the (first?) vinyl era, including the last two krakow mentioned.
― Lee626, Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
xp kickstarter to press a record
― brendon urine (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 April 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
i remember multiple copies of that Dead Man soundtrack too. oof...
oof indeed. this was my holy grail record til i bought a bootleg now i'm cool
― brendon urine (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 April 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
Quality control on some domestic 90s Major Label vinyl was pretty iffy. I think I've told this story on here before (maybe even upthread?), but I remember my sister picking Stevie Ray Vaughan's The Sky Is Crying on vinyl (IIRC, it was his last LP to be released on vinyl stateside) on release day in '91. Back home on the turntable the record skipped numerous times, even after changing needles. She took it back the next day to exchange for another copy, but the clerk went through a few others off the rack on their system and they were all fucked the same way.
Fast Forward about 20 years: I'm in another record store with my sister, and we see them attempting to sell a couple sealed The Sky Is Cryings for $75-100* apeice. We look at each other all like "Somebody's gonna get screwed here."
*Checking discogs now, and the cheapest copy from an American dealer is a $60 used VG+ edition.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 April 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
poor seller doesnt realize he's actually selling mint dogpile
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 April 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
I've got a bunch of vinyl from that early-to-mid 90s period (Kyuss, various hip-hop rand records, death metal) and the quality is certainly patchy. My copy of Sky Valley sounds heartbreakingly thin and weedy.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
No idea what hip-hop rand records was supposed to be. A South African niche, obvs.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
I have to say my OG copy of Nevermind, purchased week of release, when I was 16, still sounds heavenly.
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Saturday, 14 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
That rules. I have an OG copy that sounds splendid as well.
― brimstead, Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
super jealous of yall. my og cd is no doubt scratched to hell in a landfill somewhere with the liner notes & packaging in another landfill and the plastic case long since shattered into a million fragments.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
my OG CD sounds better than the remaster imo, but it still doesn't have "Endless, Nameless" :(
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 14 April 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
woah, there were CDs without Endless Nameless?
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Saturday, 14 April 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
First 50,000 iirc
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 14 April 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
Yeah, theoretically quite valuable.
My 'In Utero' doesn't have that rubbing alcohol track, but hey its rub.
― Mark G, Sunday, 15 April 2018 10:18 (six years ago) link
It’s prolly not valuable (there’s 50,000 of them) but it’s cool to have,
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
I got the same when I bought it back then, no bonus track. Not valuable though
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
I'm always prattling on about this, but the Mobile Fidelity CD of Nevermind sounds amazing.
― brimstead, Sunday, 15 April 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/trntbl-wireless-turntable-review-2018-3
VNYL is back with a new TRNTBL
― omar little, Saturday, 19 May 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
While it calls itself "wireless," technically this term solely refers to the fact that you don't need to mess with analog cables or outputs in order to connect to a speaker. You do still need to plug a cord into the wall to power your turntable.
https://media1.tenor.com/images/87c2a55f05fe4fa12b4730d7201f0f09/tenor.gif?itemid=4384766
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 May 2018 08:23 (five years ago) link
Saw these photos on Twitter, laughed really hard.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfLHv27X0AAIiv8.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfLHv2zX4AAAoVZ.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
I don't even know what I'm looking at.
They're using pants hangers to store their records?
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
as a bonus, now you can store all your folded up shirts and pants in your suddenly wide open record shelves
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
In a shower stall, no less? (xp)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
(Sorry, guess it’s just a closet; the rod threw me for a sec)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Looks like a lifehack invented by someone that's running out of ideas for lifehacks.
― Evan, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
S O A E S T H E T I C
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I was actually legit wondering why they didn't hang them with the spines facing out, but then I realized that makes sense and this person is a total fucking lunatic.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
kinda cringing at what those clips are doing to the record jackets
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link