Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

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

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.

poor seller doesnt realize he's actually selling mint dogpile

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.

No idea what hip-hop rand records was supposed to be. A South African niche, obvs.

I have to say my OG copy of Nevermind, purchased week of release, when I was 16, still sounds heavenly.

That rules. I have an OG copy that sounds splendid as well.

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.

my OG CD sounds better than the remaster imo, but it still doesn't have "Endless, Nameless" :(

woah, there were CDs without Endless Nameless?

First 50,000 iirc

Yeah, theoretically quite valuable.

My 'In Utero' doesn't have that rubbing alcohol track, but hey its rub.

It’s prolly not valuable (there’s 50,000 of them) but it’s cool to have,

I got the same when I bought it back then, no bonus track. Not valuable though

I'm always prattling on about this, but the Mobile Fidelity CD of Nevermind sounds amazing.

http://www.businessinsider.com/trntbl-wireless-turntable-review-2018-3

VNYL is back with a new TRNTBL

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

Saw these photos on Twitter, laughed really hard.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfLHv27X0AAIiv8.jpg

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfLHv2zX4AAAoVZ.jpg

I don't even know what I'm looking at.

They're using pants hangers to store their records?

as a bonus, now you can store all your folded up shirts and pants in your suddenly wide open record shelves

In a shower stall, no less? (xp)

(Sorry, guess it’s just a closet; the rod threw me for a sec)

Looks like a lifehack invented by someone that's running out of ideas for lifehacks.

S O A E S T H E T I C

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.

kinda cringing at what those clips are doing to the record jackets

any adult that has balloons up as a decorative feature needs to have a long hard think about where their life is heading.

They look like thrift store records, who cares?

Also I'm pretty sure those balloons have the logo of Mind, the mental health charity on them. So possibly actually a charity shop. I mean, I still think it's a terrible terrible idea, but...

yeah this is a classic uk charity shop move, pretty sure I saw this in norwich or nottingham or some other place beginning with NO

appropriately enough

gotta be honest, that's a lot better than how some thrift stores treat their LP section.

https://i.imgur.com/fVNbWOZ.jpg

Brutal

this store has trouble with math

"i want 7 records."

"that'll be $56. but if you let us give you a dollar, we'll let you take 4 more records on the house."

"uh--"

"don't ask questions, pal."

You can see some of the other treasures here https://www.yelp.com/biz/records-new-york-new-york

Specialties:

We sell second-hand vinyls.

The fact that they are featuring ubiquitous dollar bin world champions Chuck Mangione and Joan Baez records in the window, and the fact that this store is in NYC, makes me think this is maybe some kind of elaborate art prank.

all too real

"IT'S JUST A PRANK, BRO!"

makes me think the dump won't let them bring in any more albums and they have to get rid of them somehow

Their website has a link for "records we have" which actually takes you to a Discogs page which shows just about all of those records selling for way less than $10 a piece elsewhere.

https://watape.com/

good god

lol

that is straight-up insanity

years ago i recorded a band and we did the tracking on computer and at the end ran it through someone's reel to reel for a mastering pass to get the tape compression and sort of pre-master the song. its kind of a common technique.

ripoff that they only send you a 16 bit CD quality WAV tho

legowelt does this for his own music with cassette. go to 16:05

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TGCxBVu1-sE

yeah, people do this. I wonder how often they replace the tape, though.