Vinyl isn't dead yet...

Hatch's wrote:
Same thing with that Killing joke / Hooky release
I just can't justify buying something where most of the money goes to shipping

Ignoring the shipping for a moment, that ep is ~$35 for 3 songs. Kinda pricey.

By all means, it is growing (but still losing badly to streaming).

2020 Year End Music Industry Revenue Report

- Music revenue increased by 9.2 percent to $12.2 billion in 2020
- 83% of all revenue comes from streaming (5th consecutive year of growth)
- Physical media sales remained flat, but vinyl passed CDs for the first time since CDs took over vinyl

got this gorgeous slab of wax in the mail today

Nice!

Martian-hatch wrote:
got this gorgeous slab of wax in the mail today

^^look at this god damn high roller spending coin on vinyl!!!^^

geeeeeesh!

Martian-hatch wrote:
got this gorgeous slab of wax in the mail today

Where the hell is mine is the question I'm going to be emailing Matador here in a seocnd.

Listened to that a few times today. Just as good as expected.

What's the most you've ever dropped on a single record? Not talking box sets as they tend to be expensive anyway.

I just balked at paying $40 for an ep. But I'm guilty of paying $250 for a record (only $100 was mine, but still….).

OMG I want to say I have paid $100 many times


But the only record I can actually find of doing so is $100 for the PIL Metal Box..the tin

Just not sure how much higher I have gone…

I mean I used to buy a ton of stuff on eBay but don’t have access to that info and just can’t remember

StoneTheCrow wrote:
What's the most you've ever dropped on a single record? Not talking box sets as they tend to be expensive anyway.

I just balked at paying $40 for an ep. But I'm guilty of paying $250 for a record (only $100 was mine, but still….).

What record and you split the purchase?

yeah, and how does the custody arrangement work on said shared-vinyl

A sealed Summerteeth a week before the reissue was announced for $100ish?

Oh shit no: a smashing pumpkins I am one 7” for like $400.

Wow…$400 for a 7”!



I just can’t recall for sure but I may have spent $200 on Hank Mobley’s Roll Call

I was really into Blue Note LPs for a few years….like obsessed

hutch wrote:

StoneTheCrow wrote:
What's the most you've ever dropped on a single record? Not talking box sets as they tend to be expensive anyway.

I just balked at paying $40 for an ep. But I'm guilty of paying $250 for a record (only $100 was mine, but still….).

What record and you split the purchase?

The Verve - Voyager1. Their first release, a live recording made to look like a bootleg. Blue vinyl, not the black vinyl bootleg.

I received some money in lieu of xmas gifts so I immediately decided to get one of these when the price was sorta reasonable.

I was very tempted to get the PiL Metal Box repress that came out a couple of years ago.  May eventually pick that up someday.

Ha ha so you did spend $250!

$150 had been given to me.  That's free money in my book and not enough that I would regret "blowing it" on something I wouldn't have otherwise bought.

Oh yeah totally… I do that a lot

Cassettes ain't dead yet either…