Vinyl isn't dead yet...

Sidehatch wrote:

Julian, wrote:
She should be getting served with the divorce papers sometime this afternoon.

so what is 1/2 of nothing??

The better joke would have been a 700 CDs reference.

Sidehatch wrote:
so what is 1/2 of nothing??

700 CDs.

^^ Yeah, see Sidehatch? That's how you do it. It was right there for you.

but isn't she supposed to get something of value in the divorce proceedings

the 40th anniversary of Joy Division’s ‘Still’ today,
Set for release on February 11th 2022.

Pre-order now via http://JoyDivision.lnk.to/Still40

More overpriced shenanigans courtesy Third Man Records and Jack White

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnfQa3L6aJ/?utm_medium=copy_link

Some nonsense about cut directly from the master tapes straight to the vinyl, limited and numbered to 333 copies

Cost £350 / $437

Flippers are probably drooling at the moment

The going rate for albums that company that does those pressing is $400 to $600.. which I guess means if you can afford  the probably 250k+ stereo system to listen to these on it’s a drop in the bucket… also serious snobbery for jazz buffs

not dead, but people are made at adele for scooping up all the resources

https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/an-independent-record-store-is-boycotting-adeles-new-album-in-a-row-over-vinyl/

are artists even remotely selling that much vinyl?


4.8 million LPs were purchased in the UK in 2020
wow, that number surprised me

I ordered a bunch of albums from Manchester Orchestra back in spring time.  They told me back then that they would not ship until December.

I had read the number of Adele new albums being pressed was more like 750,000.

I remember this famously happened with CD pressing plants in 1985 with Dire Straits “Brothers in Arms”


This will continue to be a problem until record companies invest in building new LP pressing plants but unfortunately they don’t seem willing to do so… Vinyl is still a niche market accounting for a small share of record company profit but how can it grow more without more pressing capacity?

I could go on

You would think some business person would see the opportunity here…right?

if 5 million sold in the UK, what was the world wide purchase?
I assume that number is new vinyl?

How about Kosmo's Platter Pressing Plant Inc. Kosmo's Lux Lacquer Ltd.

I think I'll get my discord record set when they get to their 40th anniversary


Look at all these places that will do it in the US
https://vinyl-pressing-plants.com/all-vinyl-pressing-plants-list/countries/United-States-of-America/
but they need those lacquer discs to make it all work

The reality is there aren’t a ton of plants with capacity around.


For example there is a plant in Czech Republic or whatever they are called this week that has been pressing a lot of the Argentine reissues I been buying.

I know we have small plants here or there but of the top off my head not many large plants come to mind: RTI, Pallas, United etc.  That plant in the Ohio area that opened about ten years ago and has done some Luna, all GBV…maybe Gotta groove?

And then there is the whole lacquers issue which I don’t even understand

Of course we have Furnace in our area…not sure what they press or capacity


So many of these modern repressings are in my opinion like counterfeit copies…all the Argentine reissues…most of the Brazilian…they are just taking a cd and putting it to vinyl and trying to copy the artwork…they are not using original analog sources etc…same for a ton of stuff in the US…. And the new stuff is almost all digitally sourced…

And then because the plants are so busy  now they pull the newly pressed records out too early before they have cooled down enough causing a ton of edgewarps etc.    The whole thing is nuts

Starsky wrote:
Of course we have Furnace in our area…not sure what they press or capacity

what a cool logo, I might just get a shirt (DC area artist, Scott White)
(this poster is not available)

That’s a cool one or should I say hot?

file this one under the subtopic of Vinyl Stupidity

there is a four disc Target exclusive of the new Taylor Swift that's pressed as 45rpm and there are 1 star reviews of people complaining it sounds like a man is singing on all the tracks

also i saw people complaining that the Target Exclusives are coming out on red vinyl…

can we stick a fork in vinyl yet :)

Any LPlimited edition of this box will be selling for $200 in a few months

if there is one group that can put the nail in the coffin of vinyl, it's swifties.

those reviews about the target release went viral for sure…

and you know there a bunch of "collectors", i mean flippers losing their minds someone actually opened and listened to that exclusive and not left it sealed….

Great deal for the deluxe….they are blowing these out… have heard good things about the vinyl pressing


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