Bloody hell. That's just outrageous.
Vinyl is great, but don't buy new production vinyl. No point really since most is just produced to catch the retro wave. Quality is distinctly the secondary consideration.
Leave new releases to the digital formats.
Collecting and playing the older stuff, produced when vinyl was a dominant format is the key to good quality.
That's around 50 years of recorded music so it's not like you don't have choice.
My only comment reading through this thread would be who on earth would want to spend all of their time listening only to old music?
Vinyl is going crazy round here (E Yorks). A pal of mine is giving up his day job to trade full time. EVery time he sells at a record fair or vintage market he clears over £600. Only thing restricting him is lack of time to source stock and also to list rare stuff properly on Discogs and eBay and the like. That will change when he gives up his job. It's maybe a regional thing but every other person I speak to has just bought a turntable. Mad.
Blimey! Best of luck to your pal
I'm finding it very hard to find stock of late, you really have to go some to make a living out of it these days as everyone and their dog has a go now with eBay, discogs etc. A whole different scene from a decade or two ago where I could usually take a bus or train to pretty much anywhere and end up not buying all the good stuff as there was just too much to carry. It's really thin pickings of late. I could do with buying a good collection or two!
Strange. As I suggested maybe a regional thing. North West always had coolest record collections etc! We are catching up!
Tony,
The used record market is insane at the moment.
Last month I nabbed Bach's Magnificat In D Major a box set of five mint LPs for three Canadian clams or about 1.5 of your squids, while on the same outing I saw tonnes of iffy (not Iggy) pop and rock vinyl in terrible shape for about $12 each, cast-off records that used to be in the 25-cent bin a couple of years ago.
There are still bargains to be had, but it seems the market has evolved toward spectacular fleecing of people who may be new to used vinyl.
Joe
Yes, but the writing is very small on those CD booklets and oldies have to put their reading specs on to read them.
They can read the nice big fonts on the 12" sleeves though....
Vinyl is going crazy round here (E Yorks). A pal of mine is giving up his day job to trade full time. EVery time he sells at a record fair or vintage market he clears over £600. Only thing restricting him is lack of time to source stock and also to list rare stuff properly on Discogs and eBay and the like. That will change when he gives up his job. It's maybe a regional thing but every other person I speak to has just bought a turntable. Mad.
I wonder how long it will last?
It will end as soon as the hipsters shave off their big, bushy beards.