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Vinyl price insanity

blossomchris said:
but to sell them all would take forever if you needed to raise cash on the smartish side.
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Depends. In my experience the more a record is worth the quicker it sells on Discogs. The £5 stuff just sits there - I guess because anyone interested in a copy probably already has it!
 
I put my records as a named item on my house insurance with NFU as standard contents won't cover a collection above the maximum single article value. It was surprisingly inexpensive, and would give me a way to repurchase the most important music. It wouldn't be the same collection of course but better than losing vinyl listening all together. The record player is protected in the same way, everything else is within their single article limits. There is specialist record insurance but it was over twice the price (but still affordable).
 
The £22 album price is understandable - and actually, they now use 3 or 4 sides for albums that used to take only 2 sides.
When an vinyl album is out of print, the market price shoots up exponentially.
I actually prefer CDs, and i still have Cds i bought int he 80s, and they are mostly playing well. Sometimes they get damaged, possibly from the case itself, or maybe some dust or particle gets in. I found crackles /scratches on LPs most annoying.
 
paulfromcamden said:
Depends. In my experience the more a record is worth the quicker it sells on Discogs. The £5 stuff just sits there - I guess because anyone interested in a copy probably already has it!
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i did find the big name stuff, like led zep, beatles, etc sold fast for sure, but i was thinking of ones by lesser artists, these did hang around a fair bit
 
20 quid is basically a round at the pub nowadays for loads of people while, back in the 60s. when I was a kid 37/6d, which is what HELP cost when it came out, was absolutely out of reach for almost everyone in my street. I don´t care what statistics say, since when did economists know owt about nowt.
I´ve just paid 65 euros for a 2LP Patricia Barber special edition, remastered by Bob Ludwig and Doug Sax and the silence is deafening compared with what I thought to be a very good first edition recording of the same disk which I bought in 2005. Although most new pressings are dire, there are a few exceptions. Check out qualityrecordpressings.com and then complain about prices
 
Big Tabs said:
Contradiction?

Totally Nuts !
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What i said was
" Now that we have a vinyl revival, things have gone crazy - especially for limited edition stuff. But even a new LP is in the £20s region. A CD is usually around £10, and then comes down in price.

But special LPs, eg Pink Floyd blue vinyl Division Bell sells at £80 or more, since it is out of print, whereas the live PULSE box set is several hundred £s, whereas the Cd is around £15.

Totally nuts!"


The first part was the irony, about CDs now being less than half the price of LPs (new) on average

The totally nuts was about box sets - which can go for over £100. IN the case of David Bowie, i have seen them in the £1000 region!
 
Chris said:
20 quid is basically a round at the pub nowadays for loads of people while, back in the 60s. when I was a kid 37/6d, which is what HELP cost when it came out, was absolutely out of reach for almost everyone in my street. I don´t care what statistics say, since when did economists know owt about nowt.
I´ve just paid 65 euros for a 2LP Patricia Barber special edition, remastered by Bob Ludwig and Doug Sax and the silence is deafening compared with what I thought to be a very good first edition recording of the same disk which I bought in 2005. Although most new pressings are dire, there are a few exceptions. Check out qualityrecordpressings.com and then complain about prices
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Is your special addition better than the previous copy you bought? jsut trying to make sense of your comments, thanks
 
Middlemex said:
Is your special addition better than the previous copy you bought? jsut trying to make sense of your comments, thanks
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The last you’d expect from someone who’d fork out 60 quid for a record is a sensible reply but the spurious groove noise on this version of NightClub is non existent to these old lugs which automatically makes everything, especially the Steinway grand, the rim shots and Zyldjan cymbal work quite breathtaking and easier to locate, thetracks with electric bass are not as revealing as the ones with an upright but in general it sounds quite live and natural unlike other discs by the same artist. But what do I know. I have reached the conclusion that I would rather have a couple of hundred nice sounding copies of my favourite albums than a few thousand discs, many of which were bought new but which I have heard but once and safely stored away for some stupid reason that I prefer not to analyse.
 
Tony L said:
I certainly know I couldn’t replace what I have and any attempt to do so would just drive me absolutely nuts
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Same here and I don't have anything particularly too old or interesting, but what I do have has took time and effort to acquire. If it all burnt down tomorrow there is no way I'd reinvest all that time and effort to replace it like for like.
 
Put it this way, if there were equivalent, similarly silent versions of say 25 of my Desert Island musts : Gaucho, Aja, Astral Weeks, Moondance, Poetic Champions Compose, St. Dominic´s Preview, Portrait in Jazz, Joan Armatrading, Bert and John, Halfbreed, Bare Wires and a few others, I´d gladly start saving now - or offload half of my collection tomorrow. And to think people argue the toss over different mid to high end components which mostly sound much the same when you can maybe get a bigger bang just by buying another version of the software.
Imagine : one of these ultra quiet copies on a P3 or a good but normal copy on a P10. I´d best shurrup.
 
Chris said:
And to think people argue the toss over different mid to high end components which mostly sound much the same when you can maybe get a bigger bang just by buying another version of the software.
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Agreed, I’ve been banging the ‘mastering then everything else…’ drum for years now, though silence isn’t my #1 priority, e.g. I’d take a slightly noisy RVG-cut Blue Note or Impulse over any audiophile reissue every time as I just love the punch and immediacy of his mastering.

PS Same reason I use an idler deck; I just love the solidity and drive. Not the quietest things, but the best compromise I’ve heard to date for my taste.
 
Tony, try and get an earful of Patricia Barber remastered 2LP Nightclub on Premonition. I know it´s standards and musically probably not your thing but the SNR must be up there with the best, I suspect.
No idea where you might find it in the UK but , living in Spain, I got it from here www.kleifrirecords in Castellon. Only deals in special editions, mainly of classical.
 
Spotted yesterday. Made my day! :)

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