I was thinking the same… 2024 isn’t over yet!
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Still, no getting away from it, vinyl is bloody expensive…
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That cannot be denied! And in fact a number of comments on that thread on Hoffman were from people saying they had cut back on vinyl purchases because of the cost and the storage space required.
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They’ve realised that CD or streaming is actually better/easier and not such high maintenance for little gain?
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I’ve definitely cut back on new vinyl purchases over the last year. The price increases over the last couple of years has been ridiculous. Again the record labels haven’t learnt their lesson over ripping of buyers by pumping out poor quality vinyl and just reissuing the same old material.
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I am tempted to cut out the CD too. A Vinyl LP costs more than €40 here in Italy. I can download a Wav audio file for €10 from Bandcamp. I get to own 4 albums with high sound quality, for the price of one LP, that may arrive with all the old defects that drove me to CD in the first place. If I buy a streaming account, I can gorge myself on endless musical choice. I have been storing my photogrphy on external discs with backups for more than twenty years, without loss. So I guess I can do the same for a good few years with music files.
I have just bought a streamer, and I am exploring the advantages and disadvantages.
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Same with SH dealers at record fairs and the like.
Asking anywhere between say £15 and £50 for something used, usually at least slightly buggered and rarely anything like clean and mint, not cleaned before sale and more often than not asking for way more than the the item cost when new.
And what did the previous owners do with their records anyway? I could easily sell most every one of mine as mint (except the ones with the sleeve spines scratched to f… by one of my cats some years back).
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That’s quite good. When prices normalise maybe I’ll start buying again.
Slightly off topic. We have new 2nd hand record shop in our main street, in a small market town. I don’t know anyone around here who buys vinyl or even plays it. The shop must have all the usual overheads etc.
I had a nosey with my wife. Two rooms, main room classic rock etc. Led Zep, Steely Dan etc £15 to £30. The first album I looked at was by a band called Tractor. £180 and many more in that category.
The back room was 3 for £10 stuff. Charity shop stuff.
No online purchasing/advertising.
I may be proved wrong, but I don’t give it very long.
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They probably sell on Discogs, or Ebay. I know a SH bookseller that sells mostly art books in our small town. He makes his money using Ebay mostly. If I am looking for a SH book or CD, I do a search and Ebay or Discogs often show up with what I want.
BTW you can buy Tractor Tractor on Discogs for €27!
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Yes that is the one I have.
Prices! For what i know the price for a 1.000 vinyl edition is about 5/5,50 euros a piece from a small factory. So when they try to sell me an edition of a new record of a famous band for 40 euros i give up. I’m talking about ten of thousands pieces that should come at about 4 euros each.
This is insane.
I know what you mean. I went to a local record fair in the summer and some of the prices and condition of not particularly rear records was insane. UK first press of AC/DC Back in Black £50.
Only one stall out of about 15 had reasonable prices the rest all run by hipsters in there 20s just hadn’t a clue.
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I bought quite a bit of vinyl through ebay for a bit about 15/16 years ago. Usually paid about a pound each, sometimes I splashed two or even three quid and would have buyers remorse at a fiver! The p&p often cost more than the record. The description was accurate more than 90% of the time too, mint was mint and NM might have a bit of dust on it!
Backside in Black?
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love auto correct
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From what I see, we are at the same place with CD’s right now. I see a lot of super cheap charity shop purchases on this forum.
I sold all my analogue camera gear when I thought film would be dead in the very near future, for peanuts. Nobody wanted a Hasselblad. Now I see them selling for silly prices.
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Yes same, CD sh can be very cheap, though again, what do people do with these things?! Often well manky inside and out.
As to cameras, yes I bought lots of film equipment for relative peanuts some years back. The Pentax and Minolta gear are worth a bit more than I paid but all the Nikon and Canon stuff, Rolleicord/flex and some MF bits would fetch far, far more than I paid.
Though, I remember not punting on a few Mamiya 6/7’s because I thought the asking price of a few hundred quid was ridiculous!
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