'Superfans' buy more than two-thirds of all vinyl

[sthcoaster]

Are you a 'superfan'? Doing more than your share to stoke the vinyl revival?

'Superfans' buy more than two-thirds of all vinyl - BBC News

 

[billshurv]

£400 a year is hardly hardcore music buying. I spend way over that each year on all formats, but haven't bought a new pressing on vinyl since about 1992.

 

[gpauk]

Yep... Me too. Vinyl is too low fi... Why anyone would pay £20 for that.. must be a "lifestyle" purchase - or they just love all the imperfections.

 

[picowallspeaker]

Now you're gonna tell us what is the perfection

About the topic, it was clear that all the re-editions, re-masterings have been made to satisfy "that" sense of perfection ( to collect everything of an artist ).

 

[spaceistheplace]

“in 2015 a BBC/ICM poll found that almost half (48%) of the vinyl records people buy never get played.”

That’s sad.

 

[billshurv]

yeah hipsters are a funny bunch.

 

[picowallspeaker]

vertical disc players...

 

[sthcoaster]

“in 2015 a BBC/ICM poll found that almost half (48%) of the vinyl records people buy never get played.”

That’s sad.

A portion of that will be the superfans who will buy everything from an artist they can get their hands on - 12" mixes, imports with different sleeves, bootlegs? some serious collectors might buy one to play and then another for "collection"?

Yes - I agree billshurv £400 spend in a year is a pretty low bar to qualify as a superfan. I imagine a high proportion of this forum's membership would be well to the far side of the bell curve with regards to spending on music.

For myself for the last 25years it has been exclusively cds, partly because they are safer around kids/novices and also on account of them taking up less room (I hate that most new releases now come in digipacks as they make footprint of my collection bloom - jewel cases get tossed and everything goes in archive sleeves which fit nicely into the drawer of Ikea bedroom furniture to which is added a 15mm ply base to cope with the weight - at some point I will need to upgrade the runners so that I can access the last 5cm of the drawer.)

 

[scott wurcer]

yeah hipsters are a funny bunch.

If I can be a hipster for a moment this series is a lot of fun Amoeba Music - What's In My Bag

Always good to know what Foetus has in his bag.

 

[Andersonix]

"People don't just want music on the go. You want to sit back, put that vinyl on and listen."

And then get up again 20 minutes later to flip it over? Amounted to birth control back in my day....

 

[Trajan]

Some weak people on here. It all can be enjoyed. If you love music, even a noisy 78 is great once in a while. Some of us listen to music. Some listen to our systems.