I was buying new audiophile vinyl in the 90s some of which are now ludicrously expensive. I suppose monetising vinyl had to come - is there anything that hasn't been monetised.
So I now I have registered with Rhino and with Mobile Fidelity. Today I got an email from MF they are doing their usual 2 x 45 RPM versions of the Eagles LPs.
I always thought that Desperado was one of the best theme LPs made and not only in the 70s', I have 3 copies.
Then I looked at the price @ $125😱. Then I looked at the postage to France $50.09😱 That means 20% TVA on the whole package = $210 plus maybe a Customs inspection charge as well = no thank you.
These are just crazy prices, I suppose copies (only 7500 will be pressed) will appear on discogs - anyone interested @ $1000?
So I now I have registered with Rhino and with Mobile Fidelity. Today I got an email from MF they are doing their usual 2 x 45 RPM versions of the Eagles LPs.
I always thought that Desperado was one of the best theme LPs made and not only in the 70s', I have 3 copies.
Then I looked at the price @ $125😱. Then I looked at the postage to France $50.09😱 That means 20% TVA on the whole package = $210 plus maybe a Customs inspection charge as well = no thank you.
These are just crazy prices, I suppose copies (only 7500 will be pressed) will appear on discogs - anyone interested @ $1000?
By the early noughties, the major labels had cottoned on to the fact that people were buying all the vinyl they could get their hands on, and they began to cash in.
I've read that that many of the 180g 'audiophile' releases sound inferior to original first pressings, so I remain content with my originals, which I've kept in good condition.
Rather than purchase 'audiophile' vinyl, it may make economic sense to buy a decent record cleaning machine with which to revive second-hand originals found at record fairs.
Tho only reissues I ever bought were some 1/2 speed mastered RCA classical LP's from the 50's/60's. In the 80's the audiophile press was already slamming the quality. Nothing has changed, though the prices were no more than an ordinary LP.
Greed.... it's everywhere these days.
Glad I kept and took care of all my old records, I've no need to buy expensive replacements.
All the dummies that tossed their collections and succumbed to the CD era are now whining about it.
"Those records took up a lot of space!....I thought CD's were better!..... now records are taking up a lot of my money!"
Glad I kept and took care of all my old records, I've no need to buy expensive replacements.
All the dummies that tossed their collections and succumbed to the CD era are now whining about it.
"Those records took up a lot of space!....I thought CD's were better!..... now records are taking up a lot of my money!"
Anything that's a novel situation, like getting up 4 times to flip a record, somebody's going to be making a buck on.
I want my younger son to get his drivers license. Used to be you simply took a couple tests to get one; these days they rail you though a "drivers school" which is someone's money making joke of a product they somehow arranged with the state.
"Desperado" - what the girls used to call me in the 70's...
I want my younger son to get his drivers license. Used to be you simply took a couple tests to get one; these days they rail you though a "drivers school" which is someone's money making joke of a product they somehow arranged with the state.
"Desperado" - what the girls used to call me in the 70's...
We had that in 1966 (free). I thought it was just to show you those movies of kids with severed heads and arms to scare you.
Although a mono Furtwangler re-issue I recently obtained was worth every penny*. Even my wife (on the sofa with me, no kitchens were harmed) agreed that was how music should be.
There are a number of labels who specialise in remastering old recordings (usually 78s). I skip the hype and but their CDs. Wonderful music from the early era of recording for those of us not old enough to have the 78s or with floor loading ability to collect them 😀
*Confession, was given to me. I would still have bought it though.
There are a number of labels who specialise in remastering old recordings (usually 78s). I skip the hype and but their CDs. Wonderful music from the early era of recording for those of us not old enough to have the 78s or with floor loading ability to collect them 😀
*Confession, was given to me. I would still have bought it though.
That's what I remember from driver's education. Johnny went around the railroad crossing, he's now indistinguishable from hamburger, and all the girls are crying. 😀 They really showed us that in high school, hamburger on the front seat and all. It sure scared the crap out of me and made me cry too. I guess it works. 😉
I have dealt in recent years with a company called popmarket.com, the quality has generally been good. I get an email from them every day, usually pushing some new box set. Today's is a 7 LP set of Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "B-Sides and Rarities", for about US$170, which doesn't sound like my cup of tea. Yesterday's offering was a reissue of Neil Young's 1970 Live at Carnegie Hall, and last week there was an offer to pre-order a Let It Be reissue which contains 4 LP's and an EP, that one is interesting. Also recently a Mingus LP bundle. A couple of years ago I bought from them a set of all the Zombies studio albums (5 discs, $110).
I try to patronize my local record store as well, but we all know the temptations of online shopping!
I try to patronize my local record store as well, but we all know the temptations of online shopping!
billshurv - oh yes your the one who wants to 'intellectualise' music - give it a rest will you. It was a brilliant piece of work with great energy, great lyrics with a clear warning to those thinking that experience comes for free.
So much classical music is just intellectual sterile egotistical - look how clever I am with a piano/violin bla bla bla. lacks any real emotion,rhythm,flow. I listen to music from around the world - good music is good music. Then again you get the same with rock musicians, they too think they are clever, they are not just egotistical prats.
The Red monk was buried in a pauper's grave. He and a few others dragged white Europeans out of that terrible Gregorian/religious manic depressive crap that passed for music. How Vivaldi found that incredible energy, emotion and rhythm within the repressive catholic control that dominated Europe is remarkable. It was a revolution just like the 60s' when R&B morphed into Rock&Roll, Ska grew into Reggae - somehow I just don't see you as a dancer, a headtripper yes that fits.
Galu - 'you have heard' so - had you actually bought some of this audiophile vinyl you would have found that in the 90s' you would be wrong. I bought a hand checked EMI boxed set of all Ravel's orchestral works - absolutely stunning and of course now selling for really stupid money. Sarah Mclauglin/Janis Ian/Rebecca Pidgeon/ Jacintha's - Tribute to Ben Webster, perhaps the best recorded vinyl I have.
Of the 1000 + LPs I have, most were bought getting up bright and early on Saturday and Sunday mornings from the end of the 80s' into the 90s' at car boot sales - 50p - £1 the most I ever paid was £2 for some ECM stuff. Sadly a lot of my classical vinyl I will never be able to sell on - it will be recycled. I will never understand that it was the classical crowd that ditched vinyl first - la genta es muy stupido (Boy George).
Sad to say that a lot of 70s' vinyl was recorded by engineers out of their heads on Charlie. The exception was Gene Clark's - No Other, raved over it and I couldn't understand how it got panned at the time even though it nearly got buried by an avalanche of Andean snow in the recording studio. Even though I spent a lot of time in altered states that LP is still in M- condition, bought a CD of it, OK at best might buy a remastered copy to see what the craic is.
There's a lot of 70s' music that is not expensive to buy - Don Mcleans' - American Pie is a classic, simple graphic poetry and music.
Downloads of music and books is not the same, e-books are fading away, people like to hold things, it's very primal. In learning to sell you will always be told to 'get the product into peoples hands' once people have the product in their hands they don't want to let go. Picking up a book you read years ago, rereading it will quickly expose how you have changed over the years, a very human experience, the same with hearing an LP after years, you either get into it again or it's earmarked for selling/giving away.
So much classical music is just intellectual sterile egotistical - look how clever I am with a piano/violin bla bla bla. lacks any real emotion,rhythm,flow. I listen to music from around the world - good music is good music. Then again you get the same with rock musicians, they too think they are clever, they are not just egotistical prats.
The Red monk was buried in a pauper's grave. He and a few others dragged white Europeans out of that terrible Gregorian/religious manic depressive crap that passed for music. How Vivaldi found that incredible energy, emotion and rhythm within the repressive catholic control that dominated Europe is remarkable. It was a revolution just like the 60s' when R&B morphed into Rock&Roll, Ska grew into Reggae - somehow I just don't see you as a dancer, a headtripper yes that fits.
Galu - 'you have heard' so - had you actually bought some of this audiophile vinyl you would have found that in the 90s' you would be wrong. I bought a hand checked EMI boxed set of all Ravel's orchestral works - absolutely stunning and of course now selling for really stupid money. Sarah Mclauglin/Janis Ian/Rebecca Pidgeon/ Jacintha's - Tribute to Ben Webster, perhaps the best recorded vinyl I have.
Of the 1000 + LPs I have, most were bought getting up bright and early on Saturday and Sunday mornings from the end of the 80s' into the 90s' at car boot sales - 50p - £1 the most I ever paid was £2 for some ECM stuff. Sadly a lot of my classical vinyl I will never be able to sell on - it will be recycled. I will never understand that it was the classical crowd that ditched vinyl first - la genta es muy stupido (Boy George).
Sad to say that a lot of 70s' vinyl was recorded by engineers out of their heads on Charlie. The exception was Gene Clark's - No Other, raved over it and I couldn't understand how it got panned at the time even though it nearly got buried by an avalanche of Andean snow in the recording studio. Even though I spent a lot of time in altered states that LP is still in M- condition, bought a CD of it, OK at best might buy a remastered copy to see what the craic is.
There's a lot of 70s' music that is not expensive to buy - Don Mcleans' - American Pie is a classic, simple graphic poetry and music.
Downloads of music and books is not the same, e-books are fading away, people like to hold things, it's very primal. In learning to sell you will always be told to 'get the product into peoples hands' once people have the product in their hands they don't want to let go. Picking up a book you read years ago, rereading it will quickly expose how you have changed over the years, a very human experience, the same with hearing an LP after years, you either get into it again or it's earmarked for selling/giving away.
Accepted, I was referring to some current '180g' releases.
It's just what I am reading in the record review mags, I've never been enticed to buy such vinyl.
I agree about owning the physical item, whether it be a book, an LP or, dare I say it, a CD.
It's just what I am reading in the record review mags, I've never been enticed to buy such vinyl.
I agree about owning the physical item, whether it be a book, an LP or, dare I say it, a CD.
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Congratulations for completely missing the point of my post. Not even in the same ball park.
I never commented on your choice of music so no idea what you are talking about.
I'm not questioning your musical tastes why are you seeming to judge others?
Never said it wasn't.
Now you are getting personal. What have I done to you?
I buy mostly used vinyl at reasonable prices. There’s no collectors items on my shelves. If there ever has been, I quite happily sell it and buy a copy with/without etc etc the precious mark in the label or the wrong address etc etc. With the cash I buy the same music for less on another but identical pressing and get to buy more vinyl with the extra cash. ��
New music, and I do buy quite a lot is purchased as a red book equivalent download (band amp is rather good). Unless said album is only on vinyl I might purchase it if I REALLY like it. But some labels are really taking the whatsit with prices. Record store day nonsense for example had a double LP gatefold up for more than my local store had for a mint original - bonkers
New music, and I do buy quite a lot is purchased as a red book equivalent download (band amp is rather good). Unless said album is only on vinyl I might purchase it if I REALLY like it. But some labels are really taking the whatsit with prices. Record store day nonsense for example had a double LP gatefold up for more than my local store had for a mint original - bonkers
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Join the club, and you don't even eat "stogy" rice. Have you ever tried one of those self-wrapping Onigiri, a marvel of engineering?
Some Vinyl is expensive. I find it depends on what it is and where you get it.
I listen to a lot of drum and bass so I try and buy my vinyl directly from the label's store.
I've also pre-ordered from Amazon. I bought LTE3 box set for 101$. The median price is now 145$ on Discogs.
I listen to a lot of drum and bass so I try and buy my vinyl directly from the label's store.
I've also pre-ordered from Amazon. I bought LTE3 box set for 101$. The median price is now 145$ on Discogs.