OMG, People Buy Records? Vinyl In The News Thread

But I like those Trojan CD sets so much- I'm always seeking new ones out. I think they're a lot of fun.

what you don't know won't hurt you! and yeah they are a good cheap way to check stuff out.

There are a good chunk of them that aren't so cheap, too.

Do you charge a blanket price for them?

well sure any individual LP can sound better than a poorly mastered CD, and there are a lot of those

and a poorly mastered/warped/low QC vinyl can sound much shittier than a CD

i guess i just don't have a lot of respect for people who rep for vinyl on principle, it's just wankery to me

and yeah those trojan boxes sound like total shit

OTOH jamaican vinyl pressings are notorious... I always look for UK pressings of trojan and other stuff

original trojan vinyl is nice. pre-1975 or whenever. the 45s are great. again, case by case basis. later trojan vinyl comps lose some attention to detail and were kinda churned out hastily. even the original trojan dudes remixed/rerecorded old stuff for comps in the 70's. its sad that so many people think that about jamaican pressings. but what are you gonna do. you have to hear a lot of music on a lot of labels to know how amazing it can be.

i take the merits of every record and every cd i listen to one at a time. having said that, i listen to a lot of records and they blow my mind in lots of ways almost every day. this doesn't happen as much with compact discs. their sound is often predictable. less surprises. its a red letter day when i hear a great one.

"you have to hear a lot of music on a lot of labels to know how amazing it can be."

which is why i still respect people who talk about stuff that they don't know about or have just heard anecdotal comments about. but it is a shame that one of the poorest countries on earth with one of the richest musical legacies on earth put out some of the greatest sounding records i've ever heard (production, engineering, sound of actual vinyl pressing) and this kinda dismissive comment gets passed around as truth.

lee perry box set is terrible too. sound-wise. i couldn't even listen to it when i got a copy in here. arkology. such a shame. again, if you don't know the difference you probably aren't gonna care. but the differences between original recordings of those songs and what's on that box are VAST. just no comparison in many cases. you are only getting half their power on those discs. which is still plenty powerful for most mortals.

imo, the thing about 'jamaican pressings' is not always true, but it is HARD to find clean copies of jamaican records. which i think feeds into people thinking its the pressing. when it could just be grooveworn or scratchy or w/e.

yeah, i've lucked out in that regard. i have sold a lot of stuff like this, and its not the stuff you see in used record stores too often:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/richard-mcdonald-wanna-free-dub-phase-cosmonamic-/230954562981

when i think of the music lab ten inches i have sold...oof...i'll take them over a lot of audiophile vinyl any day of the week. sadly i can't keep them cuzza the whole staying in business thing.

also in used record stores a lot cheap jamaican Island pressings and all the usual suspects like third world and the like on jamaican vinyl that was churned out to meet demand for late 70's/early 80's pop reggae.

i dunno of maybe 50-60 jamaican-pressed LPs i have, maybe 10-20 sound excellent and 10-20 are completely fucked--off-center printing, warped disc, thin trebly sound, tons of surface noise. and i'm talking about vinyl that's at least clean, not beat up.

i'm not saying that all or nearly all jamaican pressings are shit, i'm just saying it's a huge crapshoot.

also scott you're kind of being a jerk for presuming i don't know what i'm talking about.

i don't think i've ever been that dismissive to you.

abandoned record warehouse

http://vf-images.s3.amazonaws.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/Screen-Shot-2013-08-02-at-16.56.03.png

its a shame but what are you gonna do? there were dumpsters lined up behind radio stations for years in the 80's/90's. filled with juicy promos. looks like a euro-warehouse too. lotsa chanson at le landfill.

Looks like it would be fun to dig through but I'd be worried about where to step.

http://www.overthinkingit.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/planb.jpg

lotsa chanson at le landfill.

― scott seward, Wednesday, August 7, 2013 1:52 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

haha thats all i could think too (except on the off chance that a couple sick PALM jazz records found their way in there too)

did we miss this one?

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324263404578611910431238662.html

the dude who took pictures of the warehouse has more pictures on his website and you can get a look at some covers. papillon soundtracks. diana ross and wallace collection 45s. etc.

http://www.lesmainsnoires.blogspot.com.br/

(i don't think that's behind their paywall, works for me anyway) (my WSJ reading father actually cut it out of the paper and mailed it to me, very quaint)

"While annual sales of rare U.S. records are relatively small—about $10 million"

i like that this is an actual quote in the wsj. maybe people won't horn in on my action if they think that's the extent of things.

i mean i have no idea how much money "rare" record sales adds up to, but i know its more than that.

i actually like some of the stuff that dude in the story put out on Big Beat. some good freestyle/house singles. some crap too.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XDkEof9VtHk

http://www.decibelmagazine.com/diary/low-fidelity-the-reality-of-the-record-business-circa-2013/

i know someone who by himself spent 50k on vinyl in a single year

oh yeah totally. that's a drop in the bucket for someone with a stereo system worth $500,000.

its really easy to do. i just know that i actually make a living selling old records and provide for, like, my children and i am just one dude. out of many dudes.

I wonder what NJ record stores Neill works at.

you'd imagine that the people who can afford to spend that much money on records are the people with the least amount of idle time on their hands to listen to them

Hey, he mentioned "any_book" amazon seller! I've always been mystified by that seller myself; what is the scam behind it exactly...

how much did Dante end up with from that one free jazz auction? 20 grand? more?

how much does craig moerer make in a year? a bunch. that euclid dude brought 20,000 records from st.louis to the wilco festival in western mass this summer for a 2 day pop-up store! dude has cash.

What a risk. I'd be worried about making the money back, unless I didn't have to.

what is the freight cost of moving 20k lps halfway across the country?

what kind of people go to wilcofest anyhow? are they record buyers?? figured they'd be the ipod type

I'm sure you've got some dadrockers with a turntable and disposable income going to wilcofest

maybe not enough to buy 20,000 records though

more crackle talk...

http://www.factmag.com/2012/05/09/the-broken-record-vinyl-matter-memory-and-meaning/

SO BAD.

wait, this is from last year. maybe i already got mad at this guy on here. i'm not gonna check...

The broken record: vinyl, matter, memory and meaning

...and then, sometimes, I'm glad I didn't go to college.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N5XW5GW8Vo&feature=youtu.be

my mom just sent me one of these articles from the tulsa world. it was written by this guy
http://www.tulsaworld.com//articleimages/2013/stancavage-john.jpg
he starts out by defending the monkees

"stanky"

Jean Taylor - Tulsa posted 4 days ago
I've been collecting classical vinyl records the last three years. Have now a huge collection, and still no turntable! LOL I'm holding out for one where I can put a stack of records on, so the music will play a long, long time. All the new turntables I've seen for sale in the stores today only play one record at a time. That's no good! LOL 
I've had good luck finding vinyls at estate sales. They usually cost about $2 a piece, but sometimes I get lucky, and find some left when the prices are dropped 75%! But the vinyls themselves are priceless. The sound quality, to me, is superior to any digital recording I have ever heard. I say that, but maybe I haven't had the best digital players.... :) 

http://i39.tinypic.com/ifd5li.jpg

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10151766780324214&set=a.78155749213.74698.70867474213&type=1

Things just got real: http://blogs.laweekly.com/westcoastsound/2013/08/whole_foods_record_store.php

yeah, noted in the post right before your post.