New LP price is way too expensive

Tim Simmons

Yeah, these will be cheaper later in the year. If its too much now, wait it out. They will press a ton. Amazon will have a great price in the fall.

wndowpayne

I dunno..just over 3 bucks a song isnt horrible since you can listen to it over and over if ya want..But if their is a " Grimmie" on there , you should get 3 bucks back..

demetrios

Tim Simmons said:

Yeah, these will be cheaper later in the year. If its too much now, wait it out. They will press a ton. Amazon will have a great price in the fall.

Yeah? 

Tim Simmons

usually, 4-8 months after a record drops, you can get for much less from them. Just camelcamelcamel it and wait for a lower price.

Nami

HughFreakingDillon said:

Zod said:

JBC7913 said:

HughFreakingDillon said:

i went to sunrise records last friday. Lightning Bolt was $89.99. 

you read that right. $90. 

Saw that myself today there. 

That makes no sense?  It's not out of print or anything? 

sunrise has proven criminal. when the new tool cd deluxe package came out, it was $69.99. i passed on it. i went there the next week again (for something else) and at the checkout i noticed the price was $89.99, and the clerk told me point blank it's because they figured out what the demand was. i couldn't believe it. i'd never seen that from a music store before. 

my guess is with a new record coming out, they know the demand for pj vinyl is going to be high, so they doubled the price on it. fucking crooks. 

same thing with the one in St.Johns, i was going through the bins laughing at the prices... 

lastexitlondon

This is a forum  all about opinions and topics. Thats the point of it all to discus. 
Why cant  people  have their say?
It could be positive  or negative  but its a discussion  thats what a thread  is for isnt it?

BennyLaRue

lastexitlondon said:

This is a forum  all about opinions and topics. Thats the point of it all to discus. 
Why cant  people  have their say?
It could be positive  or negative  but its a discussion  thats what a thread  is for isnt it?

Patrick_Sea3

McCready00 said:

apirk72 said:

15 years huh, not that long you missed out on the typically priced under $10 records
$35 is a little on the high end for a 2xlp but not by much and it looks like the packaging will be pretty nice so $35 seems pretty fair.

record prices have gone up with their popularity/demand, happens with everything.  If you’ve been collecting that long you should know every mass produced release prices drop pretty frequently over time.

just be thankful they didn’t release it for record store day because then they’d probably charge $65 for it

yeah i really wish I was into vinyls back then.. 

I was still buying PJ records before though. Got copies of Benaroya Hall, First original releases of most albums back then, Lost Dogs and many more rares items.

Also, most albums were released at 17.99 or 19.99$ each ( Canadian money ).. Then around 2012-13-14, prices started to get crazy.. 

With time I got a pretty good collection of really good quality albums...

For those who started collecting since only few years, it must be pretty insane to buy all basic albums. 

Haha you said vinyls.....

PB11041

tino_11

Just a question, but if this is the best sounding PJ studio album on vinyl, would you be happy to pay the $10 extra? 

tbergs

Consumerism is a double edged sword. No one wants to pay that higher price, but then we hear about the labor and wage issues that happen with the price cutters and evil capitalists of Walmart and Amazon. We all have a choice to make and we will do so based on what seems reasonable for our situation. I despise Walmart, so I don't shop there. I am starting to despise Amazon, but I still shop on there; however, usually only for work supplies and if I waited too long to get someone a gift

I'll be buying Gigaton from PJ directly because I feel it best supports the artist and their employees. Maybe I'm wrong about that, but I feel better about that than handing over my money to any of these other large merchants. Later on I'll check my local record shop for the vinyl, if it's there, great, if not, no big deal. I'm in no rush.

ten-vs-vitalogy

Just the €50 here in Ireland.  3 record stores confirmed that price to me. This cannot be justified on any level. 

MedozK

tino_11 said:

Just a question, but if this is the best sounding PJ studio album on vinyl, would you be happy to pay the $10 extra? 

For AAA yes of course. But we will be getting a hi-res digital file cut to vinyl.

Just buy the HD Digital, and then you don't have to worry about pressing inconsistencies. 

HesCalledDyer

jeffbr said:

rhinomagic said:

Came here for the complaints about PJ dot com charging $12 to ship the record.

Maybe I'm early...?

Ha, that's my complaint, but I am mostly done bitching about shipping. Instead, I just don't order from 10c unless it is something exclusive. I ordered Gigaton from Amazon, so I immediately saved $12 (the silly shipping charge), I'll likely get the record sooner since 10c loves to send their shipments via Mail Innovations on a tour of the surrounding counties and states, and I'll also get the digital files in my Amazon library on release day. Not sure why I'd want to order it from 10c.

Yeah, kinda kicking myself for not doing the same.  I'll pay $13 more than everyone else, and get the album 2 weeks after release now. It's like I'm a glutton for my own punishment.

Indifference71

HesCalledDyer said:

jeffbr said:

rhinomagic said:

Came here for the complaints about PJ dot com charging $12 to ship the record.

Maybe I'm early...?

Ha, that's my complaint, but I am mostly done bitching about shipping. Instead, I just don't order from 10c unless it is something exclusive. I ordered Gigaton from Amazon, so I immediately saved $12 (the silly shipping charge), I'll likely get the record sooner since 10c loves to send their shipments via Mail Innovations on a tour of the surrounding counties and states, and I'll also get the digital files in my Amazon library on release day. Not sure why I'd want to order it from 10c.

Yeah, kinda kicking myself for not doing the same.  I'll pay $13 more than everyone else, and get the album 2 weeks after release now. It's like I'm a glutton for my own punishment.

Yeah I don't know why the hell I pre-ordered from 10c when I could have just ordered from Amazon.  it's not like it's even a limited color vinyl or anything.  I think I did the same thing with the Let's Play Two vinyl and ended up cancelling my 10c order.  I may try to do that again.

MedozK

HesCalledDyer said:

jeffbr said:

rhinomagic said:

Came here for the complaints about PJ dot com charging $12 to ship the record.

Maybe I'm early...?

Ha, that's my complaint, but I am mostly done bitching about shipping. Instead, I just don't order from 10c unless it is something exclusive. I ordered Gigaton from Amazon, so I immediately saved $12 (the silly shipping charge), I'll likely get the record sooner since 10c loves to send their shipments via Mail Innovations on a tour of the surrounding counties and states, and I'll also get the digital files in my Amazon library on release day. Not sure why I'd want to order it from 10c.

Yeah, kinda kicking myself for not doing the same.  I'll pay $13 more than everyone else, and get the album 2 weeks after release now. It's like I'm a glutton for my own punishment.

We really deep down want to support 10C, but they make it really hard some time.

silva

My local record shop here in the UK say it's going to be £42. That's 55 USD. Whilst I was in there I bought the new Angel Olsen album for £20. Double LP, 12 page full size booklet, separate A1 poster and download code. Now how is it that for 2 comparable items, one is over double the other? I don't understand that. The only thing I can think is that they know the PJ market will spend that money (older, probably more fanatical fan base). 
Of course the basic logical conclusion is the "if you don't like the price don't buy it" argument, but that's not really the answer when the question is "is this right?".
 I think employee wages and working conditions are really important, more important than my access to music. But I also don't think that anyone in the Chain that brought the Angel Olsen album to release, is working in conditions they shouldn't be for too little money. Maybe that makes me naive. I'm open to someone with more knowledge of the process telling me otherwise.
For the time being, I can only assume that the price point is set at the maximum amount that they (I'm not even sure who they are , the label? Distributor, band? Do the band even know what the price is?) think they can get people to pay for it. If that's the case, I don't think I'm ok with that.
This isn't just people moaning amount things that cannot be changed, it's part of a bigger discussion about how we, the consumers, are treated. And that's what this place is here for, discussions.

Indifference71

MedozK said:

HesCalledDyer said:

jeffbr said:

rhinomagic said:

Came here for the complaints about PJ dot com charging $12 to ship the record.

Maybe I'm early...?

Ha, that's my complaint, but I am mostly done bitching about shipping. Instead, I just don't order from 10c unless it is something exclusive. I ordered Gigaton from Amazon, so I immediately saved $12 (the silly shipping charge), I'll likely get the record sooner since 10c loves to send their shipments via Mail Innovations on a tour of the surrounding counties and states, and I'll also get the digital files in my Amazon library on release day. Not sure why I'd want to order it from 10c.

Yeah, kinda kicking myself for not doing the same.  I'll pay $13 more than everyone else, and get the album 2 weeks after release now. It's like I'm a glutton for my own punishment.

We really deep down want to support 10C, but they make it really hard some time.

They make it very hard.  Absurd shipping prices for extremely slow shipping.

apirk72

Sounds like some of you should shop at different record stores.  Retail seems to be $34.99 anything over that is probably on the shop not the band

mcgruff10

Indifference71 said:

MedozK said:

HesCalledDyer said:

jeffbr said:

rhinomagic said:

Came here for the complaints about PJ dot com charging $12 to ship the record.

Maybe I'm early...?

Ha, that's my complaint, but I am mostly done bitching about shipping. Instead, I just don't order from 10c unless it is something exclusive. I ordered Gigaton from Amazon, so I immediately saved $12 (the silly shipping charge), I'll likely get the record sooner since 10c loves to send their shipments via Mail Innovations on a tour of the surrounding counties and states, and I'll also get the digital files in my Amazon library on release day. Not sure why I'd want to order it from 10c.

Yeah, kinda kicking myself for not doing the same.  I'll pay $13 more than everyone else, and get the album 2 weeks after release now. It's like I'm a glutton for my own punishment.

We really deep down want to support 10C, but they make it really hard some time.

They make it very hard.  Absurd shipping prices for extremely slow shipping.

That s why I chose amazon this time.