Vinyl prices has reached its breaking point IMO

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  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    edited June 2022
    Loujoe said:
    I always regret selling anything. Never once said ,why did I keep this?
    I’ve sold a few of my duplicates recently. Then promptly scratched a record which was the entire point of the extras I no longer have 
  • Zod
    Zod Posts: 10,906
    Loujoe said:
    I always regret selling anything. Never once said ,why did I keep this?

    Haha I'm the same way.  At some point I'm going to have more of a storage issue, and I've only got so many hours a week to spin a record, but I love collecting and listening to them.   It never occurs to me sell them.  I've had a few duplicates I've given to a friend that also collection, and sometimes he returns the favour.   I think I would regret losing something out of the collection more than I do having bought it.

    I think a lot of is I've been collecting since the 90s.  New releases were hard to find, so it was either the odd new release or discounted classic rock albums.  These last 10 years I've felt like a kid in a candy store with how much stuff gets pressed and how I've been able to buy lots of records I couldn't find back in the day.
  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    edited June 2022
    Loujoe said:
    I always regret selling anything. Never once said ,why did I keep this?

    When CDs came out, for some dumb reason I fell for the whole deal and sold off a bunch of my records.  I can't tell you how many times I said to myself, "Why did I sell that?"  Over the last 20 years or so, I've re-purchased many of those I regretted selling.  Only a few remain to be brought back into the fold (so to speak)- things I originally paid six or eight bucks for new, and of course, they are now outrageously expensive now. 
    Post edited by brianlux on
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  • goldrush
    goldrush everybody knows this is nowhere Posts: 7,802
    I'm definitely a lot more selective with my vinyl purchases these days. A lot of that is down to the price of vinyl, but also shipping costs to Australia are crazy.
    There are only a handful of artists that I buy every release on vinyl (Neil, PJ, Mark Lanegan, Lou Barlow/Sebadoh, maybe 1 or 2 others). 10 or 15 years ago I might have been chasing down every limited release or side project (and been really annoyed if I missed out) but those days are long gone.
    There will be the odd occasion where I go looking for a specific record, but usually only if I already love the album and want to be able to spin it, otherwise I'll go for digital.
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  • PJammer4life
    PJammer4life Los Angeles Posts: 2,669
    Tim Simmons said:
    Great time to start selling off a collection. 
    I started buying vinyl after the Ten Super Deluxe came out and had to get a record player to play Drop In the Park. I have little time to listen to most of the stuff I’ve collected the last 12 years or so on vinyl. Mostly CDs in the car. But most of that early stuff has gone up 5 or 10x in value. A album I bought for $20 is now worth $200 or $300, which makes it hard to unseal. I keep what I have thinking I’ll listen more when I’m retired, but maybe I’ll be deaf then or not like noise lol.  It’s a nice feeling though when your collection blows the used record store inventory out of the water.
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  • darthvedder
    darthvedder Posts: 2,673
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  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    I started collecting properly around late nineties by buying stuff that was vinyl only and then around the early 2000s it was really fun to collect records. It wasn't an overly popular past time. Could find stuff at record fairs and new albums at reasonable prices. I was never really into proper vintage vinyl, I had a few Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young records and a lot of Clash records.

    It was exciting buying a record and there wasn't new stuff out every week I wanted but now it's so marketed. I feel tricked into wanting things I don't really want to buy. Almost every time I purchase something now I just feel annoyed at the cost and it ruins the experience. I don't believe the values on discogs but even the lowest value of my collection is pretty eye watering for me. I look at all this "stuff" and think how am I ever going to get rid of it. The effort alone will be monumental. 20+ years of collecting. My kids show no interest. Ive told myself if I ever lose my job I'm just going to take some time and sell all of this. I'm pretty sure though one day I'll have had enough and just donate the whole lot to charity.

    Ultimately at the moment I just need to be more disciplined and more selective. I can't just stop overnight.
  • tino_11
    tino_11 Posts: 2,186
    I’m about done now too. I only buy albums I really love or releases from a select few artists. 
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,471
    About 6 months ago I was in a store and the y had some albums that I was looking through and came across KISS' Destroyer.  I have been wanting a new copy of it but the price was $50.  

    No thanks.  I put it right back.
  • Spiritual_Chaos
    Spiritual_Chaos Posts: 31,486
    tempo_n_groove said:
    About 6 months ago I was in a store and the y had some albums that I was looking through and came across KISS' Destroyer.  I have been wanting a new copy of it but the price was $50.  

    No thanks.  I put it right back.
    The 45 year anniversary edittion?
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,471
    Spiritual_Chaos said:
    tempo_n_groove said:
    About 6 months ago I was in a store and the y had some albums that I was looking through and came across KISS' Destroyer.  I have been wanting a new copy of it but the price was $50.  

    No thanks.  I put it right back.
    The 45 year anniversary edittion?
    Not sure.  I don't recall that being on the hype sticker?  It wasn't 6 months ago either, my mistake, it was before the pandemic.  6 Months ago I purchased the resurrected version.
  • Cropduster-80
    Cropduster-80 Posts: 2,034
    FR181798 said:
    I started collecting properly around late nineties by buying stuff that was vinyl only and then around the early 2000s it was really fun to collect records. It wasn't an overly popular past time. Could find stuff at record fairs and new albums at reasonable prices. I was never really into proper vintage vinyl, I had a few Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young records and a lot of Clash records.

    It was exciting buying a record and there wasn't new stuff out every week I wanted but now it's so marketed. I feel tricked into wanting things I don't really want to buy. Almost every time I purchase something now I just feel annoyed at the cost and it ruins the experience. I don't believe the values on discogs but even the lowest value of my collection is pretty eye watering for me. I look at all this "stuff" and think how am I ever going to get rid of it. The effort alone will be monumental. 20+ years of collecting. My kids show no interest. Ive told myself if I ever lose my job I'm just going to take some time and sell all of this. I'm pretty sure though one day I'll have had enough and just donate the whole lot to charity.

    Ultimately at the moment I just need to be more disciplined and more selective. I can't just stop overnight.
    I started collecting maybe 2004 it was fun then and did it for a number of years. 

    Then I moved overseas and didn’t take my records so I had a 9 year gap.  Moved back a few years ago and started again and everything had changed.  It’s like when rip van winkle took a nap and woke up years later

    not sure the sheer volume of choices now is necessarily for the better.  It is nice that current music is now on vinyl as that wasn’t the case in the 2000’s, but it’s so hit and miss with quality it’s probably harder today as it’s way easier to spend a lot more money on something that sounds indistinguishable from the cd 
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,521
    PJ_Soul said:
    HughFreakingDillon said:
    I've finally been priced out. I might even start selling some off. I really liked the idea of it; but I just don't sit and listen to music at home as much as I wished I could, or as I used to be able to. I'm about 95% digital listening now. It is what it is. 

    I think I'm going to go back to my original intention; only buy vinyl that is only available on that format. Everything else is digital and possibly some cd's. 

    You might regret a sell off once your kids are older and you have more time on your hands to spin them! ;)
    You're right. I have absolutely thought about that. It's for sure a consideration. Being busy is the main factor. It has nothing to do with it being "cool" or "retro" as someone else said. I'm a physical media guy. I love looking at the artwork, the act of flipping the record, and of course the sound. It's simply cost + viability = worth. I'm also getting to the point in my life where I hate having so much "stuff" if it's just sitting on a shelf. 

    My dad recently lent me his Beatles vinyl collection, and it got me so fired up to that band that I never really found before just listening to them on digital. it's just different. But I have a very small house, a limited budget, etc etc. If I'm not priced out, I'm definitely "roomed" out already. lol
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 43,664
    FR181798 said:
    I started collecting properly around late nineties by buying stuff that was vinyl only and then around the early 2000s it was really fun to collect records. It wasn't an overly popular past time. Could find stuff at record fairs and new albums at reasonable prices. I was never really into proper vintage vinyl, I had a few Beatles, Stones, Dylan, Springsteen, Neil Young records and a lot of Clash records.

    It was exciting buying a record and there wasn't new stuff out every week I wanted but now it's so marketed. I feel tricked into wanting things I don't really want to buy. Almost every time I purchase something now I just feel annoyed at the cost and it ruins the experience. I don't believe the values on discogs but even the lowest value of my collection is pretty eye watering for me. I look at all this "stuff" and think how am I ever going to get rid of it. The effort alone will be monumental. 20+ years of collecting. My kids show no interest. Ive told myself if I ever lose my job I'm just going to take some time and sell all of this. I'm pretty sure though one day I'll have had enough and just donate the whole lot to charity.

    Ultimately at the moment I just need to be more disciplined and more selective. I can't just stop overnight.

    "Vintage vinyl", FR?  You're making me feel old!  :lol:
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    -Roberto Benigni

  • elvistheking44
    elvistheking44 Posts: 4,542
    Three records purchased yesterday. 2 new and 1 used.  $87. I’m out for sure.
  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    brianlux said:

    "Vintage vinyl", FR?  You're making me feel old!  :lol:

    You know what I mean though right.
    I always thought that old stuff would always be in the racks of used record stores, it wasn't going anywhere and so I concentrated on getting new releases, White Stripes, PJ etc that were truly limited then.

    I feel old when I look back to the 90s, the whole punk era of the Clash etc was closer to that time than the 90s are to now. 




  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    You can chose 20 records to keep and have to get rid of the rest and get no money for them. How do you pick that 20?
    Favourite records.
    Most valuable.
    Most limited.
    Sentimental.
  • 1ThoughtKnown
    1ThoughtKnown Posts: 6,155
    I knew eventually somebody would defend themselves (without provocation) that they didn’t get into vinyl because it was cool or retro. Lol
  • HughFreakingDillon
    HughFreakingDillon Winnipeg Posts: 39,521
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    I knew eventually somebody would defend themselves (without provocation) that they didn’t get into vinyl because it was cool or retro. Lol
    it wasn't a "defence". it was a clarifcation that I, and I'm sure many many others, don't fit into your neat little black and white box of vinyl purists. 
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  • FR181798
    FR181798 Posts: 2,166
    1ThoughtKnown said:
    I knew eventually somebody would defend themselves (without provocation) that they didn’t get into vinyl because it was cool or retro. Lol
    Not sure what you mean. Just saying I was never in a rush to buy old 60s,70s,80s records as I used to see original copies of Led Zep 3 etc for about £5 every time I was in my local used store in the late 90s early 00s. The place I would go for new records might get like 1 copy of a new record in so I would buy those records. Of course I liked the retro factor but also the fact they weren't beat up. The only time I bought used records were if they were in great condition. The place I used to go was really smelly with beat up sleeves. Most of their records didn't really appeal and so I would practically disinfect anything used I bought. At that point 90s records were less than a decade old so were in much better condition. Siamese Dream for £5.99 and Bossanova for £5.99 stand out.

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