Vinyl Bargain or Rip off?

musicphil

As an owner of a sugarcube SC1 i go down the route of SH vinyl not mint but good condition vinyl. We still have muppets that want a fortune for a S/H LP,  because 'vinyl is in'- nope its only worth want i am willing to pay!
As for new stuff, i have to be careful i am not buying digital remastered rubbish put onto vinyl .....and paying £15 to £28 for the privilage.

Derek S-H

Ahh, I didn't want to bring that up in case it started lots of shouting (not from you!)!

I know lots of people abandoned Vinyl for CD, but I never did, I've always had both and never regretted it, especially when a lot of rarities were issued on Vinyl only.

The sad thing is that both formats are on borrowed time anyway, we all know that. It's only us fogies who are still into physical formats, da kidz seem perfectly happy with their compressed downloads and streaming.

brian s

Indeed the covers are better. It was the same with Laserdisc over DVD. The very fact that vinyl uses more material in both the disc and it's packaging is going to rack up the price. Transport costs will be more expensive too. Frankly I'm amazed that it's made any form of come back at all but that's an issue for another thread.

Bri

Derek S-H

And, you know, depending on the quality of the Vinyl obviously, if you've got a good turntable and a decent cartridge, then background noise can be significantly reduced (though never completely silent like CD).

I'm lucky enough to have a Linn Sondek with an Ittok IV arm and Adikt MM cartridge, and I think it sounds great!

brian s

I still have my old vinyl and deck. I keep meaning to set the deck up again to listen to some of the stuff I haven't been able to get on CD. I've never got round to it though. When HMV expanded their range I saw quite a few youngsters looking at them. The trouble was that some of them then went on to look at the rubbish turntables they sell. I think the 12 inch sleeves were a bit of a novelty for them. I suspect the expense will have stopped many/all of them actually buying into the format. As you say most of them will be happy with downloads which are also much cheaper.

Bri

Doghouse Riley

The record industry has always tried to rip off the public.
CDs were vastly cheaper than vinyl to produce once  the start up costs were swallowed but the public had to pay through the nose to get the new format and continued to do so for decades.
Vinyl is being produced  now on old machinery, much of it in Eastern Europe. So the public is being ripped off again.

simonblue

But the Music industry is a business,and alway has been,how many times have you seen artist turn down big multi million deal ?
We live in an capitalist system at the end of the day,which mean people are out to make money

RBZ5416

I always find this amusing, as someone who got into music by listening to mono MW transmissions from the North Sea fading in & out with atmospherics, on a transistor radio with a 2" speaker.

gibbsy

Old fart!

Nothing quite like listening to the Top Twenty on Radio Luxembourg on a Sunday night.

Kids today. Don't known they're born.

Doghouse Riley

The altternative with a decent radio was AFN from Germany.