Vinyl

[coollino]

I do think about collecting again and just buying stuff from labels like Soul Jazz and Numero Group, they seem to do amazing work finding so many lost/forgotten albums. I've discovered so much new music through both of them

For eg, this is £22

https://numerogroup.com/products/if-theres-hell-below

It's so good, angry 1970's Afro-American garage which I had no idea about any of

 

[neil999]

Trouble is back in the day of peak physical media it was a hobby well within financial reach of it's main demographic - mainly teenagers and young adults. Pocket money for the singles, a little bit more for the album.

Now they're asking £30 minimum for a new release and gigs cost a fortune as well.

Its interesting, because cds were alot pricier in the 90s than they are now..in fact a new vinyl record record ,with inflation is about the same you would pay for a CD in mid nineties

 

[Rita_Poon]

Its interesting, because cds were alot pricier in the 90s than they are now..in fact a new vinyl record record ,with inflation is about the same you would pay for a CD in mid nineties

I reckon the nostalgia element of vinyl with sleeve art and insert is all well and good until the modern cost kicks you up the arse.

 

[mmmmsnouts]

My biggest problem is that I’m both too old and too young to have a collection. I was still a kid when vinyl first got replaced by CDs, so I don’t have any from my early years. And a lot of my favorite albums were released between about 2005-2015 when vinyl was hugely out of favor. If they were released on vinyl at all, they are rare and very expensive. There’s one record on my list from a reasonably popular band that came out in 2010, and my local shop has it priced on Discogs for something like a thousand dollars.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Its interesting, because cds were alot pricier in the 90s than they are now..in fact a new vinyl record record ,with inflation is about the same you would pay for a CD in mid nineties

You could pick up an album for a tenner and often less brand new for stuff a little older or discounted which was within the average pocket money / paper round / trolley pushing / glass collecting funds of a teenager.

Are kids getting £35 a week pocket money now? I could be seriously out of touch here.

 

[neil999]

You could pick up an album for a tenner and often less brand new for stuff a little older or discounted which was within the average pocket money / paper round / trolley pushing / glass collecting funds of a teenager.

Are kids getting £35 a week pocket money now? I could be seriously out of touch here.

Deffo remember paying 12/13 quid for an album in late 90s...they really came down in price with online shopping

 

[Rita_Poon]

You could pick up an album for a tenner and often less brand new for stuff a little older or discounted which was within the average pocket money / paper round / trolley pushing / glass collecting funds of a teenager.

Are kids getting £35 a week pocket money now? I could be seriously out of touch here.

cost of living crisis killed any money in anyone's pocket, let alone teenagers.
paper rounds are long gone,
all the little supermarkets have gone and lidl/aldi don't have trolley staff
the pubs have died in the main, glass collecting got absorbed into the rest of the staffs duties.

'generation hopelessness'. still one of boris' secret kids got a high paying spot in the lords. alright for some.
When russia was going through the financial withdrawal of the end of the soviet era and everything was grey and bleak and grim and dying, was there an underground artistic scene alive with youthful vigour waiting to galvanise a new generation and clutch for freedom and its promise?

 

[Frank Butcher]

I've been a collector since the early 2000's but really ramped up my collection during The Covid Lockdowns and fairly steady since. Must have in the region of 1800 records now. Alot signed and rarities too.
Based in Edinburgh and there is a few good indie record shops - Underground Solu'shn (more dance/house/hip hop/jazz/soul), Assai (Indie) and Vinyl Villains (predominately 2nd hand but wide mix of punk/new wave/rock).

Like others have said the cost of newly released records are obscene these days and I am at the point where I need to cut back really especially having a 2 year old it is getting harder to justify.

 

[ClausThomsen]

Did a bit of browsing on Discogs last night and some of the descriptions are baffling...

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition (there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don't affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

A NM despite visible surface marks and they don't affect the sound quality....apart from the pops and crackles?

 

[Rita_Poon]

Did a bit of browsing on Discogs last night and some of the descriptions are baffling...

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition (there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don't affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

A NM despite visible surface marks and they don't affect the sound quality....apart from the pops and crackles?

There's tons of pish takers. They're everywhere.

 

[ste d' indica]

One of the best...

 

[Blue 1]

Did a bit of browsing on Discogs last night and some of the descriptions are baffling...

Vinyl in Nr MINT/Excellent+ condition (there are some surface marks visible on the vinyl when held up to the light but they don't affect the sound quality apart from some light pops/crackles)

A NM despite visible surface marks and they don't affect the sound quality....apart from the pops and crackles?

This is the worst thing about discogs.com. So many sellers don't know how to grade properly. I have bought records that have been far too generously graded on quite a lot of occasions, and I won't even look at anything below VG+.

Any audible scratches and it's VG at best.

Always read the description.

 

[chrismpw]

This is the worst thing about discogs.com. So many sellers don't know how to grade properly. I have bought records that have been far too generously graded on quite a lot of occasions, and I won't even look at anything below VG+.

Any audible scratches and it's VG at best.

Always read the description.

The problem with this is a record will sometimes play quietly on a good deck that can track deep in a groove, but noisier on a cheaper or poorly set up deck, that's tracking near the surface where the small scratches are. So two people can have different opinions on the vinyl.

 

[Blue 1]

The problem with this is a record will sometimes play quietly on a good deck that can track deep in a groove, but noisier on a cheaper or poorly set up deck, that's tracking near the surface where the small scratches are. So two people can have different opinions on the vinyl.

Aye, but stuff like the above is taking the mick. The fella grades it as NM-/EX+ and then says there are audible pops and crackles.

 

[chrismpw]

Aye, but stuff like the above is taking the mick. The fella grades it as NM-/EX+ and then says there are audible pops and crackles.

You're right ... People use the word mint too freely. I never use it the word when I sell stuff on ebay, even if whatever it is is in top condition. There's always someone who can and will find a blemish.