Would you pay £12 - £20

[Crackle]

Oh, I'm referencing the wrong farking album.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

You bought it for, All the right reasons....

Has postman taken over your account?

 

[tyred]

I think convenience wins though.

I love vinyl and can never resist a browse in charity shops etc and do occasionally buy new vinyl and I agree MP3s are soulless but by God it's handy being able to have your entire record collection on something smaller than a fag packet. I have a lot of vinyl and love to listen to it but am rarely at home to actually do so.

Changing my car stereo for one which accepts music on an SD card has been one of the best things I ever did as I no longer have the glovebox and door pockets cluttered with rattling tapes and CDs (and the volume is loud enough to drown out all the other rattles).

It's the same with photography. I have many film cameras and I love to use them and have a decent photographic knowledge on how to use them but more often than not I use my digital cameras, not because I prefer them but because it's just less hassle and I'm a lazy ******

 

[andyfraser]

they were... newfangled things usually are. I was still buying new vinyl in the mid 90s and expected to pay up to £20 for a double or triple LP... 20 years later and they're more or less the same price. Scandalous.

I like to look at the inflation adjusted figures. I remember saying that I thought CDs would be cheaper when some new releases are £15 and I was paying £10 in 1989. It turns out that £10 in 1989 in £23.97 in today's money! £15 today would've been £6.26 in 1989 so CDs have become cheaper.

£20 in 1995 in £35.55 today. £20 today would've been £11.25 in 1995.

Source: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...tion-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

 

[MontyVeda]

I like to look at the inflation adjusted figures. I remember saying that I thought CDs would be cheaper when some new releases are £15 and I was paying £10 in 1989. It turns out that £10 in 1989 in £23.97 in today's money! £15 today would've been £6.26 in 1989 so CDs have become cheaper.

£20 in 1995 in £35.55 today. £20 today would've been £11.25 in 1995.

Source: http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...tion-calculator-value-money-changed-1900.html

and let's not forget the quality of some vinyl in the late 80's and early 90s... some LPs were so thin and flimsy you were scared to play 'em!

 

[Crackle]

Has postman taken over your account?

I Dont Think So.Anything Is Possible.Though

 

[gavintc]

I don't see the point. My music collection has moved through vinyl, 8 track, cassette, CD, to electronic versions and is now in the cloud and Spotify. Online music for me is perfect. Buying one vinyl for more than a month on Spotify - not going to happen.

 

[andyfraser]

and let's not forget the quality of some vinyl in the late 80's and early 90s... some LPs were so thin and flimsy you were scared to play 'em!

Yes. I remember Roadrunner Records samplers being particularly bad. These weren't those free flexi disc things on the front of magazines but actual LPs sold in record shops at a budget price. They may as well have been the free flexi disc things.

 

[andyfraser]

I don't see the point. My music collection has moved through vinyl, 8 track, cassette, CD, to electronic versions and is now in the cloud and Spotify. Online music for me is perfect. Buying one vinyl for more than a month on Spotify - not going to happen.

I've gone digital too. All my old CDs, tapes and records are in the loft. I still buy the odd CD when it works out cheaper. Then I just rip it and put it in a box.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I was swing both ways, tangible + mp3 although I don't buy mps3's I only rip stuff I've got. Anyway a hilarious thing happened earlier when I opened windows media player, it said 'no tracks found', how I laughed, closed and opened and there they all were. Reminded me I haven't done a back up for a couple of months.

 

[RichardB]

I don't remember the 78, the 33 and 45 yes, I do.
Much prefer the modern mp3 or 4 in the cloud remember when moving flat was a nightmare with all the LPs and the books, omg, the books!
Still have lots, but getting slowly replaced by ebooks.

My first record player had a 78 rpm setting, but it was a historical curiosity even then. I don't think I ever played a 78 on it. I'm a big fan of ebooks for holidays and the like, but I still like 'proper' books. As with vinyl/CDs vs MP3, you get so much more than just the bare text.

I think convenience wins though. ... Changing my car stereo for one which accepts music on an SD card has been one of the best things I ever did as I no longer have the glovebox and door pockets cluttered with rattling tapes and CDs

Same here. I have the equivalent of about 50-60 albums on a USB stick the size of my thumbnail and play it through the car stereo. Brilliant if all you want is a soundtrack to your drive.

 

[swee'pea99]

A quick perusal of the current list looks more like a stock-take at Oxfam

 

[jonny jeez]

Are modern vinyl albums as good as old copies...do they have the same range or depth of sound ...or does the electronic studio recording create a digital foundation that is already a bit shallow?