Would you pay £12 - £20

[Chromatic]

Ownership of mp3 tracks and CDs is a joyless experience.

Excellently put, sums it up precisely .

If I was a turntable manufacturer I'd nick that as my strapline.

 

[SteCenturion]

I saw them when I went in there on Thursday night, they're definitely going for the middle aged market.

Guns n Roses, The Stone Roses, Fleetwood Mac.

I'm in a Huff ..

 

[perplexed]

I must be bloody ancient.

I've seen Fleetwood Mac live four times.

In three different decades...

 

[SteCenturion]

I've paid £28 as crowdsource funding for a one off live cutting of a vinyl album by one of my favourite groups.

I don't even have a record player anymore.

Lucky for me the'll give out link to the MP3 download site when the vinyl arrives.

Which band @shouldbeinbed ?

A couple of years ago, maybe three, I paid £50 for Guns 'n' Roses shaped picture disc.

 

[SteCenturion]

What's vinyl...is it a new iPhone app?

It's a material often worn in the S&M club scene ...






So I am told.

 

[andyfraser]

I didn't buy much vinyl back in the day. I'd only buy something special or imports on vinyl, everything else was on tape. I got my first CD player when I was 18 and that was that. I found CDs so much more convenient and more robust. CDs probably couldn't actually take the abuse that they put them through in the early adverts but I ruined more LPs (and styluses!) than I have CDs. All of my 80s CDs are still perfectly fine.

I've gone digital and streaming now and can't tell the difference between a good MP3/AAC and a CD. I seem to remember vinyl sounding warmer but having less dynamic range then CDs.

 

[MontyVeda]

In my local Tesco Extra music section, many older albums can be had on CD for £3 - £5, and some of the 2 and 3 CD compilations go for the same price.

CDs are much cheaper to produce than vinyl... you may not want to pay £12-£20 for a retro format you have little interest in but for those of us who are, it's not a bad price.

 

[Smurfy]

CDs are much cheaper to produce than vinyl... you may not want to pay £12-£20 for a retro format you have little interest in but for those of us who are, it's not a bad price.

When CDs first appeared, I seem to recall they were more expensive than vinyl. Maybe it depends on which format is the dominant media type.

 

[shouldbeinbed]

Which band @shouldbeinbed ?

A couple of years ago, maybe three, I paid £50 for Guns 'n' Roses shaped picture disc.

Katzenjammer.

Norwegian 4 piece, multi instrumentalist 30 odd instruments and their voices harmonise across a huge range too, style wise they're a bit of everything and live they are brilliant.

 

[Crackle]

Another article appeared today, tempering the new vinyl rise in popularity

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/07/vinyl-sales-tesco-lps-labels

On Tesco's vinyl stocks it says "A quick perusal of the current list looks more like a stock-take at Oxfam: ELO, the Eagles, Bruce Springsteen, the Rolling Stones, Bob Marley and Elvis Presley."

And on whose buying them,

In my teenage years, the charts coursed with testosterone and oestrogen: ska, Bowie, Bolan, Motown. One look at the vinyl chart now and all you can smell is M&S cardigans and Saga insurance claims..............Record shops might once have been the sole preserve for local teenagers, these days they are essentially creches for middle-aged men;

In short

It’s now the craft beer of music formats. But just as craft beer is not the answer to the alarming closure rate of public houses, neither will vinyl save the music industry.

In other words, CC readers are the vinyl demographic!

 

[threebikesmcginty]

I was in a record shop yesterday and picked up a new copy of The Jayhawks 'Smile', 2LP 180g vinyl with MP3 download code for £3, bit of a bargain I rec.

 

[Crackle]

I was in a record shop yesterday and picked up a new copy of The Jayhawks 'Smile', 2LP 180g vinyl with MP3 download code for £3, bit of a bargain I rec.

Ain't no end, to vinyl bargains.

 

[MontyVeda]

When CDs first appeared, I seem to recall they were more expensive than vinyl. Maybe it depends on which format is the dominant media type.

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.

 

[threebikesmcginty]

Ain't no end, to vinyl bargains.

They're rare these days I rec.

 

[Crackle]

They're rare these days I rec.

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