The upcoming release (December 5th) of Tulare Dust: A Songwriter's Tribute To Merle Haggard comes out on LP for the first time, retail price $26. On Craft Recordings, known for their high quality reissues.
Prices of Records/Vinyl in 2025
Is it me or have prices of vinyl recently surged to an average of $35 or more ? Just a couple of months ago the average seemed to be around $30. I bought around 30 records to play on my exorbitantly expensive turntable and its multi thousand dollar cartridge, its hundred of dollars of cables, the $1000 phono preamp etc and immediately had 7k invested before buying any records. After buying 50 albums or so and finding about half to be shitty recordings I had $1500 invested in realistically 25 playable, great quality recordings. I just went back online to look for a few more and I'm certain prices have jumped from $30 average to close to $40. WTF ??? More gouging I assume. Is this industry truly sustainable when people are expected to have close to 10k invested to play some records? Insane. I protest, with my wallet. Let's see, hmmm....stream a million tracks for $20 a month with perfect sound, no cleaning, snaps, pop or crackle and hiss and- jump tracks and artists the second I don't like what I hear- or- invest $40 in a crappy recording on vinyl, suffer through it or toss it in the trash because the recording or the music suck. I could literally light two $20 bills on fire instead of bothering to gamble on ordering a record online.
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@vonharaland: While in Portland, be sure to visit Crossroads Music. It is a multi-vendor record "mall" in a single large room. All used LP’s, a couple dozen individual sellers. Portland has quite a few used LP shops, some focusing on certain genres. Tomorrow Records has a large Jazz section, and even sells used hi-fi-components (mostly 1970’s Japanese receivers and turntables). Mississippi Records focuses on World music. Music Millennium has used LP’s, but is better for new releases. I go there on every Record Store Day---they get many copies of each title. A lot of more common titles are priced at $5, even when in Mint Condition. More rare albums are relatively reasonably priced. I just picked up James Burton’s debut solo album for $25. He played in Ricky Nelson’s band on The Ozzie & Harriet Show, then in Elvis’ band, then in Emmylou Harrises Hot Band (more recently on Elvis Costello’s King Of America album). Give a listen to his solo in Ricky’s dreamy Pop song "Young World". To die for! I had the song on a 7" 45 RPM single before The Beatles ever entered a recording studio. George Harrison’s guitar solo in "Nowhere Man" sure sounds like is was modeled on James’ solo in "Young World." Both very melodic and musical.
Here’s James:
https://youtu.be/Umz2GJR2LLc?si=Maos8KsnR_iox6GF
And Here’s George:
https://youtu.be/8scSwaKbE64?si=DWnxAytz7GssfiPy
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