I bought a UHQR of Tea back in the day new- ultimately, I found it bettered by a pink rim I bought from a street guy in the Village for 5 bucks. Eventually, I found a clean pink label. I never bothered with the Chad reissue which is supposed to be more "correct." It’s not really something I play often these days anyway- I have a substantial collection of pink labels. One of my favs is Free-Tons of Sobs- not an audiophile record but Paul Kossoff is unleashed here, Guy Stevens did very little to "produce" them which is why Chris B. stepped in for the next album. Eventually Kossoff bailed b/c he didn’t want to play pop hits. Of course, he died badly-- they almost always do. Sad.
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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@viridian - to each his own. I saw on Discogs that those copies of DSOTM you mentioned are just as if not more expensive than the UHQR version. I wonder if that is because of rarity or sound quality. Maybe both? I'll stick with the UHQR. I guess in my mind the things that should be collected are those with no other use except looking at them and touching them like art, stamps, coins, antiques, books (comic & otherwise), etc. I believe it is a waste to have things sitting around that nobody gets to use/enjoy while it is stored somewhere. I consider it hoarding when the items are worthless and never used. That's called trash. I don't collect anything except I have some old baseball cards that I found out are worthless (even though I did at one point put them in plastic sleeves) because they aren't perfect or near it. Some were probably flipped back in the day. My biggest pet peeve is car collectors who don't drive them, with the exception of old rare ones that I would consider art. Mr. Porsche would roll over in his grave if he saw all the garage queens under covers with trickle charges sitting atop crates. They are meant to be driven and enjoyed. At least on a weekend or seasonal basis. |
@whart - I would never buy a record just because it sounds great if I didn't like the music. I guess collectors would to just have it in their collection. I think that is the case with a lot of non-jazz lovers who have to have a copy of Kind of Blue they never play. Sad. |
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