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Which vinyl record have you purchased recently?
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DarloRich
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What are "records"?
Gloster
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Those round, black things you see fixed to the walls of ‘retro’ bars. Or so I am told.
I sold all mine before I moved house and only have CDs now. Mind you, I still have some 78s (shellac) left over from my dad's once quite large collection. They don't seem to be worth anything except as sentimental value but I'd be happy to donate them to a careful new owner!
Ashley Hill
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Bang Your Head by Terrible Lizard. A good mint copy off Discogs.
pieguyrob
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Something I collect! 12 inch cirles of varying colour, which play music!
I have never downloaded any music. I prefer it on a big circle!
What albums did you have?
Vinyl will be the death of CDs.
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Vinyl Outsold CDs in 2020: What This Means for the Future of Music
Vinyl records are selling better than they ever have in recent years. Should Spotify and Apple Music be worried?
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Gloster
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But will sales of vinyl run out of steam once us oldies have bought another copy of those records that we gave away to the charity shops? Is it oldies on a nostalgia trip or is there a genuine (and substantial) market among the younger generation?
Streaming has already killed off CDs. It's just that the market for physical media has shrunk so much that the small numbers of vinyl sales have become a large proportion of physical media sold today.Vinyl will be the death of CDs.
Vinyl Outsold CDs in 2020: What This Means for the Future of Music
Vinyl records are selling better than they ever have in recent years. Should Spotify and Apple Music be worried?
It's a bit like trying to say there's been a resurgence in abacus sales, because they're now selling a lot more than they used to in comparison to pocket calculators - while completely ignoring that those calculators have been widely replaced by computers and smart phones.
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It would cost me a fortune to re-purchase even a fraction of my old collection e.g. Velvet Underground with banana cover, Bowie 'Man Who Sold the World' with dress cover, Sex Pistols single on Dutch EMI with pic cover.
Tryfan
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Fortunatley I have all of my vinyl still, and it gets played.
My 25 year old Daughter has recently started buying her own vinyl. Largely fuelled by her boyfriend who has also started buying lots of vinyl.
I don’t know how I’m supposed to feel about all of this. She’s come to my house with lots of albums she’s been out and bought for herself. Mostly I have a copy of it already. The main differences are mine are in much better condition and I paid between £2.50- £5.00 for them brand new. She’s paying upwards of £12 for these things and some aren’t in great shape.
She’s now hoping I’m going to give her one of my turntables…..not going to happen!!
Ashley Hill
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Had vinyl carried on through the 2000s would we now be paying £15/20 for an album now anyway? Even the latest CDs are still £10-15.
I've only downloaded off I-tunes once and that was for an I-tunes only version of The Golden Hour of the Future by the Human League with extra tracks. I have the vinyl promo and CD versions too.
Tryfan
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I have bought a few re-issues at that price tbf in recent years. Albums that are easily obtained and not too obscure.
seem to remember in the mid 90’s some LE vinyl that was either the same price as a CD or maybe a little bit more.
If I want MP3 versions of albums I buy from goldenmp3.ru - super cheap and good quality
Geezertronic
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Digital content will be/is the death of CDs
Harold Hill
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a re-issue on an Italian label of the soundtrack of 'Its a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World' and its absolute rubbish. Win some, lose some
LOL The Irony
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Until people nostalgic for the 90s and 00s... start buying CDs.Vinyl will be the death of CDs.
Vinyl Outsold CDs in 2020: What This Means for the Future of Music
Vinyl records are selling better than they ever have in recent years. Should Spotify and Apple Music be worried?
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CDs are digital.
Geezertronic
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Maybe I gave a badly phrased response, a better response would be that streaming services & online/easily accessible digital libraries will be/are the death of CDs
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Lek
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Not sure if this counts, since I was sent free copies of my own release from the label. Probably not everyone's cup of tea either, I wrote these tracks back in the early 1990s during the UK rave era, 2 of which were never released, the other 2 were remixes of stuff I released at the time. Now a niche revival genre, this is a very limited run of only 300 copies on ice blue vinyl, which all sold out on pre-orders. The label sent me 5 copies.
61653 HTAFC
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What do you mean, "had vinyl carried on through the 2000s"...?
For some of us it never went away, and that's not just the baby-boomers!
For the record (SWIDT?) my last brand-new purchase was Future Of The Left's "The Peace & Truth Of..." album. More recently I managed to find a copy of "Casual Sex in the Cineplex" by Sultans Of Ping F.C. in a charity shop. It was priced at £1 due to being relatively obscure these days, but I dropped a couple of extra quid in their box.
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Just ordered all 5 Band Maid vinyl records due for release on November 03rd.
The record company finally responded to pestering fans by issuing the whole back catalogue on plastic as limited editions, with a price tag to match + postage from the far east + import duty.
A case of be careful what you wish for.
The record company finally responded to pestering fans by issuing the whole back catalogue on plastic as limited editions, with a price tag to match + postage from the far east + import duty.
A case of be careful what you wish for.
nlogax
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Fair point. I've not bought a cd for eight years.
I've recently pre-ordered the upcoming release of Neil Young's Live at Carnegie Hall, 1970 album.
Due to supply issues at the vinyl factories this release has been delayed twice, and the other 5 releases in the "official bootleg" range are now not expected until some time in 2022.
I read in a music magazine that overall vinyl demand in the first half of 2021 has grown by over 100% compared to the same period in 2020.
Due to supply issues at the vinyl factories this release has been delayed twice, and the other 5 releases in the "official bootleg" range are now not expected until some time in 2022.
I read in a music magazine that overall vinyl demand in the first half of 2021 has grown by over 100% compared to the same period in 2020.
Haven’t bought them for a while as I’m trying to save money, and my record player isn’t working very well.
But I last bought some original Specials 6” vinyls from a market.
The last new 12” I bought was The Verve’s Urban Hymns, one of my all time favourite albums.
But I last bought some original Specials 6” vinyls from a market.
The last new 12” I bought was The Verve’s Urban Hymns, one of my all time favourite albums.
nlogax
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Ooh, good shout. May do that as well as it's a bloody great album. Buying my old favourite albums on vinyl is something I have been doing a lot of in recent years.
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