I rarely buy new reissues. Most are cut from digital files. Might as well buy a CD. I search for and buy nice copies of LPs made before the digital era.There are bargains to be found! I bought on eBay Jeff Beck's Wired for $5 - including shipping! A new reissue would be about $25!
Vinyl Buyers: The Premium Price Vinyl v. Cheap Vinyl Ratio
The market share of vinyl in new recordings is driven to a large degree by willingness of vinyl buyers to pay premium prices. Nevertheless, there is a huge pool of cheap vinyl out there; records that sold millions so there's hundreds of thousands of copies on the market and on down. To listeners who buy a lot of vinyl these days, what is the ratio of your budget between premium price/collector price albums vs. low price albums?
Personally, when I buy vinyl it's usually things that never came out on CD, which is often quite reasonably priced, but the sticking point is the price of pandemic era shipping, which is staggering. There was a seller of English folk music on Discogs who offered free shipping on orders over the equivalent of US $250, so I started tossing things and tossing things into the shopping cart (or basket, as they call it in Blighty) to get up to that figure. I finally wound up spending $350. I would say about $150 of that was collector-price items.
Personally, when I buy vinyl it's usually things that never came out on CD, which is often quite reasonably priced, but the sticking point is the price of pandemic era shipping, which is staggering. There was a seller of English folk music on Discogs who offered free shipping on orders over the equivalent of US $250, so I started tossing things and tossing things into the shopping cart (or basket, as they call it in Blighty) to get up to that figure. I finally wound up spending $350. I would say about $150 of that was collector-price items.
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Almost exclusively used early pressings. I've bought some reissues of 90's alternative and grunge to have it on vinyl, can't say I've been terribly impressed. I have a fair sized collection of 50's and 60's jazz, almost all early pressings, about 1/3 mono, and a large collection of original if not early classical, and a large collection of 50s - 80s rock/pop/punk/new wave/motown/r&b etc. |
If you are worried about shipping try https://better-records.com they have free shipping, and the prices will blow you away! |
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