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.
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Jeez. I'll have to take another look and see if any LP's they have I'd be interested in trying.

I'm not a Rye drinker(may never have even had Rye except in a Manhattan decades ago) but I'm going to buy a bottle of Finished and see what the hub bub is. 


There are so many guys who rave about their favorite whiskey that even though I never found one I liked all that much I kept an open mind and keep looking. One time at Mike Lavigne's I take a sip of one or two and decide to try Angel's Envy Finished Rye. Next thing you know I am Gollum jealously guarding My Precious, warming it so as to maximize its intoxicating fragrance, swirling its sensuous savoriness until the optimal point of swallowing, lost in pleasure as it slithers its way down warming to where we become One. 

I can't promise it will be like that for you, with the Finished Rye or with the Hot Stamper. But I am sure you will never know until you try.

millercarbon, what town are you in?  Day's drive from Chicago?  I'm on my way!

Hot stampers are everywhere but hard to pin down. Better Records is an interesting idea.  Their labor and experience set the price.  

Reissues.  It depends. 

Seems to me vinyl can be done right or wrong at any level.  Identifying it is the chore!