IF you can find a good used record store, vinyl will be cheaper than buying over ebay. I've bought around 90 or so albums on ebay because of where I live now (in Georgia) and you end up paying that extra $10 or so for shipping from England or Japan (where I most often buy from). The trick here is to read between the lines to determine if the seller really is grading correctly and you must buy only lp's rated "Mint" or "Mint-" as the grade "Excellent" will many times buy you a chewed-up surface-noised LP.
At the Princeton Record Exchange in Princeton NJ I used to buy on a regular basis MFSL LP's in Mint condition for as little as 8 bucks... Most I've ever paid for an LP was $50 for MFSL Steely Dans's Katy Lied, and $75 for a sealed MFSL Supertramp Breakfast in America.
At the Princeton Record Exchange in Princeton NJ I used to buy on a regular basis MFSL LP's in Mint condition for as little as 8 bucks... Most I've ever paid for an LP was $50 for MFSL Steely Dans's Katy Lied, and $75 for a sealed MFSL Supertramp Breakfast in America.