Austin Record Convention

Just a reminder the show starts this Friday. Hope some Audiogon fans will stop by my tables to chat(table numbers 67-69).

While reading this I was thinking what would I buy for $750-$1000 ?
There is absolutely nothing  I am aware of ! I could, theoretically speaking, afford one or two records.
However, I could buy one or two guaranteed first generation master tape dubs in perfect condition.
Vinyl just doesn't sound that good, it's not worth it.

Inna- I agree. I do have quite a few records that are worth a lot of money. I bought them when they were cheaper and sometimes, just got lucky. Once a record gets that valuable, you also have trepidation playing it, and that defeats the whole point-i'm not a collector, as such, I buy the stuff to listen to it. 
This is the main reason I'm actually going to enter digital after they many decades of being a hair shirt vinyl guy. That Leaf Hound record I mentioned in the other thread is a prime example- the price is somewhere between 4-6k dollars. Perhaps you could get it for less, but it is still crazy money, at least in a high state of playing condition.  It will be an interesting journey on the digital side. I'm not abandoning LPs by any means. 
I do most of my shopping online for used records. The value of a show is to bring a lot of vendors together in one place with different wares. The trick is knowing what to buy-- I only know what I know.The best way to go to a show is to go with someone who is really knowledgeable in areas outside of your sweet spot. They can identify and suggest things they've found that I would have otherwise overlooked. I've gotten some very interesting jazz records at shows for almost nothing. And, if they are cheap, I'm willing to to take a chance on something. I usually don't walk away completely empty-handed, but I wind up buying stuff different than I the things on my mental 'list'--

I will maintain the tradition too. Digital is getting better and better, and after all more than half of what I listen to is digital, there is nothing I can do about it. Sometimes I find great performances on youtube recorded with a phone, and there are no official releases of those concerts. One example is Paco de Lucia concert in Istanbul in 2006, I think. He was at his absolute performance height. How do I get the recording of that concert? I have no idea, but that would be worth paying for. There are other examples, including some outstanding Middle Eastern music performed in that region. There are also of course performances by Miles Davis and John McLaughlin that were never released either. But somebody’s got the master tapes.

@trytone -were you there Friday? I spent several hours at the show on Friday, starting at around noon, and even kept an eye out for you--perhaps I just missed you. Sorry. I did buy a few things, got to see some familiar faces and meet some characters. There are always characters at record shows. Half the fun is the people.
One of the better booths for old psych and early prog was Rockodrome? Records out of San Antonio. I know they have an online presence-not sure about a brick store.
@trytone -if you are local to Austin, I’d be happy to get together another time. I’m not far from the Continental Club in SoCo.