Vinyl is back for good and that’s exciting

Buying Recorded Music is a luxury, there is no limitation on how a individual treats themselves to something they class as special to them.

Buying Hard Media to Stash Away or Play, Buying used or new Hard Media, or buying virtual Media, each option is for the individual to decide.

It is not really a winnable situation, when those who own music as a result of a purchase and those who use music recordings as a result of a hire agreement are suggesting their methods are the better one. Better for the individual not better for all. 

grislybutter, Apparently you shop at Goodwill and yard sales.  Prices on coveted work by first rank artists on original labels are pretty stable if not rising, based on my recent 3 days spent at the Capitol Audio Fest here in DC. I am referring of course to "pre-owned" LPs.  Prices on new re-issues are also not falling. Yes, junk is cheap; it always was. In fact, my experience made me take a second look at the value of my LP collection; I could not or would not afford to buy it back if I did not already own it.

@lewm

I have no doubt we have different standards :) and I sure can appreciate your taste, collection and budget. 

Yes, I shop at goodwill, shopgoodwill.com, ebay, discogs, used record stores in very ethnic neighborhoods with thick metal bars on the windows. Yes, it can be/will be junk. But my 10 best sounding records were ALL under $10. And I have a pile of records I thought I could sell for 15-30-50 bucks, based on "market value" - not a single offer 

https://shopgoodwill.com/item/186565062

You got me all wrong. I’m no LP snob. I just don’t buy records in less than mint physical condition. That means no LPs from Goodwill or yard sales have ever qualified. At CAF I bought a dozen used LPs from a trusted vendor at $10 each, all mint. And he marked them down to $5 each. But while there, I saw, for example, that complete Mosaic sets, of which I have 9 or 10 accumulated over 30 years or so, were on sale from the same vendor, for $500 each.