Second hand record prices rising well over inflation?

Yep I agree Crimson are hipper than Genesis and certainly ELP , rock bottom prices for any ELP album , Genesis slightly better apart from Pink Scroll and Crimson albums even at the lowest prices are £30 for Starless and bible Black .

 

Well thats nuts , I suppose ELP didn’t even figure as usual !

 

Second Coming Records had 2 stores on the same block...one had $1.00 promo albums from a variety of artists...damn those day look even better than they did so many years ago...oh yea, I bought hundreds...

 

Yeah , the video is a real head turner with the luscious female black typist in the background!

 

Nobody I knew was using a turntable a decade ago. Most people thought of it as an oddity that I did.

 

Everybody I knew was...........

 

Then I guess everyone you knew was into a niche thing. Or maybe wherever you’re from they did. It certainly wasn’t common here.

 

As little as 15 years ago several people gave me their record collections because they’d just been sitting around in their basements for years and they had no idea what they would ever do with them. There were some great copies there.

 

Look , those of us who started buying records in the 60s built up a sizeable collection. We still needed something to play them on.

Nobody threw out their photo albums when digital cameras came along. Nobody with ears threw out their LPs when CDs came along

 

Then everyone you know has good ears. That is not, and was not the norm. I’m only 46, so most people my age had no interest in records 10 years ago.

 

A decent dollar bin is becoming an endangered species too. It seems the only shops that still have them are the kind that will buy literally everything and can't get rid of anything, and eventually run out of space to add new things. Still usually a better selection than thrift stores, I'll give them that. At some point they are going to need to give it up and send Babs to the trash.

 

Millions did , I worked at a store in the late 80s, when people came in with their Vinyl collections , we pointed them to green dumpster in the back, 99.9% threw their collections in the dumpster.

We had to have it emptied daily

 

And stores are scoring record highs , on everything in NM
these things were commons:

GM - Faith is now a $60 lp
Top Gun is $70
Aerosmith GH is $50

I could go on all night

 

I bit off topic I guess but I bought a used CD today for $8.99. It had its original sticker on it from 1991 which was $8.93. Somehow that brought a smile to my face...

 

$8.93 sounds cheap for 1991. And $8.99 sounds expensive for a used CDs today (although I'm not saying it wasn't a good deal).

 

Well it turned out to be a fantastic album for me so a bargain in the end. I always take a quick look at the bargain bins which are usually $0.99 - $4.99 but nothing was to be found on that day.

 

Wales, the land that time forgot

 

I just stopped selling and buying records. No point selling and there is no way I am going to pay these inflated prices. New albums cost bit too much and one hears these horror stories all the time about crappy pressings and warped records. Why make records, if one does not now how? There are still those among us who buy records to listen to the music, so these records should be playable. Then again, I just started collecting CD, it is dirt cheap now here in Finland.

 

Silent version:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nioT5s1mn90

 

Sounds about right. Sellers and stores in this country are a joke. Singles were $1 each 10 years ago, now pretty much everything is more expensive than an album! The "rare!!!" thing is what gets me though. Every bloody record or single is "RARE!!!", including the likes of ARRIVAL, Bat Out Of Hell and Thriller. It is just pathetic.

I gave discogs a second chance and bought a couple of albums that were "NM". I bought a 1st press of Deep Purple In Rock because my Jp 1st press is sadly from US tapes where as ours used UK plates. It was marked "NM". Naturally, it was in what my fussy self would call "VG" at best. I just cannot trust sellers in this country, every one I have tried with their "NM" records has been trash that I will bin eventually.

 

Nobody likes a show off

 

Ha! just sharing...; ) did I say how fantastic it was?

 

The problem with that is the brick and mortars don't get the 'we don't care' deal like Target or Wal-Mart. Nearly all new vinyl LPs are nonreturnable while the mark-up isn't that great anyways. Big box stores can afford to do that but most indie stores are still hoping to make that $5 on a record that's been sitting around for awhile.