Vinyl's Comeback

Vinyl prices are largely too high I feel. I still have a large collection from the 70s/80s that I bought back in the day. I sometimes buy from second hand stores and have some occasional new additions, like the last Rick Wakeman release 8 got on vinyl for example.

I'm a lifelong vinyl loyalist.
I have thousands of the things and regularly dig through all the likely spots within a sixty mile radius.
The prices these days make me pretty queasy,but I guess I can laugh about all the times in the 90's when I pulled entire collections out of dumpsters or found beautiful OG pressings for .50 or a buck.

I'm kind of shocked that I spent $18 smackeroos on a 45 last week...but it's a righteous platter and the rest of my order was well under retail and included a few true gems I missed having,shrug.

CD's have been much more fun to take risks on for cheap since records became cool again IMHO.

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Vinyl has it's own drawbacks (like inner groove distortion) but the nice thing with physical media -

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I think the prices are mostly the same as in the 80's when we adjust for inflation.

I had a huge vinyl collection back in the day but I had a real hate for it, still do. Unfortunately it was the only way to hear my favourite music but I hated the dust, static, crackling, hissing sound and no matter how much I tried to take care of it, scratches would appear from nowhere. I got rid of the lot once CDs appeared

I hope people are playing it on something decent! Not only will those briefcase record players that you can get in record shops not sound very good, they also have higher stylus tracking force which isn't kind to your (expensive) vinyl. Best way to go is amp & speakers plus a decent record deck.

Wait till you see what the kids are into next. Casettes are making a comeback.
Ive fixed multiple cassetes and casette players because of this revival.
Check out the price of sony walkmans on ebay....egad.

I had thousands of vinyl LPs and was never so happy as when digital came along and ended the surface noise, skips, crackles, and pops of of vinyl.

Love the sound of vinyl, pops, clicks and all.

I don't collect vinyl but I do restore turntables.

My latest project:

I still buy records, mostly 78s and 45s. But I buy them

you can't beat the vinyl sound.

I LikEz VinylL