The Vinyl Thread: Still Listen On Wax, Don't Use The CD

[VinylGuy]

Listened to Black gives way to blue and men that vinyl is beautiful.

[southp]

If you were waiting for the price of Neil Young + CH's "Americana" to come down (like me), it's currently under $30 on Amazon. Free shipping if you have Prime! (or want to do their Super-Saver stuff)

I got it for $40 a few weeks ago on Amazon. Oh well.

[Simple Torture]

If you were waiting for the price of Neil Young + CH's "Americana" to come down (like me), it's currently under $30 on Amazon. Free shipping if you have Prime! (or want to do their Super-Saver stuff)

I got it for $40 a few weeks ago on Amazon. Oh well.

If it was under a month ago, I say just email customer service and see if they'll adjust your price. It's worth a shot.

[southp]

I'm still working my way through my collection on Discogs. Here's where I'm at with 212 albums added to the DB and probably another 75-100 to go.

Collection Value Range
Minimum:
$3,739.93
Median:
$5,639.67
Maximum:
$9,185.54

Top artists based on the groupings I made:
Pearl Jam (83)
Neil Young (27)
Rolling Stones (22)
Beatles (21)

[AndySlash]

http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/188729271.html

Article by: MORGAN MERCER , Star Tribune
Updated: January 28, 2013 - 4:11 PM

Turns out it’s still hip to plunk down a needle and listen to new music the old-fashioned way. For five consecutive years, vinyl-loving listeners have ratcheted up sales to keep this small but dedicated market alive and thriving.

According to Nielsen SoundScan, 2012 was another record-breaking year as vinyl album sales rose 17.7 percent from the previous year.

The top 10 vinyl albums of 2012 read like a playlist on 89.3 the Current (think: Mumford & Sons, Black Keys and Bon Iver). Jack White’s “Blunderbuss” topped the chart. But the band sitting in the No. 2 spot might come as a surprise.

Here are the biggest takeaways from the Nielsen Company & Billboard’s 2012 Music Industry Report:

• In 2012, vinyl album sales hit 4.6 million, smashing the previous record of 3.9 million in 2011.

• That total was higher than in any other year in the history of Nielsen SoundScan (dating to 1991).

• But vinyl only accounted for 2.3 percent of all physical album sales. CD album sales hit 193 million.

• Independent music stores dominated sales, handling 67 percent of all vinyl purchases.

• Following White’s “Blunderbuss,” the No. 2 position belonged to the Beatles. The legendary band’s reissued “Abbey Road” from 1969 sold 30,000 copies, proving the British invasion is still hot the second time around. □


Morgan Mercer is a University of Minnesota student reporter on assignment for the Star Tribune.

[Freewheelin]

So what reissues do we have coming out this year?

Im amped about

Relationship.. - ATDI
shame-brad
You am I catalogue.
Mad season

Crossing my fingers for some

red house painters /sun kil moon
Blind melon
R.e.m 90s albums
Eels 90s albums

[washing machine]

how far down the road are those REM and Red House Painters releases?

[southp]

Monster and New Adventures have been on my wantlist for years but I've never been able to pull the trigger.

[Norah]

Monster and New Adventures have been on my wantlist for years but I've never been able to pull the trigger.

I've got both of those.

[southp]

Monster and New Adventures have been on my wantlist for years but I've never been able to pull the trigger.

I've got both of those.

Liar.

[AndySlash]

as low an opinion of them i have, i do wish i had pulled the trigger on getting reveal and around the sun lps years ago. i could have had reveal for less than 10 bucks (and it sat there a long while) and around the sun for not much more. they're now the only r.e.m. albums i don't have on vinyl.

i got lucky with new adventures and up, finding them at a local shop for good prices in the early 00's. could use a different copy of automatic, though, as i got the pressing from a few years ago that has strange warble on nightswimming.

[southp]

I have the warble-version of AFTP too.

[AndySlash]

it sucks!

[Norah]

Monster and New Adventures have been on my wantlist for years but I've never been able to pull the trigger.

I've got both of those.

Liar.

Nope.

[southp]

it sucks!

Especially on such a piano-heavy song like Nightswimming. If it had been an up-tempo rocker it may have been ok.
On top of this AFTP fuck-up, I also have a copy of Accelerate where both LPs are disc 1 (sides a/b).

I have bad REM-vinyl luck. Although everything from Murmur-to-Out of Time in my collection is just fine.

[AndySlash]

if you're looking to replace accelerate on the cheap, amazon is selling the lp for 12.99 (and a seller has a new sealed copy for 7.49 if you don't mind corner dings).

[Freewheelin]

Unwound reissues!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/washingt ... rou,91732/

[southp]

Unwound reissues!

http://www.avclub.com/articles/washingt ... rou,91732/

Who?

[AndySlash]

aw

[Simple Torture]

I was at the record store today and was looking at the 10'' plastic sleeves. The guy asked if I wanted some, and I said I wasn't sure, I don't really have have that many 10'' records. He said most people only have 6, and we laughed about it, so I bought 6 of them. I got home and counted...I have six 10'' records. Eerie.