MikeH
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Only SACD sadly.
Definitive Audiophile pressings
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I knew I forgot someone! Been brain dead today. I like Bellers a lot too (I’d probably put him above RKS). But everybody knows I only really have eyes for BoomBoom
I like most of my presses by big Kev too, he just doesn’t press enough music that I like
With the exception of the Dylan mono the big Kev Sundazed are well beaten by the Smiffy MOV.
MikeH
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I’m okay with digital if it sounds good on vinyl still and is mastered by someone good. The recent pressing of “There’s No Place Like America Today” is digital but cut by KG and sounds great.
I don’t have an OG or AAA copy of Curtis. Like you, I hadn’t seen any clean older copies out there. The extra disc is pretty cool too.
FWIW, I did see on Hoffman that the main disc is AAA but the 2nd bonus disc is from digital sources.
I like most of my presses by big Kev too, he just doesn’t press enough music that I like
With the exception of the Dylan mono the big Kev Sundazed are well beaten by the Smiffy MOV.
Clearly Joe Mac and I are not on the same page with music.
It would seem not
MikeH
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Me and you
I do like Oasis and Bob Dylan though. I think we'd get along fine.
I do like Oasis and Bob Dylan though. I think we'd get along fine.
I’m just not into Jazz is the problem I think! Most of the Kev ones I have are soul or the odd older indie one he did back in the day.
Without a doubt a ton of them are Jazz. Have a fair amount of MMJ, Tone Poet, 80th, Blue Note Classics reissues. However two of my recent favs are Blues titles.
Slim Harpo
Chicago/The Blues/Today!
Selaws
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I didn't know where to share this so figured here was a good of a place as any. Really interesting read, although not anything that we haven't heard before.
“We noticed during Covid that we got a lot more mail-order complaints like, ‘The jacket has a 10th-of-an-inch bend on the corner,’” said Brian Lowit of Dischord Records, the Washington label behind post-punk icons like Fugazi. “We ask them if the record is playing well and they’ll say, ‘I don’t know, I just keep it in the shrink wrap.’”
www.nytimes.com
“We noticed during Covid that we got a lot more mail-order complaints like, ‘The jacket has a 10th-of-an-inch bend on the corner,’” said Brian Lowit of Dischord Records, the Washington label behind post-punk icons like Fugazi. “We ask them if the record is playing well and they’ll say, ‘I don’t know, I just keep it in the shrink wrap.’”
Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl (Published 2021)
Left for dead in the 1980s, vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format. Getting them manufactured, however, is increasingly a challenge.
MikeH
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Haven’t read the article yet but there’s been a big collectibles mentality towards vinyl since COVID started. People were seeing profits that others were making buying flipping records and started buying them to flip themselves.I didn't know where to share this so figured here was a good of a place as any. Really interesting read, although not anything that we haven't heard before.
“We noticed during Covid that we got a lot more mail-order complaints like, ‘The jacket has a 10th-of-an-inch bend on the corner,’” said Brian Lowit of Dischord Records, the Washington label behind post-punk icons like Fugazi. “We ask them if the record is playing well and they’ll say, ‘I don’t know, I just keep it in the shrink wrap.’”
Vinyl Is Selling So Well That It’s Getting Hard to Sell Vinyl (Published 2021)
Left for dead in the 1980s, vinyl records are now the music industry’s most popular and highest-grossing physical format. Getting them manufactured, however, is increasingly a challenge.
Thanks Vinceron
TenderLovingKiller®
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Vinyl is weird. There is undeniably a collectability factor to records similar to Trading Cards or Comic Books or Sneakers and yet in those communities flippers are begrudgingly accepted as part of hobby. Vinyl is strange that though it is just as collectible as those others the amount of vitriol reserved for flippers within the vinyl community I think is only rivaled by that of gamers trying to obtain the latest console.
Personally I have never flipped anything as I am too much of a collector to let anything go but I have also never been angered by flippers the way many in the vinyl community have been either. It just seems like a necessary evil if you’re going to collect anything or be a consumer in a capitalistic society.
I mean, I also collect sneakers and comics and I have just as much hate (if not more) towards the people backdoor-ing hundreds of pairs of sneakers, or making the rounds to the comic shops to hoard some variant. It's just as bad and not much different.
zdkaiser
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Everyone, I've decided to start a GoFundme. I hope y'all would consider contributing. The overall goal is $2000. This fundraiser is to raise money for one plane ticket to California and a 3 day car rental so @MikeH can stalk the "Boom Boom" in real life.I knew I forgot someone! Been brain dead today. I like Bellers a lot too (I’d probably put him above RKS). But everybody knows I only really have eyes for BoomBoom
Thanks in advance for your contributions.
TenderLovingKiller®
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I get it, I don't like it but I understand it and thus don't get super pissed about it because it feels like a part of collecting I guess. Maybe the vinyl community is just more vocal about it. It feels like its much more tolerated in other communities.
MikeH
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Might just be more vocal. also maybe “limited” items might be more frequent with vinyl? I don’t follow comics or shoes too much so not entirely sure. It’s pretty crazy how many limited vinyl variants are for sale every day though.
TenderLovingKiller®
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Yeah, Maybe that’s it. The manufactured scarcity drives people to FOMO the fuck out. Though, there is a similar thing in comics with limited variant covers, who knows.
I'd say the limitedness is definitely the diffrence. With comics it doesn't bother me much. One flipper can only really control one area, and they're only buying variant covers, not the comics themselves. You'll pretty much always be able to find a physical copy of any said comic these days. If they sell like hotcakes, they'll just do another run with a new cover. With limited run shoes you can have crazy cases of a handful of flippers ending up with 75% of the entire stock. The way the entire system is designed caters towards people with hundreds of bots essentially drawing a lottery number. Nowadays it's much much much more common to take an L on a drop, and then resell prices are higher then ever. That pisses me off.
Vinyl probably falls somewhere in the middle. Flippers can't completely take over a pressing, but with small runs they can certainly make a dent
TenderLovingKiller®
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This makes a lot of sense. With Sneakers it’s so fucked that the flipping is almost baked into the collecting and with comics they are so mass produced and retail for so little that flippers don’t usually effect things too much. But with vinyl the limited releases are fairly gettable for those that are diligent so the flippers haven’t completely taken over the primary market but are still “limited” enough that flippers can run up the cost to absurd levels.