Jimbos Audio ramblings

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Originally Posted by Macca

1985 I was on a tenner a day and an album was a fiver. A CD was £12

At £25 they are about the same price they always were.

If you look at the sales figures it's all streaming there's only a tiny minority of youngsters buying vinyl. Even CD shifts more units than vinyl although it's less revenue.

I bought a lot of used records when they were still cheap, as little as a quid a go even for first pressings. Wasn't intentional but best investment I ever made.

Now doing the same with CD.

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Same here.
MusicMagpie's a great source for building up the CD library again.

Similar to my vinyl days,
History repeats and its costing a fortune to get back the rarer CDs I sold went I went to streaming.
Selling Jack shit media wise now, including my Bluray collection.

Streamings cool,
But now back to vinyl and CD, go figure.

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Originally Posted by Macca

1985 I was on a tenner a day and an album was a fiver. A CD was £12

At £25 they are about the same price they always were.

If you look at the sales figures it's all streaming there's only a tiny minority of youngsters buying vinyl. Even CD shifts more units than vinyl although it's less revenue.

I bought a lot of used records when they were still cheap, as little as a quid a go even for first pressings. Wasn't intentional but best investment I ever made.

Now doing the same with CD.

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I wonder why I never thought records were expensive at £10 in 1980?:scratch:

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Originally Posted by Gazjam

Same here.
MusicMagpie's a great source for building up the CD library again.

Similar to my vinyl days,
History repeats and its costing a fortune to get back the rarer CDs I sold went I went to streaming.
Selling Jack shit media wise now, including my Bluray collection.

Streamings cool,
But now back to vinyl and CD, go figure.

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vinyl record is a precious artefact again, for a long time it was old hat. Before streaming you'd buy an album and show your mates 'Look what I got', like a caveman showing off an antelope he'd hunted down. Streaming just commoditised it all, took away that intrinsic worth. But like they say in 'Starship Troopers' - 'Something given has no value.'

When you had to stack shelves for half a day to get the music you wanted to hear - and travel somewhere and back to get it - then it all meant a lot more. I think that is coming back at least to some degree.

Yeah, having a download list isn't quite the same as admiring a record collection :).

boy, you do have a supr download list, and all in mint condition:ner:

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Originally Posted by Gazjam

Streamings cool,
But now back to vinyl and CD, go figure.

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Because that's how we are, we see what's cool and go off in the opposite direction :doh:

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Originally Posted by walpurgis

Yeah, having a download list isn't quite the same as admiring a record collection :).

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The exact opposite of porn. Better to have on laptop than a shelf full of mucky vids, I'm told :)

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Originally Posted by Pigmy Pony

The exact opposite of porn. Better to have on laptop than a shelf full of mucky vids, I'm told :)

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i, em, wouldnt, em... know:D

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Originally Posted by Macca

vinyl record is a precious artefact again, for a long time it was old hat. Before streaming you'd buy an album and show your mates 'Look what I got', like a caveman showing off an antelope he'd hunted down. Streaming just commoditised it all, took away that intrinsic worth. But like they say in 'Starship Troopers' - 'Something given has no value.'

When you had to stack shelves for half a day to get the music you wanted to hear - and travel somewhere and back to get it - then it all meant a lot more. I think that is coming back at least to some degree.

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Good points there Martin, never thought about it like that.

I buy very small amounts of vinyl nowadays as I have so much already and really don't need anymore.
But if I do buy something it has to be great music, no fillers, good production and not just a listen once or twice type of record. I use Spotify for that!:lol:

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Damn, put this in the wrong place :doh: Sorry about that