Regarding vinyl prices then and now:
Early 1973 (I was 15 so a late starter) I bought my first album, "Electric Warrior". Paid £2.49.
At the time a pint of Thwaites bitter at my local (I was an early starter) was 15p.
That's nearly 17 pints for the price of an album. Assuming the same beer to cost about £3 now, I could only buy about 7 pints for the price of an album (£21). When I started work a year later, the older blokes where I worked earned about £35 a week, which at about £3.50 each would get 10 records. Going on whatever minimum wage is now (say £9 an hour), a 40 hour week would buy about 15 records.
Whichever way I look at it, vinyl is cheaper than it used to be, by a fair bit. It's the low cost of alternative formats that make it seem bad.
What I really take from this is how shockingly expensive beer has become
I just dropped in, to see what condition my condition was in
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