Turntable & Vinyl Thread
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Welcome to the money pit of addictions. I've been collecting for 26 years, but I have a modest collection of about 1,000 records. I started buying records back in the 80's because they were cheaper than other formats to get used stuff. I could go to the record store with $20 and come home with 5-6 decent used picks. After a while, it just became my standard format because i had accumulated so many. I never got into tapes or CDs. I still listen to Spotify and MP3s in my car, at work, etc... but I make it a habit to give money to labels and artists who are catering to this community who still support physical formats. The one thing that bothers me lately is the endless repressings of albums that are easily attainable. Labels like Newbury are taking advantage of completists by repressing a record a "new color" and charging $30 for something that can be found on ebay for <$10. I suppose over saturation is expected once anything becomes trendy though, so I just choose not to support operations like this. Repress more OOP records that are in serious need of it, like Red House Painters for example.
I have a few records that are worth a lot, and a ton that aren;t worth anything, but my prized possession is the original Iron Maiden record club box set. 10 singles, one sent each month, housed in a giant box.
Cheers.