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- motokiss
So im Downtown Toronto yesterday lookin for some new vinyl, well i dont know if its just me goin nuts in there but the prices of records are fuckin retarded. I seen the bootleg jay-z record THE GREY ALBUM $39.99 and after tax im lookin at 45 bucks for 12 tracks. Now onto the records on major labels. Royce the 59 was 22.99 im lookin at 26 bucks after taxes. I think that the labels are upping Record prices to get some money because more people download the CD instead of puchasing the CD. Now if they can earn some money back from people buying records in which i feel the art of turntablism is coming back with more people doing it they can ear atleast some more money back instead of losing it in CD sales. Thats what i just think
- ********0
good vinyl costs, part and parcel dear boy. If you want it it doesn't matter what it costs - eat dry rice for a month if you have to.
- sherman0
black crack!
- ToddLanders0
You may be right about them trying to make back some money, but I've found that some newer records are sometimes much cheaper than the actual CD of the same album, so who knows. Maybe the record labels you are buying from aren't putting much effort into good pressing or subcontract the work. Stop buying new records, buy old vinyl and spend much less money, plus theres a lot better shit on the older vinyl (pre 1980 and backwards) You'll be able to pull out shit people have never heard before.
- ********0
Word Todd
buy the old ones before they get reissued....
also they sound soooo much better....
- ********0
"turntables making a comeback"
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They never went away- everyday their is some new suburban whiteboy proclaiming to be a DJ becuase he got a Main Source single and some rare Drum and Bass... please...
- Dancer0
"turntables making a comeback"
---------I think that vinyl is on the way out!! - harsh but true
except for the purists that is
you will find over the next ten years cds will be the main source music output in clubs. You can pretty much do all the same shit with cds and then some!
the quality is far better and they don't wear out!!
I am no DJ but I love music and I go out to clubs and Dj's are doing some very contemporary and old skool stuff with cds
they are smaller and you can reproduce and play your own music at clubs to your hearts content.
- DutchBoy0
everyone is a deejay!!
- scarabin0
even old vinyl has "new" prices.
the shit's not cheap anymore. it's like picking up a new cd.
- ToddLanders0
First, if you look around you'll find old Vinyl cheap, you can get almost anything for 3-8 dollars round here if you look hard enough.
To Dancer, You are wrong in saying the CDs have better quality then records. Records reach lower frequencies as well as higher frequencies, that's why any good DJ still uses vinyl. Plus you'll find that any serious musician will tell you, although it can be more expensive, that Analog is the way to go, whether recording, playing with tube amps or playing records. It has a much warmer sound.
- Dancer0
Yes they are warmer. You're right, I used to play in a band and our bass guitar had a valve amp! man that was lovely.
I just think that technology is what pushes this [music] forward and that vinyl is a dying species (later rather than sooner), yes it sounds good but does diteriorate over time if you scratch, mix, etc...
we move on and the progression is what makes it interesting!!!
- ToddLanders0
I have no problem with digital music, and it sure as hell makes it a lot cheaper to record, but thats the driving force behind the digital revolution, it's cheaper, therefore people can make a bigger profit off of it.
Vinyl does detriorate with scrating and over excessive play, but why is it that the library of congress keeps all recordings on vinyl vs CD. Better quality and if taken care of, last a lifetime. Thats why when you pull out you dads old albums they still sound great. CD deteriorate as well.
- blackspade0
lemme hear you scratch on your CD mixer
wicky wicky wak
- Dancer0
"but why is it that the library of congress keeps all recordings on vinyl vs CD"
because vinyl has bee around alot longer, and it would be a bit of an arse to replace it??
don't get me wrong I would love Vinyl and classic turntablism to carry on strong, but I think it will soon be a dying breed.
Clubs are already starting to switch
- ********0
i got rid of so many from moving around :( too heavy! im a weakling