Still, a rise in the year before is still a rise, when sales are meant to be going further down the panPsyTox wrote:maybe being the devil's advocate a bit here, but isn't the "rise" simplest to do after a major fallback in 2009? I mean, it's like with car sales: have gone up 10% last year! But they forget they lost 20% the year before, so in absolute numbers it might be not so much of a difference from the previous periods.
Still, I'm all for it, starting to buy vinyl again too actually. Mostly stuff you can't find digitally, and that's quite a big chunk even in 2011
"Vinyl sales up 14% in 2010 compared to 2009"
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I love vinyl and always will. However, I have issues with purchasing vinyl now. There is only one record store in Pittsburgh and frankly the selection is slim and more disco/house/pop/hip-hop. We used to have 4, now there's one with selection that isn't that great.
The only other option is ordering online. That option blows. I like to buy records on the spot and take them home. Jus Ed played here and was selling his records for $5 a pop. I bought 4 or 5 cuts from him. It was awesome. I wish that's how it was for real.
So, for the most part I've moved on to cd's. I really prefer technics to cdj's but, paying $13 for a record that needs shipped is out of control. Especially when there is gear to buy and I remember buying vinyl for $8 a piece on average.
The only other option is ordering online. That option blows. I like to buy records on the spot and take them home. Jus Ed played here and was selling his records for $5 a pop. I bought 4 or 5 cuts from him. It was awesome. I wish that's how it was for real.
So, for the most part I've moved on to cd's. I really prefer technics to cdj's but, paying $13 for a record that needs shipped is out of control. Especially when there is gear to buy and I remember buying vinyl for $8 a piece on average.
I love records, I love to spend time in a record shop to speak with all the guys, I love being all excited while taking the sub going home, and holding on to them as it was part of my bodie, although i HATED when other djays say " oh, I just bought that on on beatport", and they play it, loop it, delay it blablabla...I love having nice jackets for my records, I like the smell of a record, I LOVE the smell of and old record...That's good news there, I can see I'm not the only one here
Edit : a record shop near my house in Paris is closing (another one...) the problem is that all the 25-35 aged are used to buying records, kids download.
Edit : a record shop near my house in Paris is closing (another one...) the problem is that all the 25-35 aged are used to buying records, kids download.
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That's probably the part I miss the most about vinyl. It's about meeting up with like minds, talking music, etc. The record store used to be the center of it all.XIII NRV wrote:I love records, I love to spend time in a record shop to speak with all the guys, I love being all excited while taking...
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Yeah. Think of all the music I would not even know about if it weren't for the record shop. I miss that a lot.Phase Ghost wrote:That's probably the part I miss the most about vinyl. It's about meeting up with like minds, talking music, etc. The record store used to be the center of it all.XIII NRV wrote:I love records, I love to spend time in a record shop to speak with all the guys, I love being all excited while taking...
I shudder to imagine having only the online charts to have learned about music like most of the kids today do. That would be a horrible way to be schooled about tunage.
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Well, for many many people living in the countryside back in the early 90ties, this was the case, together with FM radioshows and going to parties. I remember reading the dj charts in the Frontpage magazine and stuff like that.coldfuture wrote:Yeah. Think of all the music I would not even know about if it weren't for the record shop. I miss that a lot.Phase Ghost wrote:That's probably the part I miss the most about vinyl. It's about meeting up with like minds, talking music, etc. The record store used to be the center of it all.XIII NRV wrote:I love records, I love to spend time in a record shop to speak with all the guys, I love being all excited while taking...
I shudder to imagine having only the online charts to have learned about music like most of the kids today do. That would be a horrible way to be schooled about tunage.
Any news of increasing vinyl sales is music to my ears!
The downside of mail-order and also downloading is that the audio clip might be leaving out some seriously cheesy vocals. I don't appreciate those kind of suprises.
Most of my vinyl purchases in the nineties were through the mail. I used 611, Satellite, Sonic Groove, etc. It was just like Beatport, except you had to wait for a few days for your stuff.patrick bateman wrote:Well, for many many people living in the countryside back in the early 90ties, this was the case, together with FM radioshows and going to parties. I remember reading the dj charts in the Frontpage magazine and stuff like that.
The downside of mail-order and also downloading is that the audio clip might be leaving out some seriously cheesy vocals. I don't appreciate those kind of suprises.