I've done a few posts about money and prices of a few different things recently. I thought I'd do a few quick updates and also discuss the insane prices of a few records. But first, I'll provide two quick recaps of prices I covered awhile back. Megadeth cryptocurrency As I wrote in the original post, …
Category: collecting
Is the Vinyl Bubble ready to burst?
The price of vinyl records and the scant supply remains a hot button issue in the music world. Prices of records, even fairly recent reissues, are causing eyes to pop out of heads. Even a run through stuff I bought at retail prices last year is making me consider offloading some stuff at inflated secondary …
Sticker Shock
UPDATE 2-25-22: Pre-orders for the Fear Inoculum 5 LP version are now live, shipping on April 8th. The price is a manageable $169. A bit pricey but far less than I was expecting. We are in a pandemic economy, rife with supply shortages, inflation, and a lot of other things that are complicated but make …
Back From The Dead? The CD re-examined
One thing I've meant to write more about but haven't got to much of is the topic of collecting. Though the issue of collecting is not necessary to discuss music, it is an important part of music for me and many other people. Music collecting looked to be going the way of the dinosaur roughly …
Gently Down The Stream
I've talked a bit before about how I, and we as a whole, consume music. I grew up in the old days where you had to have some form of a physical collection if you didn't want to be stuck with the radio. I've transitioned through a few different formats over the decades, from tapes …
Paying The Price – Collecting Records In 2021
One topic I want to cover more aspects of on here is music collecting. Not everyone does it these days but several of us still have collections of various physical formats. I've done one post so far on my own collection, as well as this post specifically about my Iron Maiden collection. And there are …
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A Bit About Collecting
One aspect of music fandom/appreciation/worship/whatever is collecting. In our day and age, having a collection is not at all necessary. Collections of anything are cumbersome – they take up space, they cost money, they are at risk to perils like flood and fire, and they cost money. I came up in the old days, when …
The Crooked Wanderer 