Today's post is about buying music, a topic I like to cover here from time to time. This time it isn't so much how to buy it or what it costs, but it's about where to buy it. And, more to the point, where I've bought it over the years. While I was born in …
Continue reading Gold In The Bargain Bin – Where To Buy Music
From time to time I like to revisit the topic of vinyl record prices. I talked about them not too long ago and, while returns are still early, it looks like the bottom might not be falling out of the market after all. There's also a huge piece of news for a highly-coveted album from …
It's that time of the week to dig into another offering from my singles collection. Today it's the good old split single – two bands each offer a song, the vinyl gets pressed and here we are years later looking over the results. Split singles and even albums have been a consistent feature of the …
Continue reading Disfear and Doomriders – All Paths Lead To Nothing, There Is Only Death
I've written about this a few times now but it's time again to look at the price of vinyl. It's a massive topic in the world of music collecting (obviously) and it's been a thorn in the side of many a collector for the past while. I know I feel the pinch and have tightened …
Continue reading What Goes Up Must Come Down – Vinyl Prices In 2022
It is time to update the ongoing Tool Fear Inoculum vinyl saga. I have posted about it before, this was when I brought it up as part of a larger look at vinyl prices. While I want to cover that latter topic again, this Tool thing has grown legs of its own now and deserves …
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, …
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 …
UPDATE 7-6-22: This whole post is essentially obsolete now. The limited box is hanging out at around $100 , and a new 3 LP version has also been announced. Here is a much more up to date post about the whole ordeal. UPDATE 2-25-22: Pre-orders for the Fear Inoculum 5 LP version are now live, …
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 …
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 …
Continue reading Paying The Price – Collecting Records In 2021
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