sillybarry

I'm on the border of "Old fucks" and the age group here. My mom enrolled me in Columbia house as a kid and today I still have my Back To The Future soundtrack, Licensed to Ill, and more from then. In the 90's I got into again with grunge and punk mail order. A few years back, in my mid 30s, I got back into it.
 
Is it a trend, sure, are prices going up, a little (not anything like the price of other things like gas and cell phones) but is it bad... no, not at all. I no longer buy CDs, band shirts (maybe one or two, but not like the past), pins or patches. I buy vinyl. I think its great new bands are pressing vinyl, that long lost greats like Hum and Jellyfish are getting new pressings. For the bands that I'm friendly with its a new source of income. The local record shops that survived the post-napster and Netflix world are starting to see good profit.
 
I still get $1 David Bowie records at Yard Sales and flea markets. I track down favorites on ebay and here and I pay a little over retail. But I'm also doing ok with selling off some of my older stuff too.
 
The main issue with the rise in cost is pressing and printing and less the market trends. Up til the 90's there were lots of places to press albums. Oil and other materials in a pre-green world for pressing was much cheaper.
 
I guess all im saying is that I'm loving the bubble... I'll keep buying and hopefully my newborn son gets to listen to his first Sly and The Family Stone vinyl like I did when I was a kid.

I'm on the border of "Old fucks" and the age group here. My mom enrolled me in Columbia house as a kid and today I still have my Back To The Future soundtrack, Licensed to Ill, and more from then. In the 90's I got into again with grunge and punk mail order. A few years back, in my mid 30s, I got back into it.
 
Is it a trend, sure, are prices going up, a little (not anything like the price of other things like gas and cell phones) but is it bad... no, not at all. I no longer buy CDs, band shirts (maybe one or two, but not like the past), pins or patches. I buy vinyl. I think its great new bands are pressing vinyl, that long lost greats like Hum and Jellyfish are getting new pressings. For the bands that I'm friendly with its a new source of income. The local record shops that survived the post-napster and Netflix world are starting to see good profit.
 
I still get $1 David Bowie records at Yard Sales and flea markets. I track down favorites on ebay and here and I pay a little over retail. But I'm also doing ok with selling off some of my older stuff too.
 
The main issue with the rise in cost is pressing and printing and less the market trends. Up til the 90's there were lots of places to press albums. Oil and other materials in a pre-green world for pressing was much cheaper.
 
I guess all im saying is that I'm loving the bubble... I'll keep buying and hopefully my newborn son gets to listen to his first Sly and The Family Stone vinyl like I did when I was a kid.

the bonus 7"s... unless jay comes up with anything else crazy will have 5 songs, 1 an insanely different take on an old track with a huge guest star,  and 4 never released songs... offhand i think 3 of them are studio, and one live.

joined today...tries to sell....dont do it.