youngwonton

What does that have to do with Paul McCartney? You should really stay on topic and stop derailing the thread.

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I don't. I do know it's a pressing from 2017 and that it had been available prior to the announcement of this new album. My guess is it's the remaining stock from a repress that never sold out, but the announcement of this new album has a lot of people (like myself) picking it up while pre-ordering the new one.

Their first album is selling fast too. There were 81 copies of that when I checked a couple hours ago and it's now down to 6.

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That's from 2018. I've been seeing ads for The Sound of Vinyl pushing this variant on me a lot recently, but it looks like they're sold out of it. A cursory google suggests that variant is sold out in most places now.

Haha, I don't know why I didn't realize everything was going to be absurdly expensive but I'm suddenly cured of my desire for any part of this collection.

That's the thing, when I entertain the notion of selling off some of my collection, just the thought of all that packaging and all those trips to the post office puts me off of the idea. I did recently compare with a friend the amount I've spent on records in 10 years versus the amount he's spent on cigarettes, and they were about equal, so that made me feel a little better about it haha. Worse ways to spend your money.

Oh wow, yeah, no thanks. I'll pass on that too. Totally valid, and I do agree with you about the frivolity of this particular release (especially now that I know it was $120), but I think your initial response tapped into something I think about a lot in regards to this hobby. I'm looking at a bookcase right now with 500+ records I've purchased over a roughly 10 year period since I started collecting. I've spent at least 15k on vinyl in that time, easy. That's a down payment on a house for music I can very easily listen to on Spotify for $10/month. But I'm a collector at heart and a lot of the records I have are from smaller artists that I am happy to support. But I also have records that I barely ever listen to that I know sell for anywhere between 100-300 dollars and I think, "Why don't I just sell these?" I've never flipped for profit like that, and I have a sentimental attachment to my collection, but the more it grows the more I find myself asking, "What am I really doing?" Also the Houseplant thing just ended and I am bummed because I really just wanted to buy an ashtray from Seth Rogen.

Truthfully I'm more interested in the ashtrays and the lighter, but I dunno man, it's just a fun thing? I felt the same way about that McDonald's record a few weeks ago but I kept it to myself and let people have their fun. I feel like there are far more egregious examples of random unnecessary records than this. You could apply "why should I care about this" to the vast majority of collectibles.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CMP1uWMFPUQ/ Curious if this was on anybody else's radar. It went on pre-sale at 11am CT today but I've been stuck in a queue for two hours. IG stories say the amount of traffic crashed the site. Was anybody able to get in? Sorry, I don't know how to insert images or embed IG posts.