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There's a nice sale at Merchbar right now. Lots of new records at about 30% off. 
 
https://www.merchbar.com/sales/vinyl-deals

Hes doing a solo gig at the less popular 'While You're Still Young' fest
 

In Discogs, go to your Inventory page. Scroll down to Export CSV. Select the dates for 2021 and choose Marketplace Orders from the dropdown. This new Excel file will breakdown every transaction with Subtotal, Shipping paid, Fees charged, and Sales Taxes. Sum the taxes column to get the expenses in sales tax you paid.

This guy Excels.

Tell me of a better way you could spend $13 than this:
 
https://store.iamlights.com/siberia-vinyl.html?fbclid=IwAR2OIkv3nKBzYjt8HOIFvFHju4zkaiaB4sH_7JmN4DARK-JVLqAFNaKMmOM

this covers it

That’s cool and all if that’s a principle artists want to apply to their music, but I’ve found that 99% of them eventually go back on that idea, because money.  Life happens, expenses happen – I wish I had a nickel for every time I heard an artist or label say that there are zero plans to ever repress a certain album, only to see it as a limited drop or RSD exclusive within 2-5 years.

Bootleg markets – especially those priced this excessively – are everything wrong with modern vinyl though.  Someone in another thread speculated that the kind of music that gets posted on VC – shit from the last 30 years, colored vinyl, limited editions – are more or less the NFTs of music enthusiasts.  That seems exemplified with boots.  These are all sourced from MP3s and can sound serviceable at best… but jokes aside, you can legitimately stream the same music at 320 or even 192 kbps, while simultaneously playing a YouTube video of “Vinyl Crackle Sound FX”, and you’re going to get the same result.  From a listening perspective, it’s a total meme to willingly pay $70 for this junk.  What that leaves is the satisfaction people get from having the spine of this record visible on their shelf.  Or the option to have it framed, I suppose.  Or the opportunity to snap a photo of it for Instagram (perhaps alongside the more affordable albums in the band’s discography) to larp as a devout fan and flex a complete collection, I guess.
 
“But OG copies are $600.  I’m not paying that.”  Then don’t, as you shouldn't.  Anyone who has been collecting vinyl for more than 6-7 years is probably aware of how everything eventually gets a reissue or repress.  There’s been stuff that I would have never in my wildest dreams imagined would get repressed; albums from bands who’ve been defunct for 10+years, with labels no longer in business, and seemingly no demand to have the music pressed again.  Patience is a virtue, etc.  I would rather have a gap where that album will eventually go, than a garbage copy that “sounds okay” as MP3s on wax.  But I’m me and you’re you.  Maybe I value shelf space more than you do.  Maybe $70 means more to me and the new releases I buy than it does to you and the prospect of saying you can finally own something that resembles a coveted album. People buy pastries with the sole intent of sitting on them and ripping ass so who am I to say what the world should or should not be spending money on at the of the day?

The 1-star reviews of the album on Target's website are amazing:
 

I had been umming and arring about what version to get so that was the easiest purchase of my life.
 
Thanks for the heads up.

It's actually limited to 3k now and no longer zoetrope.

Fickle Friends 2nd album is out in January. There is a webstore exclusive. New single is great and these guys are always consistent in their output.
 
 

Some tunes are super catchy, but damn Miley's voice is still the worst sound I've ever heard in my entire life, and I've heard my parents banging

Guess I am kinda late here, but the girl in red and Olivia Rodrigo albums are so fucking good!

So I just saw this posted in a synthwave fb group today, never heard of Roosevelt before I don't think, but I'm getting the entire discography asap, just need to figure out what the most economic way is of getting all (or most) on colored variants. Incredible music.

@N8TRUNew Roosevelt music. AA-sided 12" is limited to 500. A little pricey to get it imported stateside.
On My Mind / About U | Roosevelt (bandcamp.com)

I love Roosevelt. Hopefully he plans on doing some Midnight Versions of Polydans. Also a Midnight Versions vinyl pressings would be nice to have.

My top 3 so far are:
Roosevelt "Polydans" (only one with vinyl)
Ta-Ra "Starflow"
Qveen Herby "A Woman"

With half the year just about done, what are everyone's favorite pop albums so far this year? Anyone have any recommendations not posted here yet?
 
I'll start:
Patawawa - Power-Up (The album has the the most spins out of any other record I've bought this year.  It puts me in such a good mood. RIP Patawawa though.)
girl in red - if i could make it all go quiet
Beach Bunny - Blame Game EP
 

The entire vinyl release is delayed until July 

This is the best way to do it. I used to buy Pratt mailers but had to add the cost to my shipping prices. Now I just buy the plain LP mailers and add cardboard inserts to fill the mailer. Never any issues with these mailers and cost less than half of the specialty mailers. I found a large paper guillotine at a thrift store for cheap and cut down recycled boxes for cardboard inserts. 

Then think of it not as saving a couple bucks, but saving the environment. Probably makes it feel more worthwhile to a recycling nerd/hippy.

Same! With all the damn boxes from last year, I made about 100-120 inserts!😜

I used to buy the Whiplash mailers but eventually the extra cost didn’t make sense for me. I’ve switched to the less interesting 12x12 mailers and I just add 2-4 cardboard squares, depending on how much free space needs to be filled before the scored flaps are flush with the record & squares. It’s much more cost effective, it’s sturdy, and I haven’t had a single issue with damage after shipping out ~150 orders in them.

If you find one, I doubt they work on vinyl. They started to exclude vinyl from almost all promotions.