Jump to content

darknesscomesalive

Members
 View Profile  See their activity

  • Posts

    754

  • Joined

  • Last visited

    Never

  • Feedback

    0%

 Content Type 

Posts posted by darknesscomesalive

    RSD - Bought List

    in Vinyl Collective Message Board

    Posted

    so far I've gotten 2 of the 3 things on my want list...without leaving my couch.

    Snapcase - Progression (ordered online)

    Uncle Tupelo - No Depression (friend picked up for me)

    Same friend who got me the Tupelo was going to get me Botch too...but I haven't heard back on that yet.

    Vinyl Prices

    in Vinyl Collective Message Board

    Posted

    so you admit that there are other factors that might drive the price of an LP above your demanded price?

    $13 in current dollars would have been worth about $4.50 or so in 1980 dollars. did new records cost $4.50 in 1980? oh, they didn't? they cost roughly twice that? interesting.

    See Threat, Minor - Out of Step 12" EP.

    PPD price in 1983: $3.50

    Back in the analog age when I was a teenager (the 1980s) LPs were between 6-8 dollars each. Some stores would charge 9 or 10 for certain releases but that was rare unless it was a double LP which was usually 10 dollars. I believe Husker Du - Zen Arcade cost me a whopping 9 bucks when I bought it new when it came out. 7" cost 2.50 - 3.00 on average. It was rare that one would set you back 4 bucks. 12" EP's were usually 5 dollars.

    By the late 1980s, the average price for an LP at the store was 8 dollars. Then those silver coasters came out and labels realized they could gouge the shit out of the consumer and make bank on the things. They'd be paying about 2 bucks or so per disc (including full packaging) and retail them for 15 or 16 dollars. Chain stores would charge 17 - 20 dollars for most of the things and it was the independent stores that actually had the better prices on CDs. Then a store called Best Buy came along and went national and decided that they would undercut everyone on the price of CDs, even taking a loss on them in an effort to get people into their stores where they'd inevitably spend more money on their other products. This helped kill off a lot of mom/pop stores which sucked but the upside was it also forced out places like Coconuts and Suncoast who had the highest prices anywhere. Prices on CD's got a little more down to earth for awhile after that and 12 bucks was becoming a lot more common.

    Personally I wish LPs were still 8 bucks, but inflation happens. 20 dollars is too steep for a single LP. $15 is tolerable especially if it comes with a digital download as well. $13 seems more fair for a single LP. Honestly I think every single piece of vinyl should come with a digital download and when you have a label like Hydrahead charging 20 dollars for a 4 song 12" there is absolutely no excuse for them not coming with a download, especially when you think of the profit margin they have. If Dischord can charge me 11 dollars for a colored vinyl LP and have it come with a download, then no one can justify not including one for a 20 dollar, similarly packaged record.

    Ultimately bitching about it on a message board isn't going to make labels change their pricing schemes. Speak with your wallets. While I love a lot of the music Hydrahead puts out, I won't buy their records anymore because their prices are insulting and they don't even try to soften the blow by including a download with my record. The last thing I bought on that label was the last Torche record and only because I bought it from the band for cheaper than it would have cost me to buy it from the label.

    There is so much about this post I love.

    [image]

    HARKONEN - Shake Harder Boy LP coming in September

    in Vinyl Collective Message Board

    Posted

    Just got this in an email from Brutal Panda

    ----------------------------------------------------------

    Brutal Panda Records will release HARKONEN’s seminal rock and roll / hard-core masterpiece, ‘Shake Harder Boy’, on vinyl this September. This criminally underrated album, originally released on Hydra Head Records and recorded in 2002 by Matt Bayles (MASTODON, BOTCH), is getting the vinyl treatment for the first time ever. Vinyl mastering was done at world-renowned MasterDisk studios to give the LP the best possible sound. The release will be strictly limited, with only 300 copies being pressed and pre-orders available now at this location.

    HARKONEN split in 2005 with members going on to play in These Arms Are Snakes and Helms Alee. Samples from 'Shake Harder Boy' can be heard at this location and a tracklisting is included below.

    Harkonen – ‘Shake Harder Boy’

    Side A

    A1.”Smile Pretty”

    A2.”Baristas Get Stalked”

    A3.”Bargains Only”

    A4.”Caseydriver”

    A5.”We’ve Come for Your Daughters”

    A6.”Easy Prey”

    Side B

    B1.”All This Time I Thought Your Name Was Cool Dude” B2.”The Burly Spur”

    B3.”Your Name is Shit”

    B4.”Introducing the Creeker Sneaker”

    B5.”Settle Here”

    http://brutalpandarecords.com/

    PRE-ORDER HERE; http://brutalpandarecords.com/shop/harkonen-shake-harder-boy-12-vinyl/

×

AdBlock Detected

spacer.png

We noticed that you're using an adBlocker

Yes, I'll whitelist