cwhitmuzik Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I don't think I ever knew what Jason Tate looked like before someone posted his picture earlier in this thread. When I image searched his name, this was on the top row of images so I will now choose to believe that this is Jason Tate. google is easy Brock N Roll 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abovetheearth Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 this album reveal is awesome http://www.digitalartsonline.co.uk/news/graphic-design/how-ryan-clark-designed-atlas-moths-wet-reveal-album-cover/ yeah, i know. water, but still. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kjkenney Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I bought TDAGARIM (white or pearl I believe) for 16.99 just four years ago at Hot Topic. If it was possible then, then why isn't possible now? supply and demand. simplest form of understanding economics. Nobody cared 4 years ago. Now lots of people do, so cha-ching! its like gas. Not defending it, but its how it goes with like....everything. House prices go up when people have money to spend again and more people start looking for houses(rentals have gone up in price since people were foreclosing on houses they owned), certain car prices go up, gas goes up, the price of cheese goes up. Complaining does nothing. Support who you want to support, and don't support the massive labels cashing in, if you can hold off on getting that sweet 90's album repress. If you want to spend $35 on a Finch record, go for it, you wanna spend $45 on a Mars Volta record, go for it, but to give in and make these purchases and then turn around and bitch....you're part of the problem you need to realize. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
abovetheearth Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 paying over $30 for a repress is straight up fucking stupid. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runforcover Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Those together cost me around, if not less, than the price Hot Topic is selling Common Courtesy for right this moment. I don't love Tigers Jaw by any stretch of the imagination, but I owned "Two Worlds" for a while. I'd definitely pick up their new record if it was priced better than it is. Do you mean if the price in general was better, or through Hot Topic? It's a fully embossed package pressed on the highest quality jackets with printed full color inner sleeves, and it costs $14. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophos34 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 yo there's a lot more at play with gas prices than the price of cars fam Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitmuzik Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Do you mean if the price in general was better, or through Hot Topic? It's a fully embossed package pressed on the highest quality jackets with printed full color inner sleeves, and it costs $14. Seems pretty reasonable to me. do you know your tigers jaw record is being sold for 20.50 at hot topic? how much did you wholesale them for? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 VC = Entitled Twats (According to the high-horse minds of AP.net) kurtz and thejesseb 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejesseb Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Do you mean if the price in general was better, or through Hot Topic? It's a fully embossed package pressed on the highest quality jackets with printed full color inner sleeves, and it costs $14. Seems pretty reasonable to me. Pretty sure he means through Hot Topic. In my opinion the packaging used for Charmer is fantastic and totally worth $14 (Which I think Is a good standard price for single LPs). Hot Topic has just realized they can sell an exclusive variant for ~$7 more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
just a normal guy kevin Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I like buying records I enjoy at a price I'm comfortable with without being scolded for not taking a valid position on the state of vinyl pricing. drownmeinestrogen 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rooks Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 I finally read the article. Where the fuck is he getting gas, parking, beer, hot wings, and tipping his bartender for $30/night? I need to move. drownmeinestrogen, cfrancese5 and castaway 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophos34 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 VC = Entitled Twats (According to the high-horse minds of AP.net) but actually like did you read this thread lot of people in here are on horses just as high as people over there Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
corey. Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 This thread feels like high school. Kinda like when Absolute Punk was relevant. scottheisel, FlippingOut and eskimosnow27 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jhulud Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 but actually like did you read this thread lot of people in here are on horses just as high as people over there Yes. But at least here we know that vinyl is the plural for vinyl. zacooper 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophos34 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Yes. But at least here we know that vinyl is the plural for vinyl. "the plural of vinyl is vinyl" -bad timing records Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
runforcover Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 do you know your tigers jaw record is being sold for 20.50 at hot topic? how much did you wholesale them for? Yes, I do know that. Newbury Comics sells it for the same price more or less. Those are our two biggest accounts, and only recently (as far as I know) started pricing them that high. Of course I would prefer them to sell closer to our price, I even made a scene about it with Newbury, but what can you do. Those two companies go out on a limb to help us and honestly we wouldn't be in the same spot we're in now without Hot Topic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blanchardoswald Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 As a Canadian, the increase in prices suck. If an album is $20, throw on at least an extra $10 for shipping, and I'm paying $30 for a record. I've stopped collecting except for albums that I really really want from my favorite bands. It fucking sucks. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejesseb Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Yes. But at least here we know that vinyl is the plural for vinyl. Shots fired FlippingOut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitmuzik Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 "the plural of vinyl is vinyl" -bad timing records A zzarrillo production jewfro 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejesseb Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Yes, I do know that. Newbury Comics sells it for the same price more or less. Those are our two biggest accounts, and only recently (as far as I know) started pricing them that high. Of course I would prefer them to sell closer to our price, I even made a scene about it with Newbury, but what can you do. Those two companies go out on a limb to help us and honestly we wouldn't be in the same spot we're in now without Hot Topic. personally it just bums me out that for a while HT priced at about the same level and then decided to bump it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brock N Roll Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 "the plural of vinyl is vinyl" -bad timing records So awesome they came out with that phrase. FlippingOut 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dreamover Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Jason Admits that he thinks mp3s sound better (scientifically) than vinyl and he just buys it for the high-art. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kurtz Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 Sometimes I feel like I am living in a different world than most of the people on VC. I rarely ever spend over 20 bucks on a record, and the rare occasions that I do it is typically an import. It's so weird that $20-$30 records is the norm for you guys. Maybe it's time to accept that vinyl at the moment is seen as a novelty and collectible and not a music format. I say it over and over: the reason my collection is so large is because when I started buying in the 80s/90s it was 10x cheaper to buy on vinyl than cassette and cd. I was looking the other day at my copy of Slint "Spiderland" and it still has a $2 price tag on the back. I bought all my music on vinyl so that I could have 5 items for the price of a cd. In the past year I have scaled back my buying of vinyl exponentially correlating with the ridiculous rise in prices. I'm not immune from the occasional vinyl splurge but I'm killing it at my local used book store where they have binders of cds for $1. If the physical format is more important than the music then you'll have to roll along with Brother Tate and eat the cost. My advice: get your consumer habits in check and go for the cheaper option whenever the music holds no nostalgia. Now, I know I'll get a bunch of "It sounds better" bullshit. Nothing I've bought in 30+ years of buying vinyl justifies me reaching into my pocket for a marginal record and paying $30 when the cd can be had for $1 used. ^ Smartest post in this thread. I have also been scoring big lately on cheap CDs. And I will continue to until 10 years from now when cdcollective starts up and people start buying them again for nostalgia. jerseydave77 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cwhitmuzik Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 So awesome they came out with that phrase. Didn't no sleep have a shirt or something with that same phrase a few months before that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sophos34 Posted June 25, 2014 Share Posted June 25, 2014 So awesome they came out with that phrase. they're a clever bunch over there at BTR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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