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Vinyl Records Make A Big Come Back Just Before Christmas

Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 17:45 Dr. Tar Uncategorized 29

Billboard

For the second time in a month, weekly vinyl album sales in the U.S. hit a new record high.

A total of 1.445 million vinyl albums were sold in the week ending Dec. 17 (up 9% compared to the previous week) – the biggest week yet for vinyl LP sales since Nielsen Music/MRC Data began electronically tracking music sales in 1991. The previous record week was set only two weeks earlier, when 1.253 million were sold in the week ending Dec. 3. More

29 Comments on Vinyl Records Make A Big Come Back Just Before Christmas

  1. Wifie’s been buying a lot of vinyl lately. I just got a 4 LP box set yesterday, first vinyl box I’ve ever owned, the 20th anniversary release of Grandaddy’s The Sophtware Slump. It’s the original album, a solo piano version, and two LPs of rarities and demos. I’ve yet to work up the nerve to open the shrink wrap.

    But they seem a little big to fit into the CD player….

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  2. Bought my hundreds of albums when they were approx $5.98/ea.

    I realize today’s USD isn’t worth squat, but $30+ a pop these days is a little meshugana.

    Anyone remember the Lamont Cranston Band?

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  5. Audiophiles swear by the analog sound wave being superior over the digital which does square off some of the original wave (or so I’ve been told).

    I can’t really tell the difference. Same with wine, it all taste like fermented juice to me. So I drink a lot of grape juice instead of red or white wine.

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  6. I had a pretty good vinyl collection including lots of imports due to my being a short car drive over the bridge to Canada where I grew up. Sold them all to take a great life changing trip to California in the late 70’s. (couldn’t fit everything in the car) Was back in Michigan a little over a month later wishing I had my albums.

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  11. I still have mine from the 1960s, my old Wharfdale speakers, Mirachord turntable.
    I updated receiver/amplifier over the years.
    Records are all in original packaging and have never been stacked. Only used the short non stackable spindle.

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  12. I bought a bunch of cool looking albums at an estate sale but didn’t have a record player. Was going to make wall art out of them.

    Senora Guevara bought me an Audio Technica for my birfday and I celebrated by buying the vinyl of Alice In Chains’ ‘Dirt’. For $30 whole dollars. It sounds okay.

    I converted all my cds to FLAC last year and think that sounds the best. Haven’t tried Direct 2 channel for the vinyl so I may be missing out. My Yammy RX-Z9 still had the phono preamp so that should be adequate to the task.

    Judging by the tell-tale shape of a present under the tree, I’m hoping for a copy of Soundgarden’s Superunknown double album.

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  13. It was, and may still be, trendy to use old LPs from the thrift store as placemats at theme parties. I went to one and embarrassed my wife and children by reviewing all the labels and pointing out the rare and classic ones. I was not allowed to rescue any.

    The main problem with vinyl records are the imperfections and the fact that every time you play them they deteriorate in quality, ever so much. They also don’t always store well, though the same can be said of cd’s and dvd’s.

    The super high definition digital formats make the “stepping” impossible for the human ear to detect, though many audiophiles still maintain they can.

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  14. @Dr Tar – just got back from B&N and picked up:

    Jimi Hendrix – Smash Hits
    Nirvana – Unplugged
    Ryan Adams – at Carnigie Hall (he was metoo’d and is no longer on the scene…)

    Yeah a bit pricey but two were 25% off, but worth it.

    And yes, the sound IS ‘fatter’, or wider, think of the size of the groove in vinyl and what a CD or digital can carry?

    IOW, what we hear now is COMPRESSED for the most part, digitally…there is a difference when you listen to you fave music and can tell, but you need an at least GOOD speaker system…

    I still have a Technics direct drive turntable from…1980 and works…that red strobe for the rpm is COOL.

    Ghost

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  16. I have about 200 lbs of records in 4 boxes from the 50s and 60s, mostly classical and opera, anyone want them? It’ll cost more in shipping than what you’re willing to pay. I forget what they’re called but some are about 1/3″ thick, stiff & brittle like a ceramic toilet top and weigh about 10 lbs each.

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  18. @Rick – Two questions for ya…does it have the original portraits of the four and I ASSUME that it has a serial number in the right hand corner?

    @Erik – Technics sld-d200

    @ecp – very nice offer! But what is the shipping cost at 10lbs per album??! I have a few of those but my mom’s old Irish records which I TREASURE.

    I ‘left’ MANY albums at B&N tonight!

    Neko Case would have been a nice purchase, a double album.

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  23. @ghost ~ dug up some interesting info on the ‘net …

    it seems that the serial #’s, at least in the UK, were discontinued in the ’72 pressings & according to Bruce Spizer’s book “The Beatles on Apple records”
    ” … After the Bert-Co (printing company) numbered covers pass 100, the numbers are preceded by a set of zeros. Examples include 0000340, 0008008, 0025007 and 0202735. At some point around 210,000, the Bert-Co numbered covers begin having a wide A and space preceding the numbers. Examples include A 0218307 and A 0578465. These covers are usually found with Los Angeles pressings of the album……”
    and …
    “The Capitol paper work regarding the allocation of number blocks is missing and presumed destroyed, thus it is impossible to give a precise accounting of how the numbers were assigned.”

    … so I’m assuming the value is determined by the buyers desire …. usually is in this type of market

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  25. yeah, there’s always been a lot of argument about analog v. digital sound. Early on a lot of digital releases were shit. Perhaps even today. I’m sure.

    I tend to believe that the analog is warmer, brighter, better.

    But then I consider that I’m playing analog signals through a solid state amp, then I’m all verklempt.

    Hell, at 63 and 25 years in heavy industry, I can’t facking hear anyway.

    As I type I listen to Grandaddy on u2b. Still haven’t cracked the shrink wrap.

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  29. @ghost, @ ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ – White Album no serial #, I know it’s not a 1st edition, The BEATLES printed on cover not embossed, purpleish Capitol records label on the disc, The pictures were not inside & I could not find em

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