Hey sure 20 to 30 bucks will make some folks flinch today, but I remember audiophile pressings in the early 80’s being this much and there were very few. Now we have the majority of reissues as well as new releases on at least 180 gram vinyl if not 200, plus more time spent on the mastering process verses a lot of the corner cutting tricks done to make things easier for the cutting engineer.
Records were cheap back when. Not just in price but in manufacture. Materials and workmanship are far superior today, and discs have been kept around the 20 to 20 dollar average even with oil prices soaring. Lets not forget all those terrible plastic records that came out during the oil crisis during the 70’s.

Sure, pricing them at $30 is guaranteed to make them money. Why not sell them for $9.99 and still make money by quantities sold?

f#ck vinyl. make a better cd. records suck.

Its nice Vinyl is bucking the trend. It is nice it’s is raising some money for the downtrodden music industry.

Its not the answer to the industry’s financial problems.

In another note Ive only ever known cd since I was born in 1986, Curiosity has got the better of me though and I plan on getting a ‘record’ player.

In the show 3rd Rock from the Sun, one of the characters (who’s an alien observing human culture) bemoans the quality of CDs and ponders if humans will ever discover the superior sound of vinyl. The irony being of course that we “upgraded” to CDs. I find this particularly humorous now that there’s a trend pushing for vinyl again.

I put all my cds into MP3s and sold them. Now I guess I can use that space to house my soon to be growing vinyl collection. I look forward to crate digging.

Amen. Nothing beats Vinyl…Ever!!!!

(David, Nairobi, Kenya, East Africa - the original vinyl junkie with over 9,000 vinyls in his garage)

20-30 bucks? weren’t records $9.98 as little as twenty years ago?

Amen Praise God!

Hooray for vinyl’s return! Finally a format worth listening to again. Hopefully this is just the beginning of more to come.

Vinly beats digital hands down.
And this is coming from someone who is 27 and born and raised in the digital age.