Shady scams and other silly business ideas to take advantage of earnest new vinyl collectors

I had a one o'clock gang album - scottish band, think one of them was briefly in simple minds, wasn't very good tbh

hey, if it wasn't for Debut i never would have found out about Beltane Fire when i was a teen!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jddg2PcVxb4

Beltane fire were hilarious, but they were no Jesse Rae

Curious about the cocktail recipe bundled with this: http://vinylmeplease.com/record-of-the-month/

Savage Progress were fucking great. Big influence on Larry Heard apparently.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUd9ZAybuFs

wow, yeah, i love that.

i really liked this song that was on one of my debut 10 inches. style council + prefab sprout. prefab council housing!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2H_kzkJKLFI

Big Sound Authority probably opened up for Carmel and Roman Holiday a lot.

also the first time i ever heard starry nowhere. top five monochrome set for sure.

http://www.discogs.com/Various-Debut-LP-Magazine-Issue-11/release/917525

feels like thread spirit:

http://www.suck.uk.com/products/mixtapeusbdrive/

That's somewhere between thread topic and Urban Outfitters novelty item crap.

The youth of today appal me

My brother bought me one of these for xmas a few years back, though I've never used it

It seems like an attempt to negotiate some of the intimacy of a physical object into this non-physical media world. I'd still rather burn someone a CD, though.

If like that more if you could play it on a cassettee deck. Does such a thing exist?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Ramozz-Player-Tape-Cassette-Adapter/dp/B00E5Y32MK

that tape/mp3 thing has pictures of record arms on it for some inexplicable reason.

haha, indeed

was able to buy a syl johnson reissue for $5 on sale at UO today. might as well get my piece of this scam.

of course the same reissue can be had for a bit over $10 shipped new from discogs, but the sticker was $19!

Any Syl Johnson —reissue or no— is worth $5 at least.

I'm glad you agree! I tend to feel slightly scammed while I'm in there among the Hunger Games OST picture discs, even if I'm quite sure that I got a good deal.

Hey man, a deal's a deal, regardless of where it's had.

has this been on here? they are all a blur by now.

http://theedit.replyyes.com/

beastie boys, nirvana, miles davis. these are really ultimate choices.

always good to discover new things thru technology

http://www.stereogum.com/1850376/columbia-house-to-relaunch-with-vinyl/news/?utm_source=sc-fb&utm_medium=ref&utm_campaign

Ok I just browsed through the latest massive Music Unlimited I have decided that the people buying audiophile dollar bin reissues need to pay more income tax or be forced to do community service or something. I retract my earlier half-assed defenses of rich music consumers.

Music Direct, I mean

Music Direct catalog

"My dad is STILL waiting for his 8-track copy of Boz Scaggs' "Slow Dancer""

Got a chuckle out this comment.

Gawd my dad probably has 7 or 8 copies of that on various formats lol

hahaha brimstead, what put you over the edge?

lol it probably was the WHOLE PAGE dedicated to 80s soundtracks that broke the camel's back

it might have been 2 pages, it was disgusting

haha yeah i've seen those cropping up more and more. hard to really imagine who's buying them. the one thing i'll say is that at least a lot of them are albums i don't actually see around a ton, maybe because nobody wants them. nobody needs them anyway but at least it's not something where literally the same store has two totally listenable copies of the damn thing for $5 or less, and five more copies in the back.

they would have you pay $$$ for 200g pressings of comedy stereo demonstration records from the 50s.

http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/61R8X6584SL._SX300_.jpg

Dead-quiet 180g 2xLP, cut from analog tape and painstakingly audiophile-remastered with the participation of original 'Gangster' and oboe-repairman David Stearlett. No collection is complete without this seminal 1958 release which virtually defined the Miller sound and has been namechecked by countless contemporary recording artists. A steal at $28.99!

$29 would be a steal in audiophile land. Slap $60 on it!

Haha I get so much stuff from Music Direct. I bought a couple of things from then. They have some ridiculous clearance prices on stereo equipment sometimes.

Might be the wrong be the wrong place to ask this, but what's folks experience with British Public Domain reissue vinyl? Half-Price Books has a bunch of new editions of '50s/early '60s roots stuff (Jimmy Reed, John Lee Hooker, Jerry Lee Lewis etc.), usually original LPs with a couple bonus tracks given the 180G treatment for around $12-15 a disc (or during their current sale, $10). Was curious because, like with the PD CDs, this sounds like a good way to build up a collection for not a lot of $$$$.

British Public Domain?

Never heard of it.

Music that's public domain in the UK, which makes for cheap export CDs and now LPs from labels like Proper, One Day Music etc.

I rolled the dice on a copy of Hooker's Burnin' on the Waxtime label. Two bonus tracks and a download code...will report back.

^^Sooo...audio quality pretty good...packaging less so (separated about a half an inch of the back cover from the front when opening the shrink warp with my thumb).

Verdict: Could have been better, but not at this pricepoint.

http://i.imgur.com/hDU2Ocsl.jpg

Future issues will cost £15 apparently.

Finally, a jazz subscription service for people who don't like jazz enough to own Kind of Blue.

Could be good charity shop finds a few years down the line.

will probably buy that if they're selling it in WH Smiths tbh but it doesn't strike me as v sustainable in the longterm

Oh, I can't see that pic, can someone describe it plz?

popular jazz record "Kind of Blue", yours for £4.99, plus free magazine.