By what year will the vinyl market finally collapse?

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2045? 2075? 2100????

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:12 (twenty years ago)

1991

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

"Snarky"

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:15 (twenty years ago)

Never happen.

― Austin Still (Austin, Still), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

I miss the days where I could flip through my mp3s and play whatever I want. Now that AetherCorp just plays localized music approved for my microdemographic, I feel pleased but uncomfortable.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:16 (twenty years ago)

austin otm not about the picture but vinyl still sounds great and if you keep it carefully lasts foreeeeeeever
i mean you can get some degradation but it adds to the charm sometimes i find

― nervous (cochere), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:20 (twenty years ago)

It's been going out since CD's came to town. But maybe it just stayed the same price because all used vinyl in the late '80s was probably $2.

― Voodoo Child, Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:26 (twenty years ago)

It probably isn't representative, but Amoeba sells a ridiculous amount of vinyl.

― polyphonic (polyphonic), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:29 (twenty years ago)

vinyl does well in the bigger cities, college towns.

― Ian John50n (orion), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:31 (twenty years ago)

Damn. I was going to post the same answer as Blount but he beat me to the punch.

― walter kranz (walterkranz), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:38 (twenty years ago)

No one can predict the future, but certainly, the more sought after vinyl is just going to go up in price.. turntables aren't really going away soon.

(although they might... one day! But not soon.)

I mean, if eight tracks can do relatively well on eBay... (and it's not as if, aside from third-hand 2-XL robots, you can find players for them easily)

How much is Depeche Mode's Violator LP going for? $60??

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

(I mention Violator only because it's one of the last major selling albums to actually get a vinyl pressing in the U.S. on a major label, even if the CDs sold more at the time)

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:42 (twenty years ago)

(aside from hip hop, that is. That's a very different peripheral market.)

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:43 (twenty years ago)

white stripes db (plus some others i'm sure, but yeah probably the only non-hip-hop ones are gonna be indie friendly). alot of records are still pressed on vinyl amazingly, i'd guess more records are pressed on vinyl than released on cassette now, i'm certain this is the case with rock records at least. every record store in athens sells vinyl.

― j blount (papa la bas), Thursday, 25 August 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

Never..
Well not as long as there's purists out there buying music.

― Bn1 (Bn1), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:14 (twenty years ago)

Yeah, it's tough to describe because it's not as if vinyl just "went out". It came back, but not in quite the same dynamic that it did pre 1991.

― donut gon' nut (donut), Thursday, 25 August 2005 05:17 (twenty years ago)

I seem to remember reading something a while ago that said by 2009 the petroleum by-products used to make LPs would no longer be produced, so no more vinyl.

― wombatX (wombatX), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:25 (twenty years ago)

yeah heard that.

I read also though that vinyl is the only format going up in sales these days, along with I guess, mp3 or whatever now.

― Ronan (Ronan), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:37 (twenty years ago)

ebay is completely glutted. i couldn't give away a cluster record a couple weeks ago. ebay is slow in the summer though. it's a great time to buy on ebay! that's for sure. stuff has to be completely rare to sell well. got 50 bucks for the five's napalm beach single in not great shape the other day.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 August 2005 10:46 (twenty years ago)

Vinyl is going up, but from a very small base. But the rule of thumb of collecables is that when the generation raised on the items starts to hit 70, the market collapses. The "vinyl generation" (for pop music) is mainly the people who were in their early 20s between 1965 and 1985, so that would mean that the market would decline during 2015-2035.

― Siegbran (eofor), Thursday, 25 August 2005 11:00 (twenty years ago)

i just sold a jimi hendrix bootleg for 500 buxx off ebay...so vinyl is uppppppppppppppppppppppp

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:42 (twenty years ago)

nice one, danny.

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:46 (twenty years ago)

danny, i just got the new ugly things magazine in the mail with my chubby checker piece in it. you are now immortalized in my fave mag (not by name though).

― scott seward (scott seward), Thursday, 25 August 2005 12:49 (twenty years ago)

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― hold tight the private caller (mwah), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:01 (twenty years ago)

I'm sure I read somewhere recently that the only remaining vinyl pressing plant in the UK is due to be demolished to make way for the 2012 London Olympics...

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:21 (twenty years ago)

lathe cuts are the way of the future

― jimmy glass (electricsound), Thursday, 25 August 2005 13:25 (twenty years ago)

hot topic sells vinyl too i remember a couple years ago thinkin how weird it was you can buy mf doom 12"s at a shopping mall in greenville, south carolina

― 3, Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:21 (twenty years ago)

"During the early Depression years, few records came close to selling 10,000 copies, much less a million [as during the 1920s]."

[A Reassessment of 1920s Record Sales]

― Confounded (Confounded), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:48 (twenty years ago)

I buy used vinyl because it's cheap. Plus, at the used music stores I go to, there seems to be a great deal more of the music I listen to in vinyl.

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:50 (twenty years ago)

After the shockwaves erase all the hardrives on the planet watchoo gonna be listning to, HUH?

― Old School (sexyDancer), Thursday, 25 August 2005 19:51 (twenty years ago)

Siegbran again brings the knowledge!!

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Friday, 26 August 2005 05:07 (twenty years ago)

hot topic sells vinyl too i remember a couple years ago thinkin how weird it was you can buy mf doom 12"s at a shopping mall in greenville, south carolina

-- 3 (...), August 25th, 2005.

i have not been inside the hot topic in the haywood mall in greenville for a long long time but that always struck me as hilarious. especially considering how fucking expensive things are there!

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 26 August 2005 05:43 (twenty years ago)

-----alot of records are still pressed on vinyl amazingly, i'd guess more records are pressed on vinyl than released on cassette now

GEE GOOD GUESS! Nothing comes out on cs, most things do on vinyl. That I want. All/as good as all singles come out on 12".

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:34 (twenty years ago)

Spectator asks; how come he spells "a lot" like that?

― A Viking of Some Note (Andrew Thames), Friday, 26 August 2005 09:36 (twenty years ago)

It's still the most reliable method of sound recording storage, proven by time to be more long-lived than analog tape. Make of that what you will.

― sleeve (sleeve), Saturday, 27 August 2005 03:53 (twenty years ago)

haywood mall!! shit i couldnt even remember the name. theres also a abercrombie style clothing store there where you can choose what music plays instore from a computer kiosk and it has daft punk on it

― 3, Saturday, 27 August 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

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