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

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.

Seems like a good deal really!

I might just.

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

irl lol

Well, I don't for a kickoff.

yeah I've got a very crappy copy I picked up 2nd hand, a good opportunity to upgrade

I bought this yesterday and am listening to it for the first time now. It sounds like a pretty good pressing to me, though I've only got the CD version to compare it to. I can't see myself spending £14.99 a copy on the rest of the series, though. The general point of these types of things is that you need to buy all of them to make up a complete set, but with LPs, jazz or otherwise, I guess people will just pick the ones they really want, especially at £15 a pop.

How's the magazine?

there kind of isn't one...? you get a slim booklet giving a wiki-level precis of the recording of the album, plus a big fold out poster. bit weird having it the magazine racks all told

the website says that the next two issues are going to be Blue Train and Lady in Satin. also that "70 issues are currently planned for this series" which seems a little optimistic maybe

it's fortnightly as well, so anyone buying every issue would be spending nearly £30 a month.

the list in the 5th post below is apparently the collection that these records are being selected from, the list goes up to 80 rather than 70 so I guess some are going to be skipped over, so no Keith Jarrett

http://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/de-agostini-jazz-at-33-1-3-rpm-series-in-uk-newsagents.494052/

£5 seems like the right price

For many on that list anyway

there's an advert in the guardian today for this. shows the first 6 of that list minus the jarrett. and a website link:

https://www.deagostini.com/uk/collections/jazz-vinyl/

the ramp in cost is absurd

It can't be a money making endeavor at £5 a throw.

That's the model for all of those types of mags. First fix is free cheap.

yeah, I guess £10 makes more sense. but £15 for jazz reissues seems steep. and the scheme is scammy.

looking these up, I guess I'm wrong though and £15 or more is the going rate for many of these

what you're buying there isn't the record, it's the cred and the lifestyle.