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

cannot wait until oculus rift allows us to take 90 minute walks to this thread

one time when i was 15 i walked a couple miles to my buddy's house to get like $15 he owed me and then walked a couple more miles back to the record store to purchase hatful of hollow and then walked maybe another mile back to my house to listen to it. was it 90 minutes? more? who knows!

How earnest were you on a scale of 1 - 10

maybe 6 but i was pretty young so let's say 7.5

did you sing "Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want" to your buddy when you got to his house

When I lived in Reno I would walk about ten miles round trip to the record/book stores downtown at least once a week. I loved it because it either gave me a chance to listen to music on headphones or spend time with my girlfriend at the time.

haha, this is great - there should be a whole other thread: Records I Walked Through The Bitter Rain & Snow To Purchase, Unlike These Whippersnappers Who Can Get Every Smiths Rarity At The Press Of A Damn Button

Maybe VNYL can revise their business plan and create an app that will tell you how far a walk you are from the closest thrift shops from anywhere in the world

"A USED LINDA RONSTADT RECORD IS 4.2 MILES AWAY FROM YOUR CURRENT LOCATION"

Is there an app that tells you if it's one of the Nelson Riddle ones

"How many Eagles are on it?"

Calculating... Calculating...

lol

I thought insound was out of business but I'm still getting emails from them. They end up in my spam. It's embarrassing, they are desperately trying to sell off just a small handful of vinyl LPs. It's not a scam I guess, just slim pickings.

was tempted until $6.50 shipping

not so fast, Beatles fans, you're not done yet!

http://www.digitalmusicnews.com/2016/03/15/high-definition-vinyl-will-soon-become-a-reality/

50-megapixel daguerreotypes, 500-horsepower Model Ts, 27-speed penny-farthings...

I don't care, I love my 16-bit vinyl.

Sundazed has been describing their stuff as 'High Definition' for awhile now. But I guess they're not offering a 'True HD' experience.

There is a small but vocal cabal among the vinyl enthusiast community who seek to control the language of our hobby via bullying and ridiculing those who use the term "vinyls" to describe 2 or more units of vinyl recorded media. In an effort to promote inclusiveness, we would like to have the term "vinyls" enshrined as the official plural term for vinyl recorded media. This will also serve the essential purpose of annoying people who would rather ridicule a complete stranger than say something encouraging to a fellow "vinyls" collector, especially those who may be just getting started in the hobby.

https://www.change.org/p/vinyl-lp-collectors-group-support-changing-the-official-plural-form-of-vinyl-recorded-media-to-vinyls

where are the direct-to-disc albums of the vinyl revival?

https://www.discogs.com/Chico-Hamilton-Reaching-For-The-Top/release/3100898

lol amazing.

they want to fight bullying and ridiculing

they want to promote inclusiveness

and yet the essential purpose is to annoy specific people

just got an email about this: http://keepersrecordclub.com/ -- maybe not scammy but i still don't really get these things

Introducing Keepers Vinyl Record Club:

A monthly subscription record club for record enthusiasts where musicians act as curator, selecting a record they love and writing their own liner notes on the album's personal impact. A copy of the record and liners are sent to each subscriber, creating a shared experience between the musician and listener through the enjoyment of a record.

something seems kind of .... wrong .... about getting a FUGAZI record of all things from a record-of-the-month club. the first Fugazi i bought was a $10 CD and i was thrilled it was that cheap only to later discover it was because of their awesome DIYness which is one of the amazing things about that band.

this club is $30 per month.

haha yeah ... but you get that guy's liner notes?

jeez a new one of these is popping up every week now

with my luck one of the members of death cab for cutie would send me a fugazi record. or the other way around.

a musician whose opinions and music you don't care about is used as the carrot to get you to buy a record you already have

tbf Steady Diet is an overlooked fugazi joint imo. but yeah, Dischord vinyl is still v cheap.

dang you weren't kidding. all 12" Fugazi they have in stock is $14!

http://www.dischord.com/release/060/steady-diet-of-nothing

and all those albums are marvellous. I swear that band got better with each release.

http://www.intlmusicsnobs.com/post/56526679881/get-your-ashes-pressed-into-vinyl-when-you-die

The basic package starts at £3,000. You get up to 30 discs, your rest in vinyl album cover and label artwork (including your birth date and date of passing). You must supply the music or vocals you want, but they do state they are liable for any copyright infringements that you may incur.

Not a bad scheme, get the money now and the company will be looooong gone by the time anyone who signed up dies and their heirs try to claim

Happy Birthday rights owners can take it up with my estate

A recent court case actually concluded that it's in the public domain, and Warner's claim to have copyright on the lyrics was invalid.

I always thought it was hilarious that this most legally contentious of lyrics contained all of six words.

And one of those is "every name in the world".

In Finnish it has just three words, plus the name.

not records but this twitter thing advocating for vinyl products made me lol:

Vinyl Vfied ‏@Vinyl_Vfied 3h3 hours ago
We’re taking a stand. The dishonest campaign against vinyl products stops now.

"Vinyl products are reliable, safe, and cost-effective. Don’t listen to the alarmists."

I can't hear the alarmists anyway, not with all these pops and clicks and surface noise.

lol

http://i.imgur.com/9mbzrmu.jpg?1

It's over

http://i.imgur.com/uErAgy8.jpg

honestly just hearing the word "vinyl" is enough to make me roll my eyes these days

they're just 'records' to me

Vnyls.

Eh, but I think of CDs and tapes and collections of digital files as "records" too. Which they are, records.

ehelpeas

http://pitchfork.com/features/article/9871-how-to-buy-the-best-turntable-and-stereo-system-for-your-record-collection/

ALL THOSE PLUGS AND WIRES!!!

I still recommend finding a local dealer who sells used stuff and buying a 70s or early 80s Technics, amp and speakers for $200 or so. But what do I know.