I’ve seen Beatles fans chat about some Filipino presses being good.
I agree in my heart, which rules my purchases, but logic says you are wrong. Back in 1982, most albums were around the $12.99 mark, some cheaper, some more expensive, but that would be a good average price. Back in 1982, the average salary was $17179 per year meaning a record cost 0.0756% of average wages. The average salary today is $73966 per year meaning a $60 record costs .0811% of your salary, an almost negligible difference. Add in that many of us potentially earned much less in 1982 and much more in 2023 ($7500 and $125000 ish now personally) and that difference runs much more the other way. 0.1732% of my salary then vs 0.048% of my salary now, would indicate that new records are in fact fairly priced. The real issue is that we have grown old and can’t get used to the fact that new records are four to five times more than we used to pay in their heyday.
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It’s more that pre covid $40 was pretty standard and you would often see them for $30. Going up 50-100% in less than 5 years seems crazy.
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Like I said…grandpa view.
Decent counter meal at a pub should be five bucks.
I Know it’s wrong.
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Oh yeah…
That’s fair.
Sellers have got real greedy the last couple of years.
The big picture here is though not vinyl, that music is cheaper and more easily accessible by people of what ever genre they want, they then can go and hunt the vinyl for the precious keeping.
Back in the day it was just a random lottery, damn I used to by Records based on the covers, thats how I bought Slippery when Wet in the import section
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Have Aussies had better salary increases than most countries over the years? I live in a country where prices and salaries have remained essentially the same for 20 years, so these sudden sharp increases in record imports do nothing but hurt.
I bought Slippery When Wet because my (then) metal cousin told me they were gonna be huge.
Same reason I bought Louder Than Love.
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You would agree though that music is cheaper now than ever before, but more accesable
As a kid I dreamed of having access to every single.
Every album.
And now I do.
I can’t complain.
But I still love vinyl.
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I love vinyl more and still vaulting my CD’s as the whole digital media is so fairy (as just not real physically), I love it to hear songs but I love the physical aspect of playing the song with records and actually have not played a CD for years but have 100’s leave that one for retirement.
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I’m really not sure what to do about my cd’s.
Loved that series as all 80’s kid did
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It’s on YouTube…
I am watching it now, it’s like home and away now
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It’s the cappuccino joke in the first ep from the early eighties for me.
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Maybe needs a separate thread, needs discussion
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I know that forgotten TV thread thing
Have a mate in Germany who was in a pretty well known band there in the 80s and scoring a couple of Top 10 hits. I’ve taken a few Filipino presses of his band over to him when we visit and he swears they’re better than his original German ones.
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so i’ve had a few items on the want list for maybe two years now, and the high i’ve just got from scoring three of them in a week is comparable to most industrial strength painkillers
the darkness - permission to land (shoutout to @GrenvoldsGang for altering me to that one)
baby animals s/t
cat empire s/t
(i don’t give a sht if they’re reissues, i want the album)
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