Vinyl Thread • Page 345

A great mail day.

 

Fantastic!

 

I finally was able to get a copy of Gaga and the Haim/Taylor 7”. A couple of the stores outside of Phoenix evidently didn’t get much demand for them. Had full stacks of both at 3pm.

I’m genuinely surprised that MOST places sold out of stuff so quickly. So many records got 10k+ pressings.

 

Damn I might have to call around to some shops this week to see if they still have the Haim 7". A decent number were pressed (4,500), so I'm surprised that they sold out so quickly.

 

I think I was bugging my friends by flooding their feeds with vinyl posts, so I ended up making a separate account for my collection. This Alkaline Trio record looks sooo nice, Im so glad I ended up snagging it yesterday

 

Another great mail day.

 

Spring cleaning.

Active Child - You Are All I See ($25)
American Football - LP1 (Pic Disc) ($40)
Autre Ne Veut - Anxiety ($10)
Beacon - Escapements ($10)
Candy Hearts - All The Ways You Let Me Down ($10)
Counterfit - Super Amusement Machine... ($25)
Dane Cook - Harmful If Swallowed ($10)
Jack White - Lazaretto ($20)
Lydia - This December... ($75)
Michael Jackson - Thriller (Pic Disc) ($15)
Saves The Day - Under The Boards ($15)
Sleep In -Settling ($35)
Sorority Noise - YNAAYT ($15)
Taylor Swift - Cardigan + Songwriting Voice Memo 7" ($35)
Taylor Swift - Cardigan (Cabin in Candlelight version) 7" ($35)

Add $7 to cover shipping. US only.

I also have a ton of 60s-80s 7" singles. If you're interested in those, let me know.

 

Nice! Where did you find Standing on the Shoulder of Giants?

 

Ebay. Got it as an import from the UK.

 

Mewithoutyou showed up today! Appleseed is due to ship in the next week or two. Then I’m pretty much out of pre-orders I’m expecting to come.

 

Finally. 6 months later.

 

I think this is my favorite album cover of theirs, which is funny because it's my least favorite album.

 

rsd: struck out on linkin park, senses fail, and alkaline trio. however i did grab the one on the top of my list: THRICE. not dejected at all tho. i also found dustin kenstue's 'carry the fire' used on ebay for 20$ shipped, which should be comin by the end of the week. future vinyl purchases include:

evanescence - 'fallen' (target silver variant)
acceptance - 'phantoms' (blue variant)
spiritbox - 'eternal blue' (indie store blue variant)

 

Was able to order a few RSD releases online, including the one I wanted the most (Thrice). Also got in a handful this week from a couple of users here.

Thanks for this one @Micah511


Thanks for these @boo7er

 

This came in a few weeks ago, my copy of Doppelgänger is supposed to get here Thursday

 

I'm a little sad with all of these preorders taking so long nowadays. By the time I get the record in, I've already listened to it on Apple Music a ton of times to the point where I just put the record on the shelf. It will eventually get played, but nothing compares to a: release day, slit open the shrink, drop the needle, and enjoy on the day it comes out (or close to it).

 

That’s just where we’re at. And will probably be at for awhile.

i truly don’t understand why this isn’t an industry that one of the idiot billionaires hasn’t decided to dive into.

You’ll recoup your machine investment in the first six months running 24/7, and then just print money for at least the next five years and maybe beyond.

New presses are now being manufactured, so it can be done. It’s obviously not this easy, but money makes things a lot easiER.

 

most billionaires didn't become billionaires doing stuff as dumb as sinking money into dying industries

 

no, but they did become billionaires by taking advantage of certain situations and bottlenecked industries.

A ‘dying industry’ that won’t be dead for maybe another decade.

until then, you can literally print plastic slabs of money.

 

Hate I missed out on Meteora. Also, I was way late on The Fall of Troy - Doppelgänger and will regret that for some time.

 

These are what I use:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B001LQSFKY/?tag=absolutepunk-20

The pack was $20 when I purchased it 5 years ago.

 

I don't think it's that easy:

Would assume the initial investment would be quite high + transportation costs, machinery, labor/etc/etc.

I don't know if it is as low hanging fruit as we think

 

Hudson Hi-Fi are pretty similar, I have a lot of those and like them.

 

it’s absolutely not that easy, but when you see a company like QRP, with lower resources than most start ups, grow to be the best pressing plant in the business within five years of it’s founding (entirely during the vinyl boom), that has to be pretty encouraging to anyone WITH resources to want to at least look into investing.

‘if they can do it, so can we’.