Why Is Vinyl So Expensive Now

Perhaps the sound is irrelevant.

Why is vinyl so expensive now.

I remember even seeing a market for jackets only being valuable enough for resale. Firstly due to rampant piracy for the last 20 years from cd burners and downloading the cost of cds has not risen in line. Niche markets attract higher prices due to their very nature. 4 years of struggling with vinyl has left a bad taste in my mouth.

They reason vinly is more expensive than cd is for a number of reasons. For instance 78s in the 30 s sold for a dollar. So my vinyl purchasing has gone down from 10 month to almost zero month over the last 2 years due to the drastic price increases. Why is new vinyl now so expensive regardless of the undoubted resurgence of vinyl in the past 5 or so years it s still very much a niche market.

Not to mention overpriced. Expensive records used to be about real scarcity. Before cd s used vinyl was literally the only way to hear some stuff so it went for a premium. Vinyl records cost so much because idiot hipsters think they are a trendy must have front end to their music system.

They would operate 24 hours a day if vinyl press operators a dying breed until just recently weren t so hard to find. And sure the canadian conversion on the dollar hurts. For one it is because americans have gotten used to cheap music. But if plans hold they ll add two to six more presses starting at the.

It s inflation man february 15 2018 8 98 frontline lp price in. Perhaps they actually believe they sound better. Making vinyl is expensive theres no question durlak says. But my understanding is that overall costs have not increased.

It might not seem like much but in the 30 s a dollar was a lot of money.