Vinyl records today might sell 10 times its original price 20 years from now.
Why buy vinyl reddit.
I have records in both vinyl and cd and anyone who owns both mediums knows playing a cd is infinitely more convenient than vinyl.
I have never once managed to buy a used record that sounded even halfway decent.
A shelf full of vinyl record have more impact compared to a shelf full of cds or a media player with billions of music files.
Even as physical record sales decline people are buying more vinyl than they have in decades in 2013 sales increased 31.
Exactly and it s far easier to find and add a song or album to a playlist than it is to go out and find a vinyl you re looking for and then also buy it.
There are two basic answers for this.
The renaissance of the long play record isn t just an anecdotal trend.
Some people even buy vinyl records just because they love the packaging.
I love records but they re also the bane of my fucking life.
I love the way they sound.
I tend to avoid record shops and or half priced books unless i am moving bulk volume and don t want to mess with shipping and haggling.
I ve been buying vinyl since i was 13 or thereabouts with a brief break in the early 00 s where i didn t buy much.
That s why they had a 1 3 euro price tag.
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Why do people still buy vinyl records.
Yes a lot of my used records are in rough condition.
There s a lot more satisfaction in listening to a vinyl than there is in listening to digital music for me.
R vinylcollector is where i have gotten to closest to my asking price while still actually selling the record.
What a remarkable thing to say.
What surprised me is the amount of versions of the same albums there are now and ultimately the different monetary value of essentially the same material.
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As to why i still buy vinyl many many reasons.
Ebay and again discogs are also fairly easy and reliable too.
I love them as objects.
But at the same time i ve enjoyed the overhwelming majority of my pre owned vinyl.
Why should i buy vinyl.
I m not sure if this is the correct subreddit to pose the question but i figured asking in r vinyl would only give me biased answers.
Of all the music formats vinyl has the most value.
So i recently got back into vinyl and have been re buying all my favorite artists albums on vinyl.
I love the equipment i play them on.
Some sensible most not.