Ridiculous Vinyl Pricing - India re-sellers
- Thread starter saurabhpach
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This thread was started 5 years ago. Today those prices seem reasonable by comparison 
And the problem remains the same - utterly ridiculous and dishonest grading practices by Indian resellers. On pricing, I agree - the market determines what’s ok and we just have to live with it. There are plenty of people with money to throw to the winds on a whim these days, so it just is what it is.
So much vinyl vs CD debate… If it isn’t for you, it isn’t for you. I think people sometimes forget that our ears aren’t measuring instruments. They offer somewhat subjective pleasure.
Personally, I have copies of albums on both CD and vinyl, and pretty much anything before 1980 just sounds more pleasing on vinyl, to my ears, without having to tweak treble and bass. For extended listening, definitely less fatiguing on vinyl.
For anything after 1990 for sure, if it’s sound quality you’re chasing, you may as well buy the CD as they were almost all recorded and mastered digitally. There are aome rare exceptions like Buena Vista Social Club and some albums from bands like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, who insist on recording analogue, but almost all the rest are digital. So, if you’re buying it on vinyl, you’re basically buying a digital file which has been ‘made analogue’ by pressing on vinyl. It’s also why I personally avoid shady Eastern European labels (Waxtime, DOL, etc) that use public domain loopholes to repress old albums on vinyl - they merely use CD rips for the most part and just scan artworks to reprint, flogging what are essentially ‘Pallika Bazaar’ type copies to feed a fad among young people. It’s a rip off (pun intended).
Of course, there are other considerations to buying which may have nothing to do with the sound quality. For example, I buy LPs of bands I loved from the 90s onwards, like Radiohead or Rage Against the Machine or even DJs like Calvin Harris, just because I enjoy the tactile experience of handling a record and because I enjoy the artwork and so on. I do so in the full knowledge that I’m essentially getting digital pressed on vinyl.
YMMV
Cheers
And the problem remains the same - utterly ridiculous and dishonest grading practices by Indian resellers. On pricing, I agree - the market determines what’s ok and we just have to live with it. There are plenty of people with money to throw to the winds on a whim these days, so it just is what it is.So much vinyl vs CD debate… If it isn’t for you, it isn’t for you. I think people sometimes forget that our ears aren’t measuring instruments. They offer somewhat subjective pleasure.
Personally, I have copies of albums on both CD and vinyl, and pretty much anything before 1980 just sounds more pleasing on vinyl, to my ears, without having to tweak treble and bass. For extended listening, definitely less fatiguing on vinyl.
For anything after 1990 for sure, if it’s sound quality you’re chasing, you may as well buy the CD as they were almost all recorded and mastered digitally. There are aome rare exceptions like Buena Vista Social Club and some albums from bands like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers, who insist on recording analogue, but almost all the rest are digital. So, if you’re buying it on vinyl, you’re basically buying a digital file which has been ‘made analogue’ by pressing on vinyl. It’s also why I personally avoid shady Eastern European labels (Waxtime, DOL, etc) that use public domain loopholes to repress old albums on vinyl - they merely use CD rips for the most part and just scan artworks to reprint, flogging what are essentially ‘Pallika Bazaar’ type copies to feed a fad among young people. It’s a rip off (pun intended).
Of course, there are other considerations to buying which may have nothing to do with the sound quality. For example, I buy LPs of bands I loved from the 90s onwards, like Radiohead or Rage Against the Machine or even DJs like Calvin Harris, just because I enjoy the tactile experience of handling a record and because I enjoy the artwork and so on. I do so in the full knowledge that I’m essentially getting digital pressed on vinyl.
YMMV
Cheers
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