I live in Europe. The two Rocktober Stone Temple Pilot releases you showed cost the equivalent of 39 usd each. In some cases albums that are pressed in Germany cost a lot more than when released in the US. I am certainly finding new records in particular are still very expensive. I am a lot more selective now than in previous years about my purchases. Not just on price but on storage issues also.
I buy a lot of jazz and the all analog reissues are great. But the rock titles if they are the popular titles where they pressed like a million of them I can get the OG reasonably priced and without the defects like with new vinyl.
Jack White’s new album for the black vinyl $26, The Smile Cut outs $26. When I see prices like that I’m much more apt to picking it up before even hearing it, I pretty much stopped buying used because of the prices for. Few bucks more I could buy the new release, like you mentioned I will splurge on Analogue Productions MoFi and Rhino
I maintain an index of 2500 cd. new, old, rock, jazz records using the same software I developed and sold to major stock market makers, Mutuals and Stock Brokers, since 01-01-2024 based on discogs prices, Low decreased by 1.39% Median increased 5.28% High increased 11.5% so rubbish has fallen, reasonable small increases across the board but quality significant increase. In stock market terms the portfolio is based on a balanced fund, i.e. a little of everything.
@@of-qw7po that story from Billboard that spoke to the sales being down was retracted as they made an error. As of June they were up in the US 17% in revenue and 10.7% in number of albums sold according to RIAA.
Vinyl sales have not dropped it turns out this was an error by Billboard sales increased by about 6% it seems that the basis for calculating sales was changed and Billboard "forgot" or did not understand see Norman Maslov "vinyl Sales Are Actually Up in 2024" for a detailed explanation
I don’t see the prices of vinyl coming down that much Maybe if audiophiles like yourself would stop paying the ridiculous prices for so called audio vinyl the companies would lower their prices a bit 150 dollars for a UHQR is insane It takes consumers not paying these prices for companies to lower their prices As long as people like yourself keep paying the high cost prices will keep going up
@@davepounds8924 I don’t buy most of the UHQR for that very reason. That being said I am talking about standard releases here not audiophile pressings. There are a lot of standard releases that cost as much or more than the audiophile ones and they have questionable pedigrees.
