but will you get this record? its certainly not easy to come by
used for nothing. im sure some people will have their stories, but
in a smaller city like pittsburgh, theres pretty much zero chance
of me coming up with that record.
who cares. i'll get a dozen other records that are equally good. i'm a music
lover not a collector..in most cases..
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demand IS that great though! like i said=, all the distros with it
that ive seen (unique, watts, and 161) were out of it within hours
of having it in. and that was at a price of $10 wholesale!
well we'll see how well the stores can actually sell it. none of the people
i was with at recordtime looked twice at it. too much other good chit to buy
for 1/3 the price
when the only other way to get it is through ebay, its worth that
by far. and i dont think this record needed any more hype than it
already has from being an excellent record.
fart
also, AFAIK theres no difference between the repress and the
original. in 20 years, no one will know or even remember which one
is which.
thats a completely false assertion. thats what record collecting is all
about. my dad's been selling rare records for 40 years....and i've been
selling stuff on ebay for quite awhile. music lovers dont care about
pressings etc, but this chit isnt priced for music lovers. but it will be
soon enough...in 20 years it will be very easy to remember which pressing is
which because the original will cost a fortune and the repress will be
affordable...as it should be now.
the peacefrog joints are a whole other story. those are tunes with
no prior track record. i think that practice is a little weak,
but the artist roster has plenty of draw. it's really not so different. just
sought after artists instead of sought after tracks..
much more willing to pay for records that i know and want that are
hard to get ahold of. their rarity and goodness is established,
not created.
a repress is not rare and does not deserve that price, the end. you dont
press a rare record, it becomes rare over time. the rarity of the original
record is established. the inflated cost of a repress is just trying to
quickly take advantage of the demand for the original. it's a cheap trick.
guarantee you the repress will be worth less than current wholesale price in
5 years.
you're missing the point entirely. just because you can price something high
and still sell it ok doesnt mean you are justified in doing so (by anything
other than overzealous capitalism). clone could have priced their glass
domain rerelease similarily, but didnt. because they are not trying to
overcapitalize. your willingness to pay exorbitant prices does not excuse
the jacked up pricetag...it makes you a sucker...
it hasnt taken one tiny bit of joy out of me finally being able to
own 4 jazz funk classics. if nothing else, im extremely excited.
you got the collector itch in you, or a thick wallet -- i hope a thick
wallet so you're still buying other stuff
if pressing small numbers and charging high prices will convince
people to repress hard to find classics, im ALL FOR IT. if carl
cool, you're the one they're selling to then..
repressed each of the retroactive records at that price, id buy
each and every one of them.
really? i sure wouldnt. they're not all great, some sound very dated now.
but following this new pricing strategy down the line, why not just repress
100 copies of the retroactive stuff and sell them for $100 each. make $10k
off 100 records, yeahhhh! can you still not see why that sucks? from a music
lover's pov, it sucks....for the collectors, for the stores it's great...i
pretty much make my living selling stuff to compulsive collectors, but i am
not about to become one, i cant afford it...
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