Why Is Vinyl So Expensive Now

Firstly due to rampant piracy for the last 20 years from cd burners and downloading the cost of cds has not risen in line.

Why is vinyl so expensive now.

4 years of struggling with vinyl has left a bad taste in my mouth. 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. I remember even seeing a market for jackets only being valuable enough for resale. Making vinyl is expensive theres no question durlak says.

They would operate 24 hours a day if vinyl press operators a dying breed until just recently weren t so hard to find. I think that there are a couple of reasons why vinyl is so expensive today. But my understanding is that overall costs have not increased. They reason vinly is more expensive than cd is for a number of reasons.

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. But if plans hold they ll add two to six more presses starting at the. Expensive records used to be about real scarcity. For one it is because americans have gotten used to cheap music.

Perhaps the sound is irrelevant. Niche markets attract higher prices due to their very nature. Listening to cd s again and its pleasurable unlike being pissed at records all the time. Vinyl records cost so much because idiot hipsters think they are a trendy must have front end to their music system.

Before cd s used vinyl was literally the only way to hear some stuff so it went for a premium. And sure the canadian conversion on the dollar hurts. Perhaps they actually believe they sound better. It s inflation man february 15 2018 8 98 frontline lp price in.

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