Its a shame Arena vinyls are going to be £40

essexboyinwales wrote: I apologise on behalf of my nation for the damage caused by Brexit☹️ Still angry….

The thing is to is that I love buying music from the UK.
There are things I can get that I can’t get my country.
I understand politics are out of the many hands for decisions made. It shouldn’t be, but it is.

Certainly you do not need to apologize kind sir.
As a Canadian we certainly have our own problems, especially with inflation.

Everyone needs to apologize at this point. Lol. Yup. That is what I want. A global world leader apology and re-inverse inflation

We can all dream.

Anyway. I’m hoping the UK label on Cherry Red Records lowers the pre order price for The Alan Parsons Project “Turn of a Friendly Card” deluxe edition!!

God. I want that so bad. It would cost 120$ CAN to me. 69.99£ right now.

Leaves me black and blue, but that blu ray audio I want so bad. At some point I feel I’ll give in and buy it but I don’t want to add to the problem. Lol.

essexboyinwales wrote: I apologise on behalf of my nation for the damage caused by Brexit☹️ Still angry….

David_D wrote: Regarding the very high prices for used vinyl today, I have my doubts whether it's good for the sale of vinyl in the long run.

Edited by moshkito - January 13 2023 at 05:51

It is that damn Brexit.


Everything is so expensive from the UK. Actually I contacted Arena to ask them why a 2CD media book costs 65£ without shipping.

progaardvark wrote: I've curtailed purchasing CDs from Europe because the shipping costs are sometimes more than the price of the CD (mainly from Italy at this time).

Edited by Greenmist - January 12 2023 at 09:12

progaardvark wrote: ... I think this response nailed it on the head. I've curtailed purchasing CDs from Europe because the shipping costs are sometimes more than the price of the CD (mainly from Italy at this time). Japanese imports are also off limits for me because the CD and the shipping are both very high. Living in the U.S., the best option for me at this time is if one of the local retailers (like LaserCD, Wayside, Doug Larson Imports, progwalker on Discogs) can get their hands on some of these imports.  ...

Catcher10 wrote: I'm not going to comment on Moshkito's entire post "Honestly, vinyl is over and gone".....someone has been sleeping under a rock since 2010 .  Other than to say if you do a simple Google search on LP price in 1975 say, it was about 5.99-7.99. Even I remember in the late 70s paying no more than 8.99, I don't think I ever remember seeing a $15 record. Those prices using an inflation calculator (US$) is 5.99 = 33.15, 7.99 = 44.21. There are different calculators you can use and this one seems to be on the higher end. I buy a lot of LPs both new and used, new ones run $25-$30 for single and $35-40 for dbls. And of course deluxe editions, box sets and special releases have their own prices. CDs have tended to hold price in that $15-20 range it seems, but hell back in mid 80s CDs were very expensive, $12-13 I remember, considering $13 is about $36 today. Bottom line is the price of all stuff has increased due to the current inflation and the past 2 years due to Covid and supply chain issues. The LP took a big hit when that lacquer plant in California burned down, one of only a handfull that produce lacquers, needed to press LPs, and then Covid with a massive demand since everyone was home not working in office and listening to records all day long. Simple supply and demand. Regarding Arena's price, that does seem on the higher end for a record, part of it may be that they only plan to press a small run so their mfg costs are much higher.

Catcher10 wrote: I'm not going to comment on Moshkito's entire post "Honestly, vinyl is over and gone".....someone has been sleeping under a rock since 2010 .  Other than to say if you do a simple Google search on LP price in 1975 say, it was about 5.99-7.99. Even I remember in the late 70s paying no more than 8.99, I don't think I ever remember seeing a $15 record. Those prices using an inflation calculator (US$) is 5.99 = 33.15, 7.99 = 44.21.  ...

Hercules wrote: moshkito wrote: Greenmist wrote: Its a shame that Arena vinyls are going to be £40 ($48, 45 euros) a time. You cant buy them on somewhere like Amazon, the only place you can buy them is on the Verglas website, Arena's official store.   And at the moment as i write this, they are not strictly speaking actually selling them at the moment,  they are just taking orders for them to see if there's enough interest to make it worth getting them produced.   £40 in my opinion for a vinyl is too much, over priced.    The most i've ever spent on a vinyl is £33, and i don't intend on spending that much on one again, that one was just a one off. ... Hi, Vinyl has always been spendy ... even in the 70's driving down to Moby Disk to get an IMPORT (everything vinyl in those days), the cost was around $15 dollars, and up to $20. At that time, the "price" for many albums, was around $5.98 or $6.98 depending on the over rating of some crappy stuff. Vinyl is only worth it, if you have a top of the line stereo system, otherwise you are wasting your money. My old roomie, knew I had the stereo and the albums and heard a lot of the stuff and its quality, and I think he wanted to get something similar. He did get a decent stereo, and later some vinyl's but I can tell you that the Led Zep 2 album sounded like crap on his system or mine. My old version (had not replaced these with CD's yet!) was vastly superior, and made me think that a lot of these "vinyl" this and that is just a bunch of advertising bullcrap to get your money.  Honestly, vinyl is over and gone. As time goes by the electronics that handle the digitization of a lot of music will improve and vinyl will come off stupid and bad! It's a matter of time, although it won't be in my lifetime, I don't think! I have not heard a single vinyl out there that had the quality and "superiority" that some folks here on this board seem to give it ... well, it might help if you were a bit smarter and gave yourself a large room with good acoustics and air flow, too ... but some folks don't believe it! So, spend your money is the option for a lot of these commercial junk pushers!   "Honestly, vinyl is over and gone" Is that why more vinyl albums are selling than at any time since 2000? I have a very, very high quality turntable (A Pink Triangle Anniversary, with an SME Series V arm and a Lyra Lydian cartridge). I cannot listen to CDs or streaming unless there is no vinyl available. The vinyl sounds so superior on a top class system, but I agree that may not be so on a lower quality system. But I will have no hesitation paying £40 for vinyl versions of some of Arena's albums, and I already have The Visitor on vinyl.