Recent Purchases

dr wu23 wrote: For all you guys who constantly buy all this vinyl.....are you independently wealthy, have really good jobs, or do you live in poverty so you can buy records?

Tuzvihar wrote: Yesterday ordered: FZ - Uncle Meat FZ - Hot Rats FZ - Weasels Ripped My Flesh FZ - Waka/Jawaka FZ - Grand Wazoo and also bought 2 days before: FZ - Apostrophe I really needed to expand my FZ collection finally (I only had Joe's Garage, Thing-Fish and Chunga's Revenge before).

At Cosmos Music:

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At Cosmos Music:

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Ordered, and received

Gentle Giant debut album
Gentle Giant Live in Stockholm
VDGG Godbluff
Tull Stormwatch
Steve Hackett spectral morning/ selling England live
Steve Hackett LATRAH Genesis Revisited & orchestra
Wobbler from silence to somewhere
Iron Maiden brave new world
Iron maiden dance of death
Iron maiden a matter of life and death
Strawbs hero and heroine
City Boy the day the death caught fire

All CD's, some new remastered copies replacing old cd/ vinyl and in the case of GG live, wobbler, maiden and hackett new buys.

dr wu23 wrote: Catcher10 wrote: dr wu23 wrote: For all you guys who constantly buy all this vinyl.....are you independently wealthy, have really good jobs, or do you live in poverty so you can buy records? ...All of the above . Good question and it is a choice, either way as music has really not gotten cheaper....And I am strictly talking new albums not used. I went to Amazon and looked up Pineapple Thief and Neal Morse new albums on CD, both are at $15-19, the deluxe box edition with DVD and BR is close to $50. Vinyl of TPT is $23 and Sola is $32, Sola includes the CD, so back that cost out and the vinyl is about $15. I didn't pay $32 for Sola, you shop for deals, I paid $28.  Pretty much all vinyl I buy I am paying around $20-25 for single and dbl albums are $28-35 and sure special editions and box sets are more. I look at some of the lists here on this thread and some have that they pre-ordered like 10 albums, I assume CDs so that's a $150-180 purchase, a lot of money. Now if someone is not buying physical media and just buying a download (boooo!!!) then the prices are much lower, for Sola the mp3 purchase is like $10, why not pay the $16-18 and get the CD... As you know, back in the day (1978-1982) LPs were about $7-9, sometimes $5.99 or less! Convert to today's money and its about where prices are now, $22-25 for LPs. When CDs first came out in the early 80s they were like $20, still the better price based on today's money but for my ears they are worth maybe $3, horrible digital mastering and brickwalling will always be around. I have been buying a lot of records from BlueNote, but I usually wait till they have a 15-20% off entire store sale, so works out to about $19-20 for an LP and based on sound quality they are worth $50. As I said great question, but it is a choice...I still play the Lotto Thanks for the reply...I didn't see it or probably didn't think anyone would really answer. I usually buy new releases on cd...like the new Wobbler for instance..and older things on original vinyl, but on the older things, as you know, I look for obscure prog and psych mostly. Hard to find at a decent price these days.  I found an original copy of Strawbs Bursting At The Seams the other day for $6...near mint condition...with a promo insert still inside..already had it on cd and vinyl but at that price..what the hell.  I love to find old things like that at a great price but I just can't see spending money on brand new vinyl though I understand you like to collect the new things. I grew up in the old days so the original stuff means something to me. I assume you must also have a good deal of original vinyl as well. Happy collecting ......

dr wu23 wrote: ^ I buy old jazz things especially Blue Note ..or Verve, Impulse etc..when I find them but again they are pricey sometimes. But I'll pay for Coltrane, Blakey, Davis ,Monk, Adderley, Rollins,  etc.....when I find them at the shops.