Why Is Vinyl So Expensive Now

So every 4th or 5th record i buy is poorly pressed or cut too hot.

Why is vinyl so expensive now.

4 years of struggling with vinyl has left a bad taste in my mouth. I think that there are a couple of reasons why vinyl is so expensive today. Not to mention overpriced. But my understanding is that overall costs have not increased.

Niche markets attract higher prices due to their very nature. It s inflation man february 15 2018 8 98 frontline lp price in. They would operate 24 hours a day if vinyl press operators a dying breed until just recently weren t so hard to find. Making vinyl is expensive theres no question durlak says.

I remember even seeing a market for jackets only being valuable enough for resale. Expensive records used to be about real scarcity. 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. They reason vinly is more expensive than cd is for a number of reasons.

Firstly due to rampant piracy for the last 20 years from cd burners and downloading the cost of cds has not risen in line. Vinyl records cost so much because idiot hipsters think they are a trendy must have front end to their music system. It might not seem like much but in the 30 s a dollar was a lot of money. Listening to cd s again and its pleasurable unlike being pissed at records all the time.

Perhaps the sound is irrelevant. For instance 78s in the 30 s sold for a dollar. 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. For one it is because americans have gotten used to cheap music.

Before cd s used vinyl was literally the only way to hear some stuff so it went for a premium.