Many years ago I 'discovered' the Reddit vinyl page and at the time it was significantly more interesting and less toxic than it tends to be nowadays. At this point, the 'resurgence' had not started. For whatever reason Mellon Collie was the most sought after album on there and posts that included it always shot to the top, with tons of comments. I never really understood why until I saw the prices that the originals go for...
One of the "problems" with the hobby, more so now as things just continue to price themselves into ridiculous ranges, is that at a time if you couldn't afford, or didn't want to spend the OG price, you could fall back on the "next best thing", but now even those are becoming untouchable to many.
That is so so so true and not something that I had really thought of until now. I still find it crazy when modern-day reissues go for £100's on the secondary market despite them just being released.One of the "problems" with the hobby, more so now as things just continue to price themselves into ridiculous ranges, is that at a time if you couldn't afford, or didn't want to spend the OG price, you could fall back on the "next best thing", but now even those are becoming untouchable to many.
I just hope it never gets to the point that my only affordable option is from 4 Men with Beards
Ya, that's a whole other issue. One of the main reasons I grabbed a somewhat decent version of Chet Baker Sings to hold me over, I refuse to pay the current Cogs selling price for the TP. But hopefully, as @MikeH posted, a repress is on the horizon.
Is that the Tone Poet pressing? Worth noting that in an interview Joe Harley stated that the Tone Poets will continuously be repressed to meet demand, it's just delayed at the moment because the plants are so overworked. So as long as you don't mind waiting there's no need to play silly prices for any of them.
Yea the TP. Chet and Nigeria have both been selling for crazy prices. They will both be repressed but people keep spending crazy money on them because no restock has happened yet. There's a phenomenon lately of people not wanting to wait on represses and just paying whatever the current asking price is so they can have it now instead of waiting. I see people paying insane prices on MoFis all the time that aren't out of print.
One of the "problems" with the hobby, more so now as things just continue to price themselves into ridiculous ranges, is that at a time if you couldn't afford, or didn't want to spend the OG price, you could fall back on the "next best thing", but now even those are becoming untouchable to many.
I just hope it never gets to the point that my only affordable option is from 4 Men with Beards
Madness isnt it. People have money to burn.
all it takes is for one person to buy a copy at $100 and it sets the market price sadly. and I think people saw the prices of the MMJ pressings after they went out of print and got scared about these going OOP even though everyone says they will be repressed.
How dare you besmirch the good names of Hall and Oates to believe that they would be involved any way with money laundering.
I'm 100% convinced this is money laundering.
Look at that! I own that record. Maybe it's time to sell.
So maybe this is just because I don't understand crime, but there has got to be a cheaper way to launder money than a website that charges an 8% fee right?
Ones would think. But for what possible reason do you have those two sales at double or triple the going price.. Makes no sense.
It's Discogs. It doesn't make sense. Discogs' pricing these days has almost gotten to the point of being as bad as eBay.