Why Is Vinyl Expensive

The breaking point for me was 64 98 for the new queens of the stone age album.

Why is vinyl expensive.

Granted it was a deluxe limited edition double vinyl version of last year s villains with 14 art prints tucked. Vinyl lps are so expensive because shoreditch hipsters will pay 22 for them. It was wilson s only single and the majority of demo copies were destroyed which is why it s so collectible. Vinyl doesn t really sell that much it was pretty much killed off years ago so most pressing plants were shut down and demand isn t that big to warrant spending huge sums to make new factories.

It might not seem like much but in the 30 s a dollar w. There s also a shortage of lacquers required to create masters for pressing made worse by a fire in one of the few factories that made. A number of reasons. For one it is because americans have gotten used to cheap music.

Dealing with music that is not mainstream someone can easily see the difference. In my opinion the correct question is why is new mainstream vinyl now so expensive. I think that there are a couple of reasons why vinyl is so expensive today. There s only a few actually working now.

There are many valuable vinyl records out there including perhaps the most expensive motown northern soul 7 inch ever do i love you indeed i do recorded by frank wilson in 1965 and which sold for over 25 000 31 000 at auction in 2009. For instance 78s in the 30 s sold for a dollar.