Why Is Vinyl Expensive

It is a niche fashionable product that people are willing to pay over the odds for.

Why is vinyl expensive. There s only a few actually working now. Granted it was a deluxe limited edition double vinyl version of last year s villains with 14 art prints tucked. For one it is because americans have gotten used to cheap music. It might not seem like much but in the 30 s a dollar w.

Vinyl lps are so expensive because shoreditch hipsters will pay 22 for them. In diy punk for example the music i m involved and not only as a listener currently 12 14 euros for a new lp release is the norm. A number of reasons. For instance 78s in the 30 s sold for a dollar.

In my opinion the correct question is why is new mainstream vinyl now so expensive. 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. Dealing with music that is not mainstream someone can easily see the difference. It was wilson s only single and the majority of demo copies were destroyed which is why it s so collectible.

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