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. Perhaps the sound is irrelevant. It might not seem like much but in the 30 s a dollar was a lot of money. Making vinyl is expensive theres no question durlak says. But my understanding is that overall costs have not increased.

4 years of struggling with vinyl has left a bad taste in my mouth. I remember even seeing a market for jackets only being valuable enough for resale. Not to mention overpriced. 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.

For instance 78s in the 30 s sold for a dollar. Niche markets attract higher prices due to their very nature. And sure the canadian conversion on the dollar hurts. 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. It s inflation man february 15 2018 8 98 frontline lp price in. Before cd s used vinyl was literally the only way to hear some stuff so it went for a premium. They would operate 24 hours a day if vinyl press operators a dying breed until just recently weren t so hard to find.

But if plans hold they ll add two to six more presses starting at the. Vinyl records cost so much because idiot hipsters think they are a trendy must have front end to their music system. Listening to cd s again and its pleasurable unlike being pissed at records all the time. Expensive records used to be about real scarcity.

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.