We have a fun 2nd-hand record store in Allentown called Double Decker, where the management knows its stuff. Rock, pop, soul, jazz (especially avant-garde) vinyl sells, mostly to punk types; 2nd hand CDs and classical vinyl are worthless.
Donald Clarke
On Jul 24, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Tom Fine wrote:
This article seems less about a "trend" than about a few rich guys who are buying up quantity over quality so they can show off massive rooms of stuff to each other. I guess it's always been thus (be it wine cellars, 20-car garages or rooms of LP shelves), but this "trend" is more about accumulating than collecting. The very idea of buying 2 copies of "every important rock album" is an accumulation process.
The Atlantic Records guy has been profiled elsewhere. He seems like a decent guy who really loves music.
Between the in-house vinyl-reissue operations at the record companies, Chad Kassim's vinyl empire, the revived Mobile Fidelity and other smaller players, pretty much "every important rock album" has been newly reissued, often with better physical and sonic quality than the original record. More and more so, the same is true for jazz from the stereo era. And there are many, many classical titles now out on reissue vinyl. My point is, except for true rarities that are likely to be of cultural value decades from now, I think the alleged "collector market" for first-issue vinyl is a big bubble.
-- Tom Fine
----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Sam" <[log in to unmask]>
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> Two bits worth of trivia: John Varvatos, mentioned in the article, now has
> a retail store where CBGB's once stood.
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> On Wed, Jul 24, 2013 at 5:21 AM, Sam Brylawski <[log in to unmask]>wrote:
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>> The Wall Street Journal is running an article on rare rock collectors. It
>> estimates annual sales of rare records is $10 million. (Art: $10 billion.)
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>> http://tinyurl.com/m88ogw2
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>> Sam Brylawski
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