If I had to guess, I would say that vinyl is MORE collectible in the same way
that rookie baseball cards or first edition books or original ANYTHING is
collectible...the vinyl has this aura of being first...original...the most basic
form of the music. (Of course, it doesn't hurt that it's cheaper to produce...)
In any case, vinyl has this symbolism and I would this is probably one of the
big reasons that Jeff's statements make some sense...
---brian
Michael Stein wrote:
quoted 25 lines Jeff @ Ninja Tune wrote:
> Jeff @ Ninja Tune wrote:
>
> >Basically most indie labels are run by a bunch of obsessive record
> >collecting geeks with thousands of pieces of vinyl crowding out their
> >house....so really you got to expect this kind of thing.
>
> As much as I hate to drag this on... I consider myself to be one of these
> collecting geeks. But I don't understand why the collectibility is always
> associated with the vinyl. I buy both vinyl and CD, but prefer CDs - I
> generally buy the vinyl (if vinyl only) and put it to MD. It's not so much
> about convenience but about ruining the product. Everytime I play the
> vinyl, it deteriorates the product, i.e. it becomes worthless. So what
> makes the LP/12" more collectable? Just the bigger size?
>
> With most of my collection of geeked-out expensive rarities (everything from
> Ae, Aphex, Warp/SKAM to poppier things like Stereolab, Saint Etienne, and
> New Order/Factory stuff), with a few exceptions, if there is a vinyl
> pressing and a CD pressing of the same thing, the CD always collects more
> money on the auction/selling block.
>
>
>
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