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In Reply to: the classic monos... posted by analog guy on April 18, 2007 at 11:10:47:
I get a kick out of people complaining about $30 records. Is a car the same price as it was in the 70's? $7.99 for an LP is long gone, and the fact that there are places on the web where you can still get a new record for $10 is amazing at the least.Sure, I'd like all reissues to be $10, but as long as I'm wishing, I sould like to buy a new Chebby for $4800. The people who moan about $30 records should check to see if GM makes ANY cars for the price they were in, say, 1970!
And believe me...for me, $30 IS a lot of money (Hell, that's almost as much as a Chinese take-out meal for 4). But back when I was in college, (for the 2nd time...or was that the thrird?), $7.99 was a lot of money, too! I just realized...$7.99 is about the price of 1 dish at the Chinese take-out down the road!
Damn...I'm hungry!
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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It's not the price, it's their lack of QC.What does it say about the product when you have to pay an extra fee for someone to hand select your copy to ensure that what you receive is free of warps, scratches, smudges, fingerprints or dust ?
Best,
"hand-picked" items seems beyond absurd, but $30 is fair...but only if the LP is playable.Of course, you could always do what the record store ladies told me when I complained about a warped record back in the good ol' 70's, "Put a penny on the headshell."
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
from back when a Volkswagen cost $1,495
"Man is the only animal that blushes - or needs to" Mark Twain
I found price stickers from $2.97 to $4.97. Why did we have to pay so much more than New Yorkers?
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If I had more money I'd soon be broke...but I'd have more LPs!
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