Apathetic wrote:It's like that, so that the companies can make money.

Out of print records usually sell for more.


For example.

Mindless Self Indugence - Tight (when released, $12)
Mindless Self Indulgence - Tight (now, >$100)

what? how do companies make the money from private sellers?

that makes no sense.

kerble wrote:

Apathetic wrote:It's like that, so that the companies can make money.

Out of print records usually sell for more.


For example.

Mindless Self Indugence - Tight (when released, $12)
Mindless Self Indulgence - Tight (now, >$100)

what? how do companies make the money from private sellers?

that makes no sense.

That's what they want you to think.

Liar and Down are available on LP to this very day.

fantasmatical thorr wrote:it could be supply and demand?

That's what it comes down to in the end. Reading Badcomrade's posts also affirms this.

ooohh, oohh! I have 8 releases, all of which are out of print!!!

one of them comes out in a month...but since i'm not going to repress it...it's technically "out of print" right?

Mayfair is right. Storing records you can't sell sucks. You might know you're the coolest kid in town putting out records by great bands, but when no one's buying and you look at the thousand$$$ you've spent on these records (for little to no one to enjoy), you start to wonder, why does Dischord keep pressing Jawbox records?

I mean seriously, if the demand was there for another pressing of Pure, Touch and Go would do it.

What stays in print is what sells. What sells are records that are 1) popular, 2) good and 3) cheap (hence all the Czech Republic vinyl you see now).

If you buy vinyl...buy American. Support your LOCAL indie labels and LOCAL indie pressing plants.

BadComrade wrote:You try selling 1000 more copies of a Storm & Stress LP and then come back with an answer to your own question.

Can I buy one from you?
I will buy one from you.

You.

BadComrade wrote:

gheorge77 wrote:I was just posting b/c I recently picked up a copy of Dirty Three's Ocean Songs and iin it was the T+G/Merge/Quarterstick mail order catalog from 1998 and I started drooling about what it would be like to be able to order anything from there for the prices of 9 and 12 for lps. Grrrrrrrr......Polvo and Jesus Lizard...

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=257

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=255

http://www.touchandgorecords.com/bands/album.php?id=256

There's three Polvo LPs that you can order from T&G

Dunno why they don't have any Jesus Lizard LPs... maybe they're waiting for enough of a back order to press more. I'm sure it won't be long before they do...

I got "Down" from Insound.com on vinyl. I'm sure there were others on there too.

BadComrade wrote:You try selling 1000 more copies of a Storm & Stress LP and then come back with an answer to your own question.

Rose from Poster Children was telling me about dis- selling out the initial 1000-disc run of one of their albums, then selling a grand total of four of the next 1000, as she was showing me and Choppy the stockpile of unsold 12-Inch Records merch in their basement.

Apathetic wrote:It's like that, so that the companies can make money.

Out of print records usually sell for more.


For example.

Mindless Self Indugence - Tight (when released, $12)
Mindless Self Indulgence - Tight (now, >$100)

I have a promo cassingle from this album. Wonder if that's worth any more than the paper the sleeve is printed on.

Speaking of out of print, anyone know where I can get an LP of Tweez?