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Good flipping material though, sold my Okami boxset for over 500€Video game soundtracks = goobvinyl
Good flipping material though, sold my Okami boxset for over 500€Video game soundtracks = goobvinyl
Fuck me. I have brought some data disc releases, but I skipped that one because I didn't care much for it and hadn't played the game. Maybe I should get into the flipping business. Got a Red Dead 1 vinyl and the Final Fantasy boxset. hmm..Good flipping material though, sold my Okami boxset for over 500€
They started doing this regularly with guitars in like 2010 or so and call it “relic’ing”. It’s died down a lot now but it was frustrating because a lot of uglified models were based on vintage specs but you couldn’t get those specs on an off the shelf looking guitar.So, with video I see things being released with retro covers to look like they are old and worn with stickers like ex-rentals would have, I expect it is just a matter of time before we get new vinyl with covers to look old and worn. That will be great because record stores will have old worn original releases right next to new worn looking releases of the same albums.
Yep. If it's 90's I will always go for a reissue. 90's vinyl is very expensive for what usually isn't a good mastering or pressing job. 60's I generally go for a reissue too because the record players back then were horrible and caused a lot of groove damage. The sweet spot is 70's and 80's records - Better recording process, better playback equipment, reissues of 60's albums that sound just as good but are still analogue sourced.There are nice remasters and I'm always glad when something gets a good repress that was previously really rare or ridiculously priced. Lots of Hip-Hop stuff in the 90s and early 2000s were printed in insanely small quantities because no-one was buying vinyl then except DJs and a lot of those were never properly mastered in the first place. Also a lot of Soul, Funk and jazz records became hard to find because DJs and producers snatched them all up for sampling.
lolwho's been doing DJing since the late 70s until now with weddings which is his main thing outside of his government work
Your collection is legendary.I listen to mine, have a lot of expensive first pressings too
They don't even use the original masters for these releases?PS: 90% of vinyl releases are dubs of red book audio.
PS: 90% of vinyl releases are dubs of red book audio.
Labels are cheap and they skimp on archiving and storage. Masters get lost or destroyed more often than you might think.They don't even use the original masters for these releases?
I don't really buy new vinyl. I think the last album I bought wa Human after all by Daft Punk or something from MGMT. But I'm so annoyed that these albums come on 4 sides. Do they expect me to really stand 3 times during the time I'm listening to an album?
Unless it’s been specifically remastered it’s probably CD audio.I’m pretty sure that’s a large exaggeration. It’s probably not true of the last 50 records I bought.
Lots and lots of shit is specifically remastered for LP though and says so on the sticker or inside. It’s essentially required for anything like a quality product. Maybe in some era, sure, but now nobody even records at redbook. Most shit has been 24 bit for like 20 years now and even at home people can record 192khz cheap. Lots of new shit now isn’t even released at redbook quality in any way. If it only hit LP and Tidal it was never redbook.Unless it’s been specifically remastered it’s probably CD audio.
A lot of it isn’t. And sure, you can record at 24-bit no problem. But what do you think happens when you master for CD, which is what labels actually archive and store and put in stores? It gets bumped down to 16. It’s like how they shoot movies in 4K and edit at 2K. The difference is that movies are upscaled back to 4K with AI for their release.Lots and lots of shit is specifically remastered for LP though and says so on the sticker or inside. It’s essentially required for anything like a quality product. Maybe in some era, sure, but now nobody even records at redbook. Most shit has been 24 bit for like 20 years now and even at home people can record 192khz cheap. Lots of new shit now isn’t even released at redbook quality in any way. If it only hit LP and Tidal it was never redbook.