Why Everyone Wants Blonde on Vinyl
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Just like Frank Ocean, Blonde's vinyl has had a very rare presence online. Those unlucky enough to be fans of both records and Mr. Ocean have had a very difficult time acquiring one. But why is it such a coveted album in the first place? Let's step back and talk about Blonde, before getting into the barren history of it's Vinyl. If you're a fan of hip-hop, R&B or even rock give this album a couple listens. Let it marinate okay? No half-way listens and ditching it, listen to the whole thing like 18 times. I might make a video about Playboi Carti. #vinyl #hiphop #rap
I AM NICHELESS
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blonde dropped on his website
Yes igor is ✅✅✅
Went to LA in the summer of 2022 on a cross country trip, went to a record store on Hollywood boulevard and in a random small basket in this huge vinyl store I found the black and white version of blond and buying that was the best feeling ever. I got it for $80 and at that time or a few months later it was going for around $1,400, I have had it framed in my room double sealed since that day because of how special this album is to me and how much it has helped me mentally
That’s incredible
was this Amoeba Music store. i love that place
The original Black Friday version of blonde got released for 24 hours in November 2022. You most likely got a bootleg
Fake record lol
Who’s gon tell him
I don't even have a vinyl player but I still want blonde on vinyl
i sell it on my vinted
you can litr buy it on franks website LMAO@@emiltheamazing
@@emiltheamazing im honestly interested since on ur channel it even says "france" as location (im in italy). Could you please tell me your vinted, the version of the vinyl and maybe the price. Appreciate youu
get it, man. i got over $1.5k in vinyls and do not own a single vinyl player. you def good 💀
@@grungemafia shit i bought like 5 vinyls before buying AN actual vinyl player. PLEASE BUY IT BRO ITS WORTH IT
Literally received my christmas drop copy yesterday. Very weird (and amazing) feeling having Blond on vinyl after so mamy years thinking that would never happen
Great vid! I remember the day and time that I got the news that Blonde restocked. Literally was spamming my credit card details in so I couldn't miss it. Literally my favorite record I own now. Now, we just need that damn Endless repress lmao
Yooo! Glad you got yours! I’m waiting for Endless everyday too lol. Thanks for the kind words :)
Where do you get the vinyl
I’ve been (trying) following frank ever since I first heard Nostalgia Ultra…
I saw him live in Amsterdam (2013) where he blessed us with an “unreleased track” which years later turned out to be Seigfried!
I kept up with his website and bought the original vinyl(black/white cover), cd and magazine and later on the endless vinyl.
Now he released the vinyl again and i just had to buy it in color this time
It’s that one record I will never get rid of. It was such an important time in my life and blonde was there to compliment everything I had going on
To this day I feel blessed to: I GOT TWO VERSIONS. I GOT TWOOO VERSIONS!
Excuse my English, it’s not my first language
Channel Orange needs a vinyl release next😭😭😭
EXACTLY
Ive got channel orange, its not official obv but it legit looks like one😂
@@monickacharya8234 got a link to it? If the mix and actual cover for the vinyl look good I’ll cop it
I own this on vinyl, its feels more personable now
Ps you’re my goat
Bro I'm having insomnia nearly every night for several months now and listening to Blond is one of the only thing that gets me to sleep like the feeling of nostalgia and everything it feels like home.
So I understand you brother I understand you (also cool video !!)
So sorry about that! I’m so glad to hear that Blond is helping you! If you ever need another album for that I find Apolonio by Omar Apollo is great. His music is very inspired by Frank Ocean. I like to play albums at a very quiet volume too, enough to where I can’t hear it unless I’m perfectly still
I have Endless, Blond, and Channel Orange all on color vinyl!
Woah!
i couldn't miss the blonde restock, i had to get it
-great vids mann keep it up✌
Thank you!
no prob@@iAmLufa
I got the vinyl the last drop and almost lost it since DHL messed up, managed to find and recover it just before they would send it back. Adds a little more story to my favorite album ever 🤭
Vinyl has been proven to have a better sound quality than digital
it hasn’t been “proven”, it’s just what vinyl listeners claim. I own a record player myself, and the sound is different, but not better or worse. The whole point of vinyls is the sound being “warmer” and having slight imperfections that provide a different, more “natural” listening experience. With such formats as DSD, WAV and FLAC, and with the constantly developing world of amps and DACs, digital music has reached tremendous levels of quality, oftentimes providing a clearer, more detailed sound compared to vinyls.
wrong stop spreading this garbage. Vinyl has certain sound characteristics that some people find very enjoyable. But objectively speaking, digital has far surpassed analogue as far as detail, accuracy, bass extension. Fun fact: low frequencies must be reduced on vinyl records so that the stylus doesn’t physically jump out of the record’s grooves.
so it’s impossible for you to make the claim that “iT’s bEeN proVEn tHat vInYl soUndS BettEr.” First of all you cannot prove something subjective, each person has their own preference. If you want to claim that the majority people prefer vinyl, that’s fine but you’ll need to provide me with a randomized double-blind study that substantiates your claim. That study doesn’t exist so please for the love of god stop going around writing ridiculous comments like that. that is your opinion, and it may be an opinion shared by others, but you shouldn’t go around using the word “proven” for something that isn’t even really provable.
another fun fact by the way, all modern vinyl records that you buy today were recorded, mixed, and mastered digitally anyway, and then converted to analogue. So true analogue recordings don’t really exist anymore.
@@kimjongun4343not to mention everything is recorded, mixed, and mastered digitally now and then converted to analogue afterwards so true analogue music doesn’t exist anymore.
super interesting video!! i love the point you made at the end about manufactured "scarcity" being a bad thing, because at the end of the day we should all have access to our favorite artist's music :)
Thank you so much for this kind comment!
I started collecting vinyls just because blonde, it was my first vinyl, almost at the same time i bought a record player and i dont regret it ❤
My friend got me a copy for my 16th birthday, right when I got a record player. To this day we still talk about how lucky we were to get it before we knew it was something crazy LMAO
finally got it on vinyl
*I still have got to get one*
Ay Lufa does it again! 10/10 my dude! One of my favorite albums! Shoutsout to our cousin for hooking you up! What a dope gift! I’m 100% down for another music! Beautifully done!!!
They so generous fr! Hope they don’t mind not getting invited to that 1k cousin party 🎈 🎉
i got the og black friday vinyl as a gift... no clue where it came from bc i don't talk to the girl anymore but i got myself a gem!
Nice!
What a good girl
just got a matte black blonde vinyl and it is beautiful
Got my original on Black Friday 2016. It was $35 USD back then 😁 I’m pretty sure that the record was available for the entirety of the 24h window, cause I didn’t exactly jump on it the moment the webstore opened. It’s probably just that a lot less people were collecting vinyl in 2016. It’s the most expensive record in my collection by a country mile, even after the reissues have lessened the demand massively. Also mate, I’m sure a million people have told you by now, but the plural of vinyl is vinyl - if you really have to pluralise it, say vinyl records. Cheers
6:51 it’s worth noting that Endless got its first vinyl and CD/DVD release in 2018, so I wouldn’t exactly that say that *nothing* happened.
Nice vid earned a sub keep up the grind
Thanks, will do!
idk if he has it on his store permanently now but I just bought blonde on vinyl like last month and still haven't taken the seal off out of fear lmao
very nice video bro. love it
i didnt even know he had an album called endless
i sell it on my vinted
really like your videos - really want the Vinyl now tho
I just watched ur siege vid and now this, u most definitely have good taste in media
I try lol
great vid! i remember waking up that faithful morning in 2022, flipping my shit, adding blond to my cart and then watching it sell out in front of my eyes
glad to say i finally have a copy now though, thanks 2023 repress
Yay!!! You really lived this video hahaha
Did not know it was this rare. Got it in a random small vinyl store in Amsterdam.
I was not expecting Hungrybox to be in the video lol
the minute i heard it got restocked i had to cop one. that shit gon pay off my mortgage one day
Just so happened to be scrolling on ig and he posted the drop on his story and was fortunately able to cop
I was one of the lucky few who was on the Internet at the right time, I listen to the vinyl at least once every month or so. Until I saw this video I didn’t realize just how limited it was!
I got the first black release for clarification
That’s dope, good on you for putting it to good use too!
@@iAmLufa Thanks man! I’ve been a tortured fan like every other Frank Ocean fan so I like to vibe out to it on vinyl and just paint. Pretty relaxing for real.
@@adamrobb27 oh yeah, vinyls make such good copilots for creating stuff. I used to listen to vinyl while sketching!
I just checked and made it to the checkout screen. I'd try copping but I already got it on the 2022 reissue
I’m very thankful to have gotten a bootleg at a record store and the official rerelease for christmas.
Nice!
i got the blonde vinyl last year i just woke up checked my phone as bought it. so happy
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Idk if they’re having a restock right now, but I went to the website and it just let me buy one lol
yea this most recent pressing never sold out idk why they said you can’t buy it anymore lol
Just got a promo copy of blonde and also found endless at the same place, and could’ve bought both for only £65
I have Black Friday blond. Reissue white cover, endless and all the 7 inch single post blond era. all vinyls
DANG
I’ve just finished my Frank vinyl collection with his recent restock of Blond. I know have Nostalgia Ultra, Channel Orange, Endless and Blond all on beautiful 12 inch wax 🙏🏼
I’m glad I got mine!
Got it as a gift glad to have one
Extremely underrated
Thank you!
Just ordered the official pressing of Blonde from his website, no fucking clue how it's still not sold out lmao
very well explained thank you.
isnt he selling the blond vinyl on his website lol
It’s wild that I once had Government Plates in my collection. Glad I never got rid of Blond.
Danggg
My Blonde album just got here 🎉🎉🎉
WOOOO
Chat I bought one and they sent me 2 lol💯
Just ordered it on the Blonded website🙌
Massive W
Mine came 5 months late bro back in 2023 when it released for the first time 😭😭
I saw a lot of dread over shipping times back on Reddit when it first released
4:23 NOOO NOOOO NOOOOO WHY
in high school i spent maybe a month doing the same thing. I would listen to blonde to sleep
I just got Blonde but the whole reason I started collecting vinyl records is for endless
WOOOOOAHHHH THERE, Digital is higher quality sound? It absolutely is not.
insert nerd emoji, but it can be either. it depends on a lot of factors
for me it allows me to buy the vinyl on his website, at least it gets to the part where u gotta put in your card details and stuff, could this mean I can buy it ⁉⁉⁉⁉⁉
It’s possible I heard it isn’t though, I didn’t wanna try and accidentally buy one
I have an black and White Here. Bought it in 21' for 40€.
Didn't know it was selling for so much Money until now😮
By shear luck, I was online on that Black Friday when it dropped and I ordered two albums. I gave one to my niece and kept one for my own collection.
I ordered one 2 months ago and it arrived yesterday
I got the black vinyl, the white blonde vinyl twice and the endless vinyl. So yea…. I’m kind of the shit
Bro is the Frank Ocean Fiend
i just got blonde on vinyl :) i don’t even have a working record player rn
well I just bought one a few days ago and it said its shipped so.....Frank better not be gaslighting me rn
Wow I didn’t know all this
i own it, i got it as a gift off of amazon and its sitting up there with my ctrl special edition and my peach edition of sweetener
Amazing
kinda surreal seeing hbox's name referenced on a video about frank ocean
I have blonde on vinyl. It’s a bootleg but the record is a very cool pattern. I now have the official vinyl as well 😊
Blond single handedly got me through my senior year of highschool last year, I need that jawn on vinyl🙏🏾
Me watching this staring at my blonde vinyl
Wait, what do you mean about RAM?
RAM was out of stock between somewhere like 2018 and 2021, so it was a pain to get (despite being the most popular vinyl record on Discogs) until the band’s catalogue got reissued 6-ish months after they announced they were ending Daft Punk. So him mentioning RAM being hard to get in 2020 holds a little bit of weight
I have a copy of blonde on vinyl. No I won’t sell it unless I’m on the verge of bankruptcy
i have it on vinyl, its amazing.
I have a limited edition not for resale version that I have never played 😭😭
I have it luckily
I have one, it will never leave my possession
compweted 0:32
I got it, cost me €60 BUT atleast I got it now😭
DANG DABO IS SO YOUNG 😭
I could have bought both but i only bought the white one for 40😢
Very informative and well researched video, but could you please stop waving your mic around and put it back on the stand, very annoying visually
I just want a new album tbh
i got it!!!
I have it😎
You tryna run some smite games?
I’m a sun wukong/Thor main
4:19 vinyl is the highest quality available, that’s part of why it’s so important :)
Yeah I don’t know how I came to the conclusion that vinyl is worse when I was researching lol. Bad judgement but at least it helps my argument
I HAVE ONE
Frank probably rereleases the vinyls everytime he needs a bit more money
You want blonde on vinyl …….
I have endless on vinyl. We are not the same.
😳
it looks kewl
Would it kill you to say record instead of vinyl?
I’m sparing you the pin of shame
bro its still avaible on his site
what if frank ocean has just been working on a album for all these years.
THAAT FUCKING BEETLEJUICE COVER
That ending point you made I couldn't agree with more. Vinyl records are literally just plastic and cardboard, and It's so lame when artists pride themselves in never restocking their products out of this made up idea of "rarity".
for me JPEGMAFIA's "LP!" comes to mind. The original Liquor store cover was only pressed once and the only way to get one today is to cough up $250 on Discog
I've also seen artists like Westside Gunn say they'll never do restocks because "If you have an original you have a piece of ART, no money will compromise that" Like as if more copies = less artsy??
Autographing records or making genuinely limited alternate versions (like a tour exclusive or something) is a great way to have rare copies. But I just strongly dislike when artists starve their audience out of owning a basic pressing for an album for no good reason
I have it on vinyl
No Black Vinyl??...fine I'll do it myself!!!
reason: cos its a good album
Jokes aside, great video! I'd also love to get my hands on a Blonde vinyl, might get a bootleg soon
I got it :)
can you review sematary
I dont care if frank needed money he still got it from me on the re-release haha
I got it