Every small biz is facing this. During Covid it was even worse, especially those mom & pops being forced to sell on Amazon. I wish you GL from a fellow Micro Biz
Absolutely LOVE that Blind Melon album! What a banger! Takes me back to when music and music videos in the 90's was fun and fresh. I used to watch MTV all the time waiting to see the "Galaxie" video. Loved that jam. What a great find! And as always, cool Misfits shirt! Keep these vids comin'!
Found a strong VG+ operation mindcrime at goodwill for $3. Sold it tho because I’m really only a fan of Empire because I remember my dad playing silent lucidity all the time lol. Glad to see more videos!
Way to go guys! Exactly how the small shops feel, Congrats on the upgrade in locations! BTW I have a copy of that Nirvana for you if you still need one for a customer. ;)
As a seller of records I am hearing you, I only sell at markets and record fairs these days and have found the thing that really annoys me are the buyers who stand in front of a bin with their phones out checking prices. For two reasons; one no matter what the record is you will find a cheaper somewhere on line , two they are blocking other customers who want to buy. ...love your work keep it up.
I’ll put my hand up and confess that I do sometimes buy vinyl from Amazon,but I also buy from records fairs and record shops. After watching this video I checked on an Amazon order for a record that was going to be delivered soon (release date,end of this week). It’s priced at £40.99,I checked on the HMV website for the same record and it was £34.99. So I cancelled my Amazon order and paid for the HMV one. I know HMV isn’t an independent shop,but were I live there isn’t any record shops I can buy new vinyl from. In the future I will be thinking more,to were I buy vinyl from. Thanks for the rant. Amazon isn’t always the best place to get a good deal.👍❤️
maybe the independent record stores should ban together and ask the suppliers for better wholesale prices to compeat with Amazon ,just a thought ? as always love the videos !!!
Empire is not better. Mindcrime was a fully realized artistic expression, Empire was radio friendly songs to capitalize on the popularity they achieved with Mindcrime. IMO of course.
You need to sell a bigger chunk of the good stuff that you take home for yourself. That would help. You can't beat Amazon. Look at all the different shops that Walmart destroyed. Sad but true.
As a former record dealer I don't see how anyone manages with new vinyl releases. I bought a bunch in the early days of the resurgence, but I eventually quit because the quality simply didn't justify the price. And it seems to me that once the new generation of vinyl collectors get clued to the fact that they get better quality sifting through records that sell for a buck at record shows, the bottom is going to drop out of the new vinyl market. And I would hate to be heavily invested in it if that happens. $20-40 for a new release is just not reasonable. You have a limited number of collectors with increasingly limited amounts of disposable income. Plus there are other options to get the music at reasonable prices, or even free. Which means, even at this point, new vinyl sales aren't reaching anywhere near the volume they would be if they were $10 or less. If they were that price there would be no keeping up with the demand. But as it is, every new vinyl purchase is a major dilemma. A decision to buy one means 10 others have to get left on the shelf. And I know that's not a good situation for record stores. You want people to be able to buy everything they want. And again there's the quality issue. 180 gram records are horrible to handle, and the sound quality on most of them is atrocious, not to mention their proclivity for defects. So I am looking at the current state of the vinyl resurgence as unsustainable, at least as far as new vinyl is concerned. And I'm a major vinyl buyer who really wants to keep up with newer sounds. But it nags at me every time I buy a $40 vinyl that I could take that money to a record show and turn it into 40 albums I'd probably get a heck of a lot more use out of. So that single new vinyl's got to be one hell of an album to justify the expence, which rarely happens in the modern music market. So I figure I'll just do like I did back in the day. Wait till used copies go on the market and get them at greatly discounted prices. Does a $3 difference in these outrageous prices matter to me? Not really. $40 or $43 is about the same level of extravagance that I would generally reserve for something intensely rare. Not for something hot off the presses. At that level, differences of $3 or so become irrelevant. And, if I was going to buy something at those prices, I'd rather buy from a store I could easily take it back to, because the odds of getting a defective copy are pretty high. So paying an extra $3 to avoid having to ship something back to Amazon seems a pretty good deal. But it still hurts to be walking out of a record store with only an arm load of albums for my $200 budget, when normally I'd be walking out with 2 crates. Economically that just does not make sense. Modern music is just not good enough to justify that. So really it doesn't make much sense for a store to stock up multiple copies of these extravagant modern day speculative collectors items. I used to also deal in comics, and I well know what happens when people over speculate on prefabricated collectors items. The bottom eventually drops out of the market, and you're left hanging with thousands of dollars invested in stock that can't be given away. Amazon can handle that kind of risk. Record stores like yours can't. You'd be far better off concentrating on used vinyl and doing new vinyl as a special order thing where you order only as many copies as you have pre-orders for. Don't over stock on it, because having to shift new vinyl into a discount bin for less than you paid for it has gotta hurt every time you have to do it. And with the looming possibility of ecconomic disaster ever on the horizon these days, being well stocked on stuff people can afford, as apposed to stuff that's dependent on mass extravagance, can mean the difference between your business surviving or not surviving.
Buffalo Bob* 😆
Finally!! Welcome back!! Love your videos. Good luck with the shop!!!
TSO is so coolQ Wizards of winter is one of my fave Christmas song. Thumbs way up! Trish
Welcome back! Missed you both! Trish
Glad to see you're back on UA-cam! Do you have an estimated date for opening your new location? 🤘
We hope to be open there by Christmas! Not sure tho as its undergoing some renovating before we can move in.
@@BacktotheMedia Looking forward to coming back!
We're gonna be ALOT bigger!
Love your auctions!!
Thank You!
Highly recommend seeing TSO in concert. Saw them in DC a few years ago with the family and they were amazing!
So happy for you guys on the new store!
Every small biz is facing this. During Covid it was even worse, especially those mom & pops being forced to sell on Amazon. I wish you GL from a fellow Micro Biz
Absolutely LOVE that Blind Melon album! What a banger! Takes me back to when music and music videos in the 90's was fun and fresh. I used to watch MTV all the time waiting to see the "Galaxie" video. Loved that jam. What a great find! And as always, cool Misfits shirt! Keep these vids comin'!
Missed you guys, all the way from the uk. Thought you'd got stuck in the trailer full of vinyls 😂
Hahaha been so busy havent even had time to dig in it lol. Gonna make for some great future videos tho haha!
Looking for Mr Keith. Can’t find him anywhere
Found a strong VG+ operation mindcrime at goodwill for $3. Sold it tho because I’m really only a fan of Empire because I remember my dad playing silent lucidity all the time lol. Glad to see more videos!
I’ve heard that never mind has turned into a limited edition.
Way to go guys! Exactly how the small shops feel, Congrats on the upgrade in locations! BTW I have a copy of that Nirvana for you if you still need one for a customer. ;)
As a seller of records I am hearing you, I only sell at markets and record fairs these days and have found the thing that really annoys me are the buyers who stand in front of a bin with their phones out checking prices. For two reasons; one no matter what the record is you will find a cheaper somewhere on line , two they are blocking other customers who want to buy. ...love your work keep it up.
Nailed it, thanks for watching
I love the tos vyinal I have that record
I’ll put my hand up and confess that I do sometimes buy vinyl from Amazon,but I also buy from records fairs and record shops. After watching this video I checked on an Amazon order for a record that was going to be delivered soon (release date,end of this week). It’s priced at £40.99,I checked on the HMV website for the same record and it was £34.99. So I cancelled my Amazon order and paid for the HMV one. I know HMV isn’t an independent shop,but were I live there isn’t any record shops I can buy new vinyl from. In the future I will be thinking more,to were I buy vinyl from. Thanks for the rant. Amazon isn’t always the best place to get a good deal.👍❤️
Hey everything little thing counts. Good for you! Rock on !
I’ll buy local over online anyway but I still buy online though mostly from mom and pop stores too
Never heard of Lord Huron. Listening now courtesy of Miss Alexa
maybe the independent record stores should ban together and ask the suppliers for better wholesale prices to compeat with Amazon ,just a thought ? as always love the videos !!!
Empire is not better. Mindcrime was a fully realized artistic expression, Empire was radio friendly songs to capitalize on the popularity they achieved with Mindcrime. IMO of course.
Definitely need to listen to Mindcrime more. I will say I grew up listening to Empire so my opinion comes from a place of sentimentality 😊
-Dani
Support your local record shop, but no one should be paying more than MSRP on reissues.
With that said, fuck Amazon and Walmart.
I support my local record shop even though it’s 3000 miles away. 😉
You rock Norma!!! Thank you for all the continued support ❤❤
Dannizilla FTW
You need to sell a bigger chunk of the good stuff that you take home for yourself. That would help. You can't beat Amazon. Look at all the different shops that Walmart destroyed. Sad but true.
Nah, don't give Tull a chance. Listened to Aqualung recently- just creepy and not in a good way!
😂😂
As a former record dealer I don't see how anyone manages with new vinyl releases. I bought a bunch in the early days of the resurgence, but I eventually quit because the quality simply didn't justify the price. And it seems to me that once the new generation of vinyl collectors get clued to the fact that they get better quality sifting through records that sell for a buck at record shows, the bottom is going to drop out of the new vinyl market. And I would hate to be heavily invested in it if that happens.
$20-40 for a new release is just not reasonable. You have a limited number of collectors with increasingly limited amounts of disposable income. Plus there are other options to get the music at reasonable prices, or even free. Which means, even at this point, new vinyl sales aren't reaching anywhere near the volume they would be if they were $10 or less. If they were that price there would be no keeping up with the demand. But as it is, every new vinyl purchase is a major dilemma. A decision to buy one means 10 others have to get left on the shelf. And I know that's not a good situation for record stores. You want people to be able to buy everything they want.
And again there's the quality issue. 180 gram records are horrible to handle, and the sound quality on most of them is atrocious, not to mention their proclivity for defects. So I am looking at the current state of the vinyl resurgence as unsustainable, at least as far as new vinyl is concerned. And I'm a major vinyl buyer who really wants to keep up with newer sounds. But it nags at me every time I buy a $40 vinyl that I could take that money to a record show and turn it into 40 albums I'd probably get a heck of a lot more use out of. So that single new vinyl's got to be one hell of an album to justify the expence, which rarely happens in the modern music market. So I figure I'll just do like I did back in the day. Wait till used copies go on the market and get them at greatly discounted prices.
Does a $3 difference in these outrageous prices matter to me? Not really. $40 or $43 is about the same level of extravagance that I would generally reserve for something intensely rare. Not for something hot off the presses. At that level, differences of $3 or so become irrelevant. And, if I was going to buy something at those prices, I'd rather buy from a store I could easily take it back to, because the odds of getting a defective copy are pretty high. So paying an extra $3 to avoid having to ship something back to Amazon seems a pretty good deal. But it still hurts to be walking out of a record store with only an arm load of albums for my $200 budget, when normally I'd be walking out with 2 crates. Economically that just does not make sense. Modern music is just not good enough to justify that.
So really it doesn't make much sense for a store to stock up multiple copies of these extravagant modern day speculative collectors items. I used to also deal in comics, and I well know what happens when people over speculate on prefabricated collectors items. The bottom eventually drops out of the market, and you're left hanging with thousands of dollars invested in stock that can't be given away.
Amazon can handle that kind of risk. Record stores like yours can't. You'd be far better off concentrating on used vinyl and doing new vinyl as a special order thing where you order only as many copies as you have pre-orders for. Don't over stock on it, because having to shift new vinyl into a discount bin for less than you paid for it has gotta hurt every time you have to do it. And with the looming possibility of ecconomic disaster ever on the horizon these days, being well stocked on stuff people can afford, as apposed to stuff that's dependent on mass extravagance, can mean the difference between your business surviving or not surviving.
Yes it is difficult keeping the new vinyl selection amazing when you make so little off the releases.