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In Reply to: Sticker shocked and awed at my local record shop posted by kitch29 on December 29, 2016 at 13:20:46:
I have been selling a load of records lately (at one of those snobby shops you mention) and you might not get that trip to Europe unless you have a basement full of 50-60's jazz albums. The buying prices are, of course, much less than the $8.99 stickers in the bins these days!
Try to be generous about the millennials having turntables. I fixed and assembled 4 record playing systems for young professional friends (1 for my daughter, even) in the past year. They are something of a "fashion accessory" its true. But 2 of the 4 kids actively listen to vinyl (not my daughter!) -- they buy and sell records, and have real fun with their hi-fi's, so batting .500. They're not all phonies and you can't deny a kid the chance to hustle and make a few bucks. If an LP gets "upcycled" to my nice clean convenient EllPeeHut and I buy it with the store-credit I have there, it seems like a workable, natural process.
As far as money, my millennial kids both work hard as hell and rake in, between them, around a quarter mill a year doing work similar to what I did at age 30. They eat $9.00 corned beef sandwiches and think it's a cheap lunch, no kidding. It's the same weird age-thing makes me shout out loud in the grocery store "$4.99 for this!? That's INSANE!!" So I used to sell a few records for 1 buck each and buy one for $3- now I can sell for $3 / buy for $9 -- it's still all good.
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- RE:Wouldn't be a "hobby" then, anymore... - mr.bear 12/30/1612:15:11 12/30/16 (4)
- RE:Wouldn't be a "hobby" then, anymore... - kitch29 12:48:14 12/30/16 (3)
- RE:Wouldn't be a "hobby" then, anymore... - Jeffrey Lee 19:13:57 12/30/16 (0)
- "I only mentioned the Millenials because I can't figure how they could afford the high prices I saw yesterday. - sberger 16:44:26 12/30/16 (0)
- LOL! (nt) - mr.bear 13:11:45 12/30/16 (0)