I don’t have a record player, but I’d buy it anyway
I don’t have a record player, but I’d buy one just to play this release
I don’t have a record player, but I’d buy a CD
I don’t have a record player, but I’d buy a cassette
Depends how much it cost
Depends on the artists
Can I hear it first?
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Ok, so there has been a discussion in the green room for nearly a year now that the Retrospectives would be released on vinyl. Unfortunately, after much research on what a monumental task that is, we decided against it. (FYI, for a quality record on 45’s you only have a 17-minute runtime per side. There is over 5 hours of music on the Retrospectives so, you do the math.)
So, the current plan is to press the new bonus tracks only. Which is perfect as it all fits on one record and the highest quality possible. It’s still going to cost $50 per record (and then there’s shipping).
This poll is sort of a check to see if they will sell to at least, you guys, and then we can work on selling them outside of this community, which will hopefully bring more members into it.
Please let us know as soon as possible so that we can organize it.
I’m more likely to just pay for some MP3s. I like the idea of supporting small creators where I can, but being all-digital makes my answer more boring than most
I am actually thinking about getting rid of my vinyl collection as I haven’t listened to any of it in 4 years and haven’t had my turntable set up for 3 of them.
I do still buy CDs on occasion, but that’s more to get tracks that don’t have lossless digital distribution - which I then rip to my PC and listen to the files.
If you’re on bandcamp with lossless audio, I would start there.
I haven’t used my turntables since my old Numark mixer broke a while ago (damn I think that’s already 2 years ago now? or even 3? Time flies…), only made digital mixes since then… so that’s a no from me sadly. In general, I think some people still love to buy vinyl, but no idea how the overlap is with the IDM and especially the IDMf crowd…
I mean that if I can buy the album in a lossless format on bandcamp, I probably won’t buy a CD. Sorry, didn’t mean to imply that you need to change anything you are doing in that regard.
Unfortunately, social media is not my forte and requires a significant amount of energy and time. A lot of the youtubers I see talk about burn out. Which I’m already getting to the brink of just with managing these sites and the label.
Social media is too fast paced for us to be successful with it. Unless we can find someone that can take care of that portion of it.
Anyway, let’s keep it on topic. We are talking about something tangible, which is more admirable than selling social media as far as I am concerned. However, I can 100% appreciate that people don’t use physical media. Some do though, and hence the reason for the poll. We’re gauging interest.
I have easily over 600 vinyl records and I still buy some. CDs it’s even worse, I probably have 1,000+… and I still buy some
So yeah, I’d probably buy the vinyl, CD or even tape, since I can play all formats at home. Note that the price would be an issue. Vinyl record prices have gone stupid; I now think long & hard before buying something new on vinyl vs CD. Due to storage space issues, I am limiting my vinyl record buying to stuff I really want in that format.
I’ll also buy digital-only via Bandcamp, as you know, but that’s usually when there’s no other option.
All in all, I’m going to be blunt with you: don’t press vinyl, you won’t sell them.
The international shipping costs are beyond stupid these days and that’s another nail in the coffin. If nobody outside the country where the records are is buying them because shipping is equal to 50% to 100% of the record itself, you reduce a tiny market considerably.
My vinyl on Bandcamp I sell for $20. Shipping to the EU costs more than $20. End result: nobody from overseas buys it.
Sorry @Manton - didn’t want to be a downer on the vinyl question but felt I should warn you.
In any case, I would manufacture a CD. Much cheaper & you can make quality products for very cheap with that format. It is also starting to be trendy with the young 'uns. I’m on various CD and vinyl groups on reddit. There’s clearly a resurgence/new generation of young folks that buys CDs
No it’s all good, i was met with the exact same
Scenario last bandcamp Friday when the shipping cost of a $30 record was $50 to Australia. So i didn’t buy it
