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Who's records (new music) were you buying in the early 2000's? Genuine question; I cant recall anyone selling releases on vinyl around then.

siquick 6y ago
If you look through Discogs [0] there were over 2.7m records released in the 00's - pretty much everything that's been released between 1950 and maybe 2010 was pressed to vinyl at some point. Now it's probably the opposite way around since the democratisation of music publishing. The tricky part is getting a copy because the pressings are usually fairly limited outside of the more mainstream stuff. Most of the music I was DJ'ing at the time (underground house and techno) was only available on vinyl to people who weren't friends with the producers who could burn you a CD copy. [0] https://www.discogs.com/search/?ev=em_rs&decade=2000 https://www.discogs.com/search/?ev=em_rs&decade=2000
armadsen 6y ago
Can't speak for the OP, but in the early 2000s, I was buying new-pressing indie, electronic, and some classic rock musicians (e.g. Neil Young) on vinyl. But mostly I was buying older used records, which at the time were cheap (they've gotten much more expensive around here). Some of the new pressings I bought back then go for a fair amount used now, because they were pressed in very limited quantities and there were way fewer people buying vinyl.
coldtea 6y ago
>I cant recall anyone selling releases on vinyl around then. I know that at least garage/psychedelic bands released on vinyl all the time then (and now and always).
Xylakant 6y ago
Can’t speak for the OP, but I have quite a few albums released in the ‘00 in my shelf. A limited edition pressing of portisheads “Third” (which came with a p-shaped USB-Stick with digital copies), Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, quite a bunch of electronic titles, some jazz. Vinyl hasn’t really gone away, but a lot of the pressings were not intended for the mass market. It was often for enthusiasts, heavy presssings, often with gorgeous full-size booklets that rivaled an art book. Colored vinyl or even prints. The Portishead Album comes with three disks in a box that’s about 5cm thick. I have prints from a small hamburg label that are wrapped in linen cloth and tied with a tarred rope (impractical as hell and smelled like harbor the first few years) So you’d not find LPs in the large chains back then, but it was always available in small record stores or on order.

siquick 6y ago

If you look through Discogs [0] there were over 2.7m records released in the 00's - pretty much everything that's been released between 1950 and maybe 2010 was pressed to vinyl at some point. Now it's probably the opposite way around since the democratisation of music publishing. The tricky part is getting a copy because the pressings are usually fairly limited outside of the more mainstream stuff. Most of the music I was DJ'ing at the time (underground house and techno) was only available on vinyl to people who weren't friends with the producers who could burn you a CD copy. [0] https://www.discogs.com/search/?ev=em_rs&decade=2000 https://www.discogs.com/search/?ev=em_rs&decade=2000

armadsen 6y ago

Can't speak for the OP, but in the early 2000s, I was buying new-pressing indie, electronic, and some classic rock musicians (e.g. Neil Young) on vinyl. But mostly I was buying older used records, which at the time were cheap (they've gotten much more expensive around here). Some of the new pressings I bought back then go for a fair amount used now, because they were pressed in very limited quantities and there were way fewer people buying vinyl.

coldtea 6y ago

>I cant recall anyone selling releases on vinyl around then. I know that at least garage/psychedelic bands released on vinyl all the time then (and now and always).

Xylakant 6y ago

Can’t speak for the OP, but I have quite a few albums released in the ‘00 in my shelf. A limited edition pressing of portisheads “Third” (which came with a p-shaped USB-Stick with digital copies), Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, quite a bunch of electronic titles, some jazz. Vinyl hasn’t really gone away, but a lot of the pressings were not intended for the mass market. It was often for enthusiasts, heavy presssings, often with gorgeous full-size booklets that rivaled an art book. Colored vinyl or even prints. The Portishead Album comes with three disks in a box that’s about 5cm thick. I have prints from a small hamburg label that are wrapped in linen cloth and tied with a tarred rope (impractical as hell and smelled like harbor the first few years) So you’d not find LPs in the large chains back then, but it was always available in small record stores or on order.