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I got back into analog media for a little while but stopped because the prices are just so ridiculous. A single Burzum tape costs more than £30.
by xdennis 5y ago
I got back into analog media for a little while but stopped because the prices are just so ridiculous. A single Burzum tape costs more than £30.
- ghaff 5y agoRealize that in current dollars that's probably about what vinyl LPs cost when they were the primary way that people bought music.
- spacemadness 5y agoTape is fetishized like crazy right now so that’s not surprising. I see runs of 500 tapes on Bandcamp sold out immediately all the time for not-so-well-known artists.
- stryan 5y agoI think the vinyl shortage is contributing a lot to this. Right now if you want a physical copy that's not a CD or by a major act (Taylor Swift and Ed Sheeran both released vinyl albums that supposedly took up the majority of the worlds music vinyl production), you're stuck with tapes. And very few people seem to want CDs. I remember only a couple years ago that tapes were the dirt cheap option of getting something physical. At least by me it still is if you're buying in person; most of the punk bands and electronic artists are just recording over old tapes they've found so you can buy em for five to ten bucks a pop at the show.
- spacemadness 5y agoThat is interesting as vinyl can have an audiophile component to it depending on the release but tape is exactly the opposite and often purposefully so. Then there is the ease of skipping around with vinyl. I get the appeal either way, just find it interesting people are being forced to do with tape when it’s not their first choice.
- madengr 5y ago
- codq 5y agoWell, I certainly hope you're not giving money to that fascist troll in 2022.