I have vinyl. I don't have a turntable yet. I live in a rented house and there's no room. My vinyl lives in flight cases[0] so when I move out (and I may have t

I have vinyl. I don't have a turntable yet. I live in a rented house and there's no room. My vinyl lives in flight cases[0] so when I move out (and I may have to do that in a hurry when the time comes) I can put them in a truck and know they're safe. According to Discogs, I have 115 releases in my collection[1]. According to Bandcamp, I have 600+ releases in my collection[2]. These two are closely linked. I started buying vinyl (for the second time) near the start of lockdown in 2020, spurred on in part by all the live events being cancelled. >95% of all my vinyl comes via Bandcamp, and ~90% of that is saved for Bandcamp Friday[3] (the ~10% being short run or a limited purchase window where I can't really wait). Vinyl pressing plants were backed up with orders, sometimes the wait time was months, and that became the norm for a while. Shipping charges were…OK…but there were delays with couriers being swamped. Then the Ukraine situation happened and fuel prices went into orbit. Shipping charges for these plastic discs got a lot more expensive. Even now they're pretty insane in the UK compared to a few years ago. Shipping internationally? Brace yourself, that's gonna sting. Moving plastic stuff around the world in a way that it doesn't get damaged involves thought about the materials, courier track record, etc. Legend has it that Adele's 2021 album was pushed to the top of the pressing plant queue thanks to a considerable financial incentive from her record label, which had knock-on delays across the industry[4]. A subsequent legend has it that the demand was significantly overestimated and the surplus stock ended up in goodwill[5]. Me? I'm still waiting optimistically for Special Request's "Zero Fucks"[6] on vinyl, but as each day passes I'm less sure it'll actually happen: >Vinyl editions to follow in 2020 and will be released and deleted on the same day. Pay 0.00 for these downloads. Enjoy life. credits (released December 30, 2019) 2020 didn't really pan out as we expected, after all. [0] https://www.swanflight.com/lp100-recordbox.html https://www.swanflight.com/lp100-recordbox.html [1] https://www.discogs.com/user/petecooper/collection?header=1&sort=added&sort_order=desc https://www.discogs.com/user/petecooper/collection?header=1&... [2] https://bandcamp.com/petecooper https://bandcamp.com/petecooper [3] https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update https://daily.bandcamp.com/features/bandcamp-fridays-update [4] https://www.nme.com/news/music/whats-causing-the-vinyl-delay-adele-is-not-the-problem-say-music-industry-insiders-3094213 https://www.nme.com/news/music/whats-causing-the-vinyl-delay... [5] https://old.reddit.com/r/vinyljerk/comments/11q1gk2/i_dont_even_know_what_to_say/ https://old.reddit.com/r/vinyljerk/comments/11q1gk2/i_dont_e... [6] https://specialrequest187.bandcamp.com/album/zero-fucks https://specialrequest187.bandcamp.com/album/zero-fucks