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Do You Spend Too Much On Vinyl??

Are you sick of spending all your hard earned cash on expensive records? There has to be a cheaper way!

Does anyone know of a record pool, or membership where we can be getting vinyl for less? I've heard of paying a monthly fee, and getting sent a stack of records each month. Does this exist? Is it good? Advice, please.

Re: Do You Spend Too Much On Vinyl??

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Originally posted by sober_24_7 Are you sick of spending all your hard earned cash on expensive records? There has to be a cheaper way! Does anyone know of a record pool, or membership where we can be getting vinyl for less? I've heard of paying a monthly fee, and getting sent a stack of records each month. Does this exist? Is it good? Advice, please.

well I think you need some sort of connections to be able to get into these places,or you have to be a well known dj I think,I had a friend who was part of this record pool,but he was a hiphop dj,I'll ask him how he got in and let you know,plus Iam sure some people on this board are part of those record pools,so they'll have better info then me.

YES, we do spend too much on vinyl...
and YES, there is a cheaper way, and it's called a CD... and yes, it involves MP3s too!

yup... I spend way too much on vinyl.

I spent my last $32 on Chicane - Behind the Sun from fantom

alrite .. who here is up for a heist ..

i am!

haha count me in!

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Originally posted by Mosaic yup... I spend way too much on vinyl. I spent my last $32 on Chicane - Behind the Sun from fantom

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Originally posted by fantom YES, we do spend too much on vinyl... and YES, there is a cheaper way, and it's called a CD... and yes, it involves MP3s too!

now now fantom, u dont wanna start another cd/mp3 vs vinyl war.
we are always in the struggle of piracy vs support our artists. Most of the artists we listen to don't really care much about mp3s and CDs being copied and spun and such and such.

new DJs simply have a choice to start out with either or and it is really a tough choice.
the idea is to combine both and use the technologies to our advantages.

my rule of thump: if it's on vinyl, get it. If it's a promo ur a rare one u DEFENITLY can not get ur hand on, by all means..

I think the answer for everybody is - YES.

That's just the fact of the situation. $15 for 1 song (a few remixes) is a lot of money - bottom line.

you can start a pool if you get enough people involved anda re willing to pay a set amount a month

there are other ways. some labels offer an advance promo service and stuff.

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Originally posted by raaven you can start a pool if you get enough people involved anda re willing to pay a set amount a month there are other ways. some labels offer an advance promo service and stuff.

I find the problem with pools is that you end up getting sent a bunch of shit, and end up paying the same amount for good vinyls as you would normally since there's only 1 playable track per say every 3 vinyls or something


i do remember a few years ago my buddy would order his hardcore records through dj frisky, and he would take orders from a bunch of people in the city. Since they were all ordered under his name, they would get a discount (not sure of how significant the discount was). it worked out pretty good.
it would take a lot of organisation though to do this, since you have to either trust the poeple for them to pay you the money, or you have to get them to give you the money blah blah blah

essentially though i think it could work

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Originally posted by rabbitjoker I think the answer for everybody is - YES. That's just the fact of the situation. $15 for 1 song (a few remixes) is a lot of money - bottom line.

I've never really known all the financial details pertaining to DJ'ing, but damnit, $15 per song kinda... sucks?!

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Originally posted by AmbiguousBliss I've never really known all the financial details pertaining to DJ'ing, but damnit, $15 per song kinda... sucks?!

And consider that some of us TAs have 200+ records!

Plus turntables ($1500 for 2 1200s), plus mixer ($200 to $2500)... It gets up there...

I agree with all the cash complaints and DJ Rocco has a great point with the CDway of getting hard-to-finds, but yea vinyl love kills me too. I was downtown for other errands than viinyl shopping last friday thursday and I thought....hey lets see what's good at PDR and Release (I've found that Pit sux, unless you know exactly what u want and he has it). SO I was really sad I had to leave about 5 NYCE records at PDR and 4 NYCE records at Release b/c I'm just trying to save up for two 1200 M3Ds. I swear, once I have both TTs, I'm gonna spend soo much on vinyls...wow I can't wait.

As for discounts, I'm sure that if a bunch of us meet at PDR or Release and pre-order a bunch of imports and such, they'll give a quantity discount and we can all pay upfront there and come back when all the orders get in and take what we asked for. It'd be great...a TOTA vinyl shopping spree invasion!!!

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Originally posted by SgtFoo wow I can't wait.

Yes, yes you can wait. Believe me, you'll understand eventually.
Rekkid buying is a sick sick addiction. Nearly as bad an addiction as coke, but for the many nearly useless pieces of plastic you have collected in yer basement as testament to your expenditures. And I won't even get into how much I spend annually... You don't wanna know. I don't even wanna know.

Release doesn't really do special orders.

Record pools generally suck for the aforementioned reasons as well as the fact that the material isn't always quite as current as you may like (ie. no promos).

i've been trying to figure out a way to set up are own "pool"...the ta pool...basically, we all by under one account to get a solid discount...

If someone really wanted to do this right, they should open a part-time trance/progressive record shop.

Alternatively, if there's a popular new vinyl out, just co-ordinate and buy 10 copies from a European store with better prices to save on shipping.

i am addicted to black crack!

Why don't you all organize something together?

You can save on shipping from online record stores for sure. Plus you should do a swap party one day and check out what other people have and might want to get rid of.

I'm still saying this - if you can afford it, get it on vinyl, if not, fuck it and burn it on a CD! Just hope that the clubs that you play at have CD players too...

It's way to expensive.... lately i'm finding that my monthly cost for records range from $300-$400... I wish I were rich, so this wouldn't be such a big deal.

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Originally posted by StereoPrincess Why don't you all organize something together? Plus you should do a swap party one day and check out what other people have and might want to get rid of.

This sounds like a really good idea....anyone else interested in a record swap?

Sure! I spend all my fuckin money on plastic!

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Originally posted by sober_24_7 This sounds like a really good idea....anyone else interested in a record swap?

I would be. Ray has a few records that he would like to get rid of.

Who else thinkd this might be a good idea??

$150 / $200 per week... give or take!!!!!!!!!

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