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How do you afford to buy your vinyl?
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So how do you guys afford to buy your weekly amount of vinyl? I'm a poor university student and I seem to get approximately 1 or 2 records every week. The problem is I have about 60 records now, but they all seem old and outplayed (by both myself and other DJs). So the fifth last record that I bought could be up to 5 weeks old already. I hear other DJs speaking of how they buy 20 to 50 a week, and I just don't understand how that is possible.
So how do you guys afford to buy your vinyl? Do you buy sales? Are on mailing lists? Deal crack-cocaine? I hope I'm not the only one slowly treading along with my small weekly acquisition of records... :nervous: |
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| Wildfir3 |
I'm a student too but i do work on saturdays, which gives me a nice amount of monthly cash. Only problem is i have to pay for college myself and also for my student-room, so there's not much left of it. But i do get a small allowance every month, so i can buy some 10 records each month.
I also get about 30 euro each week to buy food & stuff, and i do manage to spend only 20 of it or so, so that leaves me another 10 euro each week.
I'm happy with what i've got, although i can't afford to buy 20 records each week :)
got about 75 records now and been dj'ing for half a year. |
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| trancinchink |
| all the money that i saved up in the summer, has been going toward my records and equipment. i'm almost broke though. i'm lucky my parents are willing to pay for my college tuition. i just have to take care of the other stuff, which basically means i'm gonna starve to death in about 2 more months. :eek: |
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| DJ NEU |
All the money that I saved up from the summers I worked went to records and equipment. Ive been DJin for about a year now and i have about 350 records. By the time june hit last year i was totally broke (i started in dec). Now with technology advancing vinyl is slowing making its way out the door and things like final scratch and cd turntables are making there way in. I kinda have the best of both worlds because i have 2 turntables and 2 cd turntables. Although i DL a ton of songs I try to contribute where i can to the music industry by buying records. For the artists that I really like i buy all there records rather than downloading them. I think that vinyl is the most original and true form to DJing.
Then again cost is alwasy an issue. |
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| `pr0digy |
| Damn, must be nice... I've only had my tables like 2 months, and I can only afford like 1 vinyl a week MAX. I have a part time job like 4 days a week, but I have car insurance to pay for, and hopefully a car soon (drive my parents atm). |
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| trancinchink |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJ NEU
All the money that I saved up from the summers I worked went to records and equipment. Ive been DJin for about a year now and i have about 350 records. By the time june hit last year i was totally broke (i started in dec). Now with technology advancing vinyl is slowing making its way out the door and things like final scratch and cd turntables are making there way in. I kinda have the best of both worlds because i have 2 turntables and 2 cd turntables. Although i DL a ton of songs I try to contribute where i can to the music industry by buying records. For the artists that I really like i buy all there records rather than downloading them. I think that vinyl is the most original and true form to DJing.
Then again cost is alwasy an issue. |
yea.. honestly. where the hell do u make money in one summer to buy that many records. along with 2 turntables, and 2 cd tables and a mixer. (i'm assuming u have good quality equipment like mk2's and denons or pioneers). all that equipment is prolly worth 5-6 g's? lol.... the most i can make in a summer is about 2-3 g's. i dunno where U work but u gotta hook me up!! |
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| DJ Lazy |
| quote: | Originally posted by trancinchink
yea.. honestly. where the hell do u make money in one summer to buy that many records. along with 2 turntables, and 2 cd tables and a mixer. (i'm assuming u have good quality equipment like mk2's and denons or pioneers). all that equipment is prolly worth 5-6 g's? lol.... the most i can make in a summer is about 2-3 g's. i dunno where U work but u gotta hook me up!! |
Man where are you working in the summer that you can only make 2-3 grand?? :eek:
Last summer I made $11,000... working from April 25 to September 1.
I am just working at the golf course I live at.
But back to the topic. I didn't have "money" persay, I put a large number of my records on my credit card.. :( Bad Idea, but without that I wouldn't have much of a collection.. I am gonna be paying off my credit card in the first month of working this summer :D which will be sweet... then I can start buying 5-10 records a week this summer.. Currently I am at about 70 records and only had my equipment since last August... My buddy is quite surprized and impressed at my collection that I have made in such a short period of time... It varies for everyone. We don't all have the same amount of cash to buy records on... Some ppl may be shady characters and sell drugs, and some ppl bust there ass cleaning dishes at the local coffee shop... Its all relative.. :D |
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| Boomer187 |
I think your buying the wrong records if they get old quick. AI od sometimes get those popular tracks just because I like listening to them, but I also try to find obscure records that kick ass, but no one plays.
Also, you haven't really been playing long, what does it matter if a record gets old? I don't think you play for crowds yet so it is just you who is listening. Get used to listening to tracks over and over, just remember, when you play for crowds they haven't listened to it over and over.
oh and I am a poor college student and I only buy a few records a month...sometimes I spluge and put em on credit card...but that is a bad idea. |
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| Zzyzx |
The first thing you have to realize is; you can't keep up, way to many records come out on a weekly basis. In the early 90's I was over at DJ Dans house and this subject came up, none of them (la dj's)were buying 20-50 records a week. It's a waste of time to try to get a grip on every release, who has the time? The saying quality over quanity really applies here.
As far as being able to afford to purchase, well that depends on how hard you want to work really. 17 years ago i wanted every record that came out, but i had a poor paying job. Now i can afford whatever comes out and i just pick very few, 10-15 a month. Go figure :)
If you are only getting a few records a week, that sure is a few more then a lot of other people can afford.
Zzyzx |
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| trancinchink |
| quote: | | Man where are you working in the summer that you can only make 2-3 grand?? |
well basically i didn't work april till september. i had to take some classes and then i started afterwards. so i was actually only working from july till end of august. i was doing outdoor landscaping stuff. kinda sucked but i sorta got in shape... lol. i should work at a golf course or something, i used to play so much. i didn't kno its possible to make that much in one summer. but actually, this summer i'm gonna try to get an intern at a studio so i can produce. i think i already foudn one... so hopefully it'll be good. |
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| bluastigma |
WORK SCHEDULE
Monday: 2:00-6:30
Tuesday: 2:00-6:30
Wednesday: 2:00-6:30
Thursday: 2:00-6:30
Friday: 2:00-6:30
Saturday: 6:30-3:00
Sunday: 6:30-3:00
two jobs + school = lots of money = no time. |
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| Nemesis44 |
DJ for a living now
Get sent records and do a tax write off on the ones I buy.
Before that I used to do all sorts of jobs, they are as follows and in no particular order:
I have programmed COBOL
Worked for a credit card company
Worked at a Juvenile detention center
Fully qualified Strength and Conditioning coach
Qualified Sports Therapist
Optimum Sports Nutritionalist
Live in care assitant for autistic teenagers
Teaching assistant
Pizza Chef
Worked on a building site (Not very good for DJs as hands can get damaged)
LightJock for commercial nightclub
DJ for Commercial Nightclub
Yup, you've guessed it I get bored pretty quick. But it paid the bills and so on. Looking at this list you guys must think that I'm over a 100 years old he he. I'm 32 with a short attention span. :)
Sometimes you do what you have to in order to fund your passion. For me it was allways about DJing. Never really wanted to be anything else, just found myself doing these jobs to keep family members happy.
Don't give up guys and remember to promote yourselves are you are never going to get discoverd at home.
Cheers
Nem |
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