Vinyl isn't dead yet...

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

Got this email today, from Ian personally


 Dischord #200 Boxset Update

When we created the pre-order site for the Dischord #200 Boxset we knew that the enormity of the project combined with the already-overloaded pressing plants meant that the production would take months and months to finish. With that in mind, we made it clear on the site that we had hoped to be able to deliver the boxsets by late 2021, thinking that we would likely be able to ship them out in late October or early November.
 
Covid outbreaks, machinery breakdowns, supply chain issues, and shipping delays have now added at least couple more months to the delays, so now it’s looking like late December is the earliest that the finished pieces will go into the mail.

The situation is truly out of Dischord’s control and all we can really do is keep the lines of communication open with the manufacturers to encourage them to keep pushing to get this thing made. At this point all of the vinyl has been pressed, but the records have gotten stuck in the shipping/cargo crisis and we don’t know when they’ll arrive at the assembly plant.

We very much appreciate all of the patience and trust that our pre-order customers have given us and we’ll send out another update when we have a clearer idea of actual schedule for the release.

Thank you!

- Ian and Jeff
Dischord Records

[vansmack]

There was actually an Economist article about this mess in last week's issue.  I laughed all the way through it..... 


https://www.economist.com/business/2021/10/02/the-music-industry-is-an-unexpected-victim-of-a-plastics-shortage

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

Smackie you would be so proud of my wife -- we are in the middle of moving and she suggested "maybe, just maybe" I could discard my 1400 CDs and only keep the vinyl (baby steps) two days ago.

She should be getting served with the divorce papers sometime this afternoon.

[vansmack]

Things are definitely looking up for her....

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

She should be getting served with the divorce papers sometime this afternoon.

so what is 1/2 of nothing??

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

She should be getting served with the divorce papers sometime this afternoon.

so what is 1/2 of nothing??

The better joke would have been a 700 CDs reference.

[vansmack]

so what is 1/2 of nothing??

700 CDs.

[Julian, Forum COGNOSCENTI]

^^ Yeah, see Sidehatch? That's how you do it. It was right there for you.

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

but isn't she supposed to get something of value in the divorce proceedings

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

the 40th anniversary of Joy Division’s ‘Still’ today,
Set for release on February 11th 2022.

Pre-order now via http://JoyDivision.lnk.to/Still40

[kosmo vinyl]

More overpriced shenanigans courtesy Third Man Records and Jack White

https://www.instagram.com/p/CVnfQa3L6aJ/?utm_medium=copy_link

Some nonsense about cut directly from the master tapes straight to the vinyl, limited and numbered to 333 copies

Cost £350 / $437

Flippers are probably drooling at the moment

[kosmo vinyl]

The going rate for albums that company that does those pressing is $400 to $600.. which I guess means if you can afford  the probably 250k+ stereo system to listen to these on it’s a drop in the bucket… also serious snobbery for jazz buffs

[ye-ole-hatch ıll|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|̲̅̅=̲̅̅|̲̅̅●̲̅̅|llıl]

not dead, but people are made at adele for scooping up all the resources

https://www.bigissue.com/culture/music/an-independent-record-store-is-boycotting-adeles-new-album-in-a-row-over-vinyl/

are artists even remotely selling that much vinyl?


4.8 million LPs were purchased in the UK in 2020
 wow, that number surprised me

[Cock Van Der Palm]

I ordered a bunch of albums from Manchester Orchestra back in spring time.  They told me back then that they would not ship until December.

[Starsky]

I had read the number of Adele new albums being pressed was more like 750,000.

I remember this famously happened with CD pressing plants in 1985 with Dire Straits “Brothers in Arms”


This will continue to be a problem until record companies invest in building new LP pressing plants but unfortunately they don’t seem willing to do so… Vinyl is still a niche market accounting for a small share of record company profit but how can it grow more without more pressing capacity?

I could go on