>be at thrift store with my foid >see Newgens excitedly looking through $10 boomer slop. >go to new vinyl store>millennial hipster store owner>nothing but the usual “vintage” TikTok edit music.Why is it so hard to find actual gems irl?
Go to places with super cheap record bins like a dollar or .50 and grab a bunch of random stuff within genres you find interesting. So much shit is being sold these days for a retarded ass upcharge cause “muh vintag and own ur media” which ruins it for anyone who genuinely likes owning music rather than being a performative faggot
>>129819798youre never (or very rarely) just gonna casually find some gems in the $2 bin any more. you can find interesting stuff though: regional music and private pressing. though 98% of thrift store stock is garbage.what you can take advantage of though is that the market has shifted to new releases. zoomers get into "vinyl" which means theyre dropping $200 on retarded color variants of albums that came out 5 years ago. older records are comparatively neglected. what I mean to say is there are a lot of really good and even records available on discogs for $5-$50 but you have to sniff out the ones that zoomers and boomers arent interested in.
>>129819798>Mantovanibased
>>129820034>>129819798Anecdotally sometimes the records you buy for yourself end up becoming the gems. I bought a used copy of Songs About Leaving in 2019 for $12 but after Duster and slowcore in general popped off with zoomers on Tiktok over the pandemic I sold the same record for $200. Helps the album has never been repressed.Basically the whole system is fake and gay. Buy what you actually enjoy, chances are much higher these days you buy something for pleasure that accidentally becomes an oddity down the road
>>129819798I bought four John Fahey albums and an Andrew Hill album for $3 each at the flea market last summer. Entitled zoomgroids don't realize that secondhand places that sell records are uncurated and they'll have to put some effort in cratedigging to find something worthwhile. Doesn't help that they're all ignorant genre tourists with a pool of only 100 artists that they recognize the names of
>>129819798Vinyl sucks. Funko Pop of music formats. Switch to CDs.
>>129823723My FLACs are a bit-perfect copy of your CDs and don't require a funko shelf
>>1298237233/4 of a century and going strong!
>>129819798Record store regulars show up when they restock their purchases to buy them then flip them on ebay as quick as possible. Scalper culture is a blight. Same shit has been going on hard at thrift stores since covid
>>129819798I've given up on trying to find deals on recordsIf I want it I'll buy it if I can
>>129819798honestly think buying any physical music media like cds or vinyl in stores is over. actual record stores are long gone. ones that buy stuff and just price it to sell i mean. now they either buy it cheap from people that dont know better and sell it online for lots of money or look it up online and try to sell it for too much in store. the stores are like museums because all the acts are ancient and so are the albums. thrifts are a joke. they just throw the stuff out there all willy nilly without any care
>>129827882>thrifts are a joke. they just throw the stuff out there all willy nilly without any careOf course, that's what makes them thrift stores!
>>129827316The record store itself is a scalping institution
>>129819798Go to a used vinyl specialist shop dummy. Donation based places mostly have trash records people couldn't sell, and new vinyl shops have popslop.
>>129819838this, last time I bought a cassette/album was in 2010 for 25-50 cents, now hipster faggots want 4-5 buck for untested cassettes and 10-15 for thrift store quality vinylits gay, I tell you what.
>>129829076>that'll be 125% of discogs median sale value for a record the bassist from a shitty local band visually inspected for a few seconds, PLUS TIP, remember to always support small business, goy
>>129829521>PLUS TIPAt first I just that this thread was full of autismos bitching but now its clearly bait. There is no way a record store is asking anyone for a tip.
