UK vinyl market sees 70 per cent increase in 2012

[bospress.net]

Bottle of Smoke Press just issued our first vinyl release. Just in time to go on hiatus! Bloodshot Bill Sings Charles Plymell is a 45RPM release and not available in any other format. Limited to 500 copies, 450 are regular and 50 are housed in a letterpress printed book. This is a joint release with Feeding Tube Records. The release will be available from me, Feeding Tube Records (Florence, MA), Bloodshot Bill (at shows) and from Forced Exposure.


The reason that I mention this... When we approved the test pressing, we had no idea how long the pressing would take. Byron Coley, who was handling these things said that it can take a while because there are so few places that do this and so much demand. The records showed up in about a week....

I guess that it is no surprise that a guy who prints with antique presses would be into a media that is also antique.

Vinyl is very similar, in many ways, to letterpress. Letterpress is tactile (like vinyl), but frankly, you can almost always get a cleaner print with offset and certainly can print pictures better digitally that you can with letterpress (and digital, done right, IS cleaner than vinyl). Still, people will pay a massive premium for the ancient technology of both...

Bill

 

[PhillyDave]

For vinyl lovers. This isn't about what sounds better. Whateves to that discussion/argument. For me it's about loving music, the ritual of albums and about collecting.

http://www.philly.com/philly/column...mans-2000-albums-Gil-Sokolow-Temple-WRTI.html

I could add his collection to mine.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

Are you dumping that Big Country record?

 

[PhillyDave]

Naw, not dumping Big Country. There's room for everyone in my country(basement). That pic was taken maybe 2 yrs ago. My good friend Lem wanted to send a pic of what he considered a real record collection from a real record collector to this guy we know who now considers himself a record collector. "Guy" does buy albums but just totally doesn't get it. "Guy" collects albums like fine wine- expensive, limited editions, and by our standard, lots of shitty music, also lots of lps you could normally get in dollar bins. That's okay i guess but the guy has no clue about the culture of rock n' roll, music, etc. It was all Lem's idea to send the pic. Actually Lem wasn't being snarky either. He was really polite about it to the "Guy", wanted to hint at some insight. Our opinion tho? The "new collector" takes all the fun out of collecting. That is one of the many reasons I will never hang with the"Guy" and haven't since high school.

 

[hoochmonkey9]

I still have that Big Country record from when I bought it in '83? ish? Whenever it came out.

 

[mjp]

That is one of the many reasons I will never hang with the"Guy"...

But you're missing out on the opportunity to take his records out of the protective .5 mil polypropylene outer sleeves and grab the covers, getting your horrible fingerprints all over them and carelessly tossing them into piles, maybe bending a corner here or there...

Don't disregard the potential fun to be had there.