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    Cases in Which I Will Buy New Vinyl

    yvynyl:

    • I hear a song that rips my heart/mind out and lays it bare to the sun.
    • I’m in a spendy mood, and listening to a decent new album with a big ‘BUY NOW’ link.
    • I’ve heard a band’s great single on a blog, and am halfway through listening to the second, even better, single.
    • My dear friend recorded/produced/sang backup/played harp/etc on a good record.
    • I feel tempted to buy a record first digitally for whatever dumb reason.
    • Everyone is going apeshit over a new Best New Music record, and yeah, it’s fucking tits.
    • Said BNM record is available for pre-order in colored vinyl, LTD packaging.
    • I’d probably end up playing it for my grandkids.
    • My dear friend is running the label from their bedroom.
    • I’m at an up-and-coming band’s show, and the band has vinyl at the merch table and I can have them sign it.
    • I’m at a show for a good band and the opener blows my mind and they have merch.
    • The record shop set a sweet album on the features rack.
    • I’ve given myself a ‘strict’ budget before entering said record shop. #FAIL
    • It’s Record Store Day and my budget is decidedly not ‘strict’.
    • I’ve listened to a record 10+ times on Sptfy/Bndcmp/Sndcld already and this is getting ridiculous.
    • An artist I’ve been crushing on starts a crowdfunding effort to get on wax.

    That about covers it. Sufficient, anyway. What about you?  What prompts you to buy music on vinyl?

    1. rowj said: If I stream it at work more than once or twice and love it, I will want to listen to it home. If I want to listen to it at home… I buy it on vinyl.
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    4. mikenigro reblogged this from yvynyl and added:
      limited packaging...friends’ projects, specifically.
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    7. thewaxpages reblogged this from guardianmusic and added:
      I need to make the highlighted happen.
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    9. maudthinks reblogged this from yvynyl and added:
      For me it’s when...have that desperate heart-strings-tug when
    10. overmuziek reblogged this from yvynyl
    11. daytracker said: hahaha
    12. mostlyharmlessornot said: probably the 1st and 3rd reason that you gave
    13. blog-my reblogged this from yvynyl
    14. wurscht reblogged this from yvynyl and added:
      ich könnte höchstens noch ergänzen: wenn mir das cover gefällt, und ich geld ausgeben will…
    15. surfsiberian said: HAHA “it’s fucking tits.” That about sums up my buying criteria!

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