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29th Nov 2014, 12:01 PM
	Magic Marmalade If you're not lost... It's not an adventure! Member since Jun 2014 3747 Points Moderator	Is the record industry slipping back into old bad habits? With the release of Pink Floyd's new (and final) album, I was greatly excited like many, but when it became available for pre-order, and I saw the price of iton amazon (and elsewhere) at £27, I thought: well, "I'm not paying that!". ...Especially as it is, essentially, and by the band's own admission, half an album. I thought I'd wait for all the hoo-ha to settle, and the price to drop, but rather, and in spite of the established fact of it being the best selling album vinyl of the year by one of the biggest bands in existence (not short of a bob or two!), it went up! Through £28, then even hitting £32 at one point! It's sad that Pink Floyd should go out on such a sour note as far as I'm concerned... I only need The Division Bell and Endless River on Vinyl to have a complete set of studio albums, but it looks like I'll have to wait. But beyond my own gripe, it seems that this is the way of things with all new vinyl, with prices out stripping the value of rarer older, and original albums. Everyone knows now that Vinyl is back on the up, and I feel the industry is getting back into it's old exploitative ways again, recalling the time when a brand new CD for a popular album in the nineties was pushing £15...allowing for inflation over time that was a lot of money to spend on music then. Unjustified if you ask me, and you'd think they'd learn their lesson that they could easily kill off any momentum in their business by fleecing the customers again. What do people here think? ... I know I'm a tight-wad, but we all love a bargain, or at the very least, a fair price, and after all, it was probably the financial and economic reasons like this that initiated the current resurgence in the first place in the wake of recession.