What's up with all these ultra-limited editions nowadays for every album?

cults... fetishism...

I've seen some people make the argument that with tapes, it kinda forces you to listen to the whole thing since you can't skip tracks. That may be a reason, though that gets into a whole 'nother discussion about the quality of albums. If your album isn't consistent, I'm going to want to skip the songs that aren't cutting it.

  On 6/11/2011 at 2:25 PM, Solo Strike said:

 

  On 6/10/2011 at 4:08 PM, 'patternoverlap' said:

Smaller runs mean less overhead and less chance of surplus. The market now is way more labels but the same amount of customers, so naturally it has gone to a more boutique style business model. In order to attract buyers, a lot of labels use nice packaging or some kind of bundle deal with hardcopy releases.

True although there are exceptions to the rule, it's economically unviable to press less than 250 copies of something on vinyl. However, unfortunately a lot of the time, the press of an average electronic 12" won't be more than 300ish anyway. Saying something is limited is a good way to gain a sense of urgency, whether it is artificial or not is another question. When you think about it, everything is limited really, it's just that some runs are more limited than others

in my experience pressing vinyl, most pressing houses will charge you the exact same amount for doing 250 as they will 300.

Apparently Ninja Tune, Big Dada and a couple other labels are repressing out-of-print vinyl from their catalog if they get enough pre-orders.

  On 2/18/2013 at 5:12 PM, joshuatx said:

Apparently Ninja Tune, Big Dada and a couple other labels are repressing out-of-print vinyl from their catalog if they get enough pre-orders.

Dayum, Musipal brand spanking new for 12 quid.

Tasty.

  On 6/10/2011 at 12:21 PM, eugene said:

1. get a what.cd invite, download anything you want

2. pay the artist what you think he/she deserves via paypal or something

3. put an end to 20th century retarded music industry paradigm.

4. win

Yes this! How much money normally goes to the labels and how much to the artists? If everyone give the price of a CD straight to the band it is probably much more money than they would normally get

I like supporting labels.

  On 2/18/2013 at 5:12 PM, joshuatx said:

Apparently Ninja Tune, Big Dada and a couple other labels are repressing out-of-print vinyl from their catalog if they get enough pre-orders.

What a great idea! Hope more labels get on board with this.

ltd editions often hold/increase in value innit