Can Cd's Ever Be As Rare As Vinyl In The Soulworld?

[Guest]

Not sure if this subject has been discussed before but I would be interested to know if CD's are likely to be as valuable or sought after as vinyl is today, including compilation CD's

[Marc Forrest]

I would have said no as they can be "booted" way easier as 45s...but then I saw Goldmines "Girl Groups" going on ebay for over 100 UKP ..... rushed to sell my old LP of the same title and ended up with 25 USD Well, you never know, do you...

[Guest miff]

Not sure if this subject has been discussed before but I would be interested to know if CD's are likely to be as valuable or sought after as vinyl is today, including compilation CD's

Carnt see why not, they are some rare cds out there now, Orginals will allways be worth more the boots on any format. lets not forget 45s were not ment to last and were treated as such, much in the same way cds are treated now. In times to come the only way to hear our music will be on CD the 45s may still be around but the equipment to play them on will get harder and harder to find, not in the near future but it will happen

[vnicepce]

Carnt see why not, they are some rare cds out there now, ......will get harder and harder to find, not in the near future but it will happen

..By a strange coincidence, I wsa looking at EBAY-try 'Chris Clark', as the search engine, and you will find a copy of a CC TMG LP, for sale, in 1997 CD format......wot a coincidence..

[Steve G]

Not sure if this subject has been discussed before but I would be interested to know if CD's are likely to be as valuable or sought after as vinyl is today, including compilation CD's

In a word "No".

I don't think we'll ever see the heady heights being paid for collecting "originals" to the same degree we have in the past. As we become truly multi media, materialistic and a throw away society, so the demand for specific formats will decline - Gawd I cannot believe I wrote that crapola

[Dayo]

You can make a CD in your office - you can't easily cobble together a vinyl disc. I don't think CD's will ever have the same toucy feely appeal.

[Guest lifeandsoul]

You can make a CD in your office - you can't easily cobble together a vinyl disc. I don't think CD's will ever have the same toucy feely appeal.

So therefore it is possible to get a true 'one off' item, thus potentially making items 'rarer' than vinyl equivalents or precedents.

However, tend to agree with Steve above about throwaway society.............but there are instances of CD's going for many hundreds of pounds, and the marketing of 'rare' cd's

[Guest Dan]

cds are a dying format anyway

10 years time it will all be downloads and memory sticks

wonder how much original ipods will go for??

[Simon T]

So therefore it is possible to get a true 'one off' item, thus potentially making items 'rarer' than vinyl equivalents or precedents.

However, tend to agree with Steve above about throwaway society.............but there are instances of CD's going for many hundreds of pounds, and the marketing of 'rare' cd's

I'm sure somebody recently put a link up on here to an ebay sale of a CD with a starting price of $3000! There a several CD's from the early to mid 80's fetch a high price tag because there were not many made - very few CD players around and people rich enough to buy them - not enough CDs available of the popular vinyl = catch 22 situation. I don't think you even play them in a video disk player, if you happened to have one.

There's an interview with Berry Gordy where he says one of his marketing ideas was to knock singles out at a low price so that if someone had a spare $ they would buy a record rather than buy a sandwich. They would be seen as 'disposable' and hence a high turn over from being able to buy the latest release and high profit for BG! IF you wanted something to keep long term you were encouraged to buy LP's and many LP's were re-recorded in the early to mid sixties (like Irma Thomas, often from scratch) to exploit the marketing of the new stereo format.

[Guest miff]

Never seen a cassete go for big money there must be some rare ones just as theres rare LPs, maybe somthing to do with the fact that there so delicate and get chewed up

[Tomangoes]

Even if the CD was s**t rare and valuable, a DJ would not get away with playing it at a Northern Soul venue according to past threads on this forum.

However, if the track to be played was never put on vinyl, how can you get round that? copy it to emi disc?

Ed

[Guest miff]

Even if the CD was s**t rare and valuable, a DJ would not get away with playing it at a Northern Soul venue according to past threads on this forum.

However, if the track to be played was never put on vinyl, how can you get round that? copy it to emi disc?

Ed

Just shows the pointless argument on no cds up for what it is, but lets not go down that road again

[Guest mattmale]

Never seen a cassete go for big money there must be some rare ones just as theres rare LPs, maybe somthing to do with the fact that there so delicate and get chewed up

Good point about cassettes. I bet there are some 'never to be repeated' compilation cassettes out there and loads of obscure niters which are a one off from 30+ years ago. I wonder why they don't go for more money? The more delicate, the rarer i would have thought.

M.