I have discussed this before but every time I go to the Charity shop near my Mum's house I end up asking the same question. I just bought three CDs for 99p. Two still had the original price stickers on including this one from 1992 £14.29 for a single CD. That seems a lot now but feed it into the Bank of England inflation calculator and you get £29.05 in 2018 money. If you were wondering the other was "The Best of M People" originally priced at a bargain £8.99. You had to be a big fan of an artist or band to buy their CDs back then (not that it stopped me for the likes of Cyndi Lauper).
same thing happened to minidiscs. Several years ago minidiscs were very cheap. Good luck finding pink floyd minidisc below 50 or 70 dollars. Now its the time to buy CDs. I think CD will turn to a collectible item in >10 years from now on
I'm with you on the CD's Boodokhan, I never saw people just dump boxes of audio like that before. Sure people got rid of albums, but a lot of people kept a few special ones. With CD's they just want them all gone and the music digitized.
I was going to say that if people follow the same path as a colleague who threw away all his vinyl "because he didn't have anything to play it on" just before vinyl started to become trendy again then Boodokhan could be right. I did pay £4 for triple CD set mainly for the artwork and CD notes. If you have seen the film "The Boat that Rocked" this was the real ship it was based on. I have been playing various CDs tonight on my Mother's Sanyo Egg, which sounds surprisingly good. Looking closely it looks to have rubber speaker surrounds so they can move along way. There again it did cost about £70 when it was bought about 20 years ago.
Longman, you always have good suggestions, I'll have to check out the movie, the egg on the other hand.......
You are absolutely correct, it's all in our heads!!!... I was thinking about re-building my collection of Japanese mini-LP CDs (with "promo boxes", how else would you go about it?) and started my search with my favorite Klaus Schulze: https://www.ebay.com/itm/KLAUS-SCHU...290205?hash=item2ab27ef15d:g:2EMAAOSwOypbdbHN It was not cheap at ~$400 when new (especially considering that one CD: "Picture Music" in the set is corrupted!), at $785 it is still pricey... but I hope that someday (when price gets to $1k?) I will get it again!!! Until then, Tidal is my best buddy...!!!
Just out of curiosity Jorge, why are these so expensive? My mule might have some connections over there if you need something.
In short, its for the dudes with more money than brains (that was me... oops, it is still me but w/o $$$!!) who want the "feel" of LP without the expenses of a TT/LPs. They look and feel real nice!!! All my collection was coming from Japan: because of the price you can be sure of the authenticity only with a few sellers (fakes are sold at $12 and $100+, so you cannot tell a fake by its price). Once you get a few boxes, you can tell a fake even before breaking the seal. But it is just packaging, usually these are made when another "remaster" comes out. there is a lot of bull to read off their websites about extra-clear plastics, etc., but these are NOT JVC-XRCDs!!! XRCDs Do sound better (if you have a player to do them justice) because of correct mastering chain.
Apparently, it was called "Pirate Radio" in the U.K. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Boat_That_Rocked The film is about 50% British History and 50% comedy. Thinking about "The cost of music", until 1967, if you wanted to listen to Pop / Rock music in the UK during the day then you had a choice of an expensive LP, tape, or a bunch of guys moored 3 miles offshore in a rusty old boat.
I did see that movie Longman, it's pretty good and reminded me of how we were dying to do our own radio station in the 80's.
