I tend to buy cds more than I do vinyl...as blasphemous as that is. I tend to keep vinyl for stuff that is not out of cd, is cheaper than on cd (a rare occurence) or something that would be nicer on vinyl. Eg. I recently got that Nuggets comp on vinyl even though it was cheaper on cd and also that souljazz Tropicalia comp on vinyl (although that was dirt cheap)
For some reason, I find that quite flimsy vinyl sounds nicer to me than heavy vinyl in a lot of cases. I have a bunch of cheap Beefheart LPs...I guess they are reissues from the 80s, they have Virgin Mid Price Range on the inner sleeve, and they sound nice to me.
The most I have paid for a record was about $42 for Live at Kens Electric Lake by NNCK. Which isn't that bad really with the exchange rate at the moment. And it is a double. Well, for a used record anyway...I think that 3LP By the Roots lp on timelag was about the same, if not a bit more.
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