Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site brl-vgr.ARPA Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!floyd!harpo!seismo!brl-vgr!wmartin From: wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin ) Newsgroups: net.audio Subject: Cheap Audiophile Records Message-ID: <2411@brl-vgr.ARPA> Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 09:23:46 EST Article-I.D.: brl-vgr.2411 Posted: Mon Mar 12 09:23:46 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:15:50 EST Organization: Ballistics Research Lab Lines: 39 Several times over the past year or so I have seen small items in some of the "underground" audiophile magazines regarding the "death of high-quality analog records" due to the inundation of digital recording. These usually are of the form: "We have run across a stock ofat a local for only $2.50 each as cut-outs! Does this mean the "death of high-quality analog recording" under the digital juggernaut?" Every time I have seen these sort of things, I am mightily irked.... Why didn't these idiots BUY all these $2.50 records and offer them for sale to us readers at $5.00 each, thereby doubling their money and making the bargains available to their supporting readers?!?!? Anybody else recall seeing such items? (I'm positive there was one in the last or next-to-last $ensible Sound, for example.) ANYHOW, this isn't just to flame about that -- I was wondering if any of the newsgroup's readers had seen any such bargain-bin wonderfulness anywhere around the country? Here in St. Louis, I've never seen any sign of such cut-outs of audiophile records -- they still are in the shops at $17.95 and suchlike list or otherwise high prices, and I still get mine mail-order instead of paying such prices. There have been a VERY FEW direct disk and audiophile cut-outs in the Berkshire catalog, from which I order most of my new records -- a couple Umbrella disks and a few Telarcs and Crystal Clears, but certainly not the whole line. Is there a treasure house of cheap audiophile records out there somewhere? If you know of such a thing, tell us all about it! Greedy for possessions... Too cheap to pay for them, and too lazy to steal... Will Martin