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From: wmartin@brl-vgr.ARPA (Will Martin )
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Cheap Audiophile Records
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Date: Mon, 12-Mar-84 09:23:46 EST
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Posted: Mon Mar 12 09:23:46 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 13-Mar-84 08:15:50 EST
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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 of  at 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