I've noticed HMV are having another sale, not the BIGGEST EVER this time but I'm sure there are still bargains aplenty as they bring out the £2.99 happy hardcore comps from the back room. I think they'll have sold out of this by the time I get there though.
I wonder this though - why is vinyl hardly ever in sales? I thought sales were basically opportunities to get rid of stock and make some room and surely this is equally valid for vinyl. Do record shops never over-order vinyl? (I find that hard to believe).
I know a lot of shops have "sale" boxes and bargain bins of 12s, but in whenever I look these are full of total tripe - pop-dance non-hits always seem to be over-represented in particular. And look at Juno's sale - there's some good stuff in it I'm sure, but they've only cut most of the prices by about a third. That's not a sale, it's a discount
I'm talking about full-on "everything must go" bargain madness, like the time when one of my favourite shops in Leicester decided to stop selling vinyl and sold their entire stock at £2 or less. What a weekend that was.
The question that logically follows from this is "What happens to all the unsold records?". Someone must be stocking up on cheap overstocks, and it's certainly not me.
I wonder this though - why is vinyl hardly ever in sales? I thought sales were basically opportunities to get rid of stock and make some room and surely this is equally valid for vinyl. Do record shops never over-order vinyl? (I find that hard to believe).
I know a lot of shops have "sale" boxes and bargain bins of 12s, but in whenever I look these are full of total tripe - pop-dance non-hits always seem to be over-represented in particular. And look at Juno's sale - there's some good stuff in it I'm sure, but they've only cut most of the prices by about a third. That's not a sale, it's a discount
I'm talking about full-on "everything must go" bargain madness, like the time when one of my favourite shops in Leicester decided to stop selling vinyl and sold their entire stock at £2 or less. What a weekend that was.
The question that logically follows from this is "What happens to all the unsold records?". Someone must be stocking up on cheap overstocks, and it's certainly not me.