Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread seek
- Original Message - From: "fab." btw, my dad has worked 35 + years in oil exploration as a geophyiscist and he reckons the world has enough oil resources for another 100-150 years...i just hope he has taken india and china into account we he made this assessment http://www.lifeaft

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread DB
They'll be shutting their doors, way before any Oil Crisis. The real crisis for Vinyl is consumers and lack of them. That will be the end of vinyl WAY before any oil problems. Dave peter lasell wrote: I love dj'ing from vinyl, but these days it doesn't really matter to me what format t

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread robin
*touches wood* btw, my dad has worked 35 + years in oil exploration as a geophyiscist and he reckons the world has enough oil resources for another 100-150 years...i just hope he has taken india and china into account we he made this assessment i don't doubt it. can we handle the subse

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread fab.
Dubplates & Mastering has to shut its doors due to an oil crisis. *touches wood* btw, my dad has worked 35 + years in oil exploration as a geophyiscist and he reckons the world has enough oil resources for another 100-150 years...i just hope he has taken india and china into account we he

RE: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread peter lasell
I love dj'ing from vinyl, but these days it doesn't really matter to me what format the music comes in. These days it's cheaper and more fun to make music yourself. However, it'll be a sad day when NSC or Dubplates & Mastering has to shut its doors due to an oil crisis. P peterlasell.net --- Jari

RE: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread Jari Tolkkinen
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, Odeluga, Ken wrote: I cadged the below from Wikipedia on poly vinyl chloride (PVC) essential component of vinyl records. Apparently, vinyl is bad for your health as well as your wallet (although the link is not so clear-cut.) "Alternative plasticizers are being developed b

RE: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread Odeluga, Ken
-Original Message- From: seek [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Price of gasoline increase = price of vinyl increase. Vinyl = fossil fuels = dinosaurs = doomed. Sad, but true. Seek *** I cadged the below from Wikipedia on poly vinyl chloride (PVC) essential component of vinyl records. Apparen

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread Tristan Watkins
- Original Message - From: "robin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Thursday, February 16, 2006 10:11 AM Subject: Re: (313) the price we pay... > albums: 99.7% CD 0.2% vinyl 0.1% other (cassette, download etc.) singles: 52% download 39.8%

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread robin
albums: 99.7% CD 0.2% vinyl 0.1% other (cassette, download etc.) singles: 52% download 39.8% CD 6.5% vinyl 1.7 % other (MD, cassette etc.) I don't believe that data. Are they classifying each individual track dl'd (say from iTMS) as a single even if it's normally part of an album? They m

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-16 Thread Tristan Watkins
- Original Message - From: "Innes Macnee" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <313@hyperreal.org> Sent: Wednesday, February 15, 2006 7:43 PM Subject: Re: (313) the price we pay... it's annoying when there's so many records you want to buy but have to leave half

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-15 Thread seek
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Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-15 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 2/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > we should start making dinosaurs again then i can only hope and pray than once i die, my remains somehow end up under enough pressure that they turn into oil and thus vinyl really quickly so that i can one day be pressed up and played! t

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-15 Thread Innes Macnee
it's annoying when there's so many records you want to buy but have to leave half in the shop cos you can't afford them all but i think it's quite expensive to produce vinyl these days and with labels not selling a lot, i don't think there's much they can do about it don't know about other cou

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2006-02-15 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
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2006-02-15 Thread Michael . Elliot-Knight
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Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-15 Thread seek
- Original Message - From: Michael.Elliot-Knight anyone else really put off by the cost of a 12" record these days? Price of gasoline increase = price of vinyl increase. Vinyl = fossil fuels = dinosaurs = doomed. Sad, but true. seek

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-15 Thread Adam Smith
no kidding man, $10-$14 for a single 12" record is frustrating... i hate to say it, but i've been pricing CD mixers lately. The fact that Warp, Kompakt, Beatport, iTunes, and now Submerge all provide great selections of MP3's is becoming very tempting and hard to ignore. Of course I imagine I wil

Re: (313) the price we pay...

2006-02-15 Thread Thomas D. Cox, Jr.
On 2/15/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > anyone else really put off by the cost of a 12" record these days? > this addiction is wrecking my budget > > rant if you can get records straight from their source its nice and cheap. otherwise, in this poor economy and especially with t