The ugly, growin greed of being a jazz/music lover

[Rooster_Ties]

Ain't nobody holdin' no gun to nobody's head to pay high prices for stuff.

You look long enough, and you can find lots of stuff you want, a whole lot cheaper than those crazy "buy it now" prices, or the occasional stupid-high-price on half.com and amazon.

To the original poster in this thread -- it seems like your beef ought to be with the labels, for not making more copies available in the general marketplace in the first place, or keeping everyting in print all the time -- which the market demand can't justify.

Edit: Case in point -- that OOP Shirly Horn disc you were looking for in another thread, is easily available for pennies on the dollar at half.com, for less than $5. It's not about greed -- it's about supply and demand.

Edited March 6, 2005 by Rooster_Ties

[connoisseur series500]

cool_blue, here's my solution (which I've adopted, pretty much): don't buy out-of-print music. If you've got 500 LPs, I know (I have around 800 CDs/LPs) that there's more jazz out there to be discovered than you have time or money to find. Try supporting today's artists by buying a few new CDs rather than yesterday's rarities. There's so much stuff out there to discover that anytime you pay inflated prices, you have no one to blame but yourself...

Moose is correct.

I'm firmly convinced that Blue Note will eventually reissue everything. They've even been consistently reissuing Conns, which were meant to be limited editions to begin with.

I've paid some pretty high prices on rare cds only to end up rebuying them when they become RVG'd!

If there's something you really want, just wait!

[Guest che]

Ain't nobody holdin' no gun to nobody's head to pay high prices for stuff.

You look long enough, and you can find lots of stuff you want, a whole lot cheaper than those crazy "buy it now" prices, or the occasional stupid-high-price on half.com and amazon.

To the original poster in this thread -- it seems like your beef out to be with the labels, for not making more copies available in the general marketplace in the first place, or keeping everyting in print all the time -- which the market demand can't justify.

Edit: Case in point -- that OOP Shirly Horn disc you were looking for in another thread, is easily available for pennies on the dollar at half.com, for less than $5. It's not about greed -- it's about supply and demand.

You are right in that if you look hard enough. even I can find some the odd bargin or two.

Few jazz CD's sell that well, well at least here in the UK, in places like Norway and Sweden groups like E.S.T and Tord Gustaveson for example, can top the record charts.

Che.