Many Library Vinyl Collectors out there?

[dothislikebrutus]

The price of Library LP only went up! Discog indirectly helped set prices on everything,
which indirectly condemns us to refer to it, and it's a shame

I don't claim to know anything but my humble theory is that one factor library LP prices (on certain ones) skyrocketing
is the exposure of them through sharing/youtube/etc. and people knowing the sounds on the albums are now willing to
pay more for something that is physically scarce but familiar sounds instead of "rolling the dice" on something they know little to nothing about.

[Retronic]

Yes I think that and the film. Prices were noticeably higher after that.  I thought they’d drop again.

[digdeeper]

I swear the bragging rights are a big factor when it comes to how a price comes about. Without it you couldn't explain why something rare but objectively bad fetches high prices while something obviously mainstream but great in terms of recording, composition stays affordable. There is some collector psychology going on that is the same whether it's Warhammer pieces or vinyl records. If you could never show your purchase to anyone, the dynamics would be very different. "I have here a very rare faulty pressing of a crackly proto-psych-acid funk groove with mooing cows, it was widely sampled by at least 50 wannabe gangstas, and I got it for just $100! What is that? A Johnny Williams recording, surpassing my record in many ways but being abjectly mainstream and without any traces of swag, widely available in good conditions? No thanks. What? A rare faulty pressing? Okay, I'll take it for $5."

[Retronic]

I fall into the completist camp and once I get close to anything like a full run I go for it filling in all the gaps if I can.  This is just a mindset and no one cares other than me but I’ve always had a bit of a collector mentality.

[dothislikebrutus]

I think we all have a little hunter-gatherer DNA passed down from ancestors 

[moodmusic]

The real historical price of vinyl is relatively high according to this data.

Inflation-adjusted vinyl prices (1973 to 2021)
https://www.datawrapper.de/_/hS24O/

[zach]

i gave up on collecting library when everyone started charging 20 bucks just to ship the damn thing. hardly ever see any in person.

[Porn Library]

Used to have a nice collection of library vinyl (most of which I shared rips of over here throughout the last decade) but sold em all off between 2018 - 2020 since I needed some extra cash for stuff, and didn't play the physical vinyl anyway since I archived em to WAV files and home made CD-R's.