Now, it’s $25 to $40 and a lot of things are in the mid-$30 range. “Certainly, five or 10 years ago, between $15 and $25 was the range. “It does keep creeping up,” concurs Greg Davis, owner of College St.

Production capacity is up and more stock is being produced in ever greater numbers, so theoretically the cost of vinyl should be going down or at least holding steady, not going up. Here in Canada, according to Nielsen Music’s 2017 year-end report, 804,000 vinyl records were sold last year, jumping 21.8 per cent from the 660,000 moved in 2016. in 2005 to 14.3 million pieces in the States last year. But as anyone who’s been buying or selling vinyl over the past few years is aware, $30 and up is increasingly the new normal for new LPs - at a time when new record shops are sprouting everywhere, vinyl plants are opening again for the first time since the CD drove the format to the brink of extinction during the 1990s, newer and more efficient presses are being developed for the first time in 30 years and sales of LPs have surged from a low point of less than one million units in the U.S. That’s what one might expect to pay for a lower-end Queens of the Stone Age concert ticket these days or maybe a hard-to-find early pressing of one of the band’s previous records, not a new release that currently retails for $10.88 on CD through Amazon.ca.Įven $35 as a “cheaper” vinyl alternative would have seemed obscene just a few years ago. Granted, it was a deluxe, limited-edition double-vinyl version of last year’s Villains with 14 art prints tucked into the gatefold packaging and an “alternate etching” on Side 4 - and, to be fair, Matador Records has a $35 vinyl version of the record out there, too - but even this longtime record collector and superfan of Queens had to draw the line at dropping $65, before taxes, on a single recording. In 2011, he opened a juice bar, Juices for Life, in the Bronx, New York alongside Jadakiss.The breaking point, for me, was $64.98 for the new Queens of the Stone Age album. Styles P released a novel, titled Invincible, in 2010 through Random House. In 2018, he released his first album in three years, G-Host. After recording several mixtapes, Styles P returned to studio albums in 2011 with Master of Ceremonies, and released a studio album every year until 2015. Four years later, he released his second album, Time Is Money, which was followed by Super Gangster (Extraordinary Gentleman) the next year. He released his debut solo album, A Gangster and a Gentleman, in 2002. He is the co-founder of D-Block Records alongside fellow The LOX members Jadakiss and Sheek Louch.

He first rose to prominence as a member of The LOX, with whom he released has two albums with. D-Block, Nature Sounds, High Times, E1, Ruff Ryders, Interscopeĭavid Styles (born 28 November 1974), better known by his stage name Styles P, is an American rapper and author from Yonkers, New York.

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