![]() Lower supply and rising demand is, of course, a wonderful cocktail for price increase. This type of storage seems to be a particularly common fashion accessory in Scotland - John Menzies must have sold thousands of them in the Beatles era. Even now we can visit homes to view collections for sale, and the 7" singles will be stored sleeveless in a brass "toast-rack" style holder showing all the signs of 40 or 50 years of neglect. And this is before the abuse records would suffer once purchased. Non-removable "sale" stickers, stock numbers written inside the sleeves, even prices written on the front of the sleeves - these are all things that were common practice for retailers of the time. Of course in the '60s and '70s, records were simply functional objects that hardly anyone bothered to treat well, often including the shops that sold them. ![]() But with vinyl proving to be a tremendous investment over the last two decades or so, and even institutions such as the Financial Times pointing out there have not been many ways to beat the return on rare vinyl, future value is something we should all be taking in to consideration - at the very least when playing and storing our treasures, as nothing ruins a record's value quicker than a nice fat scratch or a bent sleeve. ![]() I'm not sure how many times I've heard the phrase "I just bought my records to play them, I wasn't worried about how much they were going to be worth", but it's a lot - usually just before the person involved haggles really hard to squeeze every possible penny out of the sale of their collection. The large majority of music fans seem to think it's not the done thing to worry about the future value of items, as if it somehow taints the listening experience or because it reeks slightly too much of investment banking rather than music fandom. Vinyl Blog | Buying Vinyl Records for Investment Buying Vinyl Records for Investment ![]()
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