It’s an ill-thought out collab, and I bet the prices here will be daft. Maybe I’m just a nostalgic romanticist for my 17yo train trips to the original shop and buying Pistols Spunk bootlegs for a fiver.. wore my feet out trawling all over the other indies and always to Daddy Kool on Hanway Street.
Definitely. I get it that they need to appeal to a broad range of people buying records. The prices in the one I went to were astronomical, even the second hand stuff! You’re right, there’s deffo people who are romanticising (and why not) but it does sort of smack of a poor choice from them.
Pricing is one of my pet hates New vinyl is crazy but secondhand really is with the birds in some places. Meanwhile the big players squeeze out the indies. Had a lovely guy with a tiny little back alley shop here called 33 that couldn’t sell enough very reasonably priced s/h stock to make the rent.