I went vinyl shopping the other day and Noticed that ALL Bjork vinyl is VERY VERY expensive. One Little Indian just re-released the Sugar Cubes and Bjork albums. The price tag...45.00 a pop!

Why does EVERYTHING she puts out have to be a collector item? I am very happy I am not obsessed with her as I'd be broke by now.

Maybe she should put out a Bjork Credit Card out there. Dang!

And she she prices them herself...right.....

anyway most Viynl is pretty expensive now and days. It cost a lot to print Viynl records (especially independent artist).
[Edited 8/26/08 13:28pm]

Whaat?
45.00!?
Mannn....
Bjork can kiss superspaceboy's lily white butt!
[Edited 8/26/08 13:34pm]

larksanders said:

Who knows who prices them out. I was mainly being facetious. I know New Vinyl is expensive...but most new vinyl even re-issues on 180 gram don't cost as much as hers does.

180 gram! Bah!

Björk's reissues are remastered from the original master tapes (using Half Speed Direct Metal Mastering), available on limited edition, hand numbered, 200-gram vinyl.

180 gram!

do you have any idea how much it would cost to watch bjork kiss superspaceboy's lily white butt? no way, i don't want her kissing anything, i have bills to pay.

PANDURITO said:

Such a purist!

Anxiety said:

I'd cost more that VIP tix to Madonna's concert, that much I know!

superspaceboy said:

don't get too cocky. i know people who are closing on houses that are cheaper than a pair of madonna nosebleed seats.

Don't buy vinyl.

2freaky4church1 said:

are you allergic?

2freaky4church1 said:

superspaceboy said:

are you allergic to people who don't buy vinyl?

I feel you on this. Domestic vinyl needs to be released at a Nice Price™

man, she's right up there with Bowie on milking the back catalog.

errant said:

bowie's been slipping, though. the whole deluxe remaster series derailed before it even got to station to station.

at least with bjork, you can choose from fortyleven different formats of each one of her solo albums, from debut through volta.

Anxiety said:

plus the live version, plus a greatest hits, plus a shitty box set with another "greatest hits" included, etc., etc.

errant said:

and there are the DVD versions of all the live versions, and the tv specials, and the documentaries, and the box sets of the live DVDs and the tv specials, and and and and and...

Anxiety said:

and the updated DVD of the updated DVD of the updated DVD of the VHS video collection

the amount of milking is udderly ridiculous.

errant said:

booo

i don't mind it. when i think something is too gratuitously milky, i just don't buy it.

Anxiety said:

yeah, me neither. fortunately, the "surrounded" box was out by the time i bit the bullet and bought them (or had to, if i wanted to listen to them again).

no more for me, thanks!

Anxiety said:

and I WANT THEM AAAAALLLLL!!!!!

superspaceboy said:

Pretty much all new vinyl is expensive. You want cheap, you buy CD's and mp3's, and you keep your vinyl collecting to older material.

Anxiety said:

ANd with Bjork, she puts it all out at once. There is no piece meal roll out of her catalog. She's done this with the live material, the reissues (Shit that came out as a big ol box too) and now the vinyl...and not just her albums but the Sugar Cubes as well.

Anxiety said:

Hey at least she's not doing a Fashion Line of Burlap Sack Dresses and Skirts with cowbells and ribbons. Nor is she putting out a Perfume line of Icelandic Cow Sweat. I did hear she is putting out a CD of yelps and gurgles. Rumor has it one of the songs will be a duet with Prince in which they each take turns screaming at each other.

superspaceboy said:

I'd buy it!

45 dollars in the States? Well, the dollar's terribly weak at the moment so import records will end up costing a lot, additionally the US mail system has outpriced its services lately.

It costs stupidly lot to ship over vinyls from EU to US these days anyway.

Prince, please, release everything in the vaults. We want it. We'd pay what you asked. Please.

Björk, please don't release so much stuff. We have enough...

Really, who can take us seriously?

PANDURITO said:

i've been taking you seriously since they day i first clapped eyes on you

meow85 said: