The simple answer is that the manufacturing process enacted in pressing plants in the production of so called expensive vinyl records is a far more thorough and labor intensive process than simply mass manufacturing a whole bunch of nameless and faceless CDs and then scanning a bunch of digital files onto them.ĭigital streaming platforms elide the scanning part of the process altogether and simply transmit the digital files through the airwaves into the ears of the consumer. In this case, it will be with other audio formats deemed to be cheaper, namely CDs and digital streaming platforms. In calling something expensive, we are automatically comparing it to the price of something else without even realizing it. People flock to these online vendors for reasons of affordability, being able to find rare records and common records for a cheaper average price than their local store.Īnd yet, the prices still seem extortionate for a new single record, no? Are the major labels not laughing at the lay folk as they tot up their vinyl sales chart? And why is this also the case for Frank Ocean? Why so Expensive? Now, there are of course still record stores, but there is far more of a market for records online in the vinyl revival we currently find ourselves in. Anyone who did not like the vinyl releases their local record store was pushing might just as easily start their own record stores.
The local record shop, still, was kind, and what they said and what vinyl albums they decided to push on their store front would be what the masses would listen to. More accurately, the prices for everything were a little different as rates of taxation have affected different consumables differently.Ī lot of those who reminisce about cheaper prices neglect to consider the fact that during the 60s in England there was still a different form of currency altogether, and though it was on the way out at this point it still would have affected the rates at which such consumables would be sold off. It is believed that back in the original heyday of vinyl record labels who would press records as their primary export things were cheaper. Even during this second era of the vinyl record, there are still so many production costs to consider. Other Frank Ocean albums like Endless have also frustrated fans with delays.Everything seems to be more expensive than it once was, and this is at least in part due to escalating rates of inflation as the years progress, and vinyl records are far from exempt. Some fans who bought the album reported experiencing significant shipping delays at the time.
Ocean sold limited quantities of the album as part of an exclusive Black Friday sale in 2016. Posters and T-shirts feature a stylized photo of Ocean sitting at a Lenovo Thinkpad laptop, the logos for his Blonded Radio show, and an edited image of Succession actor Jeremy Strong, who is mentioned by name in one of the other images posted to Ocean’s Instagram stories, and with whom he’s apparently friendly.īlonde has been a notoriously difficult record to obtain on vinyl.
The 2xLP Blonde gatefold includes a lyrics insert and poster, in addition to the record itself. (As expected, many items, namely the records, sold out quickly.)
#FRANK OCEAN VINYL RECORDS SERIES#
In typical Frank Ocean fashion, the songwriter took to Instagram on Saturday (December 17) to publish a series of Instagram stories directing fans to his website, where, for a time, they could find T-shirts, posters, and vinyl copies of his 2016 album Blonde for sale. Frank Ocean is back with new merchandise-just in time for the holidays.
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