Colored Vinyl: Is It Worth It? Sound, Value & Myths
When Jack White released the Lazaretto Ultra LP in 2014 on Third Man Records, the pressing sold roughly 40,000 vinyl copies in a single week, a SoundScan-era record that stood...

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When Jack White released the Lazaretto Ultra LP in 2014 on Third Man Records, the pressing sold roughly 40,000 vinyl copies in a single week, a SoundScan-era record that stood...
Three weeks. That's about how long Metallica spent in early 1984 at Sweet Silence Studios in Copenhagen cutting Ride the Lightning , on a budget that started at $20,000 and...
Beyonce surprise-released Lemonade on April 23, 2016 with no lead single, then watched it become one of the most discussed albums of the decade. That instinct for the full statement...
In February 2025, Kendrick Lamar walked into the Grammys and walked out with five awards for a single song, "Not Like Us," including Record of the Year and Song of...
Stream Drake and the low end gets polite. Drop the needle on a clean pressing and the same record turns cavernous: the submerged drums, the smeared vocal samples and the...
Two copies of the same AC/DC album can sell for wildly different money depending on which pressing you're holding and what shape it's in. And with this band, "which pressing"...
Here is a fact that still reframes how you hear this band. When In Rainbows arrived in October 2007, Radiohead let fans name their own price for the digital download,...
On August 29, 1966, the Beatles played their last paid concert, at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Three weeks earlier, Capitol had put Revolver in American stores. From then on, the...
Here is a number that reframes how you shop her catalog: Taylor Swift's self-titled debut landed in October 2006 on a then brand-new label, Big Machine Records, when she was...
Few artists have rewired their own sound as completely as Tyler, the Creator. He went from the shock-rap ringleader of Odd Future to a producer precise enough to win Best...
SZA's catalog is short, but every record counts. In barely a few years she went from a respected Top Dawg signee to one of the defining voices of modern R&B,...
Nirvana cut their first album for $606.17. That is what engineer Jack Endino billed for the Bleach sessions at Reciprocal Recording in Seattle, and the record came out on Sub...