Honestly, I find it kind of weird to buy music with the intention to resell it?
But maybe that is the deejay in me?
I do buy music, some of it rare and expensive, but the intention is to *play* it for people!
Share the wealth!
Even "producer" deejays who profit off of such things, I think have a similar mindset?
But they like, buy expensive albums with the intention of sampling some pieces and then making money off of how the sample is reused in some new track.
I could never wrap my head around the music "biz" and sample "clearance" stuff, that is like way beyond the kinds of attorneys I have ever met.
But still, even THOSE deejays, are still spending lots of money on rare vinyl with the intention to *share* dope beats.
e.g. Kid Capri talking about spending $10k on some records, but how even a $1 record he might sample from (he has a nice sampler collection too he shows off in this Crate Diggers: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ATgpU8nAmhk) and he might make back the $10k from just one hit song with a good sample.
You'll also note: he still has his vinyl, old, with price stickers and whatnot still on them.
The people who buy things, just to turn around and sell them at higher prices I can't wrap my head around.
Maybe this is why I am impoverished? But I sincerely don't want to participate in those kinds of economics.
Ironically as I dug out an old phone to operate as an untrusted device for that Zoom class, it's got about 70GB of ALACs on it. Including some mixes I made circa 2018-2019. Some of them are raw, not the kind of stuff to share, but still fun for me to hear my progression of mixing. I sampled some of that Kid Capri and other Crate Diggers episodes too. While re-listening to them, I got some other ideas for how to improve those mixes, but I would probably throw most of it away and start in a multi track; even if it was more fun to make those mixes the way I made them with 2 turntables and a battle mixer.;)
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