Renessis wrote:You know somethin...the hell is up with all the new records today being warped like that... Does it have to do with the packing...or with the pressing...or with the vinyl material. 95% of my older vinyl is nice and flat...Whats the deal...
The price of pressing vinyl has skyrocketed in the past 7 years. This has caused a lot of record labels to press lower quality vinyl (cuz the good shit costs too damn much!). Also, the number of vinyl manufacturing plants has been on the decline for a while. All of this adds up to shittier vinyl for the consumer. More than once I have recieved a pressing back from the manufacturer that had more than half of them warped. When we had the time, we sent em back to be re-manufactured, but when deadlines are in effect, sometimes record labels are forced to ship out the warped vinyl to the stores cuz their customers are waiting... Vinyl definately aint what it used to be.





