Bought my first new audiophile LP...back it goes

Don't give up on vinyl Tvad. I sometimes feel like I get away with stealing when I score a mountain of great vinyl from my used record shop. I mean $3.-$4. for records that blow anything on CD away. I have over 4 thousand LP's since 1998. I would say conservativley that 80% are better sounding than anything I have heard on CD.
I made the switch back to vinyl, and out of 2 thousand cd's I would guess that more than 2/3 of them sounded like crap.

I think that the recording industry is the culprit here. They moan about falling Cd sales. Why would some poor kid want to pay $18. for something that doesn't sound any better than what he can download for free?

Well, good ol Chad Kassem was kind enough to ship me a replacement copy of the new Krall vinyl and guess what- still nasty- scratchy sounding, leading edge of the vinyl looks scuffed, like it came off the press sideways. Too bad, she sings standards on this one, and the sonics seem pretty good behind all the noise and scratchiness. Has anybody gotten a good copy of this record, out of curiousity?

the new "fragile" on vinyl is indeed not the original, and is actually harder sounding than the japanese mini lp. i think the guys phoned this one in.

Johnjbarlow wrote: "Why would some poor kid want to pay $18. for something that doesn't sound any better than what he can download for free?"

Not defending record company pricing, but AAMOF (thanks Nrchy!), most of the downloading you're talking about isn't or can't be done at CD quality resolution, and a heck of a lot of that isn't done for free anymore either.

A little over three weeks later, I received the replacement "Prairie Wind" LPs, and I have to say they sound excellent. Worth the investment in this case. It also helps to like Neil, and not mind hearing the same melodies...albeit with slight alterations...that have been heard on previous Neil Young albums (but that's his MO, and somehow it doesn't bother me).