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Originally Posted by RadioMaster
maybe you buy a record for the good quality, but I dont think that's what the majority thinks. The Bat2 vinyl clearly wasnt produced for quality, otherwise it would have been a double album, but more as a collectable piece IMO.
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And why was
Neighborhood released as a double album? How does that fit into your argumentation?
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Originally Posted by RadioMaster
The price is not really a matter on this one, it could also indicate there's only been a few produced. IF the records were made for quality, I'd reather expect them to be reasonably priced so people who are not fans would actually bother to buy them.
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So you think it's okay to pay more for less?
Do you think the ordinary customer knew that it was an alleged "collector's item" only? I rather believe the release was a concession to the few people who didn't own a CD player yet back in the early 1990s. (I bought my first CD player in 1991, for example, and continued buying records anyway.) I'm sure people did not consider it as much as a collector's item then as members of this forum do nowadays.
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Originally Posted by RadioMaster
And regarding quality: Bat1 was produced to be on vinyl, but was Bat2 as well? 1993 was already the CD (MP3) era, so it's likely the album was produced to be on CD, so it's unlikely a vinyl recording of the CD production would sound better...
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The point is that a vinyl record has a different sound spectrum than a CD. Numerous new albums are released on vinyl again, too, although this is the "CD era" and people buy the records for playing them and listening to them, not as collector's items. I'm sure an excellent production like
Bat II would sound pretty interesting on a good record.