Ep005: Dynaflex Records & Price Gouging
The Vinyl Guide - Artist Interviews for Record Collectors and Music Nerds
Nate Goyer
4.7 • 579 Ratings
🗓️ 2 November 2015
⏱️ 19 minutes
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Summary
Roger Waters formerly of Pink Floyd tries to sell us a $500 box set. Also we discuss the history of RCA's Dynaflex records; like a supermodel they were thin, sexy and not everyone agreed they sounded good.
If you like records, just starting a collection or are an uber-nerd with a house-full of vinyl, this is the podcast for you. Nate Goyer is The Vinyl Guide and discusses all things music and record-related.
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| 0:00.0 | Do you listen to and collect vinyl records? Well, you're in luck. Welcome to The Vinyl Guide, the podcast made for record nerds like yourself. Here's your host, the biggest record nerd of them all, Nate Goyer. |
| 0:15.0 | Hey, hey, hey, hey, it's Nate with another episode of The Vinyl Guide, the podcast by and four fans of vinyl records worldwide. |
| 0:23.6 | In today's episode, we are going to get controversial. |
| 0:26.6 | We're going to talk about a few controversial subjects in the field of record collecting, and I'm sure you guys have an opinion on. |
| 0:32.6 | First off, we're going to discuss price gouging. |
| 0:35.6 | An announcement came out this week that I'm going to share with you. It made the internet set on fire briefly, and I'm going to discuss price gouging. An announcement came out this week that I'm going to share with you. |
| 0:44.0 | It made the internet set on fire briefly, and I can really understand why. I definitely want to get your input on the topic as well. In the second half of the show, we are going to talk about Dinaflex. |
| 0:48.5 | Now, Dinoflex was a controversial manufacturing process that RCA conducted in the mid-70s for vinyl records, |
| 0:56.0 | and the field of record collecting still isn't clear on a consensus if it was good or if it was |
| 1:00.8 | bad. So we'll talk a little bit about that later on. In the meantime, you can always reach me, |
| 1:05.4 | email me your thoughts and ideas and whatever you got, Nate, N-A-T-E-at-T-E-A-VinylGide.com or tag me in Instagram at Vinyl Guide. |
| 1:24.2 | All right, we're going to start with a fairly controversial topic of price gouging. |
| 1:29.1 | Now, I'm using the words price gouging. |
| 1:31.0 | I don't know if you guys are going to agree this is price gouging, but here it goes. |
| 1:35.2 | Now, this was sent to me by a listener in California, forwarded to me with some commentary. |
| 1:41.1 | I won't share with you. |
| 1:42.1 | Some of it is fairly explicit, but here's the story. |
| 1:45.8 | Essentially, Roger Waters, famous bass player, songwriter, kind of lead guy for Pink Floyd. |
| 1:54.0 | All right, I really shouldn't have to introduce him to vinyl fans, but there it is. |
| 1:58.5 | Roger Waters made an announcement this week. |
| 2:00.6 | Now, as you know, the last few years, he's been touring the world, performing The Wall live. |
| 2:06.5 | His famous concept album came out in 1979 with the band Pink Floyd. |
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