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Interesting stats from Discogs recently showing buyers by age. Younger buyers avoiding coloured vinyl because it's unnecessarily expensive and often lower quality pressings.
I'll have to have a closer look at the sellers on Discogs to see if they look like retail flippers. I recognise a lot of the sellers who are getting their stock from the same distribution network I do because they are always listing around the same time I'm getting mine on the shelf.
Airhead
I've no issue with those guys - I do own a mirror - collecting is fine, and if they get the kids out they actually get to listen to the records rather than Baby Shark, it's the reselling buy-to-flip aspect.
The interest, for me, was getting stuff that had been out of print forever or hadn't had vinyl releases. Funky coloured vinyl also gets me unnecessarily excited.