i suppose the only thing you can say is it could act as a 'nest egg' - if you ever wanted to get rid of it like 10-15 years later you'd probably fetch a HUGE amount of money from some equally mental person.
i very much doubt it, if you wanted it that bad, you'd already have it and we're not talking bands who are massive here. when was the last time you got excited by some 10 - 15 year old vinyl?
I'd say Boris and Sunn O))) are pretty massive. If they can have 3 or 4 vinyl represses when each pressing size is like 3000 then I'd say they're doing pretty well. Having something limited to 200 or 300 of the first press is pretty hard to get hold of. Maybe not 10-15 years, but 5 years down the line they'd sell for big bucks. I mean, some sell for a huge amount only 6-12 months after having sold out.
vinyl is supposed to be listened to not collected.
I'd dispute this being the case any more. Otherwise, you'd see a lot more vinyl only releases.
Your own policy goes to prove my point, in fact. If you meant Calculon vinyl to be listened to, you wouldn't give people the option of having a CD-R with the tracks on it.
I bought Tool - Lateralus on vinyl when it came out and sold it for 40 quid about a year later. Dunno if I'd have got more if I hadn't opened it - but I wanted to see what was on the picture discs.
Not quite the same as doom collectors and more a fashionista thing but I saw The Killers about 2 weeks before they hit big and bought the EP on CD and my friend bought it vinyl
She sold it a couple of months later for like 60 quid or something.
Crazy money.
Makes me wish I'd:
A)Had enough money on me to get the vinyl but beer was calling
B)I hadn't inadvertantly used my CD copy as a coaster