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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by analog31 on Saturday March 01, 2025 @09:28AM (#43219524)
That's $10 more than you can get for selling your recording in digital format online.
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Re:The vinyl-carver sparking a craze for cutting records at ... by itishappy on Saturday March 01, 2025 @12:23PM (#43221429) 

    digital:
    $1
    $2
    $3
    ...

    vinyl:
    -$4990
    -$4980
    -$4970
    ...
If my wildly estimated pricing is accurate, the break even point is 555 records sold. BandCamp looks to be about $4 per EP (and you'd get maybe $3 of that), so this may be a conservative estimate.
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