I'm genuinely really curious, what kinds of recordings remain inaccessible in digital formats?
How do you find out about them? And where do you procure them from? Do you mind sharing a couple examples?
How do you find out about them? And where do you procure them from? Do you mind sharing a couple examples?
Here's a country album I've never find a proper digital version of, only bad vinyl rips: https://www.discogs.com/master/402577-Mike-Auldridge-Dobro
In a completely different direction, 80s Japanese pop (city pop). I would listen to compilations, look up my favorite tracks on discogs to find the album it came from, and then... No dice. Often they're available on both CD and vinyl, but the vinyl version is often cheaper (because they made more original pressings than CD reissues). Sometimes they never get reissued on CD and vinyl is the only option.
Here's a random example I found while digging around at a record store in Japan: https://www.discogs.com/release/20947423-%E7%9B%B8%E9%A6%AC%...
Last case is dance music, which comes in 12" singles rather than albums. To find that stuff, I used to go to a used junk store that devoted its entire basement to records. Again, a lot of 80s and even 90s material never made it to digital.