Here's some vinyl pressing quote sites:

http://www.urpressing.com/quotegen12.php

http://www.erikarecords.com/12in%20Vinyl%20Record%20Pricing.pdf

http://www.discmakers.com/products/vinyl.asp

Looks like you're in it for at least $1500 just to get started with 200 units. For a marketplace that just doesn't have the equipment to use your product. $1500 for 200 saleable items. That's $7.50 each for cost. CD production for 200 units is about $700 at Discmakers. 10 day turnaround time vs. 19 weeks turnaround time for the vinyl.

Still smells like something that isn't going to save a marketplace.

I love the old album covers. I don't care for the sound and I have heard insanely expensive ($100,000+ systems) at the Rocky Mountain Audio Fest https://www.audiofest.net/ that yes sounded wonderful, but knock 3 zeros off for me or at least 2 zeros off, and at that price range, I'll take ye olde CD format every dang day of the week. And I'll rip a 192 kbps mp3 file off of it and my aging ears will be happy to carry it around in my pocket with my Westone ES5 in ear monitors. If I'm feeling like splurging, I'll do a 320 kbps mp3 file and that will be just lovely.

It's a cool fad. Some artists could benefit by catering to the crowd that's into the fad. But competing with something that's about 1/2 the price for a much wider installed customer base, it's not the savior.

But I've never done either, but I'm considering it - so I've been looking at the math.

Best delivery for a small artist is still bandcamp and the like - free setup.

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