Assassins on vinyl

[Leaf Coneybear]

Posted: 8/28/19 at 10:45am

Hey all! Assassins is my favorite musical and I was wondering if anyone knew where I could find it on vinyl? I know its a fairly niche show, and I've checked all the obivous places (Ebay, Amazon) and came up with nothing. I don't care if it's the original cast or the 2004 one, just hoping to own my fave musical for my record player!

[TotallyEffed]

Posted: 8/28/19 at 11:12am

Was it ever released on vinyl?

[DoTheDood]

Posted: 8/28/19 at 11:23am

It seems the last Sondheim show released on vinyl was Into The Woods, so Assassins was the first to just go to CD. In a world where musicals now are getting vinyls (like nothing against Mean Girls, but idk how much those demographics overlap enough to have that album be a vinyl), Assassins came out at all the wrong times. And unless the upcoming Doyle production is a huge hit or revival is happening soon, I don't think there will be a vinyl for the show sadly.

[Juan Perez2]

Posted: 8/28/19 at 11:23am

TotallyEffed said: "Was it ever released on vinyl?"

After searching through Discogs, it doesn't seem like it was. It seems like OP may need to make a bootleg themselves if they want it on vinyl.

[metropolis10111]

Posted: 8/29/19 at 8:44am

I could be wrong on this but if memory serves me correct the OCR for Assassins was a DDD release. (digital recording, digital mixing, digital transfer) so any record pressing most likely won't bring out any analog nuance found in the original recording. 

[Leaf Coneybear]

Posted: 8/29/19 at 3:12pm

Darn, thanks for letting me know though, guys!