📻 Signing Off the Blog – But the Music Lives On

A note from the World of Budget Vinyl Records

When I first launched this blog as an early-teenage high school student, it was a genuine journal of my collecting journey — a place to document discoveries, vinyl oddities, restoration experiments, and the obscure world of Seeburg 1000 music. It was personal, exploratory, and exciting. And in those early days, it felt like the perfect medium.

But over time, things shifted. In recent years, I have focused more on Patreon for posting long-form blog-type content, where I could offer early-access content to supporters, and on YouTube, where full-length record uploads and mystery cue hunts reached a wider audience. The blog, meanwhile, gradually transitioned into something of a holding pen — mostly reposting older Patreon exclusives after they'd completed their cycle through public YouTube releases.

For the past several years, I’ve kept the blog on minimal effort life support, recycling older content as it moved out of the exclusive tier. It made sense at first — a way to keep the site from going quiet entirely — but it eventually became clear that the blog was no longer adding new value. Engagement dwindled, monetization was nonexistent (literally: after a month of ads, I earned a penny — I pulled the plug not long after), and the content itself was already being viewed — more effectively — on YouTube and Patreon.

At this point, maintaining the blog just doesn’t make sense. It’s not a defeat — it’s an evolution.

So I’m officially pressing pause here. I’m proud of what’s archived — the original posts, the documentation, the voice of someone just starting to find his groove in vinyl preservation. This blog now stands as a time capsule—a quiet yet meaningful record of the journey's beginning.
🔁 Where the Real Work Continues

If you’ve found this post, please don’t think the project has stopped. It’s just moved. You can still join me at:

🎥 YouTube: World of Budget Vinyl Records
🎧 Patreon: patreon.com/budgetvinylworld

There, I continue to release new Seeburg 1000 restorations, vintage vinyl transfers, track ID hunts, label scans, and archival reconstructions — just in a format that better suits the way people listen and engage today.

In closing, I know there are still a few of you out there — the loyal blog followers who’ve quietly kept visiting, reading, and sharing in this journey, even as the world moved on to faster formats and flashier platforms.

But it’s time for me to admit something I’ve been trying to ignore — or deny — for years:

The blog isn’t where this project lives anymore.

Not really. Not where the community gathers. Not where the discoveries happen. Not where the music spreads.

For a long time, I told myself the blog was still important because it had been. Because it held history. Because I felt I owed it something. But in truth, the audience has shifted, engagement has faded, and the real preservation work is happening elsewhere now.

Letting go of this space is bittersweet. But it’s also overdue. And it frees me to focus on what’s working — where the energy is, where the conversations happen, and where your support actually reaches people.

This blog will remain as an archive — a time capsule of the early days of WBVR. I’m proud of it. I just won’t be adding to it anymore.

Thank you for being part of this chapter — and for helping me build what came next.

In closing, I know there are still a few of you out there — the loyal blog followers who’ve quietly kept visiting, reading, and sharing in this journey, even as the world moved on to faster formats and flashier platforms.

But it’s time for me to admit something I’ve been trying to ignore — or deny — for many years:

The blog isn’t where this project lives anymore.

Not where the community gathers. Not where the discoveries happen. Not where the music spreads. For a long time, I held on — because it mattered, because it was meaningful. After all, it was mine. But the time has come to let it rest and honor it for what it was: the origin point of something that outgrew its first home- like I have.

This site will remain online as an archive — a time capsule of the early days of World of Budget Vinyl Records. No updates. No reposts. Just the preserved echoes of where it all began.

Thank you for being part of that chapter — and for helping me write the next one.

See you over on YouTube, Patreon, and wherever the records spin online in the days of future’s past.

—Andre

World of Budget Vinyl Records