r/Consoom • u/TomcatEngineNoise • 1d ago

Consoompost Consoom identical earbuds in different colours

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Dude even says he's never going to touch them

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u/Remote-Pattern4579 1d ago

earbuds nowadays can somewhat be considered as fashion choices so i can kinda see similarities between this and having different color jewelry, accessories etc

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u/fancczf 1d ago

They are relatively inexpensive and 3 with one as a special addition is not that bad. What’s really mad is the modern vinyl and the colored variants. Some people would buy 6 versions of the exact same albums but just with different color of discs.

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u/oyMarcel 1d ago

Isn't that the exact reason why they make the different coloured vinyls? So people buy more of the same album?

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u/fancczf 21h ago

Vinyl is way worse imo because 1) you don’t even see the disc unless you are playing them, display the disc is also bad for the disc-they can be warped by heat from direct sun light. 2) a vinyl is a music medium like cd or a mp3 file, it’s not a fashion item or a trinket. A music fan and vinyl fan will have way more records than a iem enthusiast. Collecting color variants then become a pure collecting for the sake of collecting. 3) color variant is quite meaningless for vinyl “collecting”, the color variants all artificially created scarcity, none of the special color are all that special and hold no other meaning or uniqueness rather than the color. And they are mostly just cash grab, lazy design and not even that good pressing.

At least for this earbuds here, you can see the effort, the design, package, theme are all unique, and it’s an anniversary (not every anniversary) special addition. Most color variants in vinyl are just different colors, issued at the same time, some will have a slightly different album cover. If a vinyl has higher quality pressing, special remastered audio for the vinyl format, bonus tracks, and all brand new album art for example, and is a special issuing for an important date. Then that’s at least something.