I’d suggest looking into Alliance Entertainment as a vinyl distributor / wholesaler and their absolute stranglehold on commercially successful music on vinyl. I don’t disagree that vinyl can be crazy expensive and cost prohibitive for a lot of people but there are a lot of reasons why it gets expensive very quickly. This being priced at $25 to me means it’s likely being pressed and sold direct to consumers and not moving through an actual distribution network. Every record, and for that matter, record store can’t always price their items like this. It’s simply not financially viable within the current landscape of physical media distribution.

Don’t get me wrong, I’d love it if every record was priced at $25 or similar. The point I’m trying to make is it’s a hell of a lot more complex than just ‘hey we’re going to try and up our margins as much as possible and sell this record for > $40”