My god I think I died and went to Vinyl LP heaven

[LynneSin]

:woohoo:

There's this great antique store nearby where normally I go if I need an interesting wallhanging or lamp or something like that.

But recently they've been bringing in used records for sale - $2 a record unless it's the Beatles then it's $5. I've picked through and found a few decent things like some Springsteen, King Crimson and a few other interesting things to add to my collection.

But today I hit jackpot. Mind you, these records are in no order whatsoever and you could go through a ton of stuff from the 30s-50s, bad country music artists and hordes of classical until you score with the one really great album.

Today I hit jackpot - I was going through all this junk and I found stuff I couldn't believe was on sale and they had the reduced the price to $1 an album

Got myself a near perfect condition "In Through the Out Door" by Led Zeppelin (my old one was destroyed in a flood). I was resolved to the fact that I was going to pay about $10-$15 for a used copy of this so I was so excited to find this. I spent an hour in there and ended up with 32 more records to add to my collection (there was another guy in there and he left with $50 - I was a real sweetie, I gave him the brand new copy of Bad Company's first album but he left me have the not-even-out-of-the-plastic-wrap copy of Warren Zevon's "Excitable Boy".

And the guy who runs the antique shop hooked me up with this guy that brings in like boxes of vinyl records every week. I'm hoping that I can strike a bargin where I'll help organize his mess, point out the albums he should be asking a few more dollars for and in return I get first choice of whatever he brings in each week.

Oh and I found a copy of Robert Plant's "Pictures at Eleven" (his first solo which actually I knew I already had) and I bought it because I felt so bad the album was stashed away in this mess.

[leftyladyfrommo]

1. I hve a bunch of old vinyls in my closet

But I have a feeling they are all warped. I think I have King Crimson. I know if have Franky Lane's "Hell Bent for Leather." Plus most of the Moody Blues. I had a bunch all from the 60's and 70's.

[LynneSin]

2. You wouldn't happen to have a copy of King Crimson's "Discipline"

That was one of the 3 albums destroyed when I had flood water in my apartment. I'm still looking for that and Led Zeppelin's "Presence". Fortunately I still have the 3 records themselves - just not the cover

:cry:

[MN ChimpH8R]

3. Those are the places where you find

gems. Stores that are organized know the value of the LPs. I found some wonderful "golden age" (recorded between '58 and '65, before recording quality deteriorated due to multi-miking and signal processing) classical stuff for $4-6/LP in a bookstore ten years ago that would have cost a fortune on the audiophile/collectible record market.

There's gold in them thar piles o' records, but you're gonna schlep through a lotta crap to find it (just who bought all of those friggin Rita Coolidge records in the 1970s anyway??).

[LynneSin]

5. We found like 10 Lionel Ritche's "Can't Stop Now" records

About 30 minutes after I got there this other guy showed up pretty much looking for the same stuff I was looking for. Thing is, if he hadn't of come I probably would have walked out with 10 records (I found the LZ right before he came). But when he got there he was determined to go through everything. He was there yesterday but his girlfriend didn't want to hang around any and look.

So we helped each other out by pulling out anything that we thought the other might like. He was definately straight classic rock with some southern rock and alot of prog rock. Me, I was mainly classic rock but I grabbed some stuff from the 80s that I remembered from my college days (I got a copy of Whitney Houston's first album and an unopened Huey Lewis record) and even two Abba records. I let him have the Bruce Springsteen box set but I swear I'm going back soon for that complete symphonic works of Beethoven. It was in near perfect condition!

[khashka]

4. Me too

I was helping my Mom move furniture yesterday.... and we had to empty a trunk before we could move it. Lots of vinyl. Lots of Led Zep, Alice Cooper, etc. A lot of it was mine and then my little sister stole it. After she died, my parent's got it all. Now I have it back :)


I'm still the only person I know who has a turn-table..... Vynil has something that CDs lack - a richness of sound.

Khash.

[LynneSin]

7. You know me so now you know two people

but mine is one of those cheap things from the 80s that I use. My next big investment is a high end player. But I rarely play my records that often or the ones I do probably aren't in pristine condition where they could be ruined by using a low-grade record player

[MN ChimpH8R]

13. Check out neededoctor.com

They have turntable and cartridge combinations for every budget.

This is my LP-spinning pride and joy - the SOTA Cosmos Series III Vacuum Turntable:


It carries a Graham 2.2 arm


and Dynavector XV-1S cartridge:


At around $14K retail this combo will be a bit too rich for most people's tastes, but I am affiliated with the high-end audio industry and got, shall we say, sweet deals on all. And the sound is magnificent. Gotta keep my 5000 LPs happy!

[Zookeeper]

17. I'm familiar with the Needle Doctor store.

In Dinkytown? Mr. Z. has dropped a surprising amount of money there over the last decade or so. :wow:

On edit to add to the Vinyl vs. CD discussion: A classical-music loving friend of mine was championing CDs in the early '80's and I remember strongly disliking the sound at the time. It struck me as being harsh, cold and brittle. I don't know if CD recording technology has improved or I've just gotten used to it, but I listen mostly to CDs now just for convenience sake.

I always liked the texture of LP sound...hearing Glenn Gould make his little humming noises on the Goldberg Variations, or hearing a musician take a breath. LPs (or is it just analog recording?) sounds more human to me still.

[MN ChimpH8R]

8. It's information density

Ordinary CDs sample 44,000 times a second. To have the same information density as an LP, the sample rate would have to be over 2,000,000 times per second. Some engineer wrote this in Stereophile or the Absolute Sound a number of years ago after conducting some fancy statistical analysis. More information = more compelling and lifelike musical experience.

Not to say that CDs can't sound very good, and SACD samples at something like the rate needed to equal analogue. But there's so little music on SACD that it's a moot point.

[khashka]

12. I'm no expert and no audiophile

but CDs don't have the same depth of sound or the same sense of space that LPs do. I think for me, the sense of the sound occupying a space is what is the most important difference.

Information density, huh? I'll have to talk to some serious audiohile friends and learn more.

(I was thrilled that Kate Bush insisted her new album be released on vynil.)

Khash.

[greenbriar]

9. I have a turn table

and over 200 lps


my brother has every beatles album 2 times. He has one of each released that have never even broken the sleeve on!

[oneighty]

6. My neighbor ladies

recently gave me their 'Zenith Integrated Stereo System' with the large (WhooooHoooo) speakers. With the stereo set came a stack of vinyl records most of which I have no interest in.

But from my attic I rescued recordings I bought thirty five years ago to which I again say; "Whoooooo Hoooooooo".

I wish there were a used record store near here.

180

[RetroLounge]

10. What? No Herb Albert Whipped Cream?

:rofl:

RL

[sshaw1980]

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[sshaw1980]

18. oh my god !!!

am i that old ??? whipped cream omg !!!



to think that lovely lady is a senior citizen....

hmmmm sure pretty to look at =)we must protest bush at every opportunity / he needs to hear the message from the people fuck bush fuck BFEE:rofl:

[Zookeeper]

11. We bought a new turntable, so we could burn our old vinyl...

to CDs. Of course, we haven't gotten around to it, so now we have stacks of LPs AND Cds.

I have a lot of rarities: late 70's early punk compilations, Zappa's LP with the Sgt. Pepper parody and much more. I've always had odd musical tastes and between Mr. Z.'s old records and mine, we probably have a few bucks sitting in our basement.

[CatholicEdHead]

15. That is also my eventual plan

for my parents' own and hand-me-down LPs. There is good stuff on them, but it is so much easier to convert the LP format (still keep the old record around) to CDs and also rip to MP3s.

[Metta]

14. Sweet. I know I'd buy more vinyl is I didn't have allergies.

Too bad because Pittsburgh has one of the best vinyl shops in the known world, Jerry's Fine Used Records. *Great* stuff for $3 and up.

[Maestro]

16. Just for you LynneSin

This is from Plant's '83 solo tour. It is a scanned pic from the tour book. It was a great concert. Later that year or the next I caught the Firm in concert with Jimmy Page.

[LynneSin]

20. God I hated that New Wave mullet look he had in the 80s

but I still adore him.

:loveya:

[AKPacker]

19. I was almost giddy with joy when CD's came out!

Every one started dumping there vinyl and I was buying them up! I got so many seldom played classic albums for next to nothing. My collection is at close to 700 albums and I am really looking for more. I love them so much that I put them in my will!

CD's will NEVER be as good as vinyl!