The Vinyl Thread
 

Chula's rant about vinyl got me thinking and while we've had a few threads over the years about this subject, we haven't had a fresh one in about four years. Since I went out to California I've discovered a newfound passion for collecting, buying, and selling vinyl records. I must have brought about 200 home and gathered about 150 since I've been home. Mostly I get them cheap as sh*t at garage sales, usually going for bulk buys. I've been either getting lucky or I'm just really good at it because I've made all my money back that I spent on all these records plus a little extra profit. I keep a lot too and have a really nice selection going right now.

Anyway, I know some of you collect so here's a thread dedicated to the hobby. It can also be a place to trade or sell records if you like. If any of you are interested, here' my discog page.

https://www.discogs.com/seller/jsmith7389/profile

Hopefully some of you will be interested and this thread won't die in a day.

Hope it doesn't die - but it will.

Looking for prog/fusion lp trade partners in Toronto ,Canada area.

I've only got 7 LP's, since I only buy them for the cover. Recently, I've been thinking about getting a turntable since It's starting to become obvious that some albums are far harder to find on CD than on vinyl. Especially 60's and 70's albums that were never popular enough to get reprinted on CD after the first run. For example, I can easily buy a decently priced copy of Judie Tzuke's 'The Cat is Out' on vinyl online, but the CD's are very expensive.

I don't think anything I own is worth a damn or is anything special, but here are the few I own:

Kate Bush - Lionheart
Bryan Ferry - The Bride Stripped Bare
Carly Simon - Come Upstairs
Roxy Music - Siren
Joan Baez - Hits/Greatest & Others
Rickie Lee Jones - (self titled)
Cris Williamson - (self titled)

I KNOW you only got 7.

If you had a ton, it would make no difference.

http://i.imgur.com/Z9ZHjpr.jpg

Were you born a glistering turd sock or do you
just have the occasional mental stain detector day?

Way too much vinyl around here - in the tens of thousands -
much of which is slipping out the door more and more often,
but newer things always seem to take their place.

Too much?
Where you posting from?

I needs more vinyl.

I don't know what the f*ck you guys are talking about but I've been spinning this for the last hour...

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Meat Wave
Brother (I have the red pressing but couldn't find a picture of it.)

Looking at some vinyl right now

That album just floored me!

My old turntable broke down, so I sold most of my records. Now I have a new one and I'm slowly rebuilding my collection, but I'm next to broke, so I only buy albums I absolutely love. So far I have Aladdin Sane, Bridge Over Troubled Water, Sgt. Pepper's, and of course this one:

Your next album cover?

I miss my turntable :(

I know where you can shove your collection

Vinyleses is for the mens.

Juniors cannot duely process the vinyleses depth, just as they have difficulty with limited articulation due to lead paint lickins and over-abundant exposure to emotocon-talk.


Anyways....

Rosty: are you saying you personally own ten thousands of records?

How many crates man be thou?

consider sniffing less glue

I have about 100 to 200 vinyl records that were given to me, and I've also moved a few times over the years. Total pain to lug around.

iF THEY WERE PROG THEN IT WOULD BE PAINLESS.

You can keep your crackly, "warm" audio distortion. Imma stick with actually caring about music.

How many did you sell? :eek:

I sold some of mine, but only the ones I didn't care about too much. Mostly shit bands like Led Zeppelin.

Was going to post my albums, then I couldn't be arsed to take a picture.

Sell them to me.

Pics or it didn't happen.

They are my parents' albums and they went to the non-greedy brother (me). Had they went to the other brother, he would've just pawned them all. If I ever stop moving around, I'd like to build a music room to display them properly and all of that + all my other music items.

Fine. Be that way.

that album i bought was the jay z album but ive stopped buying them because i cant play them that loud in this apartment building :/

I only had a handful to begin with—I've never been a serious collector. And when you're 17 and saving for school, every dollar helps. :D

Here's what I had at the time of the last thread. I have quite a few more that I might get around to cataloging and posting up here.

How much larger is your cd collection?

I have maybe 30 records so far, but before I started collecting vinyl, I bought about 200 CD's. I can't really make myself collect CD's anymore since vinyl is so much more hip.

I couldn't be arsed. But I have:

David Bowie:

Space Oddity
The Man Who Sold The World
Hunky Dory
Ziggy
Pin Ups
Aladdin Sane
Diamond Dogs
Young Americans
Station to Station
Changesonebowie
Low
Heroes
Lodger
Scary Monsters
Let's Dance
Tonight
Never Let Me Down
And a bunch of others like singles, compilations

The Stranglers - Rattus Norvegicus
The Stranglers - No More Heroes
The Specials - The Specials
Black Sabbath - Paranoid
Elton John - Goodbye Yellow Brick Road
Elton John - Captain Fantastic
Elton John - Blue Moves
Thin Lizzy - Jailbreak
Saturday Night Fever

Some Stevie Wonder ones
Some Drifters ones

Some others I can't remember right now.

No Prince ones, and probably will never own any.

Would love 1999 and SOTT on vinyl though.

Update:
The Ahmad Jamal Trio - Untitled
Anakrid - Rapture of the Deep
Angus Maclise - New York Electronic, 1965
Arnold Schoenberg - Complete Piano Music
Arnold Schoenberg - Piano Concerto
Art Ensemble of Chicago - The Paris Session
The Beatles - Meet the Beatles (scratched to hell though)
The Beatles - Rock 'n' Roll Music, Volume 2
The Beatles - Rubber Soul
Bone Awl - Not For Our Feet
Boom Bip & Doseone - Circle
Boots Randolph - Yakety Sax
Buddy Rich - Rich In London
Cabaret Voltaire - The Crackdown
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Lick My Decals Off, Baby
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
Charles Ives - The World of Charles Ives
Cromagnon - Cave Rock
Double Take - Soakin Wet
Eric Dolphy - Out to Lunch!
Fifty Foot Hose - Cauldron
Frank Zappa - Freak Out!
Frank Zappa - Joe's Garage Acts II & III
Frank Zappa - Fillmore East
Frank Zappa - Overnite Sensation
Funkadelic - Uncle Jam Wants You
George Friederic Handel - Messiah Highlights
George Philipp Telemann - Chamber Music
Herbie Hancock - Thrust
Herbie Hancock - Hardrock
The Jackson 5 - Triumph
Jandek - Chair Beside the Window
Jerry Reed - Ko-Ko Joe
Jethro Tull - Thick As a Brick
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Jethro Tull - Stand Up
Jethro Tull - Warchild
Johann Sebastian Bach - Sonatas & Partitas for Solo Violin
Johannes Brahms - Complete Symphony Collection
John Denver - Greatest Hits
John Scofield - Still Warm
The Jungle Book
Kitaro - Asia
Larry Coryell - Spaces
Lawrence Welk - Early Hits of 1964
Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
Library of Congress - Heavy Hits: Great Music That Inspired Today’s Hits
Living Guitars - Music From the Pink Panther and Other Hits
Ludwig van Beethoven - Pastoral Symphony No. 6
Man Is the Bastard - Thoughtless
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
The Modern Jazz Quartet - Patterns
Monty Python - Monty Python's Contractual Obligation Album
Mr. Acker Bilk - London Is My Cup of Tea
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Ornette Coleman - The Shape of Jazz to Come
Pete’s Dragon
Pharoah Sanders - Live
Provocative Percussion Vol. III
Public Enemy - Fear of a Black Planet
Public Enemy - Give It Up
Public Image Ltd. - Bad Life/Question Mark
Public Image Ltd. - Flowers of Romance
Pyotr Tchaikovsky - Concerto No. 1
Renaldo and the Loaf - Songs for Swinging Larvae
Ray Charles - Ray Charles
The Residents - Meet the Residents
Richard Strauss - Also Sprach Zarathustra
Ron Goodwin and His Orchestra - Music for an Arabian Night
Rush - Moving Pictures
Rush - Permanent Waves
Rush - Hold Your Fire
Santana - Abraxas
Shakti with John McLaughlin - A Handful of Beauty
Simon & Garfunkel - The Graduate Soundtrack
Simon & Garfunkel - Bookends
Stevie Wonder - Fulfillingness’ First Finale
Throbbing Gristle - The Second Annual Report
The United States of America - The United States of America
Various Artists (The Beatles, Ravi Shankar, Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, Eric Clapton, Billy Preston) - Concert for Bangladash
Various Artists - Music With 58 Musicians, Volume One
Wild Cherry - Wild Cherry
The Velvet Underground - The Velvet Underground & Nico
Yes - Going for the One
Yes - Tormato
Yes - Close to the Edge

:afro:

Just got back from a meet with a vinyl seller that posted on Craigslist. Spent $70 but I'll sell most of these and make my money back and then some. Each of these were only two bucks each and mostly all of them are original pressings in G-VG+ shape with some actually in near mint condition. Good score today. Here are some highlights...

Jim Croce - Photographs and Memories
America - America
Marvin Gaye - Live at the London Palladium
Jackson Browne - Late for the Sky
Return to Forever - Hymn of the Seventh Galaxy
Bill Withers - Still Bill
Erroll Garner - Dreamstreet
The Kinks - The Live Kinks
The Beach Boys - Wild Honey

And the score of the day...

George Harrison - All Things Must Pass - 3xLP box set that I'm not selling. Nope. No way. Too good.

@ Man Like Monkey; so I'm guessing you like Bowie....
@ Frownland; you have more prog than I expected, but the real surprises to me were John Denver and Acker Bilk!

I used to have about 300 albums but I lost them all. :(
Too depressing to remember everything I had, but the list would include about four each by Beefheart, Eno, Dylan, Nick Drake, Yes, the Allmans, L.Cohen and Zappa.
Also represented were Soft Machine, Doors, Leo Kottke, Grateful Dead, oh, and about ten albums each by John Fahey and Neil Young. (The music of both of those guys was the focus of an obsessive pre-internet listening phase that went on for longer than I would care to admit.)

Yes, he was quite good at doing music.

For better or worse, classic prog is very well represented in dollar bins. Denver is a hand me down and Acker Bilk was part of my friend's collection of 20ish albums that he gave me when he moved. I like to play Mr. Acker Bilk at 45 speed instead of the intended 33 1/3 speed, which takes it from boring jazz to cool bop.

^ Ah, that explains a few things! Acker on speed sounds quite interesting. :)

^ Now that you mention it, I've heard other people say somthing very similar!

(When you go to a party, one of the least cool things you can do is say, "Can I watch my favourite t.v. prog?" Well, I was once invited to a party, round about the time of Diamond Dogs; everyone was standing around and socialising when a guy said, "There's an interview with Bowie on t.v. at ten o'clock." So about a third of the guests squeezed round a t.v. set to watch him. It's the only time I've seen a party like that interrupted for a t.v. prog.)

Lol The only Miles Davis you have is Kind Of Blue.

Ja it's the only one I've heard by him too.

I'm currently accepting donations btw.

What's wrong with that?

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