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Wax On posted:Just got the new King Krule 12" in the mail today. If you guys like dark and slow ballads you should definitely give it a listen. So glad you mentioned this here. I stumbled across the album today checked it out knowing someone in this thread had just got a copy of it in. Currently hooked and putting in my own order as we speak.
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Anyone pick anything up for RSD? I got the Grateful Dead - Europe '72 and RHCP - Blood Sugar Sex Magik. I wanted to get both Phish releases but they didn't have them and I don't feel like trekking into the city and dealing with the traffic. Anyone know if it's still available online somewhere?
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Recent pictures: Clockwise from top left: Brigette Bardot - Le Belle Bardot Mr. Oizo - Transexual/Patrick 122 EP Mr. Oizo - Stade 2 Justice - Cross King Krule EP Dirty Beaches - Lone Runner Mr. Oizo - Moustache/Half a Scissor (just re-released on vinyl) Anyone who likes Oizo, buy Stade 2 now. I waited every time his LP's came out and missed every single one before now. e. Poster that comes with Stade 2  Collection  Wax On fucked around with this message at 20:24 on Nov 25, 2011 |
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Nov 25, 2011 20:02
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Here's my haul for the day.
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Nov 25, 2011 20:28
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I'm at my parents' place for the holiday, the place listed close by is just a used book/record warehouse  Picked up Pat Benatar's first 3 albums for $3, though 
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Nov 25, 2011 21:50
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I've been looking for The Dear Hunter Color Spectrum complete vinyl boxset. Seem's I'm several months too late and the only one's I found are going for like $500. Insane.
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Nov 25, 2011 23:29
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I have a pile of vinyl, most of its just cheap second hand stuff I bought that I wanted to listen to. The only one I bought brand new was Pearl Jam's No Code. So I looked it up and it's going for anywhere between 100-200 dollars. Is it really that expensive or rare?
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Nov 27, 2011 02:31
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Just got home to find this had come in the mail for me. Ecstatic!
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Nov 27, 2011 02:41
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I picked up the new Black Keys 12" single earlier today. It's got a pretty interesting gimmick. The record plays backwards. The recording isn't backwards, but you put the stylus on the runout groove and it plays from there instead of the other way around like usual. Has anyone released a record like that before?
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Nov 27, 2011 06:20
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CPL593H posted:I picked up the new Black Keys 12" single earlier today. It's got a pretty interesting gimmick. The record plays backwards. The recording isn't backwards, but you put the stylus on the runout groove and it plays from there instead of the other way around like usual. Has anyone released a record like that before? I read something about this recently. I think a lot of older classical recordings were done this way to reduce distortion as the music got louder toward the end. Something to do with the number of rotations increasing as the needle gets closer to the center of the disc.
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Nov 27, 2011 06:32
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The second Dropdead album does that. I was so fuckin confused when I tried to play it, the needle kept falling off until I some how realized it goes the other way.
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Nov 27, 2011 07:51
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CPL593H posted:I picked up the new Black Keys 12" single earlier today. It's got a pretty interesting gimmick. The record plays backwards. The recording isn't backwards, but you put the stylus on the runout groove and it plays from there instead of the other way around like usual. Has anyone released a record like that before? Quite common on multiple set 16" radio transcriptions. The idea was that the first side would play outside to inside, the second inside to outside, the third outside to inside and so on, so that the fidelity mismatch due to groove distortion would be less noticeable to the listener. Once overall disc fidelity increased, these practices became largely redundant. Old Pathe discs are inside out too.
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Nov 27, 2011 08:22
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I have a record by Less Than Jake where there is a bonus track on each side, and the only way to play it is to move the needle towards the center of the record and drop it, and then it will play from the outside in.
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It's been awhile since I last posted in this thread, and I've made quite a lot of purchases since then, effectively draining my wallet. But since I'm fairly new to this whole business of record collecting, most of my purchases so far have been old favorites of mine. So here's what I've picked up in the last month or so: From Sonic Youth I have: Evol (Pink 180 gram) and Sister (Purple 180 Gram). Both of these were limited to 500 copies each and Insound had some. They both look and sound very full. I'm listening to Sister right now. I also picked up and original near mint copy of their 1985 EP Death Valley '69. It was too good a deal to pass up for a fanatic like me. And I got Lee Ronaldo's solo record Countless Centuries Fled into the Distance. It's clear vinyl with a very cool pattern visible from both sides.  The Pixies - Surfer Rosa Neutral Milk Hotel - In an Aeroplane Over the Sea The Shins - Wincing the Night Away Deltron 3030 - Deltron 3030 (You have no idea how excited I was to see this in a store. My all-time favorite hip-hop album.) Postal Service - Give Up Parenthetical Girls - Entanglements  Calexico and Iron & Wine - In the Reins Pearl Jam - Vitalogy Nirvana - In Utero Limited Colored edition that came out a couple years back My Bloody Valentine - Loveless Arcade Fire - Funeral (the last AF album I needed to buy for all three)  M83 - Before the Dawn Heals Us Crocodiles - Sleep Forever Pat Methany - First Circle and Rejoicing w/ Charlie Haden & Billy Higgins Norah Jones - Come Away with Me And the cream of the crop in my recent purchases...  Broken Social Scene's Forgiveness Rock Record on seven 10" colored records. It's definitely an excessive, ridiculous purchase. But I found it new for much, much cheaper than it goes for online, and I couldn't pass it up. It sounds so, so good - completely different than the CD. And those records are absolutely gorgeous; this picture does them no justice. Now to avoid buying any new records for like, three months.
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Nov 27, 2011 23:26
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How much did Loveless set you back?
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Duckula posted:How much did Loveless set you back? Uh, $10. It was a used copy (though still in its shrink wrap) marked at $13 and I got a 25% employee discount off it. I believe it's a 2003 reissue. Edit: Wow. Did not know until now how hard this thing is to get. My store tends to sell things much cheaper than you can find online. MokBa fucked around with this message at 02:17 on Nov 28, 2011 |
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MokBa posted:Uh, $10. It was a used copy (though still in its shrink wrap) marked at $13 and I got a 25% employee discount off it. I believe it's a 2003 reissue. TELL US WHERE
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LooksLikeABabyRat posted:TELL US WHERE I work at a small Utah-based "entertainment" store called Graywhale that survives off used movies, CDs, video games, and vinyl. (Though we also sell new releases, the profit comes from used product.) A couple weeks ago, someone sold us some records that were barely touched. This included both Loveless and Surfer Rosa, which I picked up for myself for <$10 each. This is how I also picked up that huge Forgiveness Rock Record set for a whole lot less than the $115 price you find online. Sometimes you just get really, really lucky.
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If I win the lottery and go missing for days you will find me with a sack full of money at Princeton Record Exchange foaming at the mouth.
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MokBa posted:lotsa vinyl!! Sweet haul, man. Glad to see your Sonic Youth made it over in one piece. And drat but I wish my copy of Loveless was as cheap as yours
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fozzie dunlop posted:Sweet haul, man. Glad to see your Sonic Youth made it over in one piece. And drat but I wish my copy of Loveless was as cheap as yours Yeah I was very glad to open those up and see the glory of the colored discs. It has almost tempted me to get those editions of Confusion is Sex and Bad Moon Rising, even though I'm not as big a fan of those albums. Maybe after the new year.
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I recently picked up a used SL1200 MK2 turntable from Amazon, and I just got around to unpacking it over the holiday break. In the shipping box, it included a spring that I can't seem to make any sense of (lighter for scale):  The spring was just rolling around loose in the box, not installed anywhere that I could tell. I dug around and managed to find some PDFs of the manual for this model, but I don't see any mention of a spring in the parts list. Looking at the turntable, having no idea what I'm doing, it looked like it could've fit into the rotating piece that the platter drops into - but I don't think that's correct. Without the screw, the platter drops into place with zero effort, and spins smoothly. When I put the spring down between the base and the platter, the platter sits at an angle and doesn't come down flush. I decided to not try turning the turntable on with the spring in place. Anyone have any idea what this is for? The thing wasn't well packed, so I'm wondering if the person who packed it up didn't know what they were looking at either, and just threw it in because it was next to the turntable when they were shipping it or something. Or maybe someone's loving with me.
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Nov 29, 2011 03:15
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Wild guess: one of the feet
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Something to do with the feet would be my guess as well, but it's also very likely that it's just some random spring that has nothing to do with anything. I have two turntables and neither of them have any springs anywhere.
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Farts Domino posted:Wild guess: one of the feet Cpt. Spring Types posted:Something to do with the feet would be my guess as well, but it's also very likely that it's just some random spring that has nothing to do with anything. I have two turntables and neither of them have any springs anywhere. Oops. Forgot to mention that in the original post: all of the feet fit on just fine, and don't appear to have anywhere a big spring like that could be placed.
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The seller was obviously planning to have the turntable jump out of the box when you opened it, but somewhere along the line the spring got knocked out of place.
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That spring goes into the feet. They are spring loaded to increase stability, I guess. They go around a screw in he middle of the foot.
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alg posted:That spring goes into the feet. They are spring loaded to increase stability, I guess. They go around a screw in he middle of the foot. Oh, that makes sense. I initially thought it might have been an improvised 45 adapter at first, but as far as jury-rigged 45 adapters go a spring would be a pretty poor choice. Also it's time for some Insound holiday vinyl deals!! 1) Buy yourself a turntable and get a $20 coupon for a free LP. 2) Buy any 10 of our top-selling records of 2011 and get 20% off your order, plus a free tote bag. 3) All domestic orders over $175 get free shipping this holiday season. There are other deals on the site too like discounts on CDs, but I'm not going to post them because 1) this is the vinyl thread and 2) who the gently caress still buys CDs?
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All this talk about feet led me to Needle Doctor to check out some stabilization pads. I was shocked to see that some of them get up to $1500, but then I started browsing their shop a bit more, and came across this cartridge.  $15,000. I can't imagine even being able to hear well enough to justify spending that much on a single component. Craaazy.Then again, they also have a turntable that's nearly $200,000, so I guess if you're going for that kind of eccentricity, you may as well throw in a 15 grand cartridge. Chump change. Has anyone here ever listened to a record on equipment that outrageously expensive? If so, what's it like? 
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:Has anyone here ever listened to a record on equipment that outrageously expensive? If so, what's it like?
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:All this talk about feet led me to Needle Doctor to check out some stabilization pads. I was shocked to see that some of them get up to $1500, but then I started browsing their shop a bit more, and came across this cartridge. I've seen poo poo like that before because some guy I used to work with brought in these audiophile catalogs. Dear god, there must be a lot of people with more money than sense. I mean isn't there a point where you can't spend anymore money to make it sound better? I also use to see lots of gold plated electrical outlets and thousand dollar cables. Who the gently caress buys this poo poo?
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Exactly. I haven't spent much at all on my setup and it sounds loving amazing. The only time I've had an issue with the sound has been from the vinyl being staticy or dirty. There has to be a point when the record itself is not creating a perfect sound, even if the equipment is. I now have an image in my mind of someone in a clean-room with advanced air filtration, humidity control, sound dampening, etc., wearing an anti-static suit and gloves, handling records like they're loving uranium and enjoying pure audio bliss for like 10-15 minutes at a time before having to carefully flip the record over, making sure the earth's rotation and gravity haven't thrown off the syncing of the turntable, and so forth.  vvv That's downright reasonable compared to this. Cpt. Spring Types fucked around with this message at 00:22 on Nov 30, 2011 |
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:Exactly. I haven't spent much at all on my setup and it sounds loving amazing. The only time I've had an issue with the sound has been from the vinyl being staticy or dirty. There has to be a point when the record itself is not creating a perfect sound, even if the equipment is. Some people do wash records before every play and clean the stylus after every side. Although cleaning the stylus after every side is actually a good idea especially since most methods are quite quick.
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My friend's dad has a Linn Sondek LP12 and a home theater setup that makes me poo poo myself when I see it. One of those "all my cables are a thousand dollars each" guys. He's retired now and just watches blu ray movies.
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So I ordered the Vinyl for Lonely Island's Turtleneck and Chain while drunk last weekend. It arrived today and I have to say...awesome. Its the vinyl, dvd of music videos, ridiculous poster, and digital download for like 25$ shipped. My goodness I love these guys.
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my Black Friday haul  kind of a smattering of different genres, can't wait to listen to that Night Birds LP.
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alg posted:my Black Friday haul Night Birds LP is AWESOME. I managed to get one of the early pre-order copies that comes with this screenprinted slipcover thing.
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alg posted:my Black Friday haul You mean you didn't wait outside in line with everyone else to hopefully get that eighty dollar reissue of John Lennon's Imagine? On another note, I saw the Screaming Females open for the Dead Weather. They were pretty weird. The singer looks way too young. I regret not grabbing their album at the show.
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CPL593H posted:You mean you didn't wait outside in line with everyone else to hopefully get that eighty dollar reissue of John Lennon's Imagine? They are one of my faves but they always play really eccentric venues. I had a ticket to see them but it was at an all ages (no drinking) venue and it was in Chapel Hill on Halloween, meaning there would be nowhere to park. I really want to see them but I think all the venues in Raleigh aren't low key enough.
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CPL593H posted:You mean you didn't wait outside in line with everyone else to hopefully get that eighty dollar reissue of John Lennon's Imagine? They're worth getting into. I'd start with Castle Talk. Here's a song
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