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Turbinosamente posted:What also sucks is that Live album is before Copacabana so I don't even get that. So is Tryin' To Get The Feeling, the other one I randomly have. Wow, they look pretty awesome actually. Not familiar with any of them though. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJrs11fLq14
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Bloodplay it again posted:I would bet you have an ultrasonic humidifier and the white is the minerals from the water settling on everything, especially if everything is new and you can easily wipe it off. Turn it down or switch to an evaporative humidifier. Hey man. That was it!
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pwn posted:Wait, shouldn’t you be using distilled water with a humidifier? Or use demineralization cartridges and regular cleaning. Distilled water is about 80 cents per gallon, which winds up being quite a bit of money over time, especially if you go through a few gallons per day. Ultrasonic humidifiers are quiet but a pain in the rear end to clean. Evaporative humidifiers (essentially a fan sucking air through a wet wick) are louder but don't leave residue and are way easier to clean. Record sleeves and records themseleves are magnets for airborne minerals for whatever reasons.
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CPL593H posted:I hope nobody wanted any Daft Punk LPs because they just broke up. Woah poo poo really? Well I had everything I wanted from them on CD anyways, so eh on the vinyl front. I'm super picky about house music is what this means.
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CPL593H posted:I hope nobody wanted any Daft Punk LPs because they just broke up. Most of the main albums are still in print aren’t they? I swear I see Discovery every time I got into Barnes and Noble. It’s not like an MF DOOM situation where his albums are mostly limited club and web store pressings.
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I got the homework/discovery/1997 box used fairly cheap sometime back - the box is thrashed, but the individual albums are in good shape, which is fine, they're there to be listened to
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Ballz posted:Most of the main albums are still in print aren’t they? I swear I see Discovery every time I got into Barnes and Noble. It’s not like an MF DOOM situation where his albums are mostly limited club and web store pressings. I was trying to hunt down Human After All today and one of the stores I called said Daft Punk was out of print but two other stores had plenty of copies of Homework so I don't know who to believe.
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i'll simply wait for the inevitable 25th anniversary rerelease of homework, which would come out (checks notes) oh my god next year how am i this old now it'll be a quintuple LP on 45rpm 10" records and cost $175. the discogs reviews will mostly be complaints about awful the mastering is
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abraham linksys posted:i'll simply wait for the inevitable 25th anniversary rerelease of homework, which would come out (checks notes) oh my god next year how am i this old now And when Mondo sells out all fifteen copies they pressed within .54 seconds people will be selling them for 800 dollars while everyone falls all over themselves to pay that but also complain about how bad it sucks or the corner ding on the inner sleeve that can only be seen with an electron microscope. A month later they'll reissue a larger pressing and the cycle continues again. Not a single copy ever pressed will ever be listened to.
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Feb 23, 2021 04:10
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Kicking myself for not buying Discovery last year for $20.
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Feb 23, 2021 04:38
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I'm kicking myself for not lining up to get a copy of the Tron Legacy remix album on RSD last year. I think there were like 2 copies citywide.
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Cacator posted:I'm kicking myself for not lining up to get a copy of the Tron Legacy remix album on RSD last year. I think there were like 2 copies citywide. I pretty sure the band didn't have any input on that and weren't really pleased with it.
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In non-Daft Punk French vinyl news, I posted this the other day over in the Needles & Grooves forum but figured I'd show it off here: For the past eight months I've been subscribed to a French record club called Wax Buyers Club. Think Vinyl Me, Please but on a much smaller scale. Ed, who runs the club all by himself, has a varied taste in music spanning all sorts of genres and has been cranking out unique pressings every month for the past few years. It's helped me discover some amazing new artists like Ephemerals, Clouds in a Headlock, and The Brooks (which I've plugged here before) and also allowed me to score some great jazz reissues from a French label called Sam Records. Shipping is included in the membership and he also sells a small selection of new releases so I've been able to get some European imports without shipping costing an arm and a leg like with Deluxe's Stachelight and Wax Tailor's newest album. Anyways, it's a great product that hasn't gotten too big for its britches like VMP. The currency conversion comes to something like $37 a record, but honestly, given the quality of music presented and where it's coming from, it's really a great deal. If you're curious about anything in the picture, ask away, I'm just too lazy to do writeups for all 14 records shown.
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this one cost a pretty penny and took months to ship, but its such a cool unique creation and fun to listen to. underneath is hiroshi sato - awakening which i bought because of this thread - very soulful album
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Feb 23, 2021 07:20
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I managed to snag Discovery and Human After All from a local record shop just now, but they didn't have Random Access Memory in stock. It seems to be the same everywhere else. People went ravenous for Daft Punk today, hahaha. I hope I'll be able to find it somewhere soon. 
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I don’t know if it’s a growing trend or not but there’s a lot of pop stuff that was out on vinyl within the last 10-15 years that is out of print and had prices driven up. I was really confused when I saw people asking (and getting) $30-50 for Coldplay’s Viva La Vida album, and even though they sank hard, the album Some Nights by Fun was selling for about $75 before a reissue got announced. Random Access Memories could easily fall into that.
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thetan_guy42 posted:this one cost a pretty penny and took months to ship, but its such a cool unique creation and fun to listen to. underneath is hiroshi sato - awakening which i bought because of this thread - very soulful album nice! I'm up to 7 Hosono albums now but 5 of them are the LITA reissues - no complaint of course, they do a great job, but having the originals is awesome. amusingly the guy I bought Philharmony from on Discogs refunded me 5 bucks because, despite the VG+ rating, there was some clicking at the beginning of Side 1....it's like 3 clicks, before the music even starts, and the rest of it plays perfectly. total opposite of what I usually deal with on there. really hope LITA reissues more Hosono stuff soon - I'm kind of surprised they haven't jumped on reissuing Swing Slow, that thing would sell like crazy in today's environment
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JAMOOOL posted:really hope LITA reissues more Hosono stuff soon - I'm kind of surprised they haven't jumped on reissuing Swing Slow, that thing would sell like crazy in today's environment love that album, it would be an instant buy for me. i get very strong lynchian / twin peaks energy from it.
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For some reason it went from being in every dollar bin to not being able to find copies in the last five years, so if you were looking for one, Laurie Anderson's Big Science is getting a repress from Nonsuch. No more free signed prints, though. 
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This weekend's haul that I haven't been able to check out because I'm working a ton right now. Can't wait for a day off.  Came with wildflower seed packet.  Soul Slabs got repressed and Return to the 37th Chamber has a few new variant covers.  Some 45's I grabbed off of the last bandcamp friday I think? Funky library stuff. https://fantasy15.bandcamp.com/merch  Took a chance with Amazon Warehouse. Both records were a little messed up but perfectly playable and half price.
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caligulamprey posted:For some reason it went from being in every dollar bin to not being able to find copies in the last five years, so if you were looking for one, Laurie Anderson's Big Science is getting a repress from Nonsuch. Weird, it added the print to my cart when i checked out. I love this album and it was one of my first records, so I’m happy to have another copy.
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VladimirLeninpest posted:Weird, it added the print to my cart when i checked out. I love this album and it was one of my first records, so I’m happy to have another copy. 
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Is deep cleaning records actually a thing? I've been using the Big Fudge cleaning kit, which at least seems to get all the surface crap off. I have some records that continue to have a decent amount of background noise after cleaning and I'm not sure if they're still potentially dirty or if they're just worn out or something else. I've looked at buying a Spin Clean or something similar, but can't shake the suspicion that it wouldn't really make any difference. Would just buying a record brush, as opposed to a microfiber or similar one, do any better? I guess basically I'm asking the age-old question: What's the best way to clean records? Also, Discogs is ridiculous. My most valuable record is suddenly the brand new copy of Random Access Memories I got last Christmas. Cheapest copy available in the US on Discogs is now $150.
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z0331 posted:Is deep cleaning records actually a thing? I've been using the Big Fudge cleaning kit, which at least seems to get all the surface crap off. I have some records that continue to have a decent amount of background noise after cleaning and I'm not sure if they're still potentially dirty or if they're just worn out or something else. I've looked at buying a Spin Clean or something similar, but can't shake the suspicion that it wouldn't really make any difference. Would just buying a record brush, as opposed to a microfiber or similar one, do any better? Good lord. I was gonna defend some discogs pricing but I just looked up my collection and lol. How is Dolly Parton's Jolene a hundred dollar record? But I will say that Amazon and the like have really devalued shipping and handling costs. Packaging costs money. People's time is worth money. If you are a small time seller, buying mailers, taking time to properly package records, driving to the post office, these are all real costs. Not to mention you have to figure in the cut discogs takes. Sure you might be selling a dollar bin record, but it really isn't worth the time to list it for $2 so in this way discogs has pretty wonky prices. My solution is to simply not buy outrageously priced stuff. That being said I want to sell my copy of Discovery cause I bought it for $15 on sale somewhere and I don't even really like Daft Punk haha. Oh yeah. Spin clean works really well and might get in the grooves a little better but it probably isn't the miracle cure you are looking for. Maybe if used in conjunction with a vac system? Edit: My Beatles Mono box set that I think I paid under $200 for is now over a grand. Danzig I probably bought for under $10 years ago is creeping up to $150 Madvillainy is still being pressed as far as I know and it is creeping up on the $100 mark ...and flippers are already trying to get $100 for that Brighter Days comp that I posted above. A record that is readily available in a different colorway. sporklift fucked around with this message at 23:25 on Feb 23, 2021 |
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sporklift posted:Good lord. I was gonna defend some discogs pricing but I just looked up my collection and lol. How is Dolly Parton's Jolene a hundred dollar record?
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thetan_guy42 posted:Lol thanks, so this is what it feels like to get in on the ground floor of something. I paid $2 for my copy Yeah. Looks like I paid $3 for mine.
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The Outfield Play Deep is a $25 record now because of a meme or something.
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Sacred Bones is selling a cool slipmat themed around the new John Carpenter album that animates when you spin it: https://www.sacredbonesrecords.com/collections/merch/products/john-carpenter-alive-after-death-zoetrope-slipmat Schremp Howard posted:I don’t know if it’s a growing trend or not but there’s a lot of pop stuff that was out on vinyl within the last 10-15 years that is out of print and had prices driven up. I was really confused when I saw people asking (and getting) $30-50 for Coldplay’s Viva La Vida album, and even though they sank hard, the album Some Nights by Fun was selling for about $75 before a reissue got announced. Random Access Memories could easily fall into that. They probably weren't pressed in the numbers were seeing now for big label stuff because the sales weren't there yet. BUT NOW EVERYONE HAS TO HAVE IT AAAARRGGGHHH. Imagine the kind of person who would pay 75 bucks for a Fun album. If I'd have know this bullshit was going to happen I would have just spent a couple years buying one of every lovely chart topping album collecting dust at Newbury Comics back then.
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Imma go out on a limb and say Discog prices are hosed in general. I sorted my collection based on the minimum price and this is now my most expensive record: Which is still available at the normal $36 price at uDiscover. I bet that Discogs is a bit of a captive market somehow; that newer users might not realize you can buy records elsewhere or direct from labels.
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Turbinosamente posted:Imma go out on a limb and say Discog prices are hosed in general. I sorted my collection based on the minimum price and this is now my most expensive record: Nice. Anyway, discogs wasn't like this until recently so I'm thinking it's a symptom of what's happening with records in general is that the new people who have more money than sense found the site. The prices lately are absurd so I once again recommend making a wishlist with email alerts if there's something you must have. Always, always, always check the label something originates from because I can't count how many times I've seen something on discogs for an insane price and then went to the label's site and found it at retail. And if something has already been pressed in multiple colors and you've missed out just wait a while because they will almost certainly press it again.
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Boinks posted:The Outfield Play Deep is a $25 record now because of a meme or something. my local shop had a copy for $13 and I was like "what are you thinking, this is super common and nobody wants it", boy was I wrong its actually a pretty good album
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Until Discogs banned the selling of bootlegs, an off-brand 8-track of The Doors was the most expensive thing in my collection. At least the artwork was funky for this company.
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RC and Moon Pie posted:Until Discogs banned the selling of bootlegs, an off-brand 8-track of The Doors was the most expensive thing in my collection. Huh I was gonna bitch about the inconsistency of bans on bootlegs, but it looks like it they caught up to all my unofficial things except for this. And I am mostly certain my Parish Hall CD is a boot too, but it's gotten politely termed a reissue somehow.
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Discogs banning bootlegs was terrible for all kinds of reasons, but the worst that probably that there's a lot of music that only exists anymore on unlicensed compilation albums. This is especially true of old 60s garage rock.
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ghosts i-iv is now apparently my most expensive album, and guess which one my rabbit took a chunk out of the jacket
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I have almost every single Third Man Vault releases and all of the White Stripes stuff from the Vault so my most valuable record is probably one of those.
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My copy of Rearviewmirror by Pearl Jam is like $500 bucks. It was a birthday or Christmas present when it came out.
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I've said this a bunch of times, but who is paying these loving prices? It's one thing when an album that retailed for 15 bucks sells for 50. But how does all this poo poo have triple digit asking prices now? People are buying this poo poo at these prices. Why? It's like those cartridges that cost thousands of dollars. At that point there's no worthwhile benefit and it's not even about the music, it's just a fetish item. Are there really that many boomers with money, wackos like that guy on youtube, and Saudi Princes hoarding this poo poo to drive up the prices to this extreme?
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