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I'm tempted to write this in all caps but: That record player is raping the living poo poo out of your records. Buy something decent as soon as possible and don't play anything until then. e: Nice collection though, props. Ron Burgundy fucked around with this message at 07:28 on Jul 25, 2012 |
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Thankfully I don't play records too often, mainly for the reason that I don't quite trust that player. Looks like I was right. I've only played a handful of albums on that thing more than once, and haven't really used it in months. I'll go look around at yard sales/thrift shops and see if I can find a decent turntable in the near future.
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Jul 25, 2012 07:50
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I think this takes the cake for best-packaged record I've got so far: There is a dude on eBay selling them for like $24 (excluding postage) which sounded like a steal to me.
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Jul 25, 2012 08:15
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Detective Thompson posted:Thankfully I don't play records too often, mainly for the reason that I don't quite trust that player. Looks like I was right. I've only played a handful of albums on that thing more than once, and haven't really used it in months. I'll go look around at yard sales/thrift shops and see if I can find a decent turntable in the near future. Thank you for taking my advice as constructive criticism which it was intended to be and not getting upset as some people have in the past when I pointed out they own a bulk record eraser. If you find anything you like be sure to post them in this thread and the vintage 2 channel thread so we can help you choose your setup!
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Jul 25, 2012 12:39
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The funny thing is the poo poo sound of those plug-in portables tends to make 45s sound killer. To the point where I hear them on a hi-fi I get kind of disappointed. Without that blown-out sound they lose some of the energy.
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Jul 25, 2012 17:27
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Went to see mewithoutYou in Seattle on Monday and picked up this tour 7". It's got an unreleased song and February, 1878 on it. Was dented a little cause I was an idiot and bought merch before the show :/
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Jul 25, 2012 21:12
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Detective Thompson posted:Beatles records This site will tell you which version of Introducing... The Beatles you have. I picked up a Mono Cover Version II with "Please, Please Me" for $2 at a yard sale about 20 years ago.
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Jul 26, 2012 00:03
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Mister Kingdom posted:This site will tell you which version of Introducing... The Beatles you have. I think I have the same cover as you, with the MR2D (ii) disc, if I figured it out correctly. The disc is in great shape, however the jacket is a bit beat up, and someone faked the Beatles' signatures on the back in pen. Either someone trying to show off to their friends or someone trying to rip someone off, though the faked sigs aren't great. So that brings down the value of the jacket quite a bit, I'm sure. Ron Burgundy posted:Thank you for taking my advice as constructive criticism which it was intended to be and not getting upset as some people have in the past when I pointed out they own a bulk record eraser. No reason to get mad, you pointed something I should know, and I'm glad I do now. I'm going to look at some thrift stores in the area, see if they have any decent, real players hanging around. They usually seem to be inexpensive at places like that. We have speakers here, just need to make sure I get a player with the correct inputs for them, since they aren't the plug-in type, but the type with the exposed wires that clip in to the player and speakers (not sure what to call those types). Can anyone tell me a little more about this copy of The Beach Boys' Smile I found? The record label is Sea of Tunes, which I found out was run by the Wilson's father until he sold it in the late 60s. The copyright on the vinyl's label says Surfin' Records 1971, but there are little bits written on the back of the jacket about each song, and it mentions dates as late as 1993. There is no Capital Records logo on the cover, and above the title it says 'New Improved Full Dimensional Stereo'. It's just a plain black vinyl rather than one of the colored ones they apparently came out with. Anyone have any insight into when this came out, where it was made, etc?
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Jul 26, 2012 02:00
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Detective Thompson posted:
Smile was never released as an album until Brian Wilson's CD release a few years ago (and also the recent one with the Beach Boys). This is a bootleg. I can't tell exactly which bootleg version this is, as there are a handful and I don't own any of them, but they range in quality. Some essentially ripped the tracks off the Good Vibrations box set, and some bootlegs (also) contain stuff that did slip out of the studios. Sea of Tunes is the most popular "label" for the bootlegs and once upon a time, the CD releases went for a good amount of money, but those were even the pre-original Napster days. Back to Smile itself, the promotional art of the cover was released in the 1960s as well as a few articles hyping it. Smile stuff in various forms made it onto some albums over the next few years - Smiley Smile, 20/20, Sunflower, Surf's Up - but other than that, none of the original stuff never saw an official release until Capitol's Good Vibrations box set in the 1990s. Here's some stuff on Sea of Tunes, the publishing company started by Murry Wilson.
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Jul 26, 2012 03:23
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I figured it was a bootleg of some kind, but I wasn't sure if the Sea of Tunes that put this out was associated with the original, or something else. Seems like it was started up in the late-90s to make bootlegs. I knew Smile was never released as a whole album up until recently, which is also why I was intrigued by this one I found. It looked a little too used to be related to the new release, and a little too unofficial I guess. I didn't pay much at all for it, so I'm not sweating that part of it. Just interested in its origins, especially since the little notes on the back with each song seem like they came from someone more involved than just some dude(s) going through a bunch of tapes.
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Detective Thompson posted:I figured it was a bootleg of some kind, but I wasn't sure if the Sea of Tunes that put this out was associated with the original, or something else. Seems like it was started up in the late-90s to make bootlegs. I knew Smile was never released as a whole album up until recently, which is also why I was intrigued by this one I found. It looked a little too used to be related to the new release, and a little too unofficial I guess. I didn't pay much at all for it, so I'm not sweating that part of it. Just interested in its origins, especially since the little notes on the back with each song seem like they came from someone more involved than just some dude(s) going through a bunch of tapes. I'm not really into bootlegs at all, but it's pretty common to release them on one-off "labels." We had a Pearl Jam one come through at work put out by "Suck My Dick." Some artists police eBay for them (hi Vinent Gallo & bootleg Brown Bunny LP soundtrack) and some have better things to do. I'm hoping one I've come across that goes for decent money slips through undetected.
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Jul 26, 2012 16:04
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Barsuk has the new Menomena record up for pre-order. Release for the new album, Moms is set for 9/18/12. Link here: http://www.barsuk.com/shop/bark131 Mp3 of the single: http://soundcloud.com/barsuk-records/heavy-is-as-heavy-does Menomena has to be one of my favorite bands. I've really enjoyed every album they've put out and while it sucks that Brent left the band as I liked a lot of his songs, but I'm curious to see what the do next. That being said, I also bought the new Ramona Falls album.
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Jul 26, 2012 16:21
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I just saw this on Kickstarter, may be of interest to some of you more serious record-collecting goons. Some of the collections in the preview videos are so immense I can't even comprehend how they got to that size.
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Jul 27, 2012 06:25
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You can get At the Drive-In's 'In/Casino/Out' reissue now on Hot Topic http://www.hottopic.com/hottopic/Music/Vinyl//At+The+Drive-In+-+InCasinoOut+Vinyl+LP-330695.jsp
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Jul 28, 2012 22:13
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A guy at work gave me his SL-1200 mk2 a few weeks ago, which he got from someone else. It was really dirty, and I didn't have high hopes for it even working. I got it all cleaned up and plugged in today and holy hell, what a great turntable! It puts my Music Hall to shame. It still has some issues I'll need to work out, but it's awesome. Thanks to this, I finally got around to listening to the Spaces and Conveyor LPs, which sound goddamn amazing. A good day overall in Vinyl Land.
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Cpt. Spring Types posted:A guy at work gave me his SL-1200 mk2 a few weeks ago, which he got from someone else. It was really dirty, and I didn't have high hopes for it even working. I got it all cleaned up and plugged in today and holy hell, what a great turntable! It puts my Music Hall to shame. It still has some issues I'll need to work out, but it's awesome. Replace the stylus immediately.
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Jul 29, 2012 01:34
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It didn't have a cartridge on it, so I put on my Audio Technica that was on the Music Hall. It's in great shape.
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Jul 29, 2012 01:58
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I just got my first blue record today and it is one pretty piece of plastic: Album is Young Mountain by This Will Destroy You.
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Jul 30, 2012 11:31
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I've been pre-ordering a bunch of records lately. This just came up today. http://lovethisgiant.com/ David Byrne and St. Vincent's collaboration out in September. There are 2 tracks up and it looks like the record is going to be very horn heavy.
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Jul 30, 2012 15:20
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Received my new not-warped replacement Conveyor disc today. Super awesome.
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Jul 30, 2012 22:50
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Insound has a pre-order up for the new Grizzly Bear album Shields. It is on gold vinyl, which is exclusive to them for some reason. http://www.insound.com/Shields-2xLP-Grizzly-Bear/P/INS109822/ I also got some discount codes in my email just now. It would have been nice to get these before I ordered it: Insound posted:Use one of the following codes when purchasing this release from Insound until 8/20/12
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Jul 31, 2012 00:36
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I have a question about slipmats. One of my recent purchases came with a felt slipmat, and I'm basically just wondering if I'm doing my records any favours by putting them on the felt instead of the rubber that was already on the turntable.
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david puddy posted:I have a question about slipmats. One of my recent purchases came with a felt slipmat, and I'm basically just wondering if I'm doing my records any favours by putting them on the felt instead of the rubber that was already on the turntable. As far as I know, slipmats are pretty much for cueing and beatmatching while DJing. I've never had one on any of my turntables over the last 20 years.
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david puddy posted:I have a question about slipmats. One of my recent purchases came with a felt slipmat, and I'm basically just wondering if I'm doing my records any favours by putting them on the felt instead of the rubber that was already on the turntable. I'd go with rubber. Felt creates a lot of static and that makes dust and poo poo stick to the records.
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chime_on posted:As far as I know, slipmats are pretty much for cueing and beatmatching while DJing. I've never had one on any of my turntables over the last 20 years. Do you just place records straight on the metal platter?
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alg posted:Do you just place records straight on the metal platter? I was referring to the felt slipmats that puddy mentioned which sit on top of the rubber mat.
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This turned up from Boomkat today. It's a white label pressing of the first release from Thom Yorke/Nigel Godrich/Flea's superband Atoms for Peace.  I usually miss out on these so I was pretty stoked to get an order in on time.
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Jul 31, 2012 19:07
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^^^ Awesome! Goddamnit. I've been wondering why my copy of Yellow & Green never showed up (it was the deluxe book version), so I sent an email to Relapse last night. Turns out they sent me an email the day I made my order which told me I had to ship to my billing address as a first time customer, and I had put in a different address. It was in my junk folder, so I never saw it until today, and they cancelled the order. I was really looking forward to that package... Oh well.
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If you want mine, pm me. I really didn't like it, and it has a minor manufacturing defect (the green disk has a really fat edge and no starting groove)
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Hey, can anybody recommend a decently priced amp? I just got a record player and it is, predictably, pretty quiet with just the preamp 
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This is coming out soon. Just leaked on the Japanese iTunes you can buy it here http://www.pwelverumandsun.com/store
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WASDF posted:This is coming out soon. Just leaked on the Japanese iTunes Oh man, Clear Moon is one of my favourite albums of the year, really looking forward to this. Also, the Blur vinyl box set of 7 albums is on Amazon.ca for for 128 Canadian fun bucks. http://www.amazon.ca/Blur-21-Collectors-Boxed-Set/dp/B007SAKY42/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1343786382&sr=8-1
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 This week's haul. Finally found a copy of Down The Way by Angus & Julia Stone, set me back $100 though  Also ordered MONO's new album on white vinyl from Temporary Residence. strap on revenge fucked around with this message at 12:55 on Aug 1, 2012 |
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Since I first heard about it in this thread last year, I guess Joyful Noise is going to do another year of Flexidiscs in 2013 (with another wooden box). And of course , like someone who follows this thread would, I already put down the money for it (despite still not having Aug-Dec 2012, and the lineup not being announced until December)
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Aug 1, 2012 17:32
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Is Ageatis Byrjun the repress or original?
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Billy Gnosis posted:Since I first heard about it in this thread last year, I guess Joyful Noise is going to do another year of Flexidiscs in 2013 (with another wooden box). And of course , like someone who follows this thread would, I already put down the money for it (despite still not having Aug-Dec 2012, and the lineup not being announced until December) This year's subscription was just pure class so I didn't hesitate, and renewed it instantly. Great stuff.
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Floodixor posted:Is Ageatis Byrjun the repress or original? Repress, I am not made of money. Don't the originals go for $300+?
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Dissapointed Owl posted:This year's subscription was just pure class so I didn't hesitate, and renewed it instantly. Great stuff. The sad thing is that i haven't listened to that many of them since I need to replace the needle on my turntable, and Im especially worried about it destroying those vs actual vinyl. (I really don't know how fragile they are)
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If y'all are into subscriptions you might want to check out the Too Pure Singles Club. I subscribed this year and they've been good releases, only one or two that I haven't been crazy about. 
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Billy Gnosis posted:(I really don't know how fragile they are) They used to be put out in magazines and such (maybe they still are?). They're flexible and cheap, and it's not as if they sound brilliant anyway. I mean, replace your stylus by all means, but I don't think you need to worry about loving them up too badly. Certainly not more than you'd worry about your proper records, at least.  I've dug the flexi series so far, but I don't know if I want to jump on the 2013 subscription just yet. It's itching the back of my mind, for sure.
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