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phosdex posted:I don't have anything old and weird like you guys post. This is what I've bought most recently though: You can't go wrong with Air. Moon Safari & Talkie Walkie are two of my favorite records.
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screaden posted:Look at all these folks missing out on Earthling and Outside. Those are great albums. Hours and Black Tie White Noise are the real stinkers compared to Tonight and Never Let Me Down IMO, a major standout: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDkRpqO-b0
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Toe Rag posted:I still don’t understand why this record is so expensive. May be entirely a rarity thing? I picked this up for something like $20 when it first came out at a record store and I’ve never seen it go for a reasonable price on Discogs. I assume due to a lack of a repress. It’s a good album, but it’s not exactly ground breaking or mind blowing.
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Feb 4, 2021 02:44
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Interesting post here about the The 100 Most Expensive Records Ever Sold on Discogs.
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For more Bandcamp Friday oddities, if anyone is into what I can best describe as "Shenmue themed dungeon synth", there's a vinyl release out today.
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Feb 5, 2021 19:11
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CPL593H posted:Does anybody think that the bubble will burst eventually and records will go back to being sold for realistic prices or is this just what it is now? https://pitchfork.com/news/vinyl-outsells-cds-for-the-first-time-in-decades/ It may depend on whether the bubble is built on the nostalgia wave or people collecting to have tangible items. On one hand I would love for prices to go back down, on the other hand the easy access to represses of previously unattainable items is amazing.
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Feb 9, 2021 23:04
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Another spin clean user chiming in, I really like it, definitely recommended for super dirty records. Supposedly according to the wash fluid bottle, you can do up to 50 records before changing out the water. I usually do about 20 at once and the water at the bottom is pretty gross by then.
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Feb 12, 2021 17:38
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petit choux posted:How do you goons dry records if you use a spin clean? Microfiber towels.
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Feb 14, 2021 01:48
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sporklift posted:So this box of 45's was from my late father's things. I imagine it was a college girlfriend's or something. I had to toss about half the records because they were unplayable. The ones that were left over were made into a mix for my dad's birthday. Not my usual stuff but it was fun to put together. This is awesome, I'm into it right from the first needle drop.
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Feb 16, 2021 23:55
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harlot church new metal band name i call dibs
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stealie72 posted:Speaking of Discogs. . . In my experience, a lot of the stuff on Discogs is priced at "because that's what it can be priced at" prices, not respective of brick and mortar pricing. Some of the prices on Discogs also vary wildly from pressing to pressing. Coveted, great sounding pressings can be high priced, while ones that "don't sound as good" (on $30k listening setups) can be very cheap. When shopping in a store, a lot of folks are just grabbing the record because they want it and see it on a shelf. They aren't looking up which specific pressings are superior to others and doing research before buying. You see this a lot in jazz records on Discogs where garbage represses are cheap, vs. great ones are $100+. Pre-covid, the wild world of record shows was yet another pricing ballgame where you could not only find rare stuff for cheap or wildly overpriced, but could also haggle over prices while getting weird judgemental looks for what you're buying.
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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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Feb 23, 2021 17:42
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JAMOOOL posted:vapor vinyl is cool but it's the sort of thing you have to pounce on immediately or it skyrockets to 4x the price which is super loving obnoxious yeah, i’ve only been lucky a few times with that:  kind of a bummer as the pressing not as good as it could be and it’s my favorite telepath / hke collab.
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JAMOOOL posted:a lot of the lazy stuff is, I think at this point "vaporwave" casts a pretty wide net, something like George Clanton is miles away from say Macintosh Plus or Chuck Person. there's a lotta great stuff there though Slide is such a next-level album with respect to his whole trajectory. I love to see the evolution of production from the early days of using Sega samples on ESPRIT records. I'm not a fan of 311, but the recent stuff he did with Nick Hexum is pretty wild considering the whole genre started as a culmination of 90s nostalgia / memes.
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BigFactory posted:If it was delivered by UPS it’s VG+ had a record arrive recently that the record label had written “DO NOT SMASH” in giant letters on the box. surprised it made it in one piece honestly.
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Mar 19, 2021 15:57
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Barry posted:Nice. My 2003 Plain Recordings copy of Loveless is kinda scratched and doesn't really sound that great but I'm not sure if it's bad enough to want to replace it with a new ~$30+ copy. I have the same pressing, mine came a bit warped. It just added to the aesthetic.
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stealie72 posted:Owning a turntable and wanting no part of $50 releases that sell out in an hour has gotten me back into classical music, which I pretty much abandoned in my 20s after a childhood/teens full of it (I played violin throughout school). Same, but getting into opera for the first time. Picked up a really clean 60’s pressing of Der Rosenkavalier on discogs for like $6 plus shipping. People are sleeping on some really good stuff in that genre. Downside is the shelf space eaten up by the boxes they are in.
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graham cracker posted:So, my AT LP120X order got cancelled from the place offering it for 250. I really like the u-turn orbit in that range. Around $250 if you want the built in preamp in a variety of colors. That said, you won’t get USB, but they’re great starter turntables with excellent customer support.
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Ballz posted:Whelp I'm at the point where I think it's time to replace the needle that came with the AT-LP120 that I bought two years ago. My old favorite was the Shure M97x but I know that got discontinued a while ago. Any recommendations on something similar in price and quality? I'm a fan of the Ortofon 2M Blue. It has a really nice well rounded sound that's not too bassy and not too hollow. You can get them pre-mounted on a headshell or mount it yourself, depending on preference.
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Read After Burning posted:I just grabbed these. All 4 of the piper albums they have on there are excellent!
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Mt. Modular posted:Re: vinyl subscription services, I’d like to suggest Vinyl.Post (https://www.vinylpost.co/). Every month you get a postcard-sized flexi featuring a song from some obscure band. And it’s cheap! Seconded, it’s great. If I’m going to join a subscription service like this it might as well be a cute/fun/clever medium. They even come in little poly sleeves! They’ve already had Kero Kero Bonito, but I’m holding out hope for a flexi of the Bugsnax theme some month. beeker fucked around with this message at 18:39 on Apr 20, 2021 |
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Too bad Discogs doesn't allow bootlegs anymore! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6H13jFvdsVY
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Duckula posted:that piper album rules The others that STS is selling are great too, but that one in particular just oozes style and atmosphere.
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Rolo posted:Total loving newbie here. I got pointed here from PYF but I got pretty drunk the other night and ended up ordering some vinyl even though I have zero equipment. I'm a sucker for physical media and decided I want to extend my love of bookstores to music stores. I'm also feeling nostalgic for buying music and getting something I can look at. The 120 is very popular, well made, sounds great. You can’t go wrong there. I hope you don’t like having money, welcome to the hobby!
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Ballz posted:a random Weather Report album Jaco absolutely shines on Birdland, playing that bass like it’s an electric guitar.
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Apr 24, 2021 23:47
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:one of my favorite artists has a cassette club--making me wanna get one now, ugh I collect both, vinyl sounds way better in almost every case. I like cassettes for labels that only do small runs of collectible releases on Bandcamp such as a Shenmue themed dungeon synth album, etc.
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Nostalgia4Dogges posted:Will you drat Seriously though, that sucks. I hope this doesn't lead to less vinyl releases on Bandcamp, etc.
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Not sure if anyone is into soundtracks for “so bad it’s good” type 80s martial arts movies, but Miami Connection is being released on vinyl for the first time: https://enjoytheriderecords.com/collections/enjoy-the-ride-records/products/miami-connection-soundtrack-etr119
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May 22, 2021 01:48
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Read After Burning posted:I found this the other day. I have no idea how to describe this genre of music, but I fell in love and bought it after a few minutes of listening. Track 5 is my favorite. Good stuff, sort of a chill, psychedelic funk, reminds me a lot of Khruangbin https://khruangbin.bandcamp.com/album/con-todo-el-mundo-n-s-america-edition
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dorium posted:https://twitter.com/lightintheattic/status/1398444565040746497?s=20 Ah yes, the “NM” copy of Hot Rats I purchased where the sleeve is falling apart at the seams and the record is scratched to all hell. Adds to the Zappa aesthetic though!
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May 29, 2021 15:27
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“seventh largest city in the united states” is also a super weird flex that radiates boomer energy
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GnarlyCharlie4u posted:welp it finally happened. My 2 year old trashed the needle on one of my M44-G. Here's one option: https://www.turntablelab.com/products/shure-n44g-stylus-for-m44g They appear to have a variety of options for your M44-G
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pwn posted:You can go that way for style but for less money and more function the Audio Technica AT LP120 (and 120X) is the way to go It probably doesn't even make a difference at the entry level, but the U-Turn offerings are less complex in terms of circuitry. Depending on your choice, it's basically a few wires and a simple motor, in theory making it more repairable like a lot of vintage turntables. You really can't go wrong with either, IMO.
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I'd 100% buy a pure moods vinyl release and then sail away, sail away, sail away... IIRC Enigma got sued several times over unlicensed samples and settled. They honestly may have never even got the exposure they did if it weren't for these dumb commercials that have been forever drilled into my brain from childhood.
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caligulamprey posted:My favorite thing about Enya is that she classifies her music in a genre called Enya. she also lives in a castle that she outbid michael flatley for! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manderley_Castle
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now do we file that under soundtracks or Prince? BAT DANCE
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really digging the 90s by way of sedona arizona aesthetic they all radiate
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no record shelf is complete without a "weird" section!
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Speaking of LITA, not sure if anyone is into Italian horror soundtracks (or just weird synth prog), but this Goblin box set has some extremely good stuff in it. https://lightintheattic.net/releases/8105-the-horror-original-soundtracks-lita-20th-anniversary-deluxe-edition-box-set
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dorium posted:Discogs might have an even more worthless front page than this site does. have they fixed the thing where "trending releases" was getting filled with weird nazi poo poo? one of the reasons i just go direct to my dashboard.
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