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I’m probably not cool enough to post in this thread but my gf got me a modern, pretty basic record player for Christmas and I’ve had a good time just collecting my favorite albums and spending evenings listening to them. I also have a really fantastic local record store two blocks from my apartment and I don’t know I just wanted to shout out vinyl for bringing me some joy and pleasure in this really hard year! 
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Feb 20, 2021 16:54
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Well right now I’m just mainly filling out the discographies of artists I like (mainly done w/Springsteen, currently working on Prince), but also having fun discovering some new (to me) music and buying that up too. One of my favorite albums I own is a re-release of Judee Sill’s first album. She’s someone I hadn’t heard of two months ago and when I first heard her it spoke to me a bunch.
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Feb 20, 2021 23:20
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Cemetry Gator posted:Yeah, Lady-O is such a great song, though I know it because of the Turtles - who loving rock. Ooo I’ll have to listen to that version! I love the Turtles! Thanks for the tip
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Feb 21, 2021 02:04
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Is anyone a part of a vinyl subscription service you like or recommend. All my targeted ads are now are vinyl companies wanting me to sign up to receive exclusive records every month and while some are tempting I thought I’d access the hive mind of this thread before aligning myself with any one company in particular
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Apr 20, 2021 16:58
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Thanks for the opinions, folx! Sounds like I’ll stay subscription free for the time being and just continue to use my local record store/goodwill/Discogs - they’ve been good to me so far!
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Apr 20, 2021 18:47
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CPL593H posted:Polyvinyl is doing a sale right now on stuff. They're also offering deeper discounts on records with slightly damaged covers if you can live with that and test pressings if you want to spend entirely too much money on a record. Thanks for posting this!! Picked up some of my favorite Jeff Rosenstock albums on vinyl, cheap! Woohoo!!! And a “mystery lp” which I’m sure will be of great quality!
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Jun 5, 2021 07:17
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I have that vinyl and I gotta admit the first time I listened to it I didn’t think about it at all but then I read your post and listened to it again and now I’m mad lol Surf Wax America is OBVIOUSLY the beginning of side B!!!!
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Jun 6, 2021 05:10
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caligulamprey posted:I just bought 21 Garth Brooks records because I don't know poo poo about Garth Brooks. Great pop country, sincerely. I’m envious!
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Jun 21, 2021 22:59
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sporklift posted:The Garth Brooks box set goes on sale for sub $20 on Amazon. I bought the three box box set last time lol. (Yeah there are three variants and it cost 40 ish bux) I gave one to a goon as a prize for listening to my radio show (they gave it to thier momma), kept one and one will be a hilarious white elephant gift if I ever go to a social gathering again. Uhhh yeah you’re right it’s loving $18 right now for like four albums that I actually kinda dig!!! Thank you for pointing this out that was an instant buy for me hahaha Edit: lol posted this before I read the following pages where this entire thread goes all in on Garth. Can’t wait for all our reports when they start arriving Conrad_Birdie fucked around with this message at 05:45 on Jun 25, 2021 |
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Jun 25, 2021 05:34
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Guys my Garth Brooks Boxsets arrived and I somehow didn’t realize I was buying THREE of them at once hahahaha what the gently caress am I supposed to do with these? They’re HUGE.
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Jul 1, 2021 23:57
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Idk if it actually matters but is there a consensus on which set sounds best?
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Jul 2, 2021 01:10
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Oh god I opened one up and it’s just too much. There’s a three disc LIVE ALBUM in here?!? And CDs!!! And I have three of all of these things now!!!
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Jul 2, 2021 01:49
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caligulamprey posted:Don't forget the live album in each set has a different triple gatefold design! You gotta open every set up to compare and contrast. …..no. Ok relistened to No Fences and that IS a pretty solid album if you like 90s pop country. Not bad at all. I remembered the lyrics to the chorus of “Unanswered Prayers” even though I hadn’t heard that song in probably 20+ years.
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Jul 2, 2021 02:35
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kumba posted:My Garth stuff arrived a week early. One of us one of us Picked up Thin Lizzy “Bad Reputation” and a Mission of Burma RE at a local shop I had never been to today (after getting a haircut for the first time in fifteen months)!!!
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Jul 2, 2021 21:03
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A genuinely cool thing about Garth Brooks is he’s weird as poo poo
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Jul 3, 2021 19:13
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Visited the fam in NC for the first time in almost 2 years (and with the new variants picking up I probably won’t get to visit again for some time, get loving vaccinated if you haven’t!!!) But this was my first time visiting since getting into vinyl and so I got to go to local record stores and thrifts and I found some cool odd stuff I’ve never found in NYC. The Dream Academy debut album, Yachts’s third album “Without Radar,” basically just a bunch of little know/forgotten 80s alt rock. I discovered this band, The Swimming Pool Qs that just had cool album covers so I picked up both their albums, and I gotta say, they might be one of my new favorite bands!!! Their albums go for dollars on discogs and I can’t recommend them enough. Just a fantastic, essentially totally unknown band. Also Found Prince’s “Around the World in a Day” for a decent price, and the single of “Do They Know It’s Christmas Time?” Came back home with like 10 new records. Feels great!
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Jul 31, 2021 23:58
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pwn posted:Last week, I finally watched the S11 SNL episode where they were a musical guest (alongside The Cure, host Teri Garr, 1985.12.21.) Yup anyone who thinks they don’t know that song DEFINITELY knows that song. That was my reaction when it kicked in, and also my gf and friend’s reaction when I played it for them later hahaha. Edit: I also have a VHS tape (yes I’m one of those guys that still collects VHS) that’s a best of the SNL season you’re talking about! It’s got some Pee Wee sketches. I think one of the other hosts is Ronald Reagan’s SON?!!
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Aug 1, 2021 15:00
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pwn posted:Re-creating the famous Risky Business dance scene, no less. An odd year, it was Thanks for sharing; this rules
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Aug 2, 2021 04:54
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dorium posted:
Gorgeous!!! And responding to another poster - if the soundtrack is mostly by an already established artist, I think you file it under them. So Batman would be included in your “Prince” section.
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Aug 4, 2021 16:17
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Yeah that sounds like Prince
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Aug 4, 2021 22:00
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Thom P. Tiers posted:"The top-selling vinyl albums at the midyear point are Taylor Swift’s “Evermore,” Harry Styles’ “Fine Line,” Kendrick Lamar’s “Good Kid M.A.A.D. City” and Billie Eilish’s “When We Fall Asleep, Where Do We Go?”" Don’t be a grump! Those are pretty good albums! I haven’t gotten it yet but definitely intend to pick up that Harry Styles album on vinyl eventually, one of the best albums of 2019!
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Aug 7, 2021 01:51
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You walked into some awesome old guy’s house and he made a couple bucks off you. Sounds like a great day for all involved
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Aug 16, 2021 06:34
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That great post makes me want to go spend $72 at Jigsaw records now hahaha
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Aug 16, 2021 18:48
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The first side of that Hiroshima “Another Place” album is so nice. It was a blind buy for me some months back just cuz I liked the album cover and I really dug the instrumentals. The more congenital pop songs on side B, eh, I can take or leave. But it was a good $3 pickup.
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Aug 19, 2021 22:56
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What are some good Halloween/spooky records that I should be looking to pick up this season? I’m down for everything - spooky music, novelty kids records, soundtracks, as long as it’s creepy and cooky!
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Aug 26, 2021 21:43
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BigFactory posted:The original and still the best Hahaha this is one of the Halloween albums I already have! Good to know I have the essentials locked in.
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Aug 27, 2021 16:36
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I know this is a long shot but if anyone happens to have the Over the Garden Wall OST on vinyl and is willing to part with it, I’d love to buy it from you - I’m looking to get it as a gift for my partner in time for Christmas.
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Sep 14, 2021 02:36
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Potentially weird question: My tiny, NYC apartment is getting bug bombed next week. Will the chemicals used in that bomb mess with my vinyl collection in any way? Should I move the records to another room?
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Dec 4, 2021 19:45
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The Bandit posted:Did they tell you to take any precautions with any of your belongings? I would probably bag up my books, records, and clothes to avoid them absorbing smells. I mean we have to take everything out of the cupboards in the kitchen and since it’s a small NYC apartment my record collection is basically also in the kitchen hahah
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Dec 4, 2021 20:13
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Cool. Sounds like it should be fine then. Thanks everyone. I figured they’d be okay but also figured being overly cautious and asking wouldn’t hurt!!
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Dec 4, 2021 20:30
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Finally got to visit previously-mentioned-in-thread awesome store My Vinyl Underground/Jigsaw Records in Portland, OR this afternoon. Great shop, small but full (it’s literally in the basement of a comic book store), awesome, AWESOME prices on records you’re not seeing everyday. If you love indie pop/punk/Britpop/shoegaze etc, this shop should be a MUST-VISIT for you. You can tell the dude who runs the shop just loves what he does, and his passion comes through in every aspect of the store. Literally each record has a little blurb from him explaining the vibe of the music and why you should get it! He ended up not having the exact record I was looking for but he recommended like five other bands who are similar to/on the same label as the band I was interested in and he was playing music and running around into his store to see if he had vinyl copies. He was so awesome and passionate I ended up spending and buying more records than I even originally intended to! LOL and RIP to my money!!! A true gem of a store, and he sells everything online as well. Can’t recommended it enough. Check them out if you haven’t already!!!
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Dec 31, 2021 08:49
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CPL593H posted:A record store under a comic book store sounds like a place I willed into existence. The comic book store was great too!! Books with Pictures is the name of it! If you’re in Portland ever check out both!
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Dec 31, 2021 18:37
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Y’all stay grumpy for no reason.
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Found the first record of The White Album in my local Free Library yesterday and obviously while it’s not the complete LP, I took it home because it’s a free Beatles album lol. It sounded great!
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Feb 25, 2022 02:28
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