100 Reasons why vinyl is the superior format.

also tyler:

how much are you looking to spend?

quick quick quick 5points to the first person who guesses the obvious reference

um Sean of the Dead obvy

dunno, thinking that i'd want to stay under the $300 range? I have no idea how much this stuff costs nowadays. xpost

I like packaging/artwork/sleeve notes/posters/hidden surprises

it sounds great

sometimes (especially in the case of old stuff) it's WAY cheaper

tons of stuff that is either unavailable digitally and/or very expensive/hard to find is much easier to get on vinyl (thinking primarily of country, jazz, reggae, obscure rock/psych stuff, etc.)

dunno, thinking that i'd want to stay under the $300 range? I have no idea how much this stuff costs nowadays. xpost

― tylerw

i can't find the seller's id i dealt with, who was completely brilliant, but ebay, for vintage (1970's) pioneer, technics, and also nice yamaha turntables won't cost you half of that. picked up a 1970's yamaha a few years ago, still goin' strong

yeah i should just start trawling ebay i guess?

my advice:

as far as new turntables...the pro-ject debut III and rega P1 are both $400 and great....

under that, i would probably just scour craigslist and find a good old used turntable and maybe use some of the extra money to buy a good cartridge for it...

rega P1

IMO

yeah, i gotta get speakers/amplifier etc too. the record player i have now is like a step above a fisher price toy player. used to have a much better set up but it was destroyed. long story.

i recently picked up a great dual cs 505-1 on craigslist for $60 recently...usually if you see the model number do a google search and you'll find discussion on audiophile boards about it

a good quality used one from the 80s will be light years beyond a cheapie

hey daniel what record player did you get. i am thinking about upgrading from my horrible record player.

i like vinyl mainly cuz it is cheap. or at least some of it is.

i'll circle back later to say what brand/model i bought, when i get home. but i didn't buy it based on any research. i just decided i wanted one ASAP and went to the first place i knew (a) carried them and (b) was still open at 9PM. that's why i worry if i overspent for a bad model.

as far as price, the place i bought my record-player (spec's music in coral gables) has a small vinyl section. but everything is expensive! it's all, like, $25.00 a record. you say vinyl is cheap?

well, used vinyl. new vinyl can be crazy expensive.

used vinyl online? 'cause i know of no brick-and-mortar stores around here, at least, that have any decent selection of used vinyl.

used vinyl online--ebay, discogs.

there's GEMM altho it tends to be kinda overpriced

on the plus side you can find some pretty rare stuff from foreign sellers

there are probably regional record fairs too, check out local colleges or libraries or whatever.

'cause i know of no brick-and-mortar stores around here

also can I just say this is really sad. there's like 10 in SF, at least

The crappy chain store in my town (owned by FYE) seems to have no clue about which titles or how many to buy (there are like 4 copies each of four different Cannibal Corpse records). And they price the new vinyl ridiculously (except Numero Group stuff, oddly). But the used stuff is all between 2 and 5 dollars. I check it out once a month or so.
They have an ad up in their window looking for a new store manager who "knows vinyls" lol.

thrift stores, consignment shops, flea markets. start diggin'

this place looks cool, 15 mins from Spec's
http://www.vintagerecords.com/

i know of no brick-and-mortar stores around here,

Where's 'here'?

quick quick quick 5points to the first person who guesses the obvious reference

um Sean of the Dead obvy

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier),

They didn't really decapitate that zombie with vinyl tho, did they?

i know of no brick-and-mortar stores around here,

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Where's 'here'?

south-florida (really coral gables and south miami).

are you near here? http://www.musicfinder.com/

looks intense
http://www.rollingstone.com/files/content/mounts/sambamount/images/MUSIC/GALLERY/2010_02/2010_09/RECORD%20STORES/Bananas-Music.jpg

!!! omg

kind of like the end of raiders of the lost ark

if not, road trip

'We have collectively over 14,000 sq. feet of space in two warehouses which are across the street from one another. Our two story warehouse is where our vast amount of nearly 3 million Lps and 45's are stored. In our 6500 sq. ft warehouse across the street we have compact disc and videos for sale. We also offer discount records at this location. We get 1,000's of records in each week'

holy shit!

i'd take a trip down there. ILV fappin' in miami.

st. petersburg is far from miami. i'm on the hunt for some closer venues. will report back.

ha, sorry for my poor understanding of florida geography. still, yeah, looks like a roadtrip worthy destination. i'm thinking of going when i'm in florida next year ...

definitely sounds like a trip worth taking.

hm. SWEAT records, which is a very nice independent brick-and-mortar music store in miami, has an online vinyl shop.

but again, doesn't seem cheap, to me.

maybe i've become spoiled based on emusic's prices. maybe the new pricing system at emusic will cure that.

i went to Bananas a couple times back when i had money. it's a pretty good place, really depends on what you're looking for, though.

shipping charges are high ($5.00 per album, but maybe that's the norm).

To me, everything about vinyl is just more fun-- the shopping, the artwork, the playing. I like that it connects me to a time when listening to records was more likely to be something you did as an end in itself. I like flipping through records. I like looking for good deals. The fact that good sound can come from a vibrating piece of material in a groove seems like a miracle to me, somehow even more so than a laser reading 1s and 0s. I like how records sound, but I can't really say if they sound better than CDs to me, because there are so many other parts of the experience that make it better, I am sure that colors how I hear too. I like that I am listening to albums from the 60s, 70s, and 80s in the format for which they were designed. I like that it slows me down and that it isn't easy to switch to something else. I will say that the shopping aspect of vinyl is a big part of for me, finding good deals and going into stores not knowing what I will find in the New Arrivals used bin. I like collecting but I don't pay a lot of $ for things. Most things I find and like are between $4 and $10 or so, and they need to be in good condition.

as a kid w/ limited funds, discovering used vinyl shops back in the day was a fucking godsend -- for the price of one new CD you could get, you know, four or five classic records. not necessarily rare stuff or anything but coming home with, say, five rolling stones records i'd never heard was an intense experience.

^^^yeah this was a big deal to me. Why spend $25 on some dubious indie band when I could buy half a dozen classic Cheap Trick records for the same amount?

hey, you're ignoring my link

YESTERDAY AND TODAY RECORDS
http://www.vintagerecords.com/

google sez 15-20 mins from Spec's where you bought your player. website has a whole page of those 180g sealed psych reissues for less than $15, so you know their used prices are nice.

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

Unless its really seedy, then those seeds always bust up the spine...

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

so true

I kinda wanna start a thread, Top 100 Gatefold Albums to Roll Joints On...

bought another copy of zoso
seeds were bustin' up the spine

think i wet my pants doin' whippits
not too many, bud's just fine

those last three words to echo down the tunnel of your years...

There's just nothing about a CD that makes me want to just get high and sit down and listen to it. My career as a pothead really began in earnest when I started collecting prog LPs.

sit me in the lap of the gods, babe
cover me with skin and hair
rider #1 on the hump train
screw you if you think I care

Stoner music is one of the best arguments for this format, you are experiencing historic music in a historic manner so you get a better sense of what being a real 70s prog fan was like!

^^^^^

Jeez, I'm a vinyl fanatic, but that makes me want to dump the lot and buy an iPod

Alice Cooper School's Out has flaps on the back cover to fold out into a little desk