Buying Vinyl?

Yeah budo, thanks for the Hennix rec (you had me at "harpsichord-adjacent" lol). About 10 minutes into it and I'm flying.

Also awesome that you have the Walcha WTC box. Desert island material for me.

i meant the Leonhardt box actually!

but i will definitely check out the Walcha recording

Oh sorry. The Leonhardt is just as awesome! I also love the cover design on that box, really suits the dark gothic vibe of the music.

I'm just gonna buy them both ;)

and yes, old used classical vinyl is absolutely one of the best bangs for your buck in terms of value for money

I love this thing:
https://www.discogs.com/release/4340406-Sibelius-Okko-Kamu-Herbert-von-Karajan-Gerhard-Stempnik-Radion-Sinfoniaorkesteri-Berliner-Philharmon

I'm just gonna buy them both ;)

This is the way.

Been meaning to get some Sibelius and that set looks lovely

I also wonder if/when the general shoddiness of new pressings is going to catch up with them

my new vinyl buying has dwindled to a trickle (those prices!) but the few i do pick up have been surprisingly/happily free of issues bar the occasional bit of distortion (grrr the reissue of ptah the el daoud notably), def not as bad as some of the rubbish pressings i have from the 2010s era looking at you 4mwb.

re classical scores: my shelves are BULGING with cheap & amazing classical lps... will forever bless the day i lucked into a mint copy of this for the equivalent of about 5 us dollars!

I picked up this from a National Trust shop the other day, unplayed and sounds amazing and has a lovely booklet as part of the box set:
https://www.discogs.com/release/10359578-Klemperer-Wagner-The-Philharmonia-Orchestra-Klemperer-Conducts-Wagner

I remember NickB provided some tips about what to look out for when buying second-hand classical vinyl, I will try to look those out and re-post

My main interest in classical vinyl is the 60s/70s avant stuff like Stockhausen and Xenakis, unfortunately the prices on those sets went through the roof years ago.

This is definitely one of the tricks to still enjoying collecting records - find stuff the general public don't want lol. Classical records are so plentiful and cheap at pretty much every store. There are a bunch of genres like that, too. I collect local country/folk/country rock records from the 70s and yeah there are the whales that command some money but so much is available for under $10. Many of them are miserable but sifting through is part of the whole thing, really.

xp no lime tangier, that Messiaen box looks incredible. I had no idea he recorded his own organ works! I'll have to track that down at some point, though I'm sure I'll have to pay a bit more than $5...

Another recent classical vinyl epiphany: Quartetto Italiano's 1965 recording of Debussy and Ravel's String Quartets on Philips (early Netherlands pressing). They're best versions I've heard of those magical quartets with surprisingly great fidelity for 1965; the recording sounds like it could have been made yesterday.

My main interest in classical vinyl is the 60s/70s avant stuff like Stockhausen and Xenakis, unfortunately the prices on those sets went through the roof years ago.

― lord of the rongs (anagram), Wednesday, November 22, 2023 4:16 AM (thirteen hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

it's been my experience that a lot of this can still be had for under $10!

xp*They're the best, that is

xp budo jeru Yeah I feel like almost every record store I've visited recently has a copy of this pressing of Xenakis's Metastasis / Pithoprakta / Eonta for under $10. But it's true the rarer Stockhausen, Xenakis, et al. pressings can be outrageously expensive.

I actually have had my eyes on a nice $45 copy of Stockhausen's Hymnen (mid-70s Deutsche Grammophon reissue) at a local shop for a while, but every time I go I find something cheaper that excites me even more.

Someone has bought the entire 'Voice Of America' vinyl collection, 88,000 records.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PnR9Bsm8aA8

Oh, god, the flips at about 6:45 and again at 23:15. So many Blue Note records I would die for.

It sounds like the buyer isn't really a jazz record guy at all.

Fantastic haul on the weekend: old jazz records, absolutely perfect shape, most British, 2/$5 (clearly all from the same collection).

https://i.postimg.cc/1zmnWSQs/01.jpg
https://i.postimg.cc/fbqj4CD3/02.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/gJ9j6LKS/03.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/QCGfPmJQ/04.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/L6VxCzYP/05.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/nhR0Zp1c/06.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/yN2jgj5M/07.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/PrKMzT9z/08.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/X7NfvtqZ/09.jpg https://i.postimg.cc/7YQ2Z6jc/10.jpg

(Posted 20, supposed to have been smaller...not sure what happened.)

if you're into 20s/30s jazz reissue LPs you'll be scoring everywhere!

It doesn't seem to be especially valued on the secondary market, does it? (Because the original stuff is all on 78s?) I love buying albums like that.

yeah the truest believers want 78s, and general Jazz fans want CD. 1950s era and later jazz fans are obviously into original LP pressings, but I wonder how long that will last. There's much more interest in fusion and Japanese stuff, obscure jazz etc in the jazz world these days. Its actually fun to collect stuff that isn't particularly valued!

not quite on the same scale as the voa collection sale, but a few years back i ended up with a whole bunch of mid-20th century modern classical/electronic lps that turned out to have originally come from the library service of this outfit. strange to think of john cage et al being used as cold war propaganda warriors!

i just saw this posted on /r/vinyl, from someone excited about their $90 score. i feel like my already-broken perception of the vinyl economy is even more shattered now.

https://i.imgur.com/9vt9gBj.png

tbf Sneakin Sally is def a $15 record these days, but the rest of those should be 5 tops

"I picked these up from a private seller I found on fb marketplace while on vacation. Nothing rare or any ridiculous steals to brag about here, just an unglamorous, totally solid stack for $90. His records were alphabetized, came with play notes and visual grades, and all were very conservatively graded. One record that he graded ‘G’ was equivalent to several discogs ‘VG+’ I’ve gotten from sellers there."

Baffling mindset - not seemingly interested in either the music or collectability.

Maybe it was assumed that since he bought them, their desirability (to him) is assumed?

what are play notes?

Also I will buy every copy of Sly, Joan, Janis, and Stevie you can find me for five bucks! All fetch $15+ where I live (tho the condition of the jackets might downgrade them from there)

that's Buddy Miles, not Janis!

i mean i do *know* it's possible this pile could go for $90 but damn

Play notes are just included details like "Several pops between tracks 1 & 2 of Side 2" and so on.

One record that he graded ‘G’ was equivalent to several discogs ‘VG+’ I’ve gotten

so in other words: G

truth

Oh shit, it is Buddy Miles! I’ll buy that for $5 too.

i just did a quick dig of what $35 bought me back about 13 years ago, which i don't even think was market rate at that point, but that's a special record store that i hope still exists.

https://i.imgur.com/f8FvhTd.jpeg

All Things Must Pass + Scary Monsters in nice shape would be about $100 for just those two these days.

I just popped out of a record store in NE VT. New owners all of two days and were super friendly. Unfortunately, I don’t see there business lasting all that long if the G- or worse disco/dance singles bin is all priced at $10.

shoutout to ILX user Born Under A Bad Sine aka jack battery-pack, we spent the day yesterday hitting all the local stores. It turned out to be the 5th anniversary of the Springfield branch of Little Axe, Warren had like 1000 LPs and 45s out on the street for free. speaking of good deals... I got a nice stack of 45s and a Sergio Mendes LP.

Picked up an “LN” rated copy, according to the price sticker, of “Bayou Country” by CCR at my local record store’s Labor Day weekend sale. It seemed reasonably priced at $25. I guess LN stands for Like New. They don’t seem to do NM at this place. It’s got some years on it, but it’s a nice clean copy.

Bought another 20 old jazz LPs, 2/5$, at the same Woodstock store as above, including a radio broadast from the early '40s of bandleader Ozzie Nelson and his vocalist Harriet Hilliard.

https://i.postimg.cc/76xDc8K4/34.jpg

Been looking for some decent vinyl collecting podcasts recently and have found that 'The Vinyl Guide' is a good time, interview-based, mostly talking to musicians about their tastes, habits and collections.

Been looking for some decent vinyl collecting podcasts recently and have found that 'The Vinyl Guide' is a good time, interview-based, mostly talking to musicians about their tastes, habits and collections.

https://popsike.io/pix/20210427/393272444121.jpg

bayou country has one of my favorite hype stickers

My copy has that sticker.

it's a very cool sticker

Been looking for some decent vinyl collecting podcasts recently and have found that 'The Vinyl Guide' is a good time, interview-based, mostly talking to musicians about their tastes, habits and collections.

― Maresn3st, Monday, September 2, 2024 8:13 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i was about to recommend the We Buy Records podcast before realizing that you were the one who made me aware of it!

Great score this weekend, a nice copy of Muswell Hillbillies, which I bought without any knowledge of the pressing. It’s the Pickwick pressing and it sounds much better than the digital files I had before. Treble is much clearer and louder.

Vinyl Me Please is having a big going out of business sale with some bonkers prices.

There are some CDs mixed in there, so pay attention to format.

god vinyl is exhausting