Buying Vinyl?

It seems the best option to buy online are german and british stores, they have almost every album in stock... I'm very impressed by the catalog of sites such as piccadily, boomkat, phonika and a-musik for example, problem is shipping is very expensive overseas.

Where do ya'll buy your vinyl records? Any recommendations for purchase within the states?

HAY USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION MOKA

Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

Peeps in there are talking about the vinyls they're buying not their choice for a record store specifically. Cant deserve another thread perhops?

there are many other vinyl threds champion.

There's no online vinyl store thread.

what genre

i buy indie vinyl in the US from tonevendor

I've actually just ordered from tonevendor and it's great... do you use any other when tonevendor is out of stock?

I can't tell any genre in particular. I buy Techno as I do Hip-hop or Indie, sometimes funk or tropicalia (for which I use dustygroove) other times just rock classics. I don't have a particular taste to be honest.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/
http://www.calsound.com/shop/vinyl-records-c-462.html

I've only bought music online once in my life, everywhere else is in stores and whenever a craigslist-user is deciding to sell off stuff, which I'd recommend. Sure the selection online is waaaay superior, but hey it's still only half as fun.

try http://www.musicfearsatan.com (used to be e-vinyl.com but now stock cds and dvds, good prices and quick postage from France)
also I use
http://www.roboticempire.com/store/
http://www.allthatisheavy.com/
http://shop.relapse.com/store/product.aspx
http://www.theomegaorder.com/
http://kreationrecords.net/
http://www.normanrecords.com/
http://www.conspiracyrecords.com/store/index.php
http://www.southernlord.com/store.php
http://www.troublemanunlimited.com/store/
http://www.temporaryresidence.com/
http://www.bluecollardistro.com/bcd/categories.php?cPath=1_481
http://www.shiftyrecords.com/mailorder/
http://www.kozmik-artifactz.com/shop/index.php?language=en
https://www.southern.net/eu-shop/

Hope that is of use to you.

there's insound too

and Amazon is selling vinyl now too. Kind of strange, maybe.

i work for a vinyl record shop that does a small bit of mail order and our catalog is here:
academymailorder.blogspot.com

also fusetronsound.com
eclipse-records.com

and of course EBAY.

Hey Ian...

Which NY store is my best bet for picking up recent reissues? I'm after stuff like Milk n Cookies and Debris' Static Disposal

I'm there on holiday with my girlfriend for the weekend and want to pick up as much as I can before the pound finally crashes out and ends a long spell of cheap-o US mail order. Probably won't make it to more than one or two stores though. I'm hoping to get a quick look at The Thing, at least...

Nevermind! I should have checked that Academy blog listing first. There's loads of stuff there I was after.

Narlus - Do not miss Other Music at 15 East 4th St off Broadway.

http://www.auralexploits.com/

http://www.dustygrooves.com/

I'm after stuff like Milk n Cookies and Debris' Static Disposal

yeah Academy is your spot for that. there's a few locations, you want the one in Williamburg on N. 6th

one of Ian's co-workers put out that Milk n Cookies record I think

How bout The Thing? Is it regularly topped up with new shit? I'm guessing there's a ton of crap, but enough good stuff scattered about to keep it interesting.

I actually haven't been there. I think Jaxon went when he was in town

I think the general consensus is that if you have a lot of time to spend you can find good stuff but if you've only got an hour don't bother

http://www.weirdorecords.com/

and the always entertaining

http://www.anti-naturals.org/swill/maincat.htm (click on 'Reviews' for the lists)

for reggae/dub cannot fuckin beat ERNIE B'S!!

Gnarly! Dude! Come say hello.
I'll put aside copies of the Debris and Milk n Cookies LPs for you.
We are located at 96 North 6th Street in WILLIAMDBURG, BROOKLYN. Off the Bedford Avenue L train stop.

except it looks like we're out of the Debris record at the moment.

Insound and Amazon are terrible choices for vinyl. They have absolutely nothing in stock. I'll give it to Amazon, though, that the vinyl section is somewhat new which could explain the poor catalogue but in the meantime. The other choices Pfunkboy are excellent for rock and metal. Thanks.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/

Has anybody ordered from here? The site appears to have a very comprehensive catalogue in stock but somehow the site just seems very sketchy to me. Do they really have everything they say they do?

http://www.auralexploits.com/
http://www.dustygrooves.com/

I like dustygroove, been ordering from there for a while now. Auralexploits is a good choice, some great reissues and special editions to be found there once in a while but they run out of stock rather quickly.

i work for a vinyl record shop that does a small bit of mail order and our catalog is here:
academymailorder.blogspot.com

Wow, Ian I've been looking for Can's future days and they have it in there as well as some that have caught my attention. Do you ship to Canada and Mexico?

I'll add turntablelab to the list. Good for downtempo, new disco, hip hop:

http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/

dustygroove is okay for some stuff but I've really soured on them over the years - their selection can be really spotty, particularly when it comes to stuff I used to rely on them for (like jazz and Brazilian music). They always seem to have some crappy post-peak stuff in stock, but never the canonical works (for ex. check their Coltrane catalog)

and the always entertaining

http://www.anti-naturals.org/swill/maincat.htm (click on 'Reviews' for the lists)

I swear I don't recognize any records listed on both sites you suggested but those surely are some entertaining reviews in there.

Forced Exposure isn't sketchy, they've been around since the '80s

Forced Exposure might not have everything they say they do, but they're very reliable and a quick email to check the stock is simple enough.

FE actually does distribution, don't they?
I've had a few items from orders not be in stock, but they're good about communication and letting you know if things are back.

Wicked. Thank you and sorry, it's just I found it suspicious that none of their items are marked as out of stock, I suppose they erase them from the catalogue when they dont have it. I'm mailing to doublecheck and ordering a couple from there.

Does anyone know a good place to find 'the Zombies' reissues? Are there any reissues at all? I haven't had any luck with these. My father is a crazy Zombies fan and I want to buy him anything I can find.

There are no currently available Zombies reissues on LP.

and Amazon is selling vinyl now too. Kind of strange, maybe.

― Cars That Go Boom (mehlt), Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:36 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I highly doubt this url will work, but hell, even best buy is selling vinyl now

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17080&type=page&qp=ccat02001%23%23-1%23%23-1~~q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d30312d3031~~nf207%7C%7C56494e594c&list=y&nrp=15&sc=musicSP&ks=960&usc=cat02001&sp=&list=y&iht=n&st=processingtime%3A%3E1900-01-01

newbury comics' in-store vinyl section has gotten pretty big lately. not sure how their on-line service is, though.

http://www.newburycomics.com/rel/v2_home.php?storenr=103&deptnr=596

A Zombies "Odyssey and The Oracle" re-issue from a couple of years back is still floating around, I believe. The 2LP "Time of the Zombies" compilation is the easiest to find used Zombies record (check ebay)and it contains most everything a Zombies fan would want.

when I was looking at new vinyl in newbury comics the other day I realized I went from buying records for $6-$8 to CDs for $10-$15 and now back to records for $18-$20.

There are no currently available Zombies reissues on LP.

I was expecting this, they should definitely do some sort of special reissue this year. After all 2008 marks the 50th Anniversary of Odessey and Oracle, am I wrong?

A Zombies "Odyssey and The Oracle" re-issue from a couple of years back is still floating around, I believe. The 2LP "Time of the Zombies" compilation is the easiest to find used Zombies record (check ebay)and it contains most everything a Zombies fan would want.

I'm still to find any trustworthy place to sell the odessey reissue. The 'time of the zombies' is in fact available on ebay and at a reasonable price, but damn that is an ugly cover. Did the people selling this actually listened to the zombies before doing the artwork?

I was expecting this, they should definitely do some sort of special reissue this year. After all 2008 marks the 50th Anniversary of Odessey and Oracle, am I wrong?

It's actually the 40th anniversary, my bad.

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/

great selection + service

I've bought a few LPs from Bullmoose and found them very fast, with cheap shipping to boot. Also when they sent an LP that turned out to be defective I emailed them about it and they just sent out another copy; I didn't have to return the bad copy.

I would just recommend Ebay ... there are a ton of small indie stores that are on there. Some folks charge a bit extra to cover ebay and paypal fees, but you can sometimes contact these places directly and get cheaper off-ebay prices. And these mom-and-pop shops probably need your money more that Insound, Turntablelab, Forced Exposure etc. Or maybe you could just see if your local shop does special orders.

Also, Discogs is great for dance music (especially out-of-print stuff).

I can't stand Gemm with their crappy layout and search function, and Musicstack is only slightly better.

But I do use a lot of the other store/distro sites mentioned above for research purposes. It's great that so many of the big online stores write up reviews and post audioclips.

I wasnt aware Discogs sold vinyls :S

discogs is the means with which independent sellers reach buyers.

gemm is awful for usability but amidst the overpriced crap you can find some deals there sometimes

budo jeru, I'm liking that Hennix quite a bit.

we are having kind of a joyous Hennix celebration across multiple threads at the moment!

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.

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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.