ah man I assume this must've been the Mortonsound version if it went for that much -
blitzkrieg bop - let's go
but I love that record. Not enough to pay £200+ for it though.
― Colonel Poo, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:37 (six years ago) link
40 below trooper on 7-inch is dope. i only have the 12-inch.
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:40 (six years ago) link
I got a Duster (90s band) album for cheap off Amazon or something in 2010... now it goes for $250. Found a Duster 7" in a bin at Gimme Gimme in NYC (now closed/moved) for $8 now goes for $60. Sometimes forgotten bands just explode with a sudden cult following.
― Evan, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:44 (six years ago) link
Yeah, the Blitzkrieg Bop is indeed on Mortonsound, and the Jungle Brothers is the rare German 7".
― mike t-diva, Thursday, 12 April 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
Britpop/ Britrock stuff does well too: £80 if you have a vinyl copy of the Verve's first album, £35 for Pulp 12" singles etc.
― Thomas NAGL (Neil S), Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:25 (six years ago) link
Off the top of my head, '90s LPs that we sold secondhand for big money (i.e £50-£100 and upwards) over recent years at the record shop I worked at included...
Take That - Take That & PartySpice Girls - can't remember which, but Spiceworld seems to be the bigger collectible on vinylAlanis Morissette - Jagged Little PillRadiohead - OK Computer
Proving that even multi-million selling status does not preclude LP scarcity from that era. I also recall a copy of Reef's Replenish on LP selling for very good money very quickly, which surprised me as I didn't think their status warranted such value.
― brain (krakow), Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:33 (six years ago) link
someone explain this service to me. i'm dumb:
https://www.diggersfactory.com/
― scott seward, Thursday, 12 April 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
I recall it being very hard to find vinyl in the last year or two before being completely wound down (don't remember exactly which year it was). By then the labels wouldn't accept returns of vinyl, so most stores didn't want to stock it. The labels still pressed a very small batch of 45s and LPs to coincide with a record's hoped-for chart run, and that was it. Most record stores in my area had already dropped vinyl completely by then; I had to go to indie shops to find it, and their stocks were limited. I think Tower still had a small vinyl section too, but their stores were a half hour drive away from home. I did buy quite a few now-valuable records during the waning days of the (first?) vinyl era, including the last two krakow mentioned.
― Lee626, Thursday, 12 April 2018 17:00 (six years ago) link
xp kickstarter to press a record
― brendon urine (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 April 2018 18:45 (six years ago) link
i remember multiple copies of that Dead Man soundtrack too. oof...
oof indeed. this was my holy grail record til i bought a bootleg now i'm cool
― brendon urine (diamonddave85), Thursday, 12 April 2018 18:46 (six years ago) link
Quality control on some domestic 90s Major Label vinyl was pretty iffy. I think I've told this story on here before (maybe even upthread?), but I remember my sister picking Stevie Ray Vaughan's The Sky Is Crying on vinyl (IIRC, it was his last LP to be released on vinyl stateside) on release day in '91. Back home on the turntable the record skipped numerous times, even after changing needles. She took it back the next day to exchange for another copy, but the clerk went through a few others off the rack on their system and they were all fucked the same way.
Fast Forward about 20 years: I'm in another record store with my sister, and we see them attempting to sell a couple sealed The Sky Is Cryings for $75-100* apeice. We look at each other all like "Somebody's gonna get screwed here."
*Checking discogs now, and the cheapest copy from an American dealer is a $60 used VG+ edition.
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 12 April 2018 19:06 (six years ago) link
poor seller doesnt realize he's actually selling mint dogpile
― Tapes 'n Tapes of Osho (Sufjan Grafton), Thursday, 12 April 2018 21:42 (six years ago) link
I've got a bunch of vinyl from that early-to-mid 90s period (Kyuss, various hip-hop rand records, death metal) and the quality is certainly patchy. My copy of Sky Valley sounds heartbreakingly thin and weedy.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:02 (six years ago) link
No idea what hip-hop rand records was supposed to be. A South African niche, obvs.
― The shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums (Chinaski), Friday, 13 April 2018 15:03 (six years ago) link
I have to say my OG copy of Nevermind, purchased week of release, when I was 16, still sounds heavenly.
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Saturday, 14 April 2018 14:47 (six years ago) link
That rules. I have an OG copy that sounds splendid as well.
― brimstead, Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:48 (six years ago) link
super jealous of yall. my og cd is no doubt scratched to hell in a landfill somewhere with the liner notes & packaging in another landfill and the plastic case long since shattered into a million fragments.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 14 April 2018 15:59 (six years ago) link
my OG CD sounds better than the remaster imo, but it still doesn't have "Endless, Nameless" :(
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 14 April 2018 16:29 (six years ago) link
woah, there were CDs without Endless Nameless?
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Saturday, 14 April 2018 23:15 (six years ago) link
First 50,000 iirc
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Saturday, 14 April 2018 23:43 (six years ago) link
Yeah, theoretically quite valuable.
My 'In Utero' doesn't have that rubbing alcohol track, but hey its rub.
― Mark G, Sunday, 15 April 2018 10:18 (six years ago) link
It’s prolly not valuable (there’s 50,000 of them) but it’s cool to have,
― like æ duce says, smell my anvil vapre (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
I got the same when I bought it back then, no bonus track. Not valuable though
― lbi's life of limitless european glamour (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 15 April 2018 13:55 (six years ago) link
I'm always prattling on about this, but the Mobile Fidelity CD of Nevermind sounds amazing.
― brimstead, Sunday, 15 April 2018 17:44 (six years ago) link
http://www.businessinsider.com/trntbl-wireless-turntable-review-2018-3
VNYL is back with a new TRNTBL
― omar little, Saturday, 19 May 2018 07:42 (five years ago) link
While it calls itself "wireless," technically this term solely refers to the fact that you don't need to mess with analog cables or outputs in order to connect to a speaker. You do still need to plug a cord into the wall to power your turntable.
https://media1.tenor.com/images/87c2a55f05fe4fa12b4730d7201f0f09/tenor.gif?itemid=4384766
― Making Plans For Sturgill (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 19 May 2018 08:23 (five years ago) link
Saw these photos on Twitter, laughed really hard.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfLHv27X0AAIiv8.jpg
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DfLHv2zX4AAAoVZ.jpg
― grawlix (unperson), Sunday, 10 June 2018 15:26 (five years ago) link
I don't even know what I'm looking at.
They're using pants hangers to store their records?
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
as a bonus, now you can store all your folded up shirts and pants in your suddenly wide open record shelves
― obviously DLC (Karl Malone), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:40 (five years ago) link
In a shower stall, no less? (xp)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:49 (five years ago) link
(Sorry, guess it’s just a closet; the rod threw me for a sec)
― i’m still stanning (morrisp), Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:51 (five years ago) link
Looks like a lifehack invented by someone that's running out of ideas for lifehacks.
― Evan, Sunday, 10 June 2018 16:54 (five years ago) link
S O A E S T H E T I C
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:24 (five years ago) link
I was actually legit wondering why they didn't hang them with the spines facing out, but then I realized that makes sense and this person is a total fucking lunatic.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Sunday, 10 June 2018 17:26 (five years ago) link
kinda cringing at what those clips are doing to the record jackets
― com rad erry red flag (f. hazel), Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:12 (five years ago) link
any adult that has balloons up as a decorative feature needs to have a long hard think about where their life is heading.
― mark e, Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:22 (five years ago) link
They look like thrift store records, who cares?
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:26 (five years ago) link
Also I'm pretty sure those balloons have the logo of Mind, the mental health charity on them. So possibly actually a charity shop. I mean, I still think it's a terrible terrible idea, but...
― emil.y, Sunday, 10 June 2018 18:34 (five years ago) link
yeah this is a classic uk charity shop move, pretty sure I saw this in norwich or nottingham or some other place beginning with NO
― my old man’s a wasteman (NickB), Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:41 (five years ago) link
appropriately enough
― CARL MARKS PRINCIPAL INVESTING AND ADVISORY SERVICES (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 10 June 2018 19:44 (five years ago) link
gotta be honest, that's a lot better than how some thrift stores treat their LP section.
― omar little, Sunday, 10 June 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/fVNbWOZ.jpg
― 龜, Sunday, 1 July 2018 12:09 (five years ago) link
Brutal
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Sunday, 1 July 2018 12:54 (five years ago) link
this store has trouble with math
"i want 7 records."
"that'll be $56. but if you let us give you a dollar, we'll let you take 4 more records on the house."
"uh--"
"don't ask questions, pal."
― 21st savagery fox (m bison), Sunday, 1 July 2018 13:25 (five years ago) link
You can see some of the other treasures here https://www.yelp.com/biz/records-new-york-new-york
― 龜, Sunday, 1 July 2018 13:41 (five years ago) link
Specialties:
We sell second-hand vinyls.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 1 July 2018 15:09 (five years ago) link
The fact that they are featuring ubiquitous dollar bin world champions Chuck Mangione and Joan Baez records in the window, and the fact that this store is in NYC, makes me think this is maybe some kind of elaborate art prank.
― Paul Ponzi, Sunday, 1 July 2018 15:10 (five years ago) link
all too real
― sleeve, Sunday, 1 July 2018 15:12 (five years ago) link
"IT'S JUST A PRANK, BRO!"
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Sunday, 1 July 2018 17:00 (five years ago) link
makes me think the dump won't let them bring in any more albums and they have to get rid of them somehow
― Paul Reverse and the rediaRs (GOTT PUNCH II HAWKWINDZ), Monday, 2 July 2018 08:04 (five years ago) link