Vinyl

Anyone out there in to vinyl? I just started collecting and am loving it!

 

I assume you mean Records?

 

Yes I mean Vinyl records. I guess i should have specified that. I am wondering though does anyone know what LP bootlegs are going for these days?

 

I feel like it is time to bring this thread back to life!
My vinyl collection is slowly growing. After the first year I have about 200 in the collection.

 

I found my old albums recently and bought a turntable. Where do you guys find records? Is there a good online source? I'm thinking estate sales or thrift stores like Goodwill would be good.

 

I typically go to a record store that is about an hour from my house and they are becoming more popular. Thrift stores can be a good choice, and you can find record any where online from Amazon to record label/band web sites. I use Discog to manage my collection and to get an idea on pricing when I am out looking.
Check out my record collection:
https://www.discogs.com/user/snowandskate/collection
Shared from the Discogs app

 

i heard from somewhere at some point one auto manufacturer attempted to put a turntable into the dash for on-the-road listening
it did not work out so well

 

May not work to well for getting to base camp but once you are there you would have the classiest sound system around if you could spin some vinyl while watching the sun set!

 

Those were the days!

 

Still is how I listen to music at home. You cant beat the sound in my opinion. I actually signed up for another 2019 record club today!

 

the rice krispie sound?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PHC9jZqe5QQ

 

A good clean record and nice needle, will eliminate the nasty rice krispie sound. For me it is the whole musical experience, I like the big art work, and listening to full albums front to back. I also like being able to hear all the unfiltered sounds, such as fingers sliding on strings from cord to cord. I find in new digital remastered music the edit that type of stuff out, and It just isn't my style. Plus some times you half to take a leak or get a beer half way through the record, and the whole flipping from A to B side thing gives the perfect intermission during listening sessions.

 

the rice krispie sound is not necessarily nasty, is it?
it could add something, especially to those old bargain flea market finds from '70s and '80s rare finds on the cheap
as long as they don't skip!

 

that's how Motorola got it's start.

 

True enough. I will take an original pressing over a repress any day. And the rice krispie sound that comes with it and don't mind it a bit. It does add a little flair to some of the more random records in my collection. Like those old Christmas records, or the Polka. Probably wouldn't be the same if the sound was 100 perfect!

 

check this out
this was what my first turntable looked like in the 80s ... good grief this thing was uber heavy as a brick ... had a metal tape bias recorder too that was cool


online pic, not my 'actual' JVC setup

 

a video how-to operation lol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJiMHLw2mgI

 

I thought this thread would be bigger than it is.

Ive been collecting records for what seems like my entire life.

Current set up is
Fisher 500c
Klipsch Forte II
Thorens TD 125 MKII

Mostly rock genre focusing on
NWOBHM
private press Power pop
70s rock
Psychedelic
and everything that fits between those.

Also have a pretty hefty boogie/soul stash but nowhere close to the thousands of rock related music

 

Another collector here, been rocking the same Technics SL-D2 for nearly ten years. I've never counted my record collection but it's pretty big - mostly jazz and jazz fusion, organ trio stuff, etc.

Jerry's Records in Pittsburgh is such a cool place!