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100. LPs often come loaded with cool stuff like posters and cards 'n stuff that you just couldn't fit into a f'ing jewel case. I have a Cheech and Chong record that comes with a big-ass rolling paper while Alice Cooper's School's Out used to sell with a pair of paper panties stuffed into every sleeve. Panties.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

1. More cool points.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:45 (twenty-one years ago)

2. You can wear the sleeves on your head.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

3. It makes that popping sound

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

4. Bigger album cover art!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

5. You can mess with playback speed.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

We were supposed to be counting down, you assclowns.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

94. you can muck around with the needle (speeding up, scratching etc.)

― stevem (blueski), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

93. Watching a record slowly spin is hypnotic.

― anode (anode), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:48 (twenty-one years ago)

We were supposed to be counting down, you assclowns.

Where does it say that? What does it matter? You can stuff your lousy thread.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

That 93 should be 94

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

92. I can come in many colors

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

91 you can feel superior to people who only listen to cds

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:49 (twenty-one years ago)

90. Crossfading!

(keith M see #1)

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

89. You can place the neddle any where

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:51 (twenty-one years ago)

88. you can melt them down to make clothes for s&m parties

― searchanddelete, Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:52 (twenty-one years ago)

87. Gatefold designs often open up to reveal scantily clad women.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

86. They are made of a polymer, and polymers are awesome.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

(from a chemical perspective)

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:53 (twenty-one years ago)

85. You can frame them

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, but i was being sarcastic

― keith m (keithmcl), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

39. They don't sell it in good record shops, e.g. Borders.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

polymers are a bunch of bastards (from a chemical perspective).

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:54 (twenty-one years ago)

84. You can make sound come out without it being plugged in.

― anode (anode), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:55 (twenty-one years ago)

89. Some of it (old 78s, for instance) is unplayable by the normal person.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

best reason: cheap vinyl (and 'good' recs on LP)=> very cheap

cheap CDs => not as cheap.

― Julio Desouza (jdesouza), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:56 (twenty-one years ago)

80. That guy who can tell what classical music is on a record just by looking at it. (tried to find a link, but stangely difficult to google)

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:57 (twenty-one years ago)

83. Records smell nice. CDs have no smell at all.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

82. Kids are amazed by it

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

47. It can be used to distract social misfits.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Err.. that should've been, uh.. 79, I guess. *waves fist*

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 17:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Maypang!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

How awful.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

78. You can listen to both sides

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

78. You can play them backwards to hear Satan.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Polymers are better than corny indie "silicon" f*xx.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(from a chemical perspective)

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

12. It's hard to send through the post.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Eyeball you're a funny guy.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:02 (twenty-one years ago)

12. It's hard to send through the post.

I was sent vinyl through the mail once. It was fine. Wasn't broken at all.

76. They have vinal that glows in the dark!!!

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

vinyl

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:03 (twenty-one years ago)

75. They know no such thing as disc-rot.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I was sent vinyl through the mail once. It was fine. Wasn't broken at all.

Yeah, yeah, it's a piece of piss receiving it. But try sending it...

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:04 (twenty-one years ago)

74, The Bass!!! The Bass!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Listen to tower of dub by the orb on vinyl and then listen on cd. Hah! the bass is the thing.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

100. The absence of vinyl walkmans.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

73. They can include gadgets like grooves inbetween grooves and can be without end.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

45. The fact that you can't hear the bass so well.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:07 (twenty-one years ago)

70. The way you have to walk around all carefully near the record player to avoid skips.

Vinyl was dead before I was born, and I can remember my Dad being on edge every time we played his old "Star Wars" record.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

71. When the needle is stuck in the groove you'll usually get a cool loop insted of cd's bababababababadadadadadadadadakakakakakakaka...

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

72. 101 Strings Play The Sounds of Love

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:08 (twenty-one years ago)

But try sending it...

It was just in an envolope lined with bubble wrap

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

69. The Star Wars record.

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

You can play them backwards!!! last record i bought that you could play backwards was side 3 of rings around the world by SFA.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

90. Same size as laserdiscs, without the boring film.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

66. You can use them as a rain shield.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

The cover of the For Whom The Bell Tolls soundtrack-with ingrid bergman crying-is the most beautiful album cover ever and it would just look shitty on a cd.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:11 (twenty-one years ago)

*mathematical angst*

― Jole (Jole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

65. You can't download it.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Maypang!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:12 (twenty-one years ago)

64. You can't upload it (actually, you can)

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

You can melt two records in the oven and make one record that is half AC/DC and half Dolly Parton!! And play it!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Fucking genius from Scott there, but he didn't put a number so it doesn't count.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:14 (twenty-one years ago)

62. When they get wobbley you can iron them to save one side.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

22. No joke: the end of Brighton Rock.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:15 (twenty-one years ago)

60. You can cut them at home.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:16 (twenty-one years ago)

59. Cover: VG+ w/ some light ringwear, 2 inch seam split on bottom edge, soft top right corner. Vinyl: EX, some surface scratches, original gloss still intact, a few spindle marks on side B, plays as M-.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

60. You can cut them at home.

What's this? You can make CDs or tapes a lot easier. Roger shouldn't count.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:18 (twenty-one years ago)

you can make a diorama of a city street with the vinyl version of Paul's Boutique but if you try this with the cd you will just look like an idiot.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

77. It takes up more room in your flat.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

You can make CDs or tapes a lot easier.

True, but cutting records is cooler, therefore: superior.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:20 (twenty-one years ago)

76. They can come with one side etched.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:22 (twenty-one years ago)

i have records that are 60 years old that still play brilliantly. good luck with those strokes cd's.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

75. 7-inch single adapters are way more cool then 3-inch cd adapters.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:25 (twenty-one years ago)

74. Roger like it.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:26 (twenty-one years ago)

They sometimes write cool stuff in the trail-off area.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:27 (twenty-one years ago)

signed live p-funk records with cryptic messages about dogs and bitches from george clinton and posters and iron-on t-shirt transfers would just be inconceivable with a cd no matter how cool jason spaceman trys to make them.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:29 (twenty-one years ago)

71. Burglars can't be arsed nicking a whole stack of them.

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:31 (twenty-one years ago)

sometimes records come with bonus 7-inch singles!!! oh yeah, cd's come with bonus tracks sometimes. Lame!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

70. music isn't supposed to be heard with such clarity. you need all those pops and crackles and shit.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

69. Clean
69. Your
69. Weed

― weather, Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

It's fun to watch people pay lots of money for worthless reissues thinking they're getting an original pressing.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:34 (twenty-one years ago)

i just bought a first pressing of Captain Beefheart's Strictly Personal in great shape at the thrift store last week for 50 cents!! you know how much a cd copy of it would cost me at the very same thrift store if i found one? 3 dollars!!!!

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

My used copy of An Evening With Wildman Fischer still has pot seeds in the gatefold!!! Ancient 60's-era pot seeds!!!! what will i ever find in a cd to remind me of a bygone era? nothing, that's what.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:37 (twenty-one years ago)

70. music isn't supposed to be heard with such clarity. you need all those pops and crackles and shit.

I already said it makes that popping sound.

― Aja (aja), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, I was actually quoting a scene from Mr. Show where a guy declares that he only listens to vin-yeel and that his victrola is the only piece of modern technology that he will touch.

― Anthony Miccio (Anthony Miccio), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:40 (twenty-one years ago)

you need to buy nicer copies of stuff you two. i understand the pop and crackle thing kinda, but really there is no reason to listen to records that pop and crackle.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

i love that mr. show skit. it leads into the dickie crickets megaphone skit.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

68. They make people repeat themselves and others.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

67. They make people repeat themselves and others.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:42 (twenty-one years ago)

sorry, I was actually quoting a scene from Mr. Show where a guy declares that he only listens to vin-yeel and that his victrola is the only piece of modern technology that he will touch.

Is it a DAT player?

― Colin Beckett (Colin Beckett), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's only been in the last 5 years or so that people have actually gotten the hang of making music for cd's. they're getting there though.

― scott seward (scott seward), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:44 (twenty-one years ago)

66. They give this static crackling when you get them out the inner sleeve for the first time. It's like sex really.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:51 (twenty-one years ago)

65. Because zippers and other technological advances are the Devil's Work and it gives Steve Albini something to whine about.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

65. They catch dust easily, for that special fuzzy zound

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

65. You can't download it.
-- maypang
65. Because zippers and other technological advances are the Devil's Work and it gives Steve Albini something to whine about.
-- jack cole

Which is the more authentic number 65?

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Amd now there's another.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Roger in Mokum!

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

mine, it's a first pressing on 180g virgin vinyl in a gatefold sleave signed by the artist.

― jack cole (jackcole), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so sorry. I counted 58, so the next post should be 42.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 18:59 (twenty-one years ago)

42. They make Roger in Mokum a liar, because this cd-addict doesn't even own one piece of vinyl.

― Roger in Mokum (Roger T), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

41. If the world were to run out of power, you could listen to them with a comb and some rice paper

― ___ (___), Sunday, 22 February 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

40. Because you can tape them and illegally distribute them to your friends, thereby screwing the record industry.

http://www.radrowdies.com/vt/asp/BO_ID-727/Affil-0/tv/gfx/prints/large/HomeTaping-wht.jpg

― Jazzbo (jmcgaw), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

39. You never get to open a CD that's been sealed for thirty years, and even if you could, it just wouldn't be the same.

― maypang (maypang), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

what will i ever find in a cd to remind me of a bygone era? nothing, that's what.

What about one of those charming 'NICE PRICE' stickers?

― N. (nickdastoor), Sunday, 22 February 2004 21:56 (twenty-one years ago)

test
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sorry folks...

― search and delete (searchanddelete), Sunday, 22 February 2004 22:04 (twenty-one years ago)

38. Listening is an event. Through the album removal from its jacket and both inner and outer sleeves -- and cleaning. This isn't nearly as quick as discs or MP3s, but if your music's choice, it's like the sizzle before the steak.

37. Colored Vinyl; white, orange, blue,. etc.

36. There is such a thing a virgin vinyl.

35. Larger size makes co-storage of posters/news clippings/etc. much easier.

34. Walmart doesn't carrty it.

― christoff (christoff), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:27 (twenty-one years ago)

33. there are no AOL records

― kevin brady (groeuvre), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

33. RPM!

― mark grout (mark grout), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

No encryption. But a pain in the ass to transfer to digital format.

― Spinktron 2000 (El Spinktor), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

39. Spherical vinyl (a big sticky black ball) is more impressive than spherical CD (a small silver ball).

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

38. You can fit less goddamn music on vinyl.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Monday, 23 February 2004 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

37. If you hold the jacket from Burton Cummings' My Own Way to Rock up to your face, you can trick people into thinking you're Burton himself. You just couldn't do this with a cd insert. No one would buy it for a second.

― maypang (maypang), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:09 (twenty-one years ago)

36. Come armageddon, when there is no more electricity, you'll be able to fashion a crude turntable out of a ship's wheel and some bamboo and play your LPs. CDs may be useful for signal mirrors, but not really for any musical purposes.

― dave225 (Dave225), Monday, 23 February 2004 17:34 (twenty-one years ago)

35--Cartridge Music by John Cage.
34--Christian Marclay, A.M.K., and...that guy from Czechoslovakia who cut records into pieces or melted them, put them back together, and scored performances for their playback...name?

― Stephen Boyle (SBoyle), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, it might have been (arguably) superior before, but if I can't stick it on a hard drive these days then fuhgetaboutit.

I'm just sayin...

― scottontharox (scottkundla), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

33. Finding something you've been looking for for years on CD or is kind of meh compared to finding it on vinyl.

― mmmmsalt (Graeme), Monday, 23 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

32. You do not get the same visceral thrill from ringing a CD with razorblades and tossing at foes you wish to decapitate.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

31. "goin' to hell in a hatbasket" by country bob and the blood farmers doesn't exist in any other format.

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

31. They're not easy to carry around, which is great because true music lovers only listen to music at the sanctity of their homes. Parties? Duh! Walkmans? Bah!

32. When you're lying on your bed and the vinyl is playing while you're reading a book, you're being constantly distracted because you have to switch sides, which is great because who wants to read books anyway? You can read the vinyl liner notes! That's all you need!

33. You can't program or randomize the track order of a vinyl, which is great because the tracks must be listened in the exact order decided by the musicians. It's their art, not yours!

― Tuomas (Tuomas), Monday, 23 February 2004 19:40 (twenty-one years ago)

Whatever number it is (as the numbering is screwed up)

Because the playing of records defies centrifugal force.

― ___ (___), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:05 (twenty-one years ago)

26. If you're DJ-ing, you can immediately see where the breakdown sections are on the track, because the grooves look different.

25. No CD can claim to be a PORKY PRIME CUT.

― mike t-diva (mike t-diva), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 11:45 (twenty-one years ago)

89. You can place the neddle any where

A "neddle"- wot, like a small "ned"!!?!?!

http://www.glasgowsurvival.co.uk/pictures/nedGal15.jpg

I can't imagine putting one of these on one of my gramophones!!!!!!!!!!

― Old Fart!!! (oldfart_sd), Tuesday, 2 March 2004 12:04 (twenty-one years ago)

six years pass...

as i said in the "introduce yourself" thread, i just got a record player. i kind of love it, but i'm not sure why, e.g., is it the retro-feel; richer, warmer sound quality; the artwork and packaging of records versus mp3s or discs?

why do you “love vinyl”?

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:11 (fourteen years ago)

was about to begin a separate thread on this in the new ILV board, but put it here instead. the search-function works well!

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 17:12 (fourteen years ago)

you can decapitate zombies

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

― time for a chimmy changa run (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:13 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

the remains of the day?...shit...the hot chick?...fuck man what do i look like imdb?

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:16 (fourteen years ago)

.......you both lose.

― time for a chimmy changa run (kelpolaris), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

when reading your posts, that's a given

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:17 (fourteen years ago)

also tyler:

how much are you looking to spend?

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:18 (fourteen years ago)

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), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:21 (fourteen years ago)

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.)

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:23 (fourteen years ago)

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

― KC & the sunshine banned (outdoor_miner), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:30 (fourteen years ago)

yeah i should just start trawling ebay i guess?

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:31 (fourteen years ago)

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...

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago)

rega P1

IMO

― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:33 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

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

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

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?

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:29 (fourteen years ago)

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

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:32 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:48 (fourteen years ago)

used vinyl online--ebay, discogs.

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:49 (fourteen years ago)

there's GEMM altho it tends to be kinda overpriced

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

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:51 (fourteen years ago)

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

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:52 (fourteen years ago)

'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 first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 19:56 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Trip Maker, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:01 (fourteen years ago)

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

Where's 'here'?

― sonofstan, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:32 (fourteen years ago)

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?

― Moka, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:54 (fourteen years ago)

i know of no brick-and-mortar stores around here,
_____________________________________
Where's 'here'?

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

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 20:59 (fourteen years ago)

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

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:02 (fourteen years ago)

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

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:03 (fourteen years ago)

!!! omg

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:09 (fourteen years ago)

kind of like the end of raiders of the lost ark

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

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'

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:16 (fourteen years ago)

holy shit!

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:17 (fourteen years ago)

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

― not everything is a campfire (ian), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:27 (fourteen years ago)

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 ...

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:31 (fourteen years ago)

definitely sounds like a trip worth taking.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:42 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:43 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:44 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― karl...arlk...rlka...lkar..., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

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

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:52 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― Mark, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:56 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― tylerw, Wednesday, 20 October 2010 21:59 (fourteen years ago)

^^^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?

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:26 (fourteen years ago)

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

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

― The Porcupine Captain With A Crew of White Rabbits (Viceroy), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:30 (fourteen years ago)

23. album covers are the perfect weed tray

so true

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

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Wednesday, 20 October 2010 23:32 (fourteen years ago)

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

― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:48 (fourteen years ago)

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

― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:49 (fourteen years ago)

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

― naked human hands and a foam rubber head (contenderizer), Thursday, 21 October 2010 08:53 (fourteen years ago)

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.

― The Porcupine Captain With A Crew of White Rabbits (Viceroy), Thursday, 21 October 2010 18:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

― only ad hominem strawman can troll me (Edward III), Thursday, 21 October 2010 18:02 (fourteen years ago)

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!

― Remember the Dayne! (u s steel), Thursday, 21 October 2010 18:03 (fourteen years ago)

^^^^^

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

― sonofstan, Thursday, 21 October 2010 21:28 (fourteen years ago)

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

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:17 (fourteen years ago)

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?

― Daniel, Esq., Wednesday, October 20, 2010 12:29 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

some places really, really jack up the price of used vinyl fwiw. don't shop for vinyl thinking that you have to pay $15 for--to cite an example--a steely dan LP when you could probably pay $15 for good clean copies of their first 7 albums.

― rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:22 (fourteen years ago)

$15 total i mean.

― rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:23 (fourteen years ago)

yeah I don't think I paid morethan $5 for any of the Steely Dan albums I got, with the exception of a copy of Can't Buy A Thrill that was in unusually pristine shape

― the first Asian legislator in our Nevada State Assembly (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:27 (fourteen years ago)

yeah, i think i paid probably $20 for all the steely dan records on vinyl. maybe less, i know at least one of 'em was $1.

― tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

and that is some serious value right there.

― tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:29 (fourteen years ago)

WOW. that's a great price. for good quality records (no scratches, distortions, warping)?

i need to explore other outlets to buy vinyl. i don't think i can hack paying $25.00 a record.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago)

i got the entire classic Dan at a record fair for a buck each, all minty. love those 70s albums with the thick inner sleeves (and classical with the high-quality paper/plastic ones reserved for Good Music).

22. inner sleeves

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:35 (fourteen years ago)

21. big cover art

― jumpskins, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

(no scratches, distortions, warping)?
i mean there's some crackles and pops and so forth, but for many those crackles and pops would be a reason why vinyl is superior.

― tylerw, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:39 (fourteen years ago)

you'd be surprised at how nice a lot of $1-$2 records can look and sound.

― rothko's chapel and waffles (omar little), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:41 (fourteen years ago)

i'm determined to find out.

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:42 (fourteen years ago)

20. You can get one of those little toy cars with a stylus underneath to drive around and around a record (spiraling in) and play the sound through its tinny rooftop speaker.....

― Michael Train, Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:45 (fourteen years ago)

19. you can clean dirty records and they sound better

― very wary hairy Barry (herb albert), Thursday, 21 October 2010 22:50 (fourteen years ago)

18. house music

― erschloraque, Thursday, 21 October 2010 23:43 (fourteen years ago)

why house music?

― Daniel, Esq., Thursday, 21 October 2010 23:55 (fourteen years ago)

tonight, having just opened the syl johnson vinyl set from numero group, this cheap record player is a revelation. The sound is noticeably better -- richer, warmer, fuller, better dynamics.

and yeah, the whole record package makes it seem more like a valuable art object. thrilled with this.

― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 22 October 2010 01:04 (fourteen years ago)

I like that it slows me down and that it isn't easy to switch to something else.

this is my favorite thing about vinyl these days. step away from a computer, put away a cellphone, and just d-_-b

― original bgm, Friday, 22 October 2010 17:18 (fourteen years ago)

I can't wait to actually have the space and the cash again to do a full stereo setup with a turntable and to start buying vinyl again. Esp since I have a hand-me-down macintosh amp and receiver that I'm psyched to set up.

― Bobby Short, Wayne Shorter (Hurting 2), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:21 (fourteen years ago)

yeah sometimes i buy old classical records just for the sleeves and swap them out.

― S Beez Wit the Remedy (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 22 October 2010 17:27 (fourteen years ago)

Box sets where you carefully lift out the black plates by their edges, rather than tangling with complex plastic hinges that snap in an instant

― Dr X O'Skeleton, Saturday, 23 October 2010 18:53 (fourteen years ago)

okay, yesterday & today records is close-ish to my area. now vinyl-obsessed, i will try to visit it tomorrow.

― Daniel, Esq., Sunday, 24 October 2010 01:15 (fourteen years ago)

17. a big vinyl collection impresses people

― The reverse TARDIS of pasta (Niles Caulder), Sunday, 24 October 2010 08:56 (fourteen years ago)

16. when your stylus wears out, you buy a new one. when your laser gets damaged, the whole unit is fucked.

― jumpskins, Sunday, 24 October 2010 09:41 (fourteen years ago)

been thinking of just buying vinyl again when I do buy albums, at least they will appreciate in value, unlike this worthless 1000 cd collection I am saddled with.

― akm, Sunday, 24 October 2010 15:27 (fourteen years ago)

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100 Reasons why vinyl is the superior format.

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