If you see an original pressing of a track that you already own on a comp or as a reissue, do you buy it, and why?

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Because I do, because I unashamedly love vinyl records as artifacts and love to see the way they were packaged and sounded the first time round and because there's something just so iconic about 'em. I don't feel like I "really" have a disco record until I have it on the original 12

I feel like this love for the 'real' thing is kind of romantic and not some horrible curatorial impulse that's the sole preserve of Nick Hornby fans. Isn't it?

This prompted by purchasing Dhar Braxton's "Jump back" on sleeping bag even tho I already have two copies of it on reissues, but the sleeping bag one is sort of "touched by the hand" of Arthur Russell, you know?

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:54 (twenty years ago)

PLUS - is this shit a "subcultural power move" or can you divorce the external perception from the internal drives AKA are you innately suspicious of any music "collector" activity having any motive OTHER than status?

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:56 (twenty years ago)

you have too much money.

― N_RQ, Tuesday, 14 June 2005 14:58 (twenty years ago)

What if I sold the reissues for inflated prices to revival bandwagon jumpers who didn't know better? what then, eh?

― Jacob (Jacob), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I do this occasionally if I really love the song and it's reasonably cheap. I also have a huge list of 7"s I will probably never buy because they're just too darn expensive and really don't need to as I have most of them on comps already.

I'm not really that bothered about original pressings though, unless there is something particularly interesting about it. I often buy reissues of old 7"s when they come around.

I just like 7" singles, I think. I don't really do this with albums or 12"s.

― Colonel Poo (Colonel Poo), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:20 (twenty years ago)

no.

― jack cole (jackcole), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 15:23 (twenty years ago)

Nope.

Because I already have it, duh!

I always thought there is waaaaay too much music out there to waste money being a collector type. I could either spend the $30 for an original Black Market Clash EP on vinyl, or spend $15 on the CD (which I'd actually listen to) and spend the other $15 on a Stiff Little Fingers reissue.

― Whiney G. Weingarten (whineyg), Tuesday, 14 June 2005 16:23 (twenty years ago)

Whiney's telling you right. I'm not saying I HAVEN'T bought multiple copies here and there, but for the most part I don't fuck with buying the same record twice. What in the world you gonna look forward to hearing when you get home?

― Rev. Hoodoo (Rev. Hoodoo), Thursday, 16 June 2005 04:40 (twenty years ago)

i've done this a couple of times in siuations where the comp or reissue has drawn the track from vinyl. oftentimes the transfer just wasn't good enough for my liking (fortunately this is in the minority of situations).

― shine headlights on me (electricsound), Thursday, 16 June 2005 04:54 (twenty years ago)

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