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Although I realize that lps are probably just fetishes and that the whole argument implying that vinyl sounds better, "warmer", than cd is just bullshit, I still sometimes shop for the old format. Am I alone? which were the last 4-5 albums you bought on vinyl?

Mine:

* TFUL 282 - Bob dinners and larry noodles present Tubby Turdner's celebrity avalanche

* Teenage Fanclub & Jad Fair - words of wisdom and hope

* rye coalition - zz topless

* party of helicopters - mt. forever

― Simone, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

dated format ----> new answers

― Simone, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

cut copy - 1981

― minna, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I usually buy on vinyl whatever I can't find on CD (Read: old shit) or else anything I won't pay more than $1 for (Read: bad shit.) While I do think vinyl might sound better in some instances - and I really miss it - I'm a sellout and I like the convenience of CDs.

My Dad is Dead - The Best Defense
Flesh Eaters - Drag Strip Riot
Gone - (I forget which one)
Some Triffids & Love Tractor LPs (stuff I wouldn't pay more than $1 for - just cuz I don't know them well enough.)
Schramms - (forget the name)

― Dave225, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

AMM, III – It Had Been an Ordinary Enough Day in Pueblo, Colorado (JAPO/ECM, JAPO 60031) LP
AMM, Combine + Laminates (Pogus, P204-1) LP
Bastro, Bastro Diablo Guapo (Homestead, HMS 132-1) LP
Boards of Canada, Geogaddi (Warp/music70, warplp101) 3LP
Creative Construction Company, s/t (Muse, MR 5071) LP (sealed)
Curtis Mayfield, Superfly (Curtom, CRS 8014 ST) LP

― hstencil, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I'm bad...I don't buy anything that isn't on vinyl and the stuff that isn't available in big round format I just download and burn.

― cybele, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

22 Highballin' Hits (truck driving songs) Moog - The Electric Eclectics of Dick Hyman ($1!) Gorilla - The Bonzo Dog Band I Hear you Knocking - Smiley Lewis The Flying Lizards - The Flying Lizards

― arch ibog, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I try to only buy vinyl, but sometimes there are things that I just know won't come in on that format (I have never seen Kohn or Komeda on wax). And it really is nicer than CD.

Last albums, erm....

Specials- Specials (I can't believe I didn't have it already either)
Ortofon Stereo Test
More Death And Horror

And you know what, I can't remember any of the other albums. I bought loads of 7" singles recently, though, including the Pines, yay.

― emil.y, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I just bought "Visage" on vinyl for 50c and it's awesome!!

― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Feh. Probably the Primitives (Lou Reed's pre VU band). Found it in Japan. Haven't played it yet. Or maybe it was that Diana Ross disco LP? Just ordered a V/VM single.

― helenfordsdale, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

We've done this several times, but I'll answer anyway. I don't know if vinyl is "warmer", but it certainly is better. If you're happy with the way CD sounds, good for you. I always buy LP unless it's not available that way, or sometimes if the release is on 2 or more records; that often makes me spring for the convenience of CD.

― Sean, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

1) Microphones - The Glow part 2. 2) Mirah - Small Sale 7". Are the only two I've bought recently but these have found their way to me through the giveaway bin... 3) ...Trail of Dead - Relative Ways ep 4) New Order - Crystal ep 5) Boards of Canada - A Beautiful Place in The Country ep

Currently though Im listening to a loaned copy of Neon Rome lp A New Herion, which Im guessing wasnt even released on tape.

― Mr Noodles, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

damn, that TF/Jad Fair thing came out on CD like a day earlier and I got it instead of the vinyl. It's pretty good though. Anyway, the sound arguments of vinyl vs. CD are not bullshit esp. if it is an original, good vinyl pressing vs. a late 80s or early 90s 1st gen cd mastering. Nowadays it's probably more likely that the vinyl will be poorly mastered than the CD, since it's a dying art. But anyway, I still shop for a lot of vinyl, it still (usually) beats CD in terms of packaging and fetish value, and if I like something a lot I can just burn a CDR of it to listen at work, in car etc. I really try to avoid buying both formats, something i used to do a bit too often. Another thing to note, if you can buy a used lp it will probably cost less than a new cd reissue, unless it's highly collectable. New vinyl seems to go for just about the same price as CDs these days, once in awhile one format will be slightly more or less expensive. Anyway, recently I got:

Scarlet's Well - The Isle of the Blue Flowers (Siesta)
Cornelius - Point (Matador)
Men Without Hats - Rhythm of Youth (Backstreet)
Lunchbox - The Magic of Sound (Magic Marker)
V/A - London Pavillion Volume One (El)
...

― g, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

// jackie-o motherfucker - the magick fire musick

// boards of canada - beautiful place ep

// new order - movement

// hayden - moving careful ep

// jim o'rourke - insignifigance

― fields of salmon, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I buy CDs, though I still love the feel of vinyl. Though I still often buy older vinyl when I'm looking for something cheap. Weird that you mention A Neon Rome, Mr. Noodles...I think that I have that one kicking around in the collection somewhere (or maybe that's even my old copy...can't remember if I sold it!)

So how's the Teenage Fanclub n Jad Fair album, folks?

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

mabels 7" on drive in. Clock strikes 13/clientele 7" on drive in. pernice brothers - square world 7" on summershine. whipping boy 12" on cheree. xinlisupreme 7" on fat cat.

That's just the first 5 i can think of off the top of my head. I still buy heaps of vinyl, new and secondhand. It's never because of fetishistic reasons. All of the above was on vinyl only anyway.

― electric sound of jim, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

I too have made my position plain on the whole vinyl/CD palaver, and I'm not going there again. But, to answer the question, I'm ashamed to say I have to scan back several months to come up with: Stan Getz: Sweet Rain
Mouse On Mars: Idiology
The Slits: Cut
Panasonic: Kulma (double)
Rachel's/Matmos: Full On Night

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, I see people are mentioning singles too. Lots more of those but I seem to have been given most of them. One outstanding 7" purchase in 2001 springs to mind: Terre Thaemlitz - Selling.

― Michael Jones, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Oh, jeeze, I forgot to mention my most recent purchases:
Woodentops - Wooden Foot Cops on the Highway
Keith LeBlank/Malcolm X - No Sell Out 7"
Alan Vega - one of the Elektra ones, can't remember name right now
Orphan - Lonely at Night (prime 80s Canadiana, pure embarrasment)

Next one will be A Flock of Seagulls - Listen! PHEAR IT.

― Sean Carruthers, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Bert Jansch-Rosemary Lane

First Choice-Delusions

Tom T.Hall-Greatest Hits

Black Mass-Lucifer

The Voices of East Harlem-Can You Feel It

― Arthur, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Arthur, did you know the Voices of East Harlem were managed by Jerry Brandt, who also managed Jobriath?
I also had that Black Mass Lucifer thing, but may have tossed it out.

― Sean, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

i recently prefer vinyl sound to cd. Plus you can find so many interesting out of print titles. last 5 I bought In a Classical Moog, Genesis Live, Genesis-three sides live, Walter Wanderly best of,high llamas -cold and bouncy

― mike hanle y, Thursday, 28 February 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

No, I didn't know that, Sean. I did know that he went on to run the Ritz in New York City in the early 80s, where I saw PiL, Adam & the Ants, Bow Wow Wow, and, oh, tons of others.

The Black Mass album is a bit of a letdown. Not nearly as spooky and kitschy as I'd hoped.

― Arthur, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Probably: Stereolab, Enoch Light, Dick Schory/Marty Gold, Add N To X (not an "album" - not sure how you'd describe it actually), "Planet Sauvage" soundtrack.

― Jeff W, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

man thats one of my favorite records. that le planete savauge soundtrack. i love that record.

― chaki, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Anthony Braxton: B-Xo/ N-O-1-47A (wonderful BYG/Actuel reissue). The first side has compositions by leroy jenkins and leo smith.

Dietrich/(other guy from borbetomagus- can't remember name): 'Bells together' (saxophone duos)

Husker du: Zen arcade (cheaper than CD)

Minutemen: Double nickels on the dime (has all tracks and is cheaper than CD)

Sun Ra: It is forbidden (gig where he was opening act for James Brown: brilliant).

― Julio Desouza, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

T.O.K. My Crew, My Dawgs

― richelleux, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Here's all the vinyl I've bought in the last week and a half:

Ghost Ghost*
Ghost Second Time Around*
Kinks Kinda Kinks*
Aphex Twin "Windowlicker" 12"
Squarepusher (Untitled) 12"
The Bowling Green (1-sided single remixed by Mu-Ziq) 12"
Sloan Navy Blues
Notwist Neon Golden
Herbie Hancock Mwandishi
Herbie Hancock Fat Albert Rotunda
Herbie Hancock Crossings
Roxy Music Country Life*
Ghost Temple Stone*
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band Trout Mask Replica 2LP*
Wilson Picket In The Midnight Hour
Rahsaan Roland Kirk Blacknuss
Rahsaan Roland Kirk Natural Black Inventions: Root Strata
Art Ensemble of Chicago A Jackson in Your House
Jazz Messengers A Night in Tunisia

*=used.

― Vic Funk, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Groovy!
― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

Groovy, even!

― Sean Carruthers, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

The Slits: Cut
God DAMN it. Some distributor's email mentioned having found a box of these LPs. I was snubbed when I asked if I could get a copy. Bastards.

― helenfordsdale, Friday, 1 March 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

five years pass...

I coudn't find a better thread to put this in...

I want to upgrade my copy of Abbey Road -- Capital has new vinyl that can be had for as little as $15. Are these reissues "any good" or should I look for some particular pressing?

Oh, and my last 5 slabs of wax are as follows:
Nicolai Dunger - The Vinyl Trilogy
Black Pony Express - Love in a Cold Place
Caetano Veloso - Jóia
Xui Xui / Devendra - Split 7"
Circus Devils - Sgt. Disco

― christoff, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 17:59 (eighteen years ago)

Michael Fremer doesn't like the Japanese Beatles reissues, which as far as I know are the most recent series to come out.

http://www.musicangle.com/feat.php?id=55

― Thus Sang Freud, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 19:47 (eighteen years ago)

Last five:
Colin Newman, Commercial Suicide
Peter Baumann, Romance '76
Ultravox, Systems of Romance
Terry Riley & John Cale, Church of Anthrax
Walter Carlos, Switched On Bach

― Telephone thing, Tuesday, 18 September 2007 20:16 (eighteen years ago)

hank williams - greatest hits
lichens - the psychic nature of being
jay reatard - i know a place/don't let him come back
the beach boys - surf's up
stravinsky - firebird and petrushka suites

― 6335, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 01:58 (eighteen years ago)

Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin - Songs of the Congo (same as the Philips Missa Luba LP, turns out)
Les Troubadours du Roi Baudouin - African Concert*
Songs and Dances of Greece*
Suzanna Folk Songs: Singing Sisters of Our Lady of Africa
Lydia Lunch - Queen of Siam

* I collect albums in the Philips Connoisseur series — LPs of international music issued in the sixties with big gatefold jackets and pages inbetween, usually with an embossed harp label affixed to the front. Some of them are compilations of popular singers from abroad (especially France — Brigitte Bardot, Edith Piaf, Jacques Brel, etc.), while others are field recordings. There were a number of choral albums, the most famous probably being the Missa Luba (as featured in if....), but then there were more obscure ones like the Missa Bantu, "Mass of the First Sunday after Easter Sung by Les Soeurs Blanches, Chorus of the Congolese Sisters of Katana (Kivu)," which sounds a lot like Gregorian chant and is wonderfully eerie and dim-sounding.

I wish someone would compile a website devoted to this series — maybe I should. In fact I envision a box set of Japanese CD releases reproducing the jackets and liner notes in miniature, which will probably never happen since no one else seems interested in the series as a series. But it would be gorgeous.

― eatandoph, Wednesday, 19 September 2007 03:02 (eighteen years ago)

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