Buying Vinyl?

It seems the best option to buy online are german and british stores, they have almost every album in stock... I'm very impressed by the catalog of sites such as piccadily, boomkat, phonika and a-musik for example, problem is shipping is very expensive overseas.

Where do ya'll buy your vinyl records? Any recommendations for purchase within the states?

HAY USE THE SEARCH FUNCTION MOKA

Rolling 2008 Vinyl Thread

Peeps in there are talking about the vinyls they're buying not their choice for a record store specifically. Cant deserve another thread perhops?

there are many other vinyl threds champion.

There's no online vinyl store thread.

what genre

i buy indie vinyl in the US from tonevendor

I've actually just ordered from tonevendor and it's great... do you use any other when tonevendor is out of stock?

I can't tell any genre in particular. I buy Techno as I do Hip-hop or Indie, sometimes funk or tropicalia (for which I use dustygroove) other times just rock classics. I don't have a particular taste to be honest.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/
http://www.calsound.com/shop/vinyl-records-c-462.html

I've only bought music online once in my life, everywhere else is in stores and whenever a craigslist-user is deciding to sell off stuff, which I'd recommend. Sure the selection online is waaaay superior, but hey it's still only half as fun.

try http://www.musicfearsatan.com (used to be e-vinyl.com but now stock cds and dvds, good prices and quick postage from France)
also I use
http://www.roboticempire.com/store/
http://www.allthatisheavy.com/
http://shop.relapse.com/store/product.aspx
http://www.theomegaorder.com/
http://kreationrecords.net/
http://www.normanrecords.com/
http://www.conspiracyrecords.com/store/index.php
http://www.southernlord.com/store.php
http://www.troublemanunlimited.com/store/
http://www.temporaryresidence.com/
http://www.bluecollardistro.com/bcd/categories.php?cPath=1_481
http://www.shiftyrecords.com/mailorder/
http://www.kozmik-artifactz.com/shop/index.php?language=en
https://www.southern.net/eu-shop/

Hope that is of use to you.

there's insound too

and Amazon is selling vinyl now too. Kind of strange, maybe.

i work for a vinyl record shop that does a small bit of mail order and our catalog is here:
academymailorder.blogspot.com

also fusetronsound.com
eclipse-records.com

and of course EBAY.

Hey Ian...

Which NY store is my best bet for picking up recent reissues? I'm after stuff like Milk n Cookies and Debris' Static Disposal

I'm there on holiday with my girlfriend for the weekend and want to pick up as much as I can before the pound finally crashes out and ends a long spell of cheap-o US mail order. Probably won't make it to more than one or two stores though. I'm hoping to get a quick look at The Thing, at least...

Nevermind! I should have checked that Academy blog listing first. There's loads of stuff there I was after.

Narlus - Do not miss Other Music at 15 East 4th St off Broadway.

http://www.auralexploits.com/

http://www.dustygrooves.com/

I'm after stuff like Milk n Cookies and Debris' Static Disposal

yeah Academy is your spot for that. there's a few locations, you want the one in Williamburg on N. 6th

one of Ian's co-workers put out that Milk n Cookies record I think

How bout The Thing? Is it regularly topped up with new shit? I'm guessing there's a ton of crap, but enough good stuff scattered about to keep it interesting.

I actually haven't been there. I think Jaxon went when he was in town

I think the general consensus is that if you have a lot of time to spend you can find good stuff but if you've only got an hour don't bother

http://www.weirdorecords.com/

and the always entertaining

http://www.anti-naturals.org/swill/maincat.htm (click on 'Reviews' for the lists)

for reggae/dub cannot fuckin beat ERNIE B'S!!

Gnarly! Dude! Come say hello.
I'll put aside copies of the Debris and Milk n Cookies LPs for you.
We are located at 96 North 6th Street in WILLIAMDBURG, BROOKLYN. Off the Bedford Avenue L train stop.

except it looks like we're out of the Debris record at the moment.

Insound and Amazon are terrible choices for vinyl. They have absolutely nothing in stock. I'll give it to Amazon, though, that the vinyl section is somewhat new which could explain the poor catalogue but in the meantime. The other choices Pfunkboy are excellent for rock and metal. Thanks.

http://www.forcedexposure.com/

Has anybody ordered from here? The site appears to have a very comprehensive catalogue in stock but somehow the site just seems very sketchy to me. Do they really have everything they say they do?

http://www.auralexploits.com/
http://www.dustygrooves.com/

I like dustygroove, been ordering from there for a while now. Auralexploits is a good choice, some great reissues and special editions to be found there once in a while but they run out of stock rather quickly.

i work for a vinyl record shop that does a small bit of mail order and our catalog is here:
academymailorder.blogspot.com

Wow, Ian I've been looking for Can's future days and they have it in there as well as some that have caught my attention. Do you ship to Canada and Mexico?

I'll add turntablelab to the list. Good for downtempo, new disco, hip hop:

http://www.turntablelab.com/vinyl/

dustygroove is okay for some stuff but I've really soured on them over the years - their selection can be really spotty, particularly when it comes to stuff I used to rely on them for (like jazz and Brazilian music). They always seem to have some crappy post-peak stuff in stock, but never the canonical works (for ex. check their Coltrane catalog)

and the always entertaining

http://www.anti-naturals.org/swill/maincat.htm (click on 'Reviews' for the lists)

I swear I don't recognize any records listed on both sites you suggested but those surely are some entertaining reviews in there.

Forced Exposure isn't sketchy, they've been around since the '80s

Forced Exposure might not have everything they say they do, but they're very reliable and a quick email to check the stock is simple enough.

FE actually does distribution, don't they?
I've had a few items from orders not be in stock, but they're good about communication and letting you know if things are back.

Wicked. Thank you and sorry, it's just I found it suspicious that none of their items are marked as out of stock, I suppose they erase them from the catalogue when they dont have it. I'm mailing to doublecheck and ordering a couple from there.

Does anyone know a good place to find 'the Zombies' reissues? Are there any reissues at all? I haven't had any luck with these. My father is a crazy Zombies fan and I want to buy him anything I can find.

There are no currently available Zombies reissues on LP.

and Amazon is selling vinyl now too. Kind of strange, maybe.

― Cars That Go Boom (mehlt), Wednesday, September 17, 2008 10:36 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I highly doubt this url will work, but hell, even best buy is selling vinyl now

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/olspage.jsp?id=pcat17080&type=page&qp=ccat02001%23%23-1%23%23-1~~q70726f63657373696e6774696d653a3e313930302d30312d3031~~nf207%7C%7C56494e594c&list=y&nrp=15&sc=musicSP&ks=960&usc=cat02001&sp=&list=y&iht=n&st=processingtime%3A%3E1900-01-01

newbury comics' in-store vinyl section has gotten pretty big lately. not sure how their on-line service is, though.

http://www.newburycomics.com/rel/v2_home.php?storenr=103&deptnr=596

A Zombies "Odyssey and The Oracle" re-issue from a couple of years back is still floating around, I believe. The 2LP "Time of the Zombies" compilation is the easiest to find used Zombies record (check ebay)and it contains most everything a Zombies fan would want.

when I was looking at new vinyl in newbury comics the other day I realized I went from buying records for $6-$8 to CDs for $10-$15 and now back to records for $18-$20.

There are no currently available Zombies reissues on LP.

I was expecting this, they should definitely do some sort of special reissue this year. After all 2008 marks the 50th Anniversary of Odessey and Oracle, am I wrong?

A Zombies "Odyssey and The Oracle" re-issue from a couple of years back is still floating around, I believe. The 2LP "Time of the Zombies" compilation is the easiest to find used Zombies record (check ebay)and it contains most everything a Zombies fan would want.

I'm still to find any trustworthy place to sell the odessey reissue. The 'time of the zombies' is in fact available on ebay and at a reasonable price, but damn that is an ugly cover. Did the people selling this actually listened to the zombies before doing the artwork?

I was expecting this, they should definitely do some sort of special reissue this year. After all 2008 marks the 50th Anniversary of Odessey and Oracle, am I wrong?

It's actually the 40th anniversary, my bad.

http://www.mimaroglumusicsales.com/

great selection + service

I've bought a few LPs from Bullmoose and found them very fast, with cheap shipping to boot. Also when they sent an LP that turned out to be defective I emailed them about it and they just sent out another copy; I didn't have to return the bad copy.

I would just recommend Ebay ... there are a ton of small indie stores that are on there. Some folks charge a bit extra to cover ebay and paypal fees, but you can sometimes contact these places directly and get cheaper off-ebay prices. And these mom-and-pop shops probably need your money more that Insound, Turntablelab, Forced Exposure etc. Or maybe you could just see if your local shop does special orders.

Also, Discogs is great for dance music (especially out-of-print stuff).

I can't stand Gemm with their crappy layout and search function, and Musicstack is only slightly better.

But I do use a lot of the other store/distro sites mentioned above for research purposes. It's great that so many of the big online stores write up reviews and post audioclips.

I wasnt aware Discogs sold vinyls :S

discogs is the means with which independent sellers reach buyers.

gemm is awful for usability but amidst the overpriced crap you can find some deals there sometimes

not quite on the same scale as the voa collection sale, but a few years back i ended up with a whole bunch of mid-20th century modern classical/electronic lps that turned out to have originally come from the library service of this outfit. strange to think of john cage et al being used as cold war propaganda warriors!

i just saw this posted on /r/vinyl, from someone excited about their $90 score. i feel like my already-broken perception of the vinyl economy is even more shattered now.

https://i.imgur.com/9vt9gBj.png

tbf Sneakin Sally is def a $15 record these days, but the rest of those should be 5 tops

"I picked these up from a private seller I found on fb marketplace while on vacation. Nothing rare or any ridiculous steals to brag about here, just an unglamorous, totally solid stack for $90. His records were alphabetized, came with play notes and visual grades, and all were very conservatively graded. One record that he graded ‘G’ was equivalent to several discogs ‘VG+’ I’ve gotten from sellers there."

Baffling mindset - not seemingly interested in either the music or collectability.

Maybe it was assumed that since he bought them, their desirability (to him) is assumed?

what are play notes?

Also I will buy every copy of Sly, Joan, Janis, and Stevie you can find me for five bucks! All fetch $15+ where I live (tho the condition of the jackets might downgrade them from there)

that's Buddy Miles, not Janis!

i mean i do *know* it's possible this pile could go for $90 but damn

Play notes are just included details like "Several pops between tracks 1 & 2 of Side 2" and so on.

One record that he graded ‘G’ was equivalent to several discogs ‘VG+’ I’ve gotten

so in other words: G

truth

Oh shit, it is Buddy Miles! I’ll buy that for $5 too.

i just did a quick dig of what $35 bought me back about 13 years ago, which i don't even think was market rate at that point, but that's a special record store that i hope still exists.

https://i.imgur.com/f8FvhTd.jpeg

All Things Must Pass + Scary Monsters in nice shape would be about $100 for just those two these days.

I just popped out of a record store in NE VT. New owners all of two days and were super friendly. Unfortunately, I don’t see there business lasting all that long if the G- or worse disco/dance singles bin is all priced at $10.

shoutout to ILX user Born Under A Bad Sine aka jack battery-pack, we spent the day yesterday hitting all the local stores. It turned out to be the 5th anniversary of the Springfield branch of Little Axe, Warren had like 1000 LPs and 45s out on the street for free. speaking of good deals... I got a nice stack of 45s and a Sergio Mendes LP.

Picked up an “LN” rated copy, according to the price sticker, of “Bayou Country” by CCR at my local record store’s Labor Day weekend sale. It seemed reasonably priced at $25. I guess LN stands for Like New. They don’t seem to do NM at this place. It’s got some years on it, but it’s a nice clean copy.

Bought another 20 old jazz LPs, 2/5$, at the same Woodstock store as above, including a radio broadast from the early '40s of bandleader Ozzie Nelson and his vocalist Harriet Hilliard.

https://i.postimg.cc/76xDc8K4/34.jpg

Been looking for some decent vinyl collecting podcasts recently and have found that 'The Vinyl Guide' is a good time, interview-based, mostly talking to musicians about their tastes, habits and collections.

Been looking for some decent vinyl collecting podcasts recently and have found that 'The Vinyl Guide' is a good time, interview-based, mostly talking to musicians about their tastes, habits and collections.

https://popsike.io/pix/20210427/393272444121.jpg

bayou country has one of my favorite hype stickers

My copy has that sticker.

it's a very cool sticker

Been looking for some decent vinyl collecting podcasts recently and have found that 'The Vinyl Guide' is a good time, interview-based, mostly talking to musicians about their tastes, habits and collections.

― Maresn3st, Monday, September 2, 2024 8:13 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

i was about to recommend the We Buy Records podcast before realizing that you were the one who made me aware of it!

Great score this weekend, a nice copy of Muswell Hillbillies, which I bought without any knowledge of the pressing. It’s the Pickwick pressing and it sounds much better than the digital files I had before. Treble is much clearer and louder.

Vinyl Me Please is having a big going out of business sale with some bonkers prices.

There are some CDs mixed in there, so pay attention to format.

god vinyl is exhausting

https://www.reddit.com/r/VinylMePlease/comments/1iu90n2/scam_website/

In regards to this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/VinylMePlease/comments/1itmdrb/fake_vmp_liquidation_fb_scam/

We are aware of this site (and of at least 1 more like it), and it is factually 100% a scam. The message that they shared with it is not accurate at all and those aren't even VMP offices (its a local venue, Mission Ballroom...we don't have any offices as we are a 100% remote company).

The URL that I have seen is not our normal url either.

vinylmeplease.com is the correct site.

Apologies for anyone caught up in the confusion, we are doing everything we can to get that site(s) taken down!

Lol my card just declined it. Fucking hell.

you got a lucky break

maria got some cool soul and reggae records at the salvation army this morning and she even found a record for me! i needed this one. clean promo.

https://scontent-lga3-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t39.30808-6/481094014_10162862731192137_7905509011271786351_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&ccb=1-7&_nc_sid=127cfc&_nc_ohc=ofRLoWXKV20Q7kNvgFsPogP&_nc_oc=AdizgDFdW6CjGClDTQz0KVi7hZA7b5dMUO_Rr8ghqMXgKil6gigit4ZL-r7Mv9Pei9A&_nc_zt=23&_nc_ht=scontent-lga3-2.xx&_nc_gid=AF4dSaCaLEYTvoghrp387AC&oh=00_AYA-pJRRGTrj4IwHkUiRfHbnrowZ6no_mIQsxLjlSDpH-Q&oe=67BEBD62

Nice find! Love his version of Red Clay

I'm having a hard time finding the big sale through VMP direct--but I noticed that Dusty Groove now has a bunch of VMP titles in stock that have a list price of $40 and are $20 through them...just grabbed a couple.

because the VMP 'sale' is a scam website. I posted a link about it a few posts up

Ah whoops, misunderstood. I was surprised by the Dusty Groove situation though--there's about 80 VMP pressings they have at a deep discount now.

https://www.dustygroove.com/label/157348

searching for any album on bezos's canadian site now brings up bootleg t-shirts and posters with the album art on them.

I enjoyed my 2013 Youtube persona. I should bring it back.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h8lkTaumFOY

I wanna listen to all these records now!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d4wl6GOTVSo

https://www.npr.org/2025/08/12/nx-s1-5498815/vinyl-lp-missing-songs-incomplete-major-label

(Put that somewhere else if there’s a better thread)

I saw that earlier! prob via you on bsky

"The minimum number of songs required to be considered an album is four, no matter if it's digital or physical," says Keith Caulfield, managing director of charts and data operations at Billboard, in an email.

I guess my insistence that Relayer by Yes is the greatest album ever made is factually incorrect now

didn't we have a convo on another thread recently about how some prog tracklists that subdivided one superlong track into multiple movements were done that way in order to comply with some kind of RIAA standard or something?

fwiw I don't think this is a common problem at all amongst artists not vying for a Billboard spot (so basically everything I listen to), but the thing about the vinyl delay is pretty real. I still like driving to the record store, buying a new record that I've been excited about, and listening to it the first time that way. but a lot of times they can't get it until 2-3 weeks after it's released online, so by the time you get it a lot of the discourse has already died down and you feel like you missed out. on the plus side people do get freed from hearing my dumb opinions that I will inevitably retract

didn't we have a convo on another thread recently about how some prog tracklists that subdivided one superlong track into multiple movements were done that way in order to comply with some kind of RIAA standard or something?

― budo jeru, Tuesday, August 12, 2025 3:45 PM (two minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

I thought the idea was that they were paid 'per song' in those days up to a maximum of 10 or something, but if you divided a song into parts it would qualify under their rules, so ultimately it was just so they got paid more. I mean what can you do, that's a lot of mouths to feed.

yes, i think that was it!

xp gotta keep the mellotron player on board, right?

definately have noticed 45 minute single-track experimental albums listed as singles on spotify

Not sure where to this, but Jackpot records is doing a $9.99 sale on a bunch of their reissues: https://jackpotrecords.com/collections/jackpot-28th-anniversary-sale

BOOKER T! FLAMIN' GROOVIES! WALL OF VOODOO!