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Blue 1 said:
Got an ok copy of Lou Reed's "Street Hassle" for £6 and an excellent copy of Keith Hudson's "Rasta Communication" for £10 yesterday at my local second hand record shop. 😀
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I had a mixed bag. Grabbed an original press of Roxy Music's debut but Side B is pretty bad for noise and clicks....I could see it wasn't great but it's been on the wantlist for a while, the sleeve is excellent and the little sticker saying "Plays well..." weakened my resolve. Plays well obviously been vague enough to cover noise so long as there's no skipping.

On the plus side I grabbed a fantastic 1969 copy of Nashville Skyline which has a few superficial hairlines but plays like a dream for about a tenner and a few more from the sellers bargain box which all went well.

Lesson learned I suppose to stand firm and don't kid myself it will be fine. Will have to keep an eye on Discogs for a decent quality matching press going cheap due to a lack of or poor quality sleeve.
 
I've been collecting vinyl for 30 years. It's a labour of love these days and not much fun anymore. But nothing sounds better than it.

Things like record fairs and charity shops are now all massively overpriced thanks to Discogs and the resurgence of vinyl. It a great resource but has driven up and publicised the price of everything. It means there's not a bargain to be had anywhere. A new record costs upwards of £25. Its hard to find a reasonably priced shop these days.

The days are gone when you can find Spectrum by Sonic Boom for £3, or a 12" Paid in Full by Eric B and Rakim for 10p. That was the thrill - finding a rare record in the wild and buying it for peanuts, even in proper records shops.
 
ClausThomsen said:
I had a mixed bag. Grabbed an original press of Roxy Music's debut but Side B is pretty bad for noise and clicks....I could see it wasn't great but it's been on the wantlist for a while, the sleeve is excellent and the little sticker saying "Plays well..." weakened my resolve. Plays well obviously been vague enough to cover noise so long as there's no skipping.

On the plus side I grabbed a fantastic 1969 copy of Nashville Skyline which has a few superficial hairlines but plays like a dream for about a tenner and a few more from the sellers bargain box which all went well.

Lesson learned I suppose to stand firm and don't kid myself it will be fine. Will have to keep an eye on Discogs for a decent quality matching press going cheap due to a lack of or poor quality sleeve.
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That's the game, the bonus being if you get lucky and find a fine disc with a tattered sleeve you've got your good copy and a sub standard copy to let go and recover a few quid with. A lot easier to do with bigger more well known acts.
 
cocklord said:
I've been collecting vinyl for 30 years. It's a labour of love these days and not much fun anymore. But nothing sounds better than it.

Things like record fairs and charity shops are now all massively overpriced thanks to Discogs and the resurgence of vinyl. It a great resource but has driven up and publicised the price of everything. It means there's not a bargain to be had anywhere. A new record costs upwards of £25. Its hard to find a reasonably priced shop these days.

The days are gone when you can find Spectrum by Sonic Boom for £3, or a 12" Paid in Full by Eric B and Rakim for 10p. That was the thrill - finding a rare record in the wild and buying it for peanuts, even in proper records shops.
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I picked up a copy of the specials 'protest songs' on amazon for about 12 quid, it's about 11 quid now.
Great record I didn't even know it existed, came out over Covid I think.
 
cocklord said:
I've been collecting vinyl for 30 years. It's a labour of love these days and not much fun anymore. But nothing sounds better than it.

Things like record fairs and charity shops are now all massively overpriced thanks to Discogs and the resurgence of vinyl. It a great resource but has driven up and publicised the price of everything. It means there's not a bargain to be had anywhere. A new record costs upwards of £25. Its hard to find a reasonably priced shop these days.

The days are gone when you can find Spectrum by Sonic Boom for £3, or a 12" Paid in Full by Eric B and Rakim for 10p. That was the thrill - finding a rare record in the wild and buying it for peanuts, even in proper records shops.
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Some charity shops are wild. Vinyl priced by people who go off clickbait headlines rather than actual worth. Really quite funny seeing dog eared battered copies of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass compilations priced at £10.
 

mightymoyes said:
I picked up a copy of the specials 'protest songs' on amazon for about 12 quid, it's about 11 quid now.
Great record I didn't even know it existed, came out over Covid I think.
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Well then that's good. But in my experience very much the exception rather than the rule.
 
cocklord said:
Well then that's good. But in my experience very much the exception rather than the rule.
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ebay tends to go for 40-50% of discogs price. Unless it's something really special. Every now and then someone sets up to sell something you want with an auction time of 3:30am or they've misspelled the item, tracking down and trawling the gutters online is similar to the crate rifling. Good thing about in person browsing, if you get to know what the shop owner is into and have a line on some stuff like that, you can sometimes work a deal out.
 
ClausThomsen said:
Some charity shops are wild. Vinyl priced by people who go off clickbait headlines rather than actual worth. Really quite funny seeing dog eared battered copies of Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass compilations priced at £10.
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The Oxfam shop in Keswick had a bog standard copy of Hysteria by Def Leppard for £35

That is a 20 million copy selling album.
 

ste d' indica said:
One of my buys from SOTU went on the platter this morning

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Some lovely vintage synths and class drumming on a cosmic sojourn.

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I just had to post as I noticed hiding under your record player is the Disposable Heroes album, so many people have not had the pleasure of hearing it, such a great piece of music with some powerful lyrics and some great beats.
 
Simon Buttle said:
I just had to post as I noticed hiding under your record player is the Disposable Heroes album, so many people have not had the pleasure of hearing it, such a great piece of music with some powerful lyrics and some great beats.
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It's an absolutely colossal album innit?
I've rec'd it to a lot of people who had no time for hip hop to consistent "ah...fair enough, that's actually 'kin incredible isn't it?"
 
Blue 1 said:
I've got the "optikinetic sleeve" version of that. Wish I'd looked after it better. It's one of the lightest, thinnest pieces of vinyl I've ever encountered though.
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The kaleidoscope thing is brilliant. If someone asks why I collect vinyl it’s a record that I usually pull out to show. But you’re right, it’s the record I always think of also for thinnest vinyl, it’s thinner than a crisp packets!
 

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