How do you pick your vinyls?

mystic fred wrote: Blacksword wrote: By smell.. If the covers smell really old I just buy them. Dont care who the artist is..     sniffed out any bargains lately Andy?

Sadly no. The vinyl shop I used to frequent, suddenly cut back on the amount of rock and prog vinyl it stocked. My last few visits were so fruitless, I've not gone back..

But it was a good shop while it lasted. I sniffed out numerous great albums there, Tulls 'A Passion Play' and 'Live at Carnegie Hall' by Renaissance..

All had a really good smell about them; reminiscent of old attics..

Release date, of course.

Nothing by post-89 bands.

I pick this one.

I go by what's on sale. REALLY!!! Because since buying new vinyl releases is more costly than CD's nowadays, I look for the specials. There's a couple of recently released Mobile Fidelity pressings I want but not at 40-60 bucks a pop.  

There is some magical factor that atracts me to buy music, something that feels like an higher autority. I do know (about) the most vinyls I buy, but I do tend to look after and choose those with the great artwork. Sometimes I just can resist buying a record, Rockpommel's land by Grobschnitt and Cook by PFM are my latest unresistable additions.