Vinyl Junkies

Btw,any of you vinyl junkies buy stuff from E-bay,GEMM and other on line dealers?

I just bought a vinyl copy of Genesis Live at a used record shop outside of Chicago for $10. Instead of the usual cover with the whole band on stage and Gabriel in the Magog costume, it has close up of his head with the flower costume on. It's so awesome.

I also bought Gentle Giant - Playing the Fool for $10 at that store too.

There was another store about a mile away from that one that seemed to have everything, including almost every Can and Gentle Giant album. Unfortunately, all of their records are priced at $30+ which is way too much for me to even consider. If any of you happen to be from the Chicago area I could give you the name of it (I can't remember it offhand).

Edited by Kestrel - July 06 2008 at 13:41

Rubidium wrote: Here's something that I was wondering about fans of vinyl.  I was in an antique store a few weeks ago and they had a bin of vinyl that contained a bunch of Kansas and Rush records (judging by the covers I'd guess somewhere in the VG range) for $10-$12 each.  How many vinyl fans would be willing to pay this price for vinyl when you can get the remastered CDs for less?  Or how many would just be buying those albums as collectors items, with no intent of playing them?  Or how many just think they are overpriced?

Those records are overpriced.

The Rush and Kansas LPs usually go for a few bucks.

BroSpence wrote: Rubidium wrote: Just be warned that when looking for cleaning solutions on the internet, every single person seems to swear by a different method and discount all methods used by others.  I'd recommend going to a flea market or a thrift store and look for some really cheap dirty records to test these methods on.  That way if some crazy guy tells you to clean your records with 15 M hydrochloric acid, you'll burn a whole through a Herb Alpert record rather than something you actually care about... Lord knows we need less of THOSE.

Edited by Certif1ed - July 07 2008 at 03:09

I'm gonna make a few jeaulous here,

I started my vinyl collection with "Absent Lovers - King Crimson" this is a live album recorded in 1984, one of their last performances done on vinyl (I know I spent too much on this), and I haven't been able to stop buying records since. I recently picked up "Days of Future Passed - The Moody Blues", "Selling England by the Pound(mint condition), A Trick of the Tail and The Lamb lies down on Broadway - Genesis", 2 ELP records which I don't want to type out, 2 Mahavishnu Orchestra records I can't recall the name of right now and "Aqualung - Jethro Tull".

Edited by Hootywho - July 15 2008 at 14:10

Vibrationbaby wrote: Just noticed this thread.  I`ve been collecting vinyl since 1973. At last count I got to 3,500 and gave up. I don`t keep anything in anty particular order and keep on discovering stuff that I didn`t even know I had. Some of it is still in the original wrapping. Perhaps the biggest haul I ever made was buying this guy`s entire Amon Duul collection for 50 bucks back in `79. All German imports no inferior North American crap. I don`t buy albums because they`re rare or anything but for the love of the music. Long live vinyl.

Yeah, it's not a terribly common album, I paid 40$ for it (much more than most of mine), my usual price I pay is between 4-12$, mint condition Selling England by the Pound - Genesis cost me ....9$?. I realise that 40$ is not much in perspective as I have seen Dün go for 500$.

Bluesaga wrote: My experience with cheap vinyl has been positive so far.  I don't take the albums out and look at them, I just try to judge by the cover.  I've only gotten a few that don't play really good, but they're not bad at all.  The selection seems to be pretty subpar, so I browse through stuff really fast.  Certain things, like Moody Blues, Rush, Kansas, ELP, etc. are extremely easy to find cheap but after a while it becomes harder and harder to find cheap LPs that you care about and don't already have.

I always check the records before I get them.  I recently got a cheap copy of Big Brother and the Holding Company's Cheap Thrills.  The cover was in pretty good shape (better condition than what you'd normally find in a thrift store) but it was so scratched that it skipped every ten seconds.  I only paid a dollar for it so it wasn't a big deal, but it was disappointing nonetheless.  I was at a thrift store yesterday and found a Stephen Stills album that I was going to buy, but upon looking at the vinyl I discovered that there was a large chunk of it missing (it looked like somebody took a bite out of it).  Also, I've bought albums before only to discover that the previous owner stuck the wrong record in the wrong cover.  These probably aren't problems that you'd encounter at a record store, but at a thrift store some care should be taken.

I'm finding myself buying a lot of cheap albums by artists that I wouldn't normally consider listening to.  For example, right now I'm listening to a Rod Stewart album from the 80's.  Not great, but for a dollar I'm willing to take a chance.  You never know what I might end up enjoying and if nothing else it's a cheap way to broaden my musical horizons.