I'm looking for the hey jude single and it made me wonder where do yall get records now a days? Does anyone actually have them anymore? Discuss
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Yes, I do. Mainly weekend garage sales and trips in and out of antique stores. I know all about CD's, lord I have enough of them also, but there is just something about a six pack and my turntable that is better. Everything from Mack the Knife to Aqualung just sounds more alive to me.
I just saw a story tonight about the vinyl making a comeback. Both in young enthusiasts collecting vintage and new pressings of current artists. The kid amused me with his quip of "With vinyl you don't just hear the music, you experience it".....Made me smile....And another thing, the art of the covers....I miss that.
Yeah! I remember listening to a lot of vinyl living in a marxist/feminist commune with che guevara posters plastered everywhere believing in revolution baby!
I know in the Caribbean Vinyl is still produced in mass quantities. I still have some Beatles Vinyl that was my mom's...mine now
Funny this came up. I was talking to my 17 yr old step daughter today about music and some of the songs/groups I like/liked back in the late 70s and 80s. Then the conversation turned to vinyl. I've got somewhere around 500 LPs stored away that I haven't listened to in years. We're planning to start looking for a turntable and bust them out of storage. Deep Purple, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Zeppelin. We're both excited 
I get mine from a couple of shops in the city, one a specialist vinyl store, and the other the best record shop in the world, steel wheels. The selection i there is second to none and if they don't have it they will get it.
Yard sales, thrift shops, antique malls, library book sales, and oh yes, on the curb waiting for the trash collector. I got seven Atlantic pressings of early Ray Charles that way. Pristine condition.
I got 13 or so copies of Herb Alpert's Whipped Cream and Other Delights from Salvation Army, Goodwill, antique shops, ex-girlfriend's mom..... Any way I can. One of the best albums ever, in my opinion.
Vinyl Lives!! There are several good on-line vendors of new vinyl. The available assortment is pretty good, considering, and it's growing all the time.
I'd try the antique stores while you're looking for that case of NOS Fatboys. Most of them seem to have quite a few LPs, but rarely are they in good shape. I have a pretty decent collection that I still listen to regularly. This year I've been given over a hundred albums by folks cleaning out their closets. Maybe one-fourth have been in good playable condition. The rest will be used for skeet out behind the house. (especially the disco stuff)!
While vinyl died back in the '90s, it has been reanimated, kind of like Dr. Frankenstein's creature. There are lots of recordings being put onto high quality pressings, and the variety of good playing equipment is amazing.
Check out acousticsounds.com if interested. Just let someone hold your credit cards while you look.
While vinyl died back in the '90s, it has been reanimated, kind of like Dr. Frankenstein's creature. There are lots of recordings being put onto high quality pressings, and the variety of good playing equipment is amazing.
Check out acousticsounds.com if interested. Just let someone hold your credit cards while you look.
Sad story
http://gizmodo.com/5038783/worlds-l...orth-50-million-no-one-wants-it-for-3-million
If you check out the link at the top there's a video interview with the guy who owns the collection.
On another note, my dad just bought a USB Turntable from Costco and is in the process of backing up his hundreds of albums into MP3 which is pretty darned cool for a portability aspect. Plus he's got some records that you just can't find anywhere, he was into some far out stuff in the '70s.
http://gizmodo.com/5038783/worlds-l...orth-50-million-no-one-wants-it-for-3-million
World's Largest Record Collection is Worth $50 Million; No One Wants it for $3 Million
If you're looking for a sign that we live in a digital world that cares not for the physical manifestations of our analog past, you need only look at Paul Mawhinney's record collection. At over 3 million records, it's the largest in the world. He's trying to sell it due to his advancing age and health problems. Unfortunately, as he puts it, "no one gives a damn."
Paul's been building his collection for most of his life. He used to run a record store, and while running it he never sold the last copy of any album or single, instead keeping it for his archives. Over the years, those really added up.
Now, at an advancing age, stricken with diabetes and legally blind, Paul wants to sell the collection. It's been appraised at about $50 million, but Paul is asking a mere $3 million. He's had no serious offers, and an eBay auction back in February fell through.
In a time when you can access pretty much whatever music you want online, hard copies of albums are declining in value, both monetary and sentimentally. But to see such a mindblowing collection as this sitting in a basement, unwanted, is really heartbreaking. This is historic, no matter that we live in the iPod era or not, and it belongs in a museum. If only one cared enough to buy it.
If you check out the link at the top there's a video interview with the guy who owns the collection.
On another note, my dad just bought a USB Turntable from Costco and is in the process of backing up his hundreds of albums into MP3 which is pretty darned cool for a portability aspect. Plus he's got some records that you just can't find anywhere, he was into some far out stuff in the '70s.
My wife and I both grabbed our fathers' vinyl collections from storage a couple of years back. We have a vintage Yamaha YP-B4 turntable that we play them on (because it was free, having come from storage) and we use that thing about once a day. On Sundays, we don't watch TV and instead have to listen to music or nothing, so the turntable is on pretty much all day long.
We're both under 30, and each of us has really great memories of dancing around the living room or kitchen to all of these classic records playing in the background when we were kids. My friends admit they don't fully get our attachment to vinyl, but they enjoy listening to a lot of the stuff from the 80's during parties.
Try Ebay for records - we've had good luck with some cheap classics in great shape.
We're both under 30, and each of us has really great memories of dancing around the living room or kitchen to all of these classic records playing in the background when we were kids. My friends admit they don't fully get our attachment to vinyl, but they enjoy listening to a lot of the stuff from the 80's during parties.
Try Ebay for records - we've had good luck with some cheap classics in great shape.
Hey fellas. This is interesting. Now let me say straight away that I am a curmudgeon of the first water. I wish we still had schools geared toward leather crafting(you know saddles, shoes, the whole bit), horse drawn hansom cabs and delivery wagons, milk bottled in GLASS delivered to you door. You get the picture. I am a person who could step back to the Victorian/Edwardian era and probably adjust to it alright. However, there is such a thing as plain old nostalgia and I fully admit to suffering and succumbing to it. This whole vinyl vs cd is just more of it. Now before I have half the audio heads here marching on my house with torches and pitchforks, let me direct you to Hydrogen Audio. It really burst any bubble I had about archiving what little vinyl collection I really have into digital format. Saying that, who couldn't relate to the scene in "The Mummy" when Brendan Fraser went to the old RAF pilot (wonderfully portrayed by the great old character actor Bernard Fox) and asked to use his plane? He was loafing under a shade of some sort. Sipping what was no doubt a Gin and Tonic, and listening to an old wind up Victrola. I think that more than anything sums up our love of old vinyl. So all you vinyl guys get out the Sinatra or Jethro Tull and fill up that tumbler with a fresh squeezed lime juice, a thoroughly indecent amount of gin, and top it with some tonic water. Gently place the needle upon said vinyl and relax into the evening.
Regards, Todd
Speaking of album art. This
is what made me take a listen to Jethro Tull for the very first time. Being an outdoors sort of country lad, the pheasants, the box lock side by side shotgun, the fall leaves, the campfire reeled me in. Hmmm, this could be interesting. My brother had the LP and of course the image was huge. Imagine my surprise at the content. A sort of latter day yet Renaissance sounding rendition of English folk music. 30 years later I ran down the CD at Borders. I have been enjoying it immensely. I think the album art is one of the things that keeps LP vinyl alive. It just looks so cool.
Regards, Todd
Speaking of album art. This
Love that cover....He reminds me of me......'cept for the flute of course....I ain't never played no damned flute...NEVER.
This album - on vinyl, of course - was also inspiring to me. It was the subject of many teen-years afternoons of repeated listenings and naturally a few longing glances at the cover art. This was back when Heart was still a ROCK band.
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uh huh.........Annie was a dreamboat!...
There are several places in my area that deal with vinyl, plenty of demand for it exists here. If there is a Half Price Books near you then check that out.
I was just now listening to The Nightfly on vinyl as a matter of fact. I like records. They sound good, they have big pictures and are cheap. For someone like me who listens to music only occasionally, and always for a long time, records are perfect.
That's also a great example of a recording that was reproduced very poorly as a CD. The treble range is harsh and the whole thing lacks depth, even though (as usual for Fagan) the original recording is excellent. In almost every case, vinyl sounds better (if it's in good shape, if you have a good rig, if, if, and if).
