limited edition vinyl records,why?

cropduster82 wrote:

Yeah, I was kinda drunk when I wrote that last night but I read the entire thread and that's what came out. I used to be the guy that cherished his vinyl so much that I was afraid to open it. I have since opened and enjoyed all of them and have no regrets. I wasn't trying to sound fascist in any way and also am not telling anyone what to do. What should I care if someone has a record collection sealed hanging on their wall. I was trying to say that, in my opinion, I think people would enjoy it more if it was on the turntable. Who am I to say.

Alcohol and the internet........a bumpy ride, lol.



I started collecting vinyl LP records and 45s when I was 7 years old. Always played every piece of vinyl I ever bought.

By the time I was 24 years old, I had way over 800 LPs (closer to 900) and 200-300 .......45 Singles.

You know what really sucks?

Back in 1987 I went on a two week vacation to Avalon, NJ. We rented a house had a great time.

I came home after those two weeks to find my house completely flooded and my records underwater. As it happened, the flooding occured the day after we left for Avalon. So my whole record collection sat underwater for what basically was a full two weeks. I was devastated.

You wouldn't believe the LPs that were destroyed. Several rare and hard to find collectors items, as well as shitload of my cherished First Pressings.

Neil Young's Rust Never Sleeps, Live Rust, Harvest, Comes A Time......Tom Petty's first five albums....all First Pressings. Bruce Springsteen......Born To Run, Darkness On The Edge Of Town, The River.............early 70s Judas Priest, UFO, Scorpions, AC/DC, Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, Elvis Costello, The Ramones, Sex Pistols, 999, Gordon Lightfoot, a ton of all of Elton John's records, Michael Schenker, The Starz, Angel, The Guess Who, Humble Pie, Peter Frampton, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Carmen, The Raspberries, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones........the list goes on and on......all First Pressings.

Not to mention the 100-200 British Imports that were just awesome LPs.

All underwater for two weeks in the hot, humid month of July. They were destroyed....ruined. LP covers were actually falling apart and like tissue paper. The vinyl records were all warped beyond belief. A lot of the records were floating around all messwd up and warped, out of their covers.

My speakers.....destroyed. My stereo receiver survived because it was on a tall, heavy cabinet. But my turntable and cassette player ...ruined.

A sight I'll never forget.

As bad as that was, I was very fortunate that my vintage Ampeg double stack bass amp, the Ampeg tube Pre Amp and all of my bass guitars were at our rehearsal basement; at our guitar players house.

12 of my records survived because they were at my lead guitarist's house.

Cob wrote:

Man NMyTree, I don't even know what I would do if that happened to me, I also have a big record collection, haven't counted lately but has to be 1,500+, my wife and daughter say I have a problem. I really would have been sick to my stomach about the UFO records, those are VERY rare and hard to find, I have about 5 or 6 of their LP's.

It sounds like you and I have the same music taste (I'm 39) have you ever been to the record convention that they have once a year here in Austin, it's great. You should come down one year and check it out it's a great time, you're a bigger man than I, as I don't know what I would if subjected to seeing my stereo and Lp's like that.

I don't know about being a better man. I was really upset about that.

I basically abandoned vinyl and started collecting CDs, since they had just come out. It wasn't till the late 90s that I started slowly collecting vinyl, again. The I really picked up the pace over the last five years. My vinyl collection has grown ......big time, in just the last three years.

I'll never find a lot of the records I lost. Especially the First Pressings, the UK imports and those really rare records. But I have been able to locate and buy some of the harder to find Godz, Angel, Starz and one Judas Priest LP. As well as one UFO record.

I've been looking for a mint copy of Elton John's " Don't Shoot Me I'm Only The Piano Player " either the MCA pressing from here in the United States, or a nice mint copy of the DJM Records pressings from the UK; for the last five years. Still no luck. This one is a tough one to find. The search....conitinues:D