To vinyl or not to vinyl?

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  • AlbertaGirl70_
    AlbertaGirl70_ Posts: 1,738
    Started by buying a Ten original pressing recently,and the drums blew my ass right outta the water,now I can't get enough and am working my way up through the PJ collection on vinyl.....BTW ISO a sealed original pressing of Vs........just sayin........
    I will walk w/my hands bound
    I will walk w/my face blood
    I will walk w/my shadow flag

    Memories back when she was smooth and strong
    and waiting for the world to come along...

    Eddie solo Vegas Oct 31,Nov 1 2012
  • FrankY59
    FrankY59 Posts: 1,051
    Im collecting vinyl sloooooowwwlllly....I just need a vinyl player now :)
  • CAVSTARR313
    CAVSTARR313 Posts: 8,756
    FrankY59 wrote:
    Im collecting vinyl sloooooowwwlllly....I just need a vinyl player now :)
    Mt. Clemens in the house!!!

    this is the one i bought as my starter.. I am very happy with it..
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+USB+ ... Id=8734569
    None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe that they are free.
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  • KingJeremyTheWicked82
    KingJeremyTheWicked82 Posts: 725
    veddertown wrote:
    Kathi wrote:
    as someone who just got a record player for the first time about 1 1/2 years ago, I'd say do it. I love the sound of it, and also that it doesn't allow you to skip anything...gives you more appreciation for albums as being one coherent piece of art.
    also, browsing record shops is a lot of fun, especially if you have big used vinyl stores like they do in the US (sadly, none of that available here :( )

    The UK is pretty good for them. I was browsing in a few last week before a Mark Lanegan gig and then at the gig he was signing merch so I picked up a copy of Blues Funeral which he signed. It feels so great to hold compared to flimsy CDs. I have listened to CDs so long that I'm used to one piece of music but I grew up with Side A and Side B. I know it's not some major life decision but it does change things to some extent i.e. looking for record stores in every new town and city you visit which would result in Mrs Veddertown and the kids being dragged around everywhere! How much for a decent record player these days? :?


    I bought Mark Lanegan's Blues Funeral vinyl at his Aberdeen gig, lovely it is too :)
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  • brianlux
    brianlux Moving through All Kinds of Terrain. Posts: 44,160
    I feel very lucky to be able to own and listen to vinyl. I most often listen to LP's as intentional experience- a listening experience almost as a ritual. I wait for the right time, the right space, the mood. Adjust lighting just right. Avoid distraction. Most of it really is ritual for me- setting the needle down gently, going into the music, switching the motor off, turning the record over. Going there again- into the music.

    I know a guy who collects- no, frankly, he hoards- records in a garage. Nice guy- very nice guy- but unfortunate habit. Those records sit there in that garage, silent, waiting to be heard. Lost opportunities.

    My honest advice is only collect what you want to enjoy. There aren't enough of some of these objects out there but there are more than enough ears that wanting to hear them.

    Besides, analog love songs could save the world.
    "It's a sad and beautiful world"
    -Roberto Benigni

  • Kathi
    Kathi Posts: 1,828
    Released1980 wrote:
    usedrecordsandmore.com ;);)


    I'm yo pusher 8-)

    woo...great site! :D
  • veddertown
    veddertown Scotland Posts: 5,260
    Looking at record players.... 8-)
    Like a book among the many on a shelf...

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  • SVRDhand13
    SVRDhand13 Posts: 27,022
    I must admit that I dont buy much vinyl, but I am a total sucker for color vinyl and limited editions sets :oops:
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  • FrankY59
    FrankY59 Posts: 1,051
    Caveeze wrote:
    FrankY59 wrote:
    Im collecting vinyl sloooooowwwlllly....I just need a vinyl player now :)
    Mt. Clemens in the house!!!

    this is the one i bought as my starter.. I am very happy with it..
    http://www.bestbuy.com/site/Sony+-+USB+ ... Id=8734569


    Thanks, but I have my sights on the Rega RP1 orrr the RP3. My stalling is based on if I can afford to spend almost a G on the RP3. My wife and I just bought a house and I have a music room picked out for me, my vinyl and my player...nothing else :) Baby on the way too...so Ill need one of those baby fences to keep "it" out.

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