Vinyl Lovers, Assemble!!!!

[Azure-Supernova]

Oh god!! So jealous!! I haven't even begun to look for out of press albums yet. I'd kill for a Bat Out of Hell and a Born to Run vinyl though!

Just recently a chap set himself up in town and he's got a few to hand, they're in less that idea condition but he assures everything in his shop is playable. And I'm pretty sure my uncles got some Springsteen, I'll have to check on that!

Gah... We don't have any record stores nearby me. I think the closest one is like, twenty minutes away in Cleveland... You'd think a place that holds the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame would have plenty.

I live in the middle of nowhere, our town isn't big enough for a cinema or McDonalds yet low and behold it manages to be the home of a million charity shops all home to buckets of second hand vinyl and a record shop.

 

[Amberella]

Oh god!! So jealous!! I haven't even begun to look for out of press albums yet. I'd kill for a Bat Out of Hell and a Born to Run vinyl though!

Just recently a chap set himself up in town and he's got a few to hand, they're in less that idea condition but he assures everything in his shop is playable. And I'm pretty sure my uncles got some Springsteen, I'll have to check on that!

Gah... We don't have any record stores nearby me. I think the closest one is like, twenty minutes away in Cleveland... You'd think a place that holds the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame would have plenty.

I live in the middle of nowhere, our town isn't big enough for a cinema or McDonalds yet low and behold it manages to be the home of a million charity shops all home to buckets of second hand vinyl and a record shop.

It does have a lot of record shops and what not. They are so hard to find over here in the states. At least around where I live. xD

 

[Something Amyss]

Have you taken a look at modern bands and their merch sites lately? I know that every pop/punk band nowadays presses 500 vinyls at the very least of everything, including EPs. I know that Katy Perry's new album was even pressed. You just have to know where to look for it. It's something you look for, not something you happen upon. It's still a very niche market.

And the same thing was true in both the 90s and early 2000's.

I don't mean to sound like a curmudgeon, but I've heard this all before. In fact, I own a lot of Goth/Industrial albums on vinyl from back "in the day," so you're hardly addressing a neophyte. I remember that "vinyl was back" back then, too. Seems like every few years since its obsolescence, there has been a resurgence.

Granted, I kind of gave up on vinyl except to rip old wax to digital audio, but the "hunt" for vinyl is hardly something new to me. In fact, you're describing the exact environment I experienced in the 90s.

Just so I don't come off as anti-vinyl, I still love my collection. I love the artwork and the permanence. Just not that big a listener anymore. More the type to collect or transfer, or both (of course).

 

[Loop Stricken]

I was expecting..

So was I mate, so was I.


OT: I can't see vinyl dying anytime soon; after all, DJs still use it extensively, do they not?

 

[Akytalusia]

ohhhhhhh.......

OT: i don't know anything about that and about the subject matter:

 

[Gxas]

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I can see where you're coming from, but I still feel like it is more prominent now than it has been in a long time. I've always kept up with them because I've always been interested in them, just now I have the money to buy what I want, so I'm making my moves into the field.

I suppose it really comes down to observation though. I've seen many more people buying vinyl now than I did back in the '90s.

I have to ask, why buy to rip and not listen? So much quality is lost when you rip.

 

[Dr.Susse]

Massive Vinyl fan here!

The best thing is he hunt through op shops (Thrift stores for un-Australians) in hope of finding a gem. So far the best I've come across was Warren Zevons Excitable boy for a dollar.

Also I found Beethoven?s 9th in its entirety for 5 bucks.

 

[Taldeer]

I would try the plexi-glass oven thing. Just don't assume you're cooking chicken. Not too hot, and only for a minute or two. The major risk here is the scratches the vinyl might get from the pressing surfaces. Maybe try wrapping them with some baking paper, just because it's very smooth, non-stick and heat-resistant.

With the right equipment, vinyl sounds better than any mp3 I've ever heard. Admittedly I don't have the best CD-player around... it's Technics but it makes an annoying little whistling sound when it plays so, from my perspective, my turntable provides better quality than either PC or CD-player.

I've got quite a collection of classical music on vinyl, gathered by my parents when they were my age (it was pretty hard to get western pop music on vinyl in communist Romania ). I grew up with these records and I've started adding to the collection, slowly. I got Jefferson Airplane's Surrealistic Pillow, Aphrodite's Child - 666, Vangelis - Earth and See you later, Mike Oldfield - Ommadawn and Tubular Bells, Iron Butterfly - In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, Pink Floyd - The Final Cut, Velvet Underground - the one produced by Andy Warhol, The Beatles - Sgt. Pepper's and The White Album, Radiohead - In Rainbows, Portishead - Magic Doors (single), Grinderman - Grinderman 2, Mudhoney - Superfuzzbigmuff, Bjork - Debut and Ralph Towner - Works.

 

[Gxas]

I would try the plexi-glass oven thing. Just don't assume you're cooking chicken. Not too hot, and only for a minute or two. The major risk here is the scratches the vinyl might get from the pressing surfaces. Maybe try wrapping them with some baking paper, just because it's very smooth, non-stick and heat-resistant.

I'll definitely be practicing on a few vinyls I don't care about first. Just to make sure I do it right. But, since there isn't anything that can be done on the band's side, I'm going to have to try to flatten them. Probably be doing that sometime next week.