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Kevar posted:I know someone here was talking about Prawn's album and it looks like topshelf got the records in the other day.  Stoked, can't wait for mine. I can't even remember what colour I ordered.
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I'm about to order my first Turntable, and I have a quick question that I've struggled to find the answer to; I'm looking at a Pro-Ject essentials with built in Pre-amp. It automatically comes with an OM-3 cartridge, and for another $50, they offer an upgrade to an OM-10. I've gained the basics of how cartridges impact the sound, but couldn't find a great comparison between these two. Any advice would be very much appreciated.
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I know there's a list of black friday related deals on the RSD website. Certain online retailers and record labels may be doing deals as well. I'm going to be glued to Popmarket all day I think.
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Nov 21, 2012 08:17
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Bliggers- posted:I know there's a list of black friday related deals on the RSD website. Here's a list of the PopMarket deals. http://www.sonymusiccrm.com/labels/...0is%20coming%21 And the RSD stuff. http://download.recordstoreday.com/free/2012BLACK_FRIDAY_PUBLIC.pdf A lot of cool things on the RSD list, I'll rely on scarcity to help me keep a budget.
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Nov 21, 2012 08:50
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Ah cool. Kinda want to be a dork and grab the Moonrise Kingdom soundtrack.
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Nov 21, 2012 09:10
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Y'all are part of the problem.
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Could any provide some advice I'm having with a Thorens TD-125. I recently had to replace the belt, and I'm now encountering a lot of slippage. When starting the record up on 33, the belt inevitably slips off the spindle. I can remove the platter and set the belt on the plastic knob, but it will eventually slip back down. Would applying light sandpaper to the knob create more surface area and give the belt some traction? The turntable is fairly old, and the plastic knob is pretty drat smooth.
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Surfingelectrode posted:Same. Holy poo poo I didn't know smart bar was that old. I really want to see what it looked like back then. Last time I went it was all DJ style dance clubbed out. Also there's actually some poo poo on the RSD list that I want, but I stopped going to RSD a year or two ago... Such a predicament.
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alg posted:Y'all are part of the problem. What problem?
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Dr. Lariat posted:Here's a list of the PopMarket deals. Well thank you for that! I will be having a hard look at the Johnny Cash complete albums, Beach Boys Smile deluxe edition and Neil Young's archives vol 1. I ordered the Sloan Twice Removed boxset from popmarket a couple days ago as well, $65 vs $99 plus shipping on the band webstore. I orded a Cash bootlegs package and it arrived in 3 days flat with no taxes or customs so I am 100% sold on popmarket.
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Only thing for RSD I see is the Edward Sharpe 7" with some songs I haven't heard before. Everything else looks "meh". Probably swing my local coffee/record store and see if they got a copy. Edit: gently caress only Lexington is getting a copy.  Anyone want to be nice and grab one for me?
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Nov 21, 2012 19:45
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Anyone who preordered the Melloncollie set from Amazon canada should check their emails. They are making good on the deal again if you ordered and it got cancelled.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Anyone who preordered the Melloncollie set from Amazon canada should check their emails. They are making good on the deal again if you ordered and it got cancelled. Awww yisssssss Re-placed my order, $38usd shipped. lament.cfg fucked around with this message at 20:43 on Nov 21, 2012 |
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I haven't seen this posted yet: Insound has started up a "Best Sellers of 2012" sale until the end of the month. Buy any 10 LPs from their list of 100 best-sellers and get a free tote ( ) and 20% off of your whole order- even things that aren't on the list.The list is pretty much mostly everything you'd expect- which isn't necessarily a bad thing if you were looking for a decent excuse to pick up those XX/Tame Impala/Grimes/Best Coast albums you've heard so much about or some Radiohead reissues. Also of note: The new Flying Lotus album, the new Godspeed You! album, the preorder for the upcoming special edition reissue of Turn On the Bright Lights, and the Soft Bulletin reissue- just to name a few. While getting $50+ off of an initially $250+ order is a pretty sweet deal, it's still understandably a lot of money- particularly if you're not really nuts about most of the albums that get you the discount. My suggestion: hook up with a bunch of your bros and split the bill. There's probably at least an album or two on the list that you-and most vinyl people you know-might want, and you'll be able to apply the discount to non-sale items. Go nuts, the world is your oyster.
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Cemetry Gator posted:Anyone who preordered the Melloncollie set from Amazon canada should check their emails. They are making good on the deal again if you ordered and it got cancelled. Fuuuck I can't even find the boxset on amazon.ca anymore, got a link? or is this only for folks who got their order through before?
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Bliggers- posted:Fuuuck I can't even find the boxset on amazon.ca anymore, got a link? or is this only for folks who got their order through before? The wording in the email suggests it's only for people who's orders were canceled. I just followed the link in the email to find it. There was a coupon code in the email too as the price on the amazon page was like $65CDN
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Not quite a "Black Friday" thing, but Polyvinyl have a pretty good sale going on, and a lot of limited restocks of out of print vinyl. Quite a few colored versions back in stock that are/were mail order exclusives. Grabbed a few things, but I'm trying to resist buying the colored (or other colored) version of a records I already own. Also, use promo code UTR for 15% off. Even on sale items.
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I just got this in the post, I've never seen a single side with so many tracks on it (14):
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They are really going up in price now, did you get it for something sane? Also track numbers get ridiculous on TV/radio jingle LPs. 20+ a side.
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RuPaul "Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask" 38 on side A, 35 on B.
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Ru Paul says WORK IT.
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Has anything outdone RRR 1000, with 500 locked grooves-per-side? E- never saw this great Wikipedia page before: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unusual_types_of_gramophone_records Snowy fucked around with this message at 03:21 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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Snowy posted:Has anything outdone RRR 1000, with 500 locked grooves-per-side? Wasn't that only 50? 500 seems crazy.
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RRR 100, with 50 per side, was a 7" 
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That must be it - thanks.
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Ron Burgundy posted:They are really going up in price now, did you get it for something sane? The guy I bought it off still has 3 listed on discogs for ~$15 each, where are they going for more? synthetik posted:RuPaul "Everything you wanted to know but were afraid to ask" Hectic
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The bay, heh. Found those listings, pulling the trigger. Thanks!
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Ron Burgundy posted:The bay, heh. You might want to ask him to use a good mailer, he sent mine in this with two cardboard stiffeners:  I don't know if this was from the lovely mailer or if it was sent in this condition, but I wouldn't call the sleeve near mint:  The (plain white) inner sleeve is split on the sides too. The record itself is fine though. It also took about three-four weeks to get to Australia.
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Surfingelectrode posted:I'm pretty new to the Residents, and a local store just got a ton of their albums in mint condition. Which ones should I check out? Eskimo is a super classic so good starting point. Commercial Album is probably the most "fun" and accessible, one of my favorites. Duck Stab is probably the all-around best work though, and if you can find the one with Buster and Glen on the other side, that's a real solid LP overall. I think the Duck Stab album by itself is probably more rare, but Buster and Glen is really good too, so buy that version for the music. Also the Mole trilogy is a great concept, but I think the best is the first one, Mark of the Mole. The second record is okay, Tunes of Two Cities, and then Big Bubble is not quite up to par. Fingerprince is also really good, and Not Available, but those are a little more avant garde, longer songs and a bit weirder. Anyway, if the shop has any of those, get them, they're all really great. Oh also maybe onbviously, the first album is a classic, Meet the Residents. But any of the originals go for pretty decent money these days, and I wouldn't recommend it for a newer residents fan. Get one later on, when you're obsessed.
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Ron Burgundy posted:They are really going up in price now, did you get it for something sane? For a while after release, they were dirt cheap. I got the special edition for $30, and then bought another for $10 shipped from best buy a few months later. 
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I'm probably missing something obvious, but is there any way to see where each record is being sold and for how much? There's a couple on there I wouldn't mind having if I don't have to move very many muscles.
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Snowy posted:I'm probably missing something obvious, but is there any way to see where each record is being sold and for how much? Bull Moose has MSRP list: http://www.bullmoose.com/rel/v2_home.php?storenr=258&deptnr=237
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My local store is relocating a little further away at the end of the month, and they're having a half price clearance sale to clear out all their really lovely records but I found some stuff I'd been interested in: The Styx record I just wanted because of the laser etching, and I have never listened to Marillion or Wishbone Ash. I hope the Marillion albums are among their highly regarded ones (I definitely recognise "Fugazi") and I've heard Steven Wilson mention Wishbone Ash hundreds of times in interviews and such. The real gem though is the King Crimson Record:    It was marked at $85, then $55, so I got it for $27.50. It's a first press on Island Records with very early matrix numbers, and the spine is fully readable and all that jazz. I don't know why it was in their clearance section at all, though it was sorted under the name "Crimson" so maybe it was accidentally left in the old premises or something. I had mentioned to a friend earlier this morning that I was hoping a store around me would have any version of this, so I am incredibly happy right now (plus I just got some uni results back and they were way better than I had hoped). Today is a very good day.
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eggsovereasy posted:What problem? Not making every day record store day! RSD is kind of annoying because you'll always see every exclusive up on ebay by like noon. It plays into the ebay flipper "SUPER LIMITED EDITION OOP" culture. However, it's really beneficial to record stores because of the huge surge in sales. I'm not anti-RSD, it's just not really my thing. I am a bit of a hypocrite though. I love having the rarest variant of an album. I'd just never go out of my way or spend a buttload of money to get it. I also have no intention of ever trying to sell any of my stuff. I just like to be one of the first people to preorder something from a band I like. It's all going to sound the same, so it doesn't actually matter.
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iluvpr0n posted:Bull Moose has MSRP list:
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david puddy posted:Marillion albums Misplaced Childhood is the reason that literally every person born after 1985 is called Kayleigh. Well not quite, but... Wikipedia posted:The song's popularity in the summer of 1985 was responsible for a significant rise in popularity of the name Kayleigh. In late 2005, 96% of Kayleighs living in the United Kingdom were born after 1985.
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Snowy posted:Has anything outdone RRR 1000, with 500 locked grooves-per-side? Well there's DJ scratch records that usually have about 100 short sounds on them. But those hardly count. There's also the Bllleeeeaaauuurrrrgghhh! 7" compilation series
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eggsovereasy posted:What problem? Stupid Exclusive Re-Presses of Old Big Label Albums For High Prices On Arbitrary Days. edit: thanks buddy VV alg fucked around with this message at 16:50 on Nov 22, 2012 |
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Kevar posted:Not making every day record store day! This will be my first time not working in a record store during a Record Store Day since its inception, so I've been through them all and can add on a few downsides: - Ordering this poo poo is a massive game. After the first few years of distributors slashing orders in half (sometimes less), stores would order more in hopes of getting half and end up with the full order after labels press up more due to false demand. - It's a huge opportunity for (mostly major) labels to take advantage of stores who have bad buyers or who don't fully consider what they're getting themselves into. Some smaller stores go broke or take out loans to try and buy as much of this stock as possible, which becomes a problem when you realize that... - No one wants half this poo poo; those that do will buy it that weekend and the rest of it will sit on your shelves as dead stock until you blow it out for cost on eBay (if you're lucky and there's even that much demand for it). What that means is that for stores that aren't smart about how they're ordering, you just took out a loan or spent a significant chunk of your stock budget on dead stock, none of which is returnable. - 98% of it is overpriced garbage meant to cash in on what will be a fad for a lot of people buying it. We had tons of people bringing stuff back to trade in from previous Record Store Days months or years later when they got over their record collecting phase. - Stores will send each other emails for weeks afterwards hoping to work up some trades. "Hey, we could really use a few more copies of [one of the three releases people gave a poo poo about that are usually long gone], attached is what we have copies left of to trade [all poo poo no one cares about]." - Stores themselves scalp this poo poo on eBay, sometimes well ahead of time. Stores sign a agreement that they won't sell these items online for a specified period of time, but I'd wager most of them disregard it. - Vinyl communities are overrun with people posting cameraphone pictures of the one-of-a-kind reissue gem or treasure they managed to snag at their local shop for $10 more than an original copy would have cost them. Hopefully that doesn't sound too lovely or bitter, I'll just say that I'm incredibly thankful the whole record store employee part of my life is behind me.
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