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I haven't posted any of my scores for a long while, so here's my best one in recent weeks (maybe even months): Spacemen 3 - "The Perfect Prescription." Original UK pressing on Glass Records. Only $19.99 + shipping! I also found an original Dutch pressing of Depeche Mode's "Violator" for $6. It's a bit scuffy, but whatever.
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Yesterday was a good day: Flex Your Head 1st press on alternative tentacles Faith/Void Split second press Wu-tang Clan - Wu-Tang Forever first press Slayer - Reign In Blood First Press Bad Religion - how could hell be any worse second press Neon Boys/Richard Hell and the Voidoids 7 inch Accelerators 7 inch on Mutha Caetano Veloso - Araca Azul First Press
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Jun 5, 2014 14:17
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answersyouseek posted:Yesterday was a good day:  how much did you pay for the reign in blood? have a beater copy I got for like 10 bucks but looking for a minty one. the alt. tentacles flex your head is the one with the super dope XXX cover right? Definitely the best cover art.
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Jun 5, 2014 14:28
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answersyouseek posted:Yesterday was a good day: drat. Nice haul!
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Jun 5, 2014 14:29
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kirkjames posted:
Paid $20 for Reign In Blood. It's not NM or anything but the record plays perfectly after a cleanup. Yeah it has the XXX cover which is definitely the coolest one.
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Jun 5, 2014 14:41
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answersyouseek posted:Caetano Veloso - Araca Azul First Press Sick! How much?
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Jun 5, 2014 15:08
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Ras Het posted:Sick! How much? That was $35. It's tough to find Brazilian presses of tropicalia stuff in decent condition so I was so excited to see it. I want to jump into collecting all that stuff i.e. Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, etc. but it can get expensive really quickly. answersyouseek fucked around with this message at 15:16 on Jun 5, 2014 |
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Jun 5, 2014 15:13
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answersyouseek posted:it has the XXX cover which is definitely the coolest one. What's the difference? I don't think I ever noticed other versions.
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Jun 5, 2014 16:15
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kirkjames posted:Rudimentary Peni "Death Church" repress - these represses rule. all pressed from original tape and identical artwork to the originals. my repress of archaic is ridiculous, its a gatefold with slots in both sides for a single 12" and came with like six 12x12 lyrics sheets for some reason
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Jun 5, 2014 17:47
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Apparently, there's going to be an Amoeba annex in the the new Urban Outfitters that's going to open in Herald Square. I assume that they're either just testing the waters to see if they can break into the market like Rough Trade or are just working with Urban. Either way, it's going to be interesting to see how it's going to work.
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Jun 5, 2014 18:17
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Going to NYC in August, will have to check it out if the Amoeba part is open.
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Jun 5, 2014 18:54
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screenwritersblues posted:Apparently, there's going to be an Amoeba annex in the the new Urban Outfitters that's going to open in Herald Square. I assume that they're either just testing the waters to see if they can break into the market like Rough Trade or are just working with Urban. Either way, it's going to be interesting to see how it's going to work. http://blog.urbanoutfitters.com/blog/uo_first_look_herald_square "...the record company will bring a curated assortment of over 400 vintage vinyl titles that can only be found in our Herald Square location" What are the chances that these "vintage vinyl titles" will just be overpriced dollar bin fodder? That UO opens this weekend, so I might swing by there out of morbid curiosity.
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Jun 5, 2014 18:59
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That sounds pretty small.
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Jun 5, 2014 19:18
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Snowy posted:What's the difference? I don't think I ever noticed other versions. The first pressing has the "violin" cover; it's the one I have. 
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Jun 5, 2014 19:18
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izationalizer posted:The first pressing has the "violin" cover; it's the one I have. Nah the Wheat Cover, the Violin Cover, and the XXX cover were all done at the same time. Violin is out of 4000. Wheat is out of 3000. XXX is out of 2000 and is the UK press.
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Jun 5, 2014 19:30
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answersyouseek posted:Nah the Wheat Cover, the Violin Cover, and the XXX cover were all done at the same time. Violin is out of 4000. Wheat is out of 3000. XXX is out of 2000 and is the UK press. Huh, somebody told me wrong, then. Any idea why the violin cover tends to be so much more expensive than the others? (I only paid $5 for mine, though.) And for the record, I agree that the XXX cover is the coolest.
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Jun 5, 2014 21:16
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answersyouseek posted:That was $35. It's tough to find Brazilian presses of tropicalia stuff in decent condition so I was so excited to see it. I want to jump into collecting all that stuff i.e. Os Mutantes, Gilberto Gil, Gal Costa, etc. but it can get expensive really quickly. I used to know a guy who made a living off of record digging in Rio and selling them on to the US & Europe for a couple of years. The market for the canon stuff is pretty solid.
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Jun 5, 2014 21:18
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Ras Het posted:I used to know a guy who made a living off of record digging in Rio and selling them on to the US & Europe for a couple of years. The market for the canon stuff is pretty solid. A couple of the guys I got a lot of my BR records from actually stopped doing many sales outside of Brazil because the collector market caught up and it was just easier to sell locally. It's too bad since the biggest brazilian ebay dudes are some of the worst graders and their postal service sucks.
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Jun 5, 2014 21:24
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Maybe this is a silly question, but gently caress it. I picked up Hamilton leithauser's new album, and it came with a bonus ep of four songs, which is cool and all, but the extra disc has all four songs on one side and then the other side is blank. Is that a common thing? I don't have much of a collection, but none of them have a completely blank side D or whatever.
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Jun 6, 2014 07:39
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Anaranjado posted:Maybe this is a silly question, but gently caress it. I picked up Hamilton leithauser's new album, and it came with a bonus ep of four songs, which is cool and all, but the extra disc has all four songs on one side and then the other side is blank. Is that a common thing? I don't have much of a collection, but none of them have a completely blank side D or whatever. It's not unheard of but all my blank B and D sides have etchings on them.
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Jun 6, 2014 07:59
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I have one where the b side says DO NOT PLAY THIS SIDE and has a pebbly sandpaper-like texture pressed into it just in case you get any crazy ideas. I think it's a Luther Vandross single or something like that.
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Jun 6, 2014 14:21
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Anaranjado posted:Maybe this is a silly question, but gently caress it. I picked up Hamilton leithauser's new album, and it came with a bonus ep of four songs, which is cool and all, but the extra disc has all four songs on one side and then the other side is blank. Is that a common thing? I don't have much of a collection, but none of them have a completely blank side D or whatever. I have a gorillaz ten inch and pixies 7 inch with completely blank sides.
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Jun 6, 2014 15:15
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Not sure if anyone is interested, but this guy is selling a bunch of records for $1.99 each, including some proggy ones ( e: He grades all of his records G and G+, but I have a feeling that he just has no idea what the Goldmine grading system is. He typically says that the vinyl looks "great," and the covers definitely look better than G/G+ in most cases. izationalizer fucked around with this message at 16:10 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Jun 6, 2014 15:24
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izationalizer posted:Not sure if anyone is interested, but this guy is selling a bunch of records for $1.99 each, including some proggy ones ( I like this cover: 
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Jun 6, 2014 16:19
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Anaranjado posted:Maybe this is a silly question, but gently caress it. I picked up Hamilton leithauser's new album, and it came with a bonus ep of four songs, which is cool and all, but the extra disc has all four songs on one side and then the other side is blank. Is that a common thing? I don't have much of a collection, but none of them have a completely blank side D or whatever. Moonface's Dreamland EP also has a blank B side, which I'd never seen until then.
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Anaranjado posted:Maybe this is a silly question, but gently caress it. I picked up Hamilton leithauser's new album, and it came with a bonus ep of four songs, which is cool and all, but the extra disc has all four songs on one side and then the other side is blank. Is that a common thing? I don't have much of a collection, but none of them have a completely blank side D or whatever. It happens sometimes. Johnny Winter's "Second Winter" is notoriously three-sided, with a blank side four. (My copy is a mispress, as well, with two side two labels on the first record. I have to check the grooves to see where to start.) I've got a goodwill seven-inch somewhere of something incredibly cheeseball that I only bought because it was a one-sided single. Just checked, it's this:   (That's not a textured surface, it's flat matte black vinyl with dust on it.)
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Jun 6, 2014 18:09
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Well that's kinda funny. Thanks for the replies. The album is really good too. Would cop again.
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Jun 6, 2014 18:11
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Allen Wren posted:It happens sometimes. Johnny Winter's "Second Winter" is notoriously three-sided, with a blank side four. (My copy is a mispress, as well, with two side two labels on the first record. I have to check the grooves to see where to start.) I've got a goodwill seven-inch somewhere of something incredibly cheeseball that I only bought because it was a one-sided single. Just checked, it's this: I love that the sleeve basically says "We know people don't care about the b-sides".
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Jun 6, 2014 18:13
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CPL593H posted:I love that the sleeve basically says "We know people don't care about the b-sides". Seriously. I doubt that the "special low price" was more than a couple pennies knocked off the top.
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Jun 6, 2014 18:22
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Pretty sure that's the exact same sleeve and label as the textured one I have. E- and smooth blank sides are supposed to be helpful with setting up a tonearm but I've never tried that. Snowy fucked around with this message at 18:43 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Jun 6, 2014 18:41
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Snowy posted:I like this cover: I have the picture disc of that, it's warped to hell and sounds terrible. Edit - Note I'm referring to the sound quality, I love the hell out of Anthony Phillips. dentist toy box fucked around with this message at 23:19 on Jun 6, 2014 |
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Jun 6, 2014 18:58
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Snowy posted:E- and smooth blank sides are supposed to be helpful with setting up a tonearm but I've never tried that. That trick is often repeated on the internet, but in practice it's pretty much worthless - especially with elliptical needles. Think about it: with no groove to guide the stylus, where it goes will largely be determined by the shape of its tip. Regardless, dialing it in by eye instead of ear makes no sense when a difference in sound is what you're trying to achieve in the first place. The best way to set up AS (short of using an actual reference record) is to find a mono record and adjust the AS until the balance is perfect (or as close to it as it gets).
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Jun 6, 2014 19:35
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I have a one-sided 12" with a blank white label that turned out to have Hebrew chanting on it.
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Jun 6, 2014 21:28
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Grapeshot posted:I have a one-sided 12" with a blank white label that turned out to have Hebrew chanting on it. Congratulations you're cursed
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Jun 6, 2014 22:37
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Allen Wren posted:Seriously. I doubt that the "special low price" was more than a couple pennies knocked off the top. I have one of those and I seem to remember it costing roughly half the price of a regular single. Of course, that was about 30 years ago.
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Mister Kingdom posted:I have one of those and I seem to remember it costing roughly half the price of a regular single. Of course, that was about 30 years ago. Well, fair enough, then!
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Jun 6, 2014 23:15
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I finally got me a new cart and got it plugged in without being a tired dumbass, It's a 2M red and I like it a lot so far. Much better then the stock one from my MCS. Now I'm gonna have to listen to everything I own with it. Also got a Technics headshell so my MCS feels a little more like it's much more privileged half brother 
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Jun 7, 2014 00:21
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I have a Rahsaan Roland Kirk album called The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color. Side 4 has a 20-minute silent groove with a bizarre 2 minute long phone conversation with Kirk right in the middle.
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Jun 7, 2014 01:30
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Wilbur Swain posted:I have a Rahsaan Roland Kirk album called The Case of the 3 Sided Dream in Audio Color. Side 4 has a 20-minute silent groove with a bizarre 2 minute long phone conversation with Kirk right in the middle. I don't think that's on the CD version but now I have to check it out and see. That's a great album.
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Wooooooooo! I just found a copy of my all time favorite record on Discogs, the Arrogant Sons of Bitches' Three Cheers For Disappointment. Only 450 copies were ever pressed, I got the pink version which is one of 150. Just so happened to show up in my email alert on the first day I've actually had spending money in a long time. Please, take my $50, it's yours. One of my two white whales, the other being a 7" that was only given out as a wedding favor.
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