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Few things I got at swaps and record stores His Hero is Gone Wolves in the Throne Room debut reissue Alice Coltrane & Pharaoh Sanders Jean-Claude Vannier & Gary Higgins reissues Also grabbed a sealed copy of Cluster & Eno - Old Lands but didn't realize it's just a comp of the two records they did together which I already have, so didn't open it yet. Cheap stuff from a garage sale or in dollar bins  Dance Calypso! on Cook(1950s green vinyl) Serge Gainsbourg Blasters Patti Smith Tom Waits Art Bergman Marvin Gaye Home Billy Cobham John Cale Mashmakhan Buchanan Brothers
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Very nice haul
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I'm looking for a compact turntable and don't want to add a lot of space for a bulky receiver and speakers. Would it be total folly to get one of those small suitcase turntables with the built-in speakers? I see there are a number of modern ones out, but I don't want USB and all that, just ability to play vinyl, all-analog is great. And extra-compact is fine since basically my whole collection is 7" anyway. Should I get one of those small all-in-one turntables? And if so should I just get a basic new one, or get a vintage one and replace the needle and drive band?
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I don't think there are any good new ones (well, for cheap and that don't have a bunch of features you don't want). I would go see what they have at Breakaway (I am friends with Josh and Gabe who own it, full disclosure) or check out what they have in the front room of Austin Stereo Service on Burnet.
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How "compact" do you need it and does it need built-in speakers? The basic Audio-Technica with no USB is pretty nice, it's what I have: https://www.amazon.com/Technica-AT-...hnica+turntable You'd still need a receiver for it though. Vintage ones from a yard sale or Craiglist or whatever would be fine, I have like three of them and none were over $20-30, and older receivers don't even need a pre-amp. Then it's just a matter of getting speakers but speakers can be as cheap or expensive as you want. If you get a vintage turntable with built-in speakers just don't get something that looks like it's meant to play Fisher-Price records, use your best judgement. And as always, don't get a Crosley. VV If you don't care about the ceramic needle basically erasing your records (and/or you don't even play them that often to begin with) then you can get whatever. I just heard that Crosleys will eat through the records of anybody who plays their records more than a dozen times, but take that with a grain of salt I guess King Vidiot fucked around with this message at 01:27 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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I'll have to check them out locally then, thanks! I take it the Crosley, Electrohome and all the similar new ones sold on Amazon are garbage no matter how many buyer ratings they have? EDIT: more serious reviews say that the tracking weight on the Crosley is huge and non-adjustable, not good for collectibles. I don't need anything amazing, just some way to play my 7" and not devote a lot of space to what's a minor side hobby for me (collecting 7" records of local hardcore/street/Oi! music when I travel) EDIT: if most of the suitcase-type are damaging garbage, I have an SL-1200 back in VA I can have my cousin ship me, and just googling around I see there are pre-amps that are pretty tiny compared to the 30lb monster I had before. Even though the SL takes up a lot of shelf space, it might be worth it if I can actually run a decent settup that way, but it does seem pretty large for just playing 7". Are there any compact non-digital-capable turntables worth owning that are under $300 or so? Or just stick with the SL? TapTheForwardAssist fucked around with this message at 02:02 on Jul 8, 2016 |
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Jul 8, 2016 01:07
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Ceramic carts are garbage, but I have a soft spot for old Califone education-grade players. 
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I would say to make sure you can adjust the tracking force with whatever turntable you get. Besides the ceramic carts, the crosley all in ones tend to put a lot of downforce on the record, further chewing it up.
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I was gonna pick up the Neon Demon soundtrack at the local record store today, but... gently caress Buttons 
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Picked up some cheap stuff and finally got a copy of the Monty Python Matching Tie and handkerchief album. The one where side 2 has 2 parallel grooves. Hooray for clever or interesting record pressing ideas!
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Jul 9, 2016 10:16
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I keep seeing that album but I want the tie too.....
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Jul 9, 2016 12:59
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I ffound these two circle takes the square records for a dollar each at a sidewalk sale lol  I also got these two things from the best record store on the east coast 
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Chill Callahan posted:I ffound these two circle takes the square records for a dollar each at a sidewalk sale lol That's a real good album imo
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Jul 9, 2016 21:22
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My receiver finally got repaired so I celebrated by buying Whipped Cream.
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Jul 10, 2016 18:28
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 For the last five years or so I always had my fingers crossed hoping that this would pop up at one of my local stores and today was that day. ...two months before Light in the Attic reissues their entire discography. I just couldn't wait. 
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Jul 10, 2016 23:54
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I was going through flea markets and found the soundtrack for Emmanuelle.
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How do you clean records? My mine craft album is acting up.
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rear end Catchcum posted:How do you clean records? My mine craft album is acting up. Use a diamond pickaxe, the stone one will just tear your record to shreds.
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rear end Catchcum posted:How do you clean records? My mine craft album is acting up. put your penis in the hole
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For real though use a record sweeping brush and if it's still too noisy you'll need to build a record cleaning machine.
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Boinks posted:For real though use a record sweeping brush and if it's still too noisy you'll need to build a record cleaning machine. The best advice I always give to people who ask me questions about collecting records is to do anything else at all with their lives.
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CPL593H posted:The best advice I always give to people who ask me questions about collecting records is to do anything else at all with their lives. That's great advice for collecting almost anything.
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Jul 12, 2016 03:24
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I put my records in the dishwasher.
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Anaranjado posted:My receiver finally got repaired so I celebrated by buying Whipped Cream. But did you get any records?
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Boinks posted:That's great advice for collecting almost anything. Yeah, I read comic books too and I give the same advice for that.
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There's a handful of records on Amazon's Prime Day deals (you have to search for "vinyl"). The only one that interested me was the Red/Blue Matrix Score, which is down to $20.
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Chill Callahan posted:I also got these two things from the best record store on the east coast i really want their sherwin williams / cover teh earth shirt, i think its looooong gone got a bunch of junk over the weekend, these two made it though super clean og mono  and  i love catalog books, this one just happens to be like aimed right at me. great to flip through like got it, need it, heard it, never seen it, got it, etc etc etc. the euro and private press sections are pretty good, too.
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lu_ducky posted:I shouldn't have cheaped on the shipping for that Verocai release. I will now enjoy my split seam up top and a nice bend on the back right. Yeah, mine showed up and was in pretty rough shape too. The actual album plays fine though, so all is good in the world.
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Does anyone know where I could get Lemon Jelly's Lemon Jelly.ky for a reasonable price? The Discogs prices are just silly.
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Pingiivi posted:Does anyone know where I could get Lemon Jelly's Lemon Jelly.ky for a reasonable price? The Discogs prices are just silly. It's because they only pressed a thousand copies of it 16 years ago. I paid almost $100 for my copy.
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ShotgunWillie posted:It's because they only pressed a thousand copies of it 16 years ago. I paid almost $100 for my copy. I'd pay something like that. Those 300+ euro prices are just way too much for me.
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Victims - Form Hell. Pretty rad synth 10" from Death Waltz.   Inter Arma - Paradise Gallows. Saw them last Saturday. picked up the tour-only color vinyl. This beast is a big time contender for album of the year for me.    
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TapTheForwardAssist posted:I'll have to check them out locally then, thanks! stick with the SL 1200. they go for over 2000 new in box these days. Go to https://www.kabusa.com if you wanna mod out your 1200. Enjoy vinyl.
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Pingiivi posted:I'd pay something like that. Those 300+ euro prices are just way too much for me. Wut. I got my copies of .KY and Lost Horizons from the same dude for like 150 quid just a couple of years ago. Never gonna sell them.
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wish i still lived in the area   https://www.instagram.com/p/BH5jJC7gETN/
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Chill Callahan posted:wish i still lived in the area Jesus, that's beautiful.. I recently overpaid for an old copy of "Saucerful of Secrets", and the second side sounds great (presumably because it was never played). The first side, however, I have to constantly re-seat the needle because of weird distorted or missing sound and frequent skips. Afterwards it plays fine, but then the issues crop up again. Is this just evidence of a very over-played side? Most of the lovely records I have just skip a lot because the album's warped or there are a lot of scratches. The record itself has surprisingly few scratches though.
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Motherfuck. Mondo is releasing a Castlevania soundtrack at San Diego Comic Con. It's one of the few video game soundtracks I'd ever bother with, and I haven't been to SDCC since 2005. Is anyone here going and would they mind picking one up? Or, is there a reliable way to grab a SDCC exclusive that isn't some price gouger on Discogs?
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Peas and Rice posted:Motherfuck. Mondo is releasing a Castlevania soundtrack at San Diego Comic Con. It's one of the few video game soundtracks I'd ever bother with, and I haven't been to SDCC since 2005. They might as well just sell them directly on ebay for 300 dollars.
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Are there any good portable record players out there around $100? Crosleys don't have the rep, unless some are okay. My sister wants a player and she just doesn't want to buy a receiver/speaker setup, so she's looking for one with built-in speakers.
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All Crosleys are garbage and I'm not aware of any player with a built in amp/speaker that isn't total poo poo either, sorry. I'd say go vintage, but if she's dead set against an amp/speakers setup I'd say pick a different format entirely.
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