caligulamprey posted:

My hand is resting against the edge and my fingers are cupped in order to avoid touching the playing surface. I'm very good about this, but I did then knock the cleaning brush onto the record while it's playing a minute later because I'm an idiot.

EL BROMANCE posted:

gently caress yeah, Sleepaway Camp owns.

beergod posted:

The last scene hosed my 10 year old brain up for a significant amount of time

CPL593H posted:

Your hand is on the playing surface!

volts5000 posted:

He nearly lost his poo poo when he found Breakfast in America. He loves that album and wanted it real bad.

Read After Burning posted:

This was me last month. :3 That was my favorite one of my haul that day.

Congrats on getting your kid into a cool (but often pricy) hobby! You're obligated to show him the "John Mulaney took Pete Davidson to his first Steely Dan concert" video.

volts5000 posted:

Yeah, this was pricey, but we told him it was a reward for him getting a 4 on his AP exam. So it worked out.

This should hold him over for a good while.

VladimirLeninpest posted:

I bought my one year old a copy of the frozen ii soundtrack and he holds it by the grooves no matter how many times i correct him

pwn posted:

Turbinosamente, thanks for the Herb record! And the Sparks CD! And the postcard!



But I guess there’s a game that workers in the Post Office’s sorting centers play, where they really show customers who deign to tell them how to do their jobs, as someone went out of their way to destroy this package.



Unlike marjorie’s Aretha records, though, Herb did not survive the assault.



That underpaid, overworked guy or gal or nonbinary person sure showed us. It isn’t healthy to daydream about hunting them down and breaking their limbs, but it would be so funny, because they’re begging me not to break their arm, and I’m breaking it anyway. Isn’t that hilarious? It’s really really funny when someone asks you not to do something and you do it anyway. Because we’re all children.

Thank you so much for the gifts, Turbinosamente. I got a Sparks CD out of it and that’s something.

wa27 posted:

Garage sale pickups from today:



The Turn-Ups record is still sealed. It's some garage punk album from the early 80s that's worth surprisingly little.

lament.cfg posted:

Opinion question: I sold a sealed copy of a new release on Discogs, and per the buyer it has “significant surface noise throughout both records as well as skips on two tracks”.

Do I just let him return it, and I guess try and get a new copy from the label? Do I tell him to get a new copy from the label?

dorium posted:

wa27 posted:

Garage sale pickups from today:



The Turn-Ups record is still sealed. It's some garage punk album from the early 80s that's worth surprisingly little.

volts5000 posted:

So, we were cleaning out my mom's garage and we found a poo poo ton of vinyl. Lots of singles and some greatest hits compilations from disco and 80's pop. We wanted to listen to them, so we bought a cheapo portable turntable off of Amazon and that got my 16 year old son hooked on wanting
to collect vinyl. He started binge listening albums on Spotify like a machine, Supertramp, Black Sabbath, Beatles, The Clash, The Smiths, Steely Dan, covering pop, punk, metal, and new wave. My mom gave him her collection and he's wanting to build on it.

So we got him a nicer turntable, a Sony PSLX310BT. He's been playing some of them and they sound great on the soundbar. Today, we visited a couple of the record stores downtown and came back with some good finds.



He nearly lost his poo poo when he found Breakfast in America. He loves that album and wanted it real bad. He did some research on the Dark Side of the Moon album we found, and it's a 1975 press. It was the first one he played when we got back home and it sounds AMAZING for a record that old.

internet celebrity posted:

I can stop buying records now, I've peaked

pwn posted:

Unlike marjorie’s Aretha records, though, Herb did not survive the assault.

Thank you so much for the gifts, Turbinosamente. I got a Sparks CD out of it and that’s something.

BigFactory posted:

I found my Adam and the ants lp to dig out what came with it when I bought it and found some other things too



Some classical albums with kind of cool covers



These ones



And there’s the kings of the wild frontier. It had someone’s photograph of a concert promotion in the jacket. And that catalog, but that might be in all of them.

That’s my story of the day

internet celebrity posted:

I can stop buying records now, I've peaked

Turbinosamente posted:

Argh godamnit! The universe really does not want you to have the loving embrace of Herb Alpert, gently caress. I wondered if writing the old "please do not fold or bend" on would curse it and welp there it is. I'm sorry that that happened I thought I had packed it securely enough. But at least the Sparks made it just fine and you can be part of the cool kid's club now?

internet celebrity posted:

I can stop buying records now, I've peaked

dorium posted:

I just sent off a Mint record and am worried about this because I’ve never played it so I’ve thought about it. My first option would be to provide the order number because labels or businesses usually want the order number and video of the issue and have them go through the process so that they get the order right away and it doesn’t need to go to me than them. If they don’t want to do that I’ll just refund and do it myself after they send it back.

lament.cfg posted:

As an update, "the second time he played it" after I asked for video, the skips went away. Now it's just a noisy pressing, per everyone's comments on it (VMP Deloused). I don't want to refund on this, kinda stupid to come at me for.

midge posted:

I have it and can confirm there is baseline noise on the pressing, such is the trend of fancy vinyl colours/bullshit.

dorium posted:

ah yep. i got the same deloused pressing and already asked for a replacement. I'll probably end up buying it again on standard black. real stupid shame vmp doesnt think about this stuff before hand.

petit choux posted:

The answer, my friend, is ropin' in the wind

CPL593H posted:

Most people aren't going to complain because they think you're supposed to hear surface noise because "It's part of the experience.", half the people buying the poo poo are resellers, and the rest are listening to it on Crosleys.