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I've been on a CD kick lately too. I picked all these up for $1/ea last week.     Also had an unusual goodwill vinyl find yesterday: 
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Sep 9, 2023 16:03
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Nightmare Cinema posted:I'm usually against Best Of albums since they're almost all radio hits or similar, but that Nick Cave one (alongside Bjork's Greatest Hits) probably stand as "perfect" compilations to me. Wonder what the general consensus is here on "Greatest Hits" LPs. Usually I avoid them because I want the popular song in context on the album, but certain bands it can be preferable, like say, Steppenwolf. If I see a cheap greatest hits CD of a band I've heard of I'll snap that poo poo up though. Got a 5th Dimension greatest hits CD on the stack to listen to actually.
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Sep 9, 2023 16:37
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I generally try to avoid greatest hits anything. I like having an album and the context and vision that the album provides.
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Sep 9, 2023 17:16
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Greatest hits albums that have a b side of covers and unreleased songs own. Smashing Pumpkins, Matt Good come to mind
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Sep 9, 2023 18:15
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Recent pickups
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Sep 9, 2023 18:18
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Heath posted:I generally try to avoid greatest hits anything. I like having an album and the context and vision that the album provides. Seconding this, and I'm usually very obsessive about having the complete discography of artists I really like. Though I'll make exceptions for bands like say... Abba where I like some of their tracks but I really don't need everything they've released. Or folks from the era where they just released an album of standards every six months like Sinatra (with the exception of outliers like "In the Wee Small Hours" that had a more deliberate intent behind the song selections) And b-side/EP compilations are fair game.
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Sep 9, 2023 18:51
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Not a huge Eagles fan, but their greatest hits (1971-75) album is genuinely offensive for not having Outlaw Man.
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Sep 9, 2023 19:34
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Once again I am posting a deal... https://www.nortonrecords.com/hurricane-sandy-survivor-pack/ I bought two of these packs a week ago when they were $10. Now they are $5. With shipping it's about a buck a record. Good deal from a good label.
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Sep 9, 2023 21:27
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https://twitter.com/mrsimonraymonde/status/1700137610214064272?s=46&t=t8CFjI5-v0IxaoLh38KSzw Also https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3OqVUsqkh8 tl,dr CDs from before the loudness wars could be preferable.
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Sep 10, 2023 00:02
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I have a CD collection from the 90s, only issue is I've noticed a few have bronzed or become unplayable, CD rot basically. Not sure if that is still an issue these days.
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Sep 10, 2023 00:43
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I remember researching types of CDs and I think even pressed discs eventually die. Burned CDs die much faster.
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Sep 10, 2023 01:38
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pwn posted:tl,dr CDs from before the loudness wars could be preferable. This reminded me, am I nuts or is the CD for Amy Winehouse's Back in Black mixed too goddamn loud? I stopped listening to it and eventually sold it because it was such an unpleasant wall of sound. Which sucked because I did like the album, but not it hammering my head because everything's tuned to max.
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Sep 10, 2023 01:46
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Turbinosamente posted:This reminded me, am I nuts or is the CD for Amy Winehouse's Back in Black mixed too goddamn loud? I stopped listening to it and eventually sold it because it was such an unpleasant wall of sound. Which sucked because I did like the album, but not it hammering my head because everything's tuned to max. The CD is brickwalled. The vinyl has dynamics. Californication I think is the biggest night & day difference when it comes to vinyl vs. CD masters I think. The Bellman-cut LP still has that shrill lo-fi mono sound but at least it's listenable. I Might Be Adam posted:I remember researching types of CDs and I think even pressed discs eventually die. Burned CDs die much faster. Any CDs made in the 80's that I have (some are inherited from my dad, the rest I bought used) play perfectly fine. There's some unlucky ones from that period that I saw disc rot and passed on getting (specifically Propaganda's A Secret Wish), but aside from that the disc rot thing is a myth. All my CD-R's on the other hand became unusable 5-10 years after I burned them. Nightmare Cinema fucked around with this message at 02:03 on Sep 10, 2023 |
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Sep 10, 2023 01:54
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I Might Be Adam posted:I remember researching types of CDs and I think even pressed discs eventually die. It's down to the adhesive used to keep the layers sandwiched together. If that adhesive degrades the layers begin to separate and the data layer oxidizes? I think? It's been a minute since I researched it. Personal anecdote: Some DVDs I had left in extreme temperatures are now unplayable. Heat and cold will degrade the glue. Of course if they use an unstable glue for a batch at the plant then you're hosed, in ten or 15 or 20 years or whenever the glue fails.
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Sep 10, 2023 01:55
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Get this pro-CD propaganda outta here
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Sep 10, 2023 03:39
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Nightmare Cinema posted:The CD is brickwalled. The vinyl has dynamics. Ah yeah, brickwall was the term I'm looking for. Good to know I wasn't nuts. Hot Diggity! posted:Get this pro-CD propaganda outta here It's a tough world, you gotta do what you gotta do.
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Sep 10, 2023 15:18
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An old family friend of ours, a guy who’s been a musician all his life (he’s in his early 70s), insists that the only Beatles albums worth owning are the Red and Blue compilations. They’re great albums and I’ll admit that they’re the only Beatles I have on vinyl, but I feel it’s probably not a widely held opinion.
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Sep 10, 2023 19:57
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Early pre loudness war CDs sound great and I'm hoarding them to cash out someday.
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Sep 10, 2023 20:07
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Creature posted:An old family friend of ours, a guy who’s been a musician all his life (he’s in his early 70s), insists that the only Beatles albums worth owning are the Red and Blue compilations. Is this your friend? I can think of a few worth owning, but I am also a late Beatles kind of dork.
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Sep 10, 2023 20:47
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Creature posted:An old family friend of ours, a guy who’s been a musician all his life (he’s in his early 70s), insists that the only Beatles albums worth owning are the Red and Blue compilations. I want to say I saw a YouTube video on those being the best sounding compilations quality wise. I don’t remember why. I’ll put the video here when I find it. Beatles Vinyl YouTube exists for anyone who didn’t know. Edit: I don’t think I found the proper video, but I do know those 2 compilations use the actual master tapes and there are a bunch of illegal/semi-legal compilations that didn’t have that luxury from around the time they were released. Love is my favorite compilation of you can count it as that. Edit: Oh I just realized they mean non compilations, yeah that’s crazy. TheMightyBoops fucked around with this message at 21:05 on Sep 11, 2023 |
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Sep 11, 2023 20:54
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If you're like me and have been wanting a re-press of the Guacamelee soundtrack, we have been blessed! https://shiptoshoremedia.com/collections/featured/products/guacamelee-original-video-game-soundtrack-lp
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Sep 12, 2023 18:42
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 That Sleepytime Gorilla Museum Kickstarter hit 120K and they just announced the extra funds are going to finally completing the last Idiot Flesh album along with the first ever vinyl pressing of Fancy, which has one of the cooler CD packages in my collection:  ...just the packaging, though. Someone broke into my car years ago just to steal a CD wallet full of dork poo poo. I'm still mad about that.
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Sep 14, 2023 19:30
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caligulamprey posted:
I remember when someone broke into my car and stole my CD booklet of BURNED CD's and some change. They left my nice sunglasses though.
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Sep 14, 2023 21:03
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Girl Talk finally arrived today, along with a few other preorders over the past week while I was on vacation. So much great poo poo to listen to now.
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Sep 14, 2023 21:18
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Frozen Peach posted:Girl Talk finally arrived today, along with a few other preorders over the past week while I was on vacation. So much great poo poo to listen to now. Wait, that's kind of wild. How can Girl Talk be commercially sold? Does he clear all those samples?
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Sep 15, 2023 02:18
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McCoy Pauley posted:Wait, that's kind of wild. How can Girl Talk be commercially sold? Does he clear all those samples? 
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Sep 15, 2023 02:32
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Oh right. If you see someone doing something cool with uncleared samples no you didn't.
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Sep 15, 2023 02:34
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Is that why Death Grip’s first album is expensive / has such a large number of “unofficial” releases on Discogs? (Are those worth buying, or just CDs printed to vinyl?)
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Sep 15, 2023 04:39
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IUG posted:Is that why Death Grip’s first album is expensive / has such a large number of “unofficial” releases on Discogs? (Are those worth buying, or just CDs printed to vinyl?) I'm missing Ex-military and Government Plates, and it's pissing me off. 
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Sep 15, 2023 04:51
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I would pay an obscene amount of money for a version of Since I Left You that had all of the original samples on it.
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Sep 15, 2023 06:15
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Schremp Howard posted:I would pay an obscene amount of money for a version of Since I Left You that had all of the original samples on it. Isn’t that how it was released in Australia? I seem to recall that it was only when it was released in either the UK or US that they had to redo the samples. Or was there a version before the 'official' first release?
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Sep 15, 2023 08:21
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Look vinyl thread, I don’t need to justify myself to you. I just got a raise at work, so yes, I did buy the stupid blinking LEDs version of the upcoming Aesop Rock record. Get off my back!
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Sep 15, 2023 14:13
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Read After Burning posted:I'm missing Ex-military and Government Plates, and it's pissing me off. theres a new pressing of government plates coming out soon i think. u should be able to preorder it. I had to buy a bootleg for ex-military though
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Sep 15, 2023 20:02
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To any Genesis fans having trouble finding decent sounding versions of the original mixes for the 70's albums: Nursery Cryme, Foxtrot, Selling England, The Lamb, and Trick are getting reissues cut from the original master tapes. The bad news? 45rpm. https://store.acousticsounds.com/a/3074/Genesis BUT, there will be newly remastered Genesis SACDs too, so I don't doubt these will be the best sounding digital versions of the non-Lucas'd mixes (something no-one's ever been able to get right minus the Atlantic TotT CD from the 80's). Also, I don't have any Christmas LP's yet so might be a perfect time to pop that cherry: https://store.atlanticrecords.com/en/atlantic-75/vinyl/christmas-eve-and-other-stories-crystal-clear-2lp/603497832675.html
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Sep 15, 2023 20:49
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CatBlack posted:theres a new pressing of government plates coming out soon i think. u should be able to preorder it. I had to buy a bootleg for ex-military though Oh, you're a drat (biblically-accurate) ANGEL! VVV Zooming in on background details to figure out where you live, so I can come steal it. Read After Burning fucked around with this message at 20:54 on Sep 15, 2023 |
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Sep 15, 2023 20:52
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Just gunna show off my original Ex-Military pressing a friend of mine gave to me as a birthday present: with the little black marker squiggle which is the only way to tell its an original and everything,
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Sep 15, 2023 20:52
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dorium posted:Just gunna show off my original Ex-Military pressing a friend of mine gave to me as a birthday present: To be clear, that's not official, right? Ex-Military is a mixtape so that's an "original" bootleg, right?
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Sep 15, 2023 22:15
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IUG posted:Look vinyl thread, I don’t need to justify myself to you. I just got a raise at work, so yes, I did buy the stupid blinking LEDs version of the upcoming Aesop Rock record. Get off my back! Friend, at least two of us bought the $200+ Dethklok boxset. It's okay.
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Sep 15, 2023 22:19
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IUG posted:Look vinyl thread, I don’t need to justify myself to you. I just got a raise at work, so yes, I did buy the stupid blinking LEDs version of the upcoming Aesop Rock record. Get off my back! That's a pretty neat design, congrats on the raise!
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