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Enos Cabell posted:I wouldn't buy a used record without doing that. Good stores will have a player set up so you can test them too. Yeah. The initial look is to determine if it is visibly damaged. Then if it looks acceptable I move on to playing it in the shop. I have been burned too many times by some invisible defect. I also check discogs to see if the price is in line.
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Boinks posted:I just walked into my Goodwill and there was an Original Master Recording Dark Side Of The Moon just sitting in front inside of the first record crate. Well, it didn't clean up like I hoped. It's pretty crackly throughout, but still enjoyable. I get to hear what the MFSL version sounds like for only a buck 
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Boinks posted:Well, it didn't clean up like I hoped. It's pretty crackly throughout, but still enjoyable. I get to hear what the MFSL version sounds like for only a buck Be our guinea pig. Try this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lW7xkQ8pN6M
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Boinks posted:Well, it didn't clean up like I hoped. It's pretty crackly throughout, but still enjoyable. I get to hear what the MFSL version sounds like for only a buck send it to me and I'll clean it for you. I've got both a vacuum/bristle setup and an ultrasonic cleaner.
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70s prog rock is most authentic with crackles and noise hell, most of the Gabriel era genesis albums have such a wild tape noise floor that it sounds like they recording his vocals with a box fan running in the booth all part of the charm
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:70s prog rock is most authentic with crackles and noise I cleaned the poo poo out of my Porky ATCO Lamb copy and you can still tell in the quieter parts it's definitely an oil embargo record. But when it gets loud this poo poo SLAMS. The bass on that thing...
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dorium posted:send it to me and I'll clean it for you. I've got both a vacuum/bristle setup and an ultrasonic cleaner. I did use a vacuum but still have to try to let the solution soak a bit and see if it gets more dust out. I might take you up on that though cause I'm curious about the ultra sonic cleaner.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:70s prog rock is most authentic with crackles and noise The recording level is so low on the Peace sections of In the Wake of Poseidon that I hear more crackle that lyrics at the start. I was reading about the Birotron and it suggested that one of the Mellotron's faults were tape limitations and those created extra noise on recordings. Dunno how true that was. The Birotron had longer tapes - it used 8-tracks - and was gonig to be much better in that regard. Oops. Also read that Steve Howe pranked Rick Wakeman by taking out his Birotron tapes and put random albums in the 8-track slots instead.
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It's like night and day after a 2nd cleaning. The stuff must have really been stuck in there. What would happen if I snorted this?? 
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Excited as hell for this double lp of stop making sense. Between that and the full koyaanisqatsi getting released those are like... my big wants all taken care of. And a friend got us both tickets for the IMAX remaster and I am excited as hell. Maybe, god willing, enough time has passed and enough money might be made that they put aside their differences and some magic may happen. Pipe dreams but you never know
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Boinks posted:What would happen if I snorted this?? Brain Damage / Eclipse
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Nightmare Cinema posted:Brain Damage / Eclipse
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Got some records in The Postal Service - Everything Will Change (live album)   Have Mercy - Make The Best Of It   Saves The Day - Stay What You Are   also upgraded from my Audio Technica LP60 to a LP120
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Enos Cabell posted:I wouldn't buy a used record without doing that. Good stores will have a player set up so you can test them too. I can't recall the last time I saw a record store trying to sell a damaged album, though.
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Red posted:I can't recall the last time I saw a record store trying to sell a damaged album, though. Boinks posted:What would happen if I snorted this?? Unrelated note: saw Stop Making Sense in IMAX last night. It was awesome. Pretzellogic fucked around with this message at 17:17 on Sep 23, 2023 |
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Red posted:I can't recall the last time I saw a record store trying to sell a damaged album, though. Sometimes its unintentional. Records can have weird defects that you can't really see at first glance. Also places sell scuffed up stuff all the time, usually priced lower.
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If anyone was waiting for a copy that wasn't a gajillion dollar box set:  EDIT: Oh nice, Rubellan Remasters are reissuing Suburban Lawns' Baby EP early next year. It's got a couple clunkers, but the title track loving rips: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4kDqkOTvJzg caligulamprey fucked around with this message at 00:48 on Sep 24, 2023 |
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:70s prog rock is most authentic with crackles and noise problem is both King Crimson and Genesis have a lot of quiet sections in their music which can make the crackling pretty obnoxious. I think all of KC's 70s albums are incredibly dynamic (ok maybe not Lizard and Red), for Genesis I'm thinking more of LP2 of the Lamb
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caligulamprey posted:If anyone was waiting for a copy that wasn't a gajillion dollar box set: not even just as a rhetoric figure, just legit wondering why I never came across them because it's extremely adjacent to my usual poo poo
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My Lovely Horse posted:not even just as a rhetoric figure, just legit wondering why I never came across them because it's extremely adjacent to my usual poo poo  Just cracked open the box set last night and it sounds incredible. 
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lol, is this where I confess that from the 90s until just today my brain apparently auto-corrected Cardiacs to Cardigans. So many musical conversations over the years make SO MUCH more sense to me now. e: ok listened to a few songs, Is This the Life and Tarred and Feathered. Can't believe I've never gotten into these guys before, 90s me was a dumbass. Enos Cabell fucked around with this message at 18:31 on Sep 26, 2023 |
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Not vinyl, but thought this was cool: I've never seen a CD longbox in person (sealed too).
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I had no idea what a longbox was so I just checked the wiki and it's cute to see that they were phased out because they were deemed "wasteful" how quaint the 90s were with their performative environmentalism as if a bit of cardboard was going to be the difference maker
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Good lord I feel old now. Longboxes were originally so the retailers could use the same bins that records were sold in. They got phased out once CDs were fully trouncing records in sales and you could pack more CDs in a smaller space without the longbox. I only ever had a handful of longbox releases, almost all of my collection back then was from abusing Columbia House and BMG accounts.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I had no idea what a longbox was so I just checked the wiki and it's cute to see that they were phased out because they were deemed "wasteful" They're wasteful of precious retail shelf space
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On a similar note (and one that brings us back to vinyl), here's a 7" single still sealed in its original package made to help display it on store record shelves, or to have it hanging from a sales rack. It's about the height of a 10" record with that cardboard backing insert.
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Enos Cabell posted:Good lord I feel old now. Longboxes were originally so the retailers could use the same bins that records were sold in. They got phased out once CDs were fully trouncing records in sales and you could pack more CDs in a smaller space without the longbox. I have two, both boxsets: - Beach Boys Good Vibrations - Beach Boys Pet Sounds Sessions The Pet Sounds longbox is textured. Good Vibrations was the first to legally issue some of the Smile recordings. Super good box set for its era.
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Absolutely marched into Sam Goody with my mom in 1992 when I was 11 and had her buy me this bad boy.   It was kinda a nice mea culpa for shrinking album art down I guess, but got ditched right quick.
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caligulamprey posted:Absolutely marched into Sam Goody with my mom in 1992 when I was 11 and had her buy me this bad boy. Rob Zombie peaked with this album, so fucken good
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Lol I felt compelled to hide that album from my parents when I got it. They were by no means Puritans but I can't imagine them letting me buy that when I was 11.
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Enos Cabell posted:Rob Zombie peaked with this album, so fucken good Astrocreep will always have a special place in my heart. I rented that from the library when it came out and it still blows my mind to this day.
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Good Soldier Svejk posted:I had no idea what a longbox was so I just checked the wiki and it's cute to see that they were phased out because they were deemed "wasteful" On the scale of millions of cds, it would matter. The problem is that it can’t be the only thing you do. It’s like I could eat a vegetable a day, but if I just gorge on Chicken McNuggets the rest of the day, I will still die. Less happy because I ate a vegetable when I could have had more McNuggets.
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UDiscoverMusic put up a few pop-punk and emo records up for preorder today, most notably Thursday's War All The Time. https://shop.udiscovermusic.com/products/thursday-war-all-the-time-limited-edition-lp
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I got two Mac Miller albums today; got GOOD:AM for myself and my partner surprised me with Blue Slide Park.  I also grabbed the last copy of the new Oliver Tree album.
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Savers run yesterday. 
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BigFactory posted:Savers run yesterday. Send me the Dokken :O
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Boinks posted:Send me the Dokken :O Big Willie Style is far and away the most valuable of the lot but the jacket is kinda trashed.
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WOOOOOW Big Willie Style. Never seen one of those in the wild.
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BigFactory posted:Savers run yesterday. Big Daddy is hilarious.
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I had a pretty good haul from the local record show yesterday.
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