Vinyl/Record Player Thread

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If you go to estate sales you can find a lot of pretty good record players on the cheap. I collect all kinds of physical just because copyright rules have gotten so bad you can’t trust songs to stay up on streaming. I know of good songs and bands that had their labels go under, so it’s rare to find physicals and there’s a good chance their songs will disappear from streaming. Also, record and physical hunting is a really good way to find new and obscure music that may not be anywhere else. Been looking for any lil ugly mane stuff I can find. Impermanence makes a lot of these really valuable to me, and it’s fun, although can be expensive.
 
Got one for Christmas last year and now I am like 50 records deep, Also has a CD player too and I have a lot of CD's as well, specifically ones where records are 4 times as expensive as the CD ones that cost 50 dollars, Talking about Ashra's New Age of Earth where it's Vinyl costed hundreds while the CD costed more than than each price all the records I bought, except for the live album of Teenage Jesus and The Jerks which costed around 65. Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon is a must have for record collectors. Records are usually pretty expensive but some for example. The Vangelis Spiral Album I got for just 3 dollars. Then there are albums I ordered online such as Ricochet by Tangerine Dream as well as Elektron Kukeso by Hans Edler. I also got a signed copy of Patriarchy's Album the Unself when I met them. They were the opening act for The Cult.
 
I've always liked the idea of amassing a big record collection but it's becoming increasingly common that I'll walk in to a record store wondering if they have X, find X, realise X costs 60 dollars, then walk out empty-handed. It's even worse than when I started pre-COVID. I have enough expensive interests as is goddamnit.

Maybe I'll start collecting CDs instead. They've probably got another five years left before the music industry realises people are buying them again and starts gouging prices accordingly.

GungusDingaling dijo:
record and physical hunting is a really good way to find new and obscure music that may not be anywhere else
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This is why I'm still hanging on to my record player. There's no way to replicate the experience of rescuing some ancient 7-inch from rotting away in a bargain bin and taking it home for examination. Last month I happened upon a copy of Switched-On Bach for five quid, which was neat (although not as rare a find as I'd originally thought).
 
Doktor Grimm dijo:
I've always liked the idea of amassing a big record collection but it's becoming increasingly common that I'll walk in to a record store wondering if they have X, find X, realise X costs 60 dollars, then walk out empty-handed. It's even worse than when I started pre-COVID. I have enough expensive interests as is goddamnit.

Maybe I'll start collecting CDs instead. They've probably got another five years left before the music industry realises people are buying them again and starts gouging prices accordingly.


This is why I'm still hanging on to my record player. There's no way to replicate the experience of rescuing some ancient 7-inch from rotting away in a bargain bin and taking it home for examination. Last month I happened upon a copy of Switched-On Bach for five quid, which was neat (although not as rare a find as I'd originally thought).
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Try estate sales, thrift stores, and garage sales. You can get stuff on the cheap and depending on what you’re around you might find some rare stuff. CD’s are super good to collect (so are cassettes just because smaller artists can make them as well)- working on making a whole set up for all my physical stuff. Overall it’s about what you get out of finding the stuff more than the quality of the sound, generally.

it’s pretty fun to find stuff that isn’t on Spotify, even if it’s a bummer. I found the below record, thought it was going to be some punk Czech music, and it literally was polka. It was fun to find and I still think it’s a neat record to have and resell later maybe. IMG_8359.jpeg
 
GungusDingaling dijo:
Try estate sales, thrift stores, and garage sales. You can get stuff on the cheap and depending on what you’re around you might find some rare stuff.
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I'm a regular charity shopper and have acquired some really interesting things for cheap. Somehow I've never considered looking at estate sales, though -- I'm kind of in the sticks, so it's generally more convenient to make a full day trip into town and sweep all the record stores there, but it'd definitely be worth keeping an eye on Facebook groups or something in case anything pops up close by.

GungusDingaling dijo:
it’s pretty fun to find stuff that isn’t on Spotify, even if it’s a bummer. I found the below record, thought it was going to be some punk Czech music, and it literally was polka. It was fun to find and I still think it’s a neat record to have and resell later maybe.
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For sure. The best part is finding music that isn't available anywhere on the Internet. You really don't know what you're going to get until you bring it home and give it a spin.

It's been fun watching all these worldwide manhunts play out in search of some particular piece of "lost media" knowing that in any given Salvation Army there's a handful of records that haven't been heard by another human being since the nineties. The music itself is rarely that special, but it's the mystery that makes it really interesting.
 
You know I actually don't really get the hate that much for the crosley cruiser, had a friend back in HS that owned one and it sounded nearly as good as my parents vintage sony turntable (albeit not with its built in speakers), even had a diamond stylus. It's a perfectly reasonable entry level system imo.
 
Hopefully someone will pick it up. That's how I got my record player. I saw it sitting atop some cheap pre-fab furniture someone had stacked next to a dumpster. Found myself wondering if it still worked, so I took it home, plugged it in, and it did. It needed a little cleanup and a fresh needle, and then it was as good as new.
 
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Necrobump. Old pic, but still relevant in these trying times.

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Such a shame to see a record player thrown out like that. I am sure it's in working condition.
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Nothing sad about that. It will be someone elses free find. That's how I got my first stereo in the mid 90's. I found an all in one system similir to that with mis matched speakers from an abandoned house.
My first record was the Van Halen debut album from Goodwill for $0.25, then my aunt gave me around 300 rock and country records. Despite the poverty, those were good times.
 
Mr. 'Tizers got us a setup for Christmas. It's been surprisingly great for branching out and discovering new artists. Pick up whatever looks interesting at the thrift for two bucks a pop, if it sucks I'm only out two bucks, and if it's great then I have my own copy. I've no sense of what is rare or valuable, it's just a rush to find cool shit out in the wild.

Great haul of funk and disco albums today, as well as this gem:
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No baby poster sadly, but aside from that and the corner wear it's in gorgeous condition. Price sticker peeled off like a dream.
 
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