The vinyl thread

[FAINTdubber]

Quote, originally posted by kenny301 »

This will be available for pre-order today Brendan Kelly (of Lawrence Arms)/Joe McMahon (of Smoke or Fire) split called Wasted potential. Vinyl Collective pre-order comes with a one off coffee mug while the Anchor Records pre-order gets you colored vinyl. I don't really need any more coffee cups

Thats it, you win... GAME OVER

seriously when i heard about that split i was so excited. i love smoke or fire and the TLA/broadways/falcon blah blah blah. both awesome vocalists

going to pre-order now.

oh and do you read brendan's blog? its pretty entertaining...


Modified by FAINTdubber at 10:23 PM 2-9-2010

[kenny301]

Quote, originally posted by FAINTdubber »

oh and do you read brendan's blog? its pretty entertaining...

I just found out about it the other day. Entertaining is accurate!

[patrikman]

Quote, originally posted by LostBoyScout »

Thanks, actually I was talking to the dude at my local indie shop and brought it up, he said to bring it in, and if he can't make it go away he'll replace it. Pretty stoked on that.

that's awesome. most of the people at my local shop kind of suck. like I said I was in there yesterday looking for a couple things and the one dude just kind of said "I don't know when we will be getting it in" and just went back to what he was doing. The guy who runs the shop is super cool and is always really helpful but, every time I go in there he is usually on the phone doing orders and stuff so I have to wait to get decent help.

[TheSpaceHasBeenRented]

you guys should really check out Sadie Hell, they're a local band to me that just released their first album in a record/cd two part set, if anyone wants one you can just shoot me a message on aim and we can figure out shipping

http://sadiehell.bandcamp.com/

Modified by TheSpaceHasBeenRented at 6:08 AM 2-10-2010

[patrikman]

^ dude sounds like Cher.

I finally got around to taking a few pics of some of my favortie records.

here we have The Harder They Come soundtrack, a crazy Shel Silverstein (yes the children's author, this is definitely not for kids though) record, Stevie Wonder Innervisions, some Herbie Hancock and some Miles Davis

some Zappa and The Mothers, some Dead and my favorite Zeppelin album

Tom Waits, The Clash, Parliament/Funkadelic

David Gilmore, some Floyd (including an uber rare german import pressing of Obscured By Clouds) and More which is also kind of rare, and Talking Heads

Bob Dylan (including the rare Live @ Budokan and The Basement Tapes w/The Band) and some Violent Femmes

all of The Police albums

Elliott Smith, Sean Lennon, Fishbone, Jim Carroll Band (the guy who The Basketball Diaries was about), Bright Eyes, Medeski Martin and Wood, Tortoise, Tricky

Bonnie "Prince" Billy (Will Oldham) & Tortoise, Iron & Wine and Calexico, Love As Laughter, Ween, & Moist Boyz (Ween side project), Mogwai, Clinic, and Wilco

The Mars Volta and Modest Mouse

Radiohead, Tricky, Felix Da Housecat, Air, Dan The Automator, My Morning Jacket, (The New) Folk Implosion, Pavement

Kraftwerk, Fuse and Plastikman (Richie Hawtin), The Chemical Brothers, Dieselboy

DJ Shadow, Handosme Boy Modeling School (Dan The Automator & Prince Paul), Deltron (Del The Funky Homosapien, Dan The Automator, Kid Koala), Hieroglyphics crew, Digable Planets, Public Enemy, Jeru Tha Damaja, A Tribe Called Quest

El-P, RJD2, Mr. Lif, Aesop Rock, Depot/Camu Tao (R.I.P)

[Jerry_HEAVEN]

^^^ nice, i need to pick up that El-P High Water on vinyl

[patrikman]

Quote, originally posted by Jerry_HEAVEN »

^^^ nice, i need to pick up that El-P High Water on vinyl

It's really good but, my favortie beat is scratched.

[LostBoyScout]

exchanged my antlers album and picked up 3 new ones:

vinyl is going to send me to the poorhouse

[kenny301]

Quote, originally posted by LostBoyScout »

vinyl is going to send me to the poorhouse

Same here I have only spent $80 on records this week.

[patrikman]

Quote, originally posted by LostBoyScout »

exchanged my antlers album and picked up 3 new ones: vinyl is going to send me to the poorhouse

WOWWWW!!!! So jealous. I have Actor and Summer Teeth on CD but damn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
(I am a huge Wilco nerd)

[LostBoyScout]

hehe thanks dude, it was a bit hard to swallow the $30 price tag, but 2 x 180g and i friggin love this album.

[MochaMike]

Scored 140 lps today for FREE, vinyl is MINT, 75 Jazz albums, Miles Davis, Coltraine, and a lot of misc stuff I never heard of.

65 Classic Rock type stuff, Beatles (White Album, Sgt Peppers, Yellow Submarine), Van Morrison, James Taylor etc... Some misc stuff I don't know of, but a great score for Free...

[A Gruesome Time]

Picked this up this morning.... One of my favorite albums ever. It's a first pressing, and it still has the post cards that it came with! Picked it up for only $90 bucks.



Modified by A Gruesome Time at 2:52 PM 2-14-2010

[kenny301]

Quote, originally posted by MochaMike »

Scored 140 lps today for FREE, vinyl is MINT, 75 Jazz albums, Miles Davis, Coltraine, and a lot of misc stuff I never heard of.

Craigslist?

[patrikman]

Quote, originally posted by A Gruesome Time »

Picked this up this morning.... One of my favorite albums ever. It's a first pressing, and it still has the post cards that it came with! Picked it up for only $90 bucks. Modified by A Gruesome Time at 2:52 PM 2-14-2010

nice, I have that one too. I also have the Sticky Fingers LP with the zipper on it.

[MochaMike]

Quote, originally posted by kenny301 »

Craigslist?

Random conversation with one of my professors about music, he said he had about 100 albums in storage for 15 years. He and his wife were trying to get rid of everything in their storage unit and told me I could have them if I could get them out!!

[patrikman]

Quote, originally posted by MochaMike »

Random conversation with one of my professors about music, he said he had about 100 albums in storage for 15 years. He and his wife were trying to get rid of everything in their storage unit and told me I could have them if I could get them out!!

score

[WayOutWest]

Am I the only one that only buys 180g vinyl? If its a record I must have (re:For Emma, Forever Ago) I will suck it up.


Modified by WayOutWest at 11:23 PM 2-14-2010

[patrikman]

Quote, originally posted by WayOutWest »

Am I the only one that only buys 180g vinyl? If its a record I must have (re:For Emma, Forever Ago I will suck it up.

I have a few 180g albums. They are very very nice.

[MochaMike]

Quote, originally posted by WayOutWest »

Am I the only one that only buys 180g vinyl? If its a record I must have (re:For Emma, Forever Ago) I will suck it up. Modified by WayOutWest at 11:23 PM 2-14-2010

I prefer 180g vinyl, but my equipment really makes up for it, sometimes a little too much and becomes very revealing of how poorly the pressing/recording is.

[LostBoyScout]

Quote, originally posted by WayOutWest »

Am I the only one that only buys 180g vinyl? If its a record I must have (re:For Emma, Forever Ago) I will suck it up.

Such a large percentage of new vinyl is pressed on 180g that I'd say about half my new records are 180g (so bout 25)

[MochaMike]

Ordered this today from insound.

Saw Trey last night with Classic Tab, amazing!

[patrikman]

^nice, we tried unsuccessfully to get cheap tickets in Milwaukee the other night fort the gfs birthday. so we got drunk and sat in the hot tub.

This weekend in Milwaukee I was on a mission and I failed. I was trying to get the "Hustler: by Simian Mobile Disco but, I couldn't find the record anywhere. I should have just gone to Chicago and went to Gramaphone - they never disappoint.

"
I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me

Yeah I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me

I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me

Yeah I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me

If I had the money to go to a record store
I would
I I would

If I had the money to go to a record store
I would
I I would

Go to the record store
Go to the record store
Go to the record store
Put records in my clothes

Go to the record store
Go to the record store
Go to the record store
Pass me back man

Go to a record store
And put it in my clothes and
Walk past that record man
Got to have the sticky hands

You ass is broke
You ass is broke
Like me
Like me

Go to that record store
Steal some record man
Go to that record store
Steal some records man

I'm telling you I'm broke
I'm telling you I'm broke
But I'm survivor than you that I can cope

Yeah I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me
Yeah I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me

Yeah I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me
Yeah I'm a hustler baby
That's what my daddy's made me

It's 8 o' clock
And I got nothing to do
Can't go to the club
So I guess I go to the record store

Visit my record man
With my sticky hands
Walk out that record door
Put your records in my clothes
The records in my clothes

What the **** is you gonna do
What the **** is you gonna do
About it
Nothing

"

So instead I found a couple little things to tide me over.

First up I have Piper Road Spring Band - Live
this is a live album from material recorded in the fall of 1979 and is a pretty rare record from a historic WI bluegrass band. My girl and I have seen this band paly about a dozen times so we were both rpetty excited about this score.

Buddy Miles Express - Booger Bear
the drummer for Jimi Hendrix' Band of Gypsy's Buddy Miles is a pretty talented guy and this is the second album of his I have found recently.

I also picked up The Dead 60's - Riot Radio b/w New Town Disaster 7"

A pair of Dangermouse remixes on 7":
Super Furry Animals - Lazerbeam & Bright Eyes - Easy/Lucky/Free
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and finally I picked up LCD SOundsystem - Bye Bye Bayou 12"

[BrokeDown.]

Quote, originally posted by MochaMike »

Random conversation with one of my professors about music, he said he had about 100 albums in storage for 15 years. He and his wife were trying to get rid of everything in their storage unit and told me I could have them if I could get them out!!

this made me think of The Archive.

[vamosarapiar]

Bought a couple records at a show this past week. Brother Ali vinyl is white, Freeway is a marbley green. Good deal for new records, $15 for vinyl and a download card...

[LostBoyScout]

I haven't bought too much lately, as I've realized just how out of hand my spending had gotten on them.

I may only have about 40 records, but I only had about 15 at the start of the year.

[colnago]

Quote, originally posted by WayOutWest »

Am I the only one that only buys 180g vinyl? If its a record I must have (re:For Emma, Forever Ago) I will suck it up.

No, you're not the only one. I get mine from:

http://www.musicdirect.com

I b1tched on getting the last Portishead on vinyl...too impatient, and it didn't sound close enough to the older stuff for me to drop $30-$70, or whatever that limited ed. box was going for.

So all this vinyl and no tube love? You guys are missin' out.

[kenny301]

Quote, originally posted by colnago »

So all this vinyl and no tube love? You guys are missin' out.

Nice setup! I wish that I could afford a tube amp. I need more vinyl first!

[Jerry_HEAVEN]

nice tube amp.
I'll post my setup soon once my new turntable comes in

[MochaMike]

Quote, originally posted by colnago »

No, you're not the only one. I get mine from: http://www.musicdirect.com I b1tched on getting the last Portishead on vinyl...too impatient, and it didn't sound close enough to the older stuff for me to drop $30-$70, or whatever that limited ed. box was going for. So all this vinyl and no tube love? You guys are missin' out.

I'm working on a C45 and MC275, but I want to get my girl an engagement ring first.

[kenny301]

Quote, originally posted by colnago »

What kind of stand is that? I need to get my stuff off of the rickety shelving unit it is on.

[colnago]

Quote, originally posted by MochaMike »

I'm working on a C45 and MC275, but I want to get my girl an engagement ring first.

I don't know what your funds are like, and I'm not tryin to tell you how to live your life, but if you're on a budget, I'll pass on a tip my buddy gave me.

"Buy your toys 'before' you get married."

[colnago]

Quote, originally posted by kenny301 »

What kind of stand is that? I need to get my stuff off of the rickety shelving unit it is on.

"Standesign".

It's designed to be "filled", but its heavy as it is, and I don't listen too it loud enough to make that much of a difference.

As far as affording a tube amp, you could go with a tube pre-amp, and solid state amp, to get a similar effect. But not all tube amps, or amps for that matter, are created equal. Also, don't be afraid to buy used. The only piece I got new was the amp. and speakers. Same setup new would have been about the price of a small car. Again, all purchased "before" my girlfriend moved in.

[MochaMike]

Quote, originally posted by colnago »

I don't know what your funds are like, and I'm not tryin to tell you how to live your life, but if you're on a budget, I'll pass on a tip my buddy gave me. "Buy your toys 'before' you get married."

LOL, it's not so much budget as priorities, considering my current set up is pretty awesome, it would only be an amazing step up. She actually understands this is a huge hobby for me and she enjoys it with me. I'm pretty lucky!!

[LostBoyScout]

Went by my favourite local indie shop yesterday, and dropped another C-note :S

Bon Iver, The Knife, Great Lake Swimmers, and I finally saw Neon Bible in the flesh so had to buy it.