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Post by Villain on Dec 1, 2015 10:59:07 GMT
I've still got all my vinyl stuff from the '60s, '70s, '80s and some Indie stuff from the early '90s. Most of it has been stashed away while we work on the house but I dug out one box of LPs recently and the more obvious stuff like The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who aside, it was nice to re-acquaint myself with some old favourites like Sonic Youth, My Bloody Valentine, The Jesus & Mary Chain and 'local band made good' Spacemen 3 etc, talk about reliving your misspent youth - it was nice to rediscover older stuff too like Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Motorhead, Hawkwind, Iggy & The Stooges, Patti Smith, Velvet Underground and The MC5. Some of the more obscure stuff is still not available digitally so I'll be hanging on to it for a while yet. There is a bit of overkill here and there though, I've got Sgt.Pepper on vinyl, tape cassette and CD! Looking back through my collection it's clear that a lot of the punk / new wave stuff sort of passed me by, I've never quite 'got' The Clash or the likes of Stiff Little Fingers (although I do like The Pistols and The Damned), I've always veered towards the pioneering US bands of the slightly earlier period and those who followed on from them a year or two later. My other half still has all her old stuff too which takes in a lot of the British punk / new wave stuff. The nice thing about rediscovering old stuff is looking at the album covers and other artwork, something you don't always appreciate in the other formats. MP3 certainly has its place though Villain
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Post by Vienna on Dec 1, 2015 19:18:15 GMT
I used to have a large collection of 7" chart singles starting from around 1965 until the late 1980s; I bought many of them in the early 1990s at record fairs. They obviously took up a lot of space so I sadly decided to sell them a few years ago through 'Record Collector' magazine. It always seemed more enjoyable collecting vinyl than CDs in those good old days. Vienna
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 1, 2015 20:54:52 GMT
You are not alone Vienna and Arthur. Many people i know that have sold or gave their collections away regret it now and wish they still had them. Arthur can you remember which radiogram you had ? Most of those would have been valve/hardwired amplified set ups. People do say that valve amps give a great sound. I nearly bought a Blaupunkt Arkansas radiogram recently before i bought the early 80's Technics seperates. It comes complete with built in cocktail cabinet
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 1, 2015 21:03:27 GMT
I have 2 copies of Sgt Pepper Villain. The original 87 CD version and I bought the current Vinyl from HMV the other day which is the 2009 remastered version. Today i bought Blondie - Denis , Guy Mitchell - Swinging The Blues and The Four Tops - Reach Out(I'll Be There) They're all good copies too for 30p each in a charity shop.. Happy days
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Post by Sam Tyler on Dec 1, 2015 21:19:35 GMT
That was one thing I never did; never sold any of our old vinyl. I made the mistake of lending a couple of albums once that were never returned so never did it again and the collection remains 99% complete.
I always took care of them too; always cleaned them before playing and cleaned the stylus head of the cartridge as well. I still had the odd crackle here and there from dust but given the amount they'd been played the sound quality was still pretty good.
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 1, 2015 21:32:33 GMT
Bet your glad you didn't sell them Sam. Regarding your earlier post , I can well believe hifi gear costs that much. The other day I was amazed to find that some cartridges can be as much as £5000. I'm using the bog standard Pro S Ortofon on the concorde type headshell. I replaced some Stanton carts that were on the decks when i bought them . The cart cost £50 but some of the Ortofon range goes up to £3750
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Post by Arthur Pringle on Dec 2, 2015 0:40:09 GMT
You are not alone Vienna and Arthur. Many people i know that have sold or gave their collections away regret it now and wish they still had them. Arthur can you remember which radiogram you had ? Most of those would have been valve/hardwired amplified set ups. People do say that valve amps give a great sound. I nearly bought a Blaupunkt Arkansas radiogram recently before i bought the early 80's Technics seperates. It comes complete with built in cocktail cabinet I had a search & found the same model on ebay, an HMV Stereomaster- www.ebay.co.uk/itm/HMV-Stereomaster-2419-vintage-radiogram-record-player-radio-/281868698598?hash=item41a0af03e6:g:UlgAAOSwf-VWWGDLI remember that the sound was very bassy & it had a cigarette burn on it, my grandpa was a smoker of strong untipped cigs & also blind. They kept it in the dining room ( it was more of a room next to the kitchen with a table & chairs in it than a dining room ) & they had a cocktail bar in the front room.
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Post by Del Boy on Dec 3, 2015 0:09:39 GMT
Nice one Arthur. Has a stacker spindle on it too
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Post by Windy Miller on Apr 13, 2016 9:41:57 GMT
Sainsbury's have started selling vinyl records, but at £12 per album I'd be surprised folks here don't already have the records they're selling, eg. Fleetwood Mac "Rumours" or The Beatles "Sgt Pepper" to name two.
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Post by Gene Hunt on Apr 13, 2016 21:22:00 GMT
Overpriced in my opinion.
Remarkably, Bowies Hunky Dory is retailing at £18.49!
Gene.
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