You also missed out on insane resale values. Some recently checked prices on those drugs and booze fueled releases in the collection are three figures. An example, Discogs listings for original pressings of Earth AD by the Misfits:
The cheapest :
CA$174.21The average price :
CA$262.89The most expensive :
CA$527.03
Me too, and i still buy records now ,and! i still have the very first record i brought when i was 15! (long time ago 😬)All those fools (are you one of them?) that chose to toss their records for CD, (I hate that lousy modern term 'vinyl') that now desire to re-replace their records are at the mercy of modern-day offerings.
You bought into the "trendy" digital CD era media, the music industry continued to profit, and you paid.
And now you have to pay again.
Stable-minded as I am, I still have my record collections, so I'm way ahead of the ball game.
During the Swinging Sixties, the New Musical Express (NME) used the terms 'LP' and 'Album' interchangeably.
The music paper referred to 45rpm records as both 'Singles' and 'Discs'.
I only used "sides" in the context of Side 1 and Side 2 of an LP - while singles had A Sides and B Sides.
I've got records from my parents dating back to the 1950's, some are 45's like Pat Boone's- April Love, etc.
And my first 45's back in high school days.
Yes, I've dragged those around the world on disc. Some of the CD releases left off songs on the LP or cut them short. Very strange.
Yes! ... the final vinyl... a collection of pot products... a reliable zippo... and a confined space to hold an amount of smoke that would make Bob Marley envious. Where is the good doctor "Jack Kevorkian" when you need him?
Two questions to everyone, but especially the native speakers of English:
When I write "gramophone record", do you associate that with 78 RPM shellac records, vinyl microgroove records or both? Does it depend on what part of the planet you are from?
I know a more common term in the USA is phonograph records, which a speaker of Dutch such as myself would immediately associate with wax cylinders.
When I write "gramophone record", do you associate that with 78 RPM shellac records, vinyl microgroove records or both? Does it depend on what part of the planet you are from?
I know a more common term in the USA is phonograph records, which a speaker of Dutch such as myself would immediately associate with wax cylinders.
Used compact discs are very inexpensive at the moment; a bit of a golden age to buy music on that format. As for vinyl, I only really prefer it when the music I’m purchasing was sequenced for and originally released on that format. Each side of a record is a suite of songs and sometimes I come to favor a particular side of a record, something unique to the format. For music released after the widespread adoption of the compact disc, I don’t really see the point of seeking it out on vinyl unless it’s clear that’s what the artist intended. Some albums released on compact disc were truly meant for that sort of uninterrupted length of play and breaking that up for the sake of having it on vinyl seems counterintuitive.
When I hear gramophone, I think Victrola. Then I hear phonograph, I think of wax cylinders. When I hear vinyl, I think microgroove.
Some of the most enjoyable times I have ever had was going record (and CD) shopping on business trips/vacation. Tower Records in San Fran was a favorite! Dutchies Record Cave and Sam’s in Montreal. Toronto was always Sam’s and A&A and Peter Dunn’s Vinyl Museum. So much more fun than on line shopping.
I was just spinning something from Peter Dunn’s yesterday on my latest acquisition. I got a near mint Kenwood KP-1100 for Christmas.
I was just spinning something from Peter Dunn’s yesterday on my latest acquisition. I got a near mint Kenwood KP-1100 for Christmas.
i have all of Elvis Presley sun originals shellac, and Vera Lynn we'll meet again shellac (1939)
