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Poll: How many of your Top 100 do you own on vinyl?
None
12%
 12%  [13]
1-5
10%
 10%  [11]
6-10
9%
 9%  [10]
11-20
21%
 21%  [23]
21-50
23%
 23%  [25]
51-99
9%
 9%  [10]
The Whole Bloody Lot!
0%
 0%  [1]
Vinyl? I'd rather listen to a heavily compressed mp3, thanks.
13%
 13%  [14]
Total Votes : 107

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Hayden




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  • Posted: 09/06/2016 18:18
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Jimmy Dread wrote:
Mine was a 'for sale' list rather than a want list, but regardless I remember a while ago you said you were after a copy of Script Of The Bridge. Saw it for £6 in the same record shop I found you Exuma from if you're still looking for it. And I am sure I've seen that Gil-Scott Heron LP you're after in a record shop a mile or so down the road - will check tomorrow...


Ah Christ, I can't read Laughing Went over that a bit too fast.

And in all seriousness, if you could pick up Script Of The Bridge, that would be awesome. It goes for ridiculous prices in Canada (hell, the CD is usually $30)... I guess it makes sense for it to be more common in the UK, but for £6 that's still a great find Smile As long as it looks in relatively good shape, I'd definitely be interested.
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Jimmy Dread
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  • Posted: 09/06/2016 18:56
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Hayden wrote:
Ah Christ, I can't read Laughing Went over that a bit too fast.

And in all seriousness, if you could pick up Script Of The Bridge, that would be awesome. It goes for ridiculous prices in Canada (hell, the CD is usually $30)... I guess it makes sense for it to be more common in the UK, but for £6 that's still a great find Smile As long as it looks in relatively good shape, I'd definitely be interested.


No worries mate - shop's next open on Thursday so will give them a shout then. Got mine for £8 a year or so ago but I see it's going for £25 on Discogs (and that's for a later press). Hopefully it's still there - £6 is a bargain if you ask me.
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LittleM1971



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  • #233
  • Posted: 09/19/2016 14:10
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Another album ticked off my next hundred list...



Which takes care of this which never had a vinyl release


EP+6 by Mogwai
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  • Posted: 11/16/2016 11:33
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I am a fairly compulsive purchaser of music, and I buy vinyl whenever I can. As my tastes are very wide ranging this results in excessive levels of purchasing, but I never pay too much for vinyl or CD's. Car boot sales and charity shops are my haunt, as well as eBay and Amazon.

I have recently restricted my purchases to more unusual and higher quality items (I used to buy any old stuff and compilations).

I have 3000 LP's or thereabouts, and I reckon about 4000+ Cd's.

I can't say that my top 100 is a stable thing, but I reckon that those that remain constant are generally ones that I have on vinyl. Compiling a list would be difficult. Hard enough to establish a top 20!

I have all the top 200 of the recent NME top 500 albums list and most of the top 500. Also there is a Colin Larkin book called "all-time top 1000 albums" (sponsored by Virgin), and again I have the entire top 200 and most of the top 500 and a lot of the 500 to 1000 albums.

I don't know when I'll ever have enough!!
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  • #235
  • Posted: 11/16/2016 18:27
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PeterMac wrote:
I am a fairly compulsive purchaser of music, and I buy vinyl whenever I can. As my tastes are very wide ranging this results in excessive levels of purchasing, but I never pay too much for vinyl or CD's. Car boot sales and charity shops are my haunt, as well as eBay and Amazon.

I have recently restricted my purchases to more unusual and higher quality items (I used to buy any old stuff and compilations).

I have 3000 LP's or thereabouts, and I reckon about 4000+ Cd's


Crikey that's a collection and a half! Think my missus would go nuts if I had that much - as it is my CDs are still in my teenage bedroom that I haven't spent a night in for 15 years.

Seeing as you're obviously a Brit, any decent shops you care to recommend? I get around for work a fair bit and these are my five faves, but always keen to find new ones. Flea markets too (found a good one in Lewes a few weeks back). And as a fellow vinylhead, do you have an upper limit on what you'd spend on an individual LP?

- Plastic Wax, Bristol
- Crazy Beat, Upminster (just been there today as it goes)
- Spiral Archive, Northampton
- Relics, Leeds
- Beatniks, Norwich
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  • Posted: 11/17/2016 14:35
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In Edinburgh there is.......
Underground Solu'shn on Cockburn Street
Vinyl Villains on Elm Row
The Record Shack on Clerk Street
Elvis Shakespeare on Leith Walk
Hogs Head Music on South Clerk Street
VoxBox on St Stephen Street
and one I have yet to visit, Unknown Pleasures on The Canongate#
Also there is a specialist Oxfam Music shop on Raeburn Place
..Oh, and Backbeat Records is an amazing shop, bursting at the seams. 31 E Crosscauseway. The guy nows everything. He takes trips to Europe to buy up old record collections.

I would not spend more than £20 really for a regular single/double LP.
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Hayden




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  • #237
  • Posted: 12/10/2016 23:26
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Anyone here pick up the Wayward Bus / Distant Plastic Trees reissue? Or.. well... Original vinyl issue anyway.
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Hayden




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  • Posted: 02/22/2017 14:21
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Bumping this.

What's the deal with all of these half-speed records coming out? Think Do they sound better or something?
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  • Posted: 02/24/2017 00:39
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Hayden wrote:
Bumping this.

What's the deal with all of these half-speed records coming out? Think Do they sound better or something?


Gone done wondered this myself.

Also frustrating are the records that easily could be a single disc and they make them two... also for fidelity reasons? Or maybe it is to make up for how overpriced they are!!! ahahaha.
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LittleM1971



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Yes all about the sound. Records cut at Half speed should give you more detail on playback although I'm yet to hear one myself. It's probably a bit like the difference between a standard CD compared to SACD or something.

And again the sound is why many albums get the 2xLP repackage treatment (sometimes at 45rpm), basically the more tracks crammed onto a side of vinyl will mean playback will be quieter with less detail which is why 12" singles sound so great and vibrant...all that wax with fewer grooves.

The two albums in my collection that I can think of where there is a huge jump up in audio quality by being reissued as a double album are...Disintegration by The Cure and The Stones Roses first album.

My original copy of Disintegration as a single album sounds really flat and I need to turn the volume up higher than normal. Not only is the recent 2LP reissue sonically more superior but they have now added the two tracks that had to be cut from the original Vinyl release (Homesick, Last Dance) due to it only being released as a single album.

The Stone Roses 2x45rpm issue I have is widely regarded as being the best pressing out there and it does sound great and so much better than the recent Sony reissue which was so flat it sucked all the joy out of it. The problem I have with these 45rpm doubles though is you're constantly getting up to change the side over. So yes it sounds brilliant but when I listen to an album I prefer to be listening for 20-25 minutes before swapping sides rather than having to get up every 10-12 minutes.

Also as with anything the sound will only be a good as your set-up allows...playing a half speed record on one of those Crossley things is going to be pretty pointless for instance.
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