The Vinyl Thread

**MOHSHSIHd** · 10-07-2007, 05:04 PM

Just got a new turntable and picked up some nasty vinyl today for super cheap:

Totally scored today in the discount bins:

Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West
Traffic - On The Road (live in Germany)
The Band - Stage Fright
George Benson - In Flight
George Benson - Weekend In LA (live double)
George Benson - Breezin (must have classic)
James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim
James Taylor - Walking Man
James Taylor - Never Die Young
Lionel Richie - Self Titled
The Whispers - So Good (bought it cause the album cover is nuts, craziest mustaches EVER)
Hall + Oates - H2O (because I am gonna be oates for halloween)
Hiram Bullock - Give It What You Got (signed by hiram!)
Pat Metheny Group - First Circle
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life (with bonus record)
Larry Carlton - Strikes Twice
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Al DiMeola Project - Soaring Through A Dream
Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
Sea Level - Cats On The Coast
Chick Corea - Elektric Band
Billy Cobham - The Best Of
Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Jaco Pastorius on bass!)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

$23

Anyone have stuff they are looking to get rid of?....anything along the lines of what I just listed. Always looking for good jazz, funk, fusion

**Core Shot** · 10-07-2007, 05:51 PM

I was just thinking today how I miss albums.

#1 reason? B Side.

You buy a new album and the thrill of the first song grabs you.
Second song is usually pretty good.
At the end of side A, you get the thrill of a whole new Side B.

Artists specifically saved a good song for that first track of the B side.
Plus it was made all that better by the pause created by the need to flip the disc.

CD's killed all that.
And I miss it.

good on ya phish for going retro

**MOHSHSIHd** · 10-07-2007, 05:53 PM

Originally Posted by Core Shot

I was just thinking today how I miss albums.

#1 reason? B Side.

You buy a new album and the thrill of the first song grabs you.
Second song is usually pretty good.
At the end of side A, you get the thrill of a whole new Side B.

Artists specifically saved a good song for that first track of the B side.
Plus it was made all that better by the pause created by the need to flip the disc.

CD's killed all that.
And I miss it.

good on ya phish for going retro

So true, and the warmth of the audio cannot be matched on any other medium.

**nesta** · 10-07-2007, 05:58 PM

Originally Posted by MOHSHSIHd

So true, and the warmth of the audio cannot be matched on any other medium.

I was just gonna say, that's not all CDs killed

**cj001f** · 10-07-2007, 06:05 PM

Bossa Nova sounds best on Vinyl. Getz & Gilberto. Ahhh.

Squatch · 10-07-2007, 07:06 PM

where did you pick up all that for that $23?

**MOHSHSIHd** · 10-07-2007, 09:05 PM

Mostly at Bart's....a couple of them I got at the hospice thrift store.

**springsproject** · 10-13-2007, 09:43 PM

Just keep checking thrift stores, some of them are goldmines for good old vinyl. A lot of times I come out with a bunch more than i really want/need just based on the price and the rarity. Records are great

**powder11** · 10-14-2007, 05:46 AM

whats up with the digital turntables that will transform vinyl onto an ipod? anyone done this?

**tuffy109** · 10-15-2007, 11:41 AM

mp3s killed everything

**pappag** · 10-15-2007, 12:11 PM

Records is the way to go. There's an incredibly amount of jazz that never made it to any other media besides vinyl. That's reason enough.

**Sirshredalot** · 10-15-2007, 01:21 PM

Originally Posted by powder11

whats up with the digital turntables that will transform vinyl onto an ipod? anyone done this?

Don't waste your money. Just split a line off your mixer or amp and run it directly into your computer and use Audacity.

**MOHSHSIHd** · 10-15-2007, 02:16 PM

Originally Posted by Sirshredalot

Don't waste your money. Just split a line off your mixer or amp and run it directly into your computer and use Audacity.

Exactly.

When I have more time I plan to rip alot of my vinyl onto my computer using this exact method.

**connersw** · 10-15-2007, 04:43 PM

I've scored a lot of great vinyl off of eBay too. Especially when you search for lots.

**tuffy109** · 10-16-2007, 03:59 PM

Originally Posted by connersw

I've scored a lot of great vinyl off of eBay too. Especially when you search for lots.

how else would you find a lot?

**Professor Chaos** · 10-18-2007, 08:56 PM

Physical audio always beats the digital. Even the Kid A and Ok Computer I have on 8" sound better than the cd and they were made for digital. If I could carry one around, or somehow installed one in a car(I think they did that on pimp my ride, in the glove compartment) Id definetly do it.

**jon turner** · 10-18-2007, 09:18 PM

You can find good stuff at the Twist & Shout and Wax Trax down in Denver. My turntable has been sitting unused since I switched from my old preamp with built in phono to my new integrated amp without. I keep buying ski gear instead of a phono preamp. doh.

**nick > jesus** · 10-18-2007, 09:38 PM

Originally Posted by jon turner

Wax Trax down in Denver. .

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**upallnight** · 10-18-2007, 09:50 PM

Originally Posted by El Duderino

Physical audio always beats the digital. Even the Kid A and Ok Computer I have on 8" sound better than the cd and they were made for digital. If I could carry one around, or somehow installed one in a car(I think they did that on pimp my ride, in the glove compartment) Id definetly do it.

agreed on the radiohead.

actually, back in the 60s, they did make an "in-dash" record player (for 45s). it employed a crazy VTF which would effectively destroy the record after one play.

here's a photo of my current vinyl rig:

fully agree with nick p -- even for the jazz that's been released on CD, but of the stuff up to and including the early- to mid-60s was meant to be heard in mono.

pick up any of these and thank me later. ;-) (yes, photos of actual album covers...)

**Phall** · 10-18-2007, 11:52 PM

wish you were here....pink floyd is my fav. album on vinyl.....then any who album..i got all my vinyl for free...i just wish i had room for it in my room in my apt...second favorite would be the specials album my friend has....i want to steal that so bad

**Ripzalot** · 10-19-2007, 02:33 AM

one of the saddest days of my life was in college when i discovered that some bonehead drunk friend of my roommate had sat a beer on my 200+ record collection, spilled it, and abandoned it there. it must have been a week before i discovered it, by then the beer had soaked thru all the album covers by osmosis and mold had begun to grow. every single album cover ruined. i salvaged the records themselves but was so hearbroken about it i later just gave them away.

i have a friend now that had an impressive collection of 60s and 70s rock albums complete with tube amplifier and some damn impressive speakers. the presence that it gives it astounding. we were listening to beck, bogart, and appice the other day and i actually asked to turn it up during a drum solo and that never happens with drum solos.

**Rasputin** · 10-19-2007, 03:25 AM

Originally Posted by MOHSHSIHd

Just got a new turntable and picked up some nasty vinyl today for super cheap:

Totally scored today in the discount bins:

Aretha Franklin - Live At Fillmore West
Traffic - On The Road (live in Germany)
The Band - Stage Fright
George Benson - In Flight
George Benson - Weekend In LA (live double)
George Benson - Breezin (must have classic)
James Taylor - Mud Slide Slim
James Taylor - Walking Man
James Taylor - Never Die Young
Lionel Richie - Self Titled
The Whispers - So Good (bought it cause the album cover is nuts, craziest mustaches EVER)
Hall + Oates - H2O (because I am gonna be oates for halloween)
Hiram Bullock - Give It What You Got (signed by hiram!)
Pat Metheny Group - First Circle
Stevie Wonder - Songs In The Key Of Life (with bonus record)
Larry Carlton - Strikes Twice
Steely Dan - The Royal Scam
Al DiMeola Project - Soaring Through A Dream
Return To Forever - Where Have I Known You Before
Sea Level - Cats On The Coast
Chick Corea - Elektric Band
Billy Cobham - The Best Of
Joni Mitchell - Hejira (Jaco Pastorius on bass!)
Mahavishnu Orchestra - Birds of Fire

$23

Anyone have stuff they are looking to get rid of?....anything along the lines of what I just listed. Always looking for good jazz, funk, fusion

I've got a pile of them that came to me when someone was offloading their junk. They are in various states of condition, some double albums are missing a disc, but there are duplicates of some of the albums too:

Bruce Springsteen The River

Ted Nugent Free for all

Pete Townshend Empty Glass

Joan Baez Any Day Now which is all Bob Dylan songs, and Volume Two

Linda Ronstadt Retrospective I've got two of 'em, one missing a disc

Bob Dylan Greatest Hits and Greatest Hits Vol.II two of each, but one of the Vol. IIs is missing a disc

Boston Boston

Harry Nilsson A Little Touch Of Schmilsson In The Night

Super Tramp Even In The Quietest Moments and Famous Last Words

Derek And The Dominos Layla

Yes Relayer

Eurythmics Touch

You can have all of them for shipping and a four pack of Old Rasputin.

**runethechamp** · 10-19-2007, 02:30 PM

I think I heard Love Over Gold by Dire Straits was their last record that was analog through the whole process to the final product. I have it on vinyl in Norway and remember it being great that way.

**yogachik** · 10-20-2007, 05:27 PM

I own 1000ish vinyl records. No way I'd part with them, listen to them all the time.

I transfered many of them to my iPod using Final Vinyl. But this was years ago - does Final Vinyl still exist? It was very easy, just had to stay on top of it in case of a skip, and to change sides.

**adam** · 10-20-2007, 10:38 PM

My very small and immature vinyl collection

12 Inches:
Annihilation of the Wicked-Nile
Pelican-Pelican
Oracle-Sunn O)))
Black Sabbath-Black Sabbath
Phase 3 Thrones and Dominions-Earth
Fuck You All!!!!-Carpathian Forest
Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables-Dead Kennedys
The Big Ka-Boom-Jello Biafra
My War-Black Flag
First Four Years-Black Flag
Sheik Yerbouti-Frank Zappa
Bedtime for Democracy-Dead Kennedys
Tinseltown Rebellion-Frank Zappa
Phlegm-Phlegm
Blood on the Tracks-Bob Dylan

7's:
Die For Oil, Sucker-Jello Biafra
Nowhere Existence-Doldrums
Hung-Napalm Death
Nazi Punks Fuck Off!!-Dead Kennedys
A Faction of Mercy-Autonomy
National Buyproduct-Salted Wounds
Skewed-Econochrist
No Love-Snap, Krackle, Drop

Today I bought $103 in vinyl. I am silly.