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Old 20-06-2007, 09:01
Oliver.Stardust
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Well i do i think its much better to listen to a record than a cd or mp3
i buy new and old- last one i bought editors- smokers outside the hospital doors
Picture discs are my favourite though
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Old 20-06-2007, 11:20
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I buy vinyl singles.
I don't own any vinyl albums, but regularly borrow my fathers Bob Dylan collection.

Last single I bought was last week when I stumbled across Thom Yorke's 'Analyse' on 12" in HMV for a couple of quid!
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Old 20-06-2007, 12:53
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I haven't brought any new vinyl for a long time, however I do buy a lot of second-hand vinyl and I've kept all my original vinyl too!
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Old 20-06-2007, 13:28
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Seems like it's really hard to find vinyl these days (well, in Ireland anyway!)
Not sure I would buy if I could. I did notice once that Bat out of Hell had been reissued on vinyl and they were looking for something like twenty-six quid for it! I mean, come on! That's just not funny!
If vinyl came back at something close to the prices records used to sell for (8 - 10 quid for a new album, maybe up to 15 for a double) it might be worth it. I did like the old "gatefold" sleeves, and the fact that you had to be really careful taking out the disc, blow off the dust, clean with an antistatic cloth (remember them?) --- made me feel like it was something special owning an album.
But space storage-wise it just wouldn't work. My collection of about 400 albums (gathered from about 1976 onwards) even now takes up five full racks on a big steel shelf in my bedroom, while my CD collection, of about the same number, fits on one "Argos" CD shelf unit.
These are the things you have to think about.
Plus, its not as easy as people think to digitise your record collection so you can listen to it on the move....
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Old 20-06-2007, 17:56
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Nowhere near me seems to sell vinyl anymore, so I'd have to order online. Mostly buy White Stripes singles on 7".
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Old 20-06-2007, 18:06
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I can't say I miss scratchy old vinyl.......although hi-fi afficianados will still tell you with the right set up you get more out of it........

Bloke at work spent £95 on a needle..........

Sorry, stylus..........

What I do miss though is some of the works of art on the 12" square sleeves.......looking at the same thing on a cd sleeve is like looking at a passport photo after a portrait.......

Especially some of the old 12" gatefold sleeves......some of the (effectively) 24" x 12" prints in the middle were tremendous.......I know you can still get 'em in limited edition from time to time when a new record comes out......but unless you're a collector by and large most people opt for the convenience of cd's so it's become a bit of a dying art.........
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Old 20-06-2007, 19:37
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I just recently started buying 7" singles for little reason other than I adored the packaging on the first one I bought. I only have a few and they are actually mostly songs that I already own on cd albums but the allure of the picture disc is too great! Fopp is the only place near me that offers a decent selection and that seems to have faltered since it opened. Anyway my general point is that its not a dying format necessarily as I'm 16 and fully intend to further my collection.
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Old 20-06-2007, 19:50
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I too am only 18
HMV in chelmsford do quite a lot (Essex)
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Old 20-06-2007, 20:44
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I can't say I miss scratchy old vinyl.......although hi-fi afficianados will still tell you with the right set up you get more out of it........

Bloke at work spent £95 on a needle..........

Sorry, stylus..........

Actually an audiophile will call it a cartridge

Must say for convenience MP3 and CD beat it hands down. For pure sound quality still vinyl for me. Vinyl is also much more of a tactile experience, getting the record out, making sure it's in good enough nick to play, all that sort of stuff ! !

The sound is somehow warmer, not so clean and clinical more like a live experience. A good deck, arm and cartridge, decent amp and speakers and you can't beat it !
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Old 20-06-2007, 21:24
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Actually an audiophile will call it a cartridge

Must say for convenience MP3 and CD beat it hands down. For pure sound quality still vinyl for me. Vinyl is also much more of a tactile experience, getting the record out, making sure it's in good enough nick to play, all that sort of stuff ! !

The sound is somehow warmer, not so clean and clinical more like a live experience. A good deck, arm and cartridge, decent amp and speakers and you can't beat it !
Yes, I must admit I went through a phase of buying 'separates', upgrading, bi-wiring, polishing me cables.......

It all went horribly wrong the night I foolishly allowed my daughter to have a party round my house.......never let a fifteen year old pretend to be a mixmaster DJ..........

I liked your penultimate paragraph......d'you remember holding the record up to the light to try to read the inscribing in the black play-out groove?

Always seemed to read 'Porky's prime cuts', for some strange reason..........
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Old 20-06-2007, 21:34
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Because of the blunt stylus, the album was ruined
Because the album was ruined, the joint wasn't rolled on it
Because the joint wasn't rolled, the pigs found our stash
Because the pigs fround our stash, we were busted and fined
Because we were busted and fined, we couldn't afford a new styus
Because of the blunt stylus, the album was ruined.....

- Nigel Planer

I love my vinyl, it has much more of personal sound to it than CD's.
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Old 20-06-2007, 23:09
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i will cry the day the last prssing plant closes.

house/disco fanatic here, and spending way too much on vinyl month after month. i F*CKING love the stuff!



and ps - if you google 'Porky's prime cuts' you'ell get a bit f history on the subject. its great to read some of the etchings on some of the less mainstream vinyl.
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Old 20-06-2007, 23:33
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hmvs up here sell loads of vinyl.also eil.com and juno.co.uk have a really good selection
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Old 21-06-2007, 10:26
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viva juno!


(and all other good online record stores)
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Old 21-06-2007, 10:27
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and btw - HMV is shite (even more so for vinyl purchases)
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Old 21-06-2007, 14:28
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Round Leicester way we have HMV which isn't bad at all, and Rockaboom. Bought 4 singles today, both vinyl versions of Paramore's "Misery Business", the new Editors track and a Billy Talent 7" as well.
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Old 21-06-2007, 17:12
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Amazon has loads of vinyl, it's surprising how many new releases still come out on it.

BTW there's a difference between the [i]cartridge[i] which is attached to the end of the tonearm, and the stylus which is the, er, needle attached to the cartridge.
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Old 21-06-2007, 17:13
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Wot happened to my italics??
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Old 21-06-2007, 17:19
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Some new albums sound excellent on vinyl, but most people don't even care about sound, only convenience, and you can't exactly cart a turntable around with you. I have a decent Pioneer turntable and a Sony A/V receiver and my records sound incredible through it. You get better dynamic range with a record. Sometimes CDs sound compressed to f**k through mastering.
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Old 21-06-2007, 20:15
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and ps - if you google 'Porky's prime cuts' you'ell get a bit f history on the subject. its great to read some of the etchings on some of the less mainstream vinyl.
Well well well......you live and learn......

Seems 'Porky's prime cuts' stands for George "Porky" Peckham, a British record cutting engineer......it was his 'signature' on the run out groove........

I bit more research on the subject tells me that he did all the early Madness 45's.......that must have been where I was remembering it from.......happy days.........
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Old 22-06-2007, 18:32
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if you are ever bored, its good to just input other etchings in and see who and what was going on at the time
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