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In Reply to: About used records - people's reactions posted by kjd03842 on September 8, 2006 at 13:39:04:
wouldn't even be happening. I can't speak for anyone but myself but I'd say that many of us wouldn't have considered buying much used vinyl if the variety and selection were still what it was more than 20 years ago. We've had to adapt to a changing supply and demand and now accept purchasing used vinyl as "normal".The reaction you get is not surprising if you think that it's basically the same reaction we got 30 years ago.
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I love used vinyl. Loveitloveitloveit. I find some old mint or vg++ used copies are much much cleaner than today's repressings. It seems I've come across plenty of new pressings that play like crap. Its really pretty much hit or miss. Even some of the fancy schmancy labels like Four Men with Beards have pressed crap. My Richard & Linda Thompson's "Shoot Out the Lights" fresh out of the shrinkwrap was just a wreck. totally unplayable, with divets and scrap marks all over both sides. Then again my Barsuk Records pressing of Rilo Kiley's "More Adventurous" is quite possibly the cleanest, quietist vinyl record I've ever heard. Besides, I kinda like ticks and scratches on some things. - especially on my mom's ancient Johnny Cash Sun Records 45's I made off with. The ticks and pop and scratchy distortion sorta adds to the fractured soul searching timbre of his voice. But, hey, that's just me.
if the market for vinyl had remained strong for all these years. What new materials might have been tried and perfected. Maybe even something that repelled dust! What new manufacturing processes might have made defects less likely and improved the recording dynamics.I, too, enjoy the satisfaction of finding a good used album, cleaning it up, and listening to it as if it were a brand new purchase on payday.
I don't know. There is a 'thriving' used CD market. Maybe if vinyl was still the mainstream media there might still be used vinyl being sold today ... out of print stuff still has a market.Especially now that we know that old records can play as new with a little wash and dry.
On thing, though, back then we bought 'old records' in 'junk shops' not 'vintage vinyl emporiums'.
statement, I never bought much used vinyl back in the heyday of album sales. New vinyl was very affordable and there was a great selection. Occassionally I'd pick up a used lp if it was something out of print that I really wanted but so much new music was being released that it was not a priority to try and "catch up" to the older releases. Very few friends and acquaintances bought used vinyl back then.Don't get me wrong, I enjoy the thrill of a good used lp find, but given the choice, I'd rather have the huge selection of new vinyl that was available decades back.
I would show up at the small shop I bought records at every Tues. and Fri., the days they recieved new stock. Bought maybe 10 used records in the late 60's through the 80's. I do wish I'd known then that first pressings were preferable to all the represses I bought.
Back in my younger years when I was using all my money to purchase albums I always purchased new, never used. Even when I moved out on my own and was eating peanut butter sandwiches 3 times a day to save money I still purchased my vinyl new. I purchase used today because that is the only way to find the music I like, if I have a choice between new and used I almost always go new unless I know the new reissue sucks sonically and the older used one is better.I do enjoy the hunt for used vinyl, but I used to enjoy the hunt for new vinyl back in my younger days, I remember looking for a copy of Roy Wood's Boulders before it was released in the US import copy of course, or the Hollies Live that Steve Simels (sp) reviewed in Stereo Review (which was released in Holland only at the time). I can remember my heart skipping a beat when I found them both at Moby Disc in LA.
You can enjoy the hunt for both used or new vinyl.
as most of you have, I've gotten quite a few new-old vinyl still sealed after 20 years and they are almost always clean copies, with little or no noise, as compared to today's vinyl, which is, as I stated before, pretty much hit or miss, even with their 200 grams of virgin vinyl. And I don't care what the critics might say about this, but the very first early pressings are so much better than the repressings today even with the original master tapes. Where has all the good vinyl gone? as the old song goes
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