Picked up this whole box of records for just $10 CAD here in Canada!
I’m pretty new to vinyl collecting, so I honestly have no idea what half of these records are. 😅

Does anyone else find themselves appreciating the brief moment of silence in between when the last song on one side of a record stops and when you flip the record to the next side and drop the needle again? Every time I listen to my records, it’s always in this brief moment that I seem to recognize how calm and connected with the music I feel, almost like I’m in a meditative trance induced by what I’ve just heard. I’ve just been contemplating this unique feeling and I’m wondering if anyone else has felt the same.

Stopped in at the Goodwill closest to my house yesterday. Been finding some decent things there the last few weeks. Yesterday took the cake though. Couldn't believe my eyes. They aren't in the best shape, and I left behind a bunch that were even more beat up, but I am thrilled with what I got. Everything was $2.

It was hard to get a decent pic of the sleeve, but I was lucky enough to nab an OG 1979 UK pressing of Joy Division's Unknown Pleasures with the textured sleeve from a seller living in the UK who also at least claimed he hung out in the late 70s Manchester punk/post-punk music scene, for a reasonable price. I'm realizing in the pic I took of the sleeve, there's a bit of dust on it and for sure the ghosts of many fingerprints, but the sleeve is very close to NM. Vinyl is for sure NM.

Having grown up super poor in a single mom household after my dad passed away when I was a kid from workplace exposure cancer, and ending up in recent years having my self-taught tech skills pay off in a way I feel wildly fortunate about, especially right now - basically my only sort of luxury expense or guilty pleasure is buying OG pressings of albums I'm a fan of.

It's also absolutely insane how much pressings from the late 60s, 70s and 80s are getting nowadays compared to about a decade ago when I was selling records on Discogs in 2016/2017. It makes total sense to me though: the desire for tangible, physical objects that also physically store music, in an era when everything has vanished into the cloud. I completely get the recent used CD revival over the last year or so too, in terms of actually owning the music.

Above all else, there's just something really cool to me about knowing this pressing existed when they originally put out the album in the late 70s, when Ian was still alive.

Most of my haul from a recent trip to Denver! I hit two Wax Trax stores (flagship and Northside), Black & Read in Arvada, and Twist & Shout.

It was so fun to dig in a new city and find records that haven't turned up at my local store. In Denver I found several things on my wantlist -- like Reputation, which I'd never found for sale in person before! -- and the prices felt a lot more reasonable overall than back home in the Bay Area.

Some context: I started collecting after my ex and I split a few months ago. He left me the record player and sound system out of guilt (but that's a story for another time).

An unexpected silver lining of being single again is being able to play 'my' music, whenever I want and with zero judgement. Hunting down my favorite albums has turned into building a little collection that makes me so happy anytime I put something on. 🤍

(and yes, the retail therapy has also helped... I'm gonna have to set some ground rules for myself soon lol)

I've been looking for the soundtrack to Car Wash for years and it turned up in a dollar bin.

Best. Soundtrack ever.

I collect records, and I sometimes look for 78s, as I like having the original records for music older than even vinyl. I just looked through a collection and I finally found this record. I’ve been looking for it for a long time (thanks of course, to Fallout), and I can fill the void in my 78 collection with THE Fallout song.

When I first brought this record home, I was pretty annoyed to open it up and find the gatefold of my Paul Horn Inside the Great Pyramid had a full Saturday Night Fever spread, and was all set to angrily denounce the seller. the more I read about it, I found this first pressing had an ultra rare misprinting of Travolta pics from the soundtrack album of the same year- 1977. Apparently a Shorewood packing plant anomaly

Does anyone else have a copy of this anomaly printing? Or share any other anomoly printing stories?! I mean, this to me is quite bizarre.

Just kidding. But jokes aside, vinyl prices really do bite. I’ve start my collection since December, when I got a turntable as a gift.

Quick question: is it okay to store records this tightly? Or should I give them some “breathing”? I don't have another shelf to spread them out right now..

Might not be the rarest or sought after but this thing from start to finish is a masterpiece.

Hard-Off (part of the Hobby-off and Off-House chain) is a curated recycling store and will buy products for reselling. As a result it’s not a bottom-of-the-foodchain thrift store, but a source for fantastic finds at a nice price.

Found this 45RPM for around ¥2200.

They actually make this and sell it in their stores.

Edit:

For those asking for the location:

Come to Japan (Tokyo), the store address is here: https://maps.app.goo.gl/n7ZHCgwELYkCEUda7?g_st=ic

5t floor of the mall.

Started collecting after a rough breakup here’s what I got

One of the best albums of 2024. A 3 disk, 2 hour journey through psych-pop among about a billion other genres.

I recently invested in the Vevor ultrasonic cleaner and am now in the process of cleaning all 400-500 records in my collection. I decided that this would also be a good opportunity to re-sleeve both the jackets and records and also to finally catalogue them into my Discogs account. I've actually started to enjoy the ritual of it, even if it is slow-going. I've found a sort of assembly line approach and the whole endeavor is going pretty smoothly now. However, there are a couple of issues I've run into.

The first was being unprepared for the effect the ultrasonic cleaner would have on my hearing aids. Holy MOLY that was crazy the first time I switched on the ultrasonic motor. Just crazy interference that sounded like a needle gun against my head (the Navy types will appreciate that reference). It makes sense, but I didn't think about it until after I switched it on. I don't think it damaged them, but I have now started taking them out and leaving them in the other room while I'm cleaning. Which is frustrating because I wanted to play my newly cleaned records as I worked my little assembly line, but I can't really appreciate the sound without my hearing aids.

The other thing I didn't think about that is now completely obvious was that my records now take up 150-200% more shelf space. I'm doing the method where you put the jacket in an outer sleeve, the record in an inner sleeve, and then slide the record inside the outer sleeve but outside the jacket. The result is that it makes each record "fatter". This is a problem because I was already nearing max capacity on the shelves where I store them and I have literally no room for expansion. This is going to take some creativity to solve.

Anyway, just thought I'd share my experience. I will say that ultrasonic cleaning really does make a MASSIVE difference in sound. I've taken some very old dollar bin records that haven't been cared for at all in the last 40-60 years and made them look and play almost like new. Totally worth the extra effort.

Does anyone else collect bone music.. these are records that were made out of X-rays in the Soviet Union underground.. scene..

Yep.

12" x2 1975 MCA records.

I’m missing my pioneer sa-8100 right now for repairs

I love a good greatest hits album. The only song I think it’s missing that it should have is Because Of You. Great enough for me

Featuring the vocals of the ultimate true Metal God vocalist Ronnie James Dio!!!