Ordered of Discogs for the first time. Popped open the box and this is what I see. Immediately assumed I got scammed but I lifted up the Herb and found my actual order. You almost had me Mr. Seller 🤝

Just showing off my latest find. The local junk shop provides yet again.

I once completely f-cked my Spotify Warped over because of how many times I had listened to this album. It called me a cultist or some variation of that lol. I am comfortable admitting that it might be my favorite album, ever, although that's always a very hard pick to make in the absolute.

I haven't been collecting for very long (though we have a very large collection at home thanks to my partner) , yet ever since the beginning it was clear to me that this would be kind of my holy grail, but it had to be a first year US pressing, and in the best audio condition possible. Well I finally found it (rated Excellent, dated 1977) , and I'm just so happy and excited!!

This is the part of my collection dedicated to Brazilian music (Bossa Nova, MPB, Brazilian Jazz): while most are 1960s and 1970s albums, I also have some more recent stuff (Sessa, Leonardo Marques, Ana Frango Elétrico).

12" gatefold. 1970 Vertigo (German pressing) Second copy is Warner Brothers. I have a third copy on my Bedroom wall, also Warner Brothers. Vertigo copy is Ossie Osborne misprint.

Straight from A24's shop, gonna listen to it later this week.

Just got the Record Doctor 11; it was definitely an impulse buy😬, but it works fantastically!

I gotta be honest I think I def used up the rest of my luck for the month and/or year with these grabs from the thrift store today. White album is gorgeous and came with 2 posters. All four sides of the white album almost look never played but unfortunately “Imagine” had a pretty big scratch on side one but imma try to get it looking good

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.

The Heart of Saturday Night (1974), Tom Waits’ second album, is influential because it refined his early style into a cohesive, atmospheric portrait of nocturnal American life—blending jazz, blues, and folk with precise, Kerouac-tinged songwriting about bars, highways, loneliness, and fleeting romance—while featuring standout tracks like the title song, “San Diego Serenade,” “Shiver Me Timbers,” and spoken-word pieces such as “Diamonds on My Windshield,” all elevated by Bones Howe’s clean production, a tight small-group sound with horns and upright bass, and Waits’ still-husky voice; it served as a mature bridge from the folkier Closing Time to his jazzier Asylum-era records.

A Los Angeles Times retrospective judgment said that The Heart of Saturday Night is “perhaps the singer’s most mature, ingenuous and fully realized” album, a view echoed by writers who call it an essential, foundational early masterpiece.

It's not my personal favorite of his, (an I'm a fan) but it was released 52 years ago today, so it is getting a pull and a spin from me this morning.

My full collection.

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.

Posting this because it's a cool piece. In a haul this was in there. A 3 disc Django Reinhardt compilation. I appreciate his contributions to jazz and recognize his legendary status, but it's not really my jam. So I'm debating putting it for sale, in its NM condition it's something like 40$. Which is not much, but I'm a "collector" and this "looks" great in the collection so I'm tempted to keep it and see if it grows on me. Having it makes me feel like a lot smarter than I am. Jokes aside I'd rather it goes to someone who will appreciate it.

I (20M) have been really enjoying collecting records over the such a short time (my bank account hasn’t but it’s so worth it). Honestly it’s just so much fun interacting with my mates and having people pick records up off the wall.

Was just wondering if you record heads had any recommendations for my next purchase(es)! Looking to pick a few records up around Christmas so would be stoked to hear some rap/RnB/pop reco’s.

P.S. my favourite press on the last slide. Ended up picking up this blood records press because it just looked incredible, and imaginal disk has been one of my favs since it came out :D

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.

I'm just curious if there's anyone who isn't a musician talking about how much they love their record collection. I know Elijah Wood absolutely has videos about his record collection.

Met up with the same seller from my last haul/post at the Kane County flea market just outside Chicago. The selection was pretty picked over, but his prices were lower (only $4 per record!) I was still able to find a few that I’ve been digging. Happy hunting!

Slowdive “ everything is alive”

Does anyone have a player that can play these?

My dad was a pretty serious record collector from the 60s into the 80s, and recently he brought me this absolute gem.

It's an original pressing gatefold with a 24 page color booklet and opaque yellow vinyl in flawless condition. It sounds amazing, and yes, we are absolutely spinning this beauty!

I got hooked on Bill Adler’s Jollies and want to start my own collection of the good, bad and weird holiday tunes.

Just picked this one up. So far I am very pleased with the pressing. Dead quite vinyl and dynamic mastering.

Got my first record player at 16. My first two records were Fleetwood Mac and The Stranger by Billy Joel. I like all kinds of genres but I mostly listen to more recent music (#zoomer).
Most recent addition is the signed Mud by Remi Wolf album!
Most prized is my Boys Like Girls 10 Year Anniversary Tri Color pressing. It was a tour exclusive and hand numbered /500. They were my first favorite band as a kid :)

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

Most of them I’ve never heard of/listened to but really happy with them after listening