I Love Used Vinyl

[Stone]

I went to a "record show" over the weekend. I put it in quotes because it was basically a few people selling mostly vinyl and some CDs, but there weren't really many collectables involved. Anyway, for $20, including price of admission I picked up the following and all the vinyl is in really good condition (although the covers of a couple of them are beat up a bit):

Alphaville - "Big In Japan" 12"
Burning Sensations - s/t EP
Crenshaw, Marshall - Field Day
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Too Rye Ay
Green On Red - No Free Lunch
Green On Red - Here Come the Snakes
Guadalcanal Diary - Walking in the Shadow Of the Big Man
Guadalcanal Diary - 2 X 4
Icicle Works - s/t
Oingo Boingo - s/t EP

A few of them I already had in one format or another, but the quality and price was hard for me to pass up. I don't buy much new vinyl, but I really enjoy finding stuff like this at good prices.

Stone

[nobody]

Yeah, used vinyl is great. I love getting a nice new record, but just for the price of used vinyl, I think getting a turntable is worthwhile. A record shop in town always has a few things I can grab for a buck a piece in their dollar bins. Usually they're stuff that is in good shape, but maybe the cover is beat up a bit, or there are some fingerprints or something on it (which clean off easily). They pretty much only sell stuff that's close to perfect for more than a buck. I've picked up a ton of stuff from them like that, including:

The entire CCR catalog
Thelonious Monk: Monk's Dream
Soft Cell: Tainted Love 12"
David Bowie: David Live
Def Lep: Pyromania
AC/DC: Highway to Hell
Miles Davis: Greatest
Roberta Flack: Killing Me Softly
Supremes: Baby Love

Tons more, but those are just a few that come to mind. I usually grab 2-3 out of that bin every time I'm in there.

80s vinyl, as long as it isn't something rare, is usually a great bargin and pretty readily available for 3-5 bucks a pop at most places. 70s is usually similarly priced in many places I've found, but harder to find. Once you get back to the 60s and older, it gets a lot harder to come by anything decent at a good price, but there's always the occasional lucky find. Hell, I picked up my copy of Elvis's first RCA album at a thrift shop for 5 bucks.

Jazz, unfortunately, is usually much harder to come by cheap.

Classical is practically given away on vinyl unless you're searching for something rare.

Now that I have a burner that can record from vinyl, I buy vinyl almost exclusively when available. (except for when the vinyl is priced higher than the CD, usually only if its some fancy audiophile thing or an import, or if I can't find it and just have to have something fast) Burn a copy to disc for a few cents and I end up with a vinyl copy for home and a CD copy for the car and office.


Oh, and I just got that job, so I'm outta Lansing at the end of the month.

[-Jar-]

Oh, and I just got that job, so I'm outta Lansing at the end of the month.

awesome! where ya headin now?

-jar

[nobody]

Headin' back home St. Louis way.

Lookin' forward to gettin' there, but the move is gonna be brutal. I've got 2 1/2 weeks to pack and move, plus I gotta go to a wedding in Colorado somewhere in there.

As long as the wife finds us an apartment (she's already there) everything should work out. Hectic, but not impossible by any stretch.

[Dusty Chalk]

Oingo Boingo - s/t EP

Actually, I think that's kind of rare...

[Stone]

Def Lep: Pyromania

Hmmm, that's one that came to mind? Not sure I'd admit to even having that one.
Actually, I used to have their first two albums on vinyl and they were decent, but I sold them about 10 years ago along with a bunch of other vinyl including a bunch of Kiss stuff.

Oh, and I just got that job, so I'm outta Lansing at the end of the month.

Congrats on getting the job. I wish I had had a chance to get over there to have a beer with you. But I probably have just as good of chance of getting to St. Louis these days as Lansing anyway. Good luck finding a place.