Record Nerds?

[Soft Morning, City!]

Any record nerds out there?

This is my partial collection. It will be complete as soon as I find the patience to manually enter into the database all of the records I have that aren't already on the site.

My record collection: http://www.discogs.com/collection?us...t=artist%2Casc

[Condor]

I enjoy the smooth sound of vinyl. As a matter of fact, I just bought a Gorilla Biscuits LP on ebay. Record players are getting $$$, though.
I see you have Propaghandi, that album is back when Fat Wreck and Lookout! were battling for punk rock supremacy! I was always more of a Screeeching Weasel guy. Their sound has changed markedly (Propaghandi). Subhumans is good shit as well...and Talking Heads. Good collection, man.

[Sal1000us]

Condor, let me know if you want a classic floating suspension B&O turntable in new condition.

[Sal1000us]

I haven't bought vinyls in 10 years but have close to a 1500 from the old days. I've got some real nice half speed master cut albums and they sound just fantastic. Most my Pink Floyd albums are 1/2 speed master cut. You can play the dark side of the moon on a middle of the road British Rega, Lynn or Thorens turntable coupled with a good moving coil cartridge and a good phono preamp and the sound is much, much better than any 10,000 CD player

[Jason]

I used to collect records, but it's been a while and I don't have anything to play them on anymore.

I was into collecting the harder to find pressings; I once purchased a mint copy of The Misfits' Die, Die My Darling single....I liked it so much that I hung it on my wall. I went to work the next day, came home for lunch, and it had fallen off of the wall onto the tiled floor. Shattered into about ten pieces.

I was PISSED. :evil:

[snusjus]

When I buy vinyls, I only buy ones that are rare or vinyl-exclusive. I have a lot of Crass Records that were hand-folded by the band members.

[Soft Morning, City!]

Awesome to see some other vinyl folks out there!

snusjus:

Oh man, I'd kill for those Crass records. My friend Richard out in California has a bunch of those and I always salivate over them when I go back and visit.

Jason:

I can't imagine breaking a copy of a mint records. I have really hard to find wax and if any of it ever got broken, I'd probably wind up in an insane asylum.

I feel for you man, that's truly tragic. I've thought about framing some of my stash, but I always talk myself out of it and keep them where they're safe. My friend Dan had a framed first pressing of Computer World by Kraftwerk, cover signed by the band members in person, and his roommate got trashed and knocked into it. It fell off the wall, but luckily all was well... Until trashed roommate bent over to pick it up, lost his balance, and stepped right through the thing glass, ****ed up the cover permanently, and cracked the record completely in half.

They are no longer roommates.

Sal1000us:

Half speed master cuts of Floyd... you lucky ****er.

Condor:

Ah, Propagandhi are still to this day one of my favorites. How To Clean Everything is the only one I've got on wax, but I've got most of their stuff on cd (save for their newest one), and I love it. The progression away from somewhat catchy, snotty political punk and into hard-edged thrash/hardcore political punk is fantastic to behold. I've always liked their lyrics, even if I'm in disagreement with some of their points.

Gotta love the Subhumans. They were the first punk band I ever got into. I've grown away from punk in subsequent years, but I still to this day go back to those Subhumans records and enjoy them. Crass is another band I still like a lot, but I don't have any of their stuff on wax (though I wish I did).

[madgar]

I love vinyl and have a pretty nice sized collection. It is mostly anarcho punk, hardcore, crust, grind, metal, and stoner stuff. Real heavy on the late 70’s – 80’s U.K. stuff. Recently I haven’t been buying too much. I still think it sounds better, but record collecting just isn’t as fun as it used to be. I used to love spending hours in used record stores and flea markets trying to find stuff. Ebay pretty much killed that off. I also wasn’t a true “collector” since I bought stuff because I wanted to play it and not just to say that I have it. This is why I am a little disappointed by stuff coming out now where they will press thousands of CDs and do a super limited 500 press on vinyl just to make it a collector’s item from the get go and charge you 3 times the cost. I guess it offends my old school punk sensibilities :wink: