What to do with those old vinyl recordings...

Dec 10 05:46 UTC 1992

If anyone has some vinyl recordings they are looking to sell, please notify
me.  I invested in a turntable and enjoy these recordings.  33 1/3 & 45 rpm.

response 2 of 35:

Dec 11 06:17 UTC 1992

I kinda wish I'd liquidated about 400 LPs when I could have gotten about 
$1 each for them.
 
Schoolkids still has some vinyl.  Most of it is either cutouts at $5 or 
less, or new imports from the UK at very high prices.  The Talking Heads
anthology was about $33 on vinyl, for example.  I was curious to see that
there was a US LP pressing for the new R.E.M. album, AUTOMATIC FOR THE 
PEOPLE, which Schoolkids had for $10.  Wazoo and PJs still have vast 
quantities of vinyl.

response 4 of 35:

Jan 10 09:00 UTC 1993

wow..  stopped buying *all* used LPs?  A lot of places have become
more and more selective, but usually will take popular items that 
they know they'll still be able to sell..  Cutting off everything
completely sounds rather dire..

response 6 of 35:

Jan 11 22:07 UTC 1993

  And who knows how much longer CDs have if Minidiscs & DCC become
really popular?  It's somewhat farfetched but certainly possible that
CDs won't be sold anymore 5 years from now..

  (It's not really surprising that the record companies like to see one
format die out completely and be replaced by another..  Do you have any
idea how many bucks the record companies have made by selling the same
recordings to people on CD that they used to own on LP?  (neither do I,
except that it's a hell of a lot..)

response 8 of 35:

Jan 12 19:35 UTC 1993

  I don't know that much about them either, except that they're
recordable, which suggest magnetic or magneto-optical storage..

response 10 of 35:

Feb 11 05:41 UTC 1993

They'll have to pry my vinyl recordings from my cold dead fingers...

response 12 of 35:

Aug 30 18:22 UTC 1993

Juke box owners are on the lookout for 45s.  I had a few show up at my
garage sale last year.
By the way, redwood, I have a rather large selection of duplicate 
vinyl LPs and 45s for sale.  Call using the phone # in my plan.
LPs include some folk titles (Christine Lavin, Chennels, Joel Mabus)
that are in excellent shape.

DAT tape as a prerecorde format has already flopped.  Without a flood
of DCC or MiniDisc titles at discounted prices, I think they too will
flop from the immediate greed of the record companies...If they were
a good drug dealer these would be introduced at prices where they 
become quickly accepted by the masses.

response 14 of 35:

Sep 15 16:40 UTC 1993

I've listened to minidisc, it's worse than CDs, therefore much worse than
DAT.  Instead, I bought a new tapedeck (analog) for cassette recording live
performances or duping my LPs.
Anyone played with DCC?  I've been interested, but not enough to go for
a deck (Like I could find one?)

response 16 of 35:

Sep 18 03:08 UTC 1993

RE#14 -- The MiniDisc uses a compression algorithm to fit all that data
on the small disc considerably degrading sound quality. It doesn't matter
though MD and DCC are both dead formats. However, DAT is alive and well
albeit mostly in the professional audio world. I'm quite happy with my
Tascam DA-30 DAT, I'd never get a consumer model though. 

response 18 of 35:

Oct 31 23:36 UTC 1993

Arabella & I made a short hop over to Windsor yesterday.  We stopped in 
at Dr. Disc, on Oullette; I was surprised at the number of vinyl releases
available there.  They had vinyl for the new Wonder Stuff album, the 
Prince's Greatest Hits albums, and a few more I forget now.  They also
had some very nice old vinyl; I picked up the first two Levellers EPs
and an old John Kirkpatrick album.  
 
I even bought the first 45 rpm single I've bought in maybe five years;
it's by a Windsor band called The Lost Patrol, and I've been obsessed 
with it since hearing it on CBC about a year ago.  I suspect that single
is the only recording they have.

response 20 of 35:

Nov 5 15:59 UTC 1993

A very *small* comeback.

response 22 of 35:

Feb 10 07:07 UTC 1994

There was an article on the diehard vinyl fans in Wednesday's
Ann Arbor News.  They carried an RIAA statistic for the number
of LPs sold in 1992: 2 million, vs. 400 million CDs.
 
I just fixed up my turntable with a new stylus and belt.
The stylus was a special order item, but the dealer had it in a 
week.  The belt got the speed stability back -- the old belt was
10 years old and slipping a bit.  Some LPs sound very nice, but 
it's hard to get used to the surface noise again.  
 
I have a theory that LPs sound just a hair better than CDs in their
outer grooves, but due to the constant angular velocity and tracking
errors, CDs sound better than LP inner grooves.  (1/2  :-)  )
 
A while back Entertainment Weekly had an article on the floundering
MiniDisc and DCC formats.  They claimed that MiniDisc player sales
to date are only around 50,000 units.

response 24 of 35:

Dec 14 19:34 UTC 1994

If anyone happens to have any Firesign Theatre on album, I WANT IT!!!