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Loads of us on here. Unlike you streamers, I buy lots of vinyl and CDs. Until recently, a 2nd hand CD would be a few of your English pounds on Amazon. Now, sellers are often asking £400 or more. What's happening ?
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:41 - Oct 14 with 2958 views
There was something about getting a brand new LP years ago, I literally used to sniff the Inside of the sleeve before getting the record out and playing It. That certain smell was magical and holding a new LP In your hand was just so exciting. My last ''sniff'' I think was *Meddle* by Pink Floyd, (early 1970's) **One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces.** Nobody has got time anymore, everything now has to be Instant. Send me a text or send me an email or stand In front of the entrance to Sainsbury's and block the entrance whilst you stare at your screen of your bastard mobile bloody phone wondering why nobody In the world has contacted you In the last Five minutes.
My Father had a profound influence on me, he was a lunatic.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 12:02 - Oct 14 with 2821 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:44 - Oct 13 by brewers_hoop
Aah Sellanby’s, just round the corner from where my dad lived. Happy memories of that shop - buying and selling
Great shop. Could pick up albums to try and sell back the ones you weren't so keen on. Made some beer money over the years by taking unused stuff there. They used to actually give you a half decent price for stuff too.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 12:12 - Oct 14 with 2784 views
i rarely download and prefer a hard copy, a lp vinyl is more tangible, you can admire the artwork, and the smell of a new lp is something i still recall, cds are ok, i don't care what we were told but they can fail to play and jump or stick. i have every jam/style council/weller release and ebay ask for some lps , 300 quid, go to a jam site and the same goes for 80 quid. an inflated market. if the ebay prices are real and i can get those prices, i am going to do well!
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 13:15 - Oct 14 with 2711 views
I'm an avid record collector. I have cds too but in the past either sold or even skipped cds.
In terms of vinyl though I basically popped mine (majority) and my wife's records into discogs over a week. It basically consists of 5892 items with a median cost of 112,141 euros... at max value i could put a great deposit for a house in Surrey.
I collect all sorts but I'm mainly a 45 collector.
In terms of LPs I'm not fussed about first pressings, reissues and even bootlegs are fine for me... but 45s need to be originals
I like cds and tapes too.
But vinyl destination is where I'm at.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 13:21 - Oct 14 with 2705 views
As for sellanbys I remember riding the aforementioned Raleigh Chopper there when I was 14 or 15. Im talking about the one in Eastcote. I bought a cd of Suicide's first album just cos I liked the cover.
Remember literally stopping with fear when the discman got to the song Frankie Teardrop it was the first time music really perplexed and even scared me.... I literally stopped the bike and questioned reality for 5 minutes before riding back to Hillingdon.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 14:52 - Oct 14 with 2608 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 13:21 - Oct 14 by Spaceman_P
As for sellanbys I remember riding the aforementioned Raleigh Chopper there when I was 14 or 15. Im talking about the one in Eastcote. I bought a cd of Suicide's first album just cos I liked the cover.
Remember literally stopping with fear when the discman got to the song Frankie Teardrop it was the first time music really perplexed and even scared me.... I literally stopped the bike and questioned reality for 5 minutes before riding back to Hillingdon.
Regarding Sellanbys. Me and a mate popped in after Harrow Boro one Sat afternoon. I’d mentioned an album I was after. We both stood there flicking through and he only plucked it out. Bastard. This was a long time ago and I offered him £20. No chance, and he took it home; I was gutted. He moved to Sweden and came back last year for a 60th. Had a good catch up about the usuals and we all went home, my mate back to Scandinavia. Three days later, I received a package through the post and gave it to my wife as I hadn’t ordered anything - she gave it back to me. My mate had sent me the record he found in Sellanbys 40 years ago.
Not selling that one.
Did I ever mention that I was in Minder?
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 15:30 - Oct 14 with 2556 views
I have around 250 original vinyl including my first ever LP (Getting To This by Blodwyn Pig) but only one 45 (The Snake/ Do it by The Pink Fairies). There are a few rarities among them but also Battle Hymns For Children Singing by Hayzee Fantayzee I also have over 300 CD's still and nearly 1000 DVD/ Blu Rays. Does anyone remember the record store by the Green, near the 207/207A terminus, which had listening booths inside where you could listen through headphones before buying?
Music lovers/ record collectors on 14:52 - Oct 14 by Mick_S
Regarding Sellanbys. Me and a mate popped in after Harrow Boro one Sat afternoon. I’d mentioned an album I was after. We both stood there flicking through and he only plucked it out. Bastard. This was a long time ago and I offered him £20. No chance, and he took it home; I was gutted. He moved to Sweden and came back last year for a 60th. Had a good catch up about the usuals and we all went home, my mate back to Scandinavia. Three days later, I received a package through the post and gave it to my wife as I hadn’t ordered anything - she gave it back to me. My mate had sent me the record he found in Sellanbys 40 years ago.
Not selling that one.
Go on... which record?
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 17:50 - Oct 14 with 2401 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:44 - Oct 13 by brewers_hoop
Aah Sellanby’s, just round the corner from where my dad lived. Happy memories of that shop - buying and selling
A lot of my vinyl still have Sellanby’s price tags on them . My late father in law used to spend days lost in there by all accounts. He had an extensive vinyl collection right across all musical genres. For cd’s and newer releases I used to go to a shop called Jammin’ with Edward in Harrow. Proper old Rock and heavy metal store .
I still love buying vinyl and I used to be a bit of a collector but its few and far between now as it’s just ridiculously expensive . I don’t think I’ve put an actual cd on for years
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 18:10 - Oct 14 with 2354 views
Breakwater released two albums which flopped so the band broke up. A few years later someone 'discovered' Say That You Love Me and the band gained cult status as the records were so hard to find.
The best track on the first album is Work It Out.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 05:09 - Oct 15 with 2177 views
Currently CD's and vinyl sound far better than any streamed music. However Spotify claim that their new streaming service will beat CD's for sound quality. We shall see.
As others have mentioned Discogs is the best place to research the potential value of your Records, Cassettes and CD's. Many things can influence the value, country of issue, the pressing, the sleeve, rarity and sound quality.
A common misconception is that music that has been remastered is going to sound better than the original pressings. This is wrong. Abba is a great example of this, some recent remasters of their music have been a disaster. high on treble and heavily compressed. Therefore people try to find the original CD releases.
If you are interested in the sound quality of a certain album a good site to visit is the Steve Hoffman Music Forum. Search the forum for the album that you are interested in and you will likely find several threads on that subject.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 09:49 - Oct 15 with 2035 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 05:09 - Oct 15 by rbee
Currently CD's and vinyl sound far better than any streamed music. However Spotify claim that their new streaming service will beat CD's for sound quality. We shall see.
As others have mentioned Discogs is the best place to research the potential value of your Records, Cassettes and CD's. Many things can influence the value, country of issue, the pressing, the sleeve, rarity and sound quality.
A common misconception is that music that has been remastered is going to sound better than the original pressings. This is wrong. Abba is a great example of this, some recent remasters of their music have been a disaster. high on treble and heavily compressed. Therefore people try to find the original CD releases.
If you are interested in the sound quality of a certain album a good site to visit is the Steve Hoffman Music Forum. Search the forum for the album that you are interested in and you will likely find several threads on that subject.
My Dad used to make a big deal, that he had the German pressing of something ;p
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:06 - Oct 15 with 2006 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 17:49 - Oct 13 by dutch
Like most thing in life most are worth very little and a very few are worth a fortune. I recently sold a job lot of Jazz CD's for £3 a pop but there were 900 of them, which was about right. The most I've sold a CD for is £25, whereas I have vinyl valued at £6-700 a pop. Got rid of my CD player and just kept the vinyl, even then only really jazz LP's. The most valuable aspect of my collection is the 7inch singles. Many of those worth 50-100 and I have a couple of thousand.
People often think old= valuable in records, when the reality is there were like millions of them pressed. It's rare scarce stuff from smaller artists that is valuable
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:16 - Oct 15 with 1971 views
- I still love the album format, and find streaming has made music instant and disposable. There's something romantic about forcing yourself to listen to 12 tracks on the same concept
- streaming is essentially robbing artists to give a man money to spent on AI military drones. I love buying merch and vinyl to help support my favourite artists so they can keep making music
- I'm not one for a tin foil hat, but we're at a stage where capitalism has left people without enough disposable income but the lines on the graph have to keep going up so everyone is moving to an AAS model (As A Service). Big business don't want you to own anything so you have to keep giving them money every month for a service they make shitter and shitter. I like vinyl cos it's mine
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 11:01 - Oct 15 with 1883 views
I used Spotify for a while for audtioning but got browned off with it. They still send offers of free 3 months etc. Storage is the bugbear with LPs &CDs. Plus of course filing. I've tried arranging by genre, A to Z, british/US/Rest of World etc. of course it's not that easy - some music defies genre, other stuff is a mixture. How to do arrange your collection ?
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 11:19 - Oct 15 with 1849 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 11:01 - Oct 15 by colinallcars
I used Spotify for a while for audtioning but got browned off with it. They still send offers of free 3 months etc. Storage is the bugbear with LPs &CDs. Plus of course filing. I've tried arranging by genre, A to Z, british/US/Rest of World etc. of course it's not that easy - some music defies genre, other stuff is a mixture. How to do arrange your collection ?
alphabetical by artist, then chronologically by release
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 11:28 - Oct 15 with 1831 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 11:01 - Oct 15 by colinallcars
I used Spotify for a while for audtioning but got browned off with it. They still send offers of free 3 months etc. Storage is the bugbear with LPs &CDs. Plus of course filing. I've tried arranging by genre, A to Z, british/US/Rest of World etc. of course it's not that easy - some music defies genre, other stuff is a mixture. How to do arrange your collection ?
The vinyl is a living, growing collection, sorted alphabetically. But I've got a separate hip hop section for some reason.
CDs have been ripped and retired to plastic boxes in the loft. I made the unconventional decision to sort them by year (and then alphabetically within, natch). My reasoning being that if for some reason I pick up a new CD by Alan and the Aardvarks the whole collection of CDs has to shift by one if sorted alphabetically, involving multiple box switches. If I've got a box for each year I just sling it in the appropriate one.
Also you can open a box of CDs and be transported back to a time in your life and see what you were listening to at that point. Alphabetical organising doesn't give you any of that, it just sticks The Saints next to Saint Etienne. Some bands do have their own box if I've got loads of their stuff. Rules are meant to be broken.
I'm still not convinced it was a great idea but it took me literally months to do and there's no going back now, at least not until I'm retired.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 11:32 - Oct 15 with 1820 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:06 - Oct 15 by robith
People often think old= valuable in records, when the reality is there were like millions of them pressed. It's rare scarce stuff from smaller artists that is valuable
Plenty of exceptions to this rule though especially with major artists like The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Led Zep.
Condition is important so mint or near mint original pressings are worth big money. Then you get the information scratched on to the outro on vinyl and the label variations. I don't know what they were doing at the EMI pressing plant in Hayes but on some Beatles records you get dozens of label variations that some people collect.
Then of course you get the Demo copies. The EMI demo singles in the early 60's are things of beauty especially in the unique demo paper sleeves.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 15:44 - Oct 15 with 1641 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:16 - Oct 15 by robith
I buy vinyl because
- I still love the album format, and find streaming has made music instant and disposable. There's something romantic about forcing yourself to listen to 12 tracks on the same concept
- streaming is essentially robbing artists to give a man money to spent on AI military drones. I love buying merch and vinyl to help support my favourite artists so they can keep making music
- I'm not one for a tin foil hat, but we're at a stage where capitalism has left people without enough disposable income but the lines on the graph have to keep going up so everyone is moving to an AAS model (As A Service). Big business don't want you to own anything so you have to keep giving them money every month for a service they make shitter and shitter. I like vinyl cos it's mine
Music lovers/ record collectors on 10:16 - Oct 15 by robith
I buy vinyl because
- I still love the album format, and find streaming has made music instant and disposable. There's something romantic about forcing yourself to listen to 12 tracks on the same concept
- streaming is essentially robbing artists to give a man money to spent on AI military drones. I love buying merch and vinyl to help support my favourite artists so they can keep making music
- I'm not one for a tin foil hat, but we're at a stage where capitalism has left people without enough disposable income but the lines on the graph have to keep going up so everyone is moving to an AAS model (As A Service). Big business don't want you to own anything so you have to keep giving them money every month for a service they make shitter and shitter. I like vinyl cos it's mine
I'm trying hard to not go off-topic but this whole subscription model is getting out of hand. A really simple basic game app for my kids and it's "£29.99 per year".... 'per year'?? WTF??? 5 years ago that would have been a one-off payment of £9.99.
The justification is to 'enable the company to keep the app updated et etc" - yeah, right, 'cos noughts & crosses needs fkin' updates! Or how about letting me choose? I might not want the game/app perpetually. By the time it needs updates I might have been happy to stop using it and move onto something else.
I only have Apple Music on subscription because it comes free from my company, otherwise I wouldn't bother. In fact, I didn't until the free subscription kicked in.
Still got loads of CD's (had over 4,000 at one point) and a lot of them I (legitimately) ripped onto a hard drive so I could clear up boxes and boxes of space in the loft.
Got a nice clutch of CD's in the car which I'm happy to rotate.
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Music lovers/ record collectors on 19:31 - Oct 15 with 1426 views
Music lovers/ record collectors on 13:21 - Oct 14 by Spaceman_P
As for sellanbys I remember riding the aforementioned Raleigh Chopper there when I was 14 or 15. Im talking about the one in Eastcote. I bought a cd of Suicide's first album just cos I liked the cover.
Remember literally stopping with fear when the discman got to the song Frankie Teardrop it was the first time music really perplexed and even scared me.... I literally stopped the bike and questioned reality for 5 minutes before riding back to Hillingdon.
Most of my used 45's were purchased at the old public toilet on Lancelot Rd, thirty seconds off Wembley High Rd. Yeah, turned the bogs into a market, early 70's I think, can't remember the other stallholder's merchandise, but paid many a visit on a Saturday morning to thumb through discs.
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