I bought a bunch of water damaged records from a friend yesterday and there was one un damaged, unopened copy of rust never sleeps. So I opened it and listened to it and it felt great. I collect records for the music not the money.

I’ve been doing record fairs as a seller for many years now (15+) and of course we’re all a little quirky as collectors but some things just make me shake my head.

When I sell I’ve gotten into the habit of selling reissues but also bringing originals of the same album just in case people want to buy those.

However what happens 100% of the time is this scenario:

Dude looks at the reissue and says some snooty variant of “oh it’s only a reissue I’m looking for an OG”. To which I answer a variant of “well it’s your lucky day, here’s the OG.”

The answer is always a variant of “well I don’t want to spend that much on an OG” or “well I wasn’t planning on buying this today” or “yeah let me think about it” and then they disappear.

So annoying.

Before anyone asks, my OGs are priced well below the Discogs median.

Sorry for posting this again but it was removed for no comment. I’ve been waiting for months for this album to release. I never posted here but I just wanted to share.

Stakes is high

Today I received an album in the mail. I was very excited to get it and had a good laugh when I picked it up with the rest of my mail and saw a pizza box all tapped up. It worked great and I have no complaints. The record was well packed and protected inside. I thought I would share for a laugh. I'm curious if anyone else has a funny story about how a record was mailed to them.

Love these guys' older stuff. Hoping for a War Elephant 20th anniversary remaster next year 🤞

Went to Goodwill and scored some awesome vinyl! And yes the Classic Yes still has the 33 1/3 7" included. So we have to have 100 characters to keep this from getting rejected by the bot? Okay I think I have reached that number!

Really interested in your opinions on this. I've been collecting for maybe 16-18 years. In the beginning I mostly went to record stores, flea markets, goodwill places and really dug for hours to find something interesting or fun. A lot of times I unexpectedly struck gold, but also often brought home rubbish, but it was a lot of fun to explore. Very rarely I used to buy online or on discogs. I've catalogued my collection and sometimes looked at prices to see whether I've made a bargain at a shop or not. In the last few years I've somewhat gone the opposite route. Now I buy songs, albums or artists that I already know and just want to have on vinyl. Because you can't find most of the more obscure stuff at your record stores I mostly buy on Discogs nowadays. Very rarely do I go digging and it's honestly not as fun anymore, because most stores sell on discogs as well, thus prices even for used records are higher. I feel like many record stores don't even bother with 5 or 10€ record bins anymore and have a lot less variety of used records on offer. Because prices are transparent to both sides, the chance for a bargain on my side is much lower and I'm much less inclined to buy a record, if it is far cheaper on discogs. I'm less surprised to find something cool, because I could get it on Discogs anyway ...

I'm not sure whether I just have changed and my love for digging has faded or whether the "game" has changed.

How do you feel about this?

Scavenging a bargain bin in a flea market and well ... this. Even weirder that the seller decided to priced it for only over two dollars.

Anyway, it's apparently a bit of NK propaganda songs; the first one is the good 'ol Song of General Kim Il-sung. The rest of it are supposedly (North) Korean folk (which for me, sounds practically the same as typical Chinese folk, at least in this record).

Very compact setup. Once I move into a full sized house I'll finally be able to dedicate an entire bedroom wall to making this look even better. Working pretty well with this living room corner

I was never a huge fan of The Who, but bought this last weekend because it reminded me of a buddy who is a massive fan. I had just snapped pics of it to send to him when I found out he died yesterday. He went to the ER with stomach pain on the same day I bought the record and died a week later.

Life is funny and sad.

I like to imagine that maybe this was his when he was a kid and he's the one that cut some of the pictures out.

He was one of the best humans I've ever known.

Horror soundtracks and horror adjacent sleeves.

Death Dealers is a good one. Bootleg of weird death songs and interviews with serial killers between each track (Ed Gein, Albert de Salvo, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy - who also painted the portrait of Elvis for the sleeve).

Andy Warhol's Frankenstein, unusual record, pity the Velvets didn't do the soundtrack. Good sleeve though.

Lux Interior's Purple KNIF Show with a ton of horror novelties. Comus, prog band with very unsavoury lyrics (necrophilia, rape, murder).

I only bring these out for Halloween, otherwise I keep them away from the rest of my collection (in a coffin with the lid nailed shut).

Replacing some of the pieces from my youth. Friday and Saturday evenings at the coffee shop before heading out for the evening were usually between Type O Negative and Tricky. A little bit of a swing in sounds but it's what we enjoyed in the middle of nowhere.

"Frankenstein was a real old meenie but the coolest creep in the town" & "just a little old lady from Transylvania" (the best Glen Campbell album ever IMO)

Got this unpressed record puck..aka "biscuit". I have a stamper and now a biscuit. Very interesting how a biscuit and stamper come into the pressing of a vinyl.

Im not sure where I acquired this but I came across it in my collection and noticed the label is way off centre, so much so that it covers some of the grooves of the final track. What other manufacturer errors have you come across and is there a specific collectors market for this sort of thing

Had some sheet left over from my sub build so I built a custom isolation platform with levelling feet. 38mm walnut veneered mdf, with sorbothane matched to the combined weight of the platform plus turntable.

Probably my fav in my collection, on a side note how do you guys store this? It’s not like I can just put an inner sleeve on it

A sanctuary of vinyl, cassettes, music history, and forgotten treasures. Analog sounds live forever here.

These guys are so good. They arrived a little too late to really flourish before grunge displaced hair metal, and that's a damned shame.

This album sounds fantastic on vinyl. I have the CD I bought when it was released back in the day, which also sounds good, but I prefer the LP.

Every year i try to pull some seasonal covers to scare the pants off our guests. Any intentional or unintentional creepy covers out there? Third image is a tribute to the new Clayface movie. But, personally, i find the last image the creepiest. I’ve showed you mine now show me yours.