The Vinyl Thread

[Wooderson]

Picked it up there.

[Wooderson]

Similar to Blackstar this is a perfect "vinyl" album. Dunno bout you Scruff but my copy is absolutely *perfect* sounding. Delighted. Leaps out of the speaker.

Edited March 18, 2016 by Wooderson

[Wooderson]

14 hours ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Definitely. Sounds fucking ace. Not so sure the 'Ltd' is worth the extra but the audio is that good it doesn't bother me. 

Sunday is ace.

[Mardy]

Found a new record shop today. 

 

Kendrick Lamar, Portishead and Nick Drake

 

And thus, no food this weekend.

[Guest]

I went in Sainsbury's just to see it for myself, sure as shit, they have vinyl records in there. I didn't buy any.

[The Nal]

2 hours ago, Mardy said:

Found a new record shop today. 

 

Kendrick Lamar, Portishead and Nick Drake

 

And thus, no food this weekend.

No need for food when you have Nick Drake on vinyl.

[Guest]

They had some Nick Drake in Sainsbury's, but it was under Universal's "Back To Black" imprint. I don't have anything from that line, I was warned by a friend that they're generally really poor masters, in some cases you're essentially getting a big CD. Anybody know how valid that is?

[Wooderson]

The Back to Black "Bryter Layter" is ace.

[The Nal]

2 hours ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

They had some Nick Drake in Sainsbury's, but it was under Universal's "Back To Black" imprint. I don't have anything from that line, I was warned by a friend that they're generally really poor masters, in some cases you're essentially getting a big CD. Anybody know how valid that is?

All three albums were remastered from the original pre eq master tapes and sound absolutely fantastic. As good as it gets. Buy them.

[Guest]

20 minutes ago, The Nal said:

All three albums were remastered from the original pre eq master tapes and sound absolutely fantastic. As good as it gets. Buy them.

Sounds good, cheers..

[Wooderson]

Five Years Left is digital.

[The Nal]

http://www.brytermusic.com/news/page/7/

"As with the other two albums, it was remastered from the original un-eq’d quarter inch master tapes by John Wood at Abbey Road Studios and pressed using wholly analogue processes onto 180 gsm virgin vinyl."

[Wooderson]

http://www.elusivedisc.com/Nick-Drake-Five-Leaves-Left-180g-LP/productinfo/UNILP34756/

[Wooderson]

"The original tape was unusable and although there were tape copies the best source was using a 24bit digital file made from the original tape when re-mastered for CD some 12 years ago."

Recording Engineer John Wood on FLL.

It still sounds ace, but BL and PM are fully analog.

[The Nal]

Aha. "near original". Serious stuff from John Wood then. Sounds great.

[Guest]

Whats everyones views on record store day? 

I love the principal of it and it is nice to see musicians get behind it. It is a nightmare though for going vinyl hunting. Generally I will stay well clear  on RSD. If there is anything I want I will ask if they will keep me a copy to one side.

[windy_miller]

I've only been to one Record Store Day.  I queued up for about an hour only to have the person in front of me snap up the last copy of The White Stripe's Elephant.

I find the whole thing annoying to be honest, and have never been to another one.

[The Nal]

Its a money spinner, nowt else. 

[Guest]

So the general consensus is it is not really a day for the vinyl enthusiast to venture out?

It must work though as last time I ventured out, Vinyl Exchange was rammed and they were queueing down Oldham St to get in Piccadilly Records.

You are best off being a regular customer through the rest of the year as your favourite establishment will probably keep what you want to one side.

[Wooderson]

http://thequietus.com/articles/19946-record-store-day-2016-shops-bad-reissues-bleugh

[Wooderson]

I've queued up each year for this since 2011. It reached a peak in about 2013 I think. Now it's full of scalpers jonesing for shitty represses.

That said if I had the cash I'd be all over the Grateful Dead release.

[Guest]

56 minutes ago, Scruffylovemonster said:

Can't be arsed with that malarkey. I'll trundle along late on to see if owt's left that takes my eye but that's about it.

I would still end up scouring through the sad boxes looking for obscure white labels.

[Guest]

3 hours ago, eastynh said:

So the general consensus is it is not really a day for the vinyl enthusiast to venture out?

It must work though as last time I ventured out, Vinyl Exchange was rammed and they were queueing down Oldham St to get in Piccadilly Records.

You are best off being a regular customer through the rest of the year as your favourite establishment will probably keep what you want to one side.

It's to get people into the shop that wouldn't usually be there. Great for the shop, but best to steer clear if you're a regular. I went to Piccadilly Records once in 2014, I wanted the repressing of Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad. I walked past on the way to work in the morning and thought "fuck that", then turned up after work at about 5:30, they had a copy left. I snapped it up and left. Was a bit gutted when I got home and saw some fans were really upset because they'd missed out and there were copies on ebay for £100s already. The band were really great, assured everybody they'd get back to press as soon as they could, got another run a few months later, sold them to real fans from the merch tables at the shows.

[When Jokers Attack]

1 hour ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

It's to get people into the shop that wouldn't usually be there. Great for the shop, but best to steer clear if you're a regular. I went to Piccadilly Records once in 2014, I wanted the repressing of Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad. I walked past on the way to work in the morning and thought "fuck that", then turned up after work at about 5:30, they had a copy left. I snapped it up and left. Was a bit gutted when I got home and saw some fans were really upset because they'd missed out and there were copies on ebay for £100s already. The band were really great, assured everybody they'd get back to press as soon as they could, got another run a few months later, sold them to real fans from the merch tables at the shows.

I found a copy of that album a couple months later in a record shop, I was delighted as knew it was hard to get. 

[Guest]

1 hour ago, GETOFFAMYLAWN said:

It's to get people into the shop that wouldn't usually be there. Great for the shop, but best to steer clear if you're a regular. I went to Piccadilly Records once in 2014, I wanted the repressing of Fourteen Autumns And Fifteen Winters by The Twilight Sad. I walked past on the way to work in the morning and thought "fuck that", then turned up after work at about 5:30, they had a copy left. I snapped it up and left. Was a bit gutted when I got home and saw some fans were really upset because they'd missed out and there were copies on ebay for £100s already. The band were really great, assured everybody they'd get back to press as soon as they could, got another run a few months later, sold them to real fans from the merch tables at the shows.

All is fair in love and vinyl mate. It is a cut throat hobbie. Have suffered over the years with people giving me blag names of tunes (someone told me Yobots - I got it, was called Yourboy - you turkey, is one off top of my head) Have even had people refuse to tell me the name of tunes. 

It really was an everyone for themselves thing. Thankfully the Internet has mostly put an end to behaviour like that.