The Vinyl Thread

[Wooderson]

Cart usually connect to headshell with 4 fiddly little wires.

[mph]

Ah got you, it's headshell I replaced then, unscrew bit on the tonearm, old one out, new one in, screw bit on tonearm, and that's it I thought 

[fred quimby]

So I have got back into Vinyl in  a big way during lockdown. Used to collect a lot but Kids,house blah blah all got in the way

So Saturday is my first record store day. I see people have done these before so some advice.

 

I have phoned the store to make sure they have the ones I want (9 records in all). some they only have one copy of

I assume I just queue up stupid o'clock in the morning (Not sure how busy they are). Then when you go in are the records normally in one place or are they all stuck under the artists name in the various racks. Is it a massive bun fight as well, where I will have to handbag people out the way

[Gnomicide]

I've never queued, just wandered up in the afternoon and had a mooch at what's left.

Still got some decent stuff but can't be arsed with the bunfight.

[fred quimby]

Yea will be going to another local one later to see what is left.

 

Sadly the collector in me has been awoken and the beast needs feeding. going to calm down after this weekend

[The Nal]

14 hours ago, Gnomicide said:

I've never queued, just wandered up in the afternoon and had a mooch at what's left.

Still got some decent stuff but can't be arsed with the bunfight.

Same. Everything I hate. Early mornings coupled with queues. Looks like hell tbh.

[fred quimby]

I hate both as well so not inspiring me much. Might be the one and only time I feel

[Chef]

 

Nice twitter twitter account sharing sales that indies have on. Worth keeping an eye on it. 

 

[sirjonnyp]

This seems like a reasonable place to ask - as anyone shipped their record collection internationally before? If so, can you recommend a service provider? I've got 500-600 records sitting in my parents house in the UK that I need to ship out to Australia. I didn't ship it out initially due to the uncertainty in the move, but it's time to think about getting it out here now. As 90 per cent of my records are second-hand that I picked up before the revival movement, I was considering selling it and rebuying it out here, but the price of records here is worse than back home. 

Initial research has suggested that there isn't a specialist service, so it would likely have to be with a general shipping company. I had a truly awful experience with PSS with the essentials that we shipped over when we moved, so I'm keen to not get roundly f@cked like that again with my collection. 

[The Dawg]

Today is a good day. Villagers are playing in my local record shop and I get to pick up a signed copy of their new record. I have my fingers crossed that I will be on the other side of the counter as I am helping out re-arranging the shop. Fanboy alert.

 

Edited August 24, 2021 by The Dawg