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^And the quality? VG+ or better?

In terms of the sleeves, VG to VG+. I skip any peeling, water damage, etc. Cut outs I don't mind.

In terms of the vinyl itself, they play through with no issues. Depending on the age, there may be pops and hisses, but no skipping. 

Both places clean everything before putting it on the floor so visual issues are easy to see and they allow returns for skipping.
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Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

^And the quality? VG+ or better?

In terms of the sleeves, VG to VG+. I skip any peeling, water damage, etc. Cut outs I don't mind.

In terms of the vinyl itself, they play through with no issues. Depending on the age, there may be pops and hisses, but no skipping. 

Both places clean everything before putting it on the floor so visual issues are easy to see and they allow returns for skipping.
Name of store and maybe they parcel ship?
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If to get an idea about how many Prog albums have been reissued on vinyl the last 10 years, a good place to look is here:

https://www.discogs.com/seller/progwalker/profile?format=Vinyl&page=1

- and btw, it's a good, recommendable online seller of not used vinyl for North Americans. Smile




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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

^And the quality? VG+ or better?

In terms of the sleeves, VG to VG+. I skip any peeling, water damage, etc. Cut outs I don't mind.

In terms of the vinyl itself, they play through with no issues. Depending on the age, there may be pops and hisses, but no skipping. 

Both places clean everything before putting it on the floor so visual issues are easy to see and they allow returns for skipping.
Name of store and maybe they parcel ship?

Hippo Records // Greensboro, NC

King Records // Archdale, NC

They're both on FB, but I can't speak to whether they ship or not.
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Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

^And the quality? VG+ or better?

In terms of the sleeves, VG to VG+. I skip any peeling, water damage, etc. Cut outs I don't mind.

In terms of the vinyl itself, they play through with no issues. Depending on the age, there may be pops and hisses, but no skipping. 

Both places clean everything before putting it on the floor so visual issues are easy to see and they allow returns for skipping.
Name of store and maybe they parcel ship?

Hippo Records // Greensboro, NC

King Records // Archdale, NC

They're both on FB, but I can't speak to whether they ship or not.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


If to get an idea about how many Prog albums have been reissued on vinyl the last 10 years, a good place to look is here:

https://www.discogs.com/seller/progwalker/profile?format=Vinyl&page=1

- and btw, it's a good, recommendable online seller of not used vinyl for North Americans. Smile


I buy from Greg direct, not thru Discogs.....There was a time probably 5-6yrs ago I was buying every other month from him. Then he went offline for awhile (can't remember why) and I came back but the past couple yrs I've not seen much I want from him.
He for sure has a great selection.....
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


If to get an idea about how many Prog albums have been reissued on vinyl the last 10 years, a good place to look is here:

https://www.discogs.com/seller/progwalker/profile?format=Vinyl&page=1

- and btw, it's a good, recommendable online seller of not used vinyl for North Americans. Smile


I buy from Greg direct, not thru Discogs.....There was a time probably 5-6yrs ago I was buying every other month from him. Then he went offline for awhile (can't remember why) and I came back but the past couple yrs I've not seen much I want from him.
He for sure has a great selection.....

quite a lot of Italian

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Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

I'll chime in...

I'm lucky enough to have a couple of cool shops locally that seem to get in solid quality pre-owned vinyl. Excluding water damage and/or terminal scratching, I tend to only buy albums from the original vinyl era.

Here's a short list of some recent grabs:

Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water
Crow - Best Of Crow
Uriah Heep - s/t (dragon cover)
Yes - Drama
Yes - s/t
Rare Bird - Somebody's Watching
Genesis - Trespass
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Mountain - Climbing!
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Gentle Giant - Interview
UFO - No Place To Run
Alice Cooper - Goes To Hell
Nektar - Magic If A Child
U.K. - s/t

Nice haul. What kind of pricing are you paying here?

I paid no more than $9 for any given title. A couple I only paid $2-$3 for.

I've been thinking that street store prices are much influenced by online prices, but that may not be so true.

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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


If to get an idea about how many Prog albums have been reissued on vinyl the last 10 years, a good place to look is here:

https://www.discogs.com/seller/progwalker/profile?format=Vinyl&page=1

- and btw, it's a good, recommendable online seller of not used vinyl for North Americans. Smile


I buy from Greg direct, not thru Discogs.....There was a time probably 5-6yrs ago I was buying every other month from him. Then he went offline for awhile (can't remember why) and I came back but the past couple yrs I've not seen much I want from him.
He for sure has a great selection.....

Yep, I second Greg. He's great for prog vinyl if you live in the US.
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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

Originally posted by JD JD wrote:

Originally posted by IncogNeato IncogNeato wrote:

I'll chime in...

I'm lucky enough to have a couple of cool shops locally that seem to get in solid quality pre-owned vinyl. Excluding water damage and/or terminal scratching, I tend to only buy albums from the original vinyl era.

Here's a short list of some recent grabs:

Chris Squire - Fish Out Of Water
Crow - Best Of Crow
Uriah Heep - s/t (dragon cover)
Yes - Drama
Yes - s/t
Rare Bird - Somebody's Watching
Genesis - Trespass
Genesis - Selling England By The Pound
Mountain - Climbing!
Spooky Tooth - Spooky Two
Gentle Giant - Free Hand
Gentle Giant - Interview
UFO - No Place To Run
Alice Cooper - Goes To Hell
Nektar - Magic If A Child
U.K. - s/t

Nice haul. What kind of pricing are you paying here?

I paid no more than $9 for any given title. A couple I only paid $2-$3 for.

I've been thinking that street store prices are much influenced by online prices, but that may not be so true.


Those two records are quite expensive in pretty good condition.

I recently acquired a NM- copy of the OG Selling England by the Pound and let's say it was not $9 LOL


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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:


How many LPs do you have in total, Catcher, if I dare to ask? Big smile

No problem.....actually not that many considering. Back around mid 80s around 1200 LPs. Then when we started to move around the country for different jobs I lost probably 2/3 due to "lost" boxes. Which I chalked up to theft, of course moving companies back then all they did was reimburse you for lost boxes. Who know they may been lost in all the shuffle. But I doubt it.....

I took a position to only buy what I really wanted to listen to rather than become a "collector" again.......Right now I sit around 800 LPs. And about 300 CDs, which I got rid of a lot of CDs in the late 90's early 00's they just sounded like krapp and I never listened to them anyways.

I'm much happier with my collection now.

All of you guys have more than me. I'm sitting on 133 now, but I also have some years catching up. I'm in my early 30s, so I hope to have 1,000 soon! Big smile

This has increased to 154. I realized that I have an extremely rare vinyl that is coveted by a lot of record collectors sitting in one of my boxes. It was actually the first vinyl I ever bought! Embarrassed

https://www.discogs.com/release/1802421-Arzachel-Arzachel

I actually had acquired this back when I was in High School, now I can't believe how much it is selling for!
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

All of you guys have more than me. I'm sitting on 133 now, but I also have some years catching up. I'm in my early 30s, so I hope to have 1,000 soon! Big smile

This has increased to 154. I realized that I have an extremely rare vinyl that is coveted by a lot of record collectors sitting in one of my boxes. It was actually the first vinyl I ever bought! Embarrassed

https://www.discogs.com/release/1802421-Arzachel-Arzachel

I actually had acquired this back when I was in High School, now I can't believe how much it is selling for!

My congratulations and anyway, I'm very happy with my records, and not least those which are originals or reissues released in the '70s and the first half of the '80s. Tongue


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Do you have any preferences concerning type of releases, King of Loss?
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Do you have any preferences concerning type of releases, King of Loss?

I kind of buy them all, used and new, reissues and originals. There's no trend to which I am buying at the moment, except that it is a lot and at once. LOL
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Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Do you have any preferences concerning type of releases, King of Loss?

I kind of buy them all, used and new, reissues and originals. There's no trend to which I am buying at the moment, except that it is a lot and at once. LOL

My vinyl collection is quite a mixed bag as well, and I can be quite happy with the type of newer reissues and new-releases too, but surely most of those made in the '70s style, and that both concerning the (middle) weight of the vinyl and the (more slim) design of the covers - which I find to be cool and enviromentally correct, and something else is my clear preference of as far as possible analog productions. 

One thing more, I want the reissues just to be exactly like the originals regarding the tracks and artwork - nothing else...or sometimes I can prefer other artwork if I find it cooler.

Due to all that plus some other reasons, I've actually chosen the last 10-15 years not so rarely, and the last 5 years quite often, a CD-release instead of vinyl. 


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

.... I'm very happy with my records, and not least those which are originals or reissues released in the '70s and the first half of the '80s. Tongue

I'm also very pleased with my reissues from the first half of the '90s, as they are made in the '70s style, and the sound quality is good, very probably all-analog.


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Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Originally posted by King of Loss King of Loss wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Do you have any preferences concerning type of releases, King of Loss?

I kind of buy them all, used and new, reissues and originals. There's no trend to which I am buying at the moment, except that it is a lot and at once. LOL

My vinyl collection is quite a mixed bag as well, ........
But most of my records from the '70s are originals or reissues from the '70s.


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Have you been digging Direct Cutting recordings, Catcher?
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Have you been digging Direct Cutting recordings, Catcher?
Are you referring to DMM (Direct Metal Mastering)? If so I have many that are cut this way, the main drawback is the low end can suffer slightly or they can sound a bit bright. But if done right sound very good. Since they are cut direct to a copper plate you skip one of the steps so you can get a version with little to zero surface noise.
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Originally posted by Catcher10 Catcher10 wrote:

Originally posted by David_D David_D wrote:

Have you been digging Direct Cutting recordings, Catcher?
Are you referring to DMM (Direct Metal Mastering)? If so I have many that are cut this way, the main drawback is the low end can suffer slightly or they can sound a bit bright. But if done right sound very good. Since they are cut direct to a copper plate you skip one of the steps so you can get a version with little to zero surface noise.

No, what I mean is the recording technique which also has been called "direct-to-disc". 
A quote from Wikipedia to describe it:

"Direct-to-disc recording refers to sound recording methods that bypass the use of magnetic tape recording and record audio directly onto analog disc masters."
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"To make a direct-to-disc recording, musicians would typically play one 15-minute "live" set in a recording studio per LP side using professional audio equipment. The recording was made without multitrack recording and without overdubs. The performance was carefully engineered and mixed live in stereophonic sound. During the performance, the analog disc cutting head engages the master lacquer from which sides of an LP record are ultimately derived and is not stopped until the entire side is complete."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Direct-to-disc_recording)


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