Vinyl - Progressive Rock Music Forum

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Just arrived today - MESHUGGAH - Alive 2 LP ; record 1 is black, record 2 is white. Sounds too awesome. Just love these guys' sound and composition. Unlike anything else I've heard (which isn't much tbh).

Cool LP's

I bought Fire! Orchestra's "Second Exit" after their concert last July for 20€ and it's already worth 50€ Tongue

Prog Sothoth wrote:

Got in the mail a couple of metal albums. I'm finding that not only do they tend to go nuts on the packaging for new releases, but they often accumulate in value pretty fast.

The Obscura was a no-brainer since I'm quite a fan, but I wasn't initially planning on getting the Sirenia one until I discovered that their previous vinyl (which I own) recently quintupled in value from the 23 bucks I payed for it. That one came with a poster too. Love that cover but I do think the poster would've worked better in landscape format.

I almost wish I bought two, one to keep and one to sell, but I don't know; I'd feel like a scalper in a way. Maybe if my tastes change someday...

The Obscura is three sides as well, with a neat etch design for side D. I wish more new releases did that, especially those about an hour long.

I so wish I was into this type of metal......The vinyl is to die for as is the packaging!! Reason they jump so much in value is these tend to be small to medium runs of vinyl and then they are gone. The appreciation in value is justified.....I get emails from Century Media (cmdistro.com) and they have awesome looking metal rekkids Thumbs Up

Edited by Catcher10 - February 17 2016 at 13:02

Catcher10 wrote:

I so wish I was into this type of metal......The vinyl is to die for as is the packaging!! Reason they jump so much in value is these tend to be small to medium runs of vinyl and then they are gone. The appreciation in value is justified.....I get emails from Century Media (cmdistro.com) and they have awesome looking metal rekkids Thumbs Up

So true, even some metal sub-genres I'm not so big on put out seriously tempting platters. There's a Blut Aus Nord vinyl for "The Desanctification" and the packaging is to die for (plus it's blue vinyl), but I probably wouldn't play it much if at all.

Speaking of colored vinyls, Newbury Comics has been selling exclusive colored vinyl editions of some albums. Mostly indie stuff and jazz, but a few classic rock albums as well (no major prog ones that I know of...not really the Newbury Comics "scene" I guess). A couple of months ago I got a CCR blue vinyl of "Willy & the Poorboys" (sorry for the blurry shot...stupid phone).

I already owned an old copy of "Green River" so Iinitially passed on the green vinyl, but last Sunday there was a 25% off vinyls in their stores so I gave in and also bought a red double album Lush compilation.

Turns out it was a good buy as these CCR vinyls really are limited and the Green River is going for $34 minimum at discogs when I just payed $15 for it at the store with the discount. Sweet Cool

^ Good to know Thumbs Up

I got a couple of excellent recent Italian Prog albums last week. Two good sounding and good looking LP's from Black Widow Records Smile

Thanks Tom for recommending these Handshake

Dobby wrote:

Did anyone happen to see this "Vinyl" on CBC (Canadian Broadcasting Corp) yesterday?

I heard an add for it during the week and checked last night, but nothing.

Perhaps it was for CBC tv (not radio).

It was not the Zweig docu they were talking about. No idea. Could be for vinyl siding for all know.

(There is a "Vinyl" movie that is about this rock group and has precious little to do with vinyl. Perhaps it was that.)

Are you talking about the HBO series called "Vinyl"? If so I watched the first episode and it is about the music industry in the 70's.....A lot of drugs and sex and harsh language, it was ok but not sure I will watch them much with the family. Probably catch them On Demand

^ The label no longer has vinyl copies of Il Tempio Delle Clessidre's debut. I immediately bought it (and the other one) from a seller on Discogs, before others notice that and the price increases.

^^ I'm going to do some searching. Thumbs Up

My situation is that since I recently started buying vinyl I'm running out of room on my vinyl shelves.

I have quite a few albums on order now (18 LPs) and when they all arrive the shelves will be full.

Edited by TeleStrat - February 22 2016 at 10:57