Vinyl

^ But it's interesting with all the media it has, and considering the fact that the retro-design became popular quite a lot of

years later - at least in Denmark.

I've been searching quite a bit, but I couldn't find when it was made either. I think though too that the late '80s to early '90s is the most probable. 

Interesting to know the date. I've been thinking about if it could be there behind, but I didn't find it probable.

A few PF-DSOtM oldies like '77 repress for like $100, decent condition one guy had a '75 repress and wanted $300....I LOL!! There was a lot of cassettes for sale at good prices, $3-$5 and tons of 45rpm singles, which I care nothing about so not sure the prices....People were buying them.

There was a lot of MoFi box sets, all too expensive and a decent chunk of new records as well a lot of avant garde stuff and world music, I kept hearing people asking for African, Caribbean, Brazilian....and then I heard people asking for The Knack debut album....

What it was great for was people just starting out in vinyl or maybe in the past few years. I had many people asking me about stuff as we were flipping thru boxes, one thing that is very cool is the VC (Vinyl Community) is friendly and they like to talk, share stories. Most of the sellers were just pop up table sellers, they don't have retail stores but do sell on eBay/Discogs too. 

One guy told me he had 17,000 records and was moving to Australia soon to be near his wife's family, he says he is so worried about shipping his records. I told him that will be one container just for records, but he will make a lot of money in AUS with his collection. He had an awesome funk collection, I bought one from. him. There was some memorabilia there too, bought a poster ad.

Overall it was a good experience, the place was jam packed with people with about 11-2pm being the most packed, you had to squeeze in to flip thru boxes.

This was all I came away with. Although 2 of these I had been looking for. 

Parliament Live-Incredibly HARD to find anything close to VG in the wild, this guy had two copies, none with the poster or iron on, which I had as a teen but lost in a house move. After I told the guy about my house move nightmares I freaked him out even more about his move to AUS .

I've been looking for a better copy of Dreamboat Annie, this one looked VG++ and I cleaned it, gave ultrasonic clean and DANG!! This one is NM and plays amazing! I have another copy that does not even come close, this one was press by another plant than my other version, major score!

Other than the Cream record the others are all NM/NM-, Cream is a VG+ but plays excellent after a good scrubbing. The Anathema is new, cheap for $20....

The PF poster was only $20, guy would not take less, it's in pretty good shape and I'll frame it. As I bought it another guy came around asking if it was sold and I said "yea I just bought it..." he screamed NO! The guy had offered $15 like me but walked off the seller said...

The Brand X was a steal at $5.....most expensive was the Parliament Live it's 2-LP set but again tough find, paid $30.

There is another record fair next month but further north, it'll be the same people so I'm not going. There are some in Portland but again too far to drive to dig thru old 80s rock, classic rock and such....I have all of it already. It was fun.

As far as Discogs I only sort for NM, clearly if it's listed as M then it should say sealed and or new....But I sort for NM only and expect I'll get VG++ and I make offers, never pay what is listed!! Which has been the case and worked out pretty good so far. As well I pay via PayPal and that gets you extra protection if you want to file a claim and get your money back....

Unfortunately Discogs is the only place to find rare stuff.

There was a table there with a guy from an auction house, called Heritage Auctions. He told me they have tons of rare first pressings and such, psych, prog, eclectic krapp. Of course I told him "all at eclectic high prices right??" He laughed...

The website is HA.com

José, I know you've mentioned before about your ultrasonic cleaner. But I'm curious how well it really cleans things. I recently got GG Three Friends LP that was listed as NM, but upon playing I experience loud and sustained 'crackling' surface noise, for lack of better term, during softer passages. I had already given the vinyl what I consider to be a deep cleaning (manually) but it didn't seem to make a difference. The Vinyl LOOKS clean enough with only the slightest hint of 'scuff' so the noise appears to be something deeper than surface damage.

Have you ever been able to recondition an album like that?