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Todd,How much of a real "Vinyl Junkie" are you?

post #1 of 41
4/6/04 at 12:00pm
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Yeah buddy,you call yourself "Todd The Vinyl Junkie" wearing that title like you were the first to hold it, but I'm not impressed.

Prove to me that are indeed a "Vinyl Junkie". I got a litmus test for anyone claiming to be a real live "Vinyl Junkie". If you can answer yes to any five of these,then you can wear the title of "Vinyl Junkie" (but only until I can think of more stupid questions to ask)

Have you ever cleaned vinyl while sitting on the toilet(using a Discwasher brush of course)?

Have you ever fallen asleep while going through a new stash?

Have you ever spent all night going through a stash only to realize that it is now 8:00am and you are an hour late for work?

Have you ever cut your finger on a paper sleeve but refused to stop hunting for fear of losing your spot?

Have you ever used a paper sleeve to stop the bleeding from such cuts so that you can continue on?

Is your entire family trained to never interrupt you while you are cleaning or going through a stash of vinyl?

Do you wash your hands before you handle a clean record,twice?

Have you cleaned records at work?

Have you taken records on vacation with you to clean?

Have you ever taken your cleaning machine with you to check out a stash?

Do you keep a cleaning kit in your car?

Do you keep a Goldmine book in your car?

Is your PC start page a Vinyl site?

Have you ever misspelled your own name but never the word Vinyl?

Have you ever cleaned a record with a lick of spit on your fingertip?

Does all the art in your home consist of album covers?

I'll think of more later. Think of your own if you wish to challenge me,with you frivolous trivia. HA!!!!!
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post #2 of 41
4/6/04 at 8:11pm
O.K., I can say yes to quite a few of those.... can you say yes to any of these...

Having to be dragged out of a record store so you don't miss your flight in 1 hour....

Leaving behind clothes and audio equipment so you can carry on the new vinyl to protect it and listen to it when you get home.

Spending all of your food and bill money and then going home to play them and finding the electricity has been turned off because this is the third month in a row you have done this...

Selling everything of value to get the electricity turned back on so you can listen to the new vinyl - not selling any vinyl of course...

Buying an album for the 5th time in case the other 4 get scratched or damaged

Crying when you got outbid for a large quantity of albums
(admit to this Fred - I do)

Shaking crazily seeing a pile of records - or just driving in the neighborhood with a record store in it.

Waking up as a kid on Christmas to see how many albums Santa left under the tree. Praying it is not a Partridge Family album.

Planning your next vacation around Chicago so you can spend a few days shopping, without the wife, for records (wanna take me???)

Putting vinyl on plastic

Trading you oldest child for an album to be named later - in mint condition of course

More to come as my warped (bad choice of words in a vinyl thread) mind works on this...

Todd
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post #3 of 41
4/6/04 at 8:21pm
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Spending all of your food and bill money and then going home to play them and finding the electricity has been turned off because this is the third month in a row you have done this...

Selling everything of value to get the electricity turned back on so you can listen to the new vinyl - not selling any vinyl of course...
LOL, you guys kill me.

Our toys don't work so well without electricity.

Although you could get your kids to use a stationary bike hooked up to a generator.........

Hey, it works for computers......


-Ed
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post #4 of 41
4/6/04 at 8:22pm
LOL!

This is gonna be interesting
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post #5 of 41
4/7/04 at 12:30am
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Crying when you got outbid for a large quantity of albums
I'm not playing. Mostly because I am not worthy to play with two junkies such as yourself. However, I was just informed by my father-in-law that they are moving to a smaller home and he has to get rid of some stuff. I get first dibs on his vinyl collection. 1100+ albums of jazz, classic rock, classical, and other assorted genres. The only catch is that I have to go pick them up.
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post #6 of 41
4/7/04 at 1:18am
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Originally posted by JMT
The only catch is that I have to go pick them up.
I'll go.

Thing is, there's only room in my van for about 900 albums. No problem. Any collection is bound to have at least 200 duds which aren't even listenable. I'll dilligently look through them, jettison the worst 200 of the lot and faithfully bring you the rest. You can just pay for the travel expenses and maybe give me a couple of albums for my trouble. There might be 300 not worth transporting. No, really.
CPW
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post #7 of 41
4/7/04 at 3:05am

pre-school junkie

well I am not in this league either, but have one for the list.

First thing you do when you feel an earthquake, is run to protect your TT/Vinyl?

So far have been pretty lucky, but had a little scratch last night. Ran to raise the arm lift and another jolt caused me to bump the arm and had that hair raising scratch sound. Fortunately was just a $2.50 record, but still one I really like Eagles, and replayed song later with no apparent skip.

Can wait to read some other tales.

Curious how the cleaning while on the toilet applies? I do let my records soak a bit b4 final scrub/vac, so have taken a nature break during this part of the cleaning process.

I have lost heating, phone but never elec, but do own a bike, so like Edwoods innovation.
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post #8 of 41
4/7/04 at 11:33am
Heh. Bunch of wimps.

When I got my VPI HW-16 (later upgraded to HW-16.5), after some time I noticed that the sides and bottom were warping. Somewhat distressed, I sent it back to VPI for warranty repair. The diagnosis? I had been cleaning far more records than it could handle.

Note: newer models have had some features added so that there is no longer a maximum number that can be cleaned at a time without overflowing the reservoir. I hope.
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post #9 of 41
4/7/04 at 2:36pm
I'm surprised Todd hasn't brought this one up but....

If you've ever licked off an offending nose goblin or other excretions off of you favorite childhood record.
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post #10 of 41
4/7/04 at 3:39pm
I think obsessively purchasing duplicates should qualify, the junkie never likes to have his stash depleted!

Can anyone admit to having more than 2 identical copies of a favorite recording on vinyl?
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post #11 of 41
4/8/04 at 4:21pm

Junior Vinyl Jinkie?

While I certainly don't measure up to these vinyl maestros (I think my dad will put up a good fight in this arena), I do own 3 copies of Kind of Blue and 4 copies of Dark Side of the Moon.
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post #12 of 41
4/8/04 at 7:57pm
Hah, have you ever:

skitched out on a date to make the rounds on garage sale saturday?

kept your clean clothes in your TT box, so that you can store your vinyls in your dresser (hey the dorm is small)?

missed a bus because you were scanning the entire warehouse of vinyl at Crossroads Records in Portland, only to find 20 albums you want, but then realize that to change your ticket, you must use extra money, so you buy the vinyl instead, walk across the steel bridge, and then another 10 blocks in the middle of the night, show up at your brother's house, who, doesn't really have room for you right now, but i guess you can sleep on the floor, but you're worried about his creepy friends and how they may gank you new found treasures so you make a bed in the corner of the apartment and put the vinyl (not stacked!) against the wall, and safeguard them all night while drugged out college kids talk about books n' stuff and all you can think about is getting on the damn bus the next day and going home and finally listening to a good copy of "Cheap Thrils" that doesn't have a nasty scratch at the end of "combination of the two"?


ok, i know i don't even compare to the other vinyl junkies out there, but i'm young, one day i hope to have a big ole collection (right now i think i have 2thousand).

until then it's garage sales and record warehouses!
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post #13 of 41
4/9/04 at 5:40pm
God I hope I don't get into vinyl... but I know I have the inclination. The itch is there...

I'm gonna die poor...
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post #14 of 41
4/9/04 at 5:44pm
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Originally posted by ReDVsion
I'm gonna die poor...
Thats the best way if you dont leave any dependants behind.
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post #15 of 41
4/9/04 at 7:47pm
Hi ReDVsion,

Give me a call and I'll try to talk you out of it.... and if you believe that I have some snow for sale in Alaska

Todd
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