Redcarmoose
Headphoneus Supremus
great reading the last few posts on the history of music playback and you guys varying experiences. I'm quite new to this so appriciate the info. great points on modern information overload and the intamcy of vinyl. I've been to my first record store in February, just a random store in the middle of no where in Orlando, the experience of just walking around browsing records, seeing something interesting and spinning it up was great. the intsmate and tactile experience of just being in the store was in of itself an experience. that's where I just happened upon an original 1979 pressing of a Japan Mozart import (otmar suitner conducting nhk symphony orchestra) . I'm not sure if the store knew what they had, but I paid about $20 for it.
I also picked up these other 2 in the same store for not much more :
have not even listened to those yet but I will later today
The whole record collecting thing is truly a unique part of vinyl. I mean it’s where the experience starts to get real. As your not just listening to music but getting involved with this whole culture. In general maybe music lovers get taken off with going to concerts or musical performers traveling due to their professional responsibilities?
But vinyl for me was a very social thing, meeting fellow collectors and sharing books and stories. It’s some kind of whole lifestyle if you let it. Going to buy records far away or simply searching for them. There is a total treasure hunt thing going on. I’ve gone to some very edgy neighborhoods, stayed in small rooms in the back of pawn shops. Still if I had to do it over again I think I would do it a smarter way now. The thing is there are collections around. And while there are record retailers that are always looking for great collections, there is no reason why someone could not stumble on a few good collections in their life.
If I was going to do it all over again I would have 10K to just work with finding some style of collection. Especially if their like in music matched your own then there is no reason why you couldn’t find some super nice collection that had everything. The idea I have is due to the internet people can learn what could be around. If they were into Classical they could simply concentrate on labels and let the labels guide them in a purchase. It may take years but eventually you would find someone with your future record collection. Half of the journey is the learning process. So that means that the learning does come with one record at a time. After a while you know what you like and are substantiated in your musical taste. Still why couldn’t someone basically buy enough records to study for 5-10 years ahead? So just kind of knowing what the right price would be to pay could allow someone to maybe find a complete intact total collection.
What I’ve seen is at times........is that a special collection has a consistent quality.........so way less surprises than paying retail for records one at a time. Your basically buying wholesale. This is what big time collectors do. They buy whole collections then after looking them over for a coupe months; sell off what they don’t want and do it again. That has to cost less than paying $60 a piece for new records one at a time. That is unless you really like new records only. I’ve seen some very well kept collections. Remember too those records were purchased new one at a time most often, if it’s a special collection. So your not really buying old used records but well kept pre-owned and loved records.
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