Roandy55

The realisation that it has stopped becoming a hobby and become an addiction. When you are refreshing the vinyl release sub reddit every ten seconds, or  camping out all night to be first in the queue at RSD.

Been thinking about this lately as I’m down to about 200 albums I still really want to own.  At what point would you stop collecting records?  What would it take for you to stop buying records?   Just trying to make some conversation here, sorry if this topic is dumb.

Yep! Its waiting in the store for me to go in and collect. I stupidly didn't get it 1st of all after queuing there all night but luckily came to my senses and snagged one online.

Just picked up Alkaline Trio and Senses Fail. In and out in 3 minutes after a ten minute wait in line. Can’t complain this year!

What was it you were after?
 
All UK stores will be online from 6pm (UK time) Try Resident, Banquet, Rough Trade, Drift. 
 
Just got all my stuff from Resident (1st in the queue and there are now hundreds)

Nothing gets past this guy.

Please don't buy these represses of De La Soul...the band has been getting the shaft for years from Tommy Boy and they deserve better.

Started using the managed payments in Jan this year and its totally fine, 1st sale using it is a little fiddly but after that smooth sailing. 
 
Also the new system without paypal taking their cut means you make even more from a sale if you have any listing deals (like $/£1 flat final value fee instead of the usual % cut).  

Hmmmm.... I've still never been blown away by this band. Bones of What You Believe was ok, and it feels like each album got more predictable. Will have to see what the single sounds like.

This thread could also be interpreted as describing your vinyl collective experience if you are leaving.
 
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I'm not actually interested in this, I just like to post links every few hours in order to maintain my profile here.
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Looking at the FAQ's,  there are a lot there relating to availability and resale. I think this could be a deliberate UK policy to try and counteract the activities of flippers.
https://recordstoreday.co.uk/about-rsd/faqs/
 
 

We've established he's a guy but verdict is still out on the exact size.  Please clarify.

@Grant Williams

Spacehog. 9 copies left.
https://www.banquetrecords.com/spacehog/resident-alien-[rsd20]/RGM-1014

The year was 2014. I had just gotten into cassette tapes after dusting off my father's old Sony Walkman and starting to play his 100 or so old tapes from the 80s and 90s. I had taken two or three trips to my local record store buying 20 or so dollar bin tapes at a time based mostly on the look of the covers. About two moths in I typed in "tapes" on craigslist on a whim; I ended up stumbling on a local ad for "1600+ tapes" with an asking price of 220$. The picture on the listing was of a shipping pallet completely loaded with 16 or so banker boxes full of tapes. My whole body started shaking at the very thought of this many tapes all for sale at once; the only problem was I only had 40$ to my name. So..... casting aside all humility I sent out an email to the seller reading something along the lines of " Hey, I think your collection is awesome and honestly your asking price is way more than fair, however I am a broke high school student so I can only offer you 40$. I know this is a very low offer but it is all I have to offer. I hope you find someone to pay your asking price but if nobody else ends up wanting them let me know. Thank you for your time."  I expected to never hear back from him until three weeks later on an otherwise uninteresting Wednesday when he sent me an email saying " I have been storing the tapes in my bosses' warehouse (some kind of lumber business I think) and he says I have until the end of the day to get them out or they are going in the dumpster so ill accept your 40$ offer". Extremely exited I drove out with my Dad the second school ended that day to pick up the tapes. When i got there I soon realized what was listed as 1600+ tapes was in fact about 2,000 tapes. It took only 10ish minutes to load them into the family van which was subsequently riding down on the shocks on the way home with no visibility through the rear view mirror.  I conned a friend of mine into helping me haul them all upstairs to my room later that day. I had absolutely no floor space in my room for about three weeks until I finally talked my Dad into buying me an Ikea kallax 4 by 4 cube shelf and another 2 by 4 cube shelf to stack on top of that. The tapes filled the 4 by 4 completely and took up about half the 2 by 4. To be fair a lot of what I ended up with in the collection was grunge, hip hop, mainstream 80s pop and that kind of stuff but there were a lot of cool finds mixed in too and at 2 cents a tape I wasn't about to complain. Sadly today I live in a small apartment and most of my tapes are currently in my parents storage unit as they have since sold the house (honestly really nice of them to let me take up like 1/5 of their unit which they pay for so I am not complaining). While I did bring most of my favorites with me when I moved out I cant wait until the day I move into a house and can pull the rest of my collection out of storage. Sorry this story was so long and thanks for reading.               

Easy pass on everything. 

Agreed.  While I can be a sucker for a good covers album, most of the choices here seem to be pretty uninspired and typical.  Automatic disqualification for "Kids in America."  The world doesn't need another cover of this fucking song for a very long time.

I had reservations too regarding the name and cover art, and almost just skipped over this,  but after giving the full album a few listens on bandcamp I've ordered the yellow & black which  looks pretty good imo.

Wish this was actually ice blue. Mine is clear with like one light blue squiggle in it. 

Here are a couple of Biffy links in the US, if shipping costs aren't an issue. Some UK stores still have this also.
https://store.jackpotrecords.com/UPC/190295288532
https://shop.cactusmusictx.com/UPC/190295288532
 
The Menzingers will be getting another general re-issue shortly, if this is any help.
https://www.fatbeats.com/products/menzingers-chamberlain-waits-lp?_pos=1&_sid=606ee4d7c&_ss=r
 
 

You aren't considering the fact that a good portion probably don't have jackets

London Grammar have dropped their second single for their 3rd album and with it pre orders are up. Various bundles are available including a deluxe book version which looks nice. Standard black is signed but the limited white version is unsigned (gotta love that 🙄)
https://store.londongrammar.com/
 
 
 

This honestly just sounds like a bubblegum Creeper and I'm here for it. Grabbed a signed copy.

This store in Canada has 3 copies in stock.
https://www.deaddogrecords.com/lp-brandi-carlile-a-rooster-says-soundgarden-tribu.html