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This is kinda like a guy saying, "Hey, I'm new to cars and I just bought my first one. It's a Dodge Challenger Hemi."
 
It may not be a Ferrari, but most people I know would love to have one. (ignoring gas mileage, of course. ).:)
 
Nice start! 

I always miss record store day. I was really, REALLY gonna do it last year, but then the lockdowns happened. 
I refuse to go into any store with a mask on, but I'll give it a shot this year and, hopefully, sanity will have returned to the brick and mortar retail world - and I'll be able to participate in RSD.

PO.....
 

Sorry. I never heard of them.

It is not controversial, you are being willfully ignorant.  But I agree that this off topic for this thread so I will also drop it at this point.

If you don’t comment on a PO thread then you legally can not preorder that vinyl.

That was a great, informative, and funny post. Thanks for that. BTW, I tried to put my musical tastes in my profile but the site is not allowing me to edit my profile, so I'll just wait until it does. My tastes are ridiculously eclectic. The only "music" I don't like is Hip hop and Rap. But that's just a taste thing.

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It's important to remember not to spew willfully ignorant bullshit.

Welcome to the boards.  I hope to be actively interested in vinyl at your age.
Like MCDELTAT mentioned, this board lends itself to a lot of limited, newer releases and reissues.  I'm not too sure where your tastes fall – outside of Pink Floyd – but you may have the most success by monitoring specific "catch-all" threads – classic rock, metal, jazz, etc.  They seem to get updated with news of reissues a little more frequently.  Most of this forum is fixated on new age trash, pressed on colorful wax limited to < 1,000 copies.  As such, we are no stranger to playing the pre-order game.  And especially with Covid delays, placing an order that's supposed to take 6 months - but having it take 7-9 instead - is kind of accepted as the new norm, unfortunately.  Sometimes the advertised product doesn't even include all of the features or color of the vinyl that we were led to believe we were purchasing.  It's a frustrating hobby to keep up with, at times.  But not as frustrating as ignoring a release / pre-order in hopes of just "picking it up" later, only to find that all available copies are $80+ on the aftermarket.
 
Anyways, it sounds like you won't really have to bother with most of that nonsense.  Most of us are a slave to FOMO – Fear of Missing Out – which is why you'll see so much scrambling in a lot of the pre-order threads.  We're all just trying to stay ahead of the curve, and score our favorite limited releases to avoid gouging our wallets down the road.  The majority of users on the board are passionate about the releases they're ordering and discussing, but there are a handful of diddlers that lurk here and snatch up anything that's gaining buzz, in hopes of making a quick buck once it sells out.  Don't be one of those guys.
 
I'm sure you'll find something on VC that strikes your fancy, at some point.  But until then you may have to wade through a lot of goofy pre-order threads.  And if you ever develop a thirst for overpriced 7"s of Nickelodeon themes, or reissues of circa-2005 Hot Topic hits, we've got you covered.

Sounds interesting. Unfortunately for most of the records released here they are very limited, sometimes only 300 or 500 copies, so the threads mostly serve as the community coming together to make sure we all know about new releases from bands we are likely into. That's about it. Then we either rejoice when it's a good album or hit ourselves when it's not good.

It's important to remember, regarding pretty much everything, that opinions vary. I don't think this thread is the place to argue it.

The malware warning is bc SRC has a trashy ad service running. Gotta make some money to refund those Hum preorders they likely no longer have the right to fulfill.

Please go away 

Opinions and science are not the same thing and that's all I have to add.

Keeping on topic, does anyone have a Skid Row they're willing to sell or trade?
 
Edit: No one on Discogs is accepting my $40-$50 offers...  

Yeah, only 400K plus people have died from it in the US, so pretty harmless you fucking dunce.

Wonder if the delay is for COVID reasons, or these massive production delays (which, I guess are also COVID related). 
 
Either way, June is a way better time to line up outside a record store than mid April. 

Well FUCK YOU then! Hope you miss RSD again

I use the discwasher I purchased in 1977 - with water.
To deep clean I use warm tap water, cheap shampoo/conditioner combo, and one of those paint trimmers from Home Depot. Here is a picture of one of the ones available:

I don't bother protecting the label because it's really not exposed to that much water. I scrub in both directions for about three revolutions. I recently used this method to clean about 200 45's and the results were startling. They are now in nice, new sleeves and I now respect my 45 collection. With 33's, it is equally amazing. They become "new". The bristles really get to the bottom of the groove and really dig everything out with no damage. Only stuff embedded in the vinyl and any wear remain. 
 
This is why it didn't help my 45's from juke boxes. They were simply worn out.
 
BTW, water kills static.