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    Stone Temple Pilots - Core 25th Anniversary

    in Vinyl Collective Message Board

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    Got one of these today. Well exceeded my expectations. Needs a wet cleaning to lose some static right out of the package maybe, but yeah, not bad at all. Thick vinyl, the color is great. No frills cover, but that's fine. A nice piece at a great price. Also, this was my first time buying vinyl from Wal-Mart online and to my surprise they shipped it in a proper vinyl shipping box. Can't say the same for Target, that shipped a record to me in a thin plastic sleeve, like packing you might get a t-shirt in the mail in. The slight cover ding was no additional charge however! Dicks.

    PO: CANDIRIA - 300 PERCENT DENSITY

    in Vinyl Collective Message Board

    Posted · Edited by danyc
    nkdfdkf

    Never got a shipping notice, but it did show up on Monday. Mine was brown with smoke, looks more like pee yellow with black streaks. Giving it a spin now. It does sound quite good and possibly the slightest bit compressed, but still stoked to have this on vinyl. Hard to sit and work at a computer with this playing! 

     

    EDIT: Constant Velocity Is As Natural As Being At Rest is all sorts of badass, as always!

     

     

    Genuine Q: How Much of Your Vinyl Gets Played?

    in Everything Else Message Board

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    Very interesting topic that I'll bite on. 

    Started collecting in earnest around 2009 - 2010, was on dead format before here, which was a helpful community. VC is as well.

    Anyway, around 1500+ in the collection, with a bulk buy or two in the wings for further sifting. Mostly crap I don't want much. Last year I gained the luxury of space, which is a big deal with records, as we all know. Was living in a NYC apartment and hadn't much more room for the collection. Family and I moved out of the apt and bought a house in another state, with a room I could have all the records in without an issue. Before the move last summer I stumbled across this article (https://blog.discogs.com/en/listen-to-your-record-collection-a-to-z/) on discogs about listening to your collection alphabetically from A-Z. I found it pretty intriguing and had planned on doing it when the year started. January 1 came around I was hesitant to start, but I finally did on 1/4 and it has been great so far. 

     

    For me doing this serves the purpose of five things:

    1. Further organizing and alphabetizing

    2. Editing out pieces I may no longer want

    3. Listing the above on discogs or elsewhere to sell

    4. Seeing what needs cleaning and new inner sleeves.

    5. Cracking open a few sealed pieces I've been sitting on for too long

     

    When we were moving, as I was packing the records (not fun!!) I was able to organize and did much more cataloging on discogs, but even now I'm finding things I didn't know I had. I also work from home (until my NYC company says we have to be back in the office, then who knows), so am able to listen at least 6-7 hours a day, so hopefully by years end, I'll have finished. I do make exception for listening outside of the A-Z and jazz is one of the those, as well as new stuff I get, just to make sure the copy is okay, etc. But yeah, it's fun and a slog some days. Slog being when I get to LZ II that I have about twenty copies of or Bob Dylan, who I'm not the biggest fan of, but felt compelled to buy some here and there and now there are about thirty Dylan records to get through. If I desperately need to hear something, I'll resort to a CD or streaming, again outside of the A-Z. I'll check in late in the year and see if this was worth the effort. 

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