joekarlosi

Thanks for the welcome - and thanks for the heads up on things. So not many older collectors here, huh? OK - well, we'll see how it goes. Sometimes even 20-somethings can have great taste for the best music of the past.

No, actually I never did get my hands on an actual butcher cover. Too expensive back in the day.

Hi Folks - I can't believe this is happening to me, but it is. I'm 49, and back in 1986 I bought my first CD player and I never looked back... it was "goodbye forever" to old records, and I quickly embraced the new media of Compact Disc and what I then considered "superior sound". I replaced everything onto CD, and never thought I'd ever return to Vinyl. But recently I was going around on YouTube and I noticed a fan of vinyl 45rpms, who had hundreds of samples from his record collection shown. He has a really excellent system (I will later show a couple of examples of his 45's)... I was astonished at how GREAT the sound quality was, and I was impressed. I found myself locating and playing dozens of samples from his archives, and was greatly in awe. And not only the SOUND of the music, but the old look of a record - the fun in spinning it, watching the label going around. Of course, this is something vinyl enthusiasts have collectively felt and hung onto for decades now already. Vinyl is making a comeback today -- and for many, it has never really died at all. But for myself, something happened about five years ago.. I actually sold off a huge chunk of my ages-old and prized vinyl LP and 45 collection! Being a huge Beatles collector something like 37 years back, I had amassed a large and impressive set of Beatles records -- imports, bootlegs, U.S. treasures, 45rpm picture sleeves, etc -- but they had actually sat in the closet for the last 25 years untouched, and I never dreamt I'd ever return to them after embracing CD technology --- so I unloaded 90% of them! Now I want many of them back -- and I may eventually get around to re-buying them. I want to return to the fun and great sound of VINYL. I've acquired a new turntable from Audio Technica, and I am absolutely HOOKED again -- haunting used record stores, not being able to control my wallet, and building back all the records I sold and more! Let me tell you about a day that happened recently which now ranks as one of the craziest things I ever did. I found another old record store in my area and when I got there the store had just opened at 10:30am. I asked the owner where the 45's were located (I'm really heavily into collecting 45's) and he showed me the back of the store where there were thousands of used records. It looked so haphazzard -- nothing was organized at all; it was just 45 records everywhere in any old order. It looked like a real daunting task to search and dig through these rows and stacks of endless 45's, but I was given a chair to sit down in, and I began chipping away at what seemed like an impossible task. I found a lot of gems in there, and I had a really fun time. Now here comes the crazy part -- I'm usually an excellent judge of how much time passes, and every now and then I kept thinking to myself that I ought to stop to get something to eat and maybe take a lunch break because I hadn't eaten yet that day. Well, finally I stopped and asked the owner what time it was, and get this --- he told me it was 6:15pm ! I had been digging through records for 8 hours, and even with my uncanny ability to figure how much time passes, I was shocked! I figured it might have been around 3:00! But I began at 10:30am and when I stopped and paid for my records (I bought 195 of them!) the sun was going down!

Hi Folks - I can't believe this is happening to me, but it is. I'm 49, and back in 1986 I bought my first CD player and I never looked back... it was "goodbye forever" to old records, and I quickly embraced the new media of Compact Disc and what I then considered "superior sound". I replaced everything onto CD, and never thought I'd ever return to Vinyl. But recently I was going around on YouTube and I noticed a fan of vinyl 45rpms, who had hundreds of samples from his record collection shown. He has a really excellent system (I will later show a couple of examples of his 45's)... I was astonished at how GREAT the sound quality was, and I was impressed. I found myself locating and playing dozens of samples from his archives, and was greatly in awe. And not only the SOUND of the music, but the old look of a record - the fun in spinning it, watching the label going around. Of course, this is something vinyl enthusiasts have collectively felt and hung onto for decades now already. Vinyl is making a comeback today -- and for many, it has never really died at all. But for myself, something happened about five years ago.. I actually sold off a huge chunk of my ages-old and prized vinyl LP and 45 collection! Being a huge Beatles collector something like 37 years back, I had amassed a large and impressive set of Beatles records -- imports, bootlegs, U.S. treasures, 45rpm picture sleeves, etc -- but they had actually sat in the closet for the last 25 years untouched, and I never dreamt I'd ever return to them after embracing CD technology --- so I unloaded 90% of them! Now I want many of them back -- and I may eventually get around to re-buying them. I want to return to the fun and great sound of VINYL. I've acquired a new turntable from Audio Technica, and I am absolutely HOOKED again -- haunting used record stores, not being able to control my wallet, and building back all the records I sold and more! Let me tell you about a day that happened recently which now ranks as one of the craziest things I ever did. I found another old record store in my area and when I got there the store had just opened at 10:30am. I asked the owner where the 45's were located (I'm really heavily into collecting 45's) and he showed me the back of the store where there were thousands of used records. It looked so haphazzard -- nothing was organized at all; it was just 45 records everywhere in any old order. It looked like a real daunting task to search and dig through these rows and stacks of endless 45's, but I was given a chair to sit down in, and I began chipping away at what seemed like an impossible task. I found a lot of gems in there, and I had a really fun time. Now here comes the crazy part -- I'm usually an excellent judge of how much time passes, and every now and then I kept thinking to myself that I ought to stop to get something to eat and maybe take a lunch break because I hadn't eaten yet that day. Well, finally I stopped and asked the owner what time it was, and get this --- he told me it was 6:15pm ! I had been digging through records for 8 hours, and even with my uncanny ability to figure how much time passes, I was shocked! I figured it might have been around 3:00! But I began at 10:30am and when I stopped and paid for my records (I bought 195 of them!) the sun was going down!