jhulud Posted April 19, 2014 Share Posted April 19, 2014 Accepting & becoming a Mod (now Admin) for VC. What a fuckin' mess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kevinxabney Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 ran across an excellent condition copy of The Beatles' 'Yesterday and Today' at a garage sale for $5. Not knowing that the cover art back then was often pasted on (it was visible that the art was pasted on), I thought for a few days that I had purchased a Butcher cover album with a paste-over. I did the exact same thing, but I bought it more as a "oh hey, cool thats the album with the recalled artwork." Within a block of that garage sale I realized it was a later pressing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spoon Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Before I knew what my turntable's 45rpm adaptor was for I just figured you had to be super precise with the placement of 7"s with larger holes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FangsAnalSatan Posted April 20, 2014 Share Posted April 20, 2014 Bumping this because I wanted to share something I just remembered... When I first joined VC, I was reading a Fall Out Boy thread, and Travis kept commenting on it. And I thought Travis was the drummer of Fall Out Boy because I couldn't remember Andy's name (Andy kinda looks like a Travis, doesn't he?). I figured that him being a member of FOB was the only way he could know so much about the upcoming "From Under The Cork Tree" repress... I have something similar here on VC. When I first joined I was having a back and forth conversation about some deathwish release with a member. A while later I realized it was Jacob Bannon. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
distinctlydustin Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 All Deathwish releases become crushing doom albums when they're played at 33 1/3. All my vinyl noob things are small things like I would receive records with defects that I would now shoot off an email to the label. I would also buy records right away off eBay instead of checking a more reasonable place (label, distro, band's site). I made the same mistake with Is Survived By. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TinaRod Posted April 21, 2014 Share Posted April 21, 2014 So I have two noob stories to share. They happened about a month apart but I just wasn't aware. I had usb turntable collecting dust in the house, so I decided I'll buy some and play it. I didn't take the stylus cover off and tried to play an album and was really confused as to why it wouldn't work. Then it hit me. Second I got the Bayonet Ep which is a 12" that plays at 45rpm. It isn't marked on there anywhere and I was like "why doesn't this sound right?" Then I got online and read it was 45. Nothing too crazy i guess. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Family Friendly Rap God Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I bought a couple dozen records without having a way to listen to them. That's me. Yikes Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RivannaJunction Posted April 27, 2014 Share Posted April 27, 2014 I bought an AT LP60 and couldn't understand why it stopped working after four months. And then, rather than just admit defeat, I tried upgrading the stylus with something I bought on www.lpgear.com. And that just made it worse. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thejesseb Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 Second I got the Bayonet Ep which is a 12" that plays at 45rpm. It isn't marked on there anywhere and I was like "why doesn't this sound right?" Then I got online and read it was 45. Nothing too crazy i guess.In all fairness I really wish more records had the speed on the label. Especially for 12" at 45rpm and 7" at 33. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladewillisisdead Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 In all fairness I really wish more records had the speed on the label. Especially for 12" at 45rpm and 7" at 33. Yeah, this always drives me nuts. The worst is when a record starts with an instrumental build up and you can't tell until the vocals kick in after a minute or so. Usually I can remember after figuring it out the first time, but it's still annoying. End of a Year - Sincerely plays at 45, but the label says 33. It was around the time I first started collecting and I tried to play it on my dads setup and when it sounded fucked up I assumed it was warped or something. Years later I decided to give it a shot on my new turntable and immediately realized I should try playing it at 45. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korgull Of Morgoth Posted April 28, 2014 Share Posted April 28, 2014 I'm so old that I have a cd noob story and not a vinyl one grizzlyfoz 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
superpeephole Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 I bought a crosley and kept it for a year before learning about how garbage it was. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladew1ll1s1sdead Posted November 12, 2014 Share Posted November 12, 2014 Guilty of multiple things in this thread. I won't own up to any of them. Still guilty of one. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
themeconspiracy Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 i have a bad one. my parents had/have an epic collection and we always had a turntable in the house, so i grew up with records being around and was the only one of their kids who ever had an interest in it (which also means i really should have known better). my family knowing this, i wound up inheriting one of my cousins' turntable and speakers when i was about 12 or so. had a great time rocking out in my room to records i started to buy or ones i borrowed from my parents. but then a couple years later, things took a tragic turn when i got big into techno and decided i was going to become a dj! so i ditched the vintage setup that i had and spent my savings on two turntables and a mixer. my mom didn't wind up being a big fan of my "mixing sessions" so, needless to say, my teen dj dreams were pretty shortlived and i found a friend to buy my "dj setup" at almost cost. sadly, because i had tossed my original turntable and blown all my savings, this left me in a pretty crappy predicament. a few more years pass and i start getting more into vinyl again. i'm still young and still broke as fuck, so i go to try to find a new turntable. being a total idiot, i wind up grabbing what i can afford: a secondhand $20 pink and beige plastic turntable that's probaby only a couple notches above a fisher price model. it didn't really work, but i was stubborn and really wanted to listen to records again, so i actually did play some records on it a few times. i still shudder to think about it. TL;DR i was an idiot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
funtitled Posted November 13, 2014 Share Posted November 13, 2014 when i first got into record collecting i had a cheapo player on a pretty bad and weak table. well while listening to a record the table fell and the record snapped. and that's what happened to my copy of TMBG's "The Else". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 I used to be a fetus and didn't even know a stylus from a cartridge but then later I burst forth from the womb and immediately knew everything about records ever. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted November 14, 2014 Share Posted November 14, 2014 Actually, I'm still not sure what a cartridge on a record player is. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koolhandnick Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Tried to sell four "vinyl" on E Bay... Some random guy took it upon himself to message me and correct me, and rightfully so! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bladew1ll1s1sdead Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 Tried to sell four "vinyl" on E Bay... Some random guy took it upon himself to message me and correct me, and rightfully so!I love the sensor that catches the mistake. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caninesapien Posted November 17, 2014 Share Posted November 17, 2014 In all fairness I really wish more records had the speed on the label. Especially for 12" at 45rpm and 7" at 33. This can sometimes produce unexpected and impressive mistakes though. I accidentally played the Alice in Chains - Them Bones 7" on 33rpm last night and it was pretty fucking rad. Speedpig and Koolhandnick 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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