Did I miss the boat on Vinyl?

[SEED78]

spend the last 15 years hoarding wax - chilled on it over past 2 years, mainly due to lack of cash in my pocket, and space running out.

rocking about 4000+ 12"s/LPs and several hundred 7"s - moving flat (I tend to every 1/2 years) is always a beach.

Before Ebay I'd phone record shops up and down the country hunting stuff down - or spend a 10 hour day in London going round every spot I knew was good. I once met a lady who's husband had passed away leaving her 100,000 records to get rid of (ex radio Dj and total vinyl nut!!!), I used to spend whole days looking through that lot, mates used to ask me if they could come, but I decided to keep that spot to myself.

spent a lot of money, and time - for many years my fridge was empty coz I spent all my wages on wax, I'm slightly more sensible now - once I realised getting every dope record ever made was going to kill me I let it go - I've got more than I could use in one life time now anyway.

I got Indian/Polish/French/German/Scandi/Italian/Japanese/UK/US etc etc stuff from all over - all genres.

If you love your wax don't ever let a lady make you sell it - save them for your kids!!

[SEED78]

Originally Posted by KT1

radial j 33 phono pre for sale!

Once my Feb pay comes in I might be interested in this if you still have it then - feel free to PM me to avoid mod wrath.

[KevWest]

Originally Posted by JoRillo

Couldn't you sample every song from every album and then cut the parts you want later? Put all 2k on a couple TB hard drive. Would take ages... but it would be worth it for the space - and you could sell them.

did that in 2006 was so not worth it.

[sd-cd]

Long life Vinyl.

[profplume]

Originally Posted by JoRillo

Hey Guys (I guess Gals too - if any of you are out there),

For someone who has never sampled from vinyl and owns 0 vinyl records or turntables - do you think it is worth it to get into? From my understanding it is getting more and more expensive and harder to find - which is understandable.

There is also the whole facter of Digitally pressed vinyl (does that just sound like digital or does it still have the Mojo?) So I would have to research all my vinyl buys.

In your experiences do you regret investing in so much vinyl - or was it worth it?

There is also the chance the chance that the records will be worth even more by the time I am ready to sell them - somewhere down the road - so I guess in that sense it would definitely be worth it. I know some of you are just going to reply, No, because you don't even care enough to have a discussion about it, but if you feel like it is not worth it - stick around for a second and let me know why you feel that way.

Opinions are always appreciated, Thanks always,

Rillo

Well, tough to answer for you but I can give my two cents. I dont hare others love for 'vintage' I guess. I mean, the warmth is great and all, but 'in the beginning' for years my lone tool (aside from turntables and crap) was the MPC60. It had 13 SECOND OF SAMPLING TIME!! Then I bought the upgrade to 26! lol (True, those limitations were the cause of that classic style of production you hear from Primo and Pete Rock and them, but I'd rather have the option...)
SO basically, I had a couple crates of motown records from my stepdad, a crate of classic rock from my uncle, a crate of classical music from Grandma to start and then I would make weekly trips to a used record store (which is long gone now) to search. They had an old record player in the back and a cheap set of headphones, where I spent hours.......blindly searching anything that looked cool.
Then I'd go home to my 8 bit machine, hooked up to an old crappy amp and two house speakers. Great 'vintage sound' alright! lol (Remember the car audio discussion? I'd get to the studio and wouldn't recognize the beat.)

The point is that while it is all very nostalgic and I wouldn't change my experiences for anything, if I woke up tomorrow in 1995 I would jump out a window! lol

Gun to my head I would say don't bother. If for no other reason, it's a waste of time. Then again, that's coming from a guy who feels that clock ticking. lol I dont want 'experiences' I want the end results. And damn I LOVE me some digital. lol I love grooveshark. I love sound forge. I love plug ins, rex files. I'll take Geist and a mouse over an MPC any day of the week. Especially as the vst's get grittier and the RAM gets bigger.

As you said, it will also get harder and more expensive (overpriced). But again, that's just one skewed opinion.


(I "lost" all of my records moving and divorcing or I swear I'd send them off to you just so someone could love them again. lol)

[ianbryn11]

I'm gonna throw garage sales into the list of places to get cheep records. I always stop and look when I see one. Have gotten some great records over the years.

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if u like it go for it but dont put big time and money in to it


before all this sopa i woulda just said use blogs but im sure alotta the links is dead now

[revealbeats]

Not at all, its never too late. I dont have that much vinyl, 4 crates to be exact and growing. I dont have many but they have some kind of "Value" to me. I dont regret any of my purchases.