What are you listening to?

This is what Im actually listening to right now though. Spinning some vinyl on this snowy day
You gotta love spinning vinyl, but damn, those things are getting hard to find anymore. Over the past 30 years or so I have went through over 10,000 records to get the few hundred I decided to keep. Unless you are buying new releases, its almost impossible to find any vinyl worth listening too around here. By the time you weed through the warped, scratched, skipping, dirty, finger print covered, tracking damaged, bla bla bla, its almost impossible to find something playable. As a example, I might buy 50 at a yard sale for next to nothing. After a good inspection, and a bath, if I get 1 (out of the 50) that is in my opinion, actually mint and worth keeping, I feel like I did great that day
 

Gentlemancorpse

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You gotta love spinning vinyl, but damn, those things are getting hard to find anymore. Over the past 30 years or so I have went through over 10,000 records to get the few hundred I decided to keep. Unless you are buying new releases, its almost impossible to find any vinyl worth listening too around here. By the time you weed through the warped, scratched, skipping, dirty, finger print covered, tracking damaged, bla bla bla, its almost impossible to find something playable. As a example, I might buy 50 at a yard sale for next to nothing. After a good inspection, and a bath, if I get 1 (out of the 50) that is in my opinion, actually mint and worth keeping, I feel like I did great that day
Yeah, I buy mostly new vinyl for this exact reason. Plus the manfacturing tech has actually improved and I honestly think a lot of the newer 180g releases sound better. Not all of them of course, the downside to vinyl having a revival is some of the presses popping up have had kind of questionable quality control, but overall new vinyl is pretty amazing quality. And Im not much of a collector, I buy the vinyl because I enjoy listening to it, so I dont need to own first printings. Re-releases do me just fine.
 
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