Sorry, l can’t help you on that one.
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My kids got me Arcade Fires Reflector on vinyl recently. Wonderful album
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Of all the things I stored at my parents when I went travelling - my vinyl collection was the only thing that disappeared.
Some con man tradie got his hands on it - probably at a cash discount for the job.
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I’m not gonna like this post.
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Great song.
Fark yeah. Not only did Hot Dogma finally get reissued, it’s the CD track listing with the extra stuff and the “I’m on commercial radio!” version of I’ll Ave Ya.
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the big suits at a scorching BDO
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oh fks sake, i’ve already blown this quarters vinyl budget
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Only recently started collecting some vinyl after 20 years of illegally downloading music. My mission is to slowly officially buy all of the albums I’ve downloaded (probably 3000+ lol).
I’m finding it very enjoyable so far and look forward to buying more albums but god damn this is an expensive hobby lol, with $50 minimum price for most new records. Hopefully I will become better at finding quality used records.
Anyone have any advice?
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Take up gardening instead…
Jokes
You’ve probably picked the worst time in history to begin collecting records. As youve found out, new records are ridiculously over priced and anyone selling second hand has easy access to the supposed ‘market value’ thanks to things like discogs, thus sky-rocketing the price used records.
But there are still bargains out there.
Many on here have had good finds on things like Market place and thrift shops etc. Record fairs are good too. I still tend to by more new stuff, but very little theses days and consider myself lucky to have had a nice collection established well before covid hit and sent the entire record collecting caper bananas (pre 2020 new records could still be found for 20 - 30 bucks…).
Also, start cataloguing your records now on discogs. Its a hard job. Best started when you have a few, rather than when you have a lot. Discogs is also a great place to buy hard to find records.
Enjoy yourself.
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Yes, learn to enjoy the second hand search, particularly if you like music from pre-1990.
Start your collection by going after all your absolute favourites.
New reissues are great cos they’re new, but often if any past issues are expensive or too hard to find, or if you’ve read reviews that it’s a good pressing (Discogs is good for this).
Sometimes new releases are not made from good sound sources, or rushed through a plant with low quality control, and you’re better off saving your money and listening digitally. Sometimes they sound divine and make owning it on vinyl so worthwhile.
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The best time to start collecting records was fifty years ago.
The second best time is today.
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A pretty good time to start was pre-covid.
Well…not start, restart.
Vinyl was less popular, discogs was up and running and super-efficient (although it still is that last one), and overseas postage and record prices were ridiculously reasonable.
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Thanks guys, I appreciate your posts. I will definitely have to start checking out some places to buy secondhand and I will start to catalogue my collection too.
Cheers 
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