Picked up a couple of Dope Lemon albums
on the weekend
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Is this a new pressing? Or something that was available back in the day?
New. Well, 2019 new. Iâm not sure if they ever released a vinyl edition following their mtv performance back in the day.
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Wasnât released until 2019
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Iâve been looking at finally getting âAre You Experiencedâ on vinyl.
The local record place has both stereo and mono copies.
Which should I get?
The mono isnt flash. Theyve never been able to source an original master tape. Stereo is the go.
Edit: unless of course its an original mono pressing from 67âŚbut that would be very expensive.
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Ok, thanks for that, stereo it shall be.
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Been wanting Calm Ya Farm for ages and got one , reckon best Murlocs album , went on a YungBlud drunk binge and bought that as well.
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Not sure about the price but it was in near mint nick, so Iâm starting to rebuild my 12â bangers with this. Guy had heaps of INXS too.
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A friend of mine had a vinyl of that back in the seventies. Pre-CD.
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Does it bother anyone that some things in your collection are just to have?
Do any of you look at your collection and thinkâŚI would not get through a single listen of everything here in my lifetime?
Looking at you @Doggatron .
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Back when JB Hi Fi first started opening stores all over the place, CDâs suddenly became a whole lot cheaper than theyâd been. I started buying a heap of albums, based on a single song Iâd heard on the radio. Sometimes it paid off, regularly it didnât. Eventually I got fed up with paying for albums with one or two decent songs and a whole heap of toilet water. From about the mid-90âs onwards, the CD age was a shocker for bands deciding âweâve got 80 minutes on a disc to play with, and dammit weâre going to use up every single secondâ. The advent of the Napster and Audiogalaxy age suddenly made it easy and affordable to rip-off pre-listen to albums, and my purchasing dropped noticeably. Even further still, as my tastes and modern music took divergent paths.
Anyhow, I digress⌠yes, Iâve got stacks of CDâs (and even some vinyls) that Iâll never listen to in their entirely. Does it bother me? Not really⌠only if I stop to think about the $$$ invested in them which wouldâve been better spent elsewhereâŚ
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I have a Datsuns CD that perfectly matches your description.
Thank you for reminding me of Napster.
Good times.
Screw Metallica.
I used it for other things (such as downloading the Billboard Top 50 for LMW so she could be ahead of the curve), but almost entirely it was for me to get songs that just werenât available at the time. Itâs not like there was Discogs.
When Your Heart Is Weak - Cockrobin was the first song I downloaded.
Screaming Jets - Johnny Warman I think was next.
I was â â â â â â that people were trying to make me feel bad for accessing these songs that just werenât available to buy.
Not for three dollars. Not for eight dollars.
â â â â â â â â about people listening to things they werenât selling and had no prospect of selling.
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Reckon that was one of my early downloads from Napster too. Englishman In New York by Godley & Creme, Sure Know Something by KISS, Everybodyâs Gotta Learn Sometime by The Korgis, So Long by Fischer Z, Halfway Hotel by Voyager wouldâve also been early on. Individual songs, that I either had on a crackly old 7â single, or that I wanted but wasnât really interested in anything else from the acts in question.
Iâve got a hard-drive somewhere with all those downloaded mp3 filesâŚ
Speaking of the Napster age, remember when iPods and mp3 players (as well as Internet Cafes) were a thing? We were touring through Cambodia & Laos and many of the Internet Cafes had an A4 folder out front where you could pick albums to have downloaded to your mp3 player (10 albums for some ridiculously low price by Western standards). Nominate the albums you wanted, leave your player with them for an hour, come back and voila, thereâs your albums loaded in lovely 192 kbps.
Meanwhile theyâve copied your entire library onto their drives and extended their collection, thus propagating further business. Dodgy as â â â â , but brilliantly entrepreneurial of them⌠I doff my capâŚ
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Love.
That.
In theory I completely agree with your premise. However it does not apply to me, for I have listened to every record I ownâŚwell, thatâs not completely true. I have never listened to my copies of Deep Purple Made In Japan and King Chrimsons In The Court of King Chrimson. Deep Purple because when I bought the record, Iâd heard it on cassette/cd so much as a kid Iâve just never bothered and King Chrimson for the same reason. Both records were bought cheap well before the annoying âvinyl boomâ.
I certainly have records Ive only listened to once. Mostly due to their sound quality. I have a lot of one off pressings of no name Stoner bands and such. One which comes to mind is Brain Pyramid. Their album Magnetosphere is an absolute banger. But good grief the record fidelity is like a blowfly in your ear. Iâve only listened to it once⌠maybe twice just to make sure the experience wasnât just a bad dream. But Iâm not going to sell it. I collect records. Its part of the deal at times.
But Iâd listen to about ten records a week on average. Sometimes more.
Have done for a lot of years. Obviously I listen to some more than others. Iâm 46. Hopefully got at least another 30 to 40 years of listening. I donât buy a lot these days. Discogs says I have a little over 1300. Point beingâŚmathematically âŚdays per year âŚblah blah⌠you get the point.
I listen to em all and always will. Certainly not there for looksies. But Ive made the shed aesthetically pleasing to me. Particularly where I sit and listen. Its all apart of the experience and ceromony. I love having a physical library to choose from. Thumbing through and finding one youâve either not heard in ages or forgot you even had. Itâs the best.
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Itâs not hoarding if itâs vinyl.
Iâm not so much asking about records youâve never played, as records that youâre prettyâŚpretty confident youâll never play again.
Do I have this? Yes.
Do I hate it? No.
Can I imagine myself ever playing it again? No.
Will I sell it or give it away? No.
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I lied @wimmera1
Hereâs another I just remembered I own. Never played it. Bought it for like two bucks for the cover.
Immature? Yes⌠but look what they did to this poor kid. Asked him to stand as dim witted as possible, cross eyed and all. But they didnât stop thereâŚ
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