Much as I thought.
Why it’s not getting restored and the two decades older version is, is that the older is beautiful furniture.
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I’m guessing three.
To be fair it came with Jimmy Barnes:Anthology, AC/DC Live, Straight Outta Compton - Soundtrack and George Strait x 2, all for $80. Barnes, Nickelback, and Compton would all be NM and the two 1st issue Straits would be VG+. Essentially paid for Barnes, got everything else for free.
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I’d want to go shopping go with you, if I didn’t have a deep aversion to leaving the house for anything besides a bar.
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Was devastated the other night, a bloke down in Albany was selling Legend (Bob Marley), AC/DC Fly on the Wall, Hilltop Hoods Walking Under Stars (Instrumental), Dr Hook Players in the Dark, Zeppelin In Through The Out Door, Beatles 1 and Gin Blossoms New Miserable Experience for $10 each. Missed em by about 15 minutes.
You’re finding insane prices.
I’m not in it for the money.
I’m not even in it for the great sound.
I guess I can’t really describe what I’m in it for.
It’s weird…I went to a record shop two days ago.
All…I dunno… 180gm or whatever it is.
And I saw records there that are on my discogs list, but…I mean Kick in particular.
I want that on vinyl.
And the price of $45 was very reasonable compared to anything second hand on discogs.
But I didn’t want that.
And that makes no sense.
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Nah, makes perfect sense. I’m not actually doing this for the money, but to build a collection, and I’m a tight-ar$e and don’t want to pay 50/60/70 plus for a new vinyl. I’m prepared to trawl marketplace and gumtree and garage sales and buy if they are value and walk away if they are not. Someone here was selling some Sabbath and Zeppelins for $40 a record, but they weren’t early releases but re-issues so I offered $25 a piece. She knocked it back and I walked away happy knowing that I will get them at some time when the price is right for me. I don’t want new for the most part, because I don’t want remastered music. Happy if I can find it at a reasonable price new and it is using the original pressing/recording, otherwise second hand all the way for me. Picked up Miles Davis - Kind of Blue from Catch.com for $25 on Blue vinyl the other day, then looked same web site, same album, blue vinyl $67.
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Yep.
And I don’t want silly original.
I don’t want magic Japanese pressing or…whatevs.
But part of me does want original.
And it’s nothing to do with prestige or price.
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Nostalgia? A genuine link to when you heard it originally and it was that very record sitting in the racks at the nearest record store?
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Yeah, I’m a junkie idiot.
Edit: But also, no I’m not.
When I was fifteen I literally dreamed of having access to every song that was ever written.
And now I’m fifty and I have that and I realise that, however stupid it may seem, that’s not really what I wanted at all.
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I want the magic Japanese pressings (not always, some aren’t better than the originals), but I live here and although some can be elusive or expensive, they’re around. Somewhere some little store is getting it in and not fleecing the crate digger. Those days when I stumbled upon a bunch of mint Cure records or Midnight Oil still make me giddy when I recall.
Although there are records (original presses, Japanese whatever) I’ve been hunting for for years just sitting on discogs, I love the act of going to stores and hoping I’ll find something I’ve wanted for ages. I’ll just keep that hope and keep digging in stores rather than pay too much for the easy get. It’s fun. It’s a hobby.
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How do I explain that Marillion’s Misplaced Childhood album, which is objectively farking terrible, means more to me than being able to listen to Abbey Road any time I feel like it?
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You looking for INXS’s Kick Wim - you bought some off m a while ago when I was Double_RR.
Yep, that’s the thrill of the collector, and it may or may not be something backed by the memories, experiences and even things like smells of childhood. For me, it’s books. Specific books. My grandparents, travel, the cloth finish of old VC commodores, baking hot afternoons with cricket on the radio, new discoveries read before the fire with arctic blasts whipping around the house, small country towns, dingy old stores , half lit shelves in labyrinthine layouts, and the peculiar musty old scent that only aging books can give. Scanning and finding the section you want is one thing. But it was next level if you asked the shop owner if they have any Biggles books and they gave a sage nod before dragging out a box from under the counter. The first glimpse of a dust jacket design, or a crucial word embossed onto a spine.
40 years later, there are still a few titles / first editions I need. I could always finish it on abebooks, or perhaps ebay. But that’s not what it’s ever , ever been about. It was the experienced lived, forged in visceral moments.
Have fun with your searching.
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Very well said!
The Sorcerers. In Search of the Lost City of the Monkey God.
An imaginary soundrack to a film/documentary that doesnt exist. It is excellent.
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I am, but I’ll be waiting for my stereo to come back before I start buying again.
And then I’m probably gonna go nuts.
Edit: That gatefold tho… 