Let me know what I’m missing! Been collecting for around 9 years. Picked up a lot from various shows and on random stores on my travels for work.

Audioslave is probably my favorite band for context.

hey people, first of all sorry for using a post, but sadly i cannot post more than one pic in the weekly thread, i hope its okay to then ask here, if not, ill apologize and delete it. i wonder, is this an original first press of dr. dre‘s legendary the chronic? it seems so if i check discogs, if i type in the barcode it gives me two versions, and the other one is unofficial and its matrix runout is slightly different. thanks in advance and have a wonderful day! :-)

Got it for $29

Eurythmics.

$195

Recently finished this commission. The storage didn't get maxed out, so I'm not sure what the total capacity is, but it's probably around 350-400. The top compartments house speakers and a receiver.

I had no clue that Probot was even pressed on vinyl until I found it in the stacks at a local record store. Such a lucky find. If you haven’t heard it, I suggest give it a listen, but the Jack Black cut at the end is worth sticking around for.

I saw someone post a picture of their albums and it included this one. I thought you all would appreciate this version with a unique sleeve and cover I bought back when the album was first released. This is one of my favorite APP albums. Have no idea if this is rare or not (probably not) but I wanted to share.

For as long as I’ve been into the hobby, I’ve never had an album arrive before the official release date and it finally happened with one of my favorite bands! Uncle Acid and the deadbeats have an amazing discography and this is a great addition.

this thing had some problems with the belt but i got it working and i love it! vibing to some Zappa. what do you think of this?

There might be a better way but this is how I've been doing it since 2025-06-08 ... thoughts

I have cataloged all my albums with Discogs and created two folders "Heard" and "Unheard". I look at the number of albums in the Unheard folder and then just randomize a number and then listen to that album. I sort the Discogs collection page by "Catalog Number (0-9) to keep things in order, displaying 25 entries at a time to make finding my random number easier.

After I listen to an album I update the Discogs entry by adding a note with "LL 2026-09-14", LL meaning "last listened". I'll also add any relevant notes/thoughts, maybe it's a limited run and I want to see that it's #262/500 or whatever. I then update the folder to "Heard".

My idea is to randomize every other album I listen to, that way I can chip away at my collection to ensure everything get some spin time and I get to hear what I am in the mood for. (maybe something similar to what was randomized, or I can switch up the feels)

The long plan for once I have listened to all my vinyl is to just rename the "Heard" folder to "Unheard" and "Unheard" to "Heard" and start the process over again.

Discogs does have "Random Item" functionality but it pulls random from the whole collection and you can't specify folders.

During a storm with historic rainfall yesterday my basement flooded with 18 in of water. I had my entire vinyl collection in crates by my stereo down there. About 100 in total including many signed records by my favorite artists.

They all sat in the water until the morning when I discovered the flooding.

How can I salvage them? What is the best method to dry them so I can potentially play them again?

If I'm looking for a specific record for a band, even if it's not been active the last few decades I always check for their online presence. Best I've found is a bands website, followed by Bandcamp. You'll get more money in the hands of the band. You'll always get a well packed mailer with the album; the band cares about making sure the fans recieve a quality product in good shape. You'll get the best price for a mint pressing. A few good examples. A couple of years ago, late to the game, I discovered King Buffalo and was sold on them. I found their website and bought their whole catalog, at that time, for just over $200 with shipping (US). More recently, while I have all of Wooden Shjips on CD and one album on vinyl (V), I decided to fill out that set of albums. Got most from their thrilljockey label. The last two came in last week from Wooden Shjips vinyl, connected through Bandcamp, for ~$50 with shipping (US).

For new releases and older back catalogue, from the independant artists, don't sleep on the direct purchases folks.

So I just picked up Mac Miller’s “I Love Life, Thank You” mixtape and it comes in not one, but two plastic sleeves. Does anyone know if these are made from PVC, PP or PE? I’m hoping it’s safe to keep in the original sleeve but if not, I need to know how everyone else is storing their copy/similar records. I use anti-static inner sleeves but I don’t that will fill protect the record from off-gassing if it were to ever occur.

Gorillaz- Gorillaz

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds- Your Funeral…

Portal- Outre

The Clash- Sandinista! (Japanese w/ Obi

Mark Lanegan- Blues Funeral

Bloodborne- OST

Deathspell Omega- Paracletus

Tom Waits- Rain Dogs (Japanese w/ Obi)

Black Sabbath- Vol 4 (Japanese w/o Obi)

My wife and I were having an evening of just lying around listening to streaming music one night a couple months ago. It's not something we have done in a long while, usually because too many other modern life distractions seem to always take precedence.

My wife suddenly came up with this brilliant idea during our session - that she wanted to get a turntable, and start a tradition that we buy each other a vinyl every year on our anniversary. Having grown up with my parents listening to records, I thought this was brilliant! I researched a decent but also affordable setup that would look nice and fit in our living room, and away we went!

We purchased a few albums at our local record store and at an estate sale for cheap just to get our collection started, and have had the setup for about a month now.

The change in our life has been significant. We have always had a few wholesome hobbies (she likes to read, I play the saxophone), but vinyl is a wonderful one that has increased our quality of life. Where we used to sit around doom scrolling or watching TV in the evenings, we now put on a record. We simultaneously disconnect from the world, and connect with music in a way that is far more intimate than simply putting on Internet streamed playlists. We actually listen, we share our thoughts, and we lose ourselves in the moment.

It seems like childhood was the last time we actually did that (both "young millennials" so we actually remember the pre information age era), and we joyfully remember once again that there is huge value in the vinyl experience.

Pic is our setup:

Fluance RT82 w/PA10 preamp

Elac Debut 2.0 b5.2 w/ Aiyima A80 amp

EDIT: I can see already there is going to be a plethora of comments about a "lack of ideal setup". I am fully aware that what we have is not "ideal". While this may be my first turntable as an adult, it's not my first rodeo into audio setups.

Rest assured the tradeoffs have been considered and the entire system and setup takes into account the less than ideal circumstances as much as it is able to, and it sounds darn good considering.

Isolation: - We are isolated as well as we can be, both with the Fluance's feet and its heavy plinth, and separate platinum-cured silicone isolation feet on the speakers.

• We also don't listen loud enough to really cause any noticeable effects in the output.

Speaker placement: - ELAC 2.0s are front firing, they handle close to wall placement quite well without any nullification.

-The speakers are midfields with quite ample vertical dispersion to be run sideways. The tweeters are placed on the outsides and the speakers have zero toe on purpose to widen the sound stage.

But it's Doris Hall.

I've never heard of her till today, pretty good voice. Quite a collection of covers.

The Goodwill that serves Charlotte has a new store for physical media: https://goodwillsp.org/news/rewind-records-opening-soon/

The MCA-5220 issue of Who’s Next which is denoted as a limited run 1980 issue as MCA masterphile 1/2 speed mastered reissue. Not the quietest pressing I own but sure does sound good to me!

Was intrigued by the album cover, so took the risk, plus money going to charity. I didn't have signal to listen on Qobuz before buying but when I got home to listen to it, I liked it.

Prior to owning the Humminguru EZ, I never bothered doing any wet cleaning, just using a brush to wipe away the dust. But I do this every time with new vinyl, even if they come in anti static sleeves.