Any other members serious vinyl lp collectors?

[Joe Stump]

Being 45, I grew up spinning vinyl and in the last 20+ years have taken collecting to a whole new level

I currently have about 12,000 lps in my collection now, mostly metal, private metal, hard rock and prog

I use a Thorens TD-320 mkII turntable but have several others for backup in the event of a need

Just wondered as I am considering thinning the collection a bit in the future

I buy sell and trade

Ron

[Strangletooth]

Careful with that bro, got to be a platinum member to sell around here... Here's a link if you want to get signed up real quick: http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/payments.php

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to give you a heads up, may want to edit that post before someone else does.

[GinSonic]

Holy shizzle sticks! 12,000?!??!?!?!? You have a sickness my friend!

I've got music in the mediums of Cassette, LP and CD, but mostly CD's. I'm older than you and have kept most of my LP's from the 60's, 70's and 80's. Mostly the obscure ones that will never go to CD. However, I have been surprised as to what you can get. Ebay was my saviour!

Have you thought of applying your passion for vinyl to a small business? I love checking out used swap n' shop type record stores.

There's a gem of a store locally. The owners are a couple of cool dudes around my age. I can totally picture them back in the day, sitting around in their pad, smoking reefers, listening to Pink Floyd "Echoes" on a Dual 1229 with a Shure cartridge, Sony receiver and A&R speakers, and splitting their guts reading Freak Brothers comics. Those were the days, for sure!

Re-live them with kindred spirits that will enter your store, man!

[Joe Stump]

Careful with that bro, got to be a platinum member to sell around here... Here's a link if you want to get signed up real quick: http://www.jcfonline.com/forums/payments.php

I'm sure someone will be along shortly to give you a heads up, may want to edit that post before someone else does.

I had not really thought about that, guess I was just looking for other people with the same interest I have

I apologize and I checked the link. I would donate $20 anyway regardless of I wanted to swap things

I will take care of the donation now

Ron

[Strangletooth]

It's all good bro, I could care less personally, just a heads up is all, but welcome to the Platinum madness!

And yeh, 12k? Holy Toledo! I don't even have that many MP3's!

[DonP]

I suggest you get a large house and cover the walls and cellings with them. That would be awesome.

I had a friend with a crazy large collection like that. I never asked him how many he had though.

[Endrik]

not a serious collector right now but eventually I'd like to get a nice collection of all my favorite albums as I like the sound of the LPs so much.

right now I have less than thousand I think... some of it is old soviet and east german crap

[Spivonious]

Have you listened to all 12,000? Assuming 40 minutes per LP, that's almost a solid year of music.

What's "private metal"?

[Joe Stump]

Have you listened to all 12,000? Assuming 40 minutes per LP, that's almost a solid year of music.

What's "private metal"?

Private metal is local band releases on small "private" labels

Over the years, I have listened to everything but the stuff that is REALLY high $$$ is just protectively stored

12000 lps is a lot of weight and I have to spread them around as the hardwood floors sag in protest

Seriously though, I think nothing of dropping several hundred dollars for a single lp I need in my collection depending on condition

I don't collect anything unless its nearmint

I am a member of the Record Collectors Guild

If anyone is looking for something specific, drop me a line

I am also always looking to buy/trade myself

[GodOfRhythm]

Not nearly 12000 lol!!! More like 200 to 300, some rock/metal/prog of my fav bands but a lot of electronic records and singles/EP's too. Since I'm buying a lot of electronic records lately (when I find them cheap enough), my vinyl collection is growing steadily.

[Joe Stump]

Not nearly 12000 lol!!! More like 200 to 300, some rock/metal/prog of my fav bands but a lot of electronic records and singles/EP's too. Since I'm buying a lot of electronic records lately (when I find them cheap enough), my vinyl collection is growing steadily.

Electronic eh? I need lp an from that genre, was only released in Germany as I recall:

EXPLORER released 1982 on the X Records label

If you have a clean copy or can lay hands on one, I would be interested

[guitarsjb]

I collect Johnny Cash vinyl. I have 135 LP's, around 20 45's, and a few 78's.

[nsubulysses]

I love vinyl. I would estimate I have 100-150 LPs and about 75 7"s.

Vinyl is usually cheaper than CDs so that's always a plus, and a lot of the time for old stuff it just doesn't sound the same when it's digitally remastered on CD. Just sounds sterile.

I also do a little record label so I try to press come vinyl releases here and there (as well as CD, and cassette). Again, it's pretty cheap plus you have the joy of being a "private" label and documenting music you think should be heard but is probably not getting the recognition it deserves. It's a pretty reciprocal thing because local labels have put out my bands music in the past so I'm glad I can contribute too.

[Jacksons Shred]

I'm starting to collect vinyls, the sound quality is so much fucking better then this new aged compressed CD bullshit!

[horns666]

A man after my own heart..and the same age too. I'm sure we both started at the same time. Well, it was "official" for me when Van Halen came out in '78. But by that time my best friends uncle had a nice collection of approx 5000 LPs including Frank Marino & Mahogany Rush..So besides Hendrix, Frank Marino was my guitar hero just before VH was released. Then I remember debating who was the better guitarist in high school..Eddie VS Rick Emmett's solo in Rock N' Roll Machine. But my father actually planted the seed with Black Sabbath when I was 9 years old..and Iron Butterfly, BOC, Spooky Tooth, Steppenwolf, Uriah Heep, Blue Cheer, Deep Purple, Mountain, Lucifer's Freind, Wishbone Ash, Pink Floyd..ect. My dad wasn't a muscian but he had the whole "image" thing being the prez of The Sons of Satan, and The Coffin Cheaters outlaw MC (1968-1975) . That fucked me up for life! I started buying records in '77. But the rush I got from VH 1, I was on a life long bent to find more of that shit. It's a drug.

I bought everything/anything that looked "metal", and discovered some greatest stuff and some real crap..just as you did. No computers and shit to samle anything..just tape trading, word of mouth of like minded friends, and cool cover art sold more records than anything. I got to about 2500 LPs, but I kept "weeding" thru them, only keeping the ones that meant something to me for whatever reasons. I held out with Vinyl until 1995, because all the new stuff coming out wasn't availuable, including imports. Money didn't mean anything to me if I wanted a certain piece of music. That's when I was forced to buy cassettes..yeesh. It was either that or buy a CD player. In 1995 my wife bought me my first CD player, and my first CD was Yngwie's new Magnum Opus for Chrstmas. I was excited of the way the cd sounded at the time. No matter how anal I am with my stuff (Major OCD) , I always had to replace my favorites because I worn them out. No crackles, skips and pops. So I was obligated to replace ALL my vinyl with CDs..that wasn't easy or cheap. Many of them were expesive Japanese imports. So that's the course I stayed on. Got rid of ALL my records except Van Halen's first..because that fucker ruined my life with this shit. It's green/gray of mold.

So I've been buying cds and cultivated a system that optimized the sound of them. I actually have the first 1983 Fisher system I got from my bro-in-law. Including the EQ and Tower speakers that make it sound so damn crisp in my octogon shaped music room. I have them perfectly tweaked and positioned to where it sounds like a giant set of headphones at maximum level. I don't hear the complaint about any digital compression BUT I do NOT like most remastered stuff where everything is boosted to hell and, maybe that's what people are talking about. I do prefer recordings of the original analog source. Some remasters are decent, but I do prefer the first issued stuff. (Maiden's castle releases, and Preist stuff for ex.) What I do with CDs is burn a copy to use, so I can keep the original disc prestine. I'm closing in on 6000 CDs..NOTHING but metal from all genres. I'm retired, so I have nothing but time to listen to them and keep weeding through them to always make room for the constant barrage of new stuff I really want. I'm also a complete-ist. if I love a band I MUST have ALL their stuff with the exception of the 90's sell-outs like Metallica, Queensryche, Crimson Glory, Dokken, Ratt are the obvious ones..why keep the crappy ones? That space is reserved ofr just killer and no filler.

What pissed me off is I was buying this shit when metal wasn't "cool" for nearly 15 years with no domestic releases and paid big money for mediocre imports, like Whitesnake's "Restless Heart for example..$50 bucks when that came out. I have a few boxes of some obscure out of print stuff from the early 80's I had since new and prolly could part with. But I don't sell here or on Ebay. I may make a list and post it on my thread here @ Casa Del Fuggems if anyone is interested. I don't have a certified paypal account. So I may sell stuff in sets going by genre power, death, black, classic. These guys are my bro's so I wouldn't expect much at all to anyone who really wants them by check, money order, whatever. But I'm pretty established where I do alot of trading in town and they're pretty generous giving me trade-in value, because..well..I'm awesome.

I don't want to exceed 6000 cds. just stuff I truly love. 6000 cds takes up ALL my space in my listening room. That room is for listening to music and reading only..that's it..no amps, guitars TV, PC..ect.. just my music in a sterile fuggin' room ..I don't even eat in that room. That's my metal shrine. It is sacred..My house looks likes a gothic medievil church anywhoo..30 foot ceilings, antiques, big gargoyles and all. Yeah, that cost me a fortune too..but it's all part of the package..

I'm not sorry I got rid of my vinyl..I sold it for pennies on the dollar during the mid 90's. There's a few things I do miss that I can't replace. Limited "signed" pictured discs..I had some pretty weird stuff never availuable on cd, cassette and ect. Randy Rhoad's "Load Up"..Eddie and Brian May's "Star Fleet"..and a bunch of quirky early 80's metal that sounds dated these days..I still have enough of that tho.. Adam Bomb, Black N' Blue, Icon, London, Lemans, Heaven, KIng Kobra, Y&T ect..stuff on Brainstorm records..

Some of the rare stuff I have is Anancrusis "Suffering Hour" the first Angel Dust, Vicious Rumors "Strangers of the night"..ALL the Hexenhause stuff, Apocrypha "The forgotten scroll"..OH BTW,..ALL Joe Stump's stuff including all 4 Reign of Terror cds. He autographed them for me while we were talking for hours, comparing our silver chains, and discovered we love the same players such as Glen Drover, and Olaf Lenk of At Vance..We were both so surprised we knew this shit and really hit it off that night..He's and awesome guy and player. I'm sure he'd remember me (The metal cop in cleveland) . He came to see Glen/Eidolon at the first BW & BK who used our rehearsal room to practice for the show. Joe played for less that 10 people one night at the Bottom Line, but he put on a show for 10,000 people. He's a an awesome dude and player..please tell him I said Wassup!!