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Vacation, by the Go-Gos

I pre-ordered this "sparkle universe" vinyl edition early on and got it at the end of November. It's great and now the record is selling for about $80 on discogs, so a little bonus there. (Not that I have any plans to sell my copy)

Kim Deal - Nobody Loves You More https://www.discogs.com/release/32355918-Kim-Deal-Nobody-Loves-You-More

More like a mellow Breeders album than Pixies. I guess we all mellow with age, eh.

My favorite live album.

Picture this: You're at a busy bar when the whisper of a song comes trickling out of some busted speaker; you want to save it for future listening, but Shazam-ing it is pointless because it's just too darn loud.

Well, that's not a problem for the patrons of the Little Soul Cafe in Tokyo, because music is the focus here. As part of our Sense of Place: Japan series, we stepped inside this listening bar with an impeccable aura.

Just started getting into The Flaming Lips and saw this for not too bad of a price and couldn't help myself. I love the art for this album! Here's the back:

This flat square of plastic doesn't sound so bad!
It came in the Bloom County comic collection shown in the picture (Billy and the Boingers), and contains two tracks performed by a fictional in-universe band.
It's probably not technically vinyl.

Sorry for the crappy image. This is just to satisfy my own curiosity. I'm talking about the 'Stereo-mono' symbol. Does this mean it was recorded mono and converted to stereo? The album was released in 1974.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/5531120

For my post today, I had a pretty good mail call today for records. I don't usually buy records online, as I like the hunt of trying to find the records physically, but when a deal calls, I'll take it. The deal for today came in the form of some UK 45s that I got for the equivalent of $3 each. I got 5 original UK press Beatles singles with the original Parlophone sleeve and a copy of the Beat's Tears of A Clown/Ranking Full Stop single in a 2-tone sleeve. All of the records are in VG+ condition.

I don't usually buy Beatles records, as they don't interest me too much in comparison to other bands of the period, but it's still cool to have the original documents of Beatlemania in their complete form. Overall, I'm happy to get these records and add them to the UK originals pile. Although, if I were able to get some 60s US Rolling Stones picture sleeves, I'd be a very happy camper.

By Wine Lips

For fans of Psychedelic Porn Crumpets and Frankie & The Witch Fingers

This record is so good. Been after it for ages but thankfully it keeps getting reissues in lovely colours.

This one is described as "Kamikaze Kandy". It actually looks a lot paler than this but I've jacked up the contrast to counteract the camera flash.

Alt Text: LP on a shelf with the vinyl record half out of the sleeve. The record is blue and pink swirl / splatter effect. The sleeve contains assorted illustrations including a pair of hands stuck in a finger trap; a mouse-trap; a venus flytrap; and 5 women sitting atop hourglasses but they have voids instead of faces

Been wanting to pick this up for a while. Super glad these guys had a repress of this stoner/prog legendary album.

To continue my finds from the flea market from this weekend, I was able to grab some more very good records from the same bin that I found the Captain Beefheart records from my post from yesterday. Again, this person had some eccentric taste, so I was able to pull out some real gems from the batch.

The craziest find from these other records has to be the Fripp and Eno No Pussyfooting record, as I've never see this record anywhere in my time collecting, and wouldn't expect to in the US. The other records that I got were good as well, as I got the first Roxy Music album and David Bowie's Scary Monsters. All and all, these records were also $5 apiece to get, which I was more than happy to get these records for.

cross-posted from: https://pawb.social/post/1779345

Lovely colour combo on this one. Awesome release overall, the embossed outer sleeve is a nice touch and the mastering is superb, so heavy!

When the bonus track on side D started I thought it was going to be Murder of the Universe 2 but it was still a cool story

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2900523

For my newest finds from the flea market this weekend, I've got some crazy finds to show you guys. the first and craziest finds that I had came from one seller, which is also where I found most of the other records I found. Whoever this guy or girl was had some very eccentric taste, as I was able to come across not one, not two, but three Captain Beefheart records in the same bin. It's insanely hard to find Beefheart records anywhere, let alone a flea market, and to find three of them in one place is bonkers.

It's weird too, as these records are from three different eras of Beefheart's career, so there wasn't consistency in the release date. However, I did not have these records to begin with, so I'm not complaining. I only had to pay $5 apiece, which would be higher price in flea market terms, but for these records, I won't haggle.

I got:

Dizzy Gillespie - Swing Low, Sweet Cadillac -wild, bigger band stuff from 1967

Jimmy Smith's - Greatest Hits comp - the great Hammond B3 organ master

Oscar Peterson - Night Train - piano, bass, drums. Mmm...

and my new favorite,

Ella Fitzgerald - Ella Sings Gershwin - 10" from 1951

The release on Discogs is here

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/2330865

To complete my flea market finds from the weekend, I was able to find an album I've been trying to find for a little bit of time. I like collecting Marvin Gaye records, especially singles, and I've been trying to get any albums that I don't have from him. I was happy to then find a copy of his classic album Here My Dear (AKA the TMI divorce album) for only $2. it's cool that i was able to come across this album, as I've found it hard to find some of Marvins records in the wild. Overall, I am quite happy to expand upon my Marvin Gaye albums.

Do you guys replace your cartridge based on the amount of time it's been used or when it's necessary to do so because of a noticeable decline in audio quality?

Also what are some telltale signs that a cartridge needs to go?