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This Weeks Keeper 11/22/2024
There can never be enough Ramones vinyl in a collection Another album that you just don’t see very often. I found this one in a local record store. A UK Press from 1979 in great condition. This is their 4th album and includes the classic “I Wanna Be Sedated” Punk has always been an oxymoron.…
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This Week’s Keeper 10/25/2024
I purchased a collection of 700-800 albums. A lot of common things and a lot that got donated at the thrift store…But there was one worth adding to my stash. “Have you ever heard of Them” “Who” “No, not the Who, Them?” “Have I ever heard of Who?” “Them…The Group called Them” It’s like an…
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Top 10 Albums for Any Collection
Everybody that writes about or has a channel about record collecting feels like they must submit a top 10 List of albums that no collection would ever be complete unless you have them in your collection. WRONG!!! There’s no such thing as a Top 10 for everyone. A jazz connoisseur isn’t going to have anything to…
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This Weeks Keeper 10/18/2024
This is another album that I buy whenever I see it. This is my third copy of this album and for many reasons I can’t bring myself to let them go. I got turned on to Gram Parsons sometime in the mid ’90s. He referred to his style of music as “Cosmic American Music”, a…
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This Weeks Keeper 10/11/2024
I’m constantly buying but it’s not often that I find something that I’m keeping. I learned long ago that when you see Funkadelics in good shape you buy it…And when it’s sealed you cherish it. This one is a 2014 reissue from the UK but it’s much better than the 70’s copy that I have…
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Collecting Records…What Kind?
There’s so much more than just albums. When most people think of vinyl records they think of albums. 12″ records with 5-6 songs per side. But there’s others that my be of some interest to you. As I’ve mentioned, my vice is 45’s. 7″ records with one song per side, this is because they were…
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Grading Vinyl Records
Learn how to grade accurately When purchasing used records it’s important to understand the grading system. Some refer to the “Goldmine Standard” of grading. This is the easiest and most used method. It’s fairly simple once you’ve looked at a few thousand records. Below is the Goldmine grading system with my comments in parenthesis. If…
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Finding Music in the Good Ol’ Days
The opinions expressed in the post are mine. I know that you may not agree with all or some of what I wrote here. This is just my experience and opinions of how the music has changed over the years. This is all from memory and no research. We all have our own experiences and…
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Where It All Began
It all began in the bars. My father owned a bar, my grandmother owned a bar, my uncle owned a bar…I grew up in a bar. Bars with pinball machines, video arcade games, and a jukebox. The jukebox was my first real exposure to vinyl records. When I was 7 or 8 or 9 I…
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