Tag: music
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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 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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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…
Outpost Record Shop 