Anyone Collect or Still Listen to Vinyl?

[Luke]

... before hipsters did.

Not this again.

Back on topic, I have a collection of the "complete" works of Beethoven and have been listening to each record again (there are 20+ lps).

I need to take notes for the metalheads here that would love some of his compositions. Beethoven can make Metallica sound like a boy band,

Need to get around to listening to my Monty Python albums.

[AppleQueso]

I need to take notes for the metalheads here that would love some of his compositions. Beethoven can make Metallica sound like a boy band.

Metal bands make use of classical stuff all the time.

Off the top of my head, Diamond Head covers some of Gustav Holst's "Mars, Bringer of War" as an intro in a song, while Candlemass has done a cover of Chopin's Funeral March.

[Ziggy]

Have any of you had the opportunity to use any of those pricey laser turntables out there? They use a laser instead of a needle to read the groove, and they are analog, not digital, in the way they read the groove. Very gentle on records, though the record has to be clean for a quality read.

I haven't heard anything about this. Tell me more! Or I'll eventually just Google it.

[KDub]

I'm trying to very patiently wait for the new Dan Vapid & The Cheats album to be up for pre-order today. I want my awesome red vinyl!

[Ziggy]

I watched the three hour History of the Eagles documentary and now I'm obsessed with The Eagles. Aside from having basically a greatest hits collection of their songs, I have On the Boarder, Hotel California and the live album on vinyl. I'm gonna pick up the studio album box set from Amazon because it's only $30 and I'm a poor man, but they leave a lot to be desired in the artwork department. They're just little cardboard sleeves for each album, front and back cover, so no gatefolds or booklets or nothing.

Anyways, in the documentary they showed the debut album jacket. It was designed so that you open up the gatefold like normal, but then it opens up a second time horizontally to make a big square. Some one for the record label decided he didn't like this tho, so he ordered them to be glued shut. Now when you open the gatefold the inside picture is upside down lol.

Long story short, I wanna try and get at least the debut album on vinyl. I'm planning a trip with a friend of mine, we're gonna hit up a couple of local record shops I found on Yellow Book and see if they're any good.

[Luke]

I watched the three hour History of the Eagles...

Call me Dude. I hate the eagles.

[marurun]

Emerson Lake and Powell actually have an excellent Mars, the Bringer of War cover. Weird stuff.

And I still think CDs are so far the best medium for classical. There are some incredibly well-mastered and well-recorded albums on CD for classical works that make the pop and rock CDs look like so much refuse.

Also...

http://www.elpj.com/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

[Retrozoa]

Just started my record collection. I have the soundtrack to "The good, the bad, and the Ugly" and Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker suite from Fantasia. Now if I only had a record player.

[SpoonyBard]

Now if I only had a record player.

I've always had good luck finding them at thrift stores. But looking back on a lot of the junk tables i've owned, you'd probably better off shelling out a few more bucks and getting a decent unit with an adjustable arm. If you're looking for something to get you by for awhile, they pop up all the time at thrift stores for $5-$10 (in my neck of the woods at least).

My old records always played fine on my thrift store record players, but with a lot of newer albums, i've run into skating. Which is no fun at all.

[Hobie-wan]

My old records always played fine on my thrift store record players, but with a lot of newer albums, i've run into skating. Which is no fun at all.

Probably because of shitty mastering. Though does your player have anti skating?