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All very useful and helpul tips! Buy with the intent to listen to the music is my favourite… (and you enjoy it more when you have a record in good condition and take care of it). Thank you for the tips!
Just say wow 👍👍
Nice setup GI
So true! ❤️ 🎶 😎
Joe Rogan is a fucking moron. No wonder Americans are doomed.
Great video
Thanks!
Thanks!
I have an album I picked up somewhere that I didn't know what it was as it has a blank white cover and blank labels on the disc's and I haven't had a turntable to play it on. I recently got a turntable and I discovered it's the Rolling Stones! Sounds like live but maybe early and smaller venues? I don't know how to search it as it has no info on it, totally blank. Might you know anything about it North Texas Vinyl? Or how I could search it?
your only hope is to see if it has any etchings in the dead wax near the label. If so, you can search Discogs with that info in an attempt to define what it is. There's a chance it could be an undefined bootleg though, not uncommon for a popular band like the Stones in their prime.
@@NTXVinyl@NTXVinyl Thank you so much! I will have a look! I hadn't thought of that 👍 👍
Everyone wants "VG+" or higher, but there are different interpretations of VG and VG+ grades in the Goldmine system. For some people VG+ must play the same as Near Mint, and the slightest bit of noise makes it VG at best. But VG can also allow for "groove wear" and significant scrateches. It becomes a very wide spectrum for that one grade. By some measures, the vast majority of used old records and even many new ones are VG. So some sellers' VGs are other sellers' VG+s, and vice versa. It's good to put the power to choose what they see in the hands of buyers, but if you encourage filtering out of all "VG" and below records you may also encourage sellers to grade more records VG+ that they would have been happy to call VG. The risk is that it favours less stringent grading.
Yeah just gotta be smart and buy from sellers that you trust. Grading will always be subjective. It's one of the things that keeps the hobby interesting, but can obviously be super annoying as well. Cheers!
18:00 great tip
Thank you, glad you found this helpful!
Discogs has a lot of free time to appear in NTX commercials but responding to SRs or fixing the new seller inventory management system? No time for that.
Not the same staff members employed to deal with those things genius. God how do people like you function knowing so little about how businesses actually work?
@@Jayfive276 I thought you only ruined and got suspended from Discogs Forum threads. Welcome to KZread!
If you accept questions for next time, please ask why the phone app no longer separates an artist's discography by Album/Singles/Compilations like it used to and like the desktop version still does. It's been that way (all releases all mixed up) for several months.
@@jaymitchell2687 Thank you for your feedback. We are aware of recent issues with the app and are working diligently to address them. We are in the process of improving the foundation of the entire site, which includes building a new Discogs app with the same essential functionality and an even better experience for you. We are excited to share more information about the new app soon. As a workaround, you may want to use the browser version for certain app features. There will be some bumps on our road to renovation, and we appreciate your patience as we keep moving forward and making adjustments along the way.
That Nevermind OG and that LZ II RL came in a paper sleeve and they're both $$$
False. So funny because NOBODY goes up to a sports collector that has bats on his wall or balls in a glass box and goes...."What is the point of having a baseball bat on the wall?....bats are made to play baseball"!! Or the guy who collects stamps...."What is the point of having all these stamps if you are not using them to mail letters?". There is a cross for many between loving music and loving to collect MUSIC STUFF!! ...and sometimes a sealed records bring great joy to the collectors side of "musical stuff".
Correct on the paper sleeves. Pure greed.
Nice choices! For me I would definitely add George Michael's Older release. Just an incredible album to me and one of my all-time favorites.
I learned my lesson pretty quick on condition. Nothing worse than buying an album and it not playing right on turntable. I’ve actually had issues with New Records not playing right which is even worse!
Those are some classics now! I graduated HS in 97 so many of those albums were played regularly driving to/from school and hanging out with friends! Definitely brought back some good memories!
I'm in the midrange camp on this topic. I have some records that I don't open that have very limited pressings and are numbered. However I don't go out of my way to make those the focus of why I buy records. Most of mine I open and play them because I love the whole experience.. From reading the insert to putting the record on the platter and slowing watching the needle lower in anticipation of the beautiful sound that only vinyl can deliver. I say do what makes you happy, but by all means, have some records that you can listen to, even if you're a collector.
Agree ! A shame !!
If a hit record is released with 20 variations the real problem is it's soaking up the limited amount of cash the record retailer has for other new releases, by unknown, marginal, or obscure artists. Thus the circle is broken.
Very cool. It’s good to see what everyone is doing with their equipment and records. Thanks
Excellent advice - thank you
Well, everyone is entitled to their opinion.
As soon as you picked my favorite, I clicked Thumbs Up and subscribed!
Welcome aboard!
I learned a lot in this video, and have been collecting vinyl LPs since the 1980s, thank you
Glad to help!
Awesome video. Thank you so much from someone getting back into the vinyl game
Cheers! Definitely browse our videos. Tons of useful stuff for ya.
I agree with your three, and I'd like to add another benefit that I've realized while listening to my vinyl collection. When I drop the needle on a record, I usually listen to the entire album. Not just the hits, but all the songs in between. It forces me to experience the "album playlist" that the artist intended. And over time you start to fall in love with the "in between songs". The album becomes its own entity where the "in between songs" become just as important as the hits. You can play full albums with streaming services, but I find that's it's just too easy to skip over the "in between songs" which doesn't give you an opportunity to fall in love with the entire album as much as it would by playing the vinyl.
100% agree. As it’s meant to be heard!
The way I see it , supply and demand must be the main cause if a record is considered rare. If a record is pressed in 3000 copies and 18000 collectors wants it , it’s gonna be harder to get.
it would be very rare if the session and album master tape is lost or even destroyed.
id tell myself to buy outer and inner sleeves they actually keep them like new
Amen to that. Wish I would have as well. Had several hundred LPs before I finally sleeved them all
I could never give away my music, I still have my first LP, my first CD, still listen to them.
My fav
If you think the vinyl world is bad for snobs and toxic stuff, you should see what the motorbike world is like...hunnerd times worse
I can only imagine
wow, nice series. The one problem with new vinyl that I have been wondering about ( I used to own Phantasmagoria, a small chain in DC 1980-2000) is returns for overstock that will not sell. Do your wholesale distributors take back a certain percentage of returns based on your total purchases? In the past when you had a account set up with WEA CBS, RCA Capitol etc. you could return any in print LP that did not sell for full credit. If you bought through a one stop middleman because you did not deal directly with the major labels you could return 10% of the nonsellable titles. Certainly you are dealing with a tiny profit margin to begin with and not everything sells, some is defective and some just disappears. Are you sure you are making a profit from the new vinyl?
No. You cannot return overstock to labels or distributors these days. That’s not a thing any longer.
Your enthusiasm is really captivating! Nice... The more I think about Lindsay-Hogg's film, the more I see his work as a disgrace, a terrible misrepresentation.
Thanks so much for watching!
Looking at the label doesnt seem to be as exact as typing in the run out numbers
It really depends on the album, but using the label and dead wax will definitely point you in the right direction
I'm amused thinking about the equipment. I really gained my love of music through my mother but she had an old portable automatic turntable that she would take outside when she was ironing on the back porch. I now sort of cringe thinking of those records dropping one on top of the other and the general sound quality. Nevertheless, at that time, it was marvelous (well, except for my mother ironing in a bikini on the back porch when one is about 13 or 14 years old . . .) Nevertheless I have albums from her or ones that I acquired that she had. Whereas I just bought a Luxman PD-151 mk II, playing it through McIntosh Pre-amp and amp and Quad ESL 63 speakers with a subwoofer. Different . . . .
Nice! That’s a cool memory
My morning Jacket! I wish I worked for y'all. I'm in Plano. Keep up the great work.
Such a great band!
Don’t amass damaged records because someday you’re going to be making many trips to Goodwill to drop them off.
Pro tip for sure
I think it depends on the individual. I'm firmly in the "made to be played" camp, 100% It just seems silly to me personally to purchase any record to hang it on a wall waiting for the monetary value to go up since that will never happen anyway. Record monetary values are 100% invented. That $200 record is really about $5 and so on. It is whatever someone is willing to pay. That is why I place zero monetary value on my collection and I do not sell my "rejects" or what have you, I give them away. Whatever I paid for a record, if I go to sell it I won't get a fraction of what I paid back. If I paid $20 for a record, I'd be extremely lucky to get $2 for it. It is not worth my time or effort. Then again, I am of a somewhat different reason for collecting in the first place. For me it is not only just the sentimental value, but I'm also somewhat a historian so that gets added which goes along with the artwork, etc. That is why I got a two year plus continuing education in record custodianship so I could "restore" records for the sole purpose of playing and enjoying them. It is why I go for original pressings as much as possible. I want to hear the record the way it was first done, flaws and all. Having said that, I don't worry too much about the jackets because it is near impossible to get one in pristine condition. If I waited for that, I would not have a single record now. Of course, I desire jackets in good condition, but I also embrace reality and I know that will rarely be found. (I have just a few = less than 20 in great condition, the rest are ok to not too great). It is the details that are important to me from a history perspective. I did hit a holy grail in that regard in that I picked up a copy of Chicago - Live at Carnegie Hall 1974. The cover is ok, but finding a sample ballot from 1974 from the previous owner stuck inside was one for the books. I have also picked up records thinking that they were not complete with everything they originally came with and discovered to my surprise that they were complete! One prized example was Jefferson Airplane's "Long John Silver" in its original cigar box form fresh and unassembled!
Cheers!
Damn, my audio gear cost $1950. I thought after 30 years of collecting and listening, i thought I could tell the difference. What a bummer.
Hmmmm.
I would tell myself to buy the ones I want a.s.a.p. when they’re released. If you miss them , they can be very hard and expensive to get later. Example : I am immensly envious of your Audioslave-Revelations in the intro of your videos , hahaha. Upon release I thought : ”I’ll get it later”. Yeah , right.
Pro tip
What’s the spray and cloth company do you use
Thanks for all the great info! Any tips on inventory management? Is there one app or platform that can be used across multiple sites. Or do you have to list an item on every platform, and manually remove everywhere when it sells?
No Pixies? What a load of bollocks.
I like side with the seeds, and my true face? (2nd track) Either way. Great album.
After getting back into buying records in the very late 1980’sI already knew that condition was important on non-sealed records. When Ebay came around this was especially hard. Great points Gi!
Thanks for watching!
@@NTXVinyl always a pleasure watching your content!
For me, the difficulty of obtaining first issues in great shape is the most off-putting part of the hunt. More often than not, sellers on eBay and even Discogs are passing off rough vinyl as VG+ or better. I received a badly warped Wish You Were Here recently, which was sold as NM, and a badly scuffed, noisy "VG+" Zep IV not long after. Unless you live near a very well-stocked and trustworthy dealer, I have come to expect a success rate of 30% at best.
I’d go back and tell myself to not buy so many records.
booooo! 😂
Hmm I def bought too many but not sure I would change that. Hopefully I’ll sell the ones I only listened to once. Maybe I’ll get 80% back on the dollar? I do wish I had bought at least one grunge LP in 1994 but what did I know
The Doors, Pretty Hate Machine, GnR.. takes too long to think of any beyond that..
Thinking can be hard 🤣
@@NTXVinyl Beyond those 3 I was able to think of what I would consider solid debuts like The Killers, but I don’t know if that one would be enough to make a real top 5 list. I feel like The Doors & GnR are for sure, and I noticed I was the only one to mention PHM, and that one was really solid for me….