Red Mosquito

Got a decent haul yesterday

Rolling Stones-Beggars Banquet
Fleetwood Mac-Fleetwood Mac
The Clash-Combat Rock
Cheap Trick-Dream Police, In Color
The Raconteurs-Broken Boy Soldiers
NIN-The Slip
The White Stripes-De Stijl,White Blood Cells, White Stripes
Dinosaur Jr.-I Bet On Sky, You're Living All Over Me

Hell Beach - Welcome To Hell Beach
D. Watusi - Dark Party
JEFF The Brotherhood - Heavy Days, Hole Songs, Dark Energy, Castle Storm, Brotherhood Of Light, Hypnotic Nights
Jenny & Jenny - Live At Third Man
Hell Beach - Live Series 7" TMR
The People's Temple - Live Series 7" TMR
Live At Glen Danzigs House 7"
Ranch Ghost - Nahla 7"
Peach Kelli Pop - Peach Kelli Pop
Natural Child - Hard In Heaven, CRS Blues7"
Nirvana - Insecticide RSD
White Stripes - RSD 7" (3)
Black Lips - Live At Third Man
Neil Young - S/T, Harvest
Jack White - Live At Third Man, and The Bricks, F@21 Vault 7"
Pearl Jam - 2011 X-Mas Single
Pujol - Live At Third Man
Beatles - Abbey Road
Gza - Liquid Swords
Fugazi - EP
Sonic Youth - Smart Bar
Smashing Pumpkins - Mellon Collie
Wilco - The Whole Love, A Ghost Is Born
Dan Auerbach - Keep It Hid
Eric Burdon & The Greenhornes LP
Heavy Cream - Danny
Jacuzzi Boys - Glazin'
Tom Waits - Mule Variations

southp wrote:I'm still working my way through my collection on Discogs. Here's where I'm at with 212 albums added to the DB and probably another 75-100 to go.

Collection Value Range
Minimum:
$3,739.93
Median:
$5,639.67
Maximum:
$9,185.54

Top artists based on the groupings I made:
Pearl Jam (83)
Neil Young (27)
Rolling Stones (22)
Beatles (21)

I've got my modest collection up on discogs now.

Only 112 pieces

Collection Value Range
Minimum: $1,315.86
Median: $1,863.42
Maximum: $3,018.97

http://www.discogs.com/collection?user= ... med&page=1

According to the spreadsheet that I use to keep details on my record collection, the copy of Steven Wilson's "Grace for Drowning" that I received this morning is my 300th record!

I haven't been keeping count, though I would guess I have something around 50-75 12" albums and singles, 5 or so 10" singles, and 35 or so 45s. My 45 covers are mostly in bad shape due to a leak that found its way there, but the records still work.

The Graduation Ceremony- Joseph Arthur

verb_to_trust wrote:The Graduation Ceremony- Joseph Arthur

What sort of music is this? Whom does he sound like? The cover is awesome.

Simple Torture wrote:According to the spreadsheet that I use to keep details on my record collection, the copy of Steven Wilson's "Grace for Drowning" that I received this morning is my 300th record!

Realized that since I have headers on my Excel spreadsheet, this only makes it my 299th record! D'oh!

Simple Torture wrote:

verb_to_trust wrote:The Graduation Ceremony- Joseph Arthur

What sort of music is this? Whom does he sound like? The cover is awesome.

Cool! I'll check him out.

You would probably recognize his song "In the Sun" if you heard it, but he is a relative unknown. He painted the album cover. I saw him in Chicago a while back and he started looping all the guitar parts and then sang/painted during the rest of the song he created on the loop. It was pretty cool.

A girl from work gave me a stack of records the other day that she found in a 99 cent bin the other day, and I'm just getting around to listening to them since it's my day off. So far I've only listened to CSNY, but I plan on giving each one a spin this afternoon and reporting back periodically.

The records are:

American Dream - CSNY
Give Me The Night - George Benson
This Time - Al Jarreau
52nd Street - Billy Joel

My copy of Nanobots by They Might Be Giants just arrived in the mail a bit ago. I'm gonna be spinning that one shorty. Hearts, hearts everywhere!

kreng wrote:

Simple Torture wrote:Has anyone ever ordered anything off of Soundstagedirect.com that's listed as "Bend in Cover"? If so, how bad is the damage, really?

Some people eat their feelings...I am ordering records.

not bad at all. i don't remember which record but they emailed me saying that all copies of a specific record had a "bend in cover" and if i wanted to wait for them to get the new sleeves or if they should send it and then send the none bend sleeve free of charge later. i opted of course for the latter and it took me at least a good minute to even find the bend.

So I got my first "bend in cover" record from Soundstage, and I'm pretty pleased: the sleeve was a little beat-up in the lower left-hand corner, but honestly it isn't that bad; plus, the record plays perfectly!

I just started dealing with Soundstage, and I must say that so far I'm pretty pleased. Since they do free shipping if you buy $30 or more, I pre-ordered a few records (new Iron and Wine, a Songs: Ohia repress) and added a few cheaper records to each order so that I qualified for free shipping. Soundstage re-organized the orders so that the pre-orders will ship together later, and the other stuff has arrived at my parents' house already!

I like ssd for the most part but they carry a lot of bootlegs and dubious pressings. Especially in their jazz selection they have at times up to 5-6 versions on the same album and they don't specify well which album is which pressing, they usually copy the same little text for all albums.

kreng wrote:I like ssd for the most part but they carry a lot of bootlegs and dubious pressings. Especially in their jazz selection they have at times up to 5-6 versions on the same album and they don't specify well which album is which pressing, they usually copy the same little text for all albums.

I did notice that they don't specify editions any further than saying something like "180 gram." I too would feel weary ordering something super-specific there.

I need a new cartridge but to be honest, I don't know the first thing about them.

cutuphalfdead wrote:I need a new cartridge but to be honest, I don't know the first thing about them.

so how do you know you need a new one?

Picked up original pressings of Never Mind The Bollocks and The Rolling Stones-Love You Live this afternoon. Both are in excellent condition... can't wait to spin them.