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Why aren't hipsters allowed to like compact discs?
ViolentDove:
Well, Sydney and surrounds has decent hunting grounds for second hand vinyl. Hell, I just picked up the first Shakti album from GOSFORD.
Phaedra:
--- Quote from: McTaggart on 04 Oct 2007, 08:47 ---Op shops here (Perth) don't have shit in general. We've got at least three places that are good for second hand vinyl, depending on what you're looking for. All of them are music stores.
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Ooh, please tell me where these are! I only know of Dada Records, which in my experience has been great for stocking rare stuff new, but kind of...lousy in terms of secondhand. Or perhaps you just have better luck than I do?
McTaggart:
Dada's can find have neat things if you're lucky (or just opn minded). The other one in the city is Blowfly Records which in on Barrack st (walk from jb toward borders and turn right when you hit Barrack, it's downstairs on your right about halfway to St. Georges Tce) They have tons of second hand records but you're gonna need time to dig through them all.
The other one I'm thinking of is in Freo, next to a coffee shop. I'm not sure what it's called or where to find it but I can usually find my way there if I'm persistant. Maybe if you walk from the train station to Little Creatures in the most direct path it'll be down a road (parallel to the train tracks I think) on your right. It has a yellow sign. It stocks mostly old jazz, blues, rock and things, pretty much solely records and a fair bit of dust.
muteKi:
Posting another post about the princes of alternative, Manfred Mann's Earth Band:
For some of their songs, I think that the original tapes were lost, and most original album art definitely was.
Interestingly enough, when some of their albums got taken to the digital level, many of the first recordings (and there are several from all sorts of different distributors, including Mann's personal label, Cohesion) that were made were actually copies of near-mint records. Some of them have only barely noticeable deficiencies in sound quality, the occasional crackle in some quieter moments.
So I am convinced that a good record can indeed be a high-quality recording, at least in its first uses, since as it is used it wears down; my recordings have significantly less treble, which I think is bad considering how the songs are arranged, tracked, produced, and such. I personally prefer the CD remasters as the added space is used for bonuses for the collectors in all of us. All things considered, they're a good group to want to collect for this very reason -- at this point something to the tune of maybe two songs have never been released on an album, and yet more CDs and DVDs have extra material from concerts and such.
This is a band that has made two studio albums in 15 years, so filling up new albums with a lot of songs is not a bad thing to my mind.
Hat:
Every time I see this thread I keep thinking its the setup for a really bad joke.
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