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scarred:

--- Quote from: KvP on 08 Mar 2011, 22:27 ---Your best bet is to keep tabs on reliably updated sellers and snag one before it goes to market. From the label, from a store, whatever. Pre-orders are good sense and usually come with a marginal discount. Don't worry about colored editions and all that - in my experience, when a label springs for colored vinyl it's either the entire release, in which case it's probably not that rare, or it's the first however many pressings they make. I pre-ordered the Solar Bears LP and lucked out when mine turned out to be one of the first 500 pressings, on bright red wax. I use Boomkat for most of my electronic vinyl needs and with an RSS feed to their new inventory set up, I usually get in the door before supply dries up (occasionally something really interesting will seemingly hit their inventory pre-sold out, which, I suspect, has something to do with that first paragraph).

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Basically exactly this, the only colored vinyl I've gotten has been from early preorders.

valley_parade:
That. I've got a gold print of the recent Mikey Erg 12" EP on its way to me as we speak. And a half white half blue copy of the new Red City Radio album.

Paper + Plastick suck for mailorder (The RCR album was out on February 22nd, and when District Lines ran their distro it took 6 months to get a Failures Union LP which was NOT "clear with blue splatter", but white), but they put out some amazing records.

TheFuriousWombat:
oh yeah mimoraglu is a pretty great distro, they have lotsa good stuff that's hard to find elsewhere. Aquarius sometimes will have good things too. Forced Exposure is fine but stuff sells out fast and is always expensive, plus they charge an arm and a leg for shipping which is lame. Boomkat is amazing if you're in England but far too expensive for me here in America what with exchange rates and really high shipping costs. Discriminate Records is pretty decent for rare vinyl and cassettes in the same vein as mimoraglu and DNTRecords is pretty decent for out of print tapes. You won't find everything but you'll find some good stuff for sure. Most of the rare vinyl I own is the kind of stuff mimoraglu sells so it's obscure and only limited to a few hundred copies at most (and a couple dozen at least) anyway which makes finding it after it sells out close to impossible since the odds of one of the hundred or so people who own it wanting to sell are pretty slim a lot of the time.
Still, if I want to sell stuff I tend to go with discogs. I get to set my own price and pay less of a commission - not to mention no listing fee - compared with ebay. I recently sold off all my Explosions in the Sky and MONO colored vinyl, for example, and made a couple hundred bucks in the process.

Vuk:
What KvP said, but for old shit you mainly have to stick to eBay and record stores. The good stuff will usually be on auction, but check out the "buy now" stuff as well, because sometimes they fuck up and put it up for less than it's value. As for stores, it's usually just a thing of chance and how much time you're willing to invest in looking through stacks and stacks of records.

I'm not into flipping records unless I'm updating my collection, but if you're looking to do that, popsike.com is useful - it tells you how much the record you searched last sold for on eBay, and I think it's all sorted chronologically.

TheFuriousWombat:
I wish I didn't have to sell my records but when I have student loans, rent, gas, car insurance, food, and utility bills looming in the very near future I need to squirrel away as much as possible and selling rare colored vinyl is an awesome way to do that.

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