vinyl records........?

Question

i'm building my record collection and i've been on eBay alot(i've bought around 7 from there already)and i'm looking for Doors vinyls. the problem i'm having is that, i'm not very smart about records and stuff. so my question is Are repressings not as good as the original? any more facts about vinyls will be very happily recieved!!
regards

Answer 1

Any Doors vinyl release will have many many pressings. The original ones are rare and expensive and may not be in the best of shape. People buy these to collect and not to play. Generic re-pressings would happen every so often as long as the title remained in the catalogue and still sold but through the '70s vinyl quality deteriorated markedly, with ever decreasing weights of vinyl being used and unsold remaindered stock being added to the ingredients (inner paper labels and all!). These sounded dreadful and, in some regards, lead to the advent of the CD. However, a renaissance of sorts has come about now with demand still a significant but minor percentage of sales and some companies either license their catalogue for re-pressing by a third party specialist or release it as a 5000 limited run with gatefold sleeves, virgin vinyl and weights of 120-180gms. These sound GREAT and hopefully the market will not shrink to the point that the record companies do not see a potential profit!
BTW, I'm sure there are premium re-pressings of The Doors albums. Check here:
http://search.store.yahoo.com/cgi-bin/nsearch?catalog=lpnow&query=doors&.autodone=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.lpnow.com%2F
:-)

Answer 2

Back in the days (70's) there were different standards of vinyl. Most good full priced 12" LPs were about twice as thick as their cheaper counterpart e.g. the 1812 Overture on DGG would be thicker than the Decca Eclipse counterpart. Similarly 7" came in different flavours although this was in type rather than thickness. There would be the standard full price version and then there would be a "juke box" version which was more robust and the grooves were pressed for output rather then fidelity, designed for a mechanical hammering in a juke box. Repressings are a lottery, some are as good or better than the original some are merely only worth recycling as ash trays. No easy way to tell I'm afraid.

Answer 3

the hardest to discover record in my series (trimmed all the way down to about 500 over the years) grow to be Leo Kottke's 1969 debut: 12 String Blues, stay on the student Coffeehouse. there grow to be about 1200 pressed and dispensed out of Minneapolis in 'sixty 9. After a three hundred and sixty 5 days of searching, I gained a replica on ebay public sale in VG++ condition for $eighty one, it truly is the most I have ever paid for a record; regardless of the indisputable fact that it grow to be well worth two times that. numerous months later, I pulled some strings at a live performance and were given it autographed! He grow to be *very* shocked to confirm it. i'm particular someone available ought to offer me $500 for it, not that i ought to ever promote it. i attempt to get a vinyl jacket signed at each educate available, I now have 17. BA: musically? not available.. BA2: in the present day, Stephen Stills-Manassas. That one not in any respect continues to be off the turntable too lengthy. edit: I have a digital conversion turntable it truly is outstanding; yet at the same time as i'm relaxing contained in the evening, i will spin a record in spite of if it really is already on the computer. digital music is carefully soulless.

Answer 4

Do not store your vinyls in stacks ( on top of each other ) this will cause them to warp. Find a record rack and stand them on their sides (rims) . Don't let them rub up against each other or this could scratch them. If you can find their original dust covers (jackets) it will make your collection worth more. Good luck on your collection.