Post random pics of your CD/vinyl/cassette collection
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klang
klang
a tradition so very unique to the North. The moves, the look, the tunes - largely unknown or forgotten about in the rest of the world, yet generation-spanning up NorthHahaha that's awesome.
Ground Elder
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Northern soul is bigger than ever and there's now a growing global market. Prices are still rising at alarming rates and it doesn't look likely that is going to change as the original collectors die off. However, it did happen with doo wop and to a lesser extent rock and roll as they fell out fashion and the collectors passed - records that had been selling for hundreds of pounds became more or less worthless.
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Totally digital for me now. I sold off most of my vinyl and CD's over the last few years and am grateful for the space I now have. I realised I could download an album quicker than I could find it on my shelves. I still have a few to shift, but stopped selling on Discogs at the start of the pandemic. - and most of what's left isn't that great.
It helped that I sold off a huge amount of books a few years back and it felt liberating, so I lost that attachment to "stuff"
ska invita
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really relate to that. i was looking for a record the other day and couldnt find it.
im really over stuff.
being ill this year (long covid) has had a part in that....some morbid/existential thoughts... you cant take it with you. unused items also seem to give off their own whiff of death and decay to me at the moment.
that said if i was a roots / northern soul or whatnot dj, regularly playing out, and people were getting a kick out of the vinyl experience then it totally makes sense <but thats not my life.
dance music has gone digital apart from a few refuseniks and even modern digi dub is going digital - i went to a roots dance in deptford not long before lockdown - guys were playing fresh dubs on a windows media player!!! a new take on the one decks style
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Sorry to hear of the long covid. hope it clears up
As for using Windows media player... Must have been amatures. Proper purists use Realplayer
ska invita
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Winamp all daySorry to hear of the long covid. hope it clears up
As for using Windows media player... Must have been amatures. Proper purists use Realplayer
nogojones
spelling is overrated
Still my main way of listening to music
Saul Goodman
It's all good, man
It really whips the Llama's ass
ska invita
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Oh and thanks....six months in and for me its nearly over nowSorry to hear of the long covid. hope it clears up
i count myself lucky, others have had/are having it much worse.
blossie33
trailer trash
a tradition so very unique to the North. The moves, the look, the tunes - largely unknown or forgotten about in the rest of the world, yet generation-spanning up North
Was (is) very popular in the Midlands too.
I think it's great that people of all ages are into it - I think it's likely to be passed on for a long time.
krtek a houby
Merry Xmas!
Loving the random stormtrooper guarding your collection
Ground Elder
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A small part of a CD collection that needs really needs ripping
ska invita
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Does anyone know the background to this sleeve? I've had severalf second hand records over the years with this sleeve, seemingly always a different label inside.
Was it just a generic sleeve you could buy in bulk?
danski
"vibey"
Yeah, same here. I think most of mine have been sugar hill or similar. Maybe it was what a distributor used?
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
I just pulled this one out:
and it's got 'Distributed by P.R.T. Records, 132 Western Road, Mitcham, Surrey' printed in the bottom corner. I guess it was the generic sleeve they used.
ska invita
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hah yes! got the same sleeve and tune combo
suggests the vinyl came from the US without a sleeve though! ive never had one with a paper inner, but that could be a coincidence
ska invita
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A.k.a. Precision Records & Tapes Limited - UK record company previously known as Pye Records.
When the rights to the Pye name expired, the label changed its name to Pye/PRT (Precision Records & Tapes), around July 1980 and then to PRT only, effective 31 December 1980. PRT Records handled distribution for BBC Records And Tapes, Jive, and former Pye subsidiary Calibre Records (alternately known as Calibre + Plus!) as well as the UK distribution of Casablanca Records (until Phonogram took over UK distribution around 1981), Sugar Hill Records and Buddah Records.
A PRT Records Limited existed between May 1987 and November 1991.
PRT Records ceased operations in late 1989. The label's back catalog was acquired in 1990 by Castle Communications. The Pye/PRT catalog is now owned by BMG Rights Management unit Sanctuary Records.
from discogs
ElizabethofYork
Old Crone
Liked for Sandie Shaw's Greatest Hits
Spandex
A crazy bulbous punchbag of sound
Ground Elder
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Well spotted, I had forgotten I had it. I do have a pile of Sandy Shaw 7"s somewhere, so probably have half the CD on vinyl
Ground Elder
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My Cliff Gober arrived this morning. All the way from LA & no customs charge, but the tune I bought it for sticks I know the seller, so a refund shouldn't be a problem, but it is annoying. Had a go at sorting it with a microscope and cocktail stick, but will probably send it of to a vinyl magician I use who can do miraculous repairs to otherwise fucked records
I know the seller, so a refund shouldn't be a problem, but it is annoying. Had a go at sorting it with a microscope and cocktail stick, but will probably send it of to a vinyl magician I use who can do miraculous repairs to otherwise fucked records
spitfire
Walty McWaltface
My Cliff Gober arrived this morning. All the way from LA & no customs charge, but the tune I bought it for sticks
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A vinyl magician you say...
Ground Elder
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spitfire
Walty McWaltface
That's awesome, I don't have any records worth enough to justify that (yet) but have filed it away for future use. Thanks
Ground Elder
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Sorted - now plays with three clicks, which I think I may still be able to remove, but it no longer gets stuck
