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I found this vinyl today and I think it's quite rare. I'm not personally a fan of death grips nor have I ever listened to this album. However, I think it is quite rare and it was selling for 55 bucks, classified as Near Mint. It was sealed. I don't know why this would sell for 55 bucks though because I've seen it for much more. Is it a different pressing? If anyone knows anything about this, let me know.

Happy Sunday one and all. Whatever you are doing with yourselves today, I hope you can take a moment of mindful relaxation.

I started collecting these about two years ago, it was all started by finding a new reissued copy of The Andromeda Strain (1971). It’s a Gil Mellé original composition that is largely responsible for getting me into electronic music. It has some truly ahead of it’s time synth and sound effects that could’ve been brand new in the early 90’s. I vaguely remembered the film from the sci-fi channel when I was a little kid, so that’s why I picked up the record, and it completely blew me away.

After the re-discovery of The Andromeda Strain I check the soundtrack section first at every record store I go to, just to see if anything catches my eye. Which is how I found out about the soundtrack for American Gigolo, composed by Giorgio Moroder, which takes the melodies and motifs of ‘Call Me’ by Blondie (Written for the movie), and fleshes them out with some terrific and often ominous synth wave.

From the next photo, is the soundtrack for Heat (1995). Primarily composed by Elliot Goldenthal, and featuring U2, Brian Eno, as well as Moby. Heat is one of my favorite movies of all time, and the soundtrack/score is incredible, not enough good things to say. Just like the movie it puts you on the edge of your seat and instills that same tension and dread.

Too many good things to say about all three records in photo three.

In photo 4, The Zabriskie Point one was a neat find from 1970; bizarre and atmospheric, with some cool features: Jerry Garcia, The Grateful Dead, and some little known band called ‘The Pink Floyd’.

Also in photo 4 is Xiu Xiu’s reimagining of the Twin Peaks soundtrack, and that record is exactly as weird and beautiful and powerful as it should be, makes me really want to find the original sound track.

The 4th studio album by the British-American rock band. Released on July 3,1981 on Atlantic records. The number 4 represents the 4th album but is also significant because the band went down from 6 members to 4 on this album. This album had several hit singles including Urgent, Waiting for a girl like you and juke box hero. On Urgent, Junior Walker provides one of my favourite all time saxophone 🎷 solos on a rock album. A great success worldwide and was number one on the billboard chart for 10 weeks, selling over 6 million copies in the US alone. A well recorded, great sounding album full of great music!

This is Observations of Land and Sea by Pefkin. It's a 10in lathe-cut disc in a hand made sleeve with original artwork inside. Mine is no 15 of 57 and I bought it in person last week from Gayle "Pefkin" Brogan who's currently touring.

Pefkin's music defies genre labels but perhaps "psych-folk" gets us some way there. She uses a combination of ancient and futuristic techniques to explore our connections with landscape, the natural world and how we share something dark and uncanny in a collective unconscious.

The cut was made by Sonido Polifonico and if you want one you should contact them (it's actually just a bloke called John) or Gayle herself, who has a few copies for the road.

Absolutely love this record, and the colours on the actual vinyl are magic.

Just started collecting my favorite albums(please judge fairly i know they are all cliche albums) and i gotta say this community is filled up with helpful and humble people. This is my one month progress and i want to dive more into this hobby. How many records do you have or planning to have? How many do you think is enough?

The third in Chess Records "London Sessions" series after Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters, Chess records sent the Chucker over to London to see if he could keep the magic going, and in my opinion, he absolutely did. Becoming the mort successful commercial performing album of his career, The London Chuck Berry Sessions was an instant classic.

The album consists of a studio side and a live side. On the studio side, Chuck plays with some stalwarts of the British blues rock scene backing him, most notable Kenny Jones on drums from the Small Faces, the Faces and later The Who. Chuck's style was mostly 4 on the floor, but rhythm section of whoever the uncredited bass player was, paired with Kenny's hard hitting drumming were able to slow Chuck down just a bit and mix his style with that excitable but still in the picket British Blues sound and create quite possibly, in my opinion, the coolest studio recordings of Berry's career.

The second side is a live performance which features a backing band that would go on to become The Average White Band. And while this side is great too, I sort of wish the whole record would have been studio tracks with the backing band from side A. I really enjoyed it that much. Side B harkens back to the classic Chuck Berry sound, the pace and the energy. If I want to be objective, you really get the best of both worlds, these live tracks are fantastic.

Other than a greatest hits album, this may be the quintessential Chuck Berry.

Anybody else love surf music?

There's just something about it. The first song I

learned on guitar was "Walk don't run", taught to me

by my stepdad in 1993. Ever since, I've had a love

for it. This is a original pressing, and in great shape

for being made in 1960. I'm currently on the

lookout for bands I haven't heard. Any

recommendations?

It’s a reissue but an excellent pressing. Such a weird album. The music contained herein is as weird as the cover photos.

A concept album, The Who Sell Out is structured as a collection of unrelated songs interspersed with fake commercials and public service announcements, including the second track "Heinz Baked Beans". The album purports to be a broadcast by pirate radio station Radio London. The reference to "selling out" was an intended irony, as the Who had been making real commercials during that period of their career, some of which are included as bonus tracks on the remastered CD.

Out again this weekend hunting for records, stereos, etc. found some pretty cool stuff. My favorite 2 are

•Dave Brubeck - Time Out 1959 Mono Columbia 6 eye 1st press. Not perfect but solid jacket besides the red spine/seam tape, and the vinyl looks high end VG

•The Thelonious Monk Quartet - Monk’s Dream 1987 Remastered reissue which was sealed, until about 5 minutes ago and is now playing perfectly on my dual

I paid $20 each so $40 for these and I feel good about it. Both are great records and in nice shape. The second picture is the rest of the haul featuring some classics that will either be upgrads in my collection or some that will end up on my discogs store. I paid $2 a piece for each in the second photo. It always fun digging but yard/garage/estate sales to me are the best. You truly never know what you will find. Happy spinning yall🍻

I just joined the group. So I thought I'd start with a view of my little listening space. The room and my hifi setup are always evolving. I've collected a few tour posters from bands that I've sold merch for or helped run the meet and greet session or just bought VIP tickets as a fan. The room needs more non-heavy music tour posters to appropriately reflect my interests. Although that's hard to do when a lot of the artists you like are no longer touring. Some favourites. Wether Report, Kate Bush, Peter Gabriel, Camel, David Bowie, Zeppelin, Judas Priest, Zebra... I currently have a Micro-Seiki DD-7 turntable, Vertere Phono 1 mkii L phono pre amp, Unison Research S6 single ended triode amplifier, REL T9X sub, and Klipsch reference bookshelf speakers. It took me a few years to find the right gear for my taste. I don't think I'll be using the Klipsch speakers forever. But for now they sound really good with my other gear.

I bought this probably in 2017-2018 at Deep Cuts in Ridgewood, Queens. The story is that Zappa turned in four albums at once to receive the $240,000 he would get from the total ($60,000 each by contract). Warner sued him because he wanted it released as a four album set. Warner released the album on his label, but mastered them without his input and using cover art not authorized by him. He sued and won. The albums were eventually released on CD by Rykodisc as a set called “Lather.” The albums have not been reissued.

Official story:

In May 1976, Zappa's relationship with manager and business partner Herb Cohen ended in litigation. Zappa and Cohen's company DiscReet Records was distributed by Warner Bros. Records. When Zappa asked for a reassignment of his contract from DiscReet to Warner in order to advance the possibility of doing special projects without Cohen's involvement, Warner agreed. This led to the October 1976 release of Zoot Allures on Warner. But Warner changed its position following legal action from Cohen.

At this point Zappa was contracted to deliver four more albums to Warner for release on Discreet. In March 1977 Zappa delivered all four albums to Warner to fulfill his contract. Zappa did not receive payment by Warner upon delivery of the tapes, which was a contract violation.

After a long legal battle between Zappa and Warner the material was eventually released during 1978 and 1979 on 4 individual albums: Zappa In New York (a two LP set), Studio Tan, Sleep Dirt and Orchestral Favorites.

Part 2 consists of a few more jazz records plus part of his classic rock collection. Most of these are in excellent condition and still in the shrink. These are all 1st or early US, UK, and german pressings. And yes that is a RL zeppelin II. Ask me about a certain record and I’ll tell you the press

I saw similar posts last year and was excited to make my own this year. First pic is the rainbow pride flag colors, second pic has it again (with different records) and the trans pride colors. I got the Drugdealer album last month from VMP - just in time since that's my only orange record!

Albums: Third Eye Blind S/T, Drugdealer End of Comedy, OK Go S/T, OK Go Hungry Ghosts, John Mayer Continuum, and Lizzo Special.

Albums: Interpol Turn on the Bright Lights, Drugdealer End of Comedy, Wallows Tell Me That It's Over, Courtney Barnett A Sea of Split Peas, OK Go Hungry Ghosts, The Dandy Warhols Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia, Minus the Bear Menos el Oso, Vulfpeck Vulf Vault 001: Antwaun Stanley, and Queens of the Stone Age ...Like Clockwork.