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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:31 PM
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WOWOHWOW!!! What a great day for finding great Vinyl LP!!
Elton John's Captain Fantasic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy
McCartney & Wing's - Band on the Run
Buffalo Springfield (The Double album and their first album)
Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits
Elton John's Tumbleweed Connection
Roger Water's The Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking (although the butt is covered on the album)
Big Brother & The Holding Company - Cheap Thrills
Traffic - John Barleycorn Must Die
and for the great finale

Blue Oyster Cult's Enchated Evening (yes with even more cowbell!)
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Ptah Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:40 PM
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1. Cheap Thrills! Great cover, great album.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:44 PM
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3. Great Album too
it was a great find!!
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Whoa_Nelly Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:14 PM
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7. WOw! I still have my original CT vinyl.
Love that cover!
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Mayberry Machiavelli Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 06:29 PM
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13. Wow, did R. Crumb illustrate that album cover?
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:42 PM
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2. Good finds
I have most of those myself. I kept all my vinyl. I have over 1,000. I even have all the Zeppelin albums.
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:44 PM
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4. I'm up to about 500 right now
I need a new bookshelf to hold all this stuff I have but I love it all!
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johnnie Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 02:50 PM
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5. I think I was the last holdout to buy CDs..lol
I miss buying those 12" records. I've topped 1,0000 Cds already but I miss getting the full picture. Mine are in those old crates. I have 8 crates and at least another 2 crates worth that are just laying there. I set my turntable up in my upper room, but I have to find a way to suspend it because if you play it and walk, it skips.
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RetroLounge Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:50 PM
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8. I got my cube bookshelf from Ikea
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Roon Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 03:08 PM
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6. Roger was gonna do Pros and Cons
while he was still with floyd. He approached his bandmates with the idea and they decided to do the wall instead, which is wild because both albums are very different.
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Oeditpus Rex Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 04:40 PM
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9. I paid $50 for 'Cheap Thrills'
a few years ago. It was a thank-you gift from a PBS station.

Hell of an album, and arguably the best. cover. EVarrr. Particularly if you're an R. Crumb fan.

Still... $50.

:grumblegrumblegrumble:
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:14 PM
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10. Vinyl is fun
For one thing, I never learned how to clean properly other than on a fold-out album cover :smoke:

But seriously, folks, I've still got about 3000 LPs that I play all too seldom-- there isn't enough room in the most active parts of the house to install a turntable. If I want to listen to vinyl (and now that you mention it, I can't think of a better way to spend the evening) I retreat to my "back office." Last weekend I pulled out Alice Cooper's Killer, which just doesn't sound right on CD-- the guitars somehow got digitized all vague and mushy.

That said, I've been promising myself some Zeppelin on CD, so I can skip the ballads whenever I'm in the mood just to headbang.

Re Blue Oyster Cult, Some Enchanted Evening is pretty good, but I like On Your Feet Or On Your Knees much better. I think they're a band that peaked early. Tyranny & Mutation rules!
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LynneSin Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:57 PM
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12. I put back the Alice Cooper's Killer
but only because it was in pretty bad shape
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Squeech Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Mar-11-06 05:27 PM
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11. BTW: How to estimate your vinyl collection
If you store it in cubes or on shelves, you usually get about 75 LPs per linear foot, allowing for a reasonable percentage of double LPs or foldout covers. So a thousand records would take up roughly 12-14 feet of shelf space.

If your collection consists of opera, you're gonna have to count them manually. And that goes double for Time/Life box sets.
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