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In Reply to: New Vinyl! posted by ~LISTEN~ on December 5, 2024 at 09:01:57:
In the repeated oil crisis of the 70's and 80's, record companies started recycling unsold records. Seems like they would just melt them down and repress them...hardly the ideal clean room conditions. A lot of records came from the factory sounding very noisy. sometimes I don't think they bothered to scrape the entire label off...they just melted them down paper and all. Occasionally, you could see the white flecks. The `Joni Mitchell album Mingus that I bought when it first came out around 1979 sounded like they'd coated it with sand! Years later, I bought a used, later pressing for $2 at half-priced books,, and it sounds great.
The next biggest problem is you can't look at a record and tell if the previous owner took good care of it, or had a bad turntable that damaged the record. When I bought most of my collection. People were dumping records for cd's, I bought most of my records for under $5. I'd rarely pay more than $7.50. Those days are long gone. But with new vinyl costing $25 a pop, its still worth the gamble to buy used. Especially if you can find a dealer who puts some effort into stocking records that are in good shape. If you get 3 used records for the price of 1 new one, and 2 of the 3 are in good shape, that's still a decent deal.
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